This 2-day course charts the progress of emotional release and resolution in the bodywork session. The somatic component of emotional release – shaking, crying, strong emotions – can be scary for some clients – and for some therapists as well.
This course brings a depth of understanding to the inner process of body memories and how overwhelming events can get trapped in the neuro-muscular system. Follow the cycle of charge and discharge in the autonomic nervous system. Learn to track where a client is on this cycle through reading the subtle signs in breathing, skin tone, sweating, pupil dilation, etc.
Become more confident in handling the emotional issues in your practice – not be ‘playing psychotherapist’, but by becoming an observant and knowledgeable guide through the complex valleys of the soma.
Learn the ancient roots of our modern repression of emotions in the autonomic nervous system, and how the ‘fight, flight, or freeze’ process can get unhooked and released for good. Filled with practical information on stress, distress, and how to comfortably and confidently guide a client through somato-emotional release.
The workshop explores many aspects of the Physiology of Emotion through both theory and practical means, including:
– Stress, Eustress, and Distress
– The Autonomic System: Theories Old and New
– Autonomic Tuning
– Man’s Presumptuous Brain: How we stay scared
– The Arc of a session
– Tracking Autonomic Signs in Your Clients
– E-motion – the movement trapped in feeling
– How do kids and animals do it?
…. and more practically-based aspects such as:
– Breath session
– Arc demonstrations
– Tracking Breath
– Tracking skin color, tone, pilo-erector response
– Handling the release
– Following up
Date: Dec 11, 2011 – Dec 12, 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Venue: Tradies, 57 Manchester Road, Gymea NSW 2227
Tuition: $797AUD
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