Resetting the Nervous System with Dynamic Embodiment® Touch and Movement

- Resetting the Nervous System with Dynamic Embodiment® Touch and Movement

Module 2 with Dr. Martha Eddy

We explore how stress and trauma differ, yet are related and how our bodies can help us perceive what state we’re in. Learn to recognize subtle triggers and larger pressures on the Stress-to-Trauma Continuum using sophisticated hands-on strategies for activating diverse body systems and rhythms (using Body-Mind Centering®, Dynamic Embodiment® and BodyMind Dancing). Cranio-Sacral and other physiological rhythms can be engaged to support resilient responses. Learn bodily skills to balance the nervous system enough for safety and to help you find physiological calm.

What does the module focus on?

Learn to recognize subtle triggers and larger pressures on the Stress-to-Trauma Continuum. This view answers how stress and trauma differ and yet are related. Using movement and hands-on touch we explore how our bodies help us perceive what state we’re in. Cranio-Sacral and other physiological rhythms can be engaged to support resilient responses to tough decisions and situations.

Part of the module time will be discerning with observation and intuition, what you can control and what you need to let go of. A goal is to look into the future without fear. Practice grounding, centering and setting boundaries. Learn the bodily skills to balance the nervous system enough for safety and to help you find physiological calm. At least 50% of class time will be dedicated to Eddy's Dynamics of Touch- exploring sophisticated hands-on strategies for activating diverse body systems (as taught in Body-Mind Centering®) and rhythms as developed in Dynamic Embodiment® and BodyMind Dancing.

  • The vagus nerve’s role in determining our psychological and emotional states — and how a myriad of common psychological and physical symptoms, from anxiety and depression to migraines and back pain, link back to issues with peri-vagal nerve connections.
  • Homeostasis (maintaining body systems such as blood pH or body temperature) and allostasis (maintaining stability through altering physiologic parameters to counteract changing dynamics)
  • Movement’s role in stress and stress management, including the positive use of reflexive responses
  • Dissipating stressors with return to the breath and imagery strategies
  • Guided movement practices where you embody boundaries with your lymph, muscles, and gaze, strengthening your ability to act for change.

Ausführliche Seminarinformationen

What is HANDS ON about?

In keeping with the integrative and interdisciplinary approach of the Somatic Academy, in this training we give a focus to various individual somatic treatment approaches.

Often Somatic Methods impart their knowledge in the context of movement and sensory education classes or group instruction. In doing so, some methods have also developed a large treatment vocabulary for one-on-one sessions.

Each module and the method(s) it contains has its own focus. Direct, sensing and 'listening' touch play a central role. The numerous, concrete skills and techniques that are taught meet the conscious participation of the recipient. The experience of being touched and being treated thus intertwine in individual somatic work. They are interdependent and thus become more deeply effective for the person being treated - as well as a source for personal learning and change through the felt body.

Methods

1. Rolfing®
2. Funktional Integration - Feldenkrais
3. Body Mind Centering®
4. Elements of Embryology
5. Elements of Cranio Sacral Therapy
6. Elements of Laban/Bartenieff
7. Breath Dialogue - Middendorf
8. NeuroAffective Touch
9. Sensory Experiencing

Curriculum

At any time it is possible to participate and entry to the complete training, because all modules are repeated cyclically.

Module 3

Dec 12-15, 2024 | Functional Integration | Feldenkrais Methode with Bernhard Mumm

  • Self-exploration, partner work, being moved and moving, exploring qualities of touch, living anatomy
  • Through touch and movement, givers and receivers sense movement patterns and limitations together
  • Discover previously unused movement potential and playfully expand the range of motion

Module 4

Mar 06-09, 2025 | Cells & body systems | BMC® | IBMT with Odile Seitz-Walser

  • Dialogue between the body, sensations, emotions, thoughts and experiences at the tissue and cellular level, both in the hands of the practitioner and in the body-mind of the client
  • A journey into the unknown, into the self-organizing forces of the thinking, feeling, expressing and living body, the soma
  • A journey into the past knowledge and experience of embryology and development

