Module Nine
Conscious Embodiment and Trauma Release
Your Somatic experience is your felt sense, moment by moment, consciously attentive experience of your embodiment.
Embodiment has to two sources, what you feel interactively and what you feel passively.
Like an actor, you could embody an intense interaction as a character in a play, or, like a hungry child, you will embody instinctual, visceral, emotional and existential distress every time you get hungry.
Imagine getting a whole-body massage, noticing how your muscles feel from your head to your toes. Scan your body like that for a moment.
Receive every sensation…
Now imagine giving a massage, head to toe, assessing tone, injury, circulation, pain, constraint, or collapse. Scan your body like that for a moment.
Interact and assess every muscle…
The first step in Conscious Embodiment and Trauma Release is accepting and exploring your Volume of Distress. Depending how wound-up, constrained, or collapsed you or I feel, the volume of distress we are embodying can be almost unnoticeable, or completely overwhelming.
Just like the volume of a stereo, or a noisy neighbor, distress can be too loud for too long.
The oldest healing traditions in the world both have embodied self-regulation, self-healing, and meditation practices. Both Yoga and Qi Gong include Embodied Trauma Release practices.
The process of Trauma release begins with understanding which embodied states arise from traumatic experiences of the past, and which embodied states are meant to hold all of the energy and emotion from exploding outwards or collapsing inwards.
The path of Trauma release is meant to help you balance your use of and response to distress, while applying your emotional intelligence towards a better future.
The practice of Trauma release includes Conscious Movement, Breathwork, Progressive Relaxation and Release techniques, as well as Somatically Recapitulating every memory that is held within your body, and keeps you from inhabiting your body and mind completely.
‘The Body is the Mind, Before the Mind is the Mind.’
Module Nine Contents:
- Embodiment Practices take Practice
- The Embodiment of Instinctual Activation
- The Embodiment of Social/Emotional Overwhelm
- The Embodiment of Existential Pain and Exhaustion
- Somato-mapping
- Progressive Relaxation
- Sequential Breathwork
- Somatic Recapitulation
- A Closing Circle – Nine – Dirt time and the Practice of Stalking
Register Early – Space is Limited
(Course Begins – Jan 22, 2025)
Introductory Webinar- Sat, November 30th, 2024 – 9:00 am, PST)
This 6 – month training, includes over 40 hours of LIVE content.
This immersive training is intended to be a personal Healing Journey, as well as a clinical certification and continuing education program.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
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Embodied Psychotherapy, Spiritual Recapitulation,
and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Qíng Zhì Bìng 情志病
6 Months – 40 Hours (Jan – July 2025)
Some Saturday Mornings
Every Second Wednesday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Includes the Foundational Course and an Overview of Treatments, Practices, and Supportive Therapies
Includes the Foundational Course and Clinical Training in Herbology and Acupuncture, Trauma Informed Care, as well as an understanding of how a Personal Qi Gong or Nei Gong Practice supports healing.
There will also be an introduction to Somatic Mindfulness Processing – a form of Counselling and Spiritual Recapitulation.
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