(Printer-friendly version,
Use "back" button to return to previous page)
The Experience
About the Work
Healing the Father Wound®
Healing the Moher Wound®
Clearing the Air™
Tantum Yoga® Breathwork
A Message to Graduates
Gatherings
The highly acclaimed HOW Workshops' series features various interactive group experiences. It explores the wounds we hold around our family of origin, and how these initial wounds have continued to impact our adult lives. The series is designed to help men and women break through the unresolved issues that impede forgiveness and personal freedom.
The workshops are experiential in nature. There is very little lecture. The intention is to break through barriers and old patterns through movement, express and release work, Tantrum Yoga®, breathwork, psychodrama, meditation, and processes that excavate wounds and ties that keep us stuck. It is an intense and transformational series.
The Healing the Father Wound and The Healing the Mother Wound workshops are four-night, three-day events offered for 12 men or 12 women. Clearing the Air is a six-day, five-night event for 7 men and 7 women who have completed both previous workshops. All workshops start at 7pm the first night and go until around 5pm the last night.
The workshops are held at Harbin Hot Springs, an intentional community and retreat center in the foothills of Calistoga, 3 hours north of San Francisco, California. All three workshops are held at The Mountain Lodge, a private lodge nestled in the woods on Harbin Hot Springs property. There is also a full-service kitchen where meals can be prepared. The workshop fee for all HOW workshops includes lodging and access to all that Harbin Hot Springs has to offer. There are opportunities during the workshops to enjoy the amenities of Harbin, including hot and cold springs, pools, a sauna, massages, hikes and the rest of the retreat center.
Breath work is more than inhaling and exhaling. It’s an opportunity to get in touch with our inherent feelings and release blocks that keep us from experiencing true intimacy (to quote Stan Dale - "in to me you see") with ourselves and others. This is a system, developed almost 25 years ago by Gordon Clay, to release stored or pent-up emotions without resorting to any form of violence. There is no need for our children or anyone else to see us hitting pillows to release anger, or to kick or punch a bag, slam doors or phones, or display violent behavior when experincing deeper levels of anger and rage. Tantrum Yoga is a system that also makes it safe for partners to experience their anger without fearing that either one will become physically violent. In a culture that seems to think that where there is anger, there is violence, Tantrum Yoga provides the tools to dismantle this perception without stuffing your anger or using anything else (drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, work, television, coffee - and the list is endless) to numb out. It supports coming into your real feelings, not those created feelings that you learned in order to be safe, to get what you wanted, or to cover fear, anger, sadness or pain. It allows the clearing of stuck feelings to make for an opening to true intimacy and joy. For as long as you hold anger, blame or resentment for someone, it is impossible to reach true intimacy with that person.
If you have attended Healing the Father Wound or Healing the Mother Wound and want to check out our e-mail newsletter and get more information on the Gatherings, contact us here and include your name, address, email, phone number, and the date/s you went through one or more of the workshops in the H.O.W. series including Clearing the Air/Family Reunion. We will email you appropriate access code for this protected community area. Then, click on "Graduates" anywhere on the site to enter.
There is a level of intimacy and safety that is reached in the gender reconciliation workshop Clearing the Air (formerly known as Family Reunion) that many people have longed for. In 1993 a number of the men and women who had participated in the workshop chose to meet again at Harbin Hot Springs for a gathering. Gatherings of graduates of this workshop have been happening ever since. Though the 1993 reunion was limited to the people who had attended the 1993 Family Reunion workshop, every subsequent gathering has been open to anyone who has attended a workshop in the Clearing the Air workshops serie, and their friends. These gatherings have included dance, guerilla theatre, art projects, rituals, processes, as well as plenty of free time to connect and play. These gatherings have been hosted by various members of the community from California to Minnesota to Oregon. If you wish to attend, please contact us for more information and for registration. We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming gathering.
* * *
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
This is Clearing the Air | The Experience | Endorsements
Level I - Father | Level II - Mother
Level III - Clearing the Air Between Women & Men
Calendar | Registration | Contraindications | Mailing List
Books | Contact Us | Graduates | Home
Contact Us
Tantrum Yoga® and Clearing the Air™ are registered trademarks of Gordon Clay
©2000-2007 CTA Workshops
