Mapping the Soma: Grounded Tools for Pain, Interoception & Motor Learning
Learn powerful techniques in sensory and symbolic cues that help somatic practitioners attune, regulate and transform embodied experience.
when and where
Aug 24, 2024, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Good Shepherd Center, Suite 300, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103, USA
about the event
Pain regulation, motor learning, emotional homecoming, creative insight -- these are all reasons to tune into bodily experience.
But somatic practitioners know that simply amplifying the senses is not enough: We need to build a map to journey into ourselves, to regulate and eventually challenge ourselves to grow. Once created, a map lets us come to a safe and generative relationship with ourselves and others.
In this unique 4-hour experiential workshop -- takeable online or in-person -- bodyworkers, psychotherapists, mindfulness teachers, and therapeutic movement specialists will gain powerful skills for applying multisensory imagery and metaphor to facilitate healing and transformation. Drawing upon insights from neuroscience, phenomenology, and somatic movement therapies, we will investigate how the brain constructs embodied experience and how that experience can be modulated and transformed. Through a dynamic mix of lecture, discussion, and guided exercises, we'll build a framework for using embodied imagery effectively and ethically.
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