Pain, injury, and a sense of uncertainty and fear about the state of one's own body can be so distracting and debilitating that it consumes the lion's share of one's attention and energy. This is why I focus my work and research on sharing practical skills and knowledge to empower humans out of a relationship with the body marked with pain, discomfort, and fear into a partnership of compassion, optimism, and collaboration.

See calendar for classes including:

• 1:1 coaching in PME

• Transformative 8-week Somatic Small Group Trainings

• Workshops

• Group / Corporate Trainings

• Partner / Couples Trainings

Chronic Pain and Injury Recovery

Kelly Lazzara

ASMP

Your body is a potent source of information that you can use for healing and development.

I want to show you how you can perceive your own subtle sensations and motor expressions within openness and curiosity so that your body can use this information to enter into its natural processes of self-healing and learning and then how you can amplify and accelerate these processes.

My aim is that you experience the immediate healing and pleasant effects of an open and compassionate dialogue with your body and establish this quality of dialogue as an automatic, habitual way of being so that self-healing and self-development become integrated into who you are. I am trained to coach somatic movement, perception training, and human biology.

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Student Feedback

Your body knows

how to regulate itself. You were born with this ability.

The more moments you experience and witness self-organization and self-development and the deeper you understand your physiology and psychology, the more familiar and intuitive self-regulation becomes.

We design our somatic training and body education to give you exactly this: you learn how to self-regulate as well as develop a conceptual understanding of what's happening physiologically and psychologically.

All of our services feature PME, an ISMETA-affiliated program and a USABP official educator, as foundation. The method is to trigger and accompany the process of physical and mental self-organization and self-development through a mindful and compassionate dialogue. A helpful and healing process is created through mindful and compassionate perception. Self-regulation arises through trust in the wisdom of the body in an open “somatic dialogue” with oneself or with a (professional) counterpart.

Our study programs include theoretical and practical lessons in additional somatic methods, anatomy, physiology, evolutionary biology, perception, and Buddhist psychology. Individual coaching might also include a theoretical approach to some these topics if your healing process and curiosity call for it.

Our aim is to help you access the wisdom within your body by creating a space that is interesting, safe, and collaborative. We believe that, by practicing compassionate and trusting dialogue with your body, you become increasingly aware of the subtle patterns of thought, movement, postures, beliefs, emotions, and sensations that define your expression and perception. This increased awareness creates more perspectives of how these experiences develop and interact with each other which creates more options for self-perception and expression.

Somatic Practice is for you if

• You want to learn practical skills for activating and amplifying your own self-healing and self-development.

• You believe that your body holds wisdom you want to learn how to access this via a compassionate and open somatic dialogue.

• You want to explore helpful sensory, emotional, thought, and movement patterns that cultivate growth and healing in your body and mind.

• You want to learn about your own anatomy, physiology, evolutionary biology, and psychology through collaborative embodied training.