Embryology Intensive - Is the First Module of the SomaticBODY Training!

This winter we are offering an OPEN embryology workshop: Taking this module meets the requirements of the Moscow SomaticBODY Training (this includes the Pre-Spinal Patterns for students of SBTM )

4.5 days

Immerse yourself in the basics of embryological development and its expression in movement and touch, we will spend time learning, discussing, and moving.

This covers conception, the first week, differentiation of the 3 layers, organ development, nervous system, bones, muscle, fascia, and we establish a midline.

Our emphasis will be on cellular communication and choice making, differentiation, Migration patterns and blood/ heart development to the placenta.

The focus of this first SBT workshop is the pre-birth development that takes place in the oceanic environment of the womb. Students are introduced to the methods of somatic inquiry, movement exploration, and touch. The workshop will be both meditative, somatic as well as offer times to move/ dance as well as support processes through hands-on touch.

The body begins creating its form during embryological development. As tissues and structures develop, some will remain within the body, some are transformed into other structures, and yet others fade into the background, no longer existing or recognizable as the original structure. As with all development, the original processes leave deep-rooted patterns and templates that affect movement, mind, and spirit. The somatic exploration of the embryological developmental process leads to the discovery of the primal roots of the body-mind's structure, perception, presence, and flow.

In this workshop the Prevertebral Patterns/ oceanic /in-womb movements will be introduced. This workshop is for movers, dancers, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, and those from other body-mind disciplines interested in unraveling the mystery of embryological development as it relates to cellular consciousness, and movement.

Practicing the return into embryonic time allows us to access our being before our nervous system ran the show. It is a time of amazing growth organized by cellular choice making, renewal, change and growth: these can become templates for our lives now and can heal our organism, our neuro-endocrine balance.

Notocordal time (the soft spine appears and disappears before our now spine) is  time of moving in the dark - the underwater headless fish that swims side to side. Deep water holds embraces  supports buoyancy. IT is less sensing out but feeling one-self moving. the bubbles filled with fluid propelling the body through space. Pressure fields of ocean, currents meet the movement of your body - this embryonic stage supports deep inner knowing, inner focus and movement.

This is a unit of the MOSCOW Somatic BODY Training - which is open to students of the full program and a few other folks with some background in the field of somatics for single workshops.