Career Applications in Global Somatics™

Employment Opportunities for Global Somatics™ Practitioners

Global Somatics™ Practitioners are trained for a career in somatic movement education/ therapy, bodywork and energy healing. This field participates in the expanding world of alternative medicine and healing currently used by one third of Americans. Certification as a Global Somatics™ Practitioner prepares you for a variety of careers including, but not limited to,

• private practice
  
• group practice
  
• dance and movement training programs
  
• yoga training programs
  
• art colonies and classes
  
• early developmental classes
  
• schools
  
• healing centers
  
• massage clinics
  
• spas and resorts
  
• retreat centers
  
• health clubs
  
• chiropractic offices
  
• physical therapists
  
• sports medicine and personal training
  
• medical doctors
  
• rehabilitation centers
  
• nursing homes
  
• hospice

Placement Services/Employment Assistance Services
GRDGS does not offer placement services but does guide realistic career planning through Professional Competency coursework and builds networking skills. GRDGS offers employment assistance to current students and graduates through a jobs listing bulletin board. Prospective employers are allowed to post openings for somatic educators and body workers and artist grant opportunities on this board. Students and graduates are encouraged to act on these postings.

Registration Laws
Currently, Minnesota does not have a state requirement for bodywork and massage. Massage therapists practice under different legal provisions in nearly every province and state. Licensing requirements and laws vary in cities, counties, towns and villages. Students are informed of the local laws for Minneapolis and St. Paul in the Professional Competency course. Students are expected to contact their local licensing agency to learn their specific laws.

Applications:

Global Somatics™ is beneficial to anyone who has a body because it reconnects the person to her or his essential self. It is currently being applied with remarkable results to the following fields:

Authentic Healing:

• comprehensive healing paradigm that tracks to the creative root of the symptom
• activation of channels between the physical body and energy field to effectively heal soul trauma.
  

Dance and Movement:

• efficient dance technique and improved alignment, flexibility, strength and integration
• a personalized body-system warm-up and expansion of movement vocabulary
• injury prevention, healing and longevity in performance
• inspiration for improvisation and choreography
• a language for analyzing dance styles

Yoga:

• provides the organ, glandular and developmental ground for asanas
  
• deepens awareness of breath, voice, and perception

Athletics:

• performance enhancement through repatterning of reflexes and developmental movement
  
• injury prevention, healing and retraining

Physical, Occupational, Dance and Movement Therapy:

• assessment and treatment based on components of a multi-systems approach
  
• perception of underlying elements of problems (such as fluid quality imbalances in neurological problems, and the developmental aspects of a knee problem)

Bodywork and the Art of Manipulation:

• the presence, resonance and perceptual capacity of a fully embodied practitioner who holds a continuum of health from the sub-cellular to the whole body moving in space
  
• the art of creating embodied relationships with others
  
• design of personalized protocols and treatments
  
• subtle communication through touch by differentiating layers of tissue
  
• multi-systems approach for evaluation and treatment
  
• ability to bridge table work and active movement repatterning
  
• ability to offer clients a way to integrate Global Somatics™ into daily life

Medicine:

• development of a healing bedside manner
  
• support of personal health
  
• integration of intuitive awareness with clinical knowledge

Child Development and Education:

• evaluation from a developmental and body-systems approach
  
• identification of movement and perceptual problems from early infancy that affect learning
  
• neurological repatterning through movement and direct access to the brain through touch
  
• facilitation of normal development in individualized ways for each child

Psychotherapy:

• awareness of the psychophysical processes underlying emotional and cognitive patterns
  
• access to the subconscious which is the body through movement, touch, breath, and voice
• understanding of the physicality of the perceptual process and healing of trauma
  

Voice:

• use the whole body to support the tone of vibration
  
• increase of breath and range of vocal pitch, intensity and color
  
• identification of restrictions and freeing the natural voice
  
• exploration of the development of vocalization
  
• use of the voice to heal tissue

Music, Writing and Visual Art:

• a body-based and developmental approach to inspire and free direct artistic expression
  
• improved performance through alignment, flexibility, strength, and integration
  
• injury prevention
  
• a language for evaluating styles

Meditation:

• conscious use of the body as a vehicle for spirit
  
• attention to breath and refined tracking of inner sensations
  
• careful awakening of kundalini energy
  
• balance between sensing, feeling, and action