Events and Workshops | United States Association for Body Psychotherapy

With Tina Stromsted, Ph.D. Jungian analyst & Dance Therapist

Assisted by Margareta Neuberger, MA

Tuscany, Italy – June 24-30, 2017

At a time when the world is being pulled apart by opposites, this retreat offers an opportunity to consult our inner compass. Here one can find re-orientation, strengthen inner authority, and nourish body and soul. Offering a sanctuary for centering, we will find renewal through natural movement, stillness, dream work, and guiding elements from Alchemy’s ancient wisdom, re-membering our deep humanity in the vital web of community.

How do we evoke the light in the dark body? How do we embody the soul spark, bring it to consciousness, and live it more fully in our daily lives? Authentic Movement and dreamwork allow access to these rich inner resources on a cellular level, reawakening our natural rhythms, instinctual wisdom, and the songs of the soul.

This international retreat will explore the impactful role of embodied experience in the healing process. Alchemy’s basic elements can deepen our understanding of embodied transformation, experienced spontaneously through the practice of Authentic Movement. Dreams carry treasures that enhance the meaning and depth of this spirited journey.

The Alchemists’ aim was to study nature and to learn from its profoundly regenerative capacities. So too, dreams reflect our inner landscape, our spiritual condition. This workshop engages dreams and Alchemy in relation to bodily experience in the process of healing and transformation through moving and witnessing practice.

We will draw from:

BodySoul® Work
Jungian Theory
Somatics
Dreaming
Drawing
Voice exploration
Writing

Studio sessions will be supplemented by seminars focusing on questions arising from your personal explorations, as well as applications relevant to your creative and professional work.

This retreat is designed for those with a depth of experience in Authentic Movement, welcoming healing practitioners, clinicians, educators, artists, and those interested in growth and matters of the spirit.

Nestled in Tuscany’s beautiful rolling hills and vineyards, the private retreat center offers a peaceful, inspiring setting for self-renewal. Walking trails, delicious Tuscan cooking and a swimming pool enhance the experience.

More Information Click Here

Prerequisites:

In-depth experience in Authentic Movement is vital. Some background in dreamwork, expressive arts therapy, BodySoul® work or other forms of embodied creative exploration that engage conscious attention is necessary, as well as a background in personal analysis/ psychotherapy. A working knowledge of English is important in order to understand and participate in the intricacies of the work. (Unfortunately it is not feasible to work with a translator as participants come from many countries and linguistic backgrounds.)

Tuition:

$1,450 US with paid registration by January 15, 2017

After that date $1,520 US

40 CEUs available for MFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCCs, DMTs, BC-DMTs, & RSME/Ts

Accommodation and meals: 72 Euros/night for triple, 78/Euros/night double (6 nights) plus tax, paid directly to the retreat site upon arrival.

Registration:

Enrollment is by application only. Deadline is April 20th, 2017; space is limited, early enrollment is advised. Apply online or download the application and email to Tina. Please put Embodied Alchemy in the subject line.

Contact Tina Stromsted at email: Tina@AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com, or Tel.: (415) 668-7857 USA www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com

Faculty:

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, BC-DMT is a Jungian psychoanalyst, Board Certified Dance therapist, and Somatics educator. She was co-founder and faculty member of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley (1992-2004) and a founding faculty member of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently she teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Depth Psychology/Somatics Doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and as a core faculty member for the Marion Woodman Foundation.

With 40 years of clinical experience, and a background in dance and theater, she teaches at universities and healing centers internationally, and has a special interest in the creative process, neuroscience, eco-psychology, and embodied spirituality. Developer of Dreamdancing®, Embodied Alchemy®, and Soul’s Body® Center, her numerous articles and book chapters explore the integration of body, brain, psyche and soul in healing and transformation. Her work supports individuals in listening for the soul’s call, and working with obstacles to its fulfillment ~ a process that can assist women and men in re-inhabiting their bodies, reclaiming their instinctual wisdom, and nourishing their authentic sense of self. Her private practice is in San Francisco. www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com

Margareta Neuberger will be assisting. With an M.A. in Somatic Psychology, Margareta is a teacher and long-time practitioner of Authentic Movement and somatic educator who has explored the interconnectedness of healing, spirituality and creativity for more than 30 years. A native of Germany, she moved to San Francisco after completing a B.A. in Theology. She has worked in private practice since 1989, offering Authentic Movement to individuals and groups as an embodied meditative and healing discipline. Margareta lives in Northern California with her husband and 14 year old son.

October 22-28

Weekend, 3-day, or 6-day course

Early payment discounts available through Oct 5!

Join new and experienced students from around the world in practicing Breema and working with the Nine Principles of Harmony.

Special Post-Intensive workshops:

Thursday, October 27 – 2:30-5:30pm – for students with 50 hours of Breema

Friday, October 28 9:30am-5:00pm Practitioner Day – for students with 20 hours or more

Breema bodywork, Self-Breema exercises, and the Nine Principles of Harmony are natural expressions of the unifying principle of Existence. They provide ideal support for practicing body-mind connection and the art of being present.

Both new and experienced students from around the world come each year to study at Breema Intensives and to benefit from Breema’s practical approach to living harmoniously.

Click here to register online.
Certified Practitioner discounts available.

Through the Looking Glass: Using Imaginal Resources to Heal Shame –
A Workshop for Therapists and Other Helping Professionals
with Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT and Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP, BCC

Saturday, November 5, 10am–6pm & Sunday, November 6, 10:30am–5:30pm

$295 ($275 with full payment by September 23)
Special rate for interns.

