Workshops, Information Evenings & Open Days

Joya's Open Days If you are interested in finding out more about Joya, please come along to one of our Open Days. These are fun, informal events in the peaceful environment of the Joya Centre, with absolutely no pressure to enrol. Paulina will provide an overview of Tomatis based Listening Training and the profound benefits which it is possible to obtain through this method. She will also answer any questions you may have about Listening or any of the other techniques we offer, and how a programme could be designed to precisely address your particular needs. All are welcome to our Open Days but we do request that you let us know you are coming. Next Open Day: Watch this space Book Now >>

Sunday 30th of August: Inward Bound

This will be a workshop without much talk but rather an experiential get-together focused on enhancing our perception through the senses. Following the ontogenetic evolution of man from our sense of motion to our so-called sixth sense we will become inward bound explorers. Listening sessions with Tomatis based music and sound, and psycho-acoustic brainwave-technologies will set the tone and enable you to 'dive' from a high alpha brainwave pattern, down through a theta and into a deep delta brain wave pattern (for explanation see below). There are thousands of possible experiences. Most are pleasurable, also due to the endorphin production associated with those brainwaves. Endorphins, our natural opiates, have a powerful strenghtening effect on memory and problem solving. It is like an in-built rewarding system: the places that produce most endorphin receptors are the same areas most intimately involved with learning new behaviour and counteracting the more well-known flight and fight response. Even in the breaks for lunch and tea there will be little talking. Instead participants are asked to draw/paint or write their impressions. (NB: Sometimes, while doing the Listening, people can get a bit cold, so bring an extra blanket, just to be safe.)

Some Extra Information on Brain Waves:

Human biology is so dependent on new learning / new perceptions that it is not surprising evolution has provided us with encouraging mechanisms. In addition to an increase in endorphins, DHEA, and melatonin, slowing the brain wave patterns stimulates electrical pulses in the brain, changing its neural structure and pushing the brain to reorganize itself at a higher, more complex level of functioning. Herein lies the theoretical explanation for the changes that researchers have reported in subjects using sound technologies to entrain brain waves. Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine predicted this phenomenon already in 1977 in his theories on 'the reorganisation of open systems'.

It has been shown that induced brain wave states can dramatically improve mental and emotional health. Of course these effects do not come overnight, or by doing one workshop, but they certainly are part of the future, and quite likely a much more attractive alternative to taking pills.

Four Categories of Brain Wave Patterns

Cost: $ 50 per person
Time: 10.00 am to 4.30 pm
Booking ahead is essential. Drinks and soup & salad will be provided although you are welcome to bring something nice to share for lunch.

Twice a month there will be workshops on health and wellbeing related subjects, run by either Paulina herself or by invited trainers. Once a month there are workshops on health and wellbeing related subjects, either run by Paulina herself or by invited trainers.

Cost: $75.00 per person
Time: 10.00 am to 3.30 pm
Booking ahead is essential. Drinks, soup & salads will be provided although you are welcome to bring something for a shared lunch.

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