Human beings are linguistic beings. We need language to survive. We use verbal language to communicate with remarkable precision. Yet everyday language is rich in abstraction, metaphor and imagery. Its symbolic nature stimulates the mind, easily disembodying it. While this may be sometimes beneficial it inhibits somatic experience and embodiment. Somatic education and therapy depend for their effectiveness on an embodiment within which the intelligence of the body is prioritised over that of mind. This shift in emphasis from mind to body requires a somatic, experiential vocabulary, based on direct experience of the body and the sensations it generates. It must be concrete rather than symbolic, tangible rather than abstract.
This Training is for somatic practitioners of all kinds: yoga teachers, meditation teachers, bodyworkers, somatic psychotherapists, mindfulness coaches, or anyone working professionally through or with the body. It will show you how to refine and develop your professional vocabulary to maximise its effectiveness. This rests on selecting words that directly engage mind into the body.
This Talking Into The Body Training demonstrates the use of an experiential, somatic vocabulary to breathwork and simple yoga postures. Nevertheless the underlying principles explored can be equally applied to any somatic modality.
You will learn:
On purchase eight video sessions of two and two and a half hours, and one pdf file will download. You can use each video in stages, according to your schedule.
Use the videos in the following order:
Sessions 1&2 focus on the different roles played by mind, body, sensation, the nervous system and awareness in embodiment
Sessions 3&4 focus using the breath as an instrument of embodiment
Sessions 5&6 focus on sensations, the spectrum of intelligence and yoga as an instrument of embodiment
Sessions 7&8 focus on the art of somatic instruction
Whether you teach breathwork, yoga, tai-chi, chi-kung, meditation, or engage with your clients by way of their body this Training is for you. You will learn the most effective way to use words to put your clients deeply in touch with their bodies.
This Training is for somatic practitioners of all kinds: yoga teachers, meditation teachers, bodyworkers, somatic psychotherapists, mindfulness coaches, or anyone working professionally through or with the body. It will show you how to refine and develop your professional vocabulary to maximise its effectiveness. This rests on selecting words that directly engage mind into the body.
This Talking Into The Body Training demonstrates the use of an experiential, somatic vocabulary to breathwork and simple yoga postures. Nevertheless the underlying principles explored can be equally applied to any somatic modality.
You will learn:
- the significance and power of awareness
- the relationship between body, mind and awareness in theory & practice
- the experiential role of the nervous system in embodiment
- the significance and power of sensation
- the significance of softness and intensity
- the key to somatic learning
- how to use words to embody the mind
- the role of metaphor and imagery in embodiment
- to distinguish between abstract, experiential and somatic vocabularies
- to develop a simple experiential vocabulary
- the role of volume,e tone, rhythm and projection in somatic instruction
On purchase eight video sessions of two and two and a half hours, and one pdf file will download. You can use each video in stages, according to your schedule.
Use the videos in the following order:
Sessions 1&2 focus on the different roles played by mind, body, sensation, the nervous system and awareness in embodiment
Sessions 3&4 focus using the breath as an instrument of embodiment
Sessions 5&6 focus on sensations, the spectrum of intelligence and yoga as an instrument of embodiment
Sessions 7&8 focus on the art of somatic instruction
Whether you teach breathwork, yoga, tai-chi, chi-kung, meditation, or engage with your clients by way of their body this Training is for you. You will learn the most effective way to use words to put your clients deeply in touch with their bodies.