In this module, students dive deep into the core of the somatic field: conscious movement and the ability for action in their lives and in relationships with family and the natural world. Students will explore ways in which movement awareness, measuring, fine motor skills, and strength are acquired. 

This is a travel through the senses, from embryological origins to their function and integration in life. Students work with the 7 senses of touch, taste, smell, balance, proprioception, hearing, and vision, learning the anatomy and exploring the actions of each of the senses.

 Somatizations and movement explorations will allow students to discover their own pathways of these special senses and their role in development.  Other learning methods include movement, touch, discussion, and the on-going exploration of how scientifically-based information is embodied in experience and somatization.

The fluid body preceded the nervous system. The rhythms of blood, lymph, craniosacral fluid, cellular and interstitial fluids, set the timing and experience of one's self. Through the fluids, individuals can allow feelings to be known and to be expressed or transformed. In this workshop, the class rejoins these ancient rivers and this ancient state of awareness and being. 

Fluids underlie dance and flow, as well as awareness in motion. Is this what you mean? An often under-estimated system, the fluids bring great benefit to clients, as they benefit from the deep nourishment of flow and understanding of circulation. The fluids offer learning about giving and receiving, as well as cranial-sacral healing and embryonic breathing and movement. This class is an important continuation of embryological development rhythms that set the Vagal tone and the basis of the Nervous System - as well as understanding the systemic support pre-birth and post-birth as well as the role of the placenta in our spirit and resiliency.

Learning methods include movement, touch, discussion, and the on-going exploration of how scientifically-based information is embodied in experience and somatization.

Integrate and express truth and play with movement and coming into presence, by learning about the ways their body/mind actually function. Students will gain access to the gut-brain (this ancient brain of intuition), the vagal system (rooted in polyvagal theory), and the synapses and how they can be cleared (a method of trauma recovery). The body supports thinking and organizing. Students will investigate how memories are created, stored, and retrieved; research the vagal system and its embryological underpinnings; explore how emotions and movement relate to each other; and how the body coordinates sensory integration and cortical thinking. 

In this module, students will return back to this initial sense of wonder. Using improvisation and play, the nerves are offered a novel experience to record and sets a line of re-coordinating, relearning surprise, and awe. The body offers ways to support the clarity of thinking through meditation, dance, anatomical knowledge, and embodiment.

As somatic practitioners, students will deepen their understanding of the methods available to introduce change to clients. Most adults have trimmed their movement options, narrowed their choices, becoming tired, bored, or depressed. How can practitioners support clients in changing their stuck patterns or shifting out of fear?

As a group, students will look at ways to support loosening and shifts, investigating ways of relating to one another that can support the ease and flow of ideas, plans, and imagination. Dreaming and flowing as well as thinking and planning are all ways the body works with the mind.

Before we had a nervous system, our blood carried potent hormones from one part of the body to another. It was a nuanced and powerful messaging system that in our bodies still provides active homeostasis and regulates all of our systems, including our sexuality. 

These glands align along the vertical axis of the body from coccyx to pituitary gland  - if you are fluent in chakra energy expression, you will appreciate learning more about the glands that underlie these energetic centers. Tuning into these glands means tuning into our pheromonal knowing, our intuition, and into our wild body in perception and expression. These substances unlock our unconscious, supra-conscious, focus, and certainty of endocrine knowing. 

Aligning these glands that have been built into the nervous system as well.

This module offers a deep focus on the areas of the neck and jaw. Just about every client and student have significant pain or alignment issues in these areas. The jaw is a common area of holding tension and stress. The jaw is the gateway to eating, nourishment, kissing, as it opens and engages with the world. Looking at the prespinal development pattern, the module will layer detailed information on nursing and mouthing, both of which relate to food, sex, and vocal expression. The neck, throat and vocal cords coordinate relationships through sound, word, and song. This unit will bring all of the previous learning in the program together and introduce fine bodywork and communications skills in the somatic realm.

This unit is tailored to the uniqueness of each group: rounding off their knowledge of the material, business, teaching, and body-work practice. 

This module brings together the developmental movement patterns and reflexes into a cohesive whole, and articulate the toolbox of the SomaticBODY practitioner. The students will investigate their own matrices, their challenges, and their strengths. SomaticBODY practitioners use techniques of movement and embodiment to access these systems. Integration of these experiences in class and somatic sessions happens through embodied inquiry and discourse.

Sensory/Motor Integration, Developmental Movement, and the principles of Yield, Push Reach, Pull will be re-examined as tools for treatment, interaction, and teaching. Students will learn ways of guiding others toward insight into their own matrix and lovingly become acquainted with personal patterns, expressions, and the emotions that infuse their lives.

This module addresses how a connection to self is created, and how one can flow from self-connection into relating to the outer world and people, all while maintaining a sense of self.