Somatic Ignition - Working with the Extremities

This level of training focuses on the development of the upper extremities and the heart plus the lower extremities and the abdomen. Somatic ignition will be covered in detail as it relates to the influence of the autonomic nervous system in shaping of the fluid body. The contemporary client frequently carries shock and trauma from their pre and perinatal history. This level will detail how the fluid body and soma responds to shock and trauma with stillness. Specific skills will be taught within a biodynamic context to contain and transform a clients’ trauma story via the biodynamic process of somatic ignition. The specific skill called the first breath introduced earlier in the training will be deepened as a way of integrating Primary Respiration with diaphragmatic breathing. The intention is to normalize dissociation and relate the client to the natural world. This is the next part in the sequence of birth ignition introduced in the preceding level. The client- therapist relationship will be reframed in the developmental context of both the embryo – placenta metabolism and the infant – mother physiology.

Learning Goals:

• Palpate Primary Respiration in the fluid-tissue interface of the soma.

• Completion of the analysis and experience of the metabolic fields of the embryo.

• Understand the relationship of normal dissociation to the Dynamic Stillness in the fluid body.