Who is this for? 

For people who have a client and group practice and are interested in integrating somatic and movement approaches to working with trauma. This includes for example, counsellors and psychotherapists, movement facilitators / educators, bodywork practitioners

Description of training

Somatic movement approach to healing trauma / soma-informed trauma education.

We offer non-linear, non-power based models of learning and support co-creative models in circle to help cohorts feel confident to meet and work with those who struggle with trauma.

Style of training

We are developing a soma focused training where we teach in a circle format. We offer explorations and learning that can be applied to your own practice.  Holding and listening to where there is health as we meet the experience of trauma. 

Inquiring through the body and somatic movement. Exploring embodiment, we hold an open inquiry in relationship. Looking at where is the ground of support?

As an open inquiry, the training will continue to evolve and be shaped by the cohort that gathers.

To have a sense of the way in which we offer our teaching, we draw from our teaching and practices. These include the Discipline of Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering®, Continuum and Yoga. We also are bringing in our private practice work and experience of working with clients both as Somatic Movement Therapists and also as Somatic Experiencing ® and NARM (Neuro Affective Relational Model).

How Life Moves foundation module 

Our approach is to work in ‘circle’ formation, with a co-creative foundation, exploring how to meet trauma from a somatic movement approach. 

We will enter through our somatic ground and what this means for each of us. We do this by developing our direct experience of sensation, affect, somatic awareness, micro and macro movement. Giving space to connect to our own experience and following this with reflection and seminar time to deepen the learning.

In this foundation we set into our ground circle practices:

• Orientation. Exploring practices that support our ability to orient through soma, awareness and movement.

• Regulation. Tasting regulation and discovering what this looks like for each person and how this can be applied to ourselves and our client work.

• Containment, grounding and flow. How this relates to coherency and the relationship between different body systems. Cellular presence.

• Practices to deepen our ability to be with ourselves and others. Finding our anchors. Cellular consciousness. Witness presence.

• Support cohorts to feel confident to meet and work with individuals who struggle with trauma

• Movement practices
  

Schedule and Cost of training:

Foundation one: Online

Weekend: 1st & 2nd  May 2021 

Times: 13.00 -18.00 UK / 14.00 - 19.00 Europe / 16.00-21.00 Moscow / 8.00-13.00 NY 

Follow up evening sessions: 18 May, 15 June, 6 July 2021 - 6-7.30pm each evening

Cost: £290.00 

Foundation two: Online 

Weekend: 11th & 12th September 2021

Times: 13.00 -18.00 UK / 14.00 - 19.00 Europe / 16.00-21.00 Moscow / 8.00-13.00 NY 

Follow up evening sessions: tbc - 6-7.30pm each evening

Soma-Trauma Education will offer a series of trainings based on various inquiries and themes. The foundation is the entry place, and then after this we hold the training as a series of inquiries. Each foundation will explore the same ground of practice and as each time we layer the experience it establishes a clear connection to the work.

Offering an on-going accumulative experience that integrates and can be applied in your work with others. Our intention is that through the training you on-goingly embody the practices to expand your existing way of working with others. 

Ongoing training:

Three day: tbc January 2022 - 3 days + 2 follow up evening sessions

Three day: tbc May 2022 - 3 days + 2 follow up evening sessions

Offering an on-going accumulative experience that integrates and can be applied in your work with others. Our intention is that through the training you ongoingly embody the practices to expand your existing way of working with others. 

Jane Okondo

Jane Okondo has a private practice in somatic movement therapy and Somatic Experiencing ®. She is also on faculty for Diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, teaching in the UK, Vilnius and Moscow and on faculty at the Karuna Institute for Continuum Flow mentoring retreats.

She offers groups and retreats in the Discipline of Authentic Movement and Continuum and has a particular interest in integrating Somatic Movement approaches to working with trauma and runs workshops in this subject.

Aki Omori

Aki Omori is a Body-Mind Centering ® teacher / practitioner and faculty member. She is an elected board member of the Body-Mind Centering ® Association. She has a Diploma with Integrative Bodywork Movement Therapy and is a Certified practitioner of Neuro Affective Relational Model.

She runs an annual residential professional training called ‘Nourishment and Depletion’ which explores the nervous system and human perception from developmental perspectives and teaches on several yoga teachers training programs. Her particular interest is in developmental movement as it informs about each and every person and about humanity, culture and society.