This Long-Awaited Course Closes the Gap Between Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth.
With nine demonstrations treating different types of traumas.
$299 (30% off)
Regular price is $450.
On-demand, online course.
English with Rumanian translation
What Is the Course About?
The Trauma, Emotion, and Spirituality Course was initially conducted as a four-day workshop. It was so well received that I am making the recording available as an on-demand course.
In this course, we will answer the following questions, both in theory and practice:
- What are the different levels of your self?
- In other words, how many bodies do you have?
- What is the nature of each of your individual and collective bodies?
- How does each body contribute to all your experiences, including emotions?
- How does trauma affect each of your bodies?
- How does one work with each of the bodies?
- What is spiritual growth?
- How does improving relationships among your various bodies aid your spiritual growth?
- How does working with trauma and emotion aid spiritual development?
- How can trauma and emotion work be made more efficient by including all of your bodies?
- What are simple practices for including all of our bodies for psychological and spiritual work?
The Course Includes:
- 19 hours of on-demand course material
- 9 demonstrations with participants involving a variety of traumatic and emotional experiences
- Guided group and individual exercises for working with all of our bodies in psychological and spiritual work
Who Can Benefit From the Course?
If you are a therapist, the course will help you integrate spiritual growth with your work with trauma and emotions and deepen your clinical practice. On a personal level, it will help you embody your spiritual and psychological practice. If you are trained in Integrative Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™), the course will also deepen your ISP practice.
Here Is What Students Had to Say About the Course
The course was recorded as an in-person workshop with a group of therapists in Bucharest, Romania. Watch the short video to hear their feedback.
During the Nine Demonstrations, We Will Work with Traumas, Emotions, and Other Presenting Symptoms
Traumas
Pre and perinatal traumas, birth trauma, anxious womb, sexual abuse, childhood physical injury, life-threatening illness in childhood, loss and sudden loss, automobile trauma, intergenerational trauma, bullying, domestic violence, witnessing and anticipating the death of a relative, death of a relative to suicide, separation from a partner, childhood neglect, early abandonment, and betrayal.
Emotional experiences and other presenting symptoms
Loneliness, fear, terror, terror in bone marrow and brain, shame, existential shame, disgust, existential rage, sadness, hurt, anger, self-blame, guilt, grief, helplessness, heartbreak, power, rage, safety, avoidant attachment, migraines, dissociation, altered states, high level of physiological dysregulation, fear of making mistakes, and low energy.
What Is the One-Body Error in Somatic Approaches?
I want to touch on a topic that is largely missed in somatic psychology. 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 measured despite the obvious fact that our ability to measure reality is quite limited.
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 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.
Somatic psychology approaches that limit their understanding of the body to just the individual gross body compromise the effectiveness of their work because they 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’ capacity for deeper and quicker transformation.
Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™), however, works with all four levels of the body to access, embody, regulate, and build capacity for our clients’ emotional experiences in the most immediate level of our body, the individual gross body, from the very first session with a client using a broader definition of emotion.
ISP is a state-of-the-art somatic approach for improving physical, energetic, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, and spiritual outcomes and treatment times in all therapy and body psychotherapy modalities.
It is a complementary approach to all modalities in your clinical toolkit. The core clinical strategy in ISP is the practice of embodying emotions, a neuroscience-backed and emotion-focused method for improving physical, energetic, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, and spiritual outcomes in all healing modalities.
About Raja Selvam, PhD
Dr. Raja Selvam, a licensed clinical psychologist from the US, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™) and the author of the best-selling book The practice of embodying emotions: A guide for improving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes, in 12 languages.
He is also a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) professional trauma training program. Dr. Selvam has taught in over twenty countries on six continents for nearly thirty years. His work is inspired by Jungian and archetypal psychologies, Kleinian and intersubjective schools of psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, quantum physics, yoga, Polarity Therapy, and Advaita Vedanta (a spiritual psychology from India).
