One of my favorite lectures in the curriculum during the first week of class at Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy is the one that combines information from the Heart Math institute, practices from Plant Medicine Healers in the Amazon, and Core Energetics.

Last week while the students were practicing Heart Perception I went to sit under my Hawthorn tree. Hawthorn is a very powerful medicine for strengthening the Heart. But when I opened my eyes I was surprised to see that I was also surrounded by dozens upon dozens of graphic Hearts, the print design of the leaves of these baby Milk Thistle plants that came up with the fall rains.

What a nice synchronicity!

Here it is! The eye-opening framework that is giving professionals around the world a brand new education for understanding and working with resolving shame.

Professional tools and education to facilitate shame resolution through the cutting edge, neurobiological-principled AST Model of Holistic Shame Resolution®.

Register NOW for the Fall AST Model® Mastery Online Course

9 months from Oct 22nd, 2x per month, every other Thursday from 5:00PM to 6:30PM PST/ 8:00PM to 9:30PM EST.

9 breakthrough, tool-packed educational webinars, 8 Group Case Consult Calls with Q & A, Articles, Case Studies, Private Facebook Group and much more!

This will sound like you…
◾You are no longer confused by client blame
◾Instead of professional burnout you feel empowered and vital
◾You believe deep down in your clients ability to shift shame
◾You feel capable navigating clients through difficult sessions for positive outcomes
◾You feel confident making use of AST skills to transform shame and help clients lead empowered lives, and much, much more….

Go to www.re-embodylife.com/USABP to learn more or Register for this special

Article:  Detaching from Shame

More info call 877-640-7337 

Caryn Scotto d’ Luzia is an innovator somatic facilitator, educator and trainer. She is developer of AST Model of Holistic Shame Transformation® , the neurobiologically–principled, attachment based approach that specializes in chronic shame relief, building shame and inner critic resilience, shame-based early trauma resolution, need-based attachment re-patterning, and life-affirming authentic self-expression and empowerment. She is the author of the following ebooks, Alchemy of Shame Transformation for Therapists and Healing Professionals (AST), The 5 Step Journey to Healing Social Phobia, The Yin/Yang of Abandonment Recovery, and Wound & Essence: A Call and Response Approach to Transformation. She is leading a shame free living movement and training therapists, healers, and community leaders how to facilitate shame resolution and cultivate acceptance, connection, belonging, worth and well being.

Caryn works face to face with people around the world on Skype, and in-person in the California Bay Area and New York City where she sees adult clients. She offers phone case consults to therapists, healers, and coaches as well as teaches neurobiological principles through webinars online. On a wider scale, she collaborates with UN affiliated NGOs and Governments to heal collective trauma and post conflict PTSD. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a member of the UN NGO Committee on Mental Health, Member of USABP, Curriculum Advisor to the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, and has spoken at the United Nations on the issue of resolving second-hand trauma and conquering shame in women and girls around the world. She seeks to create a world of peace and environmental sustainability by making transformation possible one nervous system at a time.

The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy presents a conference on somatic psychology—a discipline that combines somatic, psychic, and interpersonal dimensions. Treating the body as a source of wisdom, this symposium presents four distinct body-mind therapies within the field of somatic psychology: Hakomi, Focusing, Embodied Couples Therapy, and Rubenfeld Synergy.

November 1 – 6, 2015 (Sunday through Friday)

Conference topics include

• Ways to become conscious of what’s being held in your body
• The implications of working in a somato-psychic model as a client or clinician
• Various styles of somatic psychotherapeutic practices
• How somatic psychology techniques are different from traditional counseling and talk therapy
• What this field and these practices can do for you and your clients.

Discover what your body is trying to teach you and experience the gifts of somatic psychology for your life and work.

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This conference, presented by the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, offers an abundance of insight on the latest tools in somatic psychology—a discipline that combines body, mind, and relational dimensions. Mental-health professionals get the rare opportunity to learn how somatic psychology can complement traditional talk therapy to enhance their skills and tune into their clients’ innate wisdom.

Find out more and view the program schedule.

Kripalu is the largest yoga-based retreat center in North America. While you are here, enjoy daily yoga classes, natural-foods cuisine, Healing Arts, hiking trails, sauna, like-minded people, and extraordinary views—all in the natural beauty of the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.

