From the Ryokan Catalogue Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
course for psychotherapists at Ryokan,
we have long supported the notion of the mind-body connection
and have a number of classes that teach this in depth. Ryokan
instructors Johnny Seitz and Dr.
Adam Sheck are offering a Continuing Education Unit (CEU)
course for psychotherapists (and students as well) this fall
which will go deeper into this concept, using Johnny's theory
of Bio-Typing which presents a model for using this mind-body
connection psychotherapeutically.
In the work of psychotherapy and healing, our work is supporting
our clients in connecting to themselves and to their psyches,
so that they can gain the freedom to express themselves more
fully in life. Most psychotherapy is "talk therapy,"
where psychotherapist and patient sit and commune primarily
through the medium of speaking and listening. We know and
teach here at Ryokan about the mind-body connection that is
so critical to wholeness and health. Empirical research is
validating this millennia-old concept more and more.
"Reading The Body For Therapeutic Applications / a simplified
look at the functional human anatomy" is an extremely
practical guide to reading the traumas, the blocks and the
tensions that are present in the client's body so that you
can understand what the client most wants and needs to deal
with even if the client is not conscious of these things.
It looks in depth at the information available to a therapist
about the physical and emotional history that can be seen
in the body of a client if you know enough about anatomy and
can use this knowledge to read the body.
This course explores the anatomy of the body in a way that
makes the human anatomy and it's psychological implications
extremely accessible to anyone.
The anatomy of the mind is the primary subject of psychology
but the body offers so much information and its anatomy is
so rarely addressed in the schools of psychology. This course
is a profoundly useable introduction to what the body is showing
the therapist. A client's breathing can tell us about their
thoughts and feelings but first we must come to appreciate
the actual mechanics of breathing. Muscle innervations such
as the chronic tension in the diaphragm or the throat can
be present. Or muscle tensions that occur but are inappropriate
to the moment are never random; they are in fact, extremely
specific to subconscious impulses. Often the impulses to hide,
to run, to express anger are so subtle that neither the client
nor the therapist are aware of them but they could tell us
so much that would be useful in helping the client and the
therapist.
This course is a cutting edge theoretical and practical approach
to working with this mind-body connection. Its model utilizes
the circular causality between the development of the mind
and the body. It studies the basic muscle recruitment patterns
that develop within the infant/child, the choices of muscles
that they use in evolving their style of breathing, have moving,
of learning to walk.
These "choices" are influenced by the child's temperament,
by their evolving personality, by their relationship with
their primary relationships and how they experience their
life through their body. And conversely, based upon these
inner self-concepts, their physiology will develop.
Johnny Seitz has also published a book "Bio-Typing:
Beyond Body Language". Please contact
Johnny Seitz for more information on Bio-Typing, the CEU
course, and the text. |