POLARITIES IN SYNERGY – Somatic Movement Educator/ 250h/ Somatic Institute & ISMETA/ Prague

Polarities in Synergy

Professional training for somatic-movement educators/ 250h

Dates for Prague:

6.-8. March
29.-31. May
2.-4. August
2.-4. October
11.-13. December

What will you learn?

How to use your body as a whole, using an experiential anatomy in movement and meditation practice/ Anatomy Trains

How to use your body freely in its many shapes and forms. We will be using tools from martial arts as Systema, somatic movement oriented dance and Continuum movement

We will learn together how to work with somatic movement principles in rehabilitation of muscles, tissues and bones 

We will explore different tools how to use movement as a mean to get deeper to our psycho-emotional layers 

We will learn how to use touch in therapeutical way

Step by step we will contact our liquid system of our body and we will learn to work with it.

We will explore different ways how to use proces oriented breathwork and movement as 

We will explore our relationship to trauma as our initiation.

Through movement and breath we will explore layers such as Death, Sexuality and Aggression as a basic energies to find more Aliveness, Strength and Assertiveness in our body and breath

We will learn different interventions for working with a group setting or individual setting.

We will establish a basic frame of safe „Set and Setting“ while working with challenging issues

We will learn to work with challenges in order to promote change/. To work with repatterning of tissues (change) we need to work with challenge, too. We will learn how.

You will learn how to be more confident group leader and how to use basic principles and logic to stay creative and playful.

 Notice: It is not going to be always linear process. We will work with all themes and principles right from the start. But through the training we will refine our skills to use them in more detail and see them in the context of individual needs of our client, or group we work with.

 

I. module: „Polarities in synergy“/ Introduction and contract 

Contract: Where do I start, what is my base line and where I would like to go with my practice? What is my basic need to start this training? How I would like to shape my self? My body, emotions, mind and spirit through somatic-movement practice?

„BE CLEAR, GET REAL“ – basic concept of keeping a mindful approach to you practice

Basic questions to form my own practice: 

Where I do feel my strength and where I feel my weaknesses, where I could heal and evolve?

For example: When I going for it too much? And when I have no energy or strength to do what I really want? When I freeze? What I am afraid of? When I fight too much or escape and collapse too much? When I lazy or have resistance to change too much? When I  push my self too much?

How do I see my self in future and how will I use these principles from training in my own practice? And how I use them in my professional practice? What is my hope for my clients? What I would love to teach them?

Theoretical part of training:

And introduction of how to work with polarities in somatic movement practice. 

How to help people to activate themselves or slow them down. How to work with strength and deeper layers relaxation of muscles.

An introduction to Anatomy Trains, fascia and tensegrity of our body

Myofascial lines and why it is such good idea to work with them.

Tensegrity in an experiential anatomy and a relational embodiment. 

Interconnectedness of skin, fascia, muscles and bones in a context of tensegrity

Engaged and disengaged structure. Too tense structure or too loose structure. Balancing both polarities in our muscles and in movement and transition of power. 

Masculine and feminine principle of somatic movement practice.

Oscilation of movement and consciousness.

Relationship as a basic principles of this reality.

Psychology of movement and language of our breath.

Emotional anatomy.

Polarity as a basic principle of creation of form and life itself.

Strengths and weaknesses of both polarities.

 

Practical part of training:

-Learning to embody our deeper somatic resources and safety in our body.

We will learn how to create group practice to work and understand a tensegrity model.

Strong and soft breath. Tensegrity model in context of breath.

Slow and fast movement. A movement psychology and healing/evolutionary potential.

Awareness – one pointed and sweeping concentration. Liquid body awareness.

Tensegrity in context of consciousness.

Linearity and fractality in movement, breath and meditation practice.

Rhythm and pulsation in movement and breath practice.

Oscilation in individual and interactive movement practice.

-Sliding and gliding of fascia and bones.

