Somatics for Self-Care

This video series brings to life somatic movement practices to deepen our relationship to our most balanced selves as practitioners, and also to share with our clients and students.

Self-Care through Touch and Movement

Learning objective: Experience Movement Solutions lessons that will wake up your feeling of uprightness, posture, and power in your bones. Description: This year we celebrate the life of Ruthy Alon, original Feldenkrais teacher and trainer who created programs designed to increase bone strength, enhance movement coordination, and to bring back the vitality in movement and our life.

If we could consider three words that best describe what she taught us they are “springiness with potency”.  Come join this workshop and feel deep in your bones how this way of using yourself can help increase the quality of life and longevity. Find your inner wisdom in moving easily and joyfully again. This workshop will include a self-touch lesson we can use for ourselves and that we can share with our clients. These Movement Solutions lessons have shown to increase bone strength, enhance movement coordination, and to bring back the vitality in movement and our life.  

Elinor Silverstein

Elinor Silverstein has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method and Tellington Touch for almost 40 years. She has studied and worked side by side with her dear mentor and friend, Ruthy Alon, the Founder of the Movement Intelligence and Solutions Training Program and the inspiration for the Foundation For Movement Intelligence.

Somatic Movement and Awareness in Burn-out and Stress Management Programs

Description of the physical part of a stress management and burnt-out program in a residential environment, focused on bringing awareness and attention to the movements of daily life.

We work with the concept Somatic awareness which means peoples acknowledgment of their own self within their environment where we use sensations to identify the psychological, physiological and social factors that promote healing and self-regulation.

How the program has evolved with a Rolfing© vision. The result became the interventions in the program with the approach of not only working with symptoms but understanding them in the context of the patient's life, self-care and future prevention.

Bibiana Badenes

MSME, MSMT, MA
ISMETA Board of Directors

Bibiana is an influential somatic educator from Benicasim, Spain, where she oversees an innovative body-mind rehabilitation program for rheumatoid arthritis patients and stress management clients. She is the head of Kinesis, a somatic therapy clinic. Trained as both a Physical Therapist graduated from the University of Valencia and an Advanced Certified Rolfer and Rolfing Movement Practitioner .She is co-creator of the innovative Aquatic Myofascial Integration an exciting aquatic therapy, as well as Myofascial Release Trainings, both of which she teaches in Spain and internationally. Bibiana works with a wide variety of patients and different conditions, from sports people to children and the elderly, she also offers somatic coaching for business people and for teachers.

She created and directs Bodywisdom Spain to fulfill this vision www.bodywisdomspain.com.

She has remained at the leading edge of BodyMind treatments and education in southern Europe

A Somatic Journey at the Intersection of Headaches, Migraine, Myofascial Pain, and Awareness

For fifty years I've relieved headaches and migraines with subtle touch therapy, and for thirty, I've taught mind-body self-care relief and prevention at medical and community centers, corporations, conferences, and in my private practice. At almost 70 years old, after moving to Manhattan, I fulfilled a dream when I landed a worldwide publishing deal for The Headache Healer’s Handbook.

Shockingly, the same day I submitted my completed manuscript, I was served with eviction papers! For the next year-and-a-half, under the attendant pressures of editing, launching, and marketing a book, I experienced tremendous additional stress trying desperately to keep my apartment. My life was an exercise in contradictions. Despite support of friends, organizations, government, and dogged perseverance, on January 2, 2019, two suitcases in tow, belongings in storage; I left behind my apartment of 13½ years. Thanks to further kindnesses, being invited to stay and/or cat, house, garden sit, I moved forty times in eight months, including cross country, for a roof over my head. It was a vulnerable, uncertain time. How did I survive? As a newly certified massage therapist in 1992, I’d turned to body-centered therapies to support my clients, whose emotions would release with their pain. At Hendricks and Strozzi Institutes, I trained in somatic body-as-self,mind-body-emotions-spirit work that felt internal, emotive, interactive, and transformational. We used elements of mindfulness, awareness of sensations, aikido-based movement, language, breathing, and bodywork, against a background of meaningful life purpose, to address reactive states, concerns, challenges, and trauma; rebuild broken parts; and shift energy and patterns in the moment and over time. In transformational work, ideally the practitioner embodies the work. My foundational practices helped me hold my clients and myself together in tumultuous times of fear and panic, as I faced uncertainty, moved to NYC to support a daughter with cancer, wrote a book, and sought shelter.

In this experiential, interactive workshop, we will engage in somatic movement practices to:

• Fine-tune bodily awareness.
• Find center in stillness and motion.
• Be present to yourself and others.
• Take a stand; move powerfully with dignity in a relaxed body.
• Manifest a positive future.

Jan Mundo

Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, Certified Master Somatic Coach and Bodyworker (Strozzi Institute), Certified Body-Centered Therapist and Certified Conscious Relationship Therapist (Hendrick Institute), Certified Massage Therapist

Course Information

ISMETA Members

$0.99

Non ISMETA MEMBERS

$10.00

Self-Care through Touch and Movement

Elinor Silverstein

Somatic Movement and Awareness in Burn-out and Stress Management Programs

Bibiana Badenes

A Somatic Journey at the Intersection of Headaches, Migraine, Myofascial Pain, and Awareness

Jan Mundo

Course Information

ISMETA Members

Non ISMETA MEMBERS

Videos

Self-Care through Touch and Movement

Somatic Movement and Awareness in Burn-out and Stress Management Programs

A Somatic Journey at the Intersection of Headaches, Migraine, Myofascial Pain, and Awareness