29th Summit Self-Care Sessions

Please see below for our Self Care offerings for the 29th San Diego International Summit

Self-care is providing yourself with the support you need to enhance your physical/mental/emotional well-being. Self-care involves monitoring your own experience and taking steps to maintain balance even with ever shifting demands. To support this balance, the IVAT Summit offers a wealth of self-care sessions to help prepare for hours of sitting, refresh, recenter after triggering presentations on trauma, release physical/mental/emotional tension, or simply enjoy. Self-care sessions are included at no extra cost in your registration but are not eligible for CEUs.

As part of our increased efforts to provide space and opportunities for self-care and wellness/healing/support opportunities, we have reserved the Sorrento Room for anyone who would like a quiet place to go and speak with a therapist. Notify any IVAT staff member and they will have a clinician paged to meet you.

Please note that Self Care sessions are not eligible for CE credit

2024 Self-Care Sessions

Hatha Yoga

Presenter: Glenna Tinney, MSW, ACSW, DCSW

Times: Sunday, August 25th, 2024, 6:30am-7:30am | Monday, August 26th, 2024, 6:30am-7:30am | Tuesday, August 27th, 2024, 6:30am-7:30am

Where: TBA

Description: Hatha yoga is practiced at a slower pace, with focus on the breath, controlled slow movements through static postures, alignment, and stretching. The class is designed to increase range of motion and mobility while focusing on strength, alignment, flexibility, and balance.

Through movement and breath, Glenna helps those seeking to increase their strength, stamina, flexibility, and balance while also increasing self-awareness, decreasing stress, overcoming trauma, and becoming their best compassionate and gentle selves

Emotional Freedom Technique (AKA Tapping)

Presenter: Gail Soffer

Times: Sunday, August 25th, 2024, 7:30am-8:00am

Where: TBA

Description: Participants will be guided through using EFT/Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping to address stress, to stabilize, and to rebalance by gently tapping on acupuncture/acupressure points in a specific sequence through the top part of their bodies. No clothing is removed, and you are sitting in a chair, working on your own body, within a group.  

Self-Care with Art Therapy and Collage

Presenter: Rocio Evans

Times: Sunday, August 25th, 2024, 12:30pm -1:15pm | Tuesday, August 27th, 2024, 12:30 pm-1:15 pm

Where: TBA

Description: This session will allow attendees to create self-care collages. Attendees will be encouraged to focus on the theme: How can you best engage in self-care? Participants are welcome to engage in creating collages with whatever theme they choose. Poster board, scissors, glue, markers, postcards, glitter, scraps of fabric, and other materials will be provided.  

Movement/Breathwork

Presenter: Cortenay C.

Times: Sunday, August 25th, 2024, 12:30pm-1:15pm | Monday, August 26th, 2024, 12:30pm-1:15pm | Tuesday, August 27th, 2024, 12:30pm-1:15pm

Where: TBA

Description: Coming Soon.

Journaling

Presenter: Mary Jo Barrett

Times: Monday, August 26th, 2024, 7:30 am-8:00 am

Where: TBA

Description: Coming Soon.

Relax with Yin Yoga

Presenter: Jagbir Kang

Times: Monday, August 26th, 2024, 12:30 pm-1:15 pm

Where: TBA

Description: Coming Soon.

Reiki Session

Presenter: Gail Soffer

Times: Tuesday, August 27th, 2024, 5:00 pm-5:30 pm

Where: TBA

Description: Reiki is an energy healing technique in which a practitioner who has undergone formal training in this healing art places their hands gently on or just above your body to guide a flow of healthy energy through your body to reduce stress and promote wellbeing. No clothing is removed, and you are sitting in a chair not doing anything but receiving a short one-on-one “treatment”.