Partner Movement and Touch
Use healing touch, somatic dialogue, and play to develop trigger self-organization and self-development through nervous system coregulation within oneself and within another person.
Who it's For
Partner movement and touch is for you if
You want to explore your relationship with yourself and another person from a place of compassion and curiosity through touch, movement, and play.
You would like to cultivate an open dialogue using touch, sensation, and awareness of perception in your interpersonal relationships.
You want to explore the potency of healing touch and nervous system coregulation with a friend, family, or partner.
How it's Done
The coach listens to the clients' words and observes the clients' movements mindfully and with compassion to initiate a healing process in each of the clients and himself.
The tools of the method are touch, movement, language, and awareness of perception. The coach teaches the clients how to observe and touch mindfully and with compassionate. They then apply this touch to each other to trigger self-regulation and self-development.
Self-regulation naturally arises through trust and curiosity in the wisdom of the body; much like how a human baby learns to organize itself physically and mentally. This kind of self-regulation often expresses outwardly as a gentle exploration of movement, postures, breathing, and vocal expression.
After exploring one or multiple cycles of self-organization and self-development, the clients verbally shares their experiences and their current physical and mental states. This sharing and reflection of the clients' experiences is aimed at incorporating the prefrontal cortex (PFC) into the process of somatic self-regulation. The PFC is responsible for higher-order cognitive functions such as language, abstraction, logic, imagination, and social cooperation.
Sensation, motor function, and emotion primarily arise from the nervous system and limbic and endocrine systems. These systems developed before the PFC and can self-regulate without help from the PFC. However, if the clients are able to create a logical understanding of the healing process by assigning words to the experience, they are more likely to continue a practice of perceiving themselves mindfully and with compassion.
The method practiced in this coaching session is PME, an ISMETA-approved somatic method.
We learn to not only listen to our own bodies with a compassionate mind, but also to listen to other people and help them explore themselves with compassion and curiosity. This not only sharpens our skills in attuning to ourselves to find healing through awareness, it also signals to our psyche an abundance of health when we give this level of care and attention to others. The partners learn how to observe and how to heal collaboratively.
What it Costs
Partner online coaching costs $160 per session.
Partner in-person coaching costs $180 per session.
Partner coaching sessions are approximately 75 minutes.