October 24, 2015

ADTA 50th Anniversary Conference: Reflecting, Reaching, Moving Forward

San Diego, California

Saturday Morning Panel (seminar D-7). 10:30-12:30

ADTA Panel Presenters:

Joan Chodorow, PhD, BC-DMT

Linda Aaron-Cort, MA, BC-DMT

Cynthia Berrol, PhD, BC-DMT

Sandy Dibbell-Hope, PhD, BC-DMT

Nancy Gurian, LMFT, BC-DMT

Ellen Searle LeBel, LMFT, CST-T, BC-DMT

Tina Stromsted, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, BC-DMT

This panel presentation is based on the cross-cultural psychology of C. G. Jung, the analytic method of active imagination, and Authentic Movement as one of the branches of dance/movement therapy. Reflecting years of seminar study and discussion, we embrace shared teaching, presenting, and moving together.

Our process illuminates transgenerational, multi-cultural and other dimensions of human development. We have studied and explored the ancestors, early memories, the multi-sensory nature of the psyche, the relationship between consciousness and the unconscious (including the cultural unconscious and cultural complexes), with special attention to moods and emotions contained by diverse perspectives on the mover-witness relationship. Experiential explorations of these and other topics, an important component of the seminars, includes various practices, encompassing elements of authentic movement, improvisation, sandplay, art, journaling, as well as elements of choreography that may emerge as repeatable choreographic themes.

This panel presentation will comprise two primary components: lecture/discussion, and brief experiential amplifications drawn from the contributions of Mary Whitehouse, Trudi Schoop and other DMT pioneers. Each of the seven panelists will present on one aspect of Dance/ Movement and Active Imagination.

Conference Registration: http://www.adta.org/2015-Conference

For more information: http://www.authenticmovement-bodysoul.com/workshops/dancemovement-active-imagination-personal-cultural-archetypal-dimensions/

November 6, 2015 – November 8, 2015

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California

Co-Sponsored by Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Marion Woodman Foundation

C.G. Jung believed that psyche and body are one. Marion Woodman, with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner, developed BodySoul Rhythms® from their common belief in our body’s wisdom and their many years exploring the relationship between psyche and soma. Based on the conviction that psyche and soma are inseparable, they believed they must be worked with simultaneously in order for us to become more conscious, more whole as a human being.

Marion Woodman’s years as a teacher, author, mentor, and friend greatly influenced the work of Pacifica Graduate Institute, the Marion Woodman Foundation, the Jungian community, and beyond. Through her work, we are graced with a knowledge gleaned from keen insight, an inspiration discovered from embodied experience, and a passion rooted in deep conviction.

Through discussion, dream, movement, voice, creative expression, and ritual—in the safety of the temenos and while honoring the uniqueness of each individual—participants will have an embodied experience with the possibility of healing old wounds and the emergence of new energies. We invite you to join us for this very special weekend in beautiful Santa Barbara to explore the tenets of BodySoul Rhythms® and to celebrate the legacy of Marion Woodman.

The program will be held November 6-8, 2015, Friday 7-9pm, Saturday 9am-5:45pm and Sunday 9am-1pm

Presentations by Tina Stromsted, Ph.D.:

Embodied Wisdom: An Introduction to BodySoul Rhythms® (Pre-Conference Workshop); Co-facilitated with Meg Wilbur & Dorothy Anderson ;November 6, 2015, 9:00am – 4:30pm

Stars Beneath the Sea: The Gifts of Marion Woodman (Plenary Talk); November 6, 2015, 7-9pm

BodySoul Theatre: Finding Your ‘Real Skin’; Co-facilitated with Meg Wilbur & Dorothy Anderson; November 7, 2015, 2:15-3:45pm

To Register: http://www.pacifica.edu/current-public/item/coming-home-to-the-body

For more information: http://www.authenticmovement-bodysoul.com/workshops/coming-home-to-the-body/

What would it be like if EVERYONE took responsibility fulfilling their pleasures, wants and desires, on a continual basis? What if we didn’t put SO much energy into following RULES all the time? When we hold SO much in, simple physical pleasure sometimes turns dangerous—when all we’re use to, is holding back, holding back, holding back. Then, distortions occur—

Extreme behavior is only a result of cultural dictates, psychological wounding, trauma, beliefs, ego needs—all causing us to fall out of sync with the flow of life which is quite balanced—and always seeking equilibrium. Check out the natural world—see how life—when we’re in flow, is full of equanimity. Try to gift yourself with pleasure today.

Beth L. Haessig Psy.D.
President, United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
Getting Your Work into the World

See Article: At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized by: By DAVE PHILIPPS SEPT. 4, 2015

This month’s guest is Aline LaPierre. She talks about Integrating the intelligence of the body.

Aline LaPierre, PSYD, MFT, is the coauthor of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship, and she has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed somatic journals. She was on the faculty of the somatic doctoral program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute for 10 years. A graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute, she also trained as a psychoanalyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.

See: http://somaticperspectives.com/2015/09/lapierre/

Touch is the basis of our sensory world. Touch is our first way of relating with ourselves, others, and our environment. Providing physical and emotional communication at a level far deeper then words, touch is a vital aspect of experiencing meaning, purpose, and joy throughout our lives.

Touch has an important role in our capacity for self-regulation, impacting how effectively children learn to socialize, pay attention, and even engage in classroom activities. How do we experience healthy, supportive contact with others, recognize and avoid unhealthy contact?

The author provides outstanding documentation of research clearly indicating how vital touch is to human health and healing. Shared experiences, illustrative charts, tables for clinical interventions, and practical homework exercises offer compassionate guidance for implementing healthy, supportive touch into many personal and professional situations. This book is a vital addition to our understanding of health and what it means to be human.

This book belongs in the library of every practitioner, teacher, social worker, couple, parent, prospective parent, and family – anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the profound effects of touch on health and well-being.

Michael Changaris, Psy.D. is the founder of the International Institute of Touch Training and Research (ITTR). As a clinical psychologist he specializes in the biological basis of behavior stress physiology, psychobiology of neurodegenerative disorders and the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress.

Touch: The Neurobiology of Health, Healing, and Human Connection
by Michael Changaris, Psy.D.
ISBN 9780940795068
Price: US $29.99.

Available through LifeRhythm at www.LifeRhythm.com

Siegmar and Cornelia Gerken
International Institute of Core Evolution & CoreSoma
LifeRhythm Books

Core Evolution is an integrative experiential body-oriented and mindfulness-centered approach to embodiment, relationship and personal expression and strengthens emotional, somatic and psychological awareness and personal fulfillment.

This workshop offers you to experience and to learn about:
• Love as an energetic state
• Love, empathy and mirror neurons
• Love as the Resonance with the Flow of Life™
• Attachment, personality and their influence in how we relate
• Heart communication, intimacy and authenticity
• the Body and your personal development
• Feelings — impulses, emotions and the unfolding of awareness
• Psyche — differentiation of needs and wants and how to establish healthy boundaries
• Relationship and how to make it last

Siegmar has over 40 years experience in working with people, and with this competence, knowledge and intuition he chooses the approach that is needed in the moment to reach each person: Working body-oriented, using exercises, movement, dance, shifting of restricting breathing patterns and utilizing many other elements.

Siegmar’s integrative style meets the beginner on the conscious path as well as the professional therapist.

This workshop is also designed for participants who want to expand their approach in working with people and who are interested to join our professional training in 2016.www.CoreEvolution.com.

“Your blend of professional competence, powerful interventions, sensitive care, personal dynamic, humor and lightness has been the most influencing source for my own way of working with individuals and groups.”
— Joar Skjevdal, MA Civil Engineer, MA Psychologist, Senior Consultant

Ask for Siegmar’s eight-page interview on this topic: info@CoreEvolution.com
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Siegmar Gerken, Ph.D., ECP, studied psychology, education and anthropology. He has pioneered body-oriented and mindfulness-centered therapy and Humanistic, Somatic and Transpersonal Psychology since 1971. He is on the faculty of JFK University Somatic Psychology, teaches at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California; Behavioral Therapy Training Institute in Hamburg and at universities and private institutes worldwide on the interconnectedness of psychosomatic processes as they manifest on the levels of body, feelings, mind, will and consciousness. His research in energy field documentation with Prof. F. Popp on psycho-emotional states opened new horizons to scientists and practitioners. He is co-founder of the Scientific Committee of the EABP. Dr. Gerken is a lecturer, therapist, trainer and supervisor.

Moving the Self Psychotherapy Center, a thriving insurance-based practice, is seeking Maryland clinically licensed mental health professionals to work as associates (independent contractors) in the centrally located Bowie (Maryland) office. Two part-time positions are currently open, with the opportunity to build to full-time. Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors are welcome to apply.

