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Training In BodyTalk
This text on the BodyTalk System Courses is courtesy of the International BodyTalk Association. Click here for more information about BodyTalk BreakThrough BodyTalk Access Module 1 Module 1 & 2 Advanced Practical Module 2 Module 3 Module 4(7) Module 5 Module 6 Module 8A - Animal BodyTalk Module 8C - PlantTalk Module 9 Right-Brain Practical PaRama BreakThrough 1 Mindscape BodyTalk Systems Audio/Video Presentations
BodyTalk Access
Health Empowerment in 10 Minutes BodyTalk Access' goal is to provide the layperson, family, and community with a simple set of energy-based techniques to make health maintenance and the management of daily health challenges accessible. The BodyTalk System is a well-established system of health care utilizing state-of-the-art energy medicine in a safe and comprehensive manner. Its power is based on increasing the levels of internal communication within the body - stimulating the body's own ability to regain and maintain a healthy balance. The BodyTalk System normally utilizes an elaborate protocol which requires intensive training. But the International BodyTalk Association has recognized the critical need for a simplified version of the system to provide access to many of the key benefits of BodyTalk to as many people as possible. Click Here for Course Schedule Module 1 Module 1 provides a comprehensive introduction to the BodyTalk system and presents many powerful treatment techniques that address a wide variety of diseases. This course consists of theoretical aspects as well as hands on practical application of the Module 1 BodyTalk treatment techniques. The elements of the BodyTalk protocol addressed in this course are as follows:
Click Here for Course Schedule Module 1 & 2 Advance Practical This course is conducted by IBA instructors to help BodyTalk practitioner refine their skills in the practical aspects of BodyTalk. The instructor also does a review of the key elements of Modules 1 & 2 as well as expanding on some of the subjects that couldn't be addressed in the actual Modules because of time constraints. It also gives the practitioner a chance to clear up any issues they may have with BodyTalk based on the fact that they have had an opportunity to practice the BodyTalk System and become comfortable with the basics. Depending upon the flow of the class and the amount of questions that come up, many instructors will often use this opportunity to introduce some of the principles of the advanced BodyTalk procedure so that the student will have some familiarity before taking an advanced Module. If you are sincerely interested in developing and refining your skills in the BodyTalk System, this is a very important course to take. Click Here for Course Schedule Module 2 This course builds on the knowledge gained in BodyTalk 1 and expands the treatment techniques to include the entire basic BodyTalk system. Once again, both the theory and the practical aspects of the BodyTalk treatment techniques are covered. The elements of the BodyTalk protocol addressed in this course are as follows: Extrinsic Reciprocals, Lymphatic System, Nervous/Circulatory Systems, Energy Systems (Meridians, Blood Sugar, Chakras), Environmental Systems.
Module 1 & 2 are often combined into a complete evening plus four days intensive so that the practitioner can learn the complete basic BodyTalk System in one session and start using the modality immediately. Click Here for Course Schedule Module 3 This course is the most essential of the advanced courses on BodyTalk. The consciousness work in Module 3 underlies the foundation of the philosophy behind the BodyTalk System and explains how to apply it in a practical way. The elements of the BodyTalk protocol addressed in this course are as follows:
Total lecture time is 17 hours (minus breaks). Only available to IBA members. BodyTalk 2 is a pre-requisite for this course. Click Here for Course Schedule Module 4(7) The Module 4 course addresses the body as an energy system. It examines the many ways of integrating the energy systems of the body with the physical functioning of the body. It is the foundation of the BodyGenics system developed by Dr. John Veltheim. The elements of the BodyTalk protocol addressed in this course are as follows:
Click Here for Course Schedule Module 5 Module 5 has three main areas of focus:
Click Here for Course Schedule Module 6 This course has a wide subject matter but is primarily concerned with the macrocosmic view of the function of the bodymind complex. Earlier modules have focused on the internal synchronization of the bodymind. We must be aware that the bodymind is also a integral player in the macrocosm and must be in synchronicity with all those factors if harmony is to occur. The elements of the BodyTalk protocol addressed in this course are as follows:
While Module 3 is no longer a pre-requisite, it is strongly recommended that Module 3 be taken before Module 6, if possible. Click Here for Course Schedule Module 8A - Animal BodyTalk This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Basic BodyTalk for animals, using the techniques learned in Modules 1 and 2 and 3 of the BodyTalk System. The course consists of theoretical aspects as well as hands on practical application of the Modules 1 and 2 techniques and Consciousness work with dogs and cats. Techniques and theories covered in 8a can be applied to any animal in which you are experienced handling. However, discussion and practical within the course will focus on dogs and cats exclusively. The specific topics addressed in this course are as follows:
Click Here for Course Schedule Module 8C - PlantTalk Plant Talk is an alternative approach to helping plants heal themselves, grow faster, deal with stresses and improve their immune systems utilizing the principles of the BodyTalk System. PlantTalk can be used to improve plant health, help the plant repair itself, ward off diseases and insects (a healthy plant always does this) and deal with extremes like moisture and temperature. It works on any kind of plant... from houseplants and flowers to herbs, trees and crops.
