PioneerValley.org

Free Introductory Class Monday, October 27, 2008 2 - 4 pm
16 Center St, Suite 501, Northampton, MA

People with chronic pain often suffer from anxiety, which can reinforce the pain pattern. Anxiety and fear can interact with the pattern of pain to create a cycle that is often difficult to break. H.E.A.L., an Integrated Body-Based Class to reverse the patterns of anxiety, fear and pain, can help. H.E.A.L. turns on the body’s biochemical and neurological mechanisms for reducing pain.

Help yourself reduce the physiological, emotional and psychological aspects of pain.
Empower yourself by interrupting and resolving the fear and helplessness that reinforce chronic pain.
Apply skills from Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga & Body-based Psychotherapy.
Learn powerful, gentle and practical ways you can relieve your pain.

Lucy Hemmendinger, LMHC, SEP, is a Body-Based Psychotherapist. She is a licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, integrating a lifetime of exploration of the body, as a Yogi, Dancer, and Meditator. As a yoga teacher for eight years in the Pioneer Valley, Lucy developed and taught a series of yoga workshops for relief of Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia and Chronic Illness. Lucy maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Northampton.

Six-week class begins November 3. $200/series. Class size limited.
Wheelchair accessible. Some insurances and sliding scale accepted.
To register or for additional information contact 413.582.0426 or lucy@pioneervalleyyoga.com.
In consideration of those who are sensitive to chemicals please refrain from wearing scented products or fragrances.