100 HR ECOSOMATIC EMBODIMENT PRACTITIONER TRAINING 

Living more fully in our bodies can help us answer many of our questions regarding how to live responsibly with and on the earth.

This training is about embodiment, the human being at home, each of us in our own body.
To be present in our body is a form of awareness, and it is a first step toward being kind to ourselves and other beings, humans and non humans. In coming into our body we become connected to our greater home, the earth, we become a part of the earth and she a part of us.

What is out there is in us and what is in us is out there. The patterns that organize our own body are also found in the other organisms who are our evolutionary kin and in the living earth itself.

Embodiment is our original nature. Animals, everybody is fully embodied possibly all the time, certaintly most of the time. The tree is just moment to moment embodying its flow, there is no pause, interruption, truncation. We start at a pretty young age to interrupt our flow. It does not take many years for an infant to learn what behaviors are and arent welcome from their environment. We are being socialized from day one.

Our frontal lobes have taken over in the last several years. Our behaviors are being most prescribe by social norms and less engendered from our own bodily experiences.

Imagine. What it would feel like to dive below your social conditioning and express embodiment as it arises without this social conditioning in your body right now? This body, this sensations, no rules. Conscious or unconscious rules.

Learning is simoultaneously a leap into the new and strange and also a return to what we already know deeply.

This training is an invitation to return to our source and remember ourselves along the way.
We need to rediscover connection, connection of all kinds. To the earth beneath our firmly planted feet. To the parts of our psyches that we have allowed to become alienated, the parts that need quiet and reflection and the constant brush of the natural world that we actually evolved over long time to enjoy. The deep connection to deep satisfaction.

EcoSomatics is about relationship, about noticing and live patterns of interconnectedness, is about deepening our relationship with our body and it’s rhythms and the rhythms of the natural world. One of the intentions as we heighten sensual awareness of the environment and track our perceptual biases, is to expand our ability to respond, our response-ability, and ultimately to recognize ourselves as active participants of the world.

We ask ourselves. How best to live on this world?

By focusing on our human bodies as the vehicle through which we experience ourselves and the world around us, we learn to value the earth equally to the self.

Thus the perspective is both human-centered and earth-centered. The body and the earth are complex and profoundly interconnected entities develop through billions of years of evolutionary process. Our task is to develop a dialogue with this inherent intelligence to learn to attend. By enhancing active awareness of our bodies and the places we live, we deepen our engagement in the intricate and delightful universe we inhabit.

During this 15 day immersion we will be diving into direct experience of anatomical body systems and the weave of relationships between these and the earth. Visiting places in nature in KiekariTerra and around in order to open our senses to the natural world and recognize the experience at hand as the primary resource for learning.

In this training we learn through both objective study and subjective experience, attempting to create an integrated balance between the two, although we will be placing more emphasis on the subjective and experiential aspects of learning, because our culture tends to attribute greater value to (relatively) objective and scientific knowledge. Working in this way, we learn to trust in the value of our own knowing.

The work we will be doing here is also about learning how we learn, how we access information, make transitions from one state to another, and develop the awareness of this process. It is an approach based on direct experience and observation, where the facilitator´s own awareness and embodied experience is an essential tool in the educational, therapeutic or healing work.

Many of us have been conditioned from an early age to deny the feeling and expresiveness of our bodies. Much of our energy and aliveness is then inhibited, and we also lose access to the knowledge and wisdom that the body holds. Often we feel cut off, disassociated from our physical body, which can lead to sensations of ungroundedness, tension or weakness, discomfort, pain and lack of real and vital contact with our environment. These sensations will also be reflected in our psychological states and the health of our bodies.

EcoSomatic Embodiment Training offers a gently come back home into the body and earth and to reexperience the harmonious integration of sensation, feeling, mind and spirit that is ours by nature. We learn to listen to the body through quiet sensing work, our breath, and the use of guided imagery, and to let its wisdom guide us in an exploration of our needs. We learn to trust the body and its intuitive knowledge. Through focused touch and sensitively guided movement, areas of tension and blockage can be released and the core of inner support and strength can be reexperienced.