The Jigsaw Puzzle of Trauma and Healing: Karin Spitfire
The experience of trauma affects everything. Over the last 45 years, I have worked with the effects of trauma from a somatic point of view. Healing from trauma is non-linear, multi-dimensional. We can’t leave out the soul, the political context, the relational, the big feelings, the shame, or the generational. But everything is connected to everything; no matter where we begin, we get somewhere, and the next move/issue will show itself.
In this session, I invite you to raise questions about all of it: from where to start, how to listen, nervous system reversals, grounding, soul retrieval, polyvagal theory, mental health diagnosis, inner child work, symptoms management, addiction, co-dependency, re-enactment, triggers, how to separate the cranial rhythm from the breath, integrity, self-disclosure, when to push, when to hold, etc.
The Touching Performance – an Invitation to Bodymindful Presence and Shared Responsibility for What Emerges: Zrinka Šimičić Mihanovic
This presentation explores the intersections of artistic and educational approaches to working with the body and movement, emphasizing their potential for empowerment, transformation, and a felt sense of connection with oneself, others, and the world. The Touching Performance is an experiential, participatory, and site-responsive intermedia artwork created in collaboration with visual artist Marina Bauer, inspired by author’s somatic practice and study of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®).
Awareness as a Motor Act: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
The traditional science of movement approaches the sensation of movement as a feedback system. Our motor acts create a sensory response.
Awareness practice reverses this process. Our awareness creates a motor response.
In this workshop we will explore underlying principles concerning these two processes and the interaction between cognitive and cellular consciousness.