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      <image:caption>Well-being is our natural state, regardless of age, weight or fitness. Feeling at home in our body gives us the freedom to enjoy life even when things are challenging. We tend to seek pleasure in external sources when it’s actually an internal experience caused by biological, chemical and neurological functions. Pleasure arises out of a sense of wholeness and connectedness to one’s body. It is our birthright and a byproduct when we dare to fully inhabit our body. Facing discomfort, numbness and even pain is liberating to the extent we let go of chronic contractions and blocked emotions. What is required is our willingness to breathe and move and give voice to everything we have held back for fear of disapproval. Once we let go and experience the free flow of energy we feel empowered. We know who we are and what we are capable of. When we have legs to stand on we can take a stand, when we are in touch with our gut we have guts. This embodied state of being allows us to set healthy boundaries, own our sexuality and choose what truly nourishes us. Naturally our vitality and self-esteem improve once we increase our capacity for pleasure.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our beliefs can either unconsciously recreate painful childhood experiences or consciously create a new reality. Once we bring consciousness to the beliefs we formed based on painful experiences we have the power to choose what we want to belief, and therefore what we want to experience. Our mind is not only a tool to process information but also a tool to build a healthy ego that can let go of itself.  This is a very important function. Are you able to let go of your mind and surrender to your higher mind? Is your mind your best friend, a tool for observation and self-reflection? Or Is your mind unable to focus or filled with criticism, blaming and judging yourself and others? Once we are able to identify limiting beliefs we are no longer identified with them. We can then see ourselves clearly without distortions.  Those critical voices we  internalized in childhood no longer hold the power they once had and we can live in the present, feeling centered and grounded. When our mind is connected to our heart we can speak our truth with love, and we are able to navigate our reactions and respond with words of affirmation and compassion when faced with disapproval.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How do you relate to yourself when you are disappointed, scared, angry, jealous or distressed ? Are you kind to yourself? Or do you abandon, reject, betray or punish yourself? If we grew up in an environment that held us with love when we were upset we learned to be loving to ourselves. We learned how to self-soothe, be kind, understanding and encouraging with ourselves. If we were raised in a harsh environment we most likely relate to ourselves that way, often believing that there is something wrong with us. Learning how to identify the cues of our inner child needing attention and developing a relationship with this vulnerable young self is a skill that can be learned. This increases our capacity for empathy and compassion and gives us security.. When we can hold space for this young part of us and allow all feelings we learn to accept and embrace ourselves fully. By giving attention in the way we wished a parent had given us attention when we were little, we give ourselves the love we search for in all the wrong places. Once we engage lovingly with ourselves no matter what, we become playful and light-hearted, just like children.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Feeling all of our feelings is the key to living fully and loving freely. Protecting ourselves against the feelings we believe will kill us, such as heartbreak, helplessness, rage or fear only leads to self-alienation and a lack of authenticity. When we dare to dive deep into our emotional self we are fully restored able to accept what is. This allows us to take the next step or wait, depending on what the situation requires.  A disconnect from our feelings can lead to depression, anxiety, compulsion or addiction. It can cause dis-ease. It also interferes with connecting emotionally with others. It can even prevent us from bonding with those we love, causing us to feel alone or isolated.  Learning how to tolerate all feelings takes courage and practice. Core Energetics techniques are powerful and can cause breakthroughs when we feel stuck. Grounding exercises build a container strong enough to tolerate feelings of grief, powerlessness, fear, hurt, anger etc. Exercises to build a charge followed by discharge bring awareness to feelings we blocked because consciously or unconsciously we saw them as threatening. Opening up emotionally restores us to a sense of well-being, personal power and allows us to be present.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Core Energetics comes from the premise that there is only one energy. Trauma causes this energy to split. Part of the energy flows freely and is aligned with a yes to life, the other one blocks feelings, awareness and love, negating all that is life affirming. It manifest as resistance, as a no to life. The more unconscious we are how this lives in us, the more in the grip of it we are. We then tend to sabotage things that are most important to us, or we don’t even try. Underneath every demon is a little child who wasn’t heard, seen or cared for at a critical time in their life. This hurt child made the decision to never be hurt like this again and uses their will to not feel their pain or be vulnerable ever again. This intention, often unconscious, causes fragmentation within the psyche and separation in relationships. It can lead to anxiety, depression, addiction, a sense of being tormented and isolated. We belief we have to hide this part that seeks revenge and withholds love. We cover it underneath a mask that we have come to identify with, when in fact it is only an adapted self created to fit in. Sadly we often inflict those same hurts on those we love and wish to be close with. Once we bring the light of consciousness to the trauma we experienced we can choose to heal this split. Taking responsibility means to make a conscious decision to not protect ourselves from the feelings that caused us to numb ourselves to the pain we couldn’t bear when we were hurt. This is a powerful transformational process that requires guidance and presence of someone we trust and has done this work themselves.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Karin Knoblich, CCEP Owner of Core Relations, LLC Karin is a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner (CCEP) , an Exceptional Relationship Mentor, a Radical Aliveness group facilitator. She has served as a faculty member at The Institute of Core Energetics from 2001 to 2020. She is also certified as an interfaith spiritual counselor with One Spirit Alliance. Karin is available for individual, group, couples &amp; supervision sessions in person and online.