UPCOMING 2012 EVENTS
The Wise Woman's Way Workshop
with with Dr Anita Johnston and Elissa Shapiro
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
Join us for a day of storytelling, ritual, dialogue, poetry, music, & sacred soul movement blending modern psychology, spiritual wisdom, and contemporary women’s issues. Come together in women’s circle to learn, connect and be inspired for your new year.
Discover,uncover and apply your internal guidance system to all your relationships... with yourself, others, food, your body, you name it....
Begin 2012 with a deep connection to your most authentic, wise Self.
"When a woman is disconnected from her Inner Guidance System she becomes vulnerable to the nonsense of others. It is through a secure connection to the three pillars of her Feminine Nature -- her instincts, emotions, and intuitions -- that she is able to navigate authentically and safely through life, moving towards those individuals and situations that feed, nurture, and nourish her soul.”
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Details
Saturday, January 21st, 2012 | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Norris Conference Center | 2525 West Anderson Ln , Austin, TX
Cost: $129 in advance | $149 at the door
To Register Online Click here: www.dranitajohnston.com
Contact Elissa to Pay By Check
Contact: Elissa Shapiro (512)779-3121 | elissashapiro@yahoo.com
Anita Johnston, PhD is an internationally known storyteller, psychologist and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon. She is known for her ability to use stories, metaphor and imagery to help women transform
their relationship to food and their bodies.
Elissa Shapiro, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Movement Facilitator. She guides women into discovering and celebrating the gifts and joys of their bodies.
Anita and Elissa have been teaching women’s workshops and retreats together the past 8 years in Austin and Hawaii. Their workshops are full of humor, wisdom, love and compassion. |
Women and Body Image across the Lifespan
with with Dr Anita Johnston
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Come hear an enlightening and inspiring talk by internationally known storyteller, psychologist and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon.
Anita is known for her wonderful abilities to use stories, imagery and metaphors to help women transform and enliven their relationships to food and their bodies. She has been an incredible mentor, teacher and friend to me over the years, and I'd love for you to experience her powerful teachings.
Women of all ages welcome. |
Details
Friday, January 20th, 2012 | 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Location: Unity Center | 8000 Anderson Square, Austin, TX
Cost: $45 in advance | $55 at the door
To Register Online Click here: www.dranitajohnston.com
Contact Elissa to Pay By Check
Contact: Elissa Shapiro (512)779-3121 | elissashapiro@yahoo.com
PAST EVENTS (2011)
Feeding the Feminine Soul: Women and Our Bodies
with Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Calling all women, treat yourself to an afternoon of self-care, rejuvenation
and self awareness. As women, many of us struggle with our body image
on a daily basis. In this nurturing afternoon, come explore movement, meditation, art and journaling as ways to overcome body image issues.
Investigate and honor the true cravings of your soul, learn body awareness skills, and receive tools to help bring more love and compassion to your body.
Whether you are struggling with food and body image issues, or simply wanting to strengthen an already healthy relationship, this workshop will assist you in finding your highest levels of health, wellbeing and celebration for your body. |
Details
Saturday, June 18, 2011 | 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: In private home in North Austin.
Register early to reserve your spot. Space will be limited.
Cost: $40 with early registration | $50 at the door
Register Online: Click below to register with PayPal.
Contacts: Elissa Shapiro (512)779-3121 | elissashapiro@yahoo.com
Feeding the Feminine Soul: Women and Our Bodies
with Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Calling all women, treat yourself to an afternoon of self-care, rejuvenation
and self awareness. As women, many of us struggle with our body image
on a daily basis. In this nurturing afternoon, come explore movement, meditation, art and journaling as ways to overcome body image issues.
Investigate and honor the true cravings of your soul, learn body awareness skills, and receive tools to help bring more love and compassion to your body.
Whether you are struggling with food and body image issues, or simply wanting to strengthen an already healthy relationship, this workshop will assist you in finding your highest levels of health, wellbeing and celebration for your body. |
Details
Saturday, February 26, 2011 | 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: In private home in North Austin.
