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A 12-Month Embodiment Practice Journey, for all levels:

Personal Embodiment Practice Group - 2023

Elevate your embodied group facilitation skills, become a confident, effective facilitator of UZAZU Embodied Intelligence for in-person & online groups, and create rich experiences for participants and potential clients1.

The last Monday of each month, Jan-Dec 2023, 1:00pm - 3:00pm EST/USA

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Do any of these statements apply to you?

  • I'd like to lead impactful, embodiment-focused introductory workshops for people, including those who don’t necessarily have much prior 'embodiment' experience, in a way that also can help me attract new potential clients—both in-person and online.I want to expand my facilitation skills more into working with groups, but I'm concerned about potential challenges or pitfalls when leading embodiment work.
  • I'd love to design and lead more impactful, embodiment-rich workshops, but I struggle with knowing how to incorporate more embodied exercises & processes into them in a way that will also really serve the main focus or theme of the workshop.
  • I want to be able to (use UZAZU to help me) create and deliver different embodiment-based workshops that focus on specific themes or topics I’m passionate about.
  • As a passionate advocate for the valuable skills and increased wellbeing UZAZU Embodied Intelligence can bring, I'm eager to have ways to share it’s benefits with a wider audience, beyond my individual 1-1 sessions.

Live your life this year in a more deeply embodied way...

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As a therapist, coach, or other helping professional, you may have already discovered how incorporating body awareness & movement into your work can be a potent ingredient for helping your clients move towards the changes they’re seeking. And you may even already be utilizing some effective methods for body-focused inquiry, and working somatically with your clients...


Unless, however, you have an effective framework for understanding and working with all the main types of embodied states your clients are typically navigating, even the most powerful somatic techniques can often leave us still falling crucially short of fully serving our clients in the ways they most need.

Learn to Navigate the Four Main Types of Embodied States

The 20 years of research & development that have gone into the UZAZU Embodied Intelligence method have identified four main types of embodied states that each of us needs safe & skilled access to, in order to function and thrive in the world. 

In this year-long practice group, you'll learn to rebalance each of these types of states, when they become dysregulated.
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Balanced States of
Self-Agency... 

support us to safely access our own power, (re)find our intrinsic motivation, and form & pursue our own goals—without collapsing back into disempowerment & self-doubt or becoming over-insistent or over-controlling.

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Balanced States of
Collaboration...

support us to purposefully engage, interact, and optimally co-create with others in group contexts—without becoming too overextended/chaotic or retreating back into non-engagement and isolation.

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Balanced States of
Inner-Experience...

support us to more safely & spaciously experience and self-regulate our sensations, feelings, and thoughts—without either becoming numb & dissociated from them, or too overwhelmed & dysregulated by their intensity.

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Balanced States of
Connection...

support us in attuning to, emotionally connecting with, and fluidly responding to the people & environment around us, in a way that promotes secure attachment—without falling back into enmeshment/co-dependence or withdrawal/avoidance.

Some of the embodiment practices you'll learn & use...

Each month, Dylan or Deb will introduce and teach a new practice—each focusing on a specific way of working with the main 'building blocks' of UZAZU Embodied Intelligence: The 3 Core Bodymind Dimensions, the 9 Core Modes of Engagement, and the various layers of our embodied being (Physiological, Emotional, Behavioral, Mental, Spiritual, etc.). Throughout the month, you'll be practicing and learning how to best utilize this new practice, and revisiting previous ones, as you feel best serves you. You'll have various ways to get support—and engage & practice in community—between our monthly practice sessions.

Practice: Differentiating and Integrating the 3 Core Bodymind Dimensions

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And more...! These are just 5 of the practices we'll be including. As we go along, we'll also be responding, in our content/topic focus, to what the group is most wanting and needing.

What people are saying about doing UZAZU practices...

Anita Paalvast

"I would highly recommend this work to others because it is a powerful way of getting in touch with all the energies in our body. The movements are simple and therefore very accessible and, at the same time, they have great depth and subtlety. Through the focus on polarities, I can understand myself and others better."

Anita Palvaast, Coach & TRainer

Albert Viljoen

“It felt like UZAZU Embodied Intelligence really offered the map, the framework, the developmental structure, and then tools to really support someone. Now that I have an embodied map, I can take any issue and kind of map it with the UZAZU and get a much more well rounded view of this is what's going on, so I can get to the roots of the issue easier.” 