In Berkeley, just off the I-80

13 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs (PCE #4456)

When clients get stuck in shame, the most powerful way to help them get unstuck may be to activate their imagination. In the Imaginal Realm, logic and time are fluid and flexible. What actually happened can be explored and changed. What was stuck in the cognitive realm can be reexamined and shifted. Shaming situations from the past can be revisited and resolved. In this workshop, we will utilize techniques from Drama Therapy, Focusing, Expressive Arts Therapy, Jungian creative imagination and Hakomi. We will explore the critical voices and/or the childhood scenes that are still driving the internal shame dynamic in the client. Once the shame is worked through in the Imaginal Realm the client can interact with the world differently.

To register for the workshop:
Please send full payment or a $100 deposit (including email and phone number) to:
Bret Lyon – 830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710

We also accept PayPal.

For more information, email Bret at bret@healingshame.com, call 510-420-1441, or visit www.HealingShame.com.

Berkeley, CA
Module 1 – now available by DVD, manual, free supervision
Module 2 – September 29-October 2, 2016
Module 3 – March 23-26, 2017
Coordinator contact – PMeadowsca@aol.com
MORE INFORMATION – http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dgqiilab&oeidk=a07eci4wh5ca779ca03

New York, NY
Module 1 – now available by DVD, manual, free supervision
Module 2 – November 4-7, 2016
Module 3 – March 31-April 3, 2017
Coordinator contact – LMPeyrot@aol.com

What is Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP)?

Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) considers every approach to psychotherapy as valuable and understands them all as components of a broad unifying framework built on Eastern and Western psychologies. It offers clinicians from diverse therapeutic modalities the possibility of increasing treatment efficiency through greater embodiment of all levels of the psyche.

All human experiences (perceiving, thinking, feeling, remembering, imagining, evaluating, relating, and responding) arise from our individual gross (i.e. physical) and quantum level subtle (i.e. energy) bodies that are in constant interaction with the dynamic collective gross and subtle bodies contained in an absolute collective body of pure awareness. Though valuable, the focus on the brain and to a lesser extent on the individual gross (physical) body as the beginning and end of all of our experiences has severely limited Western psychology’s comprehension of the larger domain in which human experiences originate; and has greatly diminished its ability to help those in need. Regardless of the psychotherapy approach we use in our practice, we can help our clients better with their cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, as well as somatic and spiritual difficulties, if we know more of the following:

a) how the three layers of the individual gross body, the five layers of the individual subtle body, the dynamic collective gross and subtle bodies, and the absolute collective body of pure awareness interact with each other to generate our experiences;
b) how the individual gross and subtle bodies can get dysregulated from difficult experiences and become disconnected from each other and from the three collective bodies and become symptomatic in many ways; and
c) how to make the individual gross and subtle bodies more available, regulated, balanced, and in better relationship with each other and with the three collective bodies while we work with our clients psychologically.

The value of ISP will be demonstrated especially through topics of current clinical interest: attachment, affect regulation, stress, and trauma.
Who can benefit the most from this training?

Because it is a professional master training for experienced clinicians, the prerequisites for admission are high:

a) an active professional practice in psychotherapy, bodywork, energywork, or education of individuals or groups, work that involves psychological processing,
and
b) an adequate somatic background such as participation in the Somatic Experiencing (SE) training or equivalent training and personal knowledge of the body (determined on an individual basis).

ISP will prove to be of considerable value to you whether you are trained in a mainstream psychoanalytic or psychotherapy approach, a body-oriented psychotherapy approach (such as Bioenergetics or Sensori-Motor Psychotherapy), or a bodywork modality such as Polarity Therapy or Cranio-Sacral Therapy, or an energywork school, as long as your work also involves psychological processing.

What is taught in the training?

General principles derived from a variety of disciplines including neuroscience and quantum physics for integrating all the bodies into any psychological approach, validated empirically in multiple clinical settings and cultures.
It offers all those who work psychologically a sophisticated body of knowledge to further increase the embodiment of body, energy, and consciousness dimensions in their work without having to change their prior clinical orientations or adopt interventions outside the norms of their professional practice. The role of body, energy, and consciousness in generating or disrupting psychological experiences in general and facilitating or hampering self and interactive regulation in particular is taught through applications in areas of widespread current clinical interest: affect regulation, attachment, stress, and trauma.

ISP offers considerable flexibility and choice in the tools used, such as awareness, movement, breath, sound, imagery, inter-personal resonance, self touch, and other touch, as appropriate to the clinical setting of the trainee.

Webinar is free. You must register to reserve your spot and obtain your personal unique link to join the webinar.

Join us for a lively and informative evening with Anne Isaacs, LCSW and Joel Isaacs, Ph.D., who will be talking about how understanding the psychological functions of muscles makes verbal psychotherapy more efficient and effective. As opposed to traumatic experiences, which are imprinted primarily in the autonomic nervous system, the Bodynamic model describes how all the lesser but cumulative developmental disruptions are imprinted mostly in the voluntary nervous system, the related muscles, and the mind. This refined therapy offers precise yet simple interventions for resolving your clients’ current issues, leaving them more resourced, with new psychological abilities.

Bodynamics is praised by Raja Selvam, PhD, Senior Somatic Experiencing Trainer as “probably the most body-oriented and comprehensive developmental psychology and character structure model there is”. Babette Rothschild, author of “The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment”, has described Bodynamics as: “the most sensible, comprehensive, easily applicable and accessible personality theory that I have ever encountered.”

Bodynamics was developed from empirical research in Denmark over 25 years ago. This 17-day training is offered across North America by the Isaacs, who continue to develop and innovate this important work and its teaching. The webinar will introduce you to the use of Bodynamics, including some enlightening case studies and an overview of the training, for which CEU’s can be earned.

For more information please visit: www.bodynamicusa.com

We are offering a day long Intro to the Enneagram on Sat. Oct. 1st, in Waltham, MA.