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Money and recognition matter. A job becomes a calling, when we work for the sake of it, not just for the external gains. This allows us to transcend the “little me” and work for something greater than ourselves. Once we collaborate with people who share our values and vision our work becomes meaningful and fulfilling.  Often we don’t know where to begin or how to translate doing what we love into a profession. Its a stretch going from loving food to owning a restaurant, from being creative with make-up to working as a make-up artist, from writing to being a published author. It requires persistence and an investment of time, energy and money. Once we identify our gift and invest in the skills required to excel we gain clarity. Then our goals and passion become the fuel and doors will open. This is inherently satisfying because it meets our need for autonomy, relatedness and competence.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Growing up, few people have truly been supported in stepping in to their power. Therefore few of us know how to be in our power with others. We give up our authority or rebel against it, or we may compromise our integrity and grab power. Hierarchy, racial or sex discrimination often create power dynamics where one person has power over another and consciously or unconsciously tries to control the other. Such a dynamic can cause us to stay small, hide, give up our voice, or give up entirely. This dynamic can also cause blatant abuse of power where one person acts as the perpetrator and the other as the victim. To be in our authority and embody our power we must become all of who we are. This requires the process of self-transformation. Core Energetics breaks this process down into four stages: letting go of the mask, the adapted self we created to fit in, transforming the lower self, the part of us that is at the root of self-sabotage, embodying our higher self, the personal expression of our divinity. This allows us to navigate power with others, and fulfill our life task, the thing we came here to do, not only on a personal but also on a professional level.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A shared life can become truly exceptional when there is also a marriage of security and adventure, connection and autonomy, the cozy and the erotic. Long term commitment to a life partner is for many the greatest undertaking they will ever encounter. Commitment to a partner can be incredibly challenging. If you struggle with stress around money, kids or work responsibilities, your sexual expression or emotional intimacy, you may be feeling uncertain of your commitment, wondering if you are falling out of love. Your relationship is not defective or dysfunctional you simply haven’t developed the skills that commitment requires. Most of us never learned how to express ourselves in ways that allow us to engage in conflict and assert our needs and wants in a way that brings us closer.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Partners feel safe in each other’s presence Partners can share their inner selves with one another There is a high degree of trust There is laughter &amp; lightness There is conflict, but quick repair &amp; learning Partners can take self responsibility There is a willingness to learn from mistakes There is a desire to see each other flourish Partners can admit to human realities like jealousy, competitiveness, &amp; insecurity</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Into me see. Happiness and pleasure become accessible when we learn how to navigate triggers and release the control patterns that prevent us from being intimate with another. Many people confuse intimacy with sex. Intimacy is about revealing oneself to another. The less defended we are, the more capable of being vulnerable and therefore intimate we become.  This undefended state of being allows us to feel save and accepted for who we are. When we risk being seen in our weaknesses and flaws, in the desires we barely dare to acknowledge to ourselves, we can reclaim the parts of ourselves we previously denied. We chose to deny these parts because we were shamed or blamed and we concluded that those must be bad or wrong. The more intimate we become the safer we become. This freedom allows us to explore sexually in ways we may never have thought possible. Sex becomes more playful, lustful, and heart-full. We can take risks that we could only fantasize about in the past. Let us support you in increasing your capacity to love sexually. .</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>John C. Pierrakos, MD was born in Greece in 1921. He was a student of Wilhelm Reich, MD. who posited that all physical symptoms have their origin in mental and emotional disturbances, and healing must include the whole personality. In 1954 he co-founded the Institute of Bioenergetic Analysis with Alexander Lowen, MD., also a student of Reich. His wife Eva Pierrakos, a dancer and medium, became a significant influence in the way he viewed the human being. He incorporated the spiritual concepts of the Pathwork with the body-oriented approach of Bioenergetics and created Core Energetics in 1973. John had a deep love and respect for the human being. He dedicated his life to the research and study of psychosomatics and was a beloved teacher of many. He traveled extensively to teach Core Energetics and share his life’s work. He is the author of two books Core Energetics and Eros, Love &amp; Sexuality.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Over the course of 8 group sessions, in a supportive environment with other couples, you will discover a powerful and transformative new way to be with your partner. You will learn how to:  Move through layers of emotions from the most defended to the most vulnerable; Engage in conflict as a gateway to empathy; Access the wisdom of your heart; Separate the unspoken demands you have of your partner from authentic need; Identify and work with your “triggers” or your strong reactions to your partner; and Express your erotic self and deepen your emotional and sexual connection with your partner.  Starting September 21. 2020 Program cost is $1850. Included are 8 process groups ($100/group) plus 3 private couples sessions with Doug &amp; Karin ($350/session) which support the practicing of content explored in group.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As two people join together, their shared life can become truly exceptional when there is also a marriage of security and adventure, intimacy and autonomy, harmony and conflict, the cozy and the erotic, the powerful and the most vulnerable. Long term commitment to a life partner is for many the greatest undertaking they will ever encounter. Commitment to a partner can be incredibly challenging.. If you struggle with stress around money, kids or work responsibilities, your sexual expression or emotional intimacy, you may be feeling uncertain of your commitment, wondering if you are falling out of love. Your relationship is not defective or dysfunctional you simply haven’t developed the skills that commitment requires. Most of us never learned how to express ourselves in ways that encourage connection and real intimacy.</image:caption>
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