- Sensory Experiencing: Touch & Trauma
Module 6 with Jane Okondo
Trauma held within the body can affect a person's ability to function with ease and regulation. Touch-based work supports skill development and listening for the resolution of trauma held within the tissues of the body.
We will explore different ways of bringing touch and relationship to establish a new somatic ground and coherency, such that unconscious behavioral responses are held and a new self awareness arises.
What does this workshop focus on?
Jane Okondo’s protocol for working hands-on with trauma comes from her background as a Biodynamic Cranial Sacral therapist, her teaching Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, her work with Somatic Experiencing (R), and the touch skills for trauma with Kathy Kain and Dr. Aline La Pierre with NeuroAffective Touch (R). We will also draw from Stephen Porge's Polyvagal theory to integrate the developmental and relational work needed for trauma hands on work.
Over this module the focus of the hands-on work will be through the lense of the nervous system, whilst also learning to recognize which system(s) of the body and relational field holds interruptions, trauma and/or dysregulation.
The verbal skills that accompany this work are a vital part of the practice and allow for a depth and safety of practice. Also it is important to mention that this particular way of working with trauma also supports and helps to integrate other bodywork and hands-on practices that a therapist uses in their work.
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
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Module 4 | Mar 06-09, 2025 | Cells & body systems | BMC® | IBMT with Odile Seitz-Walser
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Module 5 | Jun 05-08, 2025 | Experiential Breath related to Middendorf with Hiltrud Lampe
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Module 6 | Sep 30 - Oct 05, 2025 | Sensory Experiencing: Trauma & Touch with Jane Okondo
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Module 1 | tba 2026 | Resetting the Nervous System - how stress and trauma differ - with Dynamic Embodiment® Touch and Movement with Dr. Martha Eddy
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Module 2 | tba 2026 | Faszia balancing and standing upright | Rolfing® Methode with Dr. Adjo Zorn prozess-oriented Rolfing® with focussing on these quastions:
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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?
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
Jane Okondo
www.continuumteachers.com
MA, RSME/T, a London based somatic movement artist, continuum teacher, biodynamic Cranio Sacral therapist
She has been in the field of healing arts for 30 years - a Continuum teacher, Biodynamic Cranio Sacral therapist with Somatic Experiencing being integrated into her practice. She is on the faculty of the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy training which is based in the UK, Lithuania and Russia, and currently on the board of ISMETA. Her work very influenced in her participation in the Discipline of Authentic movement and is based on the principal of 'listening' as the access to supporting presence and wellbeing. She loves being and moving in nature as a natural counterpoint for being a long term Londoner.
Sensory Experiencing: Touch & Trauma
Sep. 30 2025 – Oct. 5 2025
Kosten
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 750.00 EUR
This module is part of the continuing education Somatic Hands On. It is seperatly bookable as well: