HISTORY & DESCRIPTIVE OF POLARITY THERAPY

Polarity is a healing art based on ancient understandings of the movement of energy in the human body. It bases its understandings
in the three basic laws of energy (quantum physics).

1. Everything is made of energy.
2. Energy has to move.
3. Energy is never lost, it is simply transformed.

The practice of polarity therapy addresses all patterns of the energetic being: The mind, emotions and physical body as they align with the spirit. It is a basic precept of the art of polarity that an organism can only function in a state of ease when all the bodies are aligned.

Polarity therapy was developed by Dr. Randolph
Stone, (1890-1981) an osteopath and naturopath
of his day, who spent his life striving to combine the
ancient Hermetic understandings of medicine and
Eastern medicine with western ideas. The art of
polarity includes techniques we recognize by the
names of reflexology, acupuncture, Aryuveda, yoga
& craniosacral balancing. However, it is a body of
work that defies the descriptive of these practices.
Its simple approach being the energetic balancing
principle described above.

At the Yoga & Polarity Center, we dedicate our work to the concepts of yoga as it defines Polarity: the belief that the alignment of the bodies: spiritual, mental, emotional & physical, lead to a wellness of
being and a joyousness of life. Our purpose is to provide a safe, clean space for learning and seeking truth, for all people.

So, if you are a teacher, bodyworker, psychologist, social worker, physical therapist, minister, priest, doctor or any worker in the helping professions, this work will enhance your practice. If you are a seeker of truth, this work will enhance your findings. Finally, if you are simply a person who knows, deeply, that there is a better way, this is the study for you.

We look forward to holding space for you in your sacred journey.


REGISTRATION
Here's a contract application that submits your intention for participation in the Polarity program. If it is your intent to do this, please complete the contract as soon as possible and return to Yoga & Polarity Center. If you wish to use a credit card, please indicate this on your form.

To mail in, send to:
Yoga & Polarity Center
Attn: Heather Principe, Director
32 Church Street
Malverne, NY 11565

Any questions, please call our office at 516.596.0397

POLARITY EDUCATOR PROGRAM - 2008

There are 2 divisions of study within this program.
- ASSOCIATE POLARITY PRACTIONER COURSES
- REGISTERED POLARITY PRACTIONER COURSES
SCROLL DOWN FOR ALL COURSE LISITINGS

All of these courses are approved as registered courses with the
American Polarity Therapy Association (APTA)
P.O. Box 19858, Boulder CO 80308
Phone: 303.545.2080 Fax 303.545.2161
(Office hours 9:30am-4:30pm M-F MST)
Email: hq@polaritytherapy.org
www.polaritytherapy.org

ASSOCIATE POLARITY PRACTIONER COURSES



Polarity I (Prana and The Three Gunas)
*Course is applicable for credits towards the 500 Yoga Teacher Training Certification
This course introduces the basic principle of energy flow. You will learn the Polarity General Session, a complete bodywork protocol for balancing the flow of life energy. Emphasis is placed on developing
the art of touch and understanding the relationship between body, mind, emotions and spirit in the healing process.
Cost: $250
Credits: 14 hours
Dates: 3/8/08, 3/9/08
Time: 12:30pm-6:30pm
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Additional Location
: Om-suit-home 59W. 19th Street, NYC
Dates:
3/15/08, 3/16/08
Time:
10:00am-5:00pm


Elements and Reflexes

*Course is applicable for credits towards the 500 Yoga Teacher Training Certification
This class provides an in-depth expression of life energy through the Five Elements–Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth. You will learn bodywork sessions for balancing each element and the basics of Polarity exercise and nutrition. Emphasis is placed on self-discovery, as it is only through understanding the activity of elemental energies in our own lives that we are able to work with these energies in others.
In addition, you will learn about energy reflexes and the relationship of polarity currents in the body.
Cost: $525
Credits: 42 hours
Dates: Coming in July 08
Time: TBA

Energetic Listening Skills (The Yoga of Listening)
This course is a basic communications skills course of a hallmark series of courses in Verbal Skills for Bodyworkers. It combines Polarity energy principles with techniques drawn from NLP, Gestalt, Bioenergetics and Ericksonian Trancework. Emphasis is placed on integrating verbal work with bodywork and on exploring the energetic meaning of physical postures, movements and responses.
Cost: $525
Credits: 30 hours
Dates: 3/27/08, 4/3/08, 4/10/08, 4/17/08, 4/24/08, 5/1/08, 5/8/08, 5/15/08
Time: 7:00-10:00pm

Evaluation and Preparation for Practice
This course introduces you to the practice of Polarity at a professional level and gives you an opportunity to integrate verbal and non-verbal skills learned in other classes to energetically assess your clients’ needs and establish a healing intention for your work. Other topics include: guidelines for effective record keeping, and preparing and caring for oneself as a practitioner.
Cost: $160
Credits: 9 hours
Dates: TBA
Time: TBA

Polarity Clinic & Supervision
In this course you will work with clients under the guidance of senior practitioners and teachers. Discussions follow each practice session and address issues related to establishing a successful practice.
Cost: $250
Credits: 35 hours
Dates: TBA
Time: TBA

REGISTERED POLARITY PRACTIONER COURSES


2008
Star Balancing - Study the Star Patterns and how they affect/interact with the Autonomic System, Digestion, and Structural alignment.
Cost: $250
Credits: 2
Date: May 3 & 4 – 5 & 6
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30, Sunday 12:30-6:30

Skills Interation
May 31st with Gary Strauss & Heather Principe - Deepening Skills through Process Work Advanced Clinic & Supervision
Cost: $150
Credits: 1.5
Date: May 31 & June 1st
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30, Sunday 12:30-6:30

Understanding Clinical Supervision
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: June 1st with Heather Principe & Tracy Griffiths
Time: TBA

Anatomy Prep Day & Assign
Cost: $300 for full course & mentoring, plus day
Credits: 100 hrs. Self directed – 10 Assignments & Final Exam
Date:June 21
(This piece will be due By March 1, 2009.)

Cranial Retreat - Optional
Cost: $600
Credits: 4.0
Date:August 7-10
Call the office (516-662-7878) for more details

Spinal Balancing - Explore Spinal Harmonics and Reflexes.

Beginning with techniques for Sacral Balancing, this course teaches that energetic and structural imbalances can be released through contacts at the poles of spinal “triads”. From these contacts and their releases witness extraordinary functional responses in the associated organs.
Prerequisite: APP completion
Cost: $275
Credits: 16 Hours
Date:September 27 & 28
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30, Sunday 12:30-6:30

Nutrition Day 1 - Health Building - Dr. Stone

Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date:October 25
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

Nutrition Day 2 - Learning the Elements of Nutrition
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: November 15
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

Nutition Day 3 - Bodywork Digestive/Lymphatic
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: November 22
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

Nutritional Counseling - the Energetic Listening of Nourishment - Nutrition Day 4
Cost: $1245
Credits: 1/0
Date: December 13
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

2009
RPP Business Day 1 - Business Skills for the Practitioner
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: January 10
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

RPP Business Day 2 - Business Skills for the Practitioner
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: January 24
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

RPP Business Day 3 - Business Skills for the Practitioner
Cost: 125
Credits: 1.0
Date: February 14
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

Final Clinic Work for Graduating RPPS - RPP Clinic
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: February 28
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

Final Process Work for Graduating RPPs – Skills Integration Day 1
Cost: $125
Credits: 1.0
Date: March 14
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

Final Process Work for Graduating RPPs - Skills Integration Day 2
Cost: $150.00
Credits: 1.5
Date: March 21
Time: Saturday 11:30-6:30

RPP Practicum
Cost: $500
Credits: 5.0
Date: March 27, 28, 29
Time: Friday, Sat., Sun 11:30-7:30

Graduation
Date:April 11th
To be discussed