COURSES & WORKSHOPS

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Jaw, Vocalization & CSF
Nov 9
Jaw, Vocalization & CSF
Tensegrity/Ligaments/Fascia
Nov 20
Tensegrity/Ligaments/Fascia

Our somatic understanding of fascia is a gateway to understanding self and the relationship between inner and outer space. Not only can we discover aliveness in our tensegrity, our inner guiding strength, we can also learn how to connect into the web of community.

We don't need to employ effort to hold ourselves together! The inherent molecular structure of fascia and ligaments allows for rebound - the elasticity and strength is in the fabric and does not need extra effort. When the ligaments are in flow, awake, alive they provide a support for our actions, which are  orchestrated by our muscles. Muscles get to ride on  this tensegritous cohesion of the ligaments through our body.

Fascia separates and connects our organs, muscles, nerves and ligaments provide close connection and guidance for our actions - Exploring this layer of tissues can dramatically shift the ways that we hold ourselves and act int he world.


Muscles & Kinesthetic Integration
Jan 18
Muscles & Kinesthetic Integration
Senses & Perception Moscow
Mar 29
Senses & Perception Moscow

Our senses connect us and illuminate the world for us. In this workshop we will travel through the senses, their embryological origins, their function and integration into our lives. Touch, taste, balance, proprioception, hearing, smelling and vision.
Somatizations and movement explorations will allow students to discover their own pathways of these special senses and their role in development.



The Fluid Body
May 15
The Fluid Body

… the rhythms of blood, lymph, cranial-sacral, cellular and interstitial fluids set the timing and experience of ourselves. We can allow feelings to be known and express or transform. Join this workshop to rejoin these ancient rivers, this ancient state of awareness and being!

Neurology, Memory & Learning
Jun 19
Neurology, Memory & Learning
The WILD Body - Hormones, chakras & chemistry
Sep 16
The WILD Body - Hormones, chakras & chemistry

Our WIld Body - Tuning into our intuition, our pheromonal knowing and the alignment of our spiritual self - we will enter into the super-conscious/ unconscious , and certainty of this system. This is a great opportunity to research and balance these powerful forces that set our metabolic balance and allow us to dream and our thoughts to fly.

Sometimes relegated to the mysterious, we will explore ways to access these powers through movement , voice and touch.


Jaw, Vocalization & CSF Moscow
Oct 14
Jaw, Vocalization & CSF Moscow
Embryo, Prevertebral Patterns & Intro to SomaticBODY
Apr 14
Embryo, Prevertebral Patterns & Intro to SomaticBODY

Practicing the return into embryonic time allows us to access our being before our nervous system ran the show. It is a time of amazing growth organized by cellular choice making, renewal, change and growth: these can become templates for our lives now and can heal our organism, our neuro-endocrine balance.

Notocordal time (the soft spine appears and disappears before our now spine) is  time of moving in the dark - the underwater headless fish that swims side to side. Deep water holds embraces  supports buoyancy. IT is less sensing out but feeling one-self moving. the bubbles filled with fluid propelling the body through space. Pressure fields of ocean, currents meet the movement of your body - this embryonic stage supports deep inner knowing, inner focus and movement.


This is the first unit of the MOSCOW Somatic BODY Training - which is open to students of the full program and a few other folks with some background in the field of somatics for single workshops.

Spine & Bones, Skeletal - Spinal Patterns
Jun 9
Spine & Bones, Skeletal - Spinal Patterns

Developmentally we are now leaving the ocean and the pre-spinal patterns and moving onto land , therefore growing our cartilage into bones! This support against gravity through the bones and joints allows easeful movement in space.

We will look at the actions at joints and their integration across the body - this sets our mind to perceive clarity and structure in space. This provides the basis for structural repatterning techniques that throughout the program add in the ligaments, muscles and organs.

Our bones harbor and protect the creation of blood in the marrow - so we can embody this depth in our lives. We can also learn more about the aliveness and the ability to constantly rebuild and re- form in our bone tissues - each of our movements in relationship to gravity incite growth. Here we re- define the resilience of these tissues and can offer our clients and students this sense of resilience.

Workshops

Jungwoong Kim WORKSHOP NOHO SERIES Nov/ April/June    SIgn up for the intensive workgroup now!

 

 

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. 
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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.

 Learn more about Earthdance

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 schedule

You may always email your questions to SomaticBodyTraining@gmail.com

Christine Cole is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, and Practitioner of Integrative Acupressure, with a practice in Body-Mind Centering that extends over 30 years. She's held Faculty positions at the School for Body-Mind Centering® in Amherst, MA and Amsterdam, Holland, and runs her own training in Boston, Vermont, Montreal and Northampton, MA. She has a lifelong practice in Contact Improvisation, Training in Post-Modern and Improvisational Dance and maintains a private practice in Developmental Bodywork in downtown Northampton, MA