Sources
Influences
Most of my influences on my somatic practice and teaching have come from my coach, Dr. Vanissar Tarakali (www.vanissar.com). I wholeheartedly recommend all of her blog and her work with individuals, groups and organizations. If you do read or share her blog entries, please do support her as an independent scholar, healer and coach by contributing to the PayPal listed on her blog page.
I am not personally affiliated with the following three organizations, but their approaches and offerings have informed my own practice and ministry.
Generative Somatics (gs) is an organization that links the process of somatic transformation and social justice movements. Generative somatic approaches are the embodied healing practices that connect closely to my own viewpoints as a Unitarian Universalist minister, as a social justice organizer and in my own healing.
The Strozzi Institute has a 45-year history of training leaders, coaches and business executives in somatic practices, connecting our intentions with our bodies to meet our goals through presence and action. The founder, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, along with other members of the teaching staff and graduates, have been offering free opportunities for embodied practices to members of the public in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staci Hines, co-founder of Generative Somatics, is the Director of Methodology at Strozzi Institute.
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine is online educational programming for helping professionals in trauma, brain science, mindfulness and mind/body medicine. They have a wonderful blog, videos, short courses, and infographics.
Books on Somatics
Staci Haines and Ai-Jen Poo. The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2019.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler. The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, WIsdom and Compassion.Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2014.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler. The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life’s Transitions, second edition.Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1997.
Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain. Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Most of my influences on my somatic practice and teaching have come from my coach, Dr. Vanissar Tarakali (www.vanissar.com). I wholeheartedly recommend all of her blog and her work with individuals, groups and organizations. If you do read or share her blog entries, please do support her as an independent scholar, healer and coach by contributing to the PayPal listed on her blog page.
I am not personally affiliated with the following three organizations, but their approaches and offerings have informed my own practice and ministry.
Generative Somatics (gs) is an organization that links the process of somatic transformation and social justice movements. Generative somatic approaches are the embodied healing practices that connect closely to my own viewpoints as a Unitarian Universalist minister, as a social justice organizer and in my own healing.
The Strozzi Institute has a 45-year history of training leaders, coaches and business executives in somatic practices, connecting our intentions with our bodies to meet our goals through presence and action. The founder, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, along with other members of the teaching staff and graduates, have been offering free opportunities for embodied practices to members of the public in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staci Hines, co-founder of Generative Somatics, is the Director of Methodology at Strozzi Institute.
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine is online educational programming for helping professionals in trauma, brain science, mindfulness and mind/body medicine. They have a wonderful blog, videos, short courses, and infographics.
Books on Somatics
Staci Haines and Ai-Jen Poo. The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2019.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler. The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, WIsdom and Compassion.Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2014.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler. The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life’s Transitions, second edition.Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1997.
Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Clare Pain. Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.