La Somática En El Contexto De Las Plantas Medicina

Somatics in the Context of Medicinal Plants is an integrative approach to the inter-being and will be taught by Barbara Carlsen. The course will be conducted online, in English (Spanish translations), and will consist of 6 meetings of 2 hours each.

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Course Description

Somatics in the Context of Medicinal Plants is an integrative approach to the inter-being and will be taught by Barbara Carlsen. The course will be conducted online, in English (Spanish translations), and will consist of 6 meetings of 2 hours each.

The course aims to provide an understanding of how body awareness practices can optimise and improve the integration of master plants in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. The course is designed to work with somatic, autonomic, and limbic processing systems activated in psychedelic and psychoactive states. The course will be useful to psychotherapists, clinicians, advocates or researchers working in the field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Additionally, it could benefit yoga teachers, dance therapists, or others working in wellness practices. The course will cover topics such as the new science of interconnection and inter-being through corporeal practices, the historical legacies and cultural contexts of contemporary culture that affect corporeality and inter-being, the neurobiology of somatic therapies and its application to neuroplasticity and the reconnection of a new reality, and how to use embodiment practices and other tools to support integration with self and others.

By participating in this course, students are expected to understand the new science of interconnection and inter-being through corporeal practices, understand the historical legacies and cultural contexts of contemporary culture that affect corporeality and inter-being, learn the neurobiology of somatic therapies and its application to neuroplasticity and the reconnection of a new reality, know how to prepare for and optimize a non-ordinary/psychoactive state using bodily practices and somatic approaches and understand how to use embodiment practices and other tools to support integration with self and others.

You will learn:

  • What is Bwiti?
  • Roles in Bwiti initiation/treatment
  • Instruments in Bwiti: ngombe, mogongo
  • What is an Nganga
    • Maboundi/Yombo
    • Maboundi/Yombo
  • Sustainability/reciprocity

You will learn:

  • History of the Fang tradition
  • Dissumba vs. Dissumba Fang
  • Ombwiri/Mbumbayano Fang
  • The kambo
  • State of Fang Bwiti in Gabon
  • Impact of Westerners coming to work with the sacred wood

You will learn:

  • History of the Missoko tradition
  • Various branches of Missoko initiation:
    • Miobe/Mioba
    • Ngonde Na Dipuma
    • Sengedia
  • The impact of logging on the tradition
  • What the future of Bwiti could look like in Gabon

You will learn:

  • History of Dissumba
  • Various branches of Dissumba initiation:
    • Abanji/Mabanji
    • Ilombo
    • Ombwiri
    • Ombudi
    • Loro
  • The ngombe (sacred harp)
  • Healing rituals involved in her tradition
  • Training to serve the wood
    • What does it involve?
    • How long does it take?

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Tatayo

Instructor

About Instructor

Tatayo (“Fruit of the Wind”) first arrived in Gabon in 1971 at the age of 21 and became a Gabonese citizen. In 1979, he became the first white person to be initiated into the Bwiti Fang tradition in Gabon. In 1994, he was initiated into the Misokko tradition. As a guide for numerous expeditions and missions, including those of National Geographic, the BBC, and others, Tatayo is considered to have “opened the door” to westerners in Gabon.

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Please see below for start and finish dates/times. This course is currently being offered live and dates/times will change throughout the year.

$200

This course includes

  • Modules 6
  • Duration 10 Weeks
  • Skills All levels
  • Language English
  • Availability Cohort
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