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Contact: Jim Kragtwyk: E:jim@medicinemoves.ca T: 250 896 6683
ALLOW MOVEMENT TO BE YOUR MEDICINE – FIRST 5RHYTHMS® MOVEMENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE IN VICTORIA
Victoria, BC – Medicine Moves 5Rhythms® movement psychotherapy, a unique body focussed approach to counselling and psychotherapy launches this week in Victoria. 5Rhythms®
This is an ideal modality for practicing one-on-one, with partners in relationship and in small groups. Sessions are unique and relevant to clients’ issues through the exploration of patterns of breath, body sensation and movement/postures. These patterns are often expressed in other realms of our daily lives. For example, patterns of body tension can relate to inflexibility in relationships and in ways of coping with life’s challenges.
Jim Kragtwyk, M. Ed., CCC, ICADC, Victoria’s only 5Rhythms® movement psychotherapist commented: “After close to 25 years of experiencing and practicing traditional ‘talk therapy’, my clients and I have discovered that movement psychotherapy is markedly more effective in supporting sustainable healing and health because it side steps the denial, defences and rationalizations of the mind. I am excited to be able to facilitate this healing practice for people in Victoria.”
Anne-Marie Hogya (entrepreneur, facilitator & consultant - Victoria, BC) talks of her experience: “The Medicine Moves sessions have been an exceptional tool for increasing my self-awareness and assisting me in expanding my potential. When I began working with Jim I was blown away by the impact of the sessions. I experienced profound benefits after the first session. He has a gift and skill for this work and it influenced my learning. I felt comfortable and safe in our sessions and so was able to push into my edges and show my vulnerability. Jim’s facilitation style is compassionate, present, aware and grounded and he gently challenged me to expand my range of movement and possibility. These have been powerful and transformational sessions. Bypassing the traditional thinking and talking therapy has had an impact in changing me on a cellular level, this movement has been medicine.”
5Rhythms® movement psychotherapy comes from a philosophical framework which includes the 5Rhythms® dance practice, Gestalt Awareness Practice and Integrative Body Psychotherapy. The founder of 5Rhythms® movement psychotherapy training, Dr Andrea Juhan affirms that simple movement patterns can elegantly express and articulate physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual possibilities in profoundly catalytic, personal, and lasting ways that traditional 'talk therapy' cannot approach. It can evoke powerful and sustainable change/movement via a deeply-felt experience of who we are in any moment.
From this state of being, we can integrate our physical, emotional and mental selves to become a person of spiritual integrity. We can stop the enslavement of our heart to the mind and shift the power of the mind to serve the heart. Thus we can live with integrity.
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Medicine Moves Movement Psychotherapy and Counselling Services can be found at Euro Studios, 301-1821 Cook Street, Victoria, BC
For more information see: www.medicinemoves.ca or call Jim Kragtwyk at 250 896 6683
