Somatic Therapy 101 - Core Tools for Body Based Healing
$447 USD $217
Sale Ends Feb 24th
On-Demand Course Length: 8 Hours
This course introduces core principles and skills of a somatic approach to growth and transformation. Topics include sensory awareness, embodied meaning-making, nonverbal communication, and working with movement impulses. Participants will develop key practitioner capacities such as staying in direct experience, tracking movement, practicing kinesthetic empathy, and finding embodied integrity. Through experiential exercises, participants will embody the material and develop foundational skills, then learn strategies for integrating this approach into their professional practice.
ADD TO CARTABOUT THIS COURSE
This course introduces the key principles, concepts, and skills that underlie a somatic approach to growth and transformation. Topics include:
- sensory awareness as a foundational capacity for self-knowledge and emotional literacy
- embodied meaning-making
- understanding nonverbal communication
- working with movement impulses
- integrating embodied experience with action
Participants will also be introduced to key practitioner capacities, including staying in direct experience, oscillating attention, tracking micro and macro movement, practicing kinesthetic empathy, expanding somatic bandwidth, and finding one’s own embodied integrity as a practitioner.
Experiential components will allow participants to try on the material in their own bodies to deepen comprehension and develop initial skills. From there, the course will focus on strategies for integrating a somatic approach into an existing professional practice.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS
DR. CHRISTINE CALDWELL
Christine Caldwell is the founder of and professor emeritus in the Somatic Counseling Program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She lectures and trains internationally, and has authored four books: Getting Our Bodies Back, Getting In Touch, The Body and Oppression, and Bodyfulness. She offers trainings in somatic psychotherapy, with specializations in addictions, play behavior, movement sequencing, therapist training, scientific inquiry, and bodily authority.
Website: www.themovingcycle.com
DR. RAE JOHNSON
RAE JOHNSON, PhD, RSMT, BCC (they/them) is a board-certified coach, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working at the intersections of embodiment and social justice. Rae is a professor of somatic psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and played a key role in developing the first Embodied Social Justice Certificate, an online program that brought together hundreds of thought leaders, practitioners, and community change agents to help shape the emerging field of embodied social justice. Rae is the author of several books, including Embodied Social Justice (Routledge, 2018) and Embodied Activism (North Atlantic Books, 2023). You can find them online at www.raejohnsonsomatic.com and on Instagram @dr_rae_johnson
What Customers Are Saying
Jamie L.
"A transformative journey into embodied skills. I feel more connected, attentive, and effective in my work."
Alex R.
"This course profoundly enhanced my professional practice and personal awareness. The experiential focus made learning somatics accessible and meaningful."
Morgan S.
"Practical and deeply enriching! I've seamlessly integrated these somatic techniques into my daily life and practice."
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