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Integral Somatic Psychology
ISP Professional Training, Chicago, IL
$2,685.00 — or $240.00 / month for 12 months
Dr. Raja Selvam
Full Tuition $2,685 (save $195) Or $240/month for 12 months
72 Hours of In-Person Training
In-Person Demonstration Sessions
Daily Supervised Practice Sessions
To know you’re doing it right
Lifetime Access to the Recordings
Certification ProgramISP Professional Training, Chicago, IL
A Capstone Training to Improve the Effectiveness of All Modalities in Your Toolkit
Dr. Raja SelvamTRAINING DATES
M1 September 11-14, 2025
M2 March 20-23, 2026
M3 September 18-21, 2026
Become a More Effective Therapist Doing Deeper Transformational Work With Your Clients
The ISP™ Professional Training is a 12-day Capstone Training in three four-day modules offering a more complete and effective somatic approach for improving the effectiveness of all therapy modalities in your toolkit.
When you complete the ISP Professional Training, you will have more confidence to do deep transformational work with your clients, have more satisfaction, less burnout, better outcomes, and shorter treatment times in your practice.
ISP is not a new therapy modality; it is a new approach for improving the effectiveness of all modalities in your toolkit
Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™) is based on the latest neuroscientific understanding of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior from the West, and the most comprehensive understanding of the multiple bodies that contribute to our experiences from the East.
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 effective somatic approach than other somatic modalities that are limited to just one of our four bodies, our physical body, known as the individual gross body in the East.
As seen in the international bestseller The Practice of Embodying Emotions
Learn to Overcome the One-Body Error in Therapy
All somatic psychology approaches have contributed to significant improvements in therapy. Such improvements can be predicted because modern neuroscience has established that cognition, emotion, and behavior depend not only on our brain but also on our body and the environment, not just in traumatic experiences but in every experience in every moment of our lives.
Yet, body psychotherapies err in the assumption that we have only one body: The one that gets conceived in a womb and is laid to rest in a tomb. This assumption is based on science limiting reality only to things that can be perceived or measured in the physical realm.
Eastern Psychology has long established that our body consists of four levels: Two at the individual level and two at the collective level. They are the individual gross or physical body, the individual subtle or energy body, the changing collective body of the universe, and the unchanging collective body of pure awareness, the basis of all the bodies that remains unaffected by any. Neuroscience and quantum physics are now corroborating these long-standing findings by Eastern phenomenologists.
Each of these four levels contributes to all of our experiences and to their regulation. Each of these levels is, therefore, crucial for our clients’ profound transformation in therapy.
Limiting our focus solely to the physical body undermines the effectiveness of our work, as we are dealing with only one-quarter of the deck.
This is what I call the One-Body Error: When we limit ourselves to a one-body somatic approach, we limit our clients’ and our capacity for deep transformation.
ISP Professional Training: A 12-Day Capstone Training and Experiential Program
Integral Somatic Psychology™ offers a neuroscience-backed, emotion-focused, and body-based as well as energy-based approach for improving treatment times and diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities. We accomplish this through the practice of embodying emotions.
The practice of embodying emotions is the conscious expansion of emotional experience to as much of the body as possible, to make emotional experiences more tolerable to be with, so that the brain has more time to optimally process the situation cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally.
The practice of embodying emotions is based on a number of recent findings in cognitive and affective neuroscience, including the very important finding that the more the body is blocked from being involved in emotional experience, the more difficulty the brain has in processing the situation, not only emotionally but also cognitively and behaviorally.
To access, expand and regulate emotion in the physical body, ISP uses Western Osteopathic techniques for working with the physical body as well as Eastern subtle body energy techniques for working with our multiple bodies, individual and collective.
By working with all four levels of the body, ISP also helps you overcome the One-Body Error that limits the effectiveness of most, if not all, therapeutic modalities. Additionally, it integrates all approaches you have learned: somatic, energetic, psychological, and spiritual.
Each of these four levels contributes to all of our experiences and to their regulation, including emotion. Each of these levels is, therefore, crucial for our clients’ profound transformation.
The 12-day ISP Professional Training is taught in three modules with daily supervised practice sessions to ensure you know you’re doing it right.
Therapists who have taken this capstone training say it is the crown jewel of all somatic psychology approaches.
Transform Your Clinical Practice with the ISP Professional Training
- Improve your treatment times
- Improve diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities in your toolkit, including all body psychotherapy approaches
- Develop a deep and multi-layered self-understanding of yourselves
- and your clients
- Start working with a comprehensive model of the psyche to integrate all somatic, energetic, psychological, and spiritual approaches you are trained in.
ISP is not a new therapy modality; it’s a new approach to improving the effectiveness of all modalities in your toolkit
How to Become a Certified ISP Practitioner
How to get your certificate: Complete the in-person or live online ISP Professional Training, 6 hours of personal sessions, and 6 hours of case consultations from approved ISP providers.
Is this for you? Let’s find out…
- Do you want to know the deeper levels of yourself as your multiple bodies?
- Do you want to learn how that can help you in facilitating quicker transformation in yourself and your clients?
- Are you interested in the scientific basis for the deeper levels of yourself beyond your physical body?
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- Do you want to know why therapies that work only with the physical body are inherently limited in their effectiveness?
