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About Christine Cole
CHRISTINE COLE, RSMT, THE FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF SOMATIC BODY TRAINING PROGRAM, IS AN EXPERT IN THE EMBODIMENT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. ON THE LEADING EDGE OF RESEARCH ABOUT SOMATIC MOVEMENT EDUCATION AND THERAPY, SHE DISPLAYS A RADICAL TRUST IN EMBODIED EXPERIENCE AS THE PRIMARY WAY FOR GROUPS TO CO-CREATE KNOWLEDGE.
AS A RESULT OF 30 YEARS OF ENGAGING DEEPLY IN LEARNING AND TEACHING THE SOMATIC BODY PRACTICES OF BODY-MIND CENTERING®, DANCE/MOVEMENT, AND BODYWORK, CHRISTINE CLEARLY EMBODIES THE MATERIAL SHE HAS EVOLVED AND MODELS A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE BODY’S SYSTEMS CHANGE IN VARIOUS DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES.
A TEACHER OF BODY-MIND CENTERING®, AND PRACTITIONER OF INTEGRATIVE ACUPRESSURE AND INFINITY HEALING, SHE HAS TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL FOR BODY-MIND CENTERING® IN AMHERST AND AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND, AND RUNS HER OWN TRAININGS IN Moscow, BOSTON, VERMONT, MONTREAL AND NORTHAMPTON, MA. SHE ALSO MAINTAINS A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN DEVELOPMENTAL BODYWORK IN DOWNTOWN NORTHAMPTON, MA. IN ADDITION, CHRISTINE HAS LONG TERM PRACTICES IN CONTACT IMPROVISATION, POST-MODERN AND IMPROVISATIONAL DANCE, AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT, IMPROVISATIONAL THEATER, WRITING AND VOCAL TRAINING.
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EMBODIMENT Of Relationship
Sensory/ Motor Integration, Developmental Movement and the principles of Yield, Push, Reach, Pull are some of the elements to explore in order to gain insight into our own matrix and lovingly become acquainted with our personal patterns, expressions and the emotions that infuse our lives.
Bonding, defending, attachment, safety, protection & restoration in relationship to self & other and environment are significant events, which determine our state of groundedness, creative expression and interaction with the world.
We create safety by learning to bond - our first bonding experience becomes a template for how vibrant, safe and trusting relationships can be.
The principles of Yield, Push, Reach and Pull provide ways for the growing baby to negotiate, adapt and engage with the world. These movement templates are potent tools for coming into relatedness and organizing perception. The roots of our current patterns of relating are mirrors of our early movement organization.
We will address how we create a connection to self, and how to flow from that into relating to outer world and people, while maintaining self. The fluid balance of the autonomic rhythm underlies our higher centers of the Nervous System; the polyvagal system sets our inner tone. When we are not in balance, we are not able to communicate well. This inner flow represents our origins in the oceans and waters, the early systems of information distribution. SomaticBODY uses techniques of movement and embodiment to access these systems. Dance and touch interaction guide us through these principles and allow you to delve into your own personal experience.
Embryology Intensive
Our body begins creating its form during our embryological development. As tissues and structures develop, some remain with us, some are transformed into other structures, and some fade into the background, no longer existing or recognizable as the original structure. As with all development, the original processes have left us with deep-rooted patterns and templates that affect our movement, mind, and spirit. In exploring the embryological developmental process, we discover the primal roots of our structure, perception, presence, and flow.
The workshop is geared towards deepening into various themes of in utero development, and exploring how our cells flow and change to differentiate as we are becoming. It is for movers, dancers, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, and those from other body-mind disciplines interested in unraveling the mystery of embryological development as it relates to cellular consciousness, and movement.
Some of the themes: Fertilization, cellular choicemaking, circulation and heart development, placenta, the three layers of the body, neurulation, kidney development and rotation of the limbs.The workshop will be both meditative, somatic as well as offer times to move/ dance as well as support processes through hands-on touch.Students will have access to an online Embryology guide, to learn about this amazing field before, during and after the workshop. You will also receive some materials and make models.
Introduction to Somatic Embryology - Fertilization
One Cell – Many Cells
Blood and Circulation, Placenta, Vessels
3 Germ layers to body
Notochord - Neurulation
Embryo: Rhythms of movement in Development
Yolk/ Amnion - Autonomic rhythm
Yolk to organs
Limb Rotation
Kidney / Bladder - migrations/ reinventions
Integration / Overview
Developmental Movement Patterns from birth to walking
The Developmental Movement Patterns provide different ways for the growing baby to negotiate and engage with the world. These are basic neurological patterns the baby genetically evolves through, from birth to walking. These movement templates are potent tools for coming into relatedness.
You will be guided through movement patterns and your own personal experience, through dance and touch.
This workshop will study the profound integration of relating and movement patterns: ways to be still and in tune with self, able to interact with others through reach, pull or push. Dancers will have opportunities to examine and expand their movement repertoire advance their Improvisation and Contact skills , Therapists will get more tools to assess and interact their clients in this spectrum, bodyworkers will add in new tools to approach the body in sessions.