re-sil-ience:
"...the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress...
it means 'bouncing back from difficult experiences." -- American Psychological Association
Bridging therapy from water to land.
Wave Academy's Resilience Workshop Series was created to offer educational insights, tools and resources to help you get through the difficult times during the COVID-19 pandemic. With an emphasis on the power of understanding to help heal and grow, the Resilience Workshop Series blends teachings from psychology, science, and wellness practices. Our goal is to offer educational insights to bridge the profound inner learning that comes from aquatic therapy sessions to learning that you achieve at home. We are bridging therapy from water to land.
Workshops are hosted by a variety of Wave Academy's partners; from our multi-talented aquatic practitioners, to experts in the medical and healthcare industries, as well as partners from reputable holistic health and wellness organizations. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming workshop!
Upcoming Workshops
There are currently no workshops scheduled. Check out some past workshops below.
Past Workshops
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Resilience through Self-Regulation with Sharon Plaché
Workshop date: June 30, 2020
Activate your inner harmony with techniques with an intentional heart-centered focus. This workshop will allow you to tap into understanding how your heart is a key to your brain's ability to regulate emotions.
Bring your curiosity and a pen and paper to take notes.
Sharon Plaché has a private practice offering a myriad healing modalities including Therapeutic Bodywork, HearthMath®, MER® Mental Emotional Release, ThetaHealing®, Innerwise and Hypnosis. She is also an NLP Instructor, practitioner and mentor.
Awareness through Movement with Cheryl Zolla
Awareness Through Movement includes gentle sequences making movement enjoyable and simple without “efforting!” Begin this awareness journey to address behavioral patterns and movement restrictions unique to each and everyone of us. Enjoy new possibilities of functioning. You are gifted with the ability to change and alter yourself. This mindful awareness brings, “Making the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant.”
You’ll need a mat, folded towels, and a chair.
Cheryl Zolla is a Holistic Health Practitioner, CMT, Watsu® Practitioner, Aquatherics Practitioner, Jin Shin Practitioner, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
Set Your Intentions! with Jill Thiry
Workshop date: July 14, 2020
In this 50 minute guided journaling class, you will come up with a word or phrase that might courageously ignite the remainder of your isolation period or socially distanced space, whatever that might be. This will bring peace, clarity, and focus to your present.
You will answer questions, write words, do some short, guided meditations, and end up with a window and a mirror to your possibilities and a light for each present moment.
Bring three pieces of blank paper and a pen (index card and crayons or colored pencils optional). Be in a quiet, comfortable place with few distractions.
Workshop date: July 16, 2020
Rhythm, Repetition, Community…that is chant and it is an ancient practice. This mindful breathing session uses your body as the sound healing instrument. Mostly Sanskrit, with some English chants shared, sound by loving sound we will also enjoy some quiet times in between chants.
Chanting is a magical way to clear your mind, body, and heart and set the stage for a nourishing “silence." As the sun is to the moon, an "in breath" is to an "out breath" sound is to silence. No experience is necessary for this easy practice of chanting, in Sanskrit or English. Then there is the delightful practice of “being” in silence after each chant. One often ends up being compassionate with yourself and with others following this practice.
Jill Thiry, MBA, is a Rancho La Puerta guest experience administrator and Club Change™ founder. She spent decades in the high-tech publishing industry prior to and during her initial visits to the Ranch 18 years ago. Now, in her seventh year of teaching at the Ranch, she is leading these classes on Zoom from her home in Imperial Beach, just north of the Tijuana border. She has an MBA from USF and a BA from UWMadison, and can be found at JillThiry.com
By utilizing your own two hands, and the help of a few items from around the home, you will be able to decompress your nervous system and find a space of calm during these trying times. We will focus on balancing energy meridians in the body, begin establishing meditative focus, learn a sequence of simple facial acupressure massage, and utilize some creative tricks to rein in a potentially overwhelmed nervous system. Learning how to build a retreat within yourself will be a useful tool that can serve for years to come.
No previous massage experience is required. A quiet space with privacy and a comfortable chair will be necessary. You will be invited to make use of common things from around your home.
Tyson is a massage therapist, and practitioner for the Wave Academy, as well as an aquatic therapist at multiple world-renowned resorts in the US and Mexico. He also has a teaching certificate in Thai yoga massage and studied extensively in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Two ticket prices will be offered - a free offering and a maximum of $20 with proceeds going to support our therapeutic program for veterans suffering for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Attendees may choose the fee level that is right for them:
$ 0 – For veteran clients and those impacted by COVID-19
$20 – General Support
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Questions
If you have any questions regarding the Wave Academy Virtual Summer Workshop series, please contact us at Info@WaveAcademy.Org.
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