DATE |
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CONTACT
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Jan 10-11
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STR 1B - Denver STR Training |
Contact Sharon Porter
310-821-8212 |
Jan 23-25 |
STR 2 - Denver STR Training |
Contact Sharon Porter
310-821-8212 |
Mar 27-29 |
STR 3 - Denver STR Training |
Contact Sharon Porter
310-821-8212 |
May 15-17 |
STR 4 - Denver STR Training |
Contact Sharon Porter
310-821-8212 |
July 31-Aug 2 |
STR 5 - Denver STR Training |
Contact Sharon Porter
310-821-8212 |
Oct. 16-18 |
STR 6 - Denver STR Training |
Contact Sharon Porter
310-821-8212 |
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Free Lectures in L.A. on Somatic Trauma Resolution**by Sharon Porter SEP, RCST, RPP Lecture-Demonstrations on Somatic Trauma Resolution (STR)**, to inform generally about this way of working with trauma and overwhelm, to show you how to Resource yourself and reduce stress, and to preview up-coming trainings in Los Angeles. These lectures are for potential clients as well as students. If you can’t attend, please call Sharon directly at 310-821-8212
Saturday, Dec. 20, 4-6 pm at the Bio-Typing offices of Chris and Johnny Seitz: 11934 W. Washington Blvd, LA CA 90066. Rear suite. The office is between Leaf and Pacific Rim restaurants. For more on these interesting practitioners, see biotyping.com
Saturday, Dec. 27 at 3-5 pm at home of Berti Klein, 12011 Goshen, Apt. R, LA CA 90049. From Wilshire, north on Bundy, right on Goshen (behind Ralph’s).
Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009, 7-9 pm at Berti Klein’s, 12011 Goshen, Apt. R, LA CA 90049. From Wilshire, north on Bundy, right on Goshen (behind Ralph’s).
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STR Trauma Training through PolarityHealingArts.com begins Jan 10-12, and again April 25-27 for a repeat of the first two modules, then 4 more modules. See PolarityHealingArts.com for schedule.
Saturday, Feb. 21, 1-4 pm Sharon will teach a new class, “Developing Sensitivity”, in which she uses the STR model to help people become more aware of the subtle sensations going on inside themselves. This skill increases consciousness and is helpful to many forms of meditation as well as to health and communication. $45. At Berti Klein’s, 12011 Goshen, Apt. R, LA CA 90049. From Wilshire, north on Bundy, right on Goshen. It’s behind Ralph’s Market.
*Sharon Porter has been in private practice and training practitioners in Energy Medicine since 1973 and is a popular teacher. Her courses are process oriented, challenging, deep and entertaining. Student Comments at end of email.
** Trauma is defined as anything that overwhelms the nervous system, creating incomplete fight/flight/freeze responses and a myriad of emotional and physical symptoms affecting every aspect of life. Somatic Trauma Resolution is an effective, creative, safe and efficient way to heal the physiological and other effects of trauma and overwhelm. Using the principles of Nature, it restores resiliency to the nervous system so that one is much less affected by the stresses and set-backs of life. STR is based on Somatic Experiencing®, in which Sharon is certified, but STR is deeply informed by Sharon’s decades of work in Polarity Therapy, Yoga, Self-Care, Craniosacral Therapy and her remarkable skills and gifts in Energy Medicine. As Sharon demonstrates STR, her hands are moved from off-body by many energy phenomena occurring in the client’s field, so students quickly learn the energy and tissue relationships with thoughts, feelings and expressions. This makes her lecture-demonstrations particularly interesting.