Come learn an effective way to understand yourself and others, or to enhance your knowledge.

Is There Something That You Want to Heal ?

Over the course of the 3 days we will work together, utilizing the wisdom of the body and the power of the collective to release and shift these limitations and enhance our capacity to live a vibrant, joyful life – bringing us to a re-membering of ourselves.

Thurs afternoon, Nov. 3rd beginning at 4pm til Sunday, Nov. 6th, noon

Details: The retreat (3 nights and 4 days) opens at 4pm on Thursday, Nov. 3 in Truro, MA, at a beautiful house on the beach, with a Healing Circle, followed by a group dinner, which is included.

Format: there will be two Healing Circles per day, one in the morning and a second at some time later in the afternoon/evening with free time to explore the local area.

There will be a closing circle on our final morning, Sunday, Nov. 6th, before departure at noon.

Structure: The Healing Retreat opens on Day 1 with participants gathering in a circle to discover and share our intentions for healing and growth. The basic premise for these gatherings is a safe space to explore our suffering from something that couldn’t be handled. One of our purposes in life is to master these trauma. In fact, what we suffer about, on a deeper level, is an invitation to remembering and being in a different relationship with what couldn’t be handled.

What’s included: a room with an ocean view, with up to 8 participants (several more if couples share a bed), dinner the first evening, breakfast and lunch supplies, and 6 HEALING CIRCLES. While dinners are on our own (except for the first evening), we have discovered that many people choose to cook together while others find restaurants in the area.

Location: Truro, MA in a beautiful private home on Cape Cod

Presenters: Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. & Joan Beckett, LMHC

Cost: $950. if registered by Oct.12, 2016, $1050. if after Oct. 12th, 2016.

Registration and Inquiries: Email: info@guidedselfhealing.org or call 781-891-7448

Web Site: www.guidedselfhealing.org (soon to be Life Centered Therapy)

Bioenergetic Certification Training in Alachua, Fl

Still Accepting Applications for the 2016 – 2017 Training year – A Few Spots Left

FSBA trainees will have the unique opportunity to learn from multiple FSBA International Trainers throughout the training workshops. The first of the five training workshops for this training year in Florida will be held September 22 – 25, 2016. To learn more and view application, please click http://www.bioenergetics-society.com/trainings/.
For Information on International FSBA Bioenergetic Certification Training Programs, please visit websites at:

Argentina: escueladebioenergetica.com

Chile: escueladebioenergetica.cl

Colombia: escueladebioenergetica.com

Poland: psychoterapiaprzezcialo.pl
Open Workshop: Rome, Italy

Experience Your Joy and Vitality in Life with Bioenergetics – “We Are Our Bodies” With Silvina Henriquez, M.A. and Flavia Astolfi

September 30th – October 2, 2016

SILVINA HENRIQUEZ, M.A. is a Licensed Psychologist in Buenos Aires, Argentina who is certified as a Bioenergetic Therapist with the Florida Society for Bioenergetic Analysis. She has been an International Ontological Coach for Newfield Consulting in Argentina for over five years and is the Director of Newfield Consulting in Argentina. Silvina has an active private Bioenergetic practice emphasizing strong contactful body work helping clients find their strengths and internal resources. Silvina has worked coaching clients in South America, Europe, Mexico, and the United States. She is the co-director of Escuela de Bioenergética, a school for the Bioenergetics School in Argentina.

FLAVIA ASTOLFI has been a certified Bioenergetic Therapist with the Florida Society for Bioenergetic Analysis since 2014. In addition to her private practice clients, she offers bioenergetics classes in a psycho-therapeutic woman’s center and various other locations in Italy. Her bioenergetics background includes her assistant-ship with her mentor, Dr. Robert Glazer, PhD., studying with Dr. Frank Hladky with a focus on his soft, deep style of Bionergetics, and certification training under David Berceli, founder of TRE (Trauma and Stress Release Exercises). Flavia brings twenty years of teaching yoga to her competency with Bioenergetics. Her yoga interests include special attention to Chinese medicine and Psychosomatic Yoga. She has also worked with Barbara Brennan’s healing process and Core Energetics.

Workshop Location: 30 minutes from Rome at http://www.borgopaola.it

Workshop Cost: Tuition for the 3 days of the workshop is 300 Euro.

Accommodation Cost: 45 euro per night with breakfast. The dinner price is 15 euro and is optional.

Schedule: Participants should arrive Thursday night or in time to begin at 10:00 am on Friday.

Contact Information: For more information or to register for the workshop, please email flavia.astolfi@gmail.com

Healing Developmental Disruptions: Experience the Precision of Bodynamic Therapy by learning to use the body to support verbal therapy

Evening Intro: (Sept 9, 2016 6:30pm – 8:30pm) Free

During this talk we’ll focus on the Autonomy Stage of Development; 8 months to 2.5 years of age. We’ll demonstrate how disruption during this stage creates a fear of commitment and dependency on others. We’ll demonstrate how to work with specific muscles to transform this internal experience. This can create an immediate sense of curiosity, joy, and creativity, typical of a healthy child at this age.

The presentation will include didactic and experiential work with time for questions.

One-day Workshop: (Sept 10, 2016 9:00am – 5:00pm) $75

Exploring the impact on adult behavior of disruptions in the Will Structure Stage, ages 2-4 years.

We will explore related developmental movements, and how the muscles involved hold needed resources for the resolution of therapeutic issues. We will offer demonstration sessions. Problems originating from this age include:

· Feeling overly responsible

· Blaming others

· Being stuck in a victim role

· Problems with planning

· Fear of your own power

Registration & Tickets: https://www.picatic.com/BodynamicSFbay

Full training begins October 20, 2016

About Bodynamics:

Bodynamics is a precise and practical approach to working with the body to make verbal psychotherapy more efficient and effective. This somatic therapy enables the practitioner to make precise interventions related to the developmental origins of your clients’ current problems.

