Trauma is a psychosomatic condition that you can be left with as a result of something that is, usually, no longer happening. The effect of any event is determined in part by the individual psychology and social relationships of the participants, and by what they experience immediately afterwards. What is a traumatic event for you or today, is not necessarily a traumatic event for me or tomorrow. In essence it is the experience of damage or danger unresolved.
Trauma has two fundamental aspects: the somatic imprint left over from unresolved past experience that constrains both action and perception; and the stories with which they are associated. These stories, including explanations of cause and effect, however insightful, function as displacement techniques. It is the activation of these stories that creates resistance and anxiety.
Any event that is threatening, or even apparently so, can be met and dealt with, or it can produce a dissociation response that obstructs the free flow of Natural Intelligence. This response can be anything from denial to total freeze. Mind turns away from the threat, but body, unable to safely respond, is shocked and locked into a defensive neuromuscular constriction. This defensiveness then colours future experience, not only those that resonate with the originating threat.
To be traumatised is to carry defensive neuromuscular pathways that restrict perception, action and experience, even while no longer threatened. A neuromuscular pathway has both a neurological and a muscular element. The neurological element can only be accessed indirectly, by way of the muscular element. Although trauma always has its somatic imprint, it originates within dissociation from a painful event. This dissociation is a moment of disembodiment. One that takes place even as the traumatising event becomes embodied as defensive neuromuscular tension. To resolve trauma it is not enough to dissolve this tension, and release its neurological underpinnings. Both muscular tension and neurological status must be replaced by new neuromuscular Pathways of Wholeness.
This nine day intensive will teach you a simple, safe and accessible postural sequence that simultaneously softens and dissolves traumatic residue while establishing new Pathways of Wholeness. All of the shapes and movements will be explored independently to clarify their internal dynamics. Their repeated practice will dissolve traumatic residue gradually and without catharsis, releasing body, mind and behaviour from limiting habits of action, perception and relationship.
The course is open to anyone able to walk unaided upstairs, not only those carrying a known trauma. Saturday and Sundays classes will be 16.00-19.30 CET, Monday to Friday 18.00-20.00. All classes will be recorded and available online for two months. Daily practice is recommended for the stable embodiment of Pathways of Wholeness.
Trauma has two fundamental aspects: the somatic imprint left over from unresolved past experience that constrains both action and perception; and the stories with which they are associated. These stories, including explanations of cause and effect, however insightful, function as displacement techniques. It is the activation of these stories that creates resistance and anxiety.
Any event that is threatening, or even apparently so, can be met and dealt with, or it can produce a dissociation response that obstructs the free flow of Natural Intelligence. This response can be anything from denial to total freeze. Mind turns away from the threat, but body, unable to safely respond, is shocked and locked into a defensive neuromuscular constriction. This defensiveness then colours future experience, not only those that resonate with the originating threat.
To be traumatised is to carry defensive neuromuscular pathways that restrict perception, action and experience, even while no longer threatened. A neuromuscular pathway has both a neurological and a muscular element. The neurological element can only be accessed indirectly, by way of the muscular element. Although trauma always has its somatic imprint, it originates within dissociation from a painful event. This dissociation is a moment of disembodiment. One that takes place even as the traumatising event becomes embodied as defensive neuromuscular tension. To resolve trauma it is not enough to dissolve this tension, and release its neurological underpinnings. Both muscular tension and neurological status must be replaced by new neuromuscular Pathways of Wholeness.
This nine day intensive will teach you a simple, safe and accessible postural sequence that simultaneously softens and dissolves traumatic residue while establishing new Pathways of Wholeness. All of the shapes and movements will be explored independently to clarify their internal dynamics. Their repeated practice will dissolve traumatic residue gradually and without catharsis, releasing body, mind and behaviour from limiting habits of action, perception and relationship.
The course is open to anyone able to walk unaided upstairs, not only those carrying a known trauma. Saturday and Sundays classes will be 16.00-19.30 CET, Monday to Friday 18.00-20.00. All classes will be recorded and available online for two months. Daily practice is recommended for the stable embodiment of Pathways of Wholeness.