Click Here for Course Schedule Module 9 This course addresses the dissolution of the primary and secondary Personality Matrixes of the body mind. These Matrixes are collective personality masks that profoundly affect the health of the client. Total lecture time is 17 hours (minus breaks). BodyTalk 3 & 6 are pre-requisites for this course. Click Here for Course Schedule Right-Brain Practical This workshop is designed to refine the practical skills of IBA members by helping them to synthesize all the Modules and work with them in a fluid way. John Veltheim is the only instructor teaching this course. This is also an opportunity for BodyTalk practitioners to meet John, the founder of BodyTalk, and spend four days with him to ask any questions on BodyTalk and have more detailed explanations of particular techniques or principles. There is extensive practical - in particular, John will do sessions on as many participants as time allows so that a better appreciation and understanding of the flow of advanced BodyTalk sessions can be developed. John will also be demonstrating his shortcuts and little extras that aren't always covered in the formal workshops. Although there is not officially any new work being taught, John often uses this time to elaborate on the new work is his developing at the time so that he can receive feedback. Pre-requisites for this course are: IBA Membership, BodyTalk Modules 1, 2, 3, and any one of the following: Module 4(7), Module 6, or Module 9. Because each Right-Brain Practical is an entirely new workshop consisting of varied material, paying a monitor fee is an option under only two specific cases. Each student attending Right-Brain Practical will be charged the full price, unless they have either completed the Right Brain Practical within the last 12 months prior to taking it again OR unless they have completed PaRama Unit 1 Practical and have previously attended a Right Brain Practical. Click Here for Course Schedule PaRama BreakThrough 1 The premise of BreakThrough 1 is that, as individuals, we are all responsible for our own experience of life. In order to embrace this responsibility we need to focus on the 'inside job,' which is thwarted by the belief that others are the cause, and to blame, for our problems. The 7 Steps process of BreakThrough provides a medium for getting in touch with the deep-seated, limiting beliefs we unconsciously adopt in childhood. These beliefs are the ones that are catalyzed each time we over-react to situations in life. What we learn from this is that others catalyze, rather than cause, the pain inherent in these beliefs. In this way others offer us the opportunity of getting in touch with, and gaining perspective on, the mental rigidities that control us and keep us in victim- and blame-consciousness. In short, BreakThrough 1 is a system for transforming reactionary living into conscious living. Click Here for Course Schedule Mindscape Enhancing your skills for life and work By Kris Attard Therapist Julie is treating a patient in her clinic. As she works, her intuitive mind begins to reveal layers of information on her patient's problem, information vital for the success of the treatment, which would have normally eluded an untrained mind. In a sitting-room miles away, Tony reclines on his sofa, engrossed in a fascinating encounter with the male and female archetypes of his psyche, gaining new in-depth insights about himself that will prove invaluable for enhancing his interactions in life. On a plane bound for New York, Joseph is mentally rehearsing, right down to the minutest detail, the important presentation he will be delivering to a business client in a few hours' time. In so doing, he is laying the foundations for a superb performance. In all of these three cases, the common factor is that these people are utilizing the normally latent abilities of their mind. They are using more of their resources than the average individual is trained to, they are using MindscapeT techniques. Mindscape is a weekend workshop that leads participants to 'open' the powerful latent intuitive powers of the mind, and learn techniques such that one can tap into this resource at will, to immense benefit. It is taught in various countries around the world both to public audiences as well as specialized groups that include therapists, athletes and top businesspeople. Clients include some of the world's biggest companies, who have found the methods effective in enhancing creative thinking and intuition within the ranks of their senior executives and managers. But prior to discussing Mindscape, let us take a brief look at that most wonderful asset we all possess, the most complex device in the known universe: the mind. MORE THAN JUST A SUPER COMPUTER We are all familiar with the statement that the brain is a super computer. Modern scientific research not only supports this fact, but also takes it much further than we ever imagined. Today we know that it is actually each of the neurons (brain cells) that make up the brain that is a computer in itself. Considering that we have no less than 10 billion of these neurons, each with the ability to handle up to 100,000 inputs, the implications are truly awesome. Even more important considerations are those that clearly position the mind as being so much more than a mere computing or thinking device. One important aspect is its pivotal role in man's health and wholeness. We are today very aware how our mind can affect our body, and the way that subconscious mindsets and belief systems can determine our state of health is today widely known by every holistic therapist. With quantum physics, the realization of the mind's nature truly takes vast leaps forward, moving into new dimensions altogether. This 'new' physics has put forward ground-breaking concepts about the holographic nature of the mind that force us to rethink our model of life, particularly in terms of space, time and the extent of the mind's influence within this continuum. This amounts to a paradigm shift that opens exciting and outstanding new possibilities when we learn to tap into the powerful intuitive faculties mind, as the Mindscape participant gets to prove for him/herself during the weekend. Staying at base level, the fact is that everything we do in our lives, from reading this article to formulating a multi-million business plan, is dependent on how we use our mind for its degree of success or otherwise. Yet given this paramount importance of the mind in dealing with everyday life, it is ironic that most people are still only using a fraction of their true abilities. Why do we plod through life aided only by a pocket calculator when