Albert Viljoen, Executive COAch & UZAZU PRactitioner 

Program Details

Main Training Date & Time: 

Friday, September 23rd, 2022, 

10am-4:30pm EST/USA, 3pm-9:30pm BST/UK


Follow-up Q&A Session:

Friday, October 7th, 2022

10am-12pm EST/USA, 3pm-5:00pm BST/UK


Both will take place via interactive Zoom Meetings.

For Helping Professionals of All Experience-levels

This foundations level embodiment-based training is intended for Helping Professionals of any kind (Therapists, Social Workers, Coaches, etc.) who wish to have a simple yet comprehensive framework and method for understanding, identifying, and helping rebalance their clients various patterns of imbalance & dysregulation, in an embodied way. All experience levels are welcome!

An Experiential, Hands On Approach to Online Training

In order to help you develop practical skills and not just give you more theory, this workshop will requires participants to be present and engaged with the material, exercises, and practices we offer, with video enabled, on a laptop or PC. You will be welcome to turn your video off for periods of time, if you need privacy for your own regulation.

Integrated with Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Theory

While this workshop doesn’t teach Polyvagal Theory (nor require prior knowledge of it), it is highly informed by PVT, and builds further upon its central notions of ventral vagal tone, sympathetic mobilization, and dorsal-vagal immobilization. This then gives you more practical methods to address clients’ challenged responses to life experiences across a full range of contexts.


Similarly, this workshop does not teach Attachment Theory, nor require any prior knowledge of it. We will, however, make explicit the deep connections of Attachment Theory to the embodiment patterns and rebalancing protocols you'll learn, so you can organically carry over any knowledge and skills you may have.

Qualifies Social Workers for up to 7 CE Credits, where applicable

For those in the United States, the 5-hours of active training in the workshop qualifies you for 5 'Category A' Continuing Education Credits, by the National Association of Social Workers, Maine Chapter. The Follow-Up Q&A qualifies you for another 2 credits.

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Includes:

  • Interactive Access to the 6.5-hour* Live Zoom Training         *including breaks
  • PDF Handout covering all main content
  • A 2-Hour, live Follow-Up Q&A Session, 2 weeks later
  • Up to 7 CE Credits available for Social Workers in Maine via NASW-Maine (see details above)
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Meet the Trainers:

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Dylan Newcomb

Dylan Newcomb is a mind-body researcher, coach, teacher, and founder/director of the UZAZU Embodied Intelligence method. Over the past 18 years now, Dylan has taught his unique approach to embodiment training, currently called UZAZU Embodied Intelligence, to over 3,000 students across 4 continents. 

He has trained coaches, therapists, group facilitators, policemen, doctors, and business leaders in how to quickly balance their inner states to bring more ease and flow to their engagement in the world. Dylan is increasingly recognized as one of the leaders in the space of bringing the science and practice of embodiment-based personal development into the 21st Century.
 

Read More About Dylan... 

Dylan works 1-1 with coaches, therapists, teachers, entrepreneurs, and cultural creatives of all kinds to cultivate and access the specific embodied states that help empower them more effortlessly thrive in their personal and professional relationships and take joyful, effective action on their authentic inspirations. He has led over 200 workshops and trainings for helping professionals and ‘laypeople’, teaching about self-regulation and state-shifting.

Dylan spent the first fifteen years of his adulthood (1999-2004) as a dancer, choreographer, and composer. He studied both dance and music composition at the Juilliard School in New York City, danced with the world-renowned Netherlands Dance Theater before going on to enjoy a successful, multi-award-winning career as a freelance choreographer & composer.

Driven by an interest to understand the deeper effects of sound and movement on people’s experience, behavior, and relational dynamics, Dylan co-founded the Danslab Institute for Movement Research in 2003, generously funded by the Dutch Government and multiple other grants.

After several years of research into how vowel sounds affect people’s thought, emotion and behavior, Dylan began shaping his sound-movement research findings into a model—and a method—for helping people quickly identify various forms of embodied state imbalances and how to shift and re-pattern them. This research is what led him to what is now called UZAZU Embodied Intelligence.

Dylan also holds certifications in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Healing from the Body-Level Up (HBLU), Psychