Workshops available
I run Earth Beats workshops and dances on request in the UK and abroad, at festivals, for peer groups and in the community. Earth Beats also offers a professional service to educational establishments for students, staff and teachers at universities, colleges and schools to improve their mental, emotional and physical and spiritual well-being, and I am open to requests from other organisations.
Dance Yourself healthy
In body and mind, heart and soul with Earth Beats - a free-style, aerobic and mindful dance class
A 2-hour Dance Workshop for university students
Earth Beats is a meditative and invigorating dance. It’s great for physical wellbeing, mental clarity, emotional expression, creativity and fun and for us to spend less time in our heads and more time in our bodies. It's sometimes called mindfulness in movement or conscious clubbing.
Earth Beats is great exercise and releases endorphins so it can be great fun. It is helpful for headaches and muscle tension induced by intensive studying and it can bring peacefulness after dancing vigorously. It is helpful for grounding, anxiety, stress, anger and mild depression. And is a place to be with the chaotic feelings that being a student can bring up. This dance can teach students the ability to be at ease with themselves, to gain some understanding of their emotions, and learn relating skills.
Calming Techniques For Anxiety, Stress And Trauma
A 4-hour workshop
I can give this workshop to a group or organisation arranged by you. Most people experience stress, anxiety, feelings of being overwhelmed and trauma at some point in their life. You do not need to be a counsellor or therapist to benefit from these workshops.
Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and other therapists – an experiential workshop (suitable for CPD) for those wanting to learn some body awareness techniques to use with clients.
This workshop teaches basic trauma theory, including the autonomic nervous system and exercises that calm the nervous system, including body awareness, grounding using the feet, muscle toning and dual awareness and more. It also includes some movement so wear comfortable clothing. The teaching is based on personal experience and training I received from Babette Rothcshild, renowned author of The Body Remembers, therapist and trainer.
Previous workshops :
4 November 2015: Dance Yourself Healthy at Bristol Universities Counselling & Wellbeing Service in Bristol.
8 March 2014: Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at the Haven, Exeter, Devon.
16 November 2013: Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at the Totnes Natural Health Centre, Devon.
21st March 2012: Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at Checkpoint, Torquay, Devon.
The Work That Reconnects: Inner Transition, Devon 2007; Heartwood Counsellors, Devon 2008; and 3 workshops at Buddhafield, Culmhead, Taunton, 2010.
Feedback
“I enjoyed this workshop and am looking forward to using techniques, strategies and exercises with myself, my clients and my own children and family. I found it helpful and enlightening. I will definitely buy Babette’s book [The Body Remembers] Thank you Clíona for this day.” JD – Checkpoint staff
“I found it interesting and informative. Dual awareness, flashback protocol and Resources were particularly useful. Anchor exercise was also useful. I enjoyed the role-play and the opportunity to experience the therapy. I felt the delivery was well-paced with appropriate consideration taken to people’s personal beliefs/reservations. Thanks Clíona” IB – Counsellor and Supervisor at Checkpoint
Facilitator Background
Cliona O Conaill has been dancing and training in conscious dance practices for 20 years namely in 5Rhythms and Open Floor International, a lively, sweaty dance inquiry that includes feelings, thoughts, passions and relationships based in the USA. Open Floor incorporates the universal elements of any moving body and all embodiment practices – breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. (See www.openfloor.org for more info).
Cliona has been facilitating a community dance called Earth Beats since 2012. (See www.earthbeats.co.uk). And has been a counsellor since 2010 and prior to working at Plymouth Universities Student Counselling Service, she spent two years as a volunteer counsellor at Checkpoint, a drop in centre for young people in Torquay.
Her teaching training and experience include a Preparing To Teach in the Lifelong Sector training course at South Devon College, facilitating workshops on Calming Techniques for stress, anxiety and trauma (having trained with Babette Rothschild) and being a facilitator of workshops The Work That Reconnects - the deep ecology work of Joanna Macy, for various non profit organisations. She now works as a counsellor, dance facilitator and tantric practitioner in Stroud for individuals and groups.
