LIFEPATH CENTER

LifePath is a center for personal growth and healing in San Miguel de Allende. The Center offers lectures, classes, workshops, and retreats on topics related to the health and wellness of the body, mind, and spirit.

•    Compassionate Communication, a Language of Life with Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez. Learn to communicate in a more compassionate and loving (and effective) way. MONDAYS, 11-12:30 pm, $50 pesos. sergio@lifepathretreats.com Drop-ins welcome.
•    The Secret Life of Dreams with author Joseph Dispenza. Dream interpretation, with attention to better dream recall, your personal dream vocabulary, archetypes, and symbols. TUESDAYS 4-5:30 pm, $50 pesos. joseph@lifepathretreats.com Drop-ins welcome.
•    Astrology Circle with certified astrological counselor Lauren Lesko. How the movement of the stars impacts and gives meaning to daily life. FRIDAYS, 1-3 pm, $50 pesos. lauren@lifepathretreats.com Drop-ins welcome.
 

J a n u a r y

Jan 5-8: Cofe Fiakpui, L.Ac. - Acu-Point Diagnosis and Healing. Unique and highly effective method of diagnosing and treating patients with a wide variety of disorders. Cofethehealer.com. Appointment: 154.8465 or beverly@lifepathretreats.com

Jan 5-26, 4-6:00 pm. Contemplative Photography with Fernando Senior. Tuition $150 US. Info and registration at www.themindfuleye.com. 415-102-1884.

Jan 8: Living Without Stress and Anxiety with Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez. Group exploration of issues around stress and anxiety in daily life. Eight consecutive Thursdays, 11 am-12:30 pm, $100 pesos each session.

Jan 9: Beverly Nelson, Ph.D. and Sergio Rodriguez, M.A. – “Conscious Couples- A Path to Healthy Relationships” - 3 pm Lecture by Psychologist Beverly Nelson, Ph.D. and bilingual Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez at Biblioteca Publica, followed by an on-going group process at LifePath Center beginning on Jan 12. beverly@lifepathretreats.com.

Couples Group Therapy Pre-registration required, couples only limited to six couples. $300 US (or peso equivalent) per couple for eight consecutive Mondays starting Jan 12, 3-5 pm.
Each session will focus on learning new skills and also an opportunity to practice them with your partner and learn from other couples.  We will explore your own unique communication style as well as your partner’s and teach you how to communicate more effectively in order to build a healthier relationship.

We will help you and your partner find effective ways to work through your relationship difficulties while,
* LEARNING new ways to interact and solve problems with appreciation.
*RECONNECTING with your partner in ways that enhance your own individuality while honoring the differences in your personality styles.
*HEALING old wounds that are keeping you from moving to the next level of an intimate relationship with your partner.
* PRACTICING the art of communicating with your partner so that you can each be heard and understood.
* BENEFITING from the experience of being with other couples so that you can “see” how others interact and witness what works and doesn’t work in a healthy relationship.

Jan 10: THE TAO OF MARKETING, with internationally renown motivational speaker, Andrea Adler  This workshop is specifically designed for entrepreneurs, practitioners, artists, authors, cultural creatives, and students who are eager and ready to blaze the trail of business acumen. Brings clarity to your marketing and provides you with proven strategies that will prepare you for the fulfilling life your soul yearns to experience. Holistic/spiritual marketing. Saturday, January 10, 10 am-5 pm. Fee: $135.00 US (normally 195.00 in the states) www.holisticpr.com
Andrea will be in San Miguel between Jan 3-12 and will be available for one-on-one consultations. To register for the workshop and/or private sessions, phone Karen Wight: 916.374.8757 (US) or 044.415.117.7034 (SMA cell).

Jan 12-Jan 18: Private sessions with Richard Adelman, M. A. In private sessions you experience two complementary modalities: fully-clothed subtle hands-on bodywork and gentle easy movements which you can repeat at home.  Both methods help to release tension and stress, deepen body awareness, reduce or eliminate pain, and improve breathing, posture, coordination, and balance. This work is effective for both chronic and acute conditions. Most people begin to feel better beginning with their first session. Over time they learn to form a more comfortable relationship with their body and to live more comfortably in it. This work creatively synthesizes Feldenkrais, Pilates, Osteopathy, and Somatic Psychology, with which Richard has been involved since 1970. To fully benefit, it is recommended to have two or three sessions during the week. San Miguel cell: 044.415.114.3069, richard@lifepathretreats.com

Jan 13, 3-5 pm —Talk and Movement Experience: Aging Gracefully—Flexibility After 50. Biblioteca Publica, (50 peso donation). The aging process is inevitable but how we age is up to us.  Somatic education offers us a way to age with dignity and grace. This pathway can be safe, pleasurable, and rewarding.  In fact, it should be—it works better that way! We can be a passive victim.  Or we can proactively influence the quality of our bodily life as we grow older. One way to do this is by reconnecting with our body pleasurably through gentle, nurturing, rejuvenating movements. “We no longer need to accept a deteriorating old age as inevitable,” in the words of anthropologist Margaret Mead. She recognized the Feldenkrais Method as “the best method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function.” 
Feldenkrais movements, as well as others drawn from Pilates, Osteopathy, and Somatic Psychology, directly challenge the traditional “no pain, no gain” philosophy. They offer a gentle way to work with—and learn to live with—yourself with interest, empathy, and love. Developing a more flexible attitude toward your body helps you to develop a more flexible physical body. Perhaps best of all is this:  having a practice to help yourself feel better can enhance your self-confidence and brighten your outlook for the future.  Optimism is a natural anti-depressant!