- Do you want to learn a science-backed, emotion-focused, and multi-body somatic method for improving treatment times and diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities?
- Do you want to learn a state-of-the-art approach for building resilience in yourself and your clients through creating a greater capacity for the ups and downs of life?
- And why such resilience is a must for physical and psychological health as well as psychological maturity and spiritual growth?
- Do you want a model of the psyche that can help you integrate all somatic, energy, psychological, and spiritual approaches you have learned so far?
- Do you desire to expedite your spiritual or religious practice?
- Do you want to help yourself and your clients to access and maintain peace within, regardless of circumstance?
If your answer is a yes to any or all of the above questions, look no further. The ISP Professional Training is the right training for you.
Who this training is NOT for
- You never feel stuck with your clients
- You never doubt yourself
- You’re just looking for new tips and tricks
- You are averse to engaging yourself and your clients in the suffering necessary for healing.
About Faculty
Raja Selvam, PhD
Dr. Raja Selvam, a licensed clinical psychologist from the United States, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™) and the author of The practice of embodying emotions: A method for improving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes in 12 languages.
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Dr. Selvam is also a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) professional trauma training program. He has taught in over two dozen countries on six continents for nearly thirty years. His work is inspired by Jungian and archetypal psychologies, Kleinian and intersubjective schools of psychoanalysis, Reichan and Neo-Reichian body psychotherapy approaches such as Bioenergetics, Bodynamic Somatic Developmental Psychology from Denmark, and Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), affective neuroscience, quantum physics, yoga, Polarity Therapy, and Advaita Vedanta (a spiritual psychology from India).
Training Information
Integral Somatic Psychology™ is unique among existing somatic psychology or body psychotherapy approaches in two important ways.
One is that it offers a neuroscience-backed, body-based, and emotion-focused method for improving treatment times and diverse outcomes (somatic, energetic, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, and spiritual outcomes) in all therapy modalities, including all body psychotherapy and somatic psychology approaches.
ISP accomplishes this through the practice of embodying emotions.
The practice of embodying emotions is the conscious expansion of emotional experience to as much of the brain and physical body as possible, giving the brain the time required to process the situation cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally.
This is predicted by the research paradigm of embodied emotions in cognitive and affective neurosciences, and by a number of other recent scientific research findings in what can collectively be called the science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior.
Two, ISP has a unique advantage over most if not all, somatic psychology and body psychotherapy approaches that suffer from what can be termed as the one-body error and problem that limits their effectiveness.
Psychotherapy approaches that do not work with the body suffer from the no-body problem because they overlook the overwhelming modern evidence that cognition, emotion, and behavior depend not only on the brain but also on the body and the environment.
On the other hand, Somatic psychology approaches err in assuming that we have only one body: The one that gets conceived in a womb and is laid to rest in a tomb. This follows from science limiting reality only to things that can be perceived or measured despite the obvious fact that our ability to measure reality is quite limited.
Eastern Psychology, based on refined Eastern phenomenology, has long established that our body consists of four levels: Two at the individual level and two at the collective level. They are the individual gross body, the individual subtle body, the changing collective body of the universe, and its paradoxical basis of the unchanging collective body of pure awareness.
Each of these four levels contributes to all of our experiences and to their regulation. Each of these levels is, therefore, crucial for our clients’ profound transformation.
To access, expand and regulate emotion in the physical body, ISP uses Western Osteopathic techniques for working with the physical body as well as Eastern subtle body techniques for working with our multiple bodies, individual and collective.
Each day starts at 9:30 am and ends at 6:00 pm, with a 1:00 – 2:30 pm lunch break (but we may break earlier at times).
Staybridge Suites Chicago O’Hare – Rosemont.
6600 Mannheim Rd
Rosemont, IL 60018
Visit the hotel website for bookings.
Free continental breakfast, rooms have a private kitchenette, and restaurants are within walking distance.
The hotel charges a parking fee of $18/day. The fee may be subject to change.
The hotel is ADA-compliant.
A limited number of partial scholarships may be available for this ISP Professional Training location. Please contact your training coordinator if you’d like to apply for a scholarship.
All students will receive access to the recordings. Students who need to miss a module can catch up by video.
If you have questions about the training or the training location, please get in touch with Donna Amstutz by email.
1. If an applicant is denied access to the training for any reason, a full refund will be issued.
2. If the training is canceled by Integral Somatic Psychology, a full refund will be issued.
3. If a training module is rescheduled, tuition will be transferred to the rescheduled training
or another location. No refund will be issued.
4. If a student cancels a training at least 21 days prior to a training module, a full refund will be issued, less a $75 nonrefundable cancellation fee.
5. If a student cancels a training within 20 days of the start date of a training module, a 50% refund will be issued for the tuition for that module; if the student paid in advance tuition for additional future training modules, a full refund will be issued for tuition for those additional future training modules.
6. No refunds will be issued for no-shows.
Invaluable
“The emphasis on the bodily experience of emotions and how to work with them—recognize, experience deeply, and manage/regulate—was invaluable for my professional and personal growth.”
— Kenneth Talan, MD, SEP, Child and Adult Psychiatrist
Dr. Selvam is a licensed clinical psychologist, the author of The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Guide for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes, and the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP), an effective somatic therapy that helps clients achieve optimal mental health by fully embodying their emotions. He has taught for twenty-five years in over twenty countries.
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