Dance Yourself healthy
In body and mind, heart and soul with Earth Beats - a free-style, aerobic and mindful dance class
A 2-hour Dance Workshop for university students
Earth Beats is a meditative and invigorating dance. It’s great for physical wellbeing, mental clarity, emotional expression, creativity and fun and for us to spend less time in our heads and more time in our bodies. It's sometimes called mindfulness in movement or conscious clubbing.
Earth Beats is great exercise and releases endorphins so it can be great fun. It is helpful for headaches and muscle tension induced by intensive studying and it can bring peacefulness after dancing vigorously. It is helpful for grounding, anxiety, stress, anger and mild depression. And is a place to be with the chaotic feelings that being a student can bring up. This dance can teach students the ability to be at ease with themselves, to gain some understanding of their emotions, and learn relating skills.
Calming Techniques For Anxiety, Stress And Trauma
A 4-hour workshop
I can give this workshop to a group or organisation arranged by you. Most people experience stress, anxiety, feelings of being overwhelmed and trauma at some point in their life. You do not need to be a counsellor or therapist to benefit from these workshops.
Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and other therapists – an experiential workshop (suitable for CPD) for those wanting to learn some body awareness techniques to use with clients.
This workshop teaches basic trauma theory, including the autonomic nervous system and exercises that calm the nervous system, including body awareness, grounding using the feet, muscle toning and dual awareness and more. It also includes some movement so wear comfortable clothing. The teaching is based on personal experience and training I received from Babette Rothcshild, renowned author of The Body Remembers, therapist and trainer.
Previous workshops :
4 November 2015: Dance Yourself Healthy at Bristol Universities Counselling & Wellbeing Service in Bristol.
8 March 2014: Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at the Haven, Exeter, Devon.
16 November 2013: Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at the Totnes Natural Health Centre, Devon.
21st March 2012: Calming Techniques for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma at Checkpoint, Torquay, Devon.
The Work That Reconnects: Inner Transition, Devon 2007; Heartwood Counsellors, Devon 2008; and 3 workshops at Buddhafield, Culmhead, Taunton, 2010.
Feedback
“I enjoyed this workshop and am looking forward to using techniques, strategies and exercises with myself, my clients and my own children and family. I found it helpful and enlightening. I will definitely buy Babette’s book [The Body Remembers] Thank you Clíona for this day.” JD – Checkpoint staff
“I found it interesting and informative. Dual awareness, flashback protocol and Resources were particularly useful. Anchor exercise was also useful. I enjoyed the role-play and the opportunity to experience the therapy. I felt the delivery was well-paced with appropriate consideration taken to people’s personal beliefs/reservations. Thanks Clíona” IB – Counsellor and Supervisor at Checkpoint
Facilitator Background
Cliona O Conaill has been dancing and training in conscious dance practices for 20 years namely in 5Rhythms and Open Floor International, a lively, sweaty dance inquiry that includes feelings, thoughts, passions and relationships based in the USA. Open Floor incorporates the universal elements of any moving body and all embodiment practices – breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. (See www.openfloor.org for more info).
Cliona has been facilitating a community dance called Earth Beats since 2012. (See www.earthbeats.co.uk). And has been a counsellor since 2010 and prior to working at Plymouth Universities Student Counselling Service, she spent two years as a volunteer counsellor at Checkpoint, a drop in centre for young people in Torquay.
Her teaching training and experience include a Preparing To Teach in the Lifelong Sector training course at South Devon College, facilitating workshops on Calming Techniques for stress, anxiety and trauma (having trained with Babette Rothschild) and being a facilitator of workshops The Work That Reconnects - the deep ecology work of Joanna Macy, for various non profit organisations. She now works as a counsellor, dance facilitator and tantric practitioner in Stroud for individuals and groups.
