SOMATOMY™ Module 2
Made up of 5 two-hour sessions starting Saturday, May 15th at 12:00-14:00 EST and continuing every Saturday at the same time, until the last session on Saturday, June 12th, 2021.
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 is when your mind’s awareness is connected with your body’s movements and sensory experience united with your full presence as you interact with your world.
Week 1. Saturday, May 15: 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 out resistance to this playful form.
Week 2. Saturday, May 22: 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. Saturday, May 29: 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. Saturday, June 5: 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. Saturday, June 12: 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 .
$180-205 CDN {sliding scale} for all five classes.
This is an ongoing closed group.
Module 2 will be followed by Module 3.
*Instead of PayPal, Canadian participants can E-Transfer Erik Iversen to erik@iversen.ca