USABP - United States Association for Body Psychotherapy

05/06/2026

Register Today:
https://members.usabp.org/atlas/events/spiritual-experience-during-interoceptive-awareness-training-through-mindful-awareness-in-body-oriented-therapy-mabt--5081/details

05/04/2026

Go read the latest book review!

What if spirituality didn’t ask you to believe harder—but to listen more gently? In our latest review, SPT Magazine explores how Elaine N. Aron’s Spirituality Through a Highly Sensitive Lens offers a grounded, compassionate approach to meditation. Thoughtful, science-informed, and deeply humane, Aron offers a calm, trustworthy entry point. Drawing on decades of research, lived experience, and more than 50 years of Transcendental Meditation practice, Aron reframes spirituality not as belief or dogma, but as a deeply personal capacity for meaning, connection, and nervous-system ease. Written as a reflective “sanctuary” rather than a prescriptive guide, the book speaks to all readers, especially highly sensitive readers, who seek depth without overwhelm—and a meditation practice that genuinely fits their everyday lives.

To read our review, please visit our Book Shelf at www.SomaticPsychotherapyToday.com

03/17/2026

What shifts when leadership moves beyond binary thinking?

With less than a week to go, we invite you to join the USABP Authentic Conversations Speaker Series on March 25 featuring Yi-Li Godfrey, author of Jia-Ba-Bue: Somatic Leadership Beyond the Binary.

This conversation explores how somatic leadership can expand our understanding of relational dynamics, power, and inclusion within therapy, organizations, and communities.

🗓 March 25 | 10:00–11:30 AM PDT
💻 Online via Zoom (Live + Recorded)

🎟 Register now to attend live or receive the recording:
https://usabp.org/event-6564833

This event will be recorded and available to all who register. This course will not include CEs.

✨ What does “leadership beyond the binary” bring up for you in your work or practice?

03/14/2026

For therapists, somatic practitioners, and facilitators exploring embodied leadership

Join us March 25 for the USABP Authentic Conversations Speaker Series featuring Yi-Li Godfrey, author of Jia-Ba-Bue: Somatic Leadership Beyond the Binary.

In this presentation, participants will explore:

• How binary narratives can appear within traditional therapeutic interventions
• The foundations of Jia-Ba-Bue and its roots in body psychotherapy and Eastern philosophy
• How embodied awareness shapes relational dynamics, power, and inclusion

…and more.

🗓 March 25 | 10:00–11:30 AM PDT
💻 Online via Zoom (Live + Recorded)

🎟 Register now to attend live or receive the recording:
https://usabp.org/event-6564833

This event will be recorded and available to all who register. This course will not include CEs.

03/11/2026

Meet Your Speaker ✨

Yi-Li Godfrey
Author of Jia-Ba-Bue: Somatic Leadership Beyond the Binary

Join us March 25 for the next USABP Authentic Conversations Speaker Series as Yi-Li shares insights on somatic leadership and embodied awareness.

🗓 March 25
📍 Online via Zoom

🎟 Register now to attend live or receive the recording.
https://usabp.org/event-6564833

03/05/2026

Tomorrow is the day you can learn from Ish*ta! Register Now! https://usabp.org/event-6565255

After completing this session, participants will be able to:

~ Analyze the psychological and physiological impact of shifting attention from individual identity ("I") to collective interdependence ("Us").

~ Identify defense patterns and behaviors that either facilitate or sever a culture of mutuality.

~ Develop practical strategies to turn social networks into communities with intention.

And so much more!

> This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. This course will not include CEs.

03/04/2026

Participants will learn to:

~ Recognize the mammalian drive for connection and how the "epidemic of loneliness" affects the mind-body-environment continuum.

~ Apply ancestral wisdom and storytelling as tools to reclaim a sense of belonging and bridge the gap between disconnection and community.

~ Cultivate psychological safety within networks to enhance mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

And so much more!

> This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. This course will not include CEs.

Register Now! https://usabp.org/event-6565255

03/03/2026

Meet our speaker for our first Authentic Conversations Speaker Series:

Authentic Conversations: Inclusion, Power, and the Practice of Belonging is a USABP community outreach dialogue series for practitioners committed to meaningful inclusion within our field.

Join Ish*ta Sharma on March 6, 10 - 11:30 AM PST - ONLINE & Recorded for "How are we in together? Relationscapes for healing our social nervous system"

Register Here: https://usabp.org/event-6565255

03/02/2026

Hear from a student from one of our Educator Alliance Training Institutes - Level 1.

01/12/2026

Attunement is the envelope that makes exploration with safety, trust, curiosity, openness, spontaneity, compassion, play, humor, imagination, and connection possible.
This is a free event. Invite colleagues and friends.