This training is for anyone wanting healing, therapy, and coaching combined, as restoration from stress and trauma.  You may be in a leadership role such as an executive or parent.  You may be a healing practitioner such as a psychotherapist, nurse, yoga teacher, or massage therapist.  Or, you may want to improve your physical health and emotional clarity to support and discover your true mission in life.  Read our mission here, and also here.

This voice and touch training has a unique goal: to inspire a new future vision and discover the energy to accomplish it.  

Create new patterns in BrainBody communication that shift your perception and action in life. Advance your health, self-leadership, and Life Purpose.  In linking the body to the brain, you heal unconscious trauma and stress that have been getting in the way of the voice of a more true self that knows what you want and how to get it. Your vision may be a new creative work path, climbing Mt. Everest, learning how to love more deeply, healing a chronic condition, or just not feeling so tired.

New possibilities begin to emerge with body & brain TouchLink™, where access to a deeper Life Current frees the energy for your Life Purpose to rise and take shape.

As the skin and organs receive a listening touch, sensory signals link the body to the heart and brain.  In linking, you become transparently available to your heart’s deepest longings. Compassion is key in this series also known as Support Touch for Trauma™.  Your own emergent creativity and relational sensitivity awakens. Voice, touch, dialogue and movement (Nia/Yoga) are the therapeutic tools of the process; the craniosacral, visceral, fascia, and Chinese medicine systems are the foundation.  These combined self-defining, self-organizing principles illuminate the higher intelligence within.

How?
Life Changing Listening through body-to-brain touch gives access to a true voice
that inspires new future visions and the energy to accomplish what you want.
It begins with trusting yourself.

Who?
This training is for those who desire healing, health and high energy.  You don’t need special training to join. Everyone finds these integrative methods helpful. Practitioners of therapeutic dialogue, touch and movement are invited to broaden your craft.

What?
Growth happens when you weave three avenues of self-expression:
Sensation, Emotion, and Cognition.
These three levels of self-awareness expand as touch to the skin sends direct messages to the brain.  Learn anatomy, physiology and energy basics.  Work within the quantum field of consciousness to create wholeness of the psyche.

Why?
Your deepest sensitivities develop to become your greatest power and express your highest art in life.
As you unburden the body-brain, you become more capable, lighter and free.
Your heart opens, and your mind is clear and strong.

When?
This class meets for 5 modules, and the program is 1 year.  We cycle through a different aspect of consciousness every season, each which completes the puzzle picture of the psyche. Only when each season (of the self) is present, do we feel whole, and therefore, able.   See details below.

Sessions
A 3-part progression into the body uncovers your potential.
Begin with Nia – a blend of 9 movement arts: tai chi, tae kwon do, aikido, jazz, modern and Duncan dance, Feldenkrais, Alexander, yoga – for emotional expression and fluid freedom, and Yoga for sensation awareness and body form.  Discover the Joy of Movement through Nia and conscious alignment through Yoga.  Then move into Leadership & Listening Teams for a deep dive of the season’s Life Purpose.  These actions open the gateway for meaningful and coherent BrainBody Linking through voice and touch.

What Is The Body Imprint?
IATM is a root method to strengthen your sense of self-leadership, expand consciousness and heal trauma. Embodiment – the Body Imprint – is the difference IATM provides.  Chinese medicine is the timeless framework which guides the Body Imprint, the healing of the body/psyche chasm, the space where biology and spirit meet to move you from trauma and stress back into growth, repair, restoration, and relationship. Four regions of the body/psyche are the foundation for all growth:  Cranium, Thorax, Abdomen, and Pelvis.

The Body Imprint grounds the psyche and change. The laws of nature from the five seasons in Chinese Medicine guide us toward wholeness.

V&T 1   –   PELVIS:  Fear/Trust .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . winter
V&T 2   –   ABDOMEN:  Anger/Creativity .  .  .  spring 
V&T 3   –   THORAX:  Sadness/Passion .  .  .  .  summer
V&T 4   –   CRANIUM:  Worry/Empathy .  .  .  .   late summer
V&T 5   –   THORAX:  Fulfillment/Grief .  .  .  . fall

“Genius is the art of making the complex simple. Discover your genius in this class made simple.”
– Gloria Gonzalez