Based on a wealth of empirical research the Bodynamics model describes how non-traumatic developmental disruptions are encoded in both mind and body. Bodynamic trainees learn to use specific muscles to build somatic resources that will guide, extend, and contain verbal therapy. This precision aids clients to sense new psychological competencies, resolve issues sooner, and integrate these changes directly into their lives.

Learning Bodynamics also sensitizes you to the themes of the developmental stages around which relationships and psychological development take place. Building your relationship with a client around these themes will greatly facilitate your ability to heal attachment disruptions.

More info at: www.bodynamicusa.com

Local Flyer:

Melting the Shame Freeze:
Somatic Techniques to Create Safety and Build Attachment
A Mini-Workshop for Therapists & Helping Professionals
Sponsored by Marin County Chapter of CAMFT

with Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT and Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP

Saturday, September 24, 2016
1:00pm – 4:00pm

Corte Madera Town Center
770 Tamalpais Drive, Room 201

Shame is the embodied belief that “something is wrong with me.” Many clients—and therapists—are not aware of how unhealed shame can keep body and emotions frozen. Because shame exists in the body as well as the mind, it is helpful for therapists to work with shame somatically. In this workshop, we will explore how to utilize somatic techniques to connect more quickly and forge a therapeutic alliance with clients.

Preregistration with Marin CAMFT is necessary. For pricing and full details, visit the Events page at www.marincamft.org or www.marincamft.org/event-2270674.

For more information, visit our website at www.HealingShame.com. You can also check out two free 1 1/2-hour Healing Shame webinars available on the Resources page.

About the Program

Mind-Body Medicine Fundamentals is CMBM’s core program we’ve offered around the world for 20 years, providing health professionals with the tools they need to become more effective clinicians and to find more meaning in their work. During the intensive 5-day training, our extraordinary faculty teaches the science of mind-body medicine in plenary sessions and techniques for self-awareness and self-expression in supportive small groups — CMBM’s unique model for learning and support.

TRANSFORM your practice in a 5-day intensive training.

LEARN the scientific basis for mind-body medicine in one of the world’s most respected training programs.

EXPERIENCE the depth and power of our unique small group approach.

EXPLORE and learn to use a range of the most effective tools for self-care and stress management including:

Meditation
Guided Imagery
Breathing & Movement
Art & Music
Biofeedback & Autogenic Training

This is the Center’s core training program. We have been teaching it around the world for over 25 years. It has provided thousands of professionals with the tools needed to become more effective and with an experience that has brought more meaning to their work.

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Foundation for Human Enrichment –
The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute Presents: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing: Live and Online Workshops

This introductory SE workshop is designed for professionals who work with the effects of trauma including: social workers, mental and medical health professionals, body workers, first responders, educators, clergy, and other professionals in the healing arts. Participants will learn about the basic principles and theory of the SE model as well as more about the SE Professional Training. Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) psychobiological trauma resolution, developed Peter A. Levine, PhD, author of the bestseller, “Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma,” is a potent approach to resolving the symptoms of trauma and chronic stress. The SE approach offers a framework to assess where your client is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states that underlie so many trauma symptoms. Our educational model is both theoretical and highly experiential, offering you effective skills for restoring nervous system regulation and resolving trauma that can be immediately integrated into your professional practice. The three-year SE™ Professional Training is a continuing education program that will help you make an even greater difference with your clients who suffer.

The Foundation for Human Enrichment, through the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the worldwide healing and prevention of trauma.

Online

August 19, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – still time to register!
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Claudelle Glasgow, PsyD, SEP

September 16, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Claudelle Glasgow, PsyD, SEP

October 14, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Date Changed
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Ellen Byrne, LMT, SEP

November 18, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Ellen Byrne, LMT, SEP

December 16, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Ellen Byrne, LMT, SEP

Live

August 27, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Philadelphia, PA
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern
with with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

September 9, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Columbia, MO
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Central
with Suzanne Peroutka, MS, SEP

September 9, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Lebanon, NH
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

September 10, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Middlebury, VT
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Eastern
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

September 10, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Kansas City, MO
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM Central
with Suzanne Peroutka, MS, SEP

September 11, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Amherst, NH
9:30 AM – 1:30 PM Eastern
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

September 12, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Concord, NH
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

October 6, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – St. Louis, MO
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Central
with Suzanne Peroutka, MS, SEP

October 13, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – St. Paul, MN
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Central
with Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PHD

January 21, 2017: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – St. Paul, MN
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Central
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

HEALING SHAME: The Core Workshop
for Therapists and Other Helping Professionals

with Sheila Rubin LMFT, RDT/BCT & Bret Lyon PhD, SEP, BCC

Saturday, October 1, 10am-6pm & Sunday, October 2, 10:30am-5:30pm

In Berkeley, just off the I-80

$295 full price / $275 with full payment by August 19
Special price for interns

13 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs (PCE #4456)

This workshop provides essential, basic knowledge of how to work with shame. We will learn what shame is and how it is created, and how to help our clients recognize shame, work through it and move on. We will become more sensitive to the shaming often implicit in the therapy situation and learn how to counter shame in therapy. We will be able to help clients separate feelings of shame from other emotions. And we’ll learn how to take clients back to early shaming situations and reverse the outcome, helping clients move their energy powerfully outward rather than turn it against themselves.

TO REGISTER, please send full payment or a $100 deposit to:
Bret Lyon
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102
Berkeley, CA 94710
Please include your email and phone number.
We accept PayPal. For details, email Bret at Bret@HealingShame.com.

