When: One day workshop:  date to be agreed upon by participants

Where: 440 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME

Cost: $100.00

Skillfully applied touch lets you work directly with subtle interactions among systems in the body (nervous, endocrine, organs, muscular-skeletal).  This workshop will help you develop skills for sensing and differentiating layers and structures in the body – toward helping settle and re-integrate systems that are out of regulation. Bodyworkers, body-oriented psychotherapists, physical therapists, nurses, yoga and other practitioners interested in deepening “embodiment” practices will appreciate the dimension this work can add to their practice. Even if you don’t use touch in your work, these skills will inform and deepen the way you experience yourself and those with whom you work.

Sensing layers in the body:

• Skin
• Fat
• Fascia
• Muscle
• Bone

Sensing fluids:

• Cellular fluids
• Blood
• Lymph

Settling the body:

• Kidney-adrenal (endocrine)
• Viscera

Discussion Topics

• How touch heals
• Non-touch visualizations
• Stress and the body

if you are interested in learning more about somatic touch or this workshop please email or call me at 329-3566. 

A workshop for therapists on working with the body in psychotherpy will be coming in the early new year.

Below is an excerpt of a flyer I am about to distribute when perfected: 

What is somatic therapy?

Somatic therapy works directly with the subtle, barely-conscious, sensations that are the live functioning of the body. The human nervous system, to say a truism, is aware of itself; and with a little further shift of attention toward the body, it is possible for a person to become significantly more self-aware.

Why should I try it?

With increased awareness of the body, comes a perspective shift. When you react automatically, but are at the same time aware of it, it becomes easier to manage unwanted behavior and to create new. You may become less attached to your own position on things, which gives you an opportunity to reflect, and possibly change.