Embodied Presence:

Participant Outcomes

Participants will:

• deepen proprioception, interoception, and neuroception, body based awareness through hands on work, and inner sensing
• develop body reading and body tracking skills
• have a sense of their own and other’s personal alignment and habitual holding patterns
• engage in and explore different body systems and experience their support in our sequencing of emotive states
• tune in to the emotional tone of sensation and the physiological signature of the primary emotions
• try somatic interventions and hands on work with one another that can be applied in their own practice
• balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems states for emergent process, find relaxed alertness, learn active and receptive restoration of traumatised responses
• understand the clinical implications of sensorimotor and body-mind processes for assessment and treatment

Part 1 – Sessions One to Four

Session One:
Ways into the Body: Embodied Intelligence – rhythms, textures, expressions and resources.
Session Two:
Structural Support: Skeletal Alignment and Grounding
Session Three:
Muscular Vitality: Action, Agency, Vitality and Adaptive Posture
Developmental Movement Patterns: Basic Actions of Contact
Session Four:
Fluid Presence: Movement of Affect, Emotional Transitions, Expression in Rhythms and Cycles

Part 2 – Sessions Five to Eight

Session Five:
Autonomic Nervous System: Arousal Regulation, Restoration, Repair and Engagement
Session Six:
Endocrine Organisation: Neurochemical Communication and Balance, Energy and Imagination
Session Seven:
Skin, Senses, Breath, Visceral Support and Resonance
Session Eight:
Review of all systems, check out, Closing Ritual.