Rainstick Technique
Caryn Scotto d'Luzia shares a short video teaching the AST Model® Rainstick Technique that she developed to juice up and balance our autonomic nervous system. Once you experience the benefits of this intriguing process, feel free to use it with your clients.
The Problem with Embodied Research
By Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD
Back in 2011 when I began to recruit participants for my doctoral dissertation on therapists’ experience of intuition in the...
Rubenfeld Synergy Certification Training Program
The Ilana Rubenfeld Foundation (TIRF) is offering a comprehensive, 3-year
certification training program. Synergists-in-training will learn and practice the art and skills of a proven and
effective healing modality that powerfully combines respectful, listening touch with verbal processing.
‘Moving Into Meaning’
Moving into Meaning is Al Pesso’s chapter for ‘What Sustains Me’. It is a collaborative book. Each chapter is written by a different author, stands on its own, and is released independently. When all chapters are ready, the book will be published as a regular book as well as an e-book. The central question in this project is: What sustains you? More specifically: What gives you a sense of peace, meaning and purpose in everyday life? What keeps you going when times are tough? What gives you the strength to face moments of crisis or despair? The book’s topic could be described as an ‘existential quest’ or a ‘spiritual quest’.
Eros, Gender and Sexuality in Body Psychotherapy and Dance Movement Psychotherapy
A call for papers on Eros, Gender and Sexuality in Body Psychotherapy and Dance Movement Psychotherapy, due December 1, 2017.
Inside Shame Transformation: The Importance of Being Rescued and How that Allows Shame to...
In my experience, although chronic shame resolution work involves slow, incremental shifts, when very deep early needs for external protection are finally met, it can shift the very foundation of someone’s experience in a profoundly curative way.
Inside Shame Transformation: On Not Naming Shame
Working with many cultures around the world, where verbalizing one’s thoughts is less important or even shameful than it is in the West, has taught me that naming shame is not always crucial to its resolution. In fact, it is not even one of the 10 Milestones of shame transformation according to AST Model®.
Inside Shame Transformation: Interoception and Physio Markers
Have you ever noticed feeling unsettled when a perfectly safe person, be it a colleague, a recent acquaintance, perhaps even your mailman stands close to you? There’s nothing specific to connect the feelings with, just a sense of discomfort, tension, awkwardness. Maybe you feel queasy or shaky, maybe a strong urge to run away over takes you but there’s no logical reason why. Rest assured, you’re not alone.
Body Psychotherapy Case Studies: A New Collection of 15 Body Psychotherapy Case Studies
Body Psychotherapy case studies: A new collection of 15 Body Psychotherapy Case Studies. Contributors include: Stanley Keleman, Sladjana Djordjevic, Christina Bader Johannson, Courtenay Young, Herbert Grassman, Zoe Schillat, Bernhard Schlage, Galit Serebrenick-Hai, Russell Rose, Jacqueline Carleton, Laura Steckler & Ulrich Sollmann (with Wentian Li); as well as other informational material.
Inside Shame Transformation: Election Thoughts
When we are on the receiving end of projected shame, blame or guilt, it can cause us to feel so demoralized that we don’t want to accept it. We want to project this shame or blame OUT to almost anywhere we aren’t.