we actually have a powerful super-computer there that could help us achieve so much more success in every aspect of our lives? The answer is that we are not trained to do otherwise. As can be seen in our education systems and the way we are brought up even as children, society still tends to neglect the tremendous power of the creative and intuitive mind. WHAT IS MINDSCAPE? Throughout the ages, many individuals and groups have discovered that certain techniques allow the mind to yield its latent powers, rewarding the user with the ability to achieve outstanding abilities and to achieve more in life. From the indigenous shaman who communicates with nature, to the inventor who taps into specific mental states for heightened creative thinking, methods of mental dynamics have been used to achieve results that often transcend the boundaries of what we have been conditioned to accept as the normal confines of mental ability. Knowledge has always been power, and often these methods were kept secret, passed down to a privileged few. Today, this knowledge has been streamlined with modern scientific findings and is more available than ever before. These techniques are taught in Mindscape. For a number of years, the fundamental techniques were taught by John and Esther Veltheim, founders of the PaRama School of Life Sciences, as part of what was then the Life Management program. In 1994 I was an instructor of this program when Dr Veltheim invited me to assist him in the task of formulating the material into the modern format. The original methods have now been fine tuned in line with cutting edge scientific discoveries, and some of my own experiential research has been integrated, forming the Mindscape workshop as I am teaching it now. The principle of Mindscape is a simple but highly effective one. There is a particular state of mind, the alpha state (a state discernable experientially, as well as quantitatively using EEG) that is more conducive to creativity and intuition than others. Renowned geniuses and inventors such as Edison, Tesla, Einstein, Mozart and others have been known to use their own, often crude, ways of accessing this state, in order to originate creative ideas. Today, a Mindscape weekend workshop is the easiest way to acquire these abilities for life. There are also distinct advantages. Firstly, it provides the participant with a way of tapping into this state at will. Moreover, it creates parameters that enable one to open new horizons that he or she never thought possible. During the weekend, participants are led into a deep state of alpha - deeper than that normally accessed in daily life. While in this altered state, a 'workshop' is constructed in their mind, a specially designed structure - the Alphamind - that provides an effective framework for an astounding variety of techniques. A MULTITUDE OF USE The benefits and uses of Mindscape are many. Among the most well-known are:
BODYTALK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY For therapists such as BodyTalkT practitioners, the advantages are even more pronounced. Mindscape imparts the ability to tune in to patients at various deep levels of being and even enables the practitioner to treat at a distance. For the BodyTalk therapists who have integrated Mindscape techniques into their personal repertoire, this has virtually opened a new chapter in BodyTalk practice. Seasoned practitioners will be aware of the direction that advanced BodyTalk takes towards working beyond the physical levels to consciousness and energy. John Veltheim maintains that the most significant levels of proficiency are achieved when intuition is integrated into the treatment. There are three main aspects of using intuition in BodyTalk. Firstly, when the protocol points to a link in any part of the system, such as an organ, through a sharpened intuition one can tune into that part and discern the problem or link that needs tapping. At its most proficient, this skill becomes equivalent to actually communicating with the part in question, and spectacular results often follow. Secondly, when one has attained the necessary practice to know when to trust the intuition, treatments become faster. This is when the intuitive practitioner goes straight to the very links that need tapping. The third benefit for therapists - indeed for everyone, therapist or not - is the one that workshop participants usually leave the weekend so excited about. In Mindscape, we not only talk about heightened abilities but also prove them, and by the end of the weekend every participant gets to practice the Mental Scanning technique and tune into the universal consciousness (a concept that builds upon Carl Jung collective unconscious). In effect, this provides access to various levels of information within this collective, and one of the most spectacular ways to see it in action is by tuning in to people. Mental Scanning serves a number of important purposes. Besides giving the participant a technique useful in various life scenarios, it also serves to prove the ability to link in to universal consciousness. This amounts to a paradigm shift which, once internalized, paves the way for all manner of new possibilities in life. This method also makes it possible for the BodyTalk practitioner to treat people at a distance. Although hands-on BodyTalk always takes first preference, the ability to effectively treat any person or animal even when they are miles away has its uses, especially for emergencies. The procedure is similar to that of using a surrogate, except that in this case the patient is not present, and is not in contact with the patient and/or surrogate. Moreover, this procedure starts where the standard protocol leaves off, namely giving the ability of treating people at any time period of their lives, even when they were five years old! Another groundbreaking aspect is that using the same methodology, it is also possible to treat oneself with the entire BodyTalk protocol. Again, the focus can be at any age. To those who have not been introduced to this paradigm, all this may seem incredible, but it is actually very much in line with what modern quantum physicists are today telling us about the nature of the mind and the universe. It is not difficult to see why John Veltheim recommends Mindscape to every aspiring BodyTalk practitioner. The paradigm shift of Mindscape, the way it enhances creativity and intuition, and the wonderful abilities it confers, are all invaluable qualities that put the practitioner on the cutting edge of holistic therapy in general and BodyTalk in particular. Click Here for Course Schedule Click Here for a List of All Course Schedules |