THE CONCEPT OF EMBODIMENT
Embodiment is the practice of reading and being aware of your feelings.
Body awareness serves as an orientation point, to help you feel more in charge of the course of your life. This knowledge provides you with a basis for empathy, helps you make healthy decisions, and gives important feedback on your relationships with others. Embodiment in somatic psychology applies mindfulness and movement practices to awaken body awareness as a tool for healing.
– Psychiatrist Bessel Van der Kolk author of The Body Keeps the Score. Some data on the book’s scope. In 2019, The Body Keeps the Score ranked second in the science category of the New York Times bestseller list, and at the end of October 2023, The Body Keeps the Score remained on Amazon’s bestseller list for 153 weeks (almost 3 years).
– Dr Gabor Maté author of When the Body Says No, translated into fifteen languages. Celebrated speaker, New York Times bestselling author. An expert on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood, Dr Maté is widely followed in his lectures and talks (2.2 Mln followers on IG)
– Peter Levin founder of Somatic experiencing®. It is a powerful method of psycho-physiological work for the treatment and prevention of trauma in a short period of time. The most significant contribution of Somatic Experiencing® is the understanding that what happens in the traumatic event is not merely psychological, but a complex physical, neurological and psychic reaction. Resolution of trauma lies in completing and discharging physiological processes rather than remembering or retracing the event. Trauma does not reside in the event, but in the physiology of the body.
Valentina ragno
Bodywork teacher trained in the Grinberg Method®.
She practiced this profession first in France then in Italy, continuing to train with the founder of the Method, Avi Grinberg, and following update courses until she becames Teacher of the Grinberg Methodology.
In 2019 she opened the Body Learning School, an international school based in Milan to train future bodywork professionals. She co-founded in 2024 D.em.a., Disciplines of Embodied Attention, a cultural association aiming to spread embodiment knowledge and practice.
eTIENNE LAVAIL
Bodywork teacher according to the Grinberg Method®. Born in France and partly raised in Australia, he has been living in Italy since 2013.
He graduated in Statistics and Economics from ENSAE Paristech and had a corporate career in France, USA, Germany, and Italy. Since childhood, he has practiced martial arts and then became interested in dance and dance therapy and Zen meditation.
Since 2019, he collaborates in the organization and training for international courses at the Body Learning School. He co-founded in 2024 D.em.a., Disciplines of Embodied Attention, a cultural association aiming to spread embodiment knowledge and practice.
D.em.A. Worlwide
In the USA there are platforms [2 million+ subscribers] that offer tools to reconnect mind and body through body practices and talks that encourage a change of perspective for collective healing.
In Italy, the convergence between spirituality, understood as alignment, presence and awareness, and contexts as diverse as work or leisure is increasingly present. Examples are the new Master’s degree at the Milan Polytechnic on Spirituality and Management