Module 5

Jun 05-08, 2025 | Experiential Breath related to Middendorf with Hiltrud Lampe

  • Breath moves the whole body when we are permeable to the movement of breath
  • "breath conversations", perceiving vibrations of the breath in the body.
  • Permeability for the breath can grow and the feeling for space and one's own rhythm can flourish, also being touched, strength and serenity can come along.
  • Introduction to feelings, trust and encounter - because breath connects

Module 6

Sep 30 - Oct 05, 2025 | Sensory Experiencing: Trauma & Touch with Jane Okondo

  • Touch-based work supports skill development and listening to resolve trauma stored in body tissues
  • Exploring different ways to combine touch and relationship to create a new somatic base and coherence so that unconscious behavioral responses are held and a new sense of self emerges

Module 1

tba 2026 | Resetting the Nervous System - how stress and trauma differ - with Dynamic Embodiment® Touch and Movement with Dr. Martha Eddy

  • Make contact with the CranioSacral rhythm and CerebroSpinal fluid and apply to other tissues - organs, muscles, bones, some of the senses and some of the various circulating fluids of the body
  • Phrasing touch using the Dynamic Embodiment approach that begins with CranioSacral HarmonicsTM as the foundation for deep access to each tissue type of the body's various physiological systems

Module 2

tba 2026 | Faszia balancing and standing upright | Rolfing® Methode with Dr. Adjo Zorn

prozess-oriented Rolfing® with focussing on these quastions:

  • What constitutes an upright posture? Is it innate or can it be learned?
  • Can you influence another person's posture with your own hands?
  • Is it even possible to maintain good posture throughout the day?
  • What role do fasciae play in an upright posture?
  • Do the fasciae work properly for me?
  • How can I improve their condition "from the inside"?
  • Can I influence the fascia of another person with my hands?

 

What will the Continuing Education Somatic Hands on enable to do?

It allows you to grow your expereinces and know how with a broad spectrum of methods, their strengths, effects, similarities, complements, differences and limitations. Of course, each individual method has more knowledge to offer. This training provides an overview, imparts basic knowledge and inspires an inter-disciplinary way of working. Each module teaches and concludes with a treatment sequence that addresses the entire body.

For whom is this program?

This program is for lay people, somatic professionals, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers, creatives - anyone who wants to experience and learn about the powerful impact attentive touch has on the emotional and physical wellbeing.

The entire training is certified by the Somatic Academy Berlin. All modules can be booked separately. It is recommended to receive and to give a minimum of 4 treatments after participating. 

 

Seminarleiter*innen

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Dr. Martha Eddy


www.DrMarthaEddy.com

Regisrtered Somatic Movement Therapist and Founding Director of Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Therapy (DE-SMTT)

Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Author, Founding Director of Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Therapy (DE-SMTT) and international speaker on Health, Wellness, and Trauma Recovery through activating the BodyMind connection. Martha has been working with children and adults in private practice and in schools and organizations for over 40 years.  She has used her years of experience certifying professionals in Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Body-Mind Centering® to shape new curricula in dance and movement repatterning and coaching. She blends these in her own system now called Dynamic Embodiment, helping people to bring calm and healing to the nervous system, as well as to spark creative and just action every day.  Post 9/11 she helped navigate body-based trauma relief for educators, parents, children and First Responders at Ground Zero/NYC and with the International Red Cross.  Her somatic dance and fitness curricula include BodyMind DancingTM and Moving For Life Dance Exercise for Health® - certification programs.  The classes can be found for free online. 

Anmeldeinformationen

Zeiten
10:00am-05:30pm
Veranstaltungsort
Berlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
Berlin
Preise
  • Full Price: 590.00 EUR
Zahlung Banküberweisung, PayPal
Hinweise

This module is part of the continuing education Somatic Hands On. It is seperatly bookable as well:

SOMATIC HANDS ON - Resetting the Nervous System with Dynamic Embodiment® Touch and Movement

4-day workshop with Martha Eddy
EN+DE | Sep 5, 2024 – Sep 8, 2024
 
 

Lehrer

Dr. Martha Eddy

Daten & Kosten

KursspracheEN
Kurskosten
  • Full Price 590.00 EUR
ZahlungBanküberweisung, PayPal
VeranstaltungsortBerlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
Berlin