Register early to reserve your spot. Space will be limited.
Register Online: Click here to register with PayPal
Cost: $35 with early registration | $45 at the door
Contacts: Elissa Shapiro (512)779-3121 | elissashapiro@yahoo.com
Soul Hunger: Nourishing the Sacred Feminine
A Powerful Workshop for Women
with Dr. Anita Johnston & Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Sponsored by Cedar Springs, Austin
Join us for this dynamic & powerful afternoon designed to support those who struggle with disordered eating and body image issues. In sacred women's circle we will use storytelling, metaphor, and embodied movement to help you learn to trust and follow your intutition & listen to your body's inherent wisdom. In our safe and supportive container, you will learn ways of finding and feeding deeper hungers and accelerating your recovery process by leaps and bounds. Don't miss this unique opportunity to spend a whole day with Dr. Johnston, who will be with us in Austin from Hawaii for this rare, enlightening event. |
Feeding the Feminine Soul
An Afternoon of Rejuvenation & Inspiration
with Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
COMING SOON! NEW DATE TBA
Explore art, journaling, movement & meditation as key practices to developing a lasting loving relationship to your body.
> Come together in sacred women’s circle for connection, sharing & healing
> Honor, celebrate & nurture your body, mind, and spirit.
> Examine and feed the true cravings of your soul.
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Elissa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Nia Instructor. She has worked for over 10 years with women struggling with eating disorders and body image issues utilizing traditional psychotherapy, movement and other expressive arts practices. Elissa offers warmth, compassion, humor and her own personal experience & wisdom to assist women in finding nourishment for the soul, joy, passion and celebration in their bodies. |
Details
New Date Coming Soon | 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: The Amala Foundation
1006 S. 8th St (East on Treadwell from S. Lamar)
Cost: $40 if pre-registered | $50 if after
For questions or phone registration
Contact Elissa: (512)779-3121 | elissashapiro@yahoo.com
Behavioral Genetics:
A Family Constellations Workshop
DATE TBA
with
Judy Smith
Behavioral Genetics exposes the unconscious bonds in families
and unravels their effects on the current generation.
The results are often immediate and life-changing.
It is well known that we inherit physical traits from our parents. What is less known is that we also inherit our family's emotional patterns. While our physical traits are easily discernable, our emotional legacy is more obscure. We are profoundly affected by our family history.
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Traumatic events -- such as the premature death of a parent, sibling or child, an abandonment, crime or suicide -- can exert a powerful influence over us, and in fact can leave their imprint on our entire family system for generations. Bonded by an unconscious loyalty, family members often repeat the sufferings of the past. Physical illness, depression, anxiety, fear, panic attacks, financial failure, addiction, eating disorders and failed relationships can all be forms of this unconscious loyalty.
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Once we identify these patterns, we can break free and begin to establish a stronger, happier, legacy and live in full strength and dignity.
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Family Mapping is a group process that has the power to counteract generations of suffering and unhappiness. Based on the Family Constellation Work of Bert Hellinger. Family Mapping exposes the invisible bonds in family systems and unravels their effects on the current generation. Destructive patterns are brought to light and replaced with clear and visceral insights. The results are often immediate and life-changing.
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Judy Smith studied through the Hellinger Pennsylvania Institute with Mark and Suzie Tucker. She facilitates workshops throughout Texas and South Africa and has been invited to Arizona and Ohio later this year. She coordinates advanced studies in this work nation wide. Judy is a South African trained crisis counselor and rape crisis counselor and former EST (SA) trainer. She is also a published author and recipient of a number of awards for poetry and literature. Her psychological thrillers are on bookshelves countrywide.
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Or click here to e-mail Elissa Shapiro
Or call:
(512)779-3121
Nia with Live Drumming
Community Holiday Celebration
Saturday, December 13 | 3:00 to 4:00 pm
with
Elissa Shapiro, Kenya Masala & Friends
As you shake, dance and groove to the rhythm and pulse of live drums, let the music seduce your body, mind, emotions, and spirit to dance, unwind, and let go!
Join Elissa Shapiro, Kenya Masala, Condor Adams, and friends for a Nia experience unlike like anything else.
In the spirit of holiday celebration and play, experience the infectious grooves of live drums, along with the expressiveness, power, and healing touch of the Nia Technique. Join us for a spirited afternoon of dance, community, sweat and rhythm not to be missed. Invite your friends, bring your kids, all levels welcome, no experience necessary.
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This class is by donation and open to all ages.
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Location: Casa de Luz | 1701 Toomey Rd., Austin 78704
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Contact Elissa with any questions at (512)779-3121 or...
Click here to send an e-mail.
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“Imagine a Woman in love with her own body. A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is. Who celebrates her body and its rhythms and cycles as an
exquisite resource...” Patricia Lynn Reilly
Feeding the Feminine Soul:
Finding Freedom from Food, Weight & Body Issues
Saturday, February 16, 2008 ~ 1:00 to 3:30 pm
with
Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
In this Women’s Expressive Arts workshop:
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Explore art, journaling, movement and meditation
as key practices to overcoming food and body issues |
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Deepen your body-mind connection |
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Develop body awareness skills |
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Receive tools to transform your relationship to food |
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Release negative body thoughts |
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Examine and feed the true cravings of your soul |
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Honor, enliven and celebrate your body, mind, and spirit |
Elissa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Nia Instructor. She has worked for over 10 years with women struggling with eating disorders and body image issues utilizing traditional psychotherapy, movement and other expressive arts practices. Elissa offers warmth, compassion, humor and her own personal experience & wisdom to assist women in finding nourishment for the soul, joy, passion and celebration in their bodies.
COST:
$35 with pre-registration: by February 1 | $45 after February 1
(Student discounts available)
LOCATION: JoyMoves
2501 Capital of Texas Highway
328-4440 | www.joymoves.com
Space is limited so register today!
Contact Elissa at: 512.779.3121 or Click here to e-mail Elissa.
What others have said...
"Participation in Elissa's Feeding the Feminine Soul was a wonderful experience. Elissa's style of interactions, her ability to facilitate nurturing affirmations touched those of us in our multi-generational group in amazing and awesome ways. I personally and professionally left the workshop with new insights and ideas and was deeply appreciative of the experience. " Marsha, Austin, TX
"After attending a week of Elissa's mind/body movement, I experienced an accelerated growth on my current spiritual path. The process she orchestrates allowed me to open my psyche and gain insightful messages to use in my own relationship with my body." Victoria, Eugene, OR
“Elissa is such a warm, inspired and gifted woman and her teachings are unlike any other experience. I felt so comfortable and safe with Elissa that I was able to dance and move without judgment and be in my body in a way I had never been before."
Molly, Los Angeles, CA
“I can't thank Elissa enough for the beautiful gift her teaching has given me...a new and deeper relationship with myself. After spending time with Elissa, I am no longer concerned by what anyone else thinks of me and my body. I trust my own natural impulses to guide me and am motivated only by the joy I feel in movement. I am so thankful for this precious gift....the gift of meeting myself. I am beautiful!!!”
Colleen, California
"Elissa's classes and programs are always inspiring, joyful and supportive of every individual in the room. She has an uncanny ability of sharing her love of movement and life in ways that meet others' needs no matter their body type, lifestyle or experience level. She has helped me see the possibility of living life with joy and that joy can and should permeate every aspect of my life. " Joan, Austin, TX
Feeding the Feminine Soul:
Finding Freedom from Food, Weight & Body Issues
Saturday, March 1, 2008 ~ 1:00 to 3:30 pm
with
Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
For New & Returning "Feeding the Feminine Soul" Participants
Treat yourself to an afternoon of self care, rejuvenation and self awareness. In this nurturing afternoon, we'll explore movement, meditation, art, connection and self-discovery as ways to overcome body image issues.
