Somatic Movement Workshops

with Daphne Georghiou

What We Embody

Therapy of Motion experiences focus on  building somatic consciousness and psycho-emotional healing in creative, innovative ways. The word Soma means "Body" in Greek. Somatic relates to a person's inner, sensational experience, or internal awareness, of the body as a system, an organism. It is the Body-Mind connection and our ongoing alignment with it that facilitates spiritual intelligence.

Therapy of Motion is dedicated to creating explorative, ritual spaces for women's body wisdom and empowerment, using Continuum Movement and the Halprin Life Art Process.

What is Continuum Movement?

Continuum Movement builds on intuitive, fully embodied movement that is novel and refreshing. By learning to follow the natural fluidity of your own inner somatic experience, you feed and inform other areas of your life with creative potency and vitality. Therapy of Motion Continuum explorations create the groundwork for connecting with your cosmic and primal roots, using resonant sounding and sensationally driven, fluid motion.

What is Halprin Life-Art Process?

"As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression, we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world."
Anna Halprin

The Halprin Life-Art Process of Tamalpa Institute was founded by the legendary Anna Halprin and co-founding pioneer in the field, Daria Halprin. Through utilizing movement, art-making, poetic dialogue/writing, sound, breath, and creative body reenactments, the Life-Art Process provides a rich, expressive, art-therapy landscape for healing and transforming the stories of our lives into greater depths & meaning-making.

About Daphne Georghiou,

MFT, RCC, MA RSMT

Daphne has dedicated her life to building nurturing, somatic healing environments that cultivate creative self expression, body-mind awareness, and overall depth of meaning.

Daphne Georghiou, MFT, RCC, RSMT has over 20 years of experience leading somatic movement therapy sessions, body empowerment workshops, and facilitating transformational expressive arts therapy groups.

Daphne Georghiou is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Clinical Counsellor, and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association).

Daphne is also an authorized Continuum Movement Teacher, by Continuum late founder and somatic movement pioneer, Emilie Conrad. She is a certified Halprin Life-Art Process practitioner from Tamalpa Institute - the first in-studio training center for body-based Expressive Arts Therapy, and art-based Somatic Movement Therapy. Daphne's work draws upon dance pioneer, Anna Halprin's, Movement Ritual and dance as a healing art. She has studied closely with Daria Halprin, cofounder and director of Tamalpa Institute.
As a somatics practitioner, she also draws from her training as a Certified Acupressure Massage Therapist and an energetic healer.

Daphne aims to build and nurture healing environments, which adhere to the creative expression of the individual in so far as they cultivate a climate for self-understanding, self-knowledge, self-acceptance, somatic-awareness and a harmonious coexistence with others.

Daphne holds a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute - a Jungian and Depth psychology based school. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Individual and Child Counsellor with a private practice in Vancouver, BC.

For a Free Therapy consultation, visit Daphne's Counseling website here.

Philosophy

I believe that the organism of the body is our greatest tool for gaining and maintaining health and overall wellbeing. All of our thoughts, feelings, traumas, and the stories of our lives are housed in the physical body itself - organs, bones, flesh and all. Without learning how to listen to the body and follow its natural flow for healing and regeneration, the body can suffer from neurosis, physical illness and even cellular dysfunction. ~Daphne

Workshop Topics

Previous workshops offered

Contact Daphne to find out more about when these workshops will be offered next, or get on the list for updates. 

Voice of the Abdomen Workshop

A Continuum & Expressive Arts Movement Therapy Workshop for Feminine Empowerment, Healing & Somatic Release

~Art Supplies Included~

Our Bodies store negative and positive imprints, how we establish our sense of alignment around past emotional scripts, and how we organize ourselves around old traumas, patterns, beliefs, and postures. This is mirrored in our physical structure and the functioning of each body part. We see in our bodies, how we are stuck, how we are holding and the quality of our desire, joy and sadness.

The Abdomen is associated with the "gut brain" or the enteric brain, which is responsible for our "happy feelings," as well as the context of our sorrow and our pain. This body part reflects our ability to digest things and/or eliminate them--including how we hold down feelings and our ability to process or assimilate the experiences of our lives.

Using the Abdomen as both a literal and a metaphoric key into personal and archetypal life themes, you will identify and explore the life-script associated with this potent body part, and make breakthroughs in an embodied, healing way. 

In this Continuum and Life-Art Process experience, you will be gently guided into exploring the wisdom of the of the Abdomen, to encounter, confront, explore in creative, innovative ways, that which is no longer serving you. You will explore artful ways to unravel the stories that lie within that may be holding you back in life. As the voice of the Abdomen unfolds and we allow the body-mind to "speak," greater possibilities for change, renewal and growth will emerge.

Belly of Renewal Workshop

A Continuum  Depths Dive for Somatic Healing & Cellular Rejuvenation

Using simple yet powerful continuum movement practice, breath and sound exploration, you will learn to tap into the wisdom of the Enteric Brain (the Gut Brain), where our "happy feelings" are generated and housed. Come and:

  • Invoke your own inner, movement meditation and give yourself the gift of diving into the "underworld" of your own abdomen and core. 

  • Wake up to the deeper terrains of your body's intelligence, alive with ancient, aquatic wisdom.

  • Discover ways to hone in and cultivate a healthy rhythm for soothing the enteric brain.

  • Learn to relax into your body's sacred fluid system and natural desire to balance, regenerate and heal.

  • Move beyond story and journey into the sea of your belly's wisdom to nourish your Self and your "cells."

  • Discover another layer of somatic consciousness through the breath, and anchor deeper into your body's midline, anatomy of the belly and cosmic connectedness.

Everyone Welcome!
No experience needed.

Empowering the Pelvis Workshop

Body-based Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop for Feminine Empowerment & Somatic Renewal


Art Supplies Included

Our Bodies store negative and positive imprints, how we establish our sense of alignment around past emotional scripts, and how we organize ourselves around old traumas, patterns, beliefs and postures. This is mirrored in our physical structure and the functioning of each body part. We see in our bodies, our posture, in our gestures, how we are stuck, how we are holding, and the quality of our longing and ourjoy. Each body part possesses life themes that are also related to biological, physiological and functional aspects.

In this Continuum and Life-Art Process Empowering the Pelvis workshop, you will be gently and expertly guided into the wisdom of the body-mind to encounter, confront, explore, and deconstruct, in creative, innovative ways, that which no longer is serving you higher good. You will learn to artfully unravel the stories that lie within that may be holding you back in life, through gradually allowing the body-mind to "speak." As the old story unfolds, greater possibilities for change, renewal and growth will naturally emerge.

Using the Pelvis as both a literal and a metaphoric key into personal and archetypal life themes, you will identify and explore the life-script associated with this potent body part, and make discoveries and breakthroughs in a constructive, artfully embodied and creative way.

Everyone Welcome!
No experience needed.

Continuum Spinal Flow & Release

  • Learn powerful but simple continuum movement practices, and be guided into unraveling your own, personal movement meditation and free, embodied expression.

  • Experience moving beyond the (fear) limitations of your central nervous system and tap into the vast knowledge alive in your body's aquatic intelligence.

  • Align with the flow of your natural, primordial rhythms, and soulful continuum wave motion.   

Continuum Movement builds on intuitive, fully embodied motion, that is novel and refreshing. The practice of continuum creates an internal climate of cellular nurturing and renewed somatic vitality, by allowing a gentle dissolving of compression in the body's tissue and joints. It inspires a breaking through of physical and emotional "obstacles" that limit the flow of healing energy in the body. 

This Continuum Movement Night Dive is an all-levels body-wisening and sensationally rejuvenating workshop, facilitated in a held, ritual space. This is a rare opportunity to go inward and re-invoke your own sacred, movement meditation. Give yourself the gift of diving into the underworld of your body's ancient, fluid wisdom, using simple but powerful continuum movement breathing and sounding practices. Discover another layer of somatic consciousness through the breath, and anchor deeper into your body's midline, fluid spine, and cosmic connectedness. Come and experience a transformational, somatic journey for cellular nourishment and body bliss!

Private Sessions

Call for a private phone consultation, prior to setting up an appointment. Each soma-therapy and
psychotherapeutic session is tailored to suit your personal needs for healing and/or personal development. 

Tel: 778-985-6670