Embodying Presence Retreat: Hakomi, Gestalt, And Somatic Movement Practices With Patrice Hamilton

Name: Embodying Presence Retreat: Hakomi, Gestalt, And Somatic Movement Practices With Patrice Hamilton
Start: 2025-03-08
End: 2025-03-10
Location: TensegrityU

Embodying Presence: Living from the Truth of Who You Are.

“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh

We experience our aliveness in the present moment, and it is in that elusive present where change and growth are possible. Our habitual and often unconscious way of being is to shy away from the present moment because of the discomfort or pain it often holds. These habitual ways of responding reinforce beliefs and behaviors that limit our life experience. Anxiety and fear keep us running away from the past and trying to avoid the future.

This experiential class will blend the slow, developmental movements of Cortical Field Reeducation(R) with Hakomi and Gestalt Practice. All are designed to increase awareness and facilitate a greater understanding and felt experience of the connections between mind, body, and emotions as you learn to more easily live in the present moment. Within the group context you will experience the positive mirroring and nurturing contact that are essential for healing and integration to occur.

Together, we will:

Co-create a group container where new ways of moving and being can be safely explored and expressed.
Engage with others through paired and small group exercises, deepening compassion for self and others through mutual witnessing and support.
Explore developmental movement sequences leading to a release of habitual muscular holding patterns and suppressed emotions.
Please join me as together we explore what is possible.

RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!

Space limited to 20 people
Scholarships and retreat housing available

To Register, Contact: Patrice: 831-325-2724 or contact@patricehamiltontherapy.com

Hourly Schedule

Fri

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Sat

10:00am – 5:00pm

Sun

10:00am – 5:00pm

Date

March 8 – 10 2025

Cost

$300.00

Location

TensegrityU

Nevada City, CA

Instructor(s)

Patrice Hamilton

Phone

(831) 325-2724

Email

contact@patricehamiltontherapy.com

Tim McNeely

Co-Founder and Educator

Tim McNeely began his career as an urban sociologist, and after a major trauma and near death experience devoted his life to the practice and teaching of Dr. Ida P. Rolf’s traditional 10-Series.

This process – an anatomically informed, and holistic bodywork protocol – organizes and aligns the human being in relationship to itself and its environment for maximum ease and potential. These ten sessions are Dr. Rolf’s lasting gift to humankind.

Tim believes, like the giants of the Human Potential Movement that came before him, that integrated beings create integrated relationships; integrated relationships create integrated communities, and integrated communities create an integrated world. In this spirit he chose western Nevada County as his laboratory a decade ago, and so far has taken 1% of this wonderful population through the transformative experience of the 10-Series. The impact of Dr. Rolf’s legacy there can be seen and felt.

Tim McNeely is a Co-Founder and educator for TensegrityU. He is certified through the Guild for Structural Integration, and is an Anatomy Trains (ATSI) Advanced Practitioner. He is a certified Esalen massage practitioner licensed in California. He has also trained in CranioSacral therapy and Visceral Manipulation through the Upledger and Barral institutes, and participates in anatomical dissections with Gil Hedley. He is currently studying Somatic Experiencing. Tim lives and practices in Nevada City, CA.

Kate Flore, MPH, OTR, CMP

Co-Founder and Educator

Kate Flore is an occupational therapist, educator, and Gestalt facilitator. She believes that we are all an instrument of healing – first for ourselves, and then for others and that healing is best done within a supportive community container. She began her profession researching population health disparities at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and the Altarum Institute in Washington DC. She has a master’s degree in public health, a clinical license in occupational therapy and is on faculty at the Esalen Institute.

After a decade of competitive cycling coupled with a high stress job and lots of desk work, Kate realized that her body had taken the shape of her occupations – her feet off the ground and head forward – limiting movement and self-expression.

In her recovery from an injury that left her left arm and hand without function, a combination of movement therapies (yoga, pilates, Gyrotonic), bodywork (Rolf Structural Integration and the Feldenkrais Method) and learning therapeutic touch began to re-integrate her limb. Being part of the Esalen community re-integrated her spirit. During her training at Esalen, Kate discovered the power of group Gestalt relational process, “Open Seat”, to integrate bodywork and support personal agency. Blending these modalities, she has dedicated her teachings and clinical practice to helping others find ease in body, movement, and spirit. She brings these practices to vulnerable populations including our correctional system, people with terminal illness, and children with severe disabilities. She serves on boards for Vision Walkers Collective and Compassionate Care ALS.

As co-founder and educator for TensegrityU, Kate is committed to helping support practitioners develop the eyes, hands, body mechanics, presence and professionalism needed to deliver effective holistic and client-centered work.

Kate has trained in Gyrotonic and Pilates and in the Feldenkrais Method with Harriet Goslins, Russell Delman, Jeff Haller, and Raz Ori, and Gestalt Relational Process with Dorothy Charles and Christine Price. She is a student of anatomist and dissection teacher Gil Hedley. She lives and practices in Nevada City, CA and at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Kate can be reached at kate@tensegrityu.com.