*Sessions available via phone/Skype, & in person at our San Francisco East Bay area and San Jose, CA locations
Monthly Somatic Learning Coaching via Skype/telephone
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Other Services
A dialogue between therapist and client that facilitates an awakening to the behaviors - both physiological and psychological -- that sustain injuries or ill-health.
• Individual Consultations: with Dr Kaparo and certified Somatic Learning® Facilitators.
• Consultations with couples, families, groups, corporations and institutions: Dr. Kaparo and Inquiry staff bring creative strategies for transformative learning and change, ranging from conflict resolution and performance coaching, to organizational development, and the international peace process.
• Supervision: individual and group supervision in Facilitated Somatic Learning for all kinds of therapists, health practitioners and educators with Dr. Kaparo.
• Talks and Seminars: Dr. Kaparo and Inquiry staff also present at various conferences, institutions, universities and medical schools. If your are interested in sponsoring a program for your group or institution, contact us.
• Workshops and Intensives: Inquiry offers programs for the general public in the Somatic Learning® disciplines all over the world.
• Professional Training and Certification Programs: Inquiry offers Somatic Learning trainings (ranging from weekends in specific Touchwork techniques to year long, Certification Programs in teaching Yoga & Somatic Meditations Facilitated Somatic Learning Practitioner Trainings and Somalogics Dialogue Facilitator Trainings.
• Learners can also participate in these programs in conjunction with graduate and undergraduate degree programs at a several universities.
• CEC's available on some programs
Facilitated Somatic Learning®
Transform Pain, Stress, Trauma & Aging
Each of us was born with a finely tuned system that provides subtle feedback about how we function as a human organism. Facilitated Somatic Learning® enables participants to refine their "listening" and participate consciously in their own healing. In this way injuries, trauma or illness become learning environments - doorways not simply to health as we normally conceive of it, but to a much greater sense of aliveness.
In these Facilitated Somatic Learning sessions, you and the facilitator live into new meaning together, psycho-energetically. You become aware of how your life expresses itself through all of the different languages of experience: neuro-muscular, electro-chemical, self-moving, your feelings and how you think.
This "wombing" of attention that we call co-presencing represents the fundamental function of Facilitated Somatic Learning: to receive the whole person in a compassionate listening, without judgment, regardless of what problems or interests motivated each person to seek help.
The facilitator engages with you as two friends might share a walk together, but with great intimacy. The intimacy arises not from agreement, nor even shared values or goals, but from the immediacy of a mutualized sensing. This co-presence enables you to live into new depths of experiencing and removes constraints that limit the realm of possibility.
Sessions include a number of disciplines depending on each person’s needs, including:
Somatic meditations
You learn a "self-sensing" awareness practices that makes it possible to participate in healing, restructuring and renewal.
Movement re-education
Developing a subtle awareness of your capacity to release tension and stress continuously throughout your daily activities. This brings an ease and efficiency of movement that improves energy and performance.
Touchwork
Hands-on "touchwork," a process that extends from the cellular level to integrating physiological systems as a whole.
This non-interventionist work had a huge range of therapeutic effects. The range includes: dissolving adhesions, freeing the mobility of the organs and membranes, regenerating injured tissue, unraveling strain patterns or curvatures of the spine, reducing blood pressure, recovering lost function, as in recovering range of movement, speech, etc.
Through a very skilled "wombing" or taking up of your energetic forces and tensional patterns, your organism is freed up to dis-organize and re-new itself, as a chrysalis, enables a caterpillar to dissolve out of one structure and transform into a butterfly.
Co-presencing dialogues
An integration of Somatic Intelligence with other modes of functioning that engages the client in behaviors - both physiological and psychological -- that support the healing of injuries or ill-health and enhance happiness, love and wisdom.
Sessions are available in the San Francisco Bay Area and on Skype or telephone.
For more information or to schedule a session, please contact us at 510-232-2357 or email: drrisa@somaticlearning.com
A Psychology of Self-Renewal
A New Approach to Enhancing Happiness, Love, & Optimal Functioning
For many people, the experiences of childhood inevitably erode self-esteem. For others, the stress of modern life causes recurring psychological conflict. Whether rooted in childhood or adult trauma, pain abounds in a variety of forms. Lack of intimacy, self-destructive behavior, chronic ill-health, shame, anxiety and depression all frustrate our attempts to live fully.
What underlies these problems? What leads to healing?
Just as our hand avoids pain by moving away from a hot stove, we similarly retract from experiencing psychological pain. Unlike the intelligent physical response, psychological withdrawal actually sustains painful conditions. Unfortunately, many approaches to psychotherapy tend to reinforce this withdrawal. Somatic Learning® offers a new approach to psychological healing to engage the whole person. In the process psychological pressures - including assaults to self-esteem -- become a learning environment to heal and extend your presence into a wider range of living.
Psychological healing requires a change in how we pay attention to ourselves and the world. Rather then analyzing oneself as a separate observer, we learn to participate in the movement of living. Just as a swimmer glides effortlessly through the water, a self-sensing awareness gives us a "here-now" understanding of how we function psychologically-encouraging a participation in life that is both soul engendering and life affirming.
To deepen this intimacy with ourselves we engage our whole person in a "dialogue" that brings awareness to the silent level of our experiencing. This dialogue marshals a range of disciplines including Affect/Script Theory, Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Epistemics. The dialogue reveals the operative scripts conditioning our responses and what empower us in learning to maximize flow, affectively, somatically and cognitively. Epistemics, is the discipline derived from epistemology and General Semantics, for developing awareness, self-regulation & self-inquiry skills as preparation for innovating in human participation and evolution.
Co-presencing and Dialogue
In this psychotherapeutic context, the practice of co-presencing develops a deep ecology of affect, allowing each person to ride the waves of joy and interest, without tensing toward accomplishment or being defined by his/her conditioning and judgment. These sessions for individuals and couples foster this capacity for co-presencing and nondual dialogue.
Individual / Couple / Family sessions are available with Risa Kaparo, CA LIC MFC 20480 in San Francisco East Bay (Point Richmond) and Saratoga, CA locations. Call 510-232-2357 or email drrisa@somaticlearning.com to schedule an appointment.
Co-presencing and Dialogue
The practice of co-presencing develops a deep ecology of affect, allowing each person to ride the waves of joy and interest, without tensing toward accomplishment or being defined by our conditioning and judgment. These sessions for individuals and couples foster this capacity for co-presencing and nondual dialogue.
Brain Science and Embodied Mindfulness
Co-presencing is a practice of embodied mindfulness. Current western scientific research verifies that “you can use your mind to change your brain,” producing not just short-term effects, but long-term, permanent changes. The brain then changes the mind – the neural substrates support neural functions that express Somatic Intelligence. Research shows that awareness transforms both the brain and the body.
Recent studies have shown that we are far more trainable toward helplessness and despair than toward responsibility and freedom. This underscores the importance of ongoing practice to prepare the bodymind to presence the unconditional in a more deeply integrated way. In the famous words of the Canadian psychologist, Donald Hebb, “neurons that fire together wire together.” When you stimulate the neural networks of positive states you gradually strengthen them.
Co-presencing for Individuals and Couples
When couples learn to engage in this art of celebrating each other, they share a deep intimacy and sense of belonging. Like the kiss bestowed in fairytales, transforming the hag into the beautiful maiden, practicing co-presencing is an embrace that renews us, revealing the beauty and grace inherent in this very moment. As we learn to savor the moment, "drinking in and kissing back" the beloved is found everywhere.
Practiced in social or professional contexts, co-presencing engenders a compassionate, engaged and creative participation with clients based on “what is.” Co-presencing also can be undertaken as a “dialogue with oneself” or “self-inquiry.”
Sessions are available in the San Francisco Bay Area and on Skype or telephone.
For more information or to schedule a session, please contact us at 510-232-2357 or email: drrisa@somaticlearning.com
Other Services
Individual Consultations: with Dr Kaparo and other certified Somatic Learning® Facilitators.
Consultations with couples, families, groups, corporations and institutions: Dr. Kaparo and Inquiry staff bring creative strategies for transformative learning and change, ranging from conflict resolution and performance coaching, to organizational development, and the international peace process.
Supervision: individual and group supervision in Facilitated Somatic Learning for all kinds of therapists, health practitioners and educators with Dr. Kaparo.
Talks and Seminars: Dr. Kaparo and Inquiry staff also present at various conferences, institutions, universities and medical schools. If you are interested in sponsoring a program for your group or institution, contact us.
Workshops and Intensives: Inquiry offers programs for the general public in the Somatic Learning® disciplines all over the world.
Professional Training and Certification Programs: Inquiry offers Somatic Learning trainings (ranging from weekends in specific Touchwork techniques to year long, Certification Programs in teaching Yoga & Somatic Meditations, Certified Somatic Learning Facilitator Trainings and Dialogue Facilitator Trainings.
Learners can also participate in these programs in conjunction with graduate and undergraduate degree programs at a several universities.
CEC's for MFTs, LCSWs, and yoga teachers available on most programs
Contact 510-232-2357 or email: drrisa@somaticlearning.com for more information
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