COURSE DESCRIPTION
Deepen your embodied understanding of the healing potential of movement and the skill sets necessary to engage movement directly in the psychedelic space. This course will include: personal process work to explore relationship to body, cultural introjects/ shadow material, and movement practices to support re-embodiment; guided cannabis assisted movement experiences with the facilitators modeling several intrinsic trauma informed movement modalities conducive to supporting psychedelic processes; integration of learning by opportunities to practice facilitating movement with other students in the course.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Ethically facilitate integrative somatic practices as ways to deepen intentional movement with clients
- Integrate personal movement practices with intentional use of Cannabis
- Identify applications of Cannabis Assisted Movement practices
- Engage in practices of decolonizing the body through increasing awareness of cultural and familial influences/ introjects held in the body and exploration of how to clear colonization dross through intentional movement practices
- Increase embodiment, intuition, awareness, self attunement and agency
- Learn movement practices to support decreasing pain and dis-ease held in body
- Understand and apply basic tenets of neurobiological trauma theory, Myofascial Unwinding, Authentic Movement, Polyvagal Theory.
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR
- Psychedelic facilitators who want to ethically and skillfully engage movement processes in medicine work with clients
- Movement professionals who want to expand to include plant medicine and trauma theory in their offerings
- Anyone with a body who wants to develop personal practices reclaiming intuitive movement as a pathway to empowered embodiment
- Those with trauma who have done sufficient healing work to be able to engage safely with movement/ embodiment in group experiential processes to support post- traumatic growth (this is NOT a clinical container for processing acute trauma)
- Courageous explorers of the somatic experience
SCHEDULE
Fall 2024:
- 10/26 Sat 11am-7pm MT
- 10/27 Sun 11am-3pm MT
MATERIALS/PREPARATION
- We will provide each participant with access to pre-recorded webinars and reflection prompts
- Opportunities to deepen learning with recommended reading/ references list
- Reasonable email correspondence with facilitators for questions and support available
- Students need a good WiFi connection and wireless headsets with mics for practicing facilitation
- Full participation with cameras on required for live portions of the training
- Wear comfortable clothes that allow freedom of movement
- Space needs: private space to move, at least a yoga mat’s worth- more space allows more movement possibilities
- Students responsible for procuring their medicine and imbibing implements if consuming (Cannabis only)
COURSE CONTENT
Webinars: (5 hours) Please watch these before our live class begins as our time together will build upon this content
- Come ready to discuss and explore the topics together
Saturday AM: (11am-2pm MT) “Orienting to the Lived Experiences of Embodiment”
- Exploring Your Movement Story
Saturday PM: (3pm-7pm MT) “Personal Exploration & Frameworks to Navigate the Personal Journey Space”
- How to listen, be with and potentiate movement
- Facilitated Cannabis Movement Experiential (Medication optional)
Sunday AM: (11am-3pm MT) “Personal Integration and Facilitating for Others”
- Integration time together followed by an Experiential on how to facilitate movement for clients in the journey space
REFERENCES/ RECOMMENDED READING
RECOMMENDED
- Healing Ancient Wounds: The Renegade’s Wisdom
- John Barnes, PT (Myofascial Release/ Myofascial Unwinding)
- Bone, Breath, & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment
- Don Hanlon Johnson
Excerpts:
- pg 183-204 Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Body Mind Centering)
- pg 239-252 Mary Whitehouse (Authentic Movement)
- pg 295-314 Emilie Conrad Da’Oud (Continuum)
- pg 339-352 Thomas Hanna (Hanna Somatics)
Yoga and Psyche
Mariana Caplan (Yoga and Somatic Experiencing)
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel VanDerKulk
Ganja Yoga: A Practical Guide to Conscious Relaxation, Soothing Pain Relief, and Enlightened Self-Discovery
Dee Dussaultl
FACILITATOR BIOS:
Lani Lee, LMFT, CAPT
Lani is a lifelong student of the lived body, licensed somatic psychotherapist, credentialed Cannabis Assisted Psychedelic Therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in Santa Rosa, California. In addition she is part of the training leadership team for the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness Psychedelic Sitters School, co-founder of CannaCocoon, a Mindfulness Based Psychedelic Therapy Clinic, as well as the developer of Alchemical Movement, a multidisciplinary transformational movement practice supporting radical embodiment through somatics and plant medicine. Lani specializes in post-traumatic growth while supporting healing professionals to recover from burnout, clear vicarious trauma, cultivate resilience and integrate soul-manifestation into conscious entrepreneurship.
Javiera Kostner E-RYT 500, MBPT, TRY
Javi (she, her) is a Kripalu Advanced Teacher of Therapeutic Yoga, Mindfulness based Psychedelic Guide, Integrative Coach, Ganja Yoga Teacher Trainer and on her way of becoming a Yoga Therapist. She came to Yoga to help cope with chronic illness, manage chronic pain, and learn to befriend her body. She has specialized in Trauma Recovery Yoga and Mindfulness Based Somatic practices. Originally from Chile, a bilingual cannabis guide, group facilitator and training lead for Psychedelic Sitters School. Co-founder of Green Magic Yoga and board member/co-founder of the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society.
Skye Weaver MFA, MBPT, CYT
A multi-fasciated Medicine Woman based in the Los Angeles area, Skye is an earth medicine and women’s leadership mentor, psychedelic cannabis facilitator, integration & self-care specialist and a lead facilitator for The Center for Medicinal Mindfulness, DoubleBlind Magazine and EntheoNation. Her background and education cover a vast array of healing modalities, including mindful somatic psychology, mindfulness-based psychedelic therapy, life coaching, yoga, massage, manual stretch therapy, Reiki, and extensive work in the area of psychedelic facilitation, mentorship, education and ritual arts. Skye is also a lifelong thespian, having earned her MFA in acting from Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre where she studied dance, voice & speech, Viewpoints, Suzuki, commedia dell’arte giving her a natural ability for public speaking.
