The Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training (GSPT)
The Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training is one of the most creative and comprehensive embodiment and somatic training programs in the world. The Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training (GSPT) empowers students to be leaders in the somatic field. GSPT, a masters level program in Somatics, is developed and taught by Suzanne River and GRDGS faculty to foster efficient embodiment, active engagement and integrated learning of both the process and the content of Global Somatics™ Process. GSPT is a 1452 hours training in the embodiment of the Natural Body that includes in-depth experience of body systems, developmental movement, the vibrational field and professional competency. The Global Somatics™ Process is applied to self transformation, movement education and therapy, the arts, bodywork, energy medicine/shamanism, developmental education for infants/children, and community activism.
To assure personalized attention, the program is limited to 12 certification students. This "handmade quality" offers students direct mentorship with Suzanne River and faculty as well as the intimacy and empowerment that comes from a small community. The Global Somatics™ Practitioner Training is designed as a sequenced study for a cohesive group. This program is affordable and convenient, encouraging professional growth while accommodating family and work life. Financial Aid is available to all those who qualify through the SELF loan program for both Minnesota residents and non- residents.
The Global Somatics Practitioner Training is offered in three formats.
The Weekly Class Format consists of four seasons (22 months) of Tuesday classes with seasonal intensives. 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.
PDF for Weekly format
The Modular Format consists of monthly 5 day intensives over a 22-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.
PDF for Modular Format
The Summer Format consists of four weeks in August for four years. This program is designed for mature professionals who are capable of the intensive format and self-directed in the completion of homework during the year.
PDF for Summer Format
GSPT is a Professional Training
Green River Dance for Global Somatics is licensed as a private career school with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, sections 141.21 and 141.32. Licensure is not an endorsement of the institution. Credits earned at the institution may not transfer to all other institutions.
Financial aid is available to those who qualify both state resident and non-resident.
GSPT is an Approved Training Program with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) and graduates are eligible to apply for status as Registered Somatic Educators and/or Therapists using ISMETA's short form.
GRDGS is a School Member of the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) that allows student rates for insurance and membership with ABMP after graduation.
GSPT is an Allied Member with the Body-Mind Centering® Association (BMC®A). Students can become Student Members of BMC®A and graduates can become Allied Members.
GSPT is a Soul Quest
Embodiment 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"
 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.
The Curriculum
The curriculum is rooted in the seven power points of the Global Somatics™ Process-Mapping, Cellular Consciousness, Realconnect, Learning Wheel, Trauma Holding and Healing, Vibrational Aspects and the Big Dance. The Natural Body is the interplay of the Physical body/mind and the Vibrational or Spirit Body. The GSP curriculum is an experiential weaving of these two aspects of Self. The Body/mind curriculum incorporates the experiential anatomy of all Body Systems and Developmental Movement drawn from Body-Mind Centering® Approach. Relevant principles and techniques from other somatic and movement modalities are interwoven into the curriculum. These include Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial and Massage, Dance, Authentic Movement, Movement Therapy, Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Voice and Expressive Arts. The Vibrational Body curriculum includes the Vibrational Aspects™System, Reiki, Shamanic techniques/ principles and ceremony. GSPT offers a thorough Professional Competency curriculum. Global Somatics™ Professional Competency has six goals —
- thorough and successful completion of the training program's components(individual mentoring)
- building of community ( community council and peer supervision)
- practice of psychophysical integration ( VAS, Enneagram, Person/Essence Profile)
- counseling skills( Active Listening, Speaking, Option Method, Re- evaluation Counseling)
- demonstration of ability to do somatic movement education and bodywork professionally ( Practicum)
- guidance in personal business focus (Business Plan, Scope of Practice, and Finances).
GSPT is a Repatterning of Education
The 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:
- Small class size composed of changing student body with core certification students
- A core faculty who adapt the curriculum to meet the learning requirements of the class and material
- Guest teachers, experts in their applied disciplines, offer a variety of teaching and embodiment styles
- Global Somatics™ Workbooks for each course
- Sequential introduction and integration of the body systems and developmental movement patterns
- Sequential introduction and integration of the Vibrational Aspects™ System, Reiki and Shamanic Practices
- Sequential integration of professional competency
- Integration of psychophysical content
- Sequential introduction and integration of Craniosacral and Massage protocols
- Interdisciplinary approach to the study including the arts and sciences
- Direct application to the arts, movement education and therapy, yoga, body work, voice, energy medicine, developmental education for infants/children and community
- Community workshops, performances, clinics and celebrations that share Global Somatics with the extended community of family, friends and other cultures
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