Trauma Healing Retreat
Trauma, Memory and the Restoration of One’s Self
Heal the Trauma, recover the safety of your body and reconnect with yourself
Bessel van der Kolk & Licia Sky Inner Experience Workshop
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This workshop explores ways of representing and befriending our inner experience. Therapies that work all start from a basic sense of calm and safety. The calmer we are, the more we can allow ourselves to know what we know, and to feel what we feel.
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February 4th to 8th, 2025
This is a 1-to-1 workshop limited to 25 participants.
(English only)
Trauma and Memory
Trauma changes the way the brain processes information and the body engages with the world. Trauma makes people afraid to know what they know and feel what they feel. This is expressed in heartbreak, and the state of being out of sync with oneself and one’s surroundings. This course explores how, because of altered biological systems, traumatized people continue to be trapped by their history and react to current experience in a myriad of ways as a replay of the past, and shows ways to break the cycles of re-enactment and suffering.
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What will you learn?
Learn from the Specialists
We will study and experience the capacity of EMDR, Yoga, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor practices, Psychodrama, theater work, and Neurofeedback to help people overcome a traumatic past and regain the capacity to be fully alive in the present.
What do you need?
Bring a notebook and wear clothing that allows free movement as you are able.
Recommended reading: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van de Kolk
Awareness of physical sensations forms the very foundation of our human consciousness. Overwhelming experiences are lived out in heartbreak and gut-wrenching sensations, which leave survivors feeling frazzled, on edge, overwhelmed, and shut down. The trauma that started outside is lived out in the theater of the body, and survivors no longer feel safe inside their own skin. Recovery from trauma involves learning how to restore a sense of visceral safety and reclaiming a loving relationship with one’s self.
Rooted in the themes addressed inThe Body Keeps the Score, this experiential and didactic course explores how mind and brain are shaped by experience. Learn how your relationship to yourself is intertwined with your synchronicity with those around you while exploring:
• What neuroscience teaches about self-awareness and trauma
• The nature and essence of human attachment
• New treatments that help integrate traumatic memories
• Body-centered approaches to activate our inborn systems for self-regulation and self-compassion.
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, has taught yearly at Esalen for more than 20 years. He is medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Licia Sky
Licia Sky is a somatic educator, bodyworker, artist, and musician. She guides transformational experiences incorporating dynamic observational exercises, music, movement, vocalizing, enhanced listening, and touch to foster safe, transformative inner and interpersonal connection.
We will be staying at Valle Paralelo
Get in touch with yourself and nature in Valle de Bravo, Mexico
Trauma Healing Retreat
Trauma, Memory and the Restoration of One’s Self
Save the date
February 4th to 8th, 2025
This is a 1-to-1 workshop limited to 25 participants.
(English only)
This workshop has been held internationally.
For the first time in Mexico with a special offer.
$3,800 USD
$2,900 USD
Do not hesitate in contact us for more payment plans and content information about this workshop.