Space is limited.

For more information, call Bret at 510-420-1441 or email Bret@HealingShame.com.

www.HealingShame.com

with Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT

Experience the playful, present moment while exploring the threads that weave your daily experiences with myth, family history, dreams and universal themes. Your deeper Life Story will emerge through this process and feed you at a soul level.

This is an invitation to take a 10-week journey that supports and unfolds your creative process through a unique blend of improvisation, embodied storytelling, writing, drama therapy and the seven levels of sacred witnessing.

We start with safe, gentle exercises. Shy people are encouraged. All levels welcome!
Performance on the last night.

Thursdays: September 22–December 8, 2016, 5:00-7:00pm
Performance: Thursday, December 8, 7:00pm
(No class on 10/27 or 11/24.)

Location: Sheila’s studio (in the Rudramandir Center)
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710

Cost: $550 / $50 off for students, teachers or seniors over 60
$100 off with full payment by August 31
(Note: There may be an additional cost for DVD of performance.)

24 CEUs available (PCE #4456)

To Register: Call Sheila Rubin at 415-820-3974

For checks, send payment to Sheila Rubin at:
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710

To pay by PayPal/credit card, go to the Calendar page at www.SheilaRubin.com, click on the event, and use the Registration link.

www.SheilaRubin.com

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Bioenergetic Basics: Introducing the Core Concepts and Basic Techniques of Bioenergetic Therapy in 6 full day sessions. Bioenergetic Therapy is a highly effective therapeutic approach that combines work with the body and the mind in the context of a therapeutic relationship to help people change at a deep level. This workshop is designed to give professionals in the healthcare field some basic functional knowledge of Bioenergetics through lecture, demonstration, and experiential processes. Bioenergetic theory and techniques will be taught and participants will have the opportunity to practice the techniques. The meetings will also include Bioenergetic exercise classes and demonstrations of Bioenergetic psychotherapy sessions.

“New brain research on the impact of trauma validates the importance of somatic processes to resolve deep wounds. Bioenergetic has many tools that can be very effective with even the most difficult traumas.”

Bioenergetic Basics is for:

· psychotherapists and mental health practitioners who want to add somatic psychotherapy work to their practice

· practitioners of other disciplines who want to learn about the Bioenergetic approach to psychotherapy

· individuals who want to learn about Bioenergetic therapy for personal growth

Participants will learn effective body based techniques to apply to:

· depression

· anxiety

· trauma and PTSD

· general unhappiness with life

· relationship challenges

Program offered in the following locations:

Canada

Miramichi, New Brunswick
Contact: Leslie Ann Costello, Ph.D., CBT
506 206 2667
fredbio2020@gmail.com

Toronto, Ontario
Contact: Carol Melnick, MSW, RSW, CBT
905-515-5047
Central Canada Society for Bioenergetic Analysis
carol.melnick@bell.net

Guelph, Ontario
Contact: Alex Munroe, MSW, RSW, CBT
Southern Ontario Society for Bioenergetic Analysis
519-747-9031
amunroe@golden.net

United States:

Cambridge, Mass
Contact: Susan Kanor, MA, CBT
978-384-0785
www.massbioenergetics.org
info@massbioenergetics.org
Dates: 9/24/16, 11/5/16, 12/3/16, 2/4/17, 3/4/17, 4/1/17

Michigan
Contact: Ann Coleman, LMSW, CBT
248-709-2332
email@anncoleman.us

Advanced professional training in Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT) will be held in Seattle, WA November 28 – Dec 2, 2016, through the Center for Mindful Body Awareness. An evidence-based protocol designed to teach interoceptive awareness and related skills for emotion regulation. Particularly useful for individuals who are disconnected from their bodies due to stress, pain, & trauma. This in-depth course is designed to train professionals how to teach their clients to:

Access interoceptive awareness
Increase the capacity to attend to inner body experience
Integrate experience through cognitive appraisal
Develop skills and practices that can be integrated into daily life for self-care

Early bird discount available until August 31st.

Find the right workshop for you. Below are the New York Society’s 2016-17 events:
www.bioenergetics-nyc.org/calendar

LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY: THE BIOENERGETIC EXPERIENCE (SEPTEMBER 2016)
Date/Time: Sat, Sep 24, 2016 (10:00AM – 5:00PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $145, Students $125

CLINICAL SEMINAR: SEXUALITY
Date/Time: Wed, Nov 09, 2016 (8:30PM – 10:15PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $10, Members Free
CEUs: 1.75

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP: SEXUALITY
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 12, 2016 (10AM – 5PM) TO Sun, Nov 13, 2016 (10AM – 2PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $195
CEUs: 9

LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY: THE BIOENERGETIC EXPERIENCE (MARCH 2017)
Date/Time: Sat, Mar 18, 2017 (10AM – 5PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $145, Students $125

CLINICAL SEMINAR: CHRONIC RELATIONAL TRAUMA
Date/Time: Wed, Apr 19, 2017 (8:30PM – 10:15PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $10, Members Free
CEUs: 1.75

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP: CHRONIC RELATIONAL TRAUMA
Date/Time: Sat, Apr 22, 2017 (10AM – 5PM) TO Sun, Apr 23, 2017 (10 AM – 2PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $195
CEUs: 9

When

Experience Breema (FREE!): Friday, June 17 – 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Workshop 1: Saturday, June 18 – 10:00am to 1:00pm
Workshop 2: Sunday, June 19 – 10:00am to 1:00pm

What

Our lifelong search for health, happiness, and meaning is an expression of our innermost desire to understand and live in harmony with the universal principles of Existence. Breema offers a tangible and practical way to discover and work with these principles. Breema bodywork and Self-Breema exercises present us with the opportunity to unify body, mind, and feelings and come to a direct experience of the Nine Principles of Harmony. We taste our potential to be truly present and natural.

By the end of the workshop, you will have learned a complete Breema sequence you can practice with friends and family members, and several Self-Breema exercises you can practice anytime to increase vitality, release tension, and become more present.

Beginners welcome. No prior experience needed.

Where

The DEN Meditation
360 S La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Breema: The Art of Being Present

Integrate Your Past • Be in the Present • Shape Your Future

We are returning from our international teachings and look forward
to sharing our deep transformational work with you
at the world-renowned and magical setting of Esalen, Big Sur, California.

(Accommodation space is filling quickly, so please contact Esalen to register.)

This workshop is for individuals and couples. The work in Core Evolution® explores how the aspects of body, emotion, mind, consciousness interact with each other. The experience of love unifies all these aspects. A person in love and sexual harmony communicates and creates from a place of well-being, peace, joy, and a sense of fulfillment.

Participants will learn how to identify and differentiate the nature and main elements of love, sexuality, and relationship, and their intention, motivation, needs, and wants in their relationship with themselves and others. We will also discover the nature of triggers, causes of unhappiness, and also the possibility for change.

Cornelia and Siegmar create a safe space to look at important topics in life, while offering dynamic exploration, creative movement, and expression and mindful centering.

• Email us for an eight-page magazine interview with Siegmar Gerken on Love, Sexuality, and Relationship Info@CoreEvolution.com

To register and for further information:
http://www.esalen.org/workshop/week-may-22-27/love-sexuality-relationship-and-will-your-heart

International Institute of
Core Evolution & CoreSoma
Info@ CoreEvolution.com
http://www.CoreEvolution.com
+1 (707) 937-2309

June 26 – July 1, 2016

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health

Stockbridge, MA

“In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll

Stop waiting for something to be different. Break free of predictable ways of being, thinking and feeling. Open to the abundance that is beyond your comfort zone. Face the fears and misconceptions that keep you from following your hearts longing and from living a more satisfying and authentic life.

Together we will build a supportive group container in which to take emotional risks and move held and defended energy with Core Energetics body-centered techniques. The experiences and exercises will help you tap into deeper layers of feeling and to the life force that is trapped behind the emotional and physical blocks in your body. This workshop will enhance your sense of empowerment, presence and awareness and foster deep connection between group members. Come explore the aliveness that is beyond your comfort zone and receive the support you need to open your heart, live more authentically and say YES to your heart’s longing.

There will be space in this program to enjoy all that Kripalu has to offer in the Beautiful Berkshire mountains:

Daily Yoga Classes; Hiking trails; Lakeside Beach; Meditation: Massage and Spa Services; Sumptuous Organic Food.

REGISTER: https://kripalu.org/cart/OCZ-161

Lisa Loustaunau MFA, CCEP is Director of Education at the Institute of Core Energetics. Rated as one of the top 1% most endorsed psychotherapists on Linked-In, Lisa is an international workshop leader, teacher and Core Energetics process facilitator. She teaches in the US, Canada, Holland, Australia, Mexico, and Brazil. In practice for over 22 years, her office is in Norwalk, CT.

Join us for this uplifting and healing experiential weekend that helps you release traumas so you are able to live a fully engaged, feeling, thoughtful life. The weekend begins with naming what you would like to change in your life. Over the course of the three days we will work together, utilizing the wisdom of the body and the power of the collective to release and shift these limitations and enhance our capacity to live a vibrant, joyful life – bringing us to a re-membering of ourselves.

http://guidedselfhealing.org/Calendar%20of%20Events.html

www.guidedselfhealing.org 
info@guidedselfhealing.org    
Guided Self Healing Institute
115 Worcester Lane
Waltham, MA 02145
(781) 891-7448

Many therapy clients do not come to therapy ready to open to their inner experience. They come feeling a lot of confusion and pain, with a problem in their feelings or their lives (or both) that they want to fix. How do we as Focusing-oriented therapists meet them where they are and help them move forward? How do we not get caught in their habitual ways of defining themselves and their problems?

The beauty of Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT) is that it does not revolve around content. It revolves around the experiential process that is occurring within the client moment to moment in therapy, and the responses that we as the therapist give to this process. Course taught by phone. Oct 7 to Nov 4, 2016. 5 Fridays: 9:30AM – 10:45AM Pacific Time. $195 through end of day September 29.

Join us or learn more: http://bit.ly/danceFOTtherapist

7.5 CEU hours. Is Focusing a form of mindfulness practice? Is mindfulness a kind of Focusing? How can Focusing enhance mindfulness — and mindfulness enhance Focusing? What might it be like to do “mindful Focusing”?

The popular interest in mindfulness has exploded in recent years, yet it is also an ancient Eastern practice with thousands of years of history. In this new course, taught by a man who has been immersed in both mindfulness and Focusing for much of his life, we offer you the opportunity to explore how mindfulness and Focusing can enhance and support each other, in a new fusion of the two that David Rome calls “Mindful Focusing.” Course taught by phone. May 17 to June 14, 2016. 5 Tuesdays, 4:30PM – 6:00PM Pacific Time. $195 through end of day May 9.

Join us or learn more: http://bit.ly/focmindful

The Joy of Aliveness as Foundation for Integration and Healing

Join us and rejuvenate in a personal retreat while deepening your learning in an inspiring environment with wonderful people in a beautiful villa in Tuscany.

Reconnect, affirm and strengthen your qualities and capacities.

These Intensives are open to beginners as well as experienced participants on the conscious path. Every year is a new experience with a new quality. The work is integrative, body-oriented and mindfulness-centered.

