Somatic Movement Institute

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The Somatic Movement Institute (SMI) was founded in 1999.

The Institute is a place where people focus on well-being, health and general quality of live applying the 5 Pillars Somatics approach developed by Jacques van Eijden.

Geschiedenis

The Somatic Movement Institute

The Somatic Movement Institute provides four extensive services, they are:

TRAINING
http://training.somaticmovementinstitute.com

SOMATIC MOVEMENT PRACTICE
http://practice.somaticmovementinstitute.com/

CONSULTANCY
http://consultancy.somaticmovementinstitute.com/


INFOSHARING
http://infosharing.somaticmovementinstitute.com/


THE 5 PILLARS SOMATICS
a clear method applied by Somatic Movement Practitioners and Somatic Movement Coaches.



"Answers to questions on health and wellbeing often lay in the body itself. Somatic Movement’s body oriented experiential approach, helps us learn how to acknowledge and understand the body’s signals.

By allowing these signals to have their place and function, we increase our ability to translate them into health, wellbeing and effective action”

Jacques van Eijden

Somatic Movement Practitioners

Somatic Movement achieves optimal physical, cognitive, and emotional performance in people’s personal and professional life using 5 Pillars Somatics. The 5 Pillars are:

1. Soma Mapping
2. Embody Embrace Empower Process
3. PEACE-ful Communication
4. Experiential Learning
5. Skills

1. Somatic Movement Practitioners work with Soma-Mapping. Soma-Mapping charts the structural and functional aspects of the body’s natural intelligence with the aim of creating Balance and Integration in people's lives.

2. The Embody, Embrace and Empower Process provides the guiding principle for working with processes.

3. PEACE-ful communication: Uses the principles of Presence, Ease, Affectivity, Creativity and Effectiveness to guide all verbal and non-verbal interactions.

4. Experiential Learning is used and is based on interweaving knowledge, experience and intuition.

5. Somatic Movement Practitioners apply the following Skills: embodied awareness; manual and verbal skills; posture, gesture and motion; as well as breathing and vocalisation.

The Training

The emphasis in the Somatic Movement Practitioner Certification Programme is to develop strong competencies in working with Balance and Integration principles and techniques.

The Balance and Integration principles and techniques are grounded in the programmes extensive study of the body’s structural and functional aspects (through anatomy, physiology, embryogenesis, and kinesiology).

The Balance and Integration Areas of Study are:

Balance:

External Balance: aligning oneself and responding to the outside forces in life.

Internal Balance: staying vital to meet the challenges.

Integration:

Development: growth and transformation.

Organisation: the ability to value and therefor make choices.

Guidance: putting life in perspective.

5 Pillars Somatics seeks to Balance ones sensitivities and stressors, with one’s ones strengths and support mechanisms and Integrate these in an effective and constructive relationship to the environment. The Integrative and Balancing interventions relate directly to issues in people’s lives.

The curriculum offers extensive training in 5 Pillars Somatics. The 5 Pillars are utilized as the method of learning and teaching the core principles and techniques of SMI Balance and Integration curriculum.

The Training applies a holographic view on the process of learning. The content of each Modules reflects the content of the other Modules. As the material is presented from different perspectives the understanding is deepened. In the Training the emphasis is on Experiential Learning utilizing intuition, experience and knowledge to educate aware and effective Somatic Movement Practitioners. It includes the recognition of individual learning styles .

The Modules are arranged according to the Balance and Integration principles and techniques.