SOMATOMY™ Module 2
Made up of 5 two-hour sessions starting Thursday Jan 4th 2024 and continuing Tuesday Jan. 9th at 1:00-3:00 EST and Thursday, jan. 11th, Tuesday, Jan 16th until the last session on Thursday, Jan 18th at the same time,
Module 2 illuminates five more sessions integrated with the 5Rhythms exploring intimacy, ease, and flow. The obstacles to these being discomforts, stress, and distraction. Fear rests at the root of these obstacles. This next layer of discovering/uncovering the art of presence empowers each of us to go deeper towards an “archeological dig into frozen history” as Reich said.
On my personal continuing journey of awakening, by melting the armor of my generational character shapes I started to feel the distance I placed between myself and the people I love. With new awareness and acceptance of my sensitivity and vulnerability, I began to notice a layer of protection. This manifested as an increase in rigidity {or tissue density the opposite of fluidity} and as a limited range of motion that rippled out especially in my hips and my shoulder girdle. Also, injuries and scar tissue created compensations and blocked feelings.
These insulated parts of my body protected me from giving and receiving love fully. On another level, this deep core fear of love and intimacy had been cultivated from family conditioning from who knows how far back.
The integration of Somatomy evolves through bringing your attention to sensing your physiology, connecting your mind and body, and opening the space between stimulus and response. Body intelligence emerges when your mind’s awareness is connected with your body’s movements and your sensory experience unite with your full presence as you interact with your world.
Week 1. Thursday Jan 4th: Developmental Movement: Patterns and Progressions from birth to 2 years old - Fish, snake, reptile, monkey, bear. Re-wiring our nervous system and being curious about our personal blind spots or our resistance to this playful form.
Week 2. Tuesday Jan 9th: Developmental Movement: contacting the ground and feeling gravity from different levels and positions. The second of two sessions focusing on experiencing the primary human movement patterns that relate directly to the development of the brain. Experiencing breathing patterns from many different body positions.
Week 3. Thursday Jan 11th :Lining Up: Dancing with function and structure. What part of the different joints of each persons body moves easily or not at all. Which part of structure is leading my dance, my walk.Relationship of core to sleeve and the planes of movement. Brain Gym, New Choice.
Week 4. Tuesday Jan 16th : WalktoDance: walking from the mid-line, the center. Many shapes of the walk from the center and the psoas, ankles, and hips shaping our walk. Agility, responsiveness, and decisive moves.
Week 5. Thursday Jan 18th: Meeting Places: energetic and fascial meeting places and power centers. Sacral fulcrum, occiput, solar plexus, dorsal hinge, plantar fascia, hip trochanter. Panoramic and open vision.
In all Modules the common thread is PLAY: Including Expression, Dance, 5Rhythms, Touch, Self Healing .
This is an ongoing closed group.
Somatomy Modules 1, 2, 0r 3 can attended in any order.
$245 CAD for all five classes.