SomatoEmotional Release Training

SomatoEmotional Release I

Course Length: 4 days

Advanced preparation: Successful completion of CranioSacral Therapy II workshop. You should review Dr John Upledger’s textbook CranioSacral Therapy II, Beyond the Dura and read SomatoEmotional Release and Beyond.

Programme Highlights

· Techniques for releasing the vocal apparatus - to aid expression
  and release of suppressed emotion.
· Introduction to the idea and use of therapeutic imagery.
· Integration of imagery and dialogue techniques with the process
  of SomatoEmotional Release.
· Introduction to vector/axis integration and alignment.

SomatoEmotional Release is a therapeutic process that helps rid the mind and body of residual effects of past trauma and associated negative emotional experiences, thereby supplementing the practice of CranioSacral Therapy and advancing and expanding its usefulness.

You will gain specific techniques for energy cyst and SomatoEmotional Release. Such releases are often necessary in order to enable many people to let go of the deepest causes of pain and illness. They enable the application of CranioSacral Therapy to be utilized by the sufferer at the deeper levels. By achieving improved listening and comprehension skills you will have increased understanding of verbal and non-verbal signals. This will be a means to encourage clients/patients to work co-operatively with you in improving health.

SomatoEmotional Release II

Course Length: 4 days

Advanced preparation: Successful completion of SomatoEmotional Release® I workshop. You should review SomatoEmotional Release and Beyond by Dr John Upledger and read Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury. Dr Upledger recommends you also read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and The Triumph of the Embryo by Lewis Wolpert.

Programme Highlights

· The history, key concepts and therapeutic process.
· Review of throat and hard palate techniques for releasing vocal apparatus.
· Methods for inviting a solicited image, maintaining an unsolicited
  image and discovering an image’s purpose.
· Exercises in active imagination, archetypes, self awareness
  and dialogue and facilitated imagery.

In this workshop SomatoEmotional Release (SER) techniques are integrated with various creative and dialoguing methods. The emphasis is on wholeness and self healing. The goal is a comfortable holistic mind-body approach to the resolution of problems and obstacles related to patient/client progress and growth.

The class begins with a review of the techniques for releasing the throat and hard palate taught in CranioSacral Therapy (CST) II. This technique is used to encourage expression and release of suppressed emotion, followed by an introduction to Psychosynthesis, Gestalt and Jungian psychology.

By blending concepts from three schools of psychology with SER and CST, the therapist learns specific techniques to help their patients increase awareness of the ‘inner self’. Class exercises are designed to strengthen the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious mind in order to increase self awareness.

The SomatoEmotional Release process requires extreme sensitivity on the part of the therapist and a positive attitude and trust from the patient. The SER II course gives you a greater insight into your patient’s issues and specific techniques to fine tune your dialoguing skills.