{"id":16,"date":"2010-10-15T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T01:35:07","slug":"somatic-movement-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/somatic-movement-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Somatic Movement Psychotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Somatic Movement Psychotherapy&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Somatic Movement Psychotherapy draws on somatic and affectively-motivated movement experiences that engage the body and feelings to obtain self-awareness, self-understanding, and insight into our thoughts, beliefs and interactional dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Somatic Movement Psychotherapy can have a number of aims including the restoration of balance and integration in physical function, sensory development, emotional expression, and mental functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Although dance has been used aethestically as well as therapeutically throughout our human history, Somatic Movement Psychotherapy is a relatively new profession throughout the world, emerging strongly in the 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Somatic Movement Psychotherapy uses observation and analysis theories, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/labaninstitute.org\/about\/laban-movement-analysis\/\">Laban\/Bartenieff Movement System<\/a> &nbsp;to determine and address the client\u2019s therapeutic needs. Therapeutic interventions are often designed using Laban\/Bartenieff Movement Analysis in conjunction with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodymindcentering.com\/\">Bodymind Centering<\/a> concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Most Somatic Movement Psychotherapists are trained in psychotherapy and counselling skills as well as group facilitation.&nbsp; My particular approach uses <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self_psychology\">Psychoanalytic Self Psychology<\/a> as its theoretical base.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge-dancers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge-dancers-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge-dancers-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge-dancers-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bridge-dancers.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Somatic Movement Psychotherapy&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Somatic Movement Psychotherapy draws on somatic and affectively-motivated movement experiences that engage the body and feelings to obtain self-awareness, self-understanding, and insight into our thoughts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/somatic-movement-therapy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfnmotion.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}