The ideal therapist would be well trained in psychodynamic theories and body oriented psychotherapy. Must be familiar with mindfulness, developmental psychology, trauma work, and family systems. Experience in the Creative Arts Therapies, Multicultural Counseling, and Psychodynamic Brief Therapy a plus. Ideally, the candidate would be able to work with clients across the age span, be available at least twelve clinical hours per week, on multiple afternoons and some evenings (weekend availability a plus). The most critical skills will be an interpersonal approach to therapy, warmth, and the ability to establish and maintain a therapeutic alliance, a sense of humor imbued with kindness and respect, the ability to maintain healthy and firm boundaries, as well as the effective use of self. The ideal candidate would also demonstrate strong organizational and professional skills, electronic health records management proficiency, and the ability to work independently within the context of a group practice.

Moving the Self Psychotherapy Center is a growing multi-disciplinary practice offering individual, couples, family, and group therapy working with children, adolescents, and adults.

See our website at www.movingtheself.org

Inquiries and applications are welcome.

Email resume with a statement of interest to:

Patrizia Pallaro at

somatikapp@gmail.com

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

I’d like to share an upcoming workshop I will be teaching this August, sponsored by CMER (Center for Movement Education & Research).  This two-day immersion will explore the healing power of movement as active imagination.

This course is open to clinicians, and teachers and practitioners of body-orientated healing work. It is also designed as a Dance/Movement Therapy Approaches course for students who are preparing for Alternate Route certification.

I hope you’ll consider joining us and please feel free to share this information with others.

With best wishes as summer comes into full bloom.

Warmly,
Tina

August 22, 2015 – August 23, 2015
Wildcat Studio, Berkeley, California

Sponsored by the Center for Movement Education and Research’s (CMER) Alternative Route Training in Dance/Movement Therapy

Authentic Movement is a depth-oriented therapeutic approach, bridging body and psyche through natural movement, augmented by drawing and writing. Beginning with the contributions of Mary Whitehouse, we will engage Jungian concepts and their evolution into Authentic Movement, and explore more recent developments in the practice related to group and individual therapy.

This course is open to practicing professionals and is also designed as a Dance/Movement Therapy course for students who are preparing for Alternate Route certification, meeting 15 hours (one credit) of the Theories and Methods requirements for students in pursuit of Alternate Route Training with the goal of becoming a registered Dance/Movement therapist (R-DMT). This course has been approved by the American Dance Therapy Association to meet requirements for the Alternate Route R-DMT credential.

This course also meets the qualifications for 15 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LCSWs & LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Sessions will include structured warm ups and ‘starting points’ that engage embodied clinical themes, as well as questions such as:

• What is active imagination, and how does it facilitate transformation?
• How does moving & witnessing practice enhance healing and development?
• How do we become more sensitive to the movement expression of the client’s body and of our own embodied response?
  What supports the integration of sensing, emotion, movement, images, words, and symbolic expression within the healing relationship, touching on brain function?
• How might you integrate Authentic Movement and structured, creative movement explorations in your therapy practice?
• In what ways can we develop leadership skills in creating a safe container, initiating structured warm ups, discerning effective “starting points”, and engaging in sensory-grounded reflection on the process?
• What is the efficacy of Authentic Movement practice for different clinical populations, in multicultural settings, and in the larger global community?

This course will reflect on the history of Authentic Movement, including Jungian theory, elements from neuroscience, discussion of the readings, and clinical applications of Authentic Movement in dance/movement therapy. In the process we will address therapeutic elements such as providing a safe container, identifying projections, establishing appropriate interpersonal boundaries, listening and observational skills, empathy, and the somatic underpinnings of the transference-countertransference relationship.

Through the practice participants can continue to develop their ability to be present, with oneself and with another, in a more vital, increasingly conscious relationship, inviting a level of perception of self and other that can evoke deep respect and empathy.

To Register:

To register for this workshop visit CMER’s enrollment page

Where: Mendocino, California • August 8 + 9, 2015

Awaken your Body-Dream-Process and be guided by an innate higher intelligence.

Neurobiology shows us, that we access more of our neuronal network and brain capacity when we dream – narrowing our experience to the paradigm that we call our Self and our beliefs when we are awake. As we go back to engage with our dreams we can expand this identification and unlock our tremendous creative potential.

Dreams embrace different realities simultaneously, offering information about our health, our intra-psychic reality, our personality, as well as questions of relationships. Dreams address our souls journey, our collective consciousness and open us to transpersonal realms.

As a Core Evolution Somatic Therapist and trainer Cornelia Gerken is uniquely skilled to work with what lies below the surface of our awareness. Our bodies, like our dreams, are portals to our unconscious. Both speak a different language, one is symbolic, the other kinesthetic and felt. In this process we do not interpret dream symbols but come to understand the dream-messages through an embodied experience.

The Body-Dream-Process™ expands dream-work by exploring through our bodies and somatic awareness, personalized movement, gestures and mindfulness and light trance. It is a powerful and integrative approach and connected to our personal and collective evolution.

Cornelia offers tools that are easy to learn to apply, so you can unlock the gift a dream offers you for a lifetime.

Venue: Mendocino, California

Times: Saturday, August 8; 10 am – 1 pm and 3 – 6 pm
Sunday, August 9; 10 am – 4:30 pm

Price: US $220.

For registration please contact: corneliagerken (at) gmail.com

Here is a little taste of what I teach at Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy.   A great benefit of living in this time is that we have access to practices from so many different orientations.   I love being able to integrate my work and studies from many different areas of my life into the curriculum here.  These practices bring us into deeper contact with our real Self and the creative Life Force which can never die, always seeks expression, and awakens us to walk with awareness that everything is Alive!

Thank you for listening, SSBP is excited to be collecting registrations for our new class that begins in October.

This is to let you know about the new conversation in the “Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy” series. This month, it is with Marti Glenn.

The “Somatic Perspectives” series is edited by Serge Prengel, LMHC. Every other month, there is a new conversation. Each conversation lasts approximately a half hour. You can listen to it on the website, or download it as an MP3 audio file. You can also read it as a PDF transcript (available on the same page).

Marti Glenn, PhD, Co-Director, the STAR Foundation, offering intensive retreats for healing early trauma. She is founding President of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute with graduate degrees in somatic psychology, prenatal-perinatal psychology and clinical psychology. A pioneering psychotherapist and trainer for three decades, she was also professor of clinical psychology, integrating body psychotherapy with affective neuroscience, attachment, and trauma. Dr. Glenn serves on several non-profit boards and has chaired numerous professional conferences, including APPPAH and Neurons to Neighborhoods: Preventing and Healing Trauma. She co-produced the broadcast quality documentary, Trauma, Brain, and Relationship and has appeared in such documentary films as What Babies Want; What Babies Know; Reducing Infant Mortality and Improving the Health of Babies. She continues to train mental health professionals with a focus on relationship and the experienced body, weaving neuroscience, polyvagal theory, epigenetics, trauma and attachment into clinical practices. She is a frequent speaker at conferences world-wide.

See: http://somaticperspectives.com/2015/07/glenn/

Dear Clinical Colleagues,

Thank you for considering this request to participate in a clinical research survey that explores the use of body-based somatic awareness, and somatic intervention techniques by licensed clinicians (clinical social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors) in the treatment of patients/clients who suffer from trauma-related conditions. This research is being conducted in partial fulfillment for my doctorate degree at Smith College School For Social Work.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that some clinicians are adapting, and utilizing body-based somatic awareness and somatic interventions in their treatment with individuals diagnosed with PTSD, and/or other forms of traumatic stress.

Please collaborate with other colleagues to contribute your clinical knowledge and experience by taking part in this important research. As a fellow clinician, I know you are likely very busy. This survey is brief (10-15 minutes), and your clinical experience is vital to this research.

The power of relationships cannot be underestimated, and I believe the success of this research depends on asking for your help to reach as many clinicians using somatic interventions as possible. Please forward this email/survey invitation to your colleagues. This survey is being distributed nationally and internationally.

http://Clinician_Use_Of_Somatic_Interventions_Survey_MPCurry.formstack.com/forms/mpcurry_doctoral_survey

With gratitude,

Mary Curry, LCSW, Doctoral Candidate

How useful is the 50th anniversary edition of The Phenomenology of Dance to USABP members?

This book is clearly not a book about therapy, body-oriented or otherwise. It may nevertheless be of considerable interest to dance therapists as well as body-oriented therapists in general by providing an experience-based analysis of movement and dance, and hence thought-provoking reflections on movement and dance. The book’s finely detailed descriptive analysis of movement is complementary to the graphic analysis of movement that constitutes Labananalysis. In addition to its finely detailed descriptive analysis of movement, the book concerns itself with dynamics, rhythm, and expression, each in separate chapters, and elaborates in experiential ways Susanne Langer’s philosophy of art as a matter of “form symbolizing feeling.” In particular, though Sheets-Johnstone diverges methodologically from Langer’s analytical approach, following instead the rigorous methodology of phenomenology, The Phenomenology of Dance prospers greatly from her insights into how the qualitative dynamics of movement in dance come to symbolize forms of human feeling.

The 50th anniversary edition also includes a lengthy new preface that addresses what Sheets-Johnstone sees as present-day issues in research studies and writings on movement and dance, most notably but not exclusively, the lack of recognition of kinesthesia as a sense modality, and with it, a lack of attention to the qualitative realities of movement. Sheets-Johnstone furthermore shows the value of dance to be dance in and of itself. She thus shows that dance is not a means to lofty goals of education, but that an education in dance–and hence the study of movement–is of prime value in and of itself.

In her first life, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone was a dancer/choreographer, professor of dance/dance scholar. That life has continued to inform her life as a philosopher and interdisciplinary scholar in near 80 articles in humanities, art, and science journals, and in nine books, all of which attest in one way and another to a grounding in the tactile-kinesthetic body. She has several articles in psychotherapy journals, among which Body, Movement and Dance Psychotherapy, American Journal of Dance Therapy, Psychotherapy and Politics International, and Philoctetes (the latter a journal co-sponsored by the New York Psychoanalytic Institute), as well as articles on movement and dance and on animation in journals such as Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and Continental Philosophy Review.

She has given guest lectures and keynotes in the states and abroad and is scheduled in 2016 as a guest speaker at the International Human Science Research Conference in Ottawa, the European Association Dance Movement Therapy Conference in Milan, and the European Association of Body Psychotherapists Conference in Greece. She was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University in the UK in the Spring of 2007 for her research on xenophobia, an Alumni Achievement Award by the School of Education, University of Wisconsin in 2011, and was honored with a Scholar’s Session at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference in 2012. She has an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

The Phenomenology of Dance International Flyer

See also: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s interview for SomaticPerspectives.com:

http://somaticperspectives.com/2010/05/sheets-johnstone/

Integral Breath Therapy is a revolutionary therapy that uses the breath to explore, heal and integrate the multidimensional aspects of the human psyche. Based on ancient Eastern disciplines as well as modern Western methods, this holistic modality uses breathing techniques to clear out physical, mental and emotional blocks or stresses.

Integral Breath Therapy is a body-mind modality. With this approach we bridge the gap between thoughts and feelings, between the body and the mind. By going underneath the “story” or repetitive dramas in life, belief systems are revealed along with the reason for their existence. The awareness of these patterns and how they affect one’s life is crucial to creating a future that is different from the past.

Bridging the Gap Between Body & Mind

• Become a certified Level 1 Integral Breath Therapy Facilitator
• Learn to use the power of trance state to accelerate your clients’ personal growth
• Experience your own deep healing & awakening
• Rest and rejuvenate in 550 acres of beautiful forest

The Integral Breath Therapy facilitator training is a six day focused program
designed for professionals looking for personal as well as professional
transformation. This training is designed to teach the therapeutic skills
necessary to integrate Integral Breath Therapy into your existing modality.

About the Training
6 Day Certification for Therapists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses,
Hospice Workers, Yoga Instructors, Educators, and Coaches

Investment: $1095
$895 if registered by 9/8
Retreat fees: $425-$725
Trainers
Holmes Conference Center
Agape Building, Holmes, NY

This training will take place at the Holmes Conference Center in the beautiful glass
room in Agape Center. Besides adding new skills to your professional repertoire, this
training is designed to facilitate your own deep personal healing and growth work. The
natural setting of Holmes, with forests, lakes, cliffs, and peaceful walks in the woods,
is the perfect place for your own rejuvenation.

You will learn:

• About the breath and its relationship to life, death, and disease
• The history of Breath Therapy and its contemporary applications
• About Breath Therapy as physical, psychological, and emotional process
• To identify and use “breathing patterns” as a diagnostic tool
• About the Mind-Body Connection to health and healing
• To appropriately facilitate physical and emotional release
• The basics of pre- and perinatal psychology to heal birth Issues
• The importance of Emotional Anatomy and emotional development
• To reprogram beliefs through the Bio-Computer
• The Trauma vs. Shock model for healing dissociation
• To identify and release chronic holding patterns and body armor
• To incorporate imagery and Inner Child work
• To create space and support for the natural healing process
• And much more

MORE INFORMATION – CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL FLYER DETAILS