SOMASOUL : PRACTITIONER

Training Structure

Leven Institute in collaboration with Kripalu Center provides certification as a Leven 1 practitioner in Somatic Expressive Therapy. Completing the 4 modules which include The Expressive Body & The Contemplative Mind, Moving Your Body’s Story, Somatic Healing Process and The Art of Co-Facilitation provides for certification as a Level 1 Practitioner. You may also take single modules that interest you in order to focus on your own personal development or to integrate that module’s material into your current work.

After completing these modules, you may choose to complete level 2 training which includes one 6-day training with emphasis on practicum work with peer clients and supervision. Level 2 training also includes a series of teleclasses and phone mentoring sessions with “practice” clients from your community. Level 2 training is a profound way to apply the principles and skills you learn through the modules at Kripalu Center and deepen your confidence, ease and skill in this work.

Connect Your Personal Growth with Your Professional Development

Unlock the door to your own healing process as you learn to facilitate the healing journey of others with SomaSoul. You will learn art and therapy of attuning to and expressing what lives within that is calling for understanding, expression and integration.

In the SomaSoul: Somatic Expressive Therapy Practitioner Training we synthesize the expressive arts, body awareness and body psychotherapy into an integrative process that helps clients work through challenges and difficulties in their lives that cause pain and tension in the body and mind. You will learn how to facilitate a healing journey that releases tension, enlivens the body and opens the mind to new possibilities.

Expression & Discovery

The expressive arts offer an essential and primary outlet for self-expression and self-discovery in ways that everyday language does not allow. As a vehicle of intuitive exploration, the expressive arts allow for deeper awareness, insights, and feelings.

Awaken Healing

From the field of body psychotherapy, you will gain the knowledge and skill to identify and work with our body-mind defense postures and the wounds they protect. You will learn a methodology of bringing consciousness to our defenses, and healing the wounds, traumas or undigested life experience that lives under our defenses. This healing is accomplished as we learn to bring support to places within that have not known support and as you clear the negative energy around the wound that lives in our unconscious and within our bodies.

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