BREATHE Somatic Movement for Mental Health Providers
An Adaptive Practice to complement therapeutic modalities, advance Body liberation, and support trauma recovery & nervous system regulation
Thursday, June 13 via Zoom — 2pm Eastern | 1pm Central | 12pm Mountain | 11am Pacific
Register below at no cost to experience the BREATHE™ somatic movement practice and connect with fellow mental health providers.
Through music and guided, adaptive movement, this practice invites participants to complete the stress cycle, tend and befriend their parts, access their inner compass, and take a next embodied step toward what they care about with a greater sense of agency and connection.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
BREATHE™, a bottom-up healing approach, is an acronym representing an arc of seven practices combining music and movement to stimulate the body’s neural circuits and allow completion of the stress cycle in a personalized, trauma-informed manner.
Designed to facilitate a sense of safety, support, and connection, the structure begins with slow music and movement invitations and prioritizes participants’ sensory needs as tempo or potential for intensity increases.
Participants receive guidance to check in with themselves and adapt movement for their mobility, sensations, and needs throughout each practice — The movement is adaptive and as gentle (or not) as you want it to be, and there’s no way to do it wrong!
BREATHE™ is typically done standing and can adapt for a seated or laying position as well.
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Accessibility Information
The session will have closed captioning in English, the font size on any slides will be 24+, I will read aloud what is shared for the group in the chat box on the Zoom platform, and we are guided by disability justice principles. Please contact Lori to confirm that your needs are supported and honored.
When You Attend:
Comfy clothes you can lift your limbs in are recommended, and you may want a journal or something to write in. Nothing else is needed!
Using your camera and mic on Zoom is optional.
The only ask for participants is to share feedback after the session, either via Google form or a follow-up conversation if you’d prefer.
You’ll receive a handout detailing the BREATHE™ acronym and a summary of the movement prompts for each practice.
BACKGROUND:
Hi! I’m Lori (she/her), a sexuality educator, violence prevention advocate, and somatic movement guide, and I created this practice with a lens of accessibility, disability justice, neurodivergence, and trauma recovery. After 20+ years of teaching movement and dance as a metaphor for healthy expression and connection, I wanted a practice that could tend to overloaded nervous systems, get people out of their heads and any semblance of doing it “right,” support trauma survivors, and integrate the body/mind/heart/spirit — without such barriers as centering esoteric, extrovert-mandated, or able-bodied practices in its guidance.
With literally no way to do it “wrong,” BREATHE™ combines the fun and creativity of music with a structure designed to foster agency, resourcing, and a sense of connection. Clients have reported greater clarity, self-trust, access to personal power, and ability to take meaningful risks and actions after experiencing this practice.
Undergirded by polyvagal theory, parts work/Internal Family Systems, generative somatics, and entrainment theory, I have found BREATHE™ can complement several therapeutic modalities. For example, with lived experience surviving sexual, intimate partner, and workplace violence, I’ve used BREATHE™ personally and with clients to practice mobilizing out of freeze or shutdown and “dance” with parts as a way of relating to them with curiosity and compassion. BREATHE™ provides an arsenal of embodied tools to address the impacts of trauma, maladaptive coping, and relational patterns around which clients have felt stuck, misaligned, or otherwise held back, bringing more choice and resourcing to the body-mind throughout recovery.
I’d like to share BREATHE™ with more mental health providers in hopes of providing a supportive space and useful practice, welcoming your feedback, and exploring the expansion of collaborations and referral networks.
For any questions or more information, please email me (Lori) directly.
I look forward to seeing you and sharing BREATHE™ Somatic Movement on June 13th!
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