Anacortes Senior College

Note: No Thursday Class on April 25; Last Class May 30.

What underlies many physical, mental, and emotional complaints is our nervous system’s protective response to stress and trauma. This stress response is helpful for a time, but when it lingers, potentially for a lifetime, it damages not only our health and well-being but our potential for joy, creativity, and open-hearted engagement with others.

The key to resolving this old programming and it’s symptoms at their roots is found in the unconscious terrain of the brain and body, not in the thinking mind. Our innate, inner capacity for healing is activated by a conscious shift in awareness from ‘thinking’ to ‘direct bodily experiencing’. This direct experience, or ‘interoception’ , has the capacity for reprogramming the brain ... along with our health and well-being.

Embodied Self-Regulation Meditation is a collection of felt awareness and breathing tools for successfully navigating our inner healing journey towards wholeness. This course will focus primarily on the practice of Embodied Self-Regulation Meditation and the supportive science, such as interoception, neurocardiology, polyvagal theory, epigenetics, and trauma research.

Instructor: Steve Templin

Steve Templin is a retired Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture Physician, HeartMathTrauma-Sensitive Certified Practitioner, and certified teacher of a number of energy psychology systems with 40 years of experience.