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somatic-psychotherapy.org "The body is the shore on the ocean of the self." (sufi)
Mařenka Cerny, MFT www.somatic-psychothera For 21 years I practiced therapeutic massage.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/marenka-cerny-mft/5/378/31a/

I have been studying somatic psychotherapy for 16 years. My work is based on traditional Hakomi, object relations and theories of intersubjectivity, self psychology, the development of sensory awareness and mindfulness, Bill Bowen's Psychophysical Therapy, and trauma resolution. I received a Master's degree in somatic psychology from the

California Institute of Integral Studies in 2002. For four years I facilitated social skills-building groups for “at-risk” teenagers in S.F. Community Day Schools through the Center for Human Development. I worked for seven years in private practice internships in San Francisco and Berkeley. I taught massage at the National Holistic Institute for two years and over the past six years I have taught experiential anatomy and physiology at John F. Kennedy University, CIIS, and COVA elementary school in Oakland. Introductory Anatomy & Physiology Instruction
Three objectives for my anatomy and/or physiology class are for students to enjoy soaking up an immense number of basic terms and concepts, to gain insight into the way each system interacts with all the other systems, and to be inspired to continue a life-long journey of understanding the amazing functions of the body. I am available to anyone to teach classes either for a one-time presentation or a series. I bring a laptop, projector, skeleton, books, and fun.

I love this quote by Artem Zen in conversation with Guy Sengstock about Circling because it exemplifies what I think is ...
04/18/2024

I love this quote by Artem Zen in conversation with Guy Sengstock about Circling because it exemplifies what I think is universal and such a missing key for so many people about feelings and experience: 😍 “33 years old, learning Circling, and learning how not in tuned I am with my feelings and emotions... 👉🏼 after reading half a dozen books on emotions and 👉🏼still not knowing how to navigate them, and then coming into this and✨ getting a taste of, oh this is how you do it — through practice!! 😳 Through relationship! 😃 In the moment, not when I’m sitting, reading a book,🤔 and everything’s calm, 😌 but in the moment when something’s activated, 🫤 and seeing, oh, what is this like? 😯 how I’m behaving, 🥹🥸🤓 and how I’m reacting 😏😋 or responding to it.” 🥳
Watch more of the interview to hear Guy Sengstock response to Artem Zen

60 seconds · Clipped by Marenka Cerny · Original video "Guy Sengstock - The Yoga of Conversation | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #8" by Artem Zen

This is a good article by Marian Sandmeier for introducing the process of Focusing with clients or friends. ✨ It is my p...
04/16/2024

This is a good article by Marian Sandmeier for introducing the process of Focusing with clients or friends. ✨ It is my perspective that Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing should be an integral part of basic training for all therapists. ✨ This is a step by step somatic practice for teaching clients to sustain focus on their inner world below the thinking mind — beyond everything you already know, to the realms that require more refined attention.

✨ The research from the 1980s showed that a client’s ability to reflect in the way that Focusing does is considered a prerequisite for the success of the therapy. Even though I have my ideas about why, it still feels hard to fathom why the field hasn’t already integrated this very approachable body-oriented reflection practice. ✨ Our world might even be embodied by now if 40 years ago more of the therapists and training programs had been willing to take a stand sooner for including the body in small ways in psychotherapy.

✨🌬️We can at least start now to be more vocal and assertive about the importance of every therapist knowing just one or two basic body practices. Like, simply pausing from talking 🌬️ at least once during every session to do some basic breathing exercises. ❄️✨

Eugene Gendlin and his work on Focusing and the “felt sense” left an indelible mark on modern mind–body approaches to psychotherapy.

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