Relational Somatics explores the use of the relationship between bodyworker and client as a central healing tool. Through touch, verbal enhancement, love, humor, courage, therapeutic challenges, stories, song, movement and case studies, we will journey to those places in the soul that we can legitimately go to together. A therapeutic process of 1.) Connecting 2.) Accessing 3.) Externalizing (Releasing) and 4.) Integrating (Internalizing) will be developed along with its necessary questions of intimacy, parallel process, boundaries (& dual relationships), transference and counter-transference.

Additionally we will explore: working with trauma and post-traumatic stress as manifested in the body-soul. We will utilize the principles of structural work and deep tissue sculpting with fascial stretching and holding; creative approaches to working with armoring and defending in our clients; and working alliances with allied health professionals.

Certificate Course Requirements
150 Clock Hours

Prerequisites: Students must meet all general admission requirements. In addition, students are required to have successfully completed the Contemporary Methods (A & B) courses, as well as Communications I: Client Centered Techniques and Principles of Structural Integration. Courses must be taken in the order indicated. Each Course taken will count toward only one specialization.

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