This year we include short teaching sequences that we lead into personal inquiries for participants to explore topics they bring and want to find more integration with:

Somatic Awareness and the Practice of Mindfulness
How do we structure our experiences on the level of our body, feelings, thinking, mind and in directing our will to realize our potential?

Explore the Matrix of Grounding
The Core Evolution concept to stand on the ground and feel connected to the Universe and to all existence.

Repression of Expression can cause Depression™
What was the personal dynamic that could not be expressed and lived? Which consequences did this have in the body-mind-field and what attitude and behavior resulted out of it?

The Body as the Temple of the Soul
How does the personal history become visible? In your personal development you formed inner working models, that influence your emotions, body reactions, thinking, behavior and beliefs. In our work we call them Personality Reactions Patterns™. They fulfilled an important need in your early development, but often are not adequate any more for who you are today.

By experiencing and observing body reactions, and understanding the underlying needs and learning how to nourish them, you can successfully learn to change these patterns*.
* Find more in-depth material in our 10-page curriculum for the training in Core Evolution – an Integrative Body-Oriented and Mindfulness-Centered Training.

Love is the Resonance with the Flow of Life™
Love as an energetic state. Whether you choose to be single or to be in relationship, you need to relate and communicate. Exploring needs and wants. Heart communication, intimacy, authenticity and healthy boundaries.

The experience of love unifies all these aspects and with that, effects every state of people’s lives. A person in love will communicate and create from a place of harmony, well-being, peace, joy and a sense of fulfillment. We open up for new choices in our thinking and behavior.

Watch an interview with Siegmar at www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlBXLAqnHho or inquire about the 8 page interview with Siegmar on this topic.

The Wild-Heart Meditation™
The dance of energy and consciousness – a movement exploration to celebrate life. A joy-filled, transformative process of inner and outer movement, including dance, authentic movement, creative expression, communication, meditation and more.

The essence of Core Evolution moves personal insight beyond therapy.
It is not about adapting or changing, but about understanding and becoming who you truly are.

Enrollment and further information for registration:

Enjoy the ambiance of Tuscany, sunny days, the pool, gentle evenings, clean food, gourmet wines, good company and more. This popular international Intensive takes place in a beautiful villa in the triangle of Pisa-Florence-Siena.

Its all here. Join us this Summer!

Cost: Euro 475.- until May 2, 2016 early enrollment special
Euro 550.- after May 2, 2016

Cost for full-time students and participants aged 18 – 23:
Euro 295.- before May 2, 2016
Euro 365.- after May 2, 2016

Fee for the Intensive does not include room and board.
Double occupancy is € 90.- per day. This fee includes 3 delicious mostly vegetarian meals, coffee and tea. Rooms directly in the Villa are limited to 22 Participants.
This seminar will fill!

Utilize the early enrollment discount; secure your room and participation soon!

Please let us know if you have any further questions on registration, room reservations and travel: Info@ CoreEvolution.com you may also call: in Europe +49.201.958.9394 or USA +1.707.937.2309

2016 Fall Bioenergetic Conference
“Healing from the Inside Out: Relationship, Body & Mind”
Featuring Bioenergetic masters Bob & Virginia Hilton from CA.

Date/Time: October 20 – 23, 2016
Location: Essex Conference Center, MA
For more information and registration go to: www.massbioenergetics.org

As children, many of us had to compromise our aliveness and energy in order to feel loved and accepted by our parents. As adults, many of us struggle with low energy, anxiety, depression, and feelings of disconnection from others, resulting from how we deadened ourselves. In this conference, we will explore the state of aliveness in each of us and what blocks that aliveness from emerging. How did these blocks develop? What might the process of recovering this aliveness look like? In small groups, workshops, and keynote talks, we will explore these questions. Please join us at the serene and beautiful Essex Conference Center for a three day experience with Bioenergetic therapists, trainers, and partners, Robert and Virginia Hilton.

MSBA-2016-CONFERENCE-2016-04-24 – PDF Flyer

By actively working with the body in therapy, (in addition to talking), we can help our clients uncover emotions, beliefs and experiences that may be blocked and unavailable to their consciousness. This gives us more tools to assist them in accessing a deeper sense of calm, developing more ways to respond to people and situations and increase their capacity to fully experience life. This workshop will be experiential and didactic. It will include an overview of Bioenergetic theory, demonstration of some Bioenergetic exercises, and a few tools clinicians can begin to use with clients immediately. 4 CEUs for Social Workers and LMHCs.

Date/Time: May 21, 2016; 1:00 – 5:15 PM
Location: Gloucester, MA
Presenters: Laurie Ure, LICSW, CBT and Dan Gross, RNCS

Bringing the Body Alive Flyer – PDF

Learn about Somatic Experiencing and the SE Professional Training

Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) psychobiological trauma resolution, developed by Peter A. Levine, PhD, author of the bestseller, “Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma,” is a potent approach to resolving the symptoms of trauma and chronic stress. The SE approach offers a framework to assess where your client is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states that underlie so many trauma symptoms. Our educational model is both theoretical and highly experiential, offering you effective skills for restoring nervous system regulation and resolving trauma that can be immediately integrated into your professional practice. The three-year SE™ Professional Training is a continuing education program that will help you make an even greater difference with your clients who suffer.

The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the worldwide healing and prevention of trauma.

Receive a one-time $50 discount on your US Beginning I SE Professional Training module for attending this workshop.

Learn More and Register

In this 5-day workshop Anna Halprin will present her approach to body and movement that connects the science, philosophy, and art of dance. This workshop offers time to feel and to listen deeply to the powerful intelligence of the body, to play and express with imagination through the arts, to create personal and collective dances that have meaning, and to bring new vision to the life themes that matter to us in our daily lives. Maria Luisa Diaz de Leon, Tamalpa Institute faculty member, will be facilitating several of the afternoon sessions.

This is a special workshop with Anna, now in her 95th year, at the historic Mountain Home Studio designed for her by her husband, famed architect, Lawrence Halprin. Mountain Home Studio is set amidst redwood and oak trees on the flanks of Mount Tamalpais in Kentfield, California. It is a short drive to San Francisco, Berkeley, and the Sonoma and Napa wine countries.

Art materials supplied.
Accommodations list provided.

June 20 – 24, 2016
10AM – 5PM

Cost: $900
$150 non-refundable deposit
Full workshop fee due by June 1, 2016
REGISTER: http://tamalpa.org/calendar/S16.html
Held at the historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, California

The Dance Heritage Coalition has named Anna Halprin one of “America’s 100 Irreplaceable Dance Treasures.” Her diverse career has spanned the field of dance since the late 1930s, creating revolutionary directions for the art form and inspiring fellow choreographers to take modern dance to new dimensions. A dance innovator, she was an early pioneer in the use of movement/dance as a healing art. She founded the groundbreaking San Francisco Dancer’s Workshop in 1955 and the Tamalpa Institute in 1978 with her daughter Daria Halprin. She is the author of several books, and has numerous dance works documented on film, most notably Breath Made Visible by director Ruedi Gerber.

Maria Luisa Diaz de Leon is a psychologist, researcher, and movement specialist. A Core Faculty member at Tamalpa Institute, she obtained her M.A. in Engaged Humanities with Emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her Master’s thesis, Somaphilia: Remembering the Soul and the Aesthetics of Being, expands upon the somatic, mythological, depth psychological, and archetypal dimensions of Tamalpa Institute’s Body Part Mythologies. Maria Luisa’s professional experience in psychology and the arts spans fifteen years and includes the areas of education, private practice, and community intervention. Maria Luisa has worked with diverse populations, most recently with Latin American immigrants in San Francisco and she has conducted research projects on addiction in her native Guadalajara, Mexico and on trauma associated with domestic violence in San Francisco, CA. Maria Luisa teaches seminars and presents in conferences internationally and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).

Cultivate more artful relationships with yourself, others, and the land using the transformative tools developed by Tamalpa Institute co-founders, Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin. Engage in dance/movement, drawing, and poetic writing to discover the stories living in your body. Harvest new insights and options for your Life/Art in both the studio and the natural environment of Earthdance in the Berkshire hills. The workshop will culminate with self-portrait drawings and improvisational rituals in which you embody the new resources you have gained.

This workshop is designed to give participants an experiential understanding of the work of Tamalpa Institute, and is recommended as an introduction to their training programs. No prior experience necessary.

The beautiful setting and natural landscape of the Earthdance retreat center provide workshop participants with a beautiful studio, healthy meals and many hiking trails. A wonderful complement to this immersive Tamalpa workshop ~ come enjoy!

You can follow these links for information about Earthdance visitor information and directions.

For more info: http://tamalpa.org/calendar/ec0516.html

DATES: May 30 – June 4, 2016
(There will also be a Planetary Dance held at Earthdance on June 5!)

PLACE: Earthdance, Plainfield, Massachusetts

COST: $600 – $800 (The cost includes workshop tuition, room and board for May 30 – June 4)

For details and to register click here.

Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, a faculty member of Tamalpa Institute, cherishes the body as a primary medium for learning, creativity, and growth. She has taught creative arts to people of all ages in a variety of contexts, from a private elementary school for girls to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For the past 7 years, Elisabeth has supervised graduate students in Lesley University’s Self-Designed Master’s Degree Program and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Elisabeth is delighted to be the first faculty member to offer the Tamalpa work in New York and Massachusetts.

MEET THE WORK:

An Introduction into the Life/Art Process
With Maria Luisa Diaz de Leon

May 20, 2016
7 – 9PM

FREE

Join us for a special free introductory evening of the Tamalpa Life/Art approach. The evening will include an experiential ‘taste’ of the Tamalpa work using movement, drawing and poetic writing, a presentation of our training programs through an interactive slideshow and Q&A.

Held at the historic Mountain Home Studio in Kentfield, CA

Registration required: http://tamalpa.org/calendar/mtw_0516.html

May 21 – 22, 2016
10AM – 5PM

Cost: $150 with payment received by May 9th;$200 after May 9th

($50 credit towards Level 1 application fee)

The Tamalpa Experience introduces an approach that enlivens dialogue between body and imagination, life experiences and art making. Using movement, drawing, poetic writing, and improvisational performance, participants will tap into art’s symbolic language to explore current life themes and generate new resources.

These 2-day intensive workshops are offered twice a year and are designed to give participants an experiential understanding of Tamalpa’s work in movement-based expressive arts. This year we are excited to offer an optional Friday evening open house to start off the weekend with a special opening. The Tamalpa Experience workshops are recommended as an introduction to our training programs.

Held at the historic Mountain Home Studio, Kentfield, California

Registration: http://tamalpa.org/calendar/te0516.html

Rosario is a psychologist, artist and researcher. She is a Core Faculty member at Tamalpa Institute, has an MA in Psychology, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Somatic Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Rosario is the Associate Director of Tamalpa Institute and co-founder of Tamalpa Latinoamerica. She is also the founder of Anthropos Institute, an Art and Self Development Center located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is originally from. Rosario has worked in various settings, such as psychiatric hospitals, shelters, and educational centers, and with diverse populations, including incarcerated women, the homeless, and at-risk youth. Through the years, Rosario has conducted numerous lectures, seminars, and professional presentations in the United States and internationally, including in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Portugal. Currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rosario continues to teach and lead community projects in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process.

Tuscany, Italy ­­– June 24-30, 2017