MAKING YOUR ANXIETY WORK FOR YOU
Understanding, managing, and making the most of your encounters with anxiety
A two-day experiential workshop to be led by Lina Mookerjee BSc, DMS, BWY Dip/FCT/DCT, MIYN 
Sundays: 28 November and 5 December  9.30am - 4.30pm  

Fee: £95.00 (Day 1 only: £50.00) 

 

About the workshop:

This event provides an opportunity for helping professionals who would like to extend their understanding of the multifarious effects of anxiety, and explore ways of managing and constructively utilising it, to participate alongside others whose primary purpose is to learn to help themselves.  Accepting that anxiety is a natural by-product of many aspects of everyday life, this workshop will encourage participants to access and share their own experiences whilst engaging with the programme's content.  This will include a different and perhaps controversial perspective of the positives that 'anxiety experience' can offer an individual in terms of care and well-being for the self, as well as opportunities to learn about and practise the skills of anxiety management.

Day 1 content will include:

     - participants' experiences of anxiety - manifestations, symptoms and consequences
     - the meaning of anxiety - physiological, psychological and philosophical perspectives
     - a neuro-physiological explanation of "being anxious"
     - the somatic experiencing of fight, flight and freeze reactions
     - hypo and hyper-arousal states
     - knowing your body's natural self-calming 'machinery'
     - Self-regulation (part 1) 

Day 2 content will include:

     - coping mechanisms - their use and misuse
     - change of mindset -  from 'coping with' to 'managing' anxiety
     - understanding 'whole body awareness' 
     - the "mindful observer"
     - mindful change - from 'reactive' to 'reflective and responsive'
     - experiencing strength building for stability and resilience - the use of Yoga movement
     - the breath as the transformer of anxiety - regaining freedom of action
     - Self-regulation (Part 2)

The workshop will be predominantly participative, including individual and small group exercises, discussions, facilitated practices (somatic awareness, physical movement, breath work, mindful concentration, total body relaxation and self-regulation exercises) together with information and theory inputs.

About Lina Mookerjee:

After almost a decade of working as a professional electrical engineer, Lina embarked on a major career change gaining her BWY Yoga Teaching Diploma in 2002 and Diploma Course Tutor licence in 2005.   She has vast experience of and considerable expertise in working with the Chakric energetic system, and Tantra Yoga - with individuals and in group settings. As a Yoga teacher and trainer of Yoga teachers Lina has gained national acclaim for her distinctive person-centred approach and unique ability to combine her experiences within a Hindu Brahmin and Tantric cultural upbringing with her current understanding and application of Humanistic psychology and philosophy. 

Lina also works therapeutically with individuals incorporating a psychophysical and neuro-energetic approach into her practice -- a way of working she refers to as systemic integration. Over the last 8 years both her casework and classwork with clients, students, and trainees have involved a substantial engagement with individuals presenting with anxiety, panic, PTSD and depression.  Lina is a member of the British Holistic Medical Association.