Modern neuro-science has confirmed that trauma responses are driven by the survival instincts of the hind brain, whose language is bodily sensation. Practitioners learn to guide the client to become mildly curious about their sensations in a way that opens neural pathways and allows shock and trauma-bound energy to gently discharge, often as trembling. The whole body/mind is then supported to reorganize to a higher level of health. Wave after wave of this charge-discharge cycle occurs in a typical session. Foundational approaches are later applied to categories of trauma such as physical and sexual abuse, emotional shocks and losses, falls, accidents, disasters and more. As experience is gained, the practitioner can also be quite effective by phone. From a Lecture Attendee:“I was stunned at the power and naturalness of the approach. I felt it in my body when you took us through an experiential exercise, and then I took it into my life. A couple of sessions with you released birth trauma I had worked on with countless practitioners through 35 years!” FOR PRIVATE SESSIONS CALL 310-821-8212
Comments from recent STR students and graduates: “This work is changing lives in such deep, profound ways - even in one session alone. The person comes back entirely transformed.”
“STR has completely changed the way I work with my clients – I know how to help them access their creativity and healing power in a whole new way.”
“Not only has my way of being with clients changed, but my life has changed in ways I would have considered miraculous before I took this course and learned how to do it.”
“Trauma is at the root of everything, and once you can release it, all other therapeutic skills become more effective.”
“Your STR training is juicy, inspiring, challenging and fascinating!”
“Your love is intelligent and respectful. Your teaching is not one ray of light; it’s the spectrum.”
“You pull off the difficult challenge of managing process in the classroom while teaching us to process.”
For more on Sharon Porter and her work, see her downloadable brochure and more at HealthWaveInstitute.com 310-821-8212
SHARON’S COURSES FOR PHA IN 2009-2010:
STR=Somatic Trauma Resolution, which meets requirements for PHA’s Intermediate and Advanced Communication and is an approved PHA training with the State of California. Practitioners can legally use STR in CA with a Disclosure Statement that meets CA requirements. You have two opportunities to take Level 1 STR this year, and we suggest you take it twice, the second time for half price, to fully prepare you for its application to specific areas of trauma.Each seminar has extensive hand-outs, illustrative case histories, and written practice protocols. Student practice groups are formed. Certification requires course attendance, 40 logged sessions, 4 written reports, 2 private sessions from a qualified SE or STR practitioner, and teacher approval.
STR Level 1
1A Jan. 10-12, repeated April 25-27;
Temescal 9:30-6:30 $360
STR 1B Mar 21-23, repeated June 27-29; Temescal 9:30-6:30 $360
STR Level 2
STR 2A Sept 19-21, 2009
STR 2B Nov 14-16, 2009
STR 2C Jan 16-18, 2010
STR 2D March 20-22, 2010
STR Level 1A lays the foundation for this work: How the nervous system works in health and when overwhelmed. Using Sensations to drive the loop between a trauma vortex and a resource vortex for safe discharge. Boundary Exercises out of context to make it safe to be in the body. A practice protocol for working with a small challenge, to become skillful with the process before working with serious traumas. Tracking oneself.
STR Level 1B shows how traumas couple onto each other, and how to safely uncouple them, which works with dissociation and panic kinds of responses. How to coach the client to effectively ride their emotions and other expressions via awareness of sensation. How to titrate the release of anger and physical tension arising from frozen defensive responses, so the client isn’t afraid of these powerful forces. Pacing with time, voice tone and volume, posture, presence, intention and containment.
Level 2 continues to refine the above skills while building on these skills in layered learning by applying them to aspects of experience that require special consideration:
2A: Communicating with younger aspects of self (Inner Child), Gestalt for relational traumas, Rebalancing Power, Softening and Slowing down Falls. A Balanced Container from Core Process Psychotherapy.
2B: Sexual, Physical and Emotional Abuse, Incest, Domestic Violence, The Family
2C: Vehicle Accidents – their coupling to each other and to other traumas. Application of STR to Bodywork and Healing. (Those who need further help applying the STR to their particular profession can pay for additional coaching sessions)
2D: Intro to Birth and In Utero Experience, Disasters, Review and Refinements
July 18, 2009 Breast and Lymph Health. Effect of bras on lymphatics, exercises and bodywork on self to keep lymph healthy.
Nov 21 2009 Topic To be Announced For more see HealthWaveInstitute.com or call Sharon Porter at 310-821-8212
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