5 San Fran Summer Wellness Resources from $0-5

7/1/2013

I think we all have a season that suits us best. Some feel content with the moderate fall, some happily enveloped by the winter darkness, others cheerful as spring arrives. I always feel my best as these summer days stretch their arms wide. No matter how sunny or overcast, the day light feeds me.

That said, I'm off on a brief stint to the East Coast for family time and to celebrate the union of a wonderful couple. While my trip will be pretty short, I'm going to be taking a vacation from most of the cyberworld for a bit longer. I want to soak in as much of these days as possible.

For those staying local and looking to try something new and/or stimulating-in-a-different-way, I leave you with five varying Wellness happenings that won't stretch your wallet:

Every Sunday from July 7th to August 18th, 2:00 PM, Stern Grove Festival FREE. Admission-free performing arts series, in Sigmund Stern Grove, a beautiful outdoor amphitheater located at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Here's the schedule app.
July 4th, August 1st, 8 – 9 AM, Makor Or weekly morning meditation, FREE: Makor Or offers morning meditation on Thursdays at JCCSF. The meditation practice of Makor Or is Jewish meditation that draws its technique from basic Zen meditation practice. Morning meditation is led by the Director of Makor Or, Ellen Shireman.

July 8th, August 12th, 7:15 – 8:45 PM, Monday meditation gathering at Dan Tian Wellness SUGGESTED DONATION $3-20: Evening guided meditation practice. Easy and powerful ways to live in the state of peace, relaxation, clarity, and joy! Experience profound freedom from stress. Enjoy simple and fun breathing meditation practices that you can use anywhere, anytime.
July 9th, August 13th , 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Tuesdays to Your Health at Cavallo Point Healing Center & Spa FREE: This is a monthly lecture series hosted by Dr. Brad Jacobs at the Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa; every second Tuesday of the month from 6:30–7:30 pm. Topics vary, lectures are complimentary and all are welcome to attend. Tea will also be served. July is a Tai Chi & Qi Gong Workshop: Cultivating Balance, Strength, and Calm and August is Brain Fitness & Longevity: Keep Your Mind Fit for Life FREE [To RSVP, please contact Debbie at 415.339.2692 or [email protected].]
And for you Giants fans, WITH or WITHOUT KIDS... August 17, 1- 5 PM Take The Field at ATT&T Park SUGGESTED DONATION $5. Coaching Corps invites you to join us at AT&T Park, home to the World Champion San Francisco Giants, where coaching greats and professional athletes will Take the Field to coach YOU! Join us for a fun-packed day that will include Club House Tours, a Kids’ Zone, Music, Sports Stations with celebrity coaches and athletes, a Beer Garden, and opportunities to run the bases on Giant’s Field or take pictures with the 2012 World Series Trophy! [pre-register here] ...I know this isn't exactly traditional Wellness material, but it just sounds fun..

Enjoy your summer and I'll see you real soon!

Yours in wellness, self-care, and compassion,

Shana Averbach, LMFT

919 Irving Street, Suite 104
San Francisco, CA 94122
Tel/Fax 415.963.3546

www.shanaaverbach.com

PS Here's a new bonus option:

July 29, August 26, 7:30 - 9 PM Self-Compassion Circle, Monthly Meditation Group, SUGGESTED DONATION $10, 2650 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA. At this monthly meditation group, you'll sit in a safe, nurturing space with like-minded people who want to awaken and cultivate self-compassion. After a period of meditating in silence together, there will be a talk on self-compassion, followed by questions and group discussion.

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7/16/2013 02:55:04 am

Okay, I know I specifically said I was taking a break from the blog to bow down to the summer goodness AND I'm typically sharing resources closer to home, BUT I wanted to share an email I received about an offering for those in the wellness/helping professions. Check it out:

Greetings - my name is Kesha Fikes and I practice a somatic bodywork and movement therapy called the Danis Bois Method (DBM); it's new to the US. DBM evolved in France from osteopathy and studies on proprioception enrichment and transpersonal experience. I write today to invite you to experience a complimentary somatic movement class, an offering I'm making to wellness professionals. I teach in Berkeley, at Hatha Yoga Shala East Bay (Fridays, 12-1:15pm, 2050 4th. St.). Please feel free to bring along a friend or colleague or two - they too are welcome to this complimentary experience :-)

In the effort to spread the word about this little-known practice, I am also offering complimentary 75-minute manual therapy sessions (in Berkeley or Los Gatos) to individuals in the wellness field. I invite you to experience this beautiful work as well. To learn more about DBM please feel free to email me and/or browse my site <thecsbmt.com>. (Please note that my site is not yet updated for summer classes, but we are currently meeting every Friday from 12 to 1:15.) Below is also a brief description about this work. I look forward to any questions you may have. And I sincerely hope that this notice is not intrusive

The Danis Bois Method includes a movement therapy, Sensorial Re-education, which introduces students to slow movement sequences that explore how the body glides through space in the execution of ordinary gestures. The aim is to witness how sensory perception of subjective movement enhances biomechanical function and transforms our relationship to movement, ourselves and to our environments. Such perception can draw attention to stressful/painful movement habits that block our sense of balance, timing, orientation in space, etc. Sensorial Re-education explores the psychophysical learning potential in ordinary gestures – the coordination and expression of amplitude, rhythm, velocity, trajectory, affect, and more.

DBM also includes a manual therapy - Fasciatherapy - which mobilizes bodily elements that are encapulated by fascia - bones, muscles, ligaments, blood vessels, nerves, etc. We use a gentle and compassionate form of touch that creates a profound and yet non-invasive inner stretching of all the body's tissues while heightening sensory awareness of embodied experience. Every stroke follows a slow, pre-gestural movement that glides in a designated direction. (The rhythm we follow is about 1/2 the speed of prm/the cranial rhythmic impulse.) This indicator enables the practitioner to intimately dialogue with the person via the tissues. In addition, the practitioner's job is to guide the student to perceive this inner movement with precision. The aim is to enrich the quality of a person's presence to themselves through their experience of intelligent, inner animation.

I deeply appreciate your reading this.

Kindly,
Kesha Fikes, Ph.D., Certified DBM Therapist, CAMTC # 35274
The Center for Sensorial Bodywork & Movement Therapy
409-E Alberto Way
Los Gatos, CA 95032
<thecsbmt.com>
<[email protected]>
650-933-8227

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