Awakened Body Certificate Program

Only gaining recognition within the last few decades, somatics is helping to resolve the fragmentation among different forms of knowledge – between theory and practice, education and environment, aesthetics and healing, art creation and performance, experience and reflection, and so on. This allows for a dynamic interconnectedness between the personal and collective strata of our shared embodiment.

The philosophy and practices of somatics are some of today’s most popular healing methodologies in trauma treatment, chronic illness, pain management, and addiction recovery.

These practices have spanned generations of practitioners and lineages, whose multidisciplinary influences include not only contemplative psychologies and philosophies, but psychoanalysis, dance, bodywork, gymnastics, massage and many more.

Our “Awakened Body” program is an innovative program that for the first time gives access to the teachings and philosophical foundations of somatic systems of theory and practice that have been often hidden behind trademarks and obfuscation. This highly curated program brings some of the leading experts directly to you at home.

The philosophical notion of “soma” integrates two dimensions of mind and body as the animate or “ensouled” body. One of the principal axioms of somatics is that human subjectivity and experience—psyche—is embodied. Indeed, human experience is mediated through the body, and the human self is constituted by bodily experience, or—in other words—the sense of self is emergent out of a—however indirectly, dimly, or clearly perceived—body-based consciousness. It is this irreducible notion of our embodiment that is central to the healing systems of somatic therapies that have spanned multiple generations of practitioners.

Identify the transformative capacities of depth psychologies and embodied healing traditions from ancient philosophies to contemporary somatic healing models.
Engage with contemplative mindbody techniques, holistic personal inquiry methods, embodied relational mindfulness skills, and somatic movement practices.
Learn internal and external processes for improved relational attunement and connection with self and others through relational, social, ecological, and spiritual psychologies.
Develop an intersectional lens for working within a liberation model of mental health promotion.

Deconstruct the psychophysiological, and contemporary psychoanalytic theories in multidisciplinary mindbody healing practices.
Become a part of an international community of integrative somatic practitioners.
Identify methods of personal transformation and liberation to help yourself and others connect to their somatosensory experience.
Guide yourself and others in mitigating internalized systems of oppression.
Learn to speak the language of the body, the unconscious, through explorations of the mythosymbolic, the preverbal, and the archetypal.
Learn to awaken the unconscious potential of your body through intensive study, contemplative writing, and community.

The philosophy and practices of somatics are some of today’s most popular healing methodologies in trauma treatment, chronic illness, pain management, and addiction recovery. These practices have spanned generations of practitioners and lineages, whose multidisciplinary influences include not only contemplative psychologies and philosophies, but psychoanalysis, dance, bodywork, gymnastics, massage and many more.

This program distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as Social Workers, Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors, Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers, Movement Therapists, Coaches, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Emergency Medical Personnel, Meditation Teachers, Educators, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Body Workers, Hypnotherapists, Kinesiologists, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, Other Wellness Professionals.

The program assumes a good deal of in and out-of-class experience in serious sensory self-exploration, effective communication, expressive movement, tracking of personal and interpersonal process, and individual somatic practice. It also builds on the Human Development, Psychodynamics, Movement, and dialectical communication processes.