Bodywork for Depression and Anxiety

A 3-Day Retreat – Bodywork for Depression and Anxiety
With Tracey J. Moon and Sharon Nash

“This workshop is extraordinary in all ways. There is enormous depth to this material. The instructors are informed, thoughtful and create a profound space for students.” –LMT in Florida

“I didn’t expect how great and effective this course would be. I wish I had gained this knowledge years ago. So many people will be positively affected from these new skills that I’ll be incorporating in my work.” –T. Carter, LPN, LMT

Date: Wed-Fri, September 25-27, 2024 • 9:30am-5pm each day
NCBTMB CE’s: 18 and open to the public
All-inclusive with accommodations, meals, and training begins at $750. Hold your spot with a $100 deposit. Early registration price ends 8/11.
Instructors:  Tracey J. Moon LMBT & Sharon Nash, MA
Location: Sanctuary Retreat Center, 2610 Adial Rd, Faber (Nelson County), VA

• On-site Wellbeing Services available (massage and bodywork, energy work, mental/emotional balancing)
• Woodland trails, comfortable accommodations, and plenty of places for solitude
• Come in a night early starting at $95*, including meals
• Spacious training schedule to include periods of integration

Course Description:

Depression and anxiety have become an epidemic in our society with more people than ever seeking relief through both conventional and alternative methods. Trauma, loss, and the everyday challenges of daily life can create constriction and loss of connection in the physical and emotional body. From these big and small traumas, our body begins to form in a way that sets in fatigue, exhaustion, distress, difficulty focusing, irritability, and physical pain.

The physical toll of depression and anxiety reveals itself in the body through tension, pain, misalignment, and discomfort. In this course, you will learn specific hands-on massage techniques that unwind targeted areas of the body that have been contracted, bringing more flow and movement into the structure. We will look at the science behind depression and anxiety, what is happening in the brain as well as the importance of understanding conventional treatments. We will explore emotional anatomy, including how the body is shaped by our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, and discuss how mindfulness practices can help free us from negative thought patterns. We will incorporate movement and grounding body-centered practices that can help support a distressed emotional body system.

You will learn simple body-centered practices to help people feel more alive, connected, and embodied through breath, bioenergetics, massage, and compassionate presence. Through these embodied practices, you will discover the body’s innate ability to recalibrate, reset, and restore to its natural flow beyond depression and anxiety.

This hands-on and highly experiential class is intended for the bodywork practitioner to support clients in the healing of depression and anxiety however, this training is open to everyone interested in empowering massage and bodywork tools to help feel more vital in everyday life.

“This course was awakening for me from start to finish. I enjoyed not only learning about the effects of depression and anxiety has on the body but how to help clients heal through breathing, meditation, movement and bodywork. The protocol will be valuable in my practice.”  N. Green, Douglasville, GA

FAQ’s

What is the price for the 3-day training and retreat, including accommodations and meals?
Pricing* is listed below and includes three meals daily beginning with lunch on Wednesday and ending with lunch on Friday. Single and double accommodations are available. All rooms have full bathrooms sharing with one other room. Note that our residential retreats usually fill early so please hold your spot with a deposit.

Couple (one queen bed), per person: $750
Double room, per person (two twins): $775
Single, small room (twin bed): $885
Single, large room (two twin beds): $925

*Early registration price before 8/11

Can I arrive a day early or stay after to extend the retreat?
Yes. You have the option to add an additional night on Tuesday and/or Friday to this training during the registration process. We highly recommend you arrive on Tuesday night if you live more than 30 minutes from Faber, VA, since class begins promptly at 9:30am on Wednesday. The Tuesday extra night price includes dinner and breakfast on Wednesday (before the training begins). The Friday extra night price does not include dinner; however, accommodations can be made if you stay on-site that evening. Breakfast is included on Saturday.

The cost for adding additional nights is as follows:

Couple (one queen bed), per person: $95
Double room, per person (two twins): $100
Single, small room (twin bed): $150
Single, large room (two twin beds): $170

Will there be time in the schedule for rest, hiking, or wellbeing services?
The training runs from 9:30am-5:00pm each day. Early mornings and evenings will be available for personal time. For those of you who would like to extend your retreat experience, you may wish to arrive a day early. We will send a link prior to the training with on-site Wellbeing Services scheduling. For a complete list of services, click here.

I’m a massage therapist – can I receive continuing education hours for this training and retreat?
Yes. Bodywork for Depression & Anxiety is NCBMTB Approved and massage therapists will receive 18 CE hours. You will receive a certificate of completion electronically to submit to your state licensing board or for recertification with the NCBTMB. For those states that utilize the CE broker system, we will submit your CE hours on your behalf immediately after the training.

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ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS

Tracey J. Moon, LMBT
Tracey has a warm down-to-earth presence and a deep intuition that helps her facilitate groups with clarity, spontaneity and loads of inspiration. She believes in the profound intelligence of the body and breath and empowers others to live and work with more awareness, happiness, resilience and hopefulness. It is her own relationship with being vulnerably human and her capacity to deeply listen – along with years of meditation, movement, deep rest and a fierce courage to evolve – that most deeply inform her wide capacity to be a healing presence with others.

Tracey has 20+ years experience as a massage therapist and bodyworker and completed her training at The Body Therapy Institute in North Carolina. She is a former faculty member of The Body Therapy Institute and is a graduate of the Spirit of Learning, a bodyworker teacher-training program. Tracey worked at Duke Integrative Medicine in its early entrepreneurial phase where she built the integrative massage program from inception.

She received her initial training as a breathwork facilitator through Clarity Breathwork in Costa Rica and has completed further training in Biodynamic Breath.  She is a Certified Integrative Reflexologist, has trained extensively with Claire Marie Miller and is now an international teacher in this reflexology modality.  In 2018, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India with a focus on asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation and sound.  She received her professional training in Mind Body Skills through the Center of Mind Body Medicine in Washington, DC in 2009.  Much of her work is influenced by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program.

Tracey co-facilitates retreats and workshops in the US and internationally with Sharon Nash on the topics of meditation and mindfulness, depression and anxiety, breathwork and sound healing and Integrative Reflexology. They are Approved Providers of Continuing Education by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork  (NCBTMB). Their workshops and retreats are open to all.

Sharon Nash, M.A.
Sharon brings a unique blend of heart wisdom and strong mind into her work. Her clear, direct facilitation style meshes seamlessly with her dynamic energy, playful exuberance, and attentive presence to create a safe and inviting space in which participants relax and reconnect to their own inner wisdom.  Sharon unselfconsciously shares stories of her own spiritual journey and its challenges to remind participants that they are not alone, and that through collective inner work we can foster a powerful sense of community to support and sustain us.

Sharon has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Auburn University and a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Duke University.  She has had many incarnations as a teacher since 1990 including as a secondary mathematics teacher in southern Africa, North Carolina, and Guatemala; as a teacher trainer and online educator in North Carolina; and as a co-facilitator of healing retreats and workshops in the US and internationally with Tracey Moon in meditation, breathwork, sound healing, bodywork and reflexology.  Sharon has completed trainings in Integral Education, Non-Violent Communication and Clarity Breathwork.  In 2018, she completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India with a focus on asana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, meditation and sound.  She connects to her own inner wisdom and guidance daily through her intuitive practice of sound healing.