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Qigong: Simple Skills for Nervous System Regulation: How to Help Your Clients Ground and Center

Total Credits: 4 Social Work CE, 4 Mental Health Counselor CE, 4 Psychologist CE, 4 Psychoanalysist CE

Categories:
Live Zoom
Faculty:
Robin Carnes
Course Levels:
Beginner & Intermediate
Duration:
Half Day Webinar
License:
Never Expires.
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Description

Qigong is an ancient Chinese contemplative practice focused on movement, breath and mindful attention. "Qi" means lifeforce energy and "Gong" means skills. Qigong is based on the same Traditional Chinese Medicine model as acupuncture is. It's simple to do, playful, fun and easy. As people practice, they get out of their heads, let go of worries that consume them, and attune to their physical bodies, emotions,  and physical sensations that provide so much somatic information. 
 

The research on Qigong indicates it is helpful in:

  • Increasing energy level and stamina

  • Improving balance and flexibility and stability

  • Improving immune function

  • Improving mood

  • Decreasing pain

  • Increasing range of motion in joints

  • Improving sleep

  • Lessening anxiety

  • Processing and releasing emotions

  • Improving mental focus and clarity

 
Learning Objectives -
Participants will be able to:
 
  • Understanding the basic principles of human health and illness from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective
  • Utilize how Qigong can help practitioners regulate their nervous systems, ground and center themselves.
  • Implement several simple Qigong practices that therapists can teach their clients along with the underlying health goal behind each practice.
  • Learn languaging and other teaching techniques that make the practices trauma-sensitive
  • Utilize suggested modifications to practices that will allow people with various health issues to participate safely

Participants Will Receive:
  • Videos and audio recordings of trauma-sensitive Qigong movements, breathwork and meditation practices that can be shown to and shared with clients.

Appropriate for therapists and health professionals of all backgrounds, wishing to integrate more somatic skills into their work with clients.  No yoga, meditation or Qigong experience is necessary. No prerequisites. 

Faculty

Robin Carnes's Profile

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Robin is a leading pioneer in bringing evidence-based somatic approaches into healthcare. From 2006-2012 Robin was yoga, qigong & meditation instructor for a Defense Department acute PTSD treatment program at Walter Reed Medical Center. She co-founded Warriors at Ease, a non-profit that serves military communities. Robin has trained hundreds of Mental Health professionals to bring somatic skills to their clients. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Woman’s Day Magazine, Huffington Post, and Army Magazine, as well as the award-winning documentary, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue America’s Healthcare.  Robin was honored by the Smithsonian Institute in 2013 for her work with the military.  Currently, Robin offers Qigong with Robin online classes (30 min on Mon-Wed-Fri mornings) with civilian students from Europe to Texas, and works with private clients.   For fun, Robin loves singing in her 50’s-80’s cover band, Close Enough. She lives in Silver Spring, MD.

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