In this video presentation below, we are excited to introduce to you the possibilities, value, benefits of using virtual touch. We will provide simple step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate the beginning experience of touch into your sessions or with others you want to connect with. A significant portion of the presentation will be dedicated to a demo from which you can experience and learn from. Coming soon! Get the Full Home Study Training for Virtual Touch  at our Somatic CE Center. 2 CE Credits will be available. The full method of Transformative Virtual Touch in Te ..read more

These two video posts come to you from our "Insider Look" and "Somatic Self Care” Series found on our USABP YouTube Channel. This episode has been brought to you in part by Judith Blackstone and the Realization Process.  GROUNDING In this first video below, learn to Ground yourself so you can reduce anxiety, disentangle yourself from others, experience coherence, and connect better with others. This presentation teaches the Realization Process exercise: Foundational Grounding. Because anxiety is an upward movement in the body (“my heart was in my throat”), we can alleviate anxiety by sett ..read more

This series was created to empower people in challenging times and everyday life. We are bringing to the public short resourcing exercises to regulate body and mind. In challenging times, when stress and anxiety run high, nurturing your body-brain and mind is more important than ever. Maintaining presence and equanimity depends on your capacity to mindfully align sensations, emotions, and thoughts.  These short somatic exercises, generously offered by our members, teach you how to use your energy, emotions, and awareness so that you can face challenges with confidence, and step into ..read more

Recently the USABP and Bodynamics Institute presented a webinar that included demonstrations on how to "Use one's body to contain anxiety under times of uncertainty."  Anne Isaacs went over that in her full webinar presentation,  Creating New Psychophysical Resources That Heal Developmental Disruptions:   Working with Muscle Activation and Movement to Resolve Unconscious Limiting Patterns. Following that webinar attendee and USABP member Karen Kirsch stepped in to action to provide other USABP members and the larger community with some of the tools presented in the abo ..read more

Presented by Stacy Reuille-Dupont, PhD, LPC, CPFT In this interactive presentation, I would like to review the concept that mind lives in every cell of our body and movement patterns are expressions of mind. By looking at the physiological sciences of hormones, neurotransmitters, brain/locomotor development, anatomy, and physiology we can concretely evaluate postural dysfunction, misalignment, and tension patterns set up by physical or psychological states. Watch Now USING THE BODY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT INTERVENTIONS - USABP PRESENTATION 2018 Note from Dr. Stacy Reuille-Dupont ..read more

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USABP & IBPJ Forum: Integrating Trauma and Addiction Treatment Treating Addiction, Trauma and Emotional Loss Together: A Clinical & Historical Perspective by Gabor Maté “Your addiction was your attempt to solve a problem. That problem was that of emotional pain, and hence my mantra...Ask not why the addiction, ask why the pain.” - Gabor Maté Gabor Mate is a retired physician who after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The best-sell ..read more

Boundary exercises: 1. Toward and Away 2. Like it / Don’t like it 3. Boundary-Setting Script Rehearsal “Toward and Away” is a well-known physical proximity exercise that can be done with groups, couples, and individual clients. One person stands still and their partner, facing them from a few yards away, moves slowly toward the still person until the still one detects some sensation of alarm or hesitation and then tells the person coming toward them to stop. Clients usually need a few attempts at this to become sensitized to the somatic cues of their own boundaries, and it tends to be a satisf ..read more

David Boadella passed away November 19, 2021. Here is an excerpt from the International Body Psychotherapy Journal Spring/Summer 2021 Volume 20 How Biosynthesis Enriched Our Lives Tribute from Biosynthesis Therapists We asked the participants of the First International e-Meeting of Biosynthesis Therapists to share how Biosynthesis had enriched their lives. Here are some of their tributes.  ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼ ◼  Biosynthesis brought transformation, clarity, structure, understanding, calm, and wholeness to my life. And a connection among mind, soul, heart, spirit, essence, and body. It supporte ..read more

A new article is publication is available titled "Facilitating adaptive emotion processing and somatic reappraisal via sustained mindful interoceptive attention. " Published in Frontier in Psychology, this article by Drs. Cynthia Price and Helen Weng, is aimed at mental health professionals and highlights the role of sustained interoceptive attention for enhanced emotion regulation.  ..read more