Touching truly another person is frightening. It creates an intimate connection that refers to our primary life experiences: those of being caressed by our parents, being loved by our relatives – and being deeply scared when being deprived from it.
Touch means contact with the world, even before seeing or hearing. Touch means survival. It means warmth, tenderness, power, and love.
Real touch involves all our being: Our body, our will, our emotions and our soul. It means that we go fully into the experience, without barriers. It means that we are willing to give all of us – while maintaining our dignity, our will, our power and our freedom.
Real touch is powerful: it brings our attention back to reality, away from our mental noise, from our worries, believes and conclusions. It reminds our bodies that we’re alive, that we’re in the world, that we need to breathe, to move, to experience the moment. It reminds us that we are free living beings, and that therefore we have a responsibility and a right to be alive, to occupy space, and not to worry about being worthwhile or not. Bodies just do it. Thus, touch is the most powerful tool to balance us and therefore to heal.
Unfortunately, touch has also served as tool of abuse and to inflict pain. Many of our past traumas are based on touch – or the lack of touch. Thus, most of us have a quite split relationship with touch.
Many of us have banned touch from their life – besides shaking hands or hugging tensely a friend. Even if we have sex– if we close our inner being from being really touched, touch only serves as a way of self-satisfaction – but not as a way of communication.
When we retire from being touched by life, we retire from the imminent intensity with which life reaches for us constantly. The price we pay is high: we isolate from life: from the air, from the space, from the people.
We start living in a bubble in which we, our needs, our fears become the most important. We become absolute and self-obsessed, and loose any relativity that life might give us.
Living in isolation is horrible: Life becomes boring, empty, and finally senseless– because we meet all the time only us, and there is no surprise. It’s incredibly limited, but worse, we suffer without realizing why.
The way out of isolation starts with agreeing again to perceive our bodies, and through our bodies, to being touched by life. We need to be willing to be touched – wherever we like it or not.
Because the question is not if we like what we perceive. The question is if we perceive what touches us.
When we perceive it, we can react. We can refuse. We can resist. We can decide to open us for the touch. We can decide. It’s the first step towards freedom.
But more of all, we break through isolation: We come back to be touched by life and thus being part of life. The immense sense of love for life, the immense joy of being part of something infinitely bigger and wider than us, allows us to get a glimpse of eternity: the depth of life.
The seminar “Touch as a way out of isolation“ is the 5th seminar in the row “A profound thirst for life“. The aim of this seminar is first to break through isolation, to then recover our genuine and powerful touch, and finally to achieve a healing balance in our body. Using pragmatic physical exercises, we’ll open our experience to the different levels of touch (physical, verbal, of perception, of the soul), regaining our ability to be in a healthy touch with life.
Amongst others, we will work with:
• Fear of touch
• Isolation and intimacy
• Regaining confidence in being touched
• Stepping out of loneliness
• Touching with hands, with body, with perception, with sounds, with words
• Protection from toxic people
• Perceiving through the body vs. control with eyes and mind
• The balance of giving and receiving
• Attachment and detachment
• Using heart to touch people
• The healing touch
Please bring comfortable clothing, and of course a lot of curiosity ☺.
Dates and times:
Saturday, October 27th, 10-18 h and
Sunday, October 28th, 10-18 h.
Place:
студия @yogaplatforma
м. Красносельская, Спартаковский переулок, дом 2, стр. 1, подъезд 6, второй этаж.
Prices:
Prepayment before October 1st: 8.000 rubles
Prepayment before October 10th: 9000 rubles
Prepayment before October 20th: 10.000 rubles
Payment afterwards: 11.000 rubles
Reservations:
Записаться на мероприятие можно по почте – roberto@espinagosa.com (Роберто Эспинагоза) или по телефону +7 (916) 932-65-90 (Анна Головина).
For any question or clarification please feel free to write to me.
Also, if you have friends or acquaintances who could be interested in this seminar or the individual sessions, please forward them this message.
For further information see also: www.espinagosa.com and www.grinbergmethod.com