In this event we will experience very gentle and intriguing movements to increase fluidity and flexibility in turning your head while sitting and standing.  We will discover how improving stability can paradoxically also help to increase your flexibility.  We will explore how to create more “living space” for yourself inside your very own body.  In addition there will be a brief demonstration of hands-on therapy with an audience member.     

Jan 15: Living Without Stress and Anxiety with Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez. Group exploration of issues around stress and anxiety in daily life. Eight consecutive Thursdays, 11 am-12:30 pm, $100 pesos each session.

Jan 22: Living Without Stress and Anxiety with Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez. Group exploration of issues around stress and anxiety in daily life. Eight consecutive Thursdays, 11 am-12:30 pm, $100 pesos each session.

Jan 26-31: Eduardo and Silvia Morales - Cranio-Sacral and Polarity Therapy "By balancing the Vital Energy with a soft, gentle, and careful touch during an hour session, the person experiences a very deep relaxation, so deep that as a result the person can experience clarity of mind, pain reduction or the complete absence of pain, and emotional release. Healthy for the body and healthy for the mind."
Eduardo and Silvia recommend at least 3 consecutive sessions to fully integrate the benefits. Sessions are offered by each practitioner separately. 10 am - 6 pm each day.  Appointment: 154.8465 or email eduarmorales@hotmail.com

Jan 29: Living Without Stress and Anxiety with Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez. Group exploration of issues around stress and anxiety in daily life. Eight consecutive Thursdays, 11 am-12:30 pm, $100 pesos each session.


F e b r u a r y

Feb 2-5: Cofe Fiakpui, L.Ac. - Acu-Point Diagnosis and Healing. Unique and highly effective method of diagnosing and treating patients with a wide variety of disorders. Cofethehealer.com. Appointment: 154.8465 or beverly@lifepathretreats.com

Feb 5: Living Without Stress and Anxiety with Psychotherapist Sergio Rodriguez. Group exploration of issues around stress and anxiety in daily life. Eight consecutive Thursdays, 11 am-12:30 pm, $100 pesos each session.

Feb 7-Mar 7: The Path of Mussar: A 9-session program to bring the soul to wholeness...Mussar is a centuries old Jewish tradition that is a spiritual and useable way or refining your inner life, spiritual realization and personal growth in the midst of day to day life. This is an introduction to a lifetime practice that applies to practitioners of any religion, spiritual path, study or journey to self awareness and wholeness.

•    Through Mussar teachings and contemporary applications participants can expect to discover ways to become a more whole person, an” extraordinary" ordinary person. The Mussar practice, part contemplative, part a focus on how we relate to others in our life, our outward actions helps us to heal and refine ourselves.

•    We will concentrate on 8 of the 18 key character traits identified by the ancient teachers, including generosity, gratitude, trust, patience, enthusiasm, loving kindness, and simplicity. With each trait we find how we bring ourselves to the issues that repeatedly challenge us, and how to strengthen our souls and therefore every aspect of our lives.

•    Nine sessions: $900 pesos or $90.00 U.S. Maximum of 18 participants. Dates: Saturday Feb. 7, 2009 through Saturday, Mar 7. Twice weekly, on Wed and Sat.

Wed. Feb 11, 18, 25 and March 4, 2:00-3:30 pm / Sat., Feb 7, 14, 21, 28 and March 7, 11:30 am–1:00 pm.

About the Instructor : Judith Jenya holds a Masters from Harvard and BA and MSW from the University of California Berkeley and a JD from the University of Hawaii.

She has been a humanitarian, attorney, mediator, psychotherapist, teacher, artist writer, photographer, and workshop leader in California, Hawaii, Mexico, and Europe. She has studied and practiced Mussar for a number of years. Register: jjenya@yahoo.com

Feb 7: The Path of Mussar, 11:30 am-1 pm.

Feb 11: The Path of Mussar, 2-3:30 pm.

Feb 14: The Path of Mussar, 11:30 am-1 pm.

Feb 18: The Path of Mussar, 2-3:30 pm.

Feb 21: The Path of Mussar, 11:30 am-1 pm.

Feb 25: The Path of Mussar, 2-3:30 pm.

Feb 28: The Path of Mussar, 11:30 am-1 pm.

Mar 4: The Path of Mussar, 2-3:30 pm.

Mar 7: The Path of Mussar, 11:30 am-1 pm.