SomaSoul®
SomaSoul® : Somatic Expressive Therapy
synthesizes 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.
Unlock the door to your own healing process as you learn to facilitate the healing journey of others with SomaSoul®. You will learn the art and therapy of attuning to and expressing what lives within – that is calling for understanding, expression and integration. Connect your personal growth with your professional development, by becoming a SomaSoul® practitioner.
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.
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.
Level One Module Descriptions
You may work towards certification, or 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.
View the calendar page for more information about upcoming trainings.
The Expressive Body & The Contemplative MindThis workshop strengthens the bridge between the observing mind and the feeling body so that we can be mindful of our body-centered emotions, allow ourselves to experience them with compassionate connection in order to heal and transform whatever our body is holding that feels difficult or painful.
In this workshop you will:
• Steady your mind through body-based meditations that focus on all levels of experience; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
• Discover your body’s truth through your heart’s wisdom and your gut’s instinct
• Feel more alive through expressive movement that emerges from our emotional brain, which is body centered, nonverbal communication
• Get to know and heal your psyche that lives in your body through SomaSoul’s expressive arts processes that focus on body sensations.
Moving Your Body's StoryOur brilliant nervous systems record our life stories in our brain and body. Joyful experiences fuel our body’s aliveness; painful experiences express as chronic tension, pain or collapse. This workshop will help you discover your body’s story.
The program includes:
• Access greater body energy through expressive movement explorations focusing on heart, legs, pelvis, guts, and spine
• Experience the deepest reservoirs of emotion and energy through somatic/visceral movement exercises
• Rewrite elements of your body’s story, from tension and pain to freedom and healing
• Transform limiting beliefs through a dynamic expressive arts process
Using SomaSoul’s unique integration of body awareness, expressive arts, and therapeutic dialogue, you unravel and heal physical tensions, reveal unconscious beliefs and body memories, and open to greater aliveness and life expression.
Somatic Healing ProcessWe all have defenses, which block the full aliveness of our bodies and yet historically have served us as original sources of protection. In this workshop, we will recognize, transform and heal these psycho-physical defenses that are experienced as body tensions and energy imbalances and which protect the emotional wounds that still live within our bodies.
In this workshop, you learn to:
• Utilize mindfulness of the body and the expressive arts to help unearth psycho-physical defenses.
• Bring compassion to our defenses as original sources of protection and work with body-centered visualizations to offer healthier protections that allow for mind-body release of our tensions.
• Experience body-centered emotions as they are felt within the body’s organs and work with these visceral reactions
• Heal the wounds of unsupported emotional experience through bringing light, energy and healing into the body where these wounds have been located within our body’s tissues and organs.
• Transform destructive self-talk or sabotaging “inner voices” into the raw material for personal power.
SomaSoul Facilitation: the Art of BeingFor people who have attended at least one other SomaSoul Training module in the past 12 months.
SomaSoul: Somatic Expressive Therapy is a mind-body healing modality that works with the psychology and soul of our body. We work with opening the limitations of our embodied beliefs as well as supporting and healing the depths of emotion living within our body.
SomaSoul integrates the depths of Body-Centered Gestalt Psychotherapy with the heart of spiritual practice and the freedom of the expressive arts.
This workshop teaches you how to facilitate a SomaSoul session. You will learn the heart of healing in SomaSoul through practicing the art of being, the art of sensing and the art of doing. Enjoy learning to:
- Be with the totality of another person’s body-mind experience through accessing the intuition of your heart’s wisdom and your gut’s instincts.
- Sense the unhealed wounds of your client’s life that lives within their body as well as the tensions of their defenses that protect these wounds, in order to facilitate the depths of healing.
- Do the creative and healing facilitation exercises through dyads that provides the focus and structure for your SomaSoul sessions including imagery exercises, expressive arts processes, and therapeutic dialogue.
The skills, principles, and core intentions presented here can be applied to bring body-centered and creative-based processing into a wide range of healing work.
Level one training also requires a personal development distance mentorship taken following each module to enhance learning and integration.
Level Two Training
The Level Two training is made up of three components: Self-Study, Practice and Integration. The components can be taken in any order or all at the same time. Overall, it generally takes 1-2 years to complete the full course of level two study. Each program can stand alone as a course of study, or combined, serve to complete the SomaSoul® Training, allowing for full certification as a SomaSoul® Practitioner.
