Trauma-Informed Training
LIBERATE: A Method To Somatic Freedom
Emotions need to be recognized, felt, and given space to move and morph.
Often when intense or uncomfortable emotions that evoke pain are experienced, the tendency to fix, adjust, and recalibrate arises in order to bring back a sense of normalcy.
What if the norm is no longer serving and the experience of pain itself keeps attempting to show you a different way? A better way.
The repetitive, rhythmic, and enticing ways of your pain are often shut out, shut down, or altogether shut off out of fear of change, of growing up and out of old ways of connecting to your world. And yet this pain could be our only teacher in the ways of resilience, safety, and true belonging.
Liberate: A Method To Somatic Freedom is a body-centered trauma-informed training that explores just this. The training takes a deeper dive into the human experience, offering tools and techniques to overcome dysfunctional patterning held in the nervous system, the tissues, and the Spirit.
Throughout six comprehensive modules, the neurological, psychological, social, and spiritual effects of trauma will be investigated through the theoretical perspectives of the Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, Labanian Movement Methodology, Jungian psychology, in addition to Runic and Buddhist psychology. Through a combination of introspective and cathartic movement practices complemented by didactic instruction, the wisdom of symptoms that were once unconscious now light the path to your liberation and healing.
This is an invitation into the realm of your shadow, meaning that which you have dismissed about your past, your purpose, and yourself. This is an invitation to embark on a supported journey from light to dark in sanctioning what you fear. In the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, no mud, no lotus; your liberation lies here.
Our time together will be involved, raw, and unveiling. Come prepared to move and be moved.
Content
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Training is facilitated by Lauren Hutchings, Yoga Teacher, Certified Traumatologist, Canadian Certified Counsellor, and founder of the teachings of Liberate: A Method To Somatic Freedom.
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The training is divided into six separate modules.
Each module includes 15 hours of in-class experiential and didactic coursework, totalling 90 hours. Additionally, hard copies of the course content will be provided for each module to make up a take-home training manual for future reference.
Material will not be printed for online offerings.
Modules 1-4 are not required to be completed in sequential order. However, the completion of Modules 1-4 is necessary to be considered for Modules 5 and 6. Modules 5 and 6 must be completed in sequence.
Upon completion of each module, candidates will receive a signed certificate of completion.
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IN-PERSON DATES 2023
Module 2 - JUNE 23-25, 2023
Time Commitment:
Friday 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (3hrs)
Saturday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (1 hr lunch) (6 hrs)
Sunday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (1 hr lunch) (6 hrs)
Module 3 - JULY 21-23, 2023
Time Commitment:
Friday 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (3hrs)
Saturday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (1 hr lunch) (6 hrs)
Sunday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (1 hr lunch) (6 hrs) -
Location for all in-person trainings will take place at YOGA SANTOSHA MISSION, and will implement local health service protocols to mitigate risk of COVID-19.
Yoga Santosha Mission
1800 4 St SW, #320
Calgary, AB T2S 2S5
All virtual options take place via live meetings hosted through ZOOM.
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This training is suitable for teachers, mental health providers, and anyone who is interested in personal exploration and growth. This training is for you to nourish your personal practice and professional client base.
Modules 1-4 are not required to be completed in sequential order. However, the completion of Modules 1-4 is necessary to be considered for Modules 5 and 6. Modules 5 and 6 must be completed in sequence.
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To save your spot, complete the form below REGISTER NOW and provide the deposit amount.
Investment
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Non-refundable deposit:
$111 + GST
The deposit is in addition to the investment below and is required to hold your spot.
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Remainder of a single module:
$333 + GST
Payments are due 1-week before the commencement of each module.
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No refunds will be provided with the purchase of the deposit and/or tuition payment.
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Curriculum
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AWARENESS | attend + attune |
Pay attention and attune to the intra and interpersonal relationships within your life.
OVERVIEW:
| Autonomic and Somatic nervous systems: experience of the nerve engagement in each system
| Identification into patterns of thought and how their meaning influences relationship.
| Exploration of compensatory and signature movement patterns
| Kinesthetic Empathy: dyads, miming and mimicking practices
| TWO guided movement practicesDescription text goes here
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VOICE | listen + express |
Find your authentic voice in the fosterage of unapologetic self-expression, and capacity to actively listen.
OVERVIEW:
| Aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication
| Physiology and production of sound and vocalization
| Breath and its relationship to expression and regulation of the nervous system
| Tibetan Buddhist Seed Sounds
| Miming and mimicking
| TWO guided movement practices
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BODY | touch + nurture |
Acknowledgment and renewal of personal boundaries in the creation of self-agency, safety, and security.
OVERVIEW:
| Your Self-Concept
| Integration through relationship to body
| Attachment Theory: intra and interpersonal experience of each type
| Boundaries: psychological concept to fruition
| TWO guided movement practices
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CONNECTION | explore + experience |
Learn and understand how to harness emotion and behaviour.
OVERVIEW:
| Exploration of our body stories
| Laban Movement Theory: use of the Kinesphere and the efforts
| Principles of Bodyfulness and embodiment
| The Triune Brain and Polyvagal Theory, and its approach to trauma in the body
| Neurogenic Tremoring
| TWO guided movement practices
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DIRECTION | empower + manifest |
Understand and learn how to bring potential to fruition.
OVERVIEW:
| Remittance + Release: Liberate incantations & associated movement
| Manifestation: Runic alchemy & psychology, and incantations with associated movement
| Meet Your Monster: get to know your shadow and learn to use its symptoms as an ingredient to heal
| Body Stories: Intention, desired direction and curation of your personal somatic experience
| TWO guided movement practices
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TRUTH | trust + teach |
The realization of internal freedom.
OVERVIEW:
| Reversion and relapse management
| Creation of a daily practice (Sadhana)
| Individual guided peer presentations of personal movement practice
| Group peer critiques
| Certificates
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