We'll investigate the true cravings of our soul, learn body awareness skills, and receive tools to allow us to finally make peace with our bodies. For women struggling with food and body issues, as well as those looking to strengthen and deepen an already healthy relationship. |
COST
$35 before February 15 | $45 after February 15
LOCATION: JoyMoves
2501 Capital of Texas Highway
328-4440 | www.joymoves.com
Space is limited so register today!
Contact Elissa at: 512.779.3121 or Click here to e-mail Elissa.
Soul Cycles: Four Faces of the Feminine Psyche
Saturday, April 12, 2008 ~ 12:30 to 6:30 pm
with
Anita Johnston, Ph.D & Elissa Shapiro, LCSW
A powerful workshop for women of all ages.
Experience the power of the feminine life cycle -- from menarche to menopause -- as it relates to eating, body image, and sexuality.
Discover the four feminine archetypes (maiden, mother, queen, crone) traditonally found in ancient storytelling traditions and learn how to use them for healing. Develop a deeper understanding of the power of the sacred feminine -- how to embody it and use it for transformation and creativity.
What are the Four Faces of the Feminine Psyche and what makes them sacred?
They are archetypes that correspond to four significant phases in a woman's life (maiden, mother, queen, crone) and also correspond to the four seasons of the year (spring, summer, fall, winter), four cycles of the moon (waxing, full, waning, dark), four directions (east, south, west, north), four times of day (dawn, noon, duck, mignight) and four elements (air, fire, water, earth).
These archetypal energies are available to the conscious woman for personal growth and healing, regardless of her chronological age.
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Anita Johnston, Ph.D is an internationally known storyteller and
Author of Eating in the Light of the Moon
Elissa Shapiro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Nia Instructor
COST
$149 before March 12 | $169 after March 12
REGISTER
*Register online at: www.DrAnitaJohnston.com *
Early registration is highly recommended...
space is limited, and this is always a popular event.
LOCATION: JoyMoves
2501 Capital of Texas Highway
328-4440 | www.joymoves.com
BODY VIDA TRANSITION MESSAGE
Dear Body Vida Community,
May this exciting Body Vida update find you in wellness and vitality!
It has been almost 2 years since Body Vida opened its doors. As we have danced, moved and deepened our mind-body-spirit connection, there has been so much celebration and learning. I am so grateful and appreciative for the strength and wealth of the beautiful community that has grown around Body Vida. It is in this spirit of change and new beginnings, that I offer the following:
On June 1, 2006, Body Vida will be closing its doors and completing as a business entity. While we have not been able to meet our financial goals, this does not diminish the outpouring of love and support we have received from each of you. Additionally, there is an amazing opportunity to continue Nia in a beautiful new sacred space in Austin, called JoyMoves (scroll down for link).
• For Nia… The last Nia class at the current Body Vida/Kim Soo space will be Wednesday May 31 at 6:00pm. Liz, Ursula, and I will resume a new schedule of Nia classes at Shoshana Goldstein’s new JoyMoves studio, starting June 12, 2006. All of your Body Vida class cards and memberships will be honored by JoyMoves. If, however, you prefer a refund for any unused portion, I will support you with that. For any questions around refunds, please contact me no later than May 31.
• For Pilates… Todd will continue to offer the Tues/Thurs Pilates classes in the current Body Vida/Kim Soo space. All class cards will be honored.
• For Soul Motion… Soul Motion will be completing at the current Body Vida/Kim Soo space on Tuesday May 30 th. I will keep you posted as I determine the appropriate new time, day and space for this body of work. Please contact me with any questions regarding class cards.
This is a big change, and I realize that this may impact our existing community. I ask for your support and encourage you to welcome this new opportunity. It is an innovative step to support me in moving from business owner to teacher and studio consultant.
Both Liz and Ursula will continue to teach Nia at JoyMoves and beyond.
I invite you to come to as many classes as possible over the next several weeks as we complete in our current space with a spirit of celebration. I gratefully acknowledge and offer thanks to all the Body Vida teachers, administrative support team, demo team and the Kim Soo community. I thank you in advance for your patience and support.
In Love & Gratitude,
Elissa Shapiro, Body Vida owner
elissa@bodyvida.com
512.779.3121
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