Curriculum

Integral Somatic Psychology Professional Training

The ISP Professional Training is a premium somatic training consisting of three 4-day training modules.

Each morning starts with a lecture involving theory followed by guided experiential exercises of gross or physical and subtle or energy methods for expanding and regulating the body while accessing and embodying emotions.

After lunch, there is a live demonstration of the practice of emotions, the core clinical strategy in ISP, with a class participant focused on the methods learned in the morning.

You will then be able to practice the new material during clinical practice sessions with other participants under the supervision of a mentor.

ISP incorporates all of our bodies: Our individual gross or physical body, our individual subtle or energy body, our changing collective body of the universe, and our unchanging collective body of pure awareness that is the basis of all of our bodies.

Therefore, it offers a more complete and more effective somatic approach than other somatic modalities that are limited to just one of our four bodies, namely our individual gross or physical body.

Module 1

In this first module of the training, we will learn the science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior, different types of emotions and defenses against them, and the four steps of the practice of emotional embodiment, to improve diverse outcomes and treatment times in all therapies.

We will also learn how we can facilitate greater embodiment of emotional experiences through the physiology of the muscles of the arms, legs, face, throat, and neck in the individual gross or physical body.

In addition, we will begin to learn about the four bodies we have, two individual and two collective bodies, and how we can use them all in our work to improve diverse outcomes and reduce treatment times in all therapies through the practice of embodying emotions.

Specifically, in module one, we will begin to learn how to work with two layers of elements of the individual subtle body or energy body, the layer of the ether element from the throat chakra and the layer of the air element from the heart chakra.

Course Content:

1. 1. The science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior
   2. The four steps of the practice of embodying emotions
   3. The 7-Step Protocol for working with emotions when affect tolerance is low and/or physiological dysregulation is high
   4. Different types of emotional experiences
   5. Different types of defenses against emotional experiences in the individual gross or physical body
   6. The role of the muscular system in generating and defending against emotional experience in the individual gross or physical body
   7. Clinical strategies for working with the arm and leg muscles in the individual gross or physical body for accessing and embodying emotions
   8. Clinical strategies for working with the face, throat, and neck muscles in the individual gross or physical body for accessing and embodying emotions
   9. The introduction to the model of the psyche in ISP with four bodies, two at the individual level and two at the collective level
   10. The role of two layers of elements of the individual subtle body in emotional experience, the layer of the ether element from the throat chakra and the layer of the air element from the heart chakra
   11. How defenses against emotions can form in the layers of ether and air elements in the individual subtle or energy body
   12. Clinical strategies for working with the layers of the ether and air elements in the individual subtle or energy body to improve the practice of embodying emotions.