Personalities of the gut online

Workshop: this workshop is offered in two weekends for graduates in North America. There is a maximum of 20 participants for the online course. Attendance is compulsory on both weekends. Once you register, a link for the workshop will be send to you. Please note this workshop does not qualify for a PACT discount.

The workshop is set up for teaching of course material via presentations, self awareness experiential exercises and also for hands on work. Attendees will need someone to practice on for the hands on sessions, and they will need to be available and on time in their learning space so as to keep the flow going for the whole group. We suggest you pair up with another graduate or a practice client.

Felt Sense - Discerning Symbiosis:

The felt sense of the Enteric Nervous System is quite different than that of our Central Nervous System. In our modern consciousness this is something so alien and yet so familiar that it is like a fish trying to get the felt-sense of water. We need to be able to be with altered realities to begin to understand our guts. Our gut is symbiotically integrated with an incredible variety of microbes. So many that they even outnumber the cells in our bodies. The question then becomes, of course… who is actually running the show … are we man or microbe?  To get the felt sense of our gut lining, our 1/2 inch zone of connection and symbiosis, we must step through the looking glass by turning ourselves inside out and cultivating our awareness of this subtle, multi-dimensional intelligence(s!) that operate not unlike an octopus in a maze.

Embryology - Gut and Brain Development:
We will keep grounded in our bodies by exploring the anatomy of the gut as a whole. There is a way of feeling our gut/microbe as a biodynamic whole that is quite different than the felt-sense of the individual primary respiration of the various organs of the gut.

Practitioner Skills - Health History: 

The workshop will include a session on how to language and begin to discover what is actually going on with a clients’ digestion during an intake session. There is often a lot of shame around the digestive process, so being able to get an idea of the gut without triggering this dynamic can be delicate.

Other topics we will work with:
- Gut Embryology
- Serotonin/microbiome integration with brain development
- ENS as a neural net - sensing environment through taste/synesthesia