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The Global Somatics Practitioner Training is offered in two formats.The Weekly Class Format consists of four seasons (20 months) of Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning classes with seasonal intensives and monthly seminars. Students live within driving distance of the Twin Cities. Students structure their lives to allow approximately 3 days a week for the program. This format is designed for those seeking a steady and thorough embodiment process with time to integrate the comprehensive material. Students in this format receive more hours of mentorship with Suzanne and detailed guidance in completing course requirements. The Modular Format consists of monthly 5 day intensives over a 21-month period, with 8 hours of class work daily. This program is designed for mature professionals who are capable of the intensive format and self-directed in the completion of homework in between intensives. This is the ideal program for those living outside the Twin Cities and for those who learn well through an intensive embodiment communal experience followed by time to integrate personally and study cognitively. The curriculum hours are designed for a group of 12 participants. In cases of smaller sizes, a percentage of Professional Competency in class hours will be reduced as more individual attention can be offered in less time. GSPT is a Professional Training
GSPT is a Soul QuestEmbodiment is a world to which the seeker comes slowly- first with the faith of a child and then with the patience and dedication of a sage. The Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training is an intense journey for a short period of time to the sacred sites that dwell within the body. The goal is not for complete understanding or perfect achievement of certain skills. The goal of the training is to transmit core energies and processes and to support the student in their personal transformation process. During this program, seeds are planted that will grow in their own time within the individuals unfolding life and practice. GSPT is like a “Medical School for the Natural Body and the Healing Relationship"
The CurriculumThe curriculum is rooted in the core mappings of body systems and developmental movement as it is taught and developed by Certified BMC Teacher, Suzanne River. The energy field is explored through Vibrational Aspects™System, a curriculum created by Suzanne River. Relevant principles and techniques from other somatic and movement modalities are interwoven into the curriculum. These include Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Rolfing, Reiki, Dance, Authentic Movement, Continuum, Movement Therapy, Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Voice, the arts and ceremony. Global Somatics™ Professional Competency has five goals- thorough and successful completion of the training program's components, building of community, practice of psychophysical integration and counseling skills, demonstration of ability to do somatic movement education and bodywork professionally and guidance in personal business focus. GSPT is a Repatterning of EducationThe Training is a repatterning of education and its methodology is related to “unschooling” where a student follows her own inner desires, intentions and process for learning. The Global Somatics™ education values "real" learning, knowledge and skills that can be meaningfully practiced by each student. If a student wants certification in Global Somatics™, s/he travels the journey of carefully sequenced courses and homework, with others, but in her/his own way and for her/his own purpose. Each student is supported in her/his unique learning process that includes embodiment, perception, understanding, facilitation and creation. Global Somatics™ learning is a life long adventure. Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training includes the following unique characteristics:
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Because this intensive training uses the maps of Western medicine's anatomy and physiology, it is comparable to a "Medical School for the Natural Body and the Healing Relationship". The attitude or paradigm Global Somatics™ promotes, however is closer to that of a Native healer who understands that medicine is a natural way of reconnecting with Creation and restoring one's participation in the dance of life and within community. The medicine we practice is that of making real relationship and facilitating movement, touch, breath, vibration and sound.