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Somatic Body Training
This 500 hour Somatic Training will lead you through the body systems organized through the developmental movement stages in two years.
We will deeply study and explore the bones, muscles and tissues that strongly pertain to a specific Developmental Stage, and alternate with units that focus on a Body System, delving into the specific anatomy and the possibilities of that unique system. This will allow for integration as the information will layer and segments will build. MORE INFO HERE
The first year will focus on the developmental movement stages that humans go through once they are born (Land Patterns of Development). The second year will focus on the developmental movement stages that humans go through in the womb (Ocean Patterns of Development). Most of the material will be introduced in stages: The spine will be taught in the first year in the Spinal unit, and then touched upon in the Muscle unit, and will return in year two with a focus on ligamentous tensegrity and vocalization.
EARLY DISCOUNTS - Full Fee $8600
Register by Feb 9th and pay in full by Feb 15 2018 - $500 off
Register by Feb 9th and send in downpayment of $1000 - $400 off
Year One:
April 11-15, 2018 Embryo, Prevertebral Patterns & Touch: Luminescence
May 16-20, 2018 Spine Skeletal/ Intro to Land patterns
July tbd 9 days (not at Earthdance) Organs/ Homologous / Ribs, Pelvis
Sept 2018 Home study of Muscles preparation
Oct 24-28, 2018 Tensegrity/Ligaments/joints
November 28-December 2 2018 Senses & Perception
Feb tbd 9 days, 2019 Muscles & Kinesthetic Integration
Year Two:
April 10-14, 2019 Fluids-Dance -Breath
May 15-19 2019 Endocrine Glands, Chakras
June/July tbd 9 days 2019 Neuroglial, the Nervous system
Sept/Oct tbd 5 days 2019 Mouthing vocalization, neck
Nov/Dec tbd 5 days 2019 Developmental Patterns: Teaching skills/reflexes
Jan/ Feb tbd 9 days 2020 All in FLOW Developmental Patterns, Birth
This is a 500h training that with all the requisites will lead to Certification as a Somatic Body Practitioner.
Dive in
Immerse yourself in a deep holistic learning environment. Learn how to meet others with more joy, respect, and space for development. Learning is integrated through dance, art, meditation, and vocal and artistic expression, and supported through mentorship and group engagement.
You will learn to:
- encourage embodied presence in yourself and others
- observe and assess clients and students
- repattern movement for greater ease and alignment
- apply Somatic Body in therapy, pedagogy or art
- facilitate emotional relational healing
- source from cell tissue to nature to hive mind
Students will be required to meet between units for Labs with fellow students and will research material through teaching, studying, filming, creating dance, having conversations with other knowledge holders and will bring this back to the group for the morning warm-ups and other opportunities to engage in the learning.
Learning Community
The cohort model brings out the possibility to co-create, witness and support each other, engage in dialogue in the field of somatics, write, teach, and engage in honest feedback. Personal patterns, emotional stress and relationship issues can be approached through the Somatic Body Practices, so there are opportunities to apply the material in interactive processes, using skills of witnessing, embodied presence, listening, moving, processing and integrating - all these are tools of the Somatic Body Training.
New England Location / 2018-20
This next training will be mostly held at Earthdance, an artist-run workshop, residency, and retreat center located in the Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts.
252 Prospect St. Plainfield, MA 01070
Earthdance provide a dynamic mix of dance, somatic, and interdisciplinary arts training, with a focus on sustainable living, social justice, and community. Earthdance has been spearheading innovative arts programming and maintaining a beautiful facility for rental groups in the Pioneer Valley for three decades.
How to Register
NEW PROGRAMS STARTING IN 2018
Somatic Body is a 500h training April 2018 - Feb 2020. We will be accepting applications for the whole program until filled.
Fill out the application form online and then print out the pdf version of registration and mail it to us with your signature or email us a scan.
Please fill out the application questions, so we can get to know you and see if Somatic Body is right for you at this point in your life. ALL applicants will be able to have a conversation with Christine Cole, Director of Somatic Body to discuss any issues, answer your questions and get to know you better.
Payment Plans/work study is available - contact us
Vermont Residents: VSAC Grants available - contact us for information & VSAC payment scheduleYou may always email your questions to SomaticBodyTraining@gmail.com
Friday : 'Introduction to the Fluid Nervous System'
Regaining the origins of our movement cycles throughout the time in the womb, underwater. will be the focus of this weekend workshop. Motion in water, this buoyant state, where the outside pressure matches our inside space, precedes our experience of gravity. Even our nervous system is still floating in the cranial-sacral fluid in our body. Feel more alive!