Self Care with Somatic Movement
With Caroline Pedley
Date: Saturday 21st April
Time:10am-5pm
Venue: Dublin West
Level 1: Somatic Movement - theory, practice, recognising and releasing neuromuscular tension from the muscles in the stomach and back and waist. Focused Breathing. Self Sensing.
If you have a PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT VOUCHER and would like to use it to book this workshop, please type the promotional code PDVOUCHER when requested. This promotional code can only be applied if you have been issued with a Personal Development Voucher and each voucher can only be used once. If the promotional code is used incorrectly the booking will be cancelled accordingly.
What the Somatic Movement Workshop Offers You
"I always enjoy PCI Courses / events / workshops and recommend them to others." Lorraine Whitty
"I liked the style of the tutor and the way in which the content was presented"
"It was a beautiful experience, so relaxing & created such awareness of the body"
"Tutor {Caroline} was excellent!"
“I enjoyed the inner peace gained...I felt my body lighter after” Sinead Delaney
“Caroline is an excellent tutor, very warm and a calming influence”
“A lovely space to connect with mind & body”
“It was a brilliant day”
This is a series of movements which will systematically help release physical and emotional trauma from the body, creating new body awareness that improves your breathing and walking, offering relief from chronic muscle tension or pain, reduce work-related physical stress, eliminate pain or other dysfunction resulting from trauma, injury or an accident and avoid or reverse stiffness, pain and many other problems associated with aging.
“Somatics” is the Greek word for the living body. Our sensory-motor systems continually respond to daily stresses and traumas with specific muscular reflexes – triggering unconscious innate responses such as fight/ flight – freeze, inherent in all human beings. Somatics actively develops new neural pathways by engaging the nervous system consciously interacting with these unconscious habitual patterns.
Profound reorganisation of the body’s structure occurs when we can focus our attention and awareness on what we are experiencing rather than what we think about the experience. Participants learn to tune into sensory awareness of what is presently occurring in their living body, enhancing a unique and intimate relationship with in their internal / external environment.
| Some benefits of Somatic Awareness are: • When we are working from awareness in our own body we offer a deeper connection to ours and others somatic experience without verbal communication. • Identify and target specific areas relating to the body’s response to stress. • Learn and practice techniques to relieve stress and tension patterns held in the body. • Breathing techniques to increase awareness and improve function of the breath. |
Loose clothing, mat and blanket required.
 | BSc. (Hons) Couns./Psych., Prof. Cert. in CBT, CSME, MIACP. Caroline is a graduate of PCI College, and lectures part-time. She has trained in Ireland and India, and teaches functional integration through body awareness and Somatic Movement. Her particular interest is in pain management, blending a mixture of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and somatic movement to address both psychological factors such as anxiety and depression and the body’s complex physiological response to stress and pain. Caroline is a professionally trained Integrative CBT Therapist, and practices in Blanchardstown, Maynooth and Celbridge, as well as at CBT Solutions. She has worked for several years with “HomeStart”, a charity for underprivileged families in Blanchardstown. |
This course is for anyone to enjoy, no experience necessary.
| PCI College is a leading provider of third level educational and continuing professional development programmes in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy, related social sciences and personal skills development. We aim to provide students with experiences and opportunities which will enable them to develop their potential in a supportive, stimulating and challenging environment, where ideas are discussed freely and where there is a sense of sharing in a continuing process of self-discovery. Personal Development is a key component to what we do at PCI College. We provide a choice of programmes for anyone to enjoy, with no experience necessary. Using our unique and talented faculty of highly trained and qualified mental health & wellbeing specialists; it is our pleasure to offer you a selection of short courses with personal development theme. Our team will you with the opportunity to delve into the world of self-discovery and development in a safe environment. We hope you enjoy the experience. |