Process oriented breathwork and bodywork

 

Interaction movement – power transition

Anatomy Trains in interactive movement – from very gentle applications (cranio-sacral practice), to moderate such as massages and strong applications such as martial arts

Biomechanics of interactive movement

Tensegrity and balancing of tonality of movement 

 

Techniques: 

Systema – martial art, natural movement, breath and liquid body principles

Dance – vectors and fractality 

Yoga – yin and yang principles of yoga practice

Cranio-sacral qi-kung – individual and interactive practice

 

Tasks to learn: 

To create strategy of somatic movement practice for yourself 

To create strategy of somatic movement practice for your client and group 

 

Program:

1.day/ Friday:

9:00 – beginning of module

9:00 – 13:00  – theory and practice

13:00 – 15:00 – lunch break

15:00 – 20:00 – theory and practice

 

2. Day/ Saturday:

8:00 – 9:30 – morning practice

9:30 – 10:00 – breakfast and rest

10:00 – 13:00 – theory and practice

13:00 – 15:00 – lunch break

15:00 – 20:00 – theory and practice

 

3. Day/ Sunday:

8:00 – 9:30 – morning practice

9:30 – 10:00 – breakfast and rest

10:00 – 13:00 – theory and practice

13:00 – 15:00 – lunch break

15:00 – 18:00 – theory and practice 

 

Price for one module: 250 euro

 

Accommodation and food: Everyone takes care of it on his own because training will be in the city

To enter the training there is requirement to write motivation letter, personal video call and deposit 500 euro (to pay two modules in advance)

 

Place: Prague (the exact place will be known later)

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Another modules of training will be:

 

II. Energetic presence and Emotional Anatomy

Bodymind concept and understanding of it in somatic movement practice

Inner dialogue and Awareness Positioning Practice

Consciosness as sensory feeling in our body

Sharp, one pointed concentraction and dynamic liquid concentration „sweeping“

Relationship energetic field

Holding the space for each other

Facilitation of more difficult processes 

Death, Sexuality, Aggression and Aliveness, Eros and Assertiveness in movement and breath practice

 

III. Deep Front Line and gravitation

Movement practice with a deep front myofascial line

Standing – fractality of movement. 

Walking – power transition and biomechanics of movement

Relaxation of muscles while walking

Energetic work with deeper layers of our body

 

IV. Nerovus system and deep reset

Liquid body practice for selfregulation as well as co-regulation 

Sound as a tool for opening up the space of tissues and bones

Breath as tool to self-navigate through the practice – Language of Breath

Using touch as a medicine

 

V. Integration module

In this module we will integrate the whole year into our personal practice and proces

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2. Year

VI. Proces Breath & Bodywork 

Set & Setting

Learning how to work with process oriented approach to breath and bodywork

Fascia, breath and body memory

Systema – movement and breath

Learning to contact liquid body and how to work with it

Useful ways of amplification of energy (Holotropic Breathwork approach, martial arts, dynamic dance and fitness training as a tool to work with energy)

Gentle and deep meditative practices of working with difficult layers of our being (Continuum Movement, Vipassana)

 

VII. Somatic Gym & Dancing Warrior

Apllication of myofascial lines in gym training, yoga, massage, cranio, continuum or meditation. From Yang to Yin.

Archetypes of traditional cultures in movement practice/ the Warrior, the Healer, the Visonary and the Teacher/ Angeles Arrien

Virtue and moral compass in meditation & movement practice – Taoism, Buddhism, Stoicism, Yoga, …

Agression, assertiveness and passivity in movement

Finding our own tendencies and balancing them

 

VIII. Liquid body system and cranio-sacral qigong

Cranio-sacral practice in personal and interactive practice

Autocranio practice in selfcare, ying yoga and meditation

Fractal breath and movement in dance and fitness practice

Fascial system and liquid body

Self-organizing principle of oru body and self-healing potential of body

Different therapeutical interventions 

 

IX. Linearity of movement, fractality and energetic presence in deeper somatic movement process

Vectors and their movement /dance applications 

Psychology of linear movement

Movement jnteraction using linear movement 

Working with boundaries

Liquid body in interaction 

Energetic presense in movemnt and gravitational field practice

Vipassana meditation

 

X. Certification module

Integration, feedbacks and creation of future strategy of somatic-movement practice