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The Aliveness Intensive Specialty

“As adults living in a society that has sacrificed the intuitive right brain in favor of the rational, we suffer all sorts of mind-induced illness. The enormous energetic power that is available to us through the world of the subconscious—our dreams, senses, images, movements and sound—is repressed and held in a variety of mass-induced illnesses, addiction, violence and pornography. Repression of whole-body expression limits our ability to access the fullness of our soul-based truth. Imagine an ocean of creative life-force with nowhere to go—all squeezed and scrunched into the tiniest filter of rational thought, and we end up with a vast reservoir of life-energy turned inward on itself in negative self-hatred.” Jane Latimer


The purpose of the Aliveness Intensive Module is to unravel the limited ego-mind of conditioned personality in order to free the creative life-force as it moves through the body. This process of liberating somatic soul is facilitated through the use of pre-symbolic and symbolic modalities such as movement, sound and rhythm, drama, poetry and the visual arts especially selected to deepen the practitioner’s awareness of somatic experience and expression.


As blocks to a strong body-felt experience of Self are revealed and inhibitions and repressed feeling states arise, the practitioner learns how to capture these potentially transformational moments for the strengthening of client embodiment and fulfillment. This aspect of the training is the culmination of a year of deep somatic exploration, in which students are asked to leave all their previous learning and expectations behind as they enter into a world of unknown possibility.  Students will discover an expanded range of creative expression, and leave with enhanced ability to open and receive life on life’s terms, to become a guide for clients as they travel into vast repressed areas of subconscious energy, and to stand powerfully in the Presence of their own authentic nature. 


Students are availed of two of the following 4-day retreats held in Portland, OR.  (For certification, attendance at a minimum of two retreats is required. Proficiency is determined on a case by case basis.)


Dates
April 4-7, 2008
June 6-9, 2008
August, 15-18, 2008
November, 7-10, 2008

Curriculum (The Aliveness Specialty)


Working with Pre-Symbolic States of Consciousness for Healing Disconnection
Experiencing the Somatic Soul
Spontaneity as a Therapeutic Tool
The Healing Power of Play
The Use of Expressive Arts for Releasing Subconscious Repressed Energy
Utilizing Sound and Movement to Ground, Discharge and Contain Energy
Energetic Boundaries
Holding Presence in Group Process
Empowering Group Members
Establishing Safety in a Group
The Experience of Trust
Expanding Somatic Aliveness
Allowing, Trusting and Following Group Process
Thinking on Your Feet