To begin your journey into the transformative world of Visionary Somatics, this Introduction to Visionary Somatics course is designed to provide a comprehensive exploration of foundational concepts before embarking on the two-year practitioner training.

Visionary Somatics is an extraordinary synthesis of anatomical neuroscience, mindful clinical touch, trauma resolution, somatic psychology, ancestry work, ritual arts, embodied philosophical inquiry, mental imagery guidance, and expressive arts for catalyzing the human capacity to thrive in complexity.

Albert Einstein was an example of a visionary who was grounded in the concrete understandings of physis and yet he was also an embodied philosopher, exemplified by his wonderful phrase “science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

The capacity to clearly see the hidden abstraction in the apparent concrete and the hidden concrete inside the apparent abstraction is the hallmark of the visionary embodied philosopher. It’s where the love of wisdom, intellect, invention, and mind are married to the soma— the living matter of the body.

General systems theory is a lens utilized by the Visionary Somatics practitioner to observe how complex adaptive systems exhibit deep structural and functional similarities to other complex adaptive systems.

Metaphysics gets a bad rap where it is needed the most and gets overused by others at the expense of deeper pragmatism. It seems like the choices afforded us for metaphysics are profoundly bipartisan in ways analogous to the science/humanities binary.

We are living in the age of trauma. Discourse about trauma is now a mainstay in healing modalities because it is a critical subject to explore for understanding how the past erupts into the present.

Powerfully poised at the interface between the subject of the humanities and the object of the sciences is the archetypal image. Archetypes are images that recur cross-culturally as intense, affect-laden presences, interacting in mythic, ritual, literary, and religious narrative structures.

One way of understanding the theory and practice of Visionary Somatics is that it is a field theory; a creative healing laboratory for researching and treating biological, psychological, and social fields.