• Ongoing stress and trauma can cause you to lose subtle awareness, where nuance guides the ease of decision and direction. The ability to “differentiate” – for your nervous system to perceive subtlety – is an art.
• The key to Voice & Touch:  layered listening that cultures subtle awareness to differentiate the structures of self.
• This differentiation becomes grounded by creating the Body Imprint, a new pattern networked throughout the nervous system.
• Differentiation within the autonomic nervous system heals the root of long-standing symptoms:  dissociation (hypo-linked) and reactive (hyperlinked) states resulting in a loss of rhythmicity in the organs and nervous system function.
• Subtle awareness can create new “links” in our inner experience so balance and rhythm can return.
• In this re-linking, the nervous system reorganizes to higher levels, healing disorganized chronic stress/trauma adaptations – weight loss, allergies, anxiety, sleep, headaches, and more.
• Differentiation is the source point for clearing the past to create fullness in an unbroken present and future.
• When the nervous system is strong, the body becomes more present, and our ability for leadership – for self and others – is vastly improved.
• A strong self-defined body expresses identity and aliveness without struggle or pretense.   Sense the body to restore the function of self-knowing.
• Increase your personal capacity and relational range.

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Supporting self-organizing systems is where the harmony happens:

• Polyvagal theory – the biology of compassion, and the 5 regulating nerves
• Craniosacral system – contact the brain, spine, nerves, meninges to touch the origins of mind in the 12 craniosacral nerves and tissues
• Visceral system – organs as emotional brains, nerves, fascia, the 4 body vaults
• Fascial System – your internal web, a communication network connecting every organ and nerve to the brain
• The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): the power of the protection and growth responses of Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend, Fold – science and somatics.
• The 10-Senses – sensory organs as portals of self-regulation, including 5 senses of the physical eye and 5 senses of the inner eye.
• Triune Brain – increase your conflict-resolution capacity via animal (reptilian), social (mammalian) and divine (neocortical) integration.
• 5 Elements of Leadership and Life Resiliency Cycle – the Chinese Medicine Cycle of Transformation is a timeless map for inner change. The body and organs are the source of the unconscious psyche/soul that longs to bring its calling to fruition.
• The Practice of Emergence – a dynamic approach of movement, touch and dialogue combined, in relation to bodily structures, somatics, systems thinking and the 5 Element Cycle.

The BodyBrain Links together waves of growth in the Triune Brain, the three realms in which we exist, from Animal to Divine.

• Animal Brain Link: settles recurring survival responses of fight, flight, freeze, to inspire natural empowerment and self-care. Sensation is the guide.
• Social Brain Link: balances emotional self-mastery, empathy and expression, fueling the capacity to communicate and connect genuinely. Feeling is the guide.
• Divine Brain Link: gives direction to decision-making and self-leadership propelling new visions and the discernment needed to make them happen. Insight is the guide.

Leadership & Life Resiliency
Develop your embodied presence with this direct and differentiated moment-to-moment contact with the organs, nervous system, and your 10-Senses.   With a more finely tuned, capable nervous system, stress fades and trauma heals.  The body springs forth again with self-regulation.  More bold and yet more vulnerable, we finally embrace that which we long for most in life. The genuine fulfillment that grows within generously and courageously gives back to the world.

“Develop uncommon power: learn to listen to that which can only be felt.”
– Gloria Gonzalez

Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation
Specific structures positively affect self-regulation and co-regulation, which is the development of harmony within the self and with others.

Anyone can train in these simple techniques for a profound embodied experience.

• Emotional Balance & 4 Body Vaults: Experience greater emotional expression, balance and emotional relief, through contact with four bodily diaphragms.  As self-organizing, they make up the wholeness of our emotions and the psyche.
• Self-Regulation & Craniosacral System: Our most basic reactions and the fluidity of brain function are regulated by the craniosacral nerves, bones, and membranes.
• Co-Regulation, Polyvagal System & Visceroception:   Relational expression and a more honest, genuine fulfilling human inter-connection can develop when we reach down & in to our interior self to bring up & out what wants to be shared in healthy, creative exchange with others.

Too often education in these systems is imparted within theoretical frameworks. Instead, we will work with them as they actually exist in your body: by proximity and within the regions that express the psyche and emotions, processing past, present and future. This creates a coherence not available when you work exclusively within either scientific or psychological textbook frameworks.

HANDS-ON work activates the brain, and our capacity to Voice that which has been left unspoken – needs, desires, expressivity, relations, acknowledgment, talent, skills, and our sense of knowing. Embody new self-leadership. Challenge the edges of perception.  Increase your instinctual capacity.  Embrace the body as a source of both stability and change. More meaningful experiences in life emerge from the coherence Voice can bring about.

• Winter – Pelvis/Cranium: Trust
Trust, Purpose, Listening.  Explore the pelvis as a spiral basin, a fountain rising through spine and body. Breath, physical vigor, Voice and freedom of movement result when the pelvis is awake. The cranium blossoms as a receiving dish for communication from the pelvis upward, acting as associative interpreter of bodily messages, both interoceptive, and exteroceptive.
BodyBrain Link for Trust: Pelvic vault, Kidney, Bladder, Occiptal release, Sphenoid, Sacrum, Sensory Organ of the Ear, Pons, Cerebellum, Dura, Vagus nerve, Freeze response.

• Spring – Abdomen: Creativity
Creativity, Power, Sight.  The abdomen exchanges energy with the pelvic fountain, to distribute it as digestive fire, heat for metabolism, alertness, and happiness.
BodyBrain Link for Creativity: Respiratory vault, Liver, Gall Bladder, Sensory Organ of the Eye, Hypothalamus, Trigeminal nerve, Fight response.

• Summer – Thorax: Passion
Passion, Inter-Connection, Speaking.  The chest beats the rhythm of the soul. As an expandable vessel it regulates the circulation of nerves, blood, breath and evenness of mood and reactivity. Passion rises up and out, to inspire our lives and other’s when chest structures are free.
BodyBrain Link for Passion: Thoracic vault, Heart, Small Intestine, Sternum, Maxilla, Sensory Organ of the Tongue, Amygdala, Thalamus, Vagus, Facial & Hypoglossal nerves, Flight response.

• Late Summer – Abdomen: Empathy
Empathy, Community, Touch.  The abdomen supports even flow of energy from below (pelvic fountain) and above (thoracic vault), to support energy distribution and transformation, and blood sugar regulation. Here, empathy acts as containment for life processing.
BodyBrain Link for Empathy: Respiratory vault, Stomach, Pancreas, Frontal, Mandible, Sensory Organ of the Mouth, PreFrontal Cortex, Glossopharyngeal nerve, Friend response.

• Fall – Thorax: Fulfillment
Fulfillment, Renewal, Identity.  The chest serves as a container the expansion of consciousness (prana) and our regulation with the environment through breath.  It is here where we learn our true identity is renewed only through an ease of exchange. And it is here where we find our being becomes full and fulfilled.
BodyBrain Link for Fufillment: Cranial vault, Lung, Large Intestine, Ribs, Hippocampus, Sensory Organ of the Nose, Vagus, Spinal Accessory nerve, Fold response.

What You Will Receive

• I AM THE MEDICINE is a timeless system of the laws of nature, mind and body that help you navigate life with more ease.
• I AM THE MEDICINE gives you the self-organizing map of the biology, psyche and physiology, as supported by ancient Chinese medicine theory and archetypical patterns.
• I AM THE MEDICINE manual guides you through each season with solid science, sensory, craniosacral, visceral, fascia, and Chinese medicine.
• 1-year annual online membership to Visible Body anatomy and physiology.
• Powerpoint presentations in class provide visual guides for hands-on.
• Bodywork tables provided in class.
• Support between classes, with the leader, Gloria Gonzalez, by email, text, phone.

PROGRAMME DETAILS
The program is 1 year with 5 seasonal modules, as we cycle through a different aspect of consciousness each season, each which completes a vital aspect of the body and psyche. Only when each season (of the self) is present, do we feel whole, and therefore, able.

“Genius is the art of making the complex simple. Discover your genius in this class made simple.”
– Gloria Gonzalez

1) Nia & Yoga Somatic Movement: Nia/Yoga class begins our dialogue with the body. Somatic sensing helps you see, hear and feel in a new way. And, you get a workout too!

2) Leadership & Listening Teams: We meet first in the for a Deep Dive to catalyze coherence and change. Then we explore the Element of the listening session, preparing you as both client and practitioner.

3) Brain and Body TouchLink:  Voice & Touch work is next.  Hands-on sensory signals activate the brain’s response to give voice to the unconscious – structures of organs, nerves, and bones.  Touch-dialogue sequences via linking sensation, emotion, and cognition create new internal Body Imprints.  Release the past to cultivate and culture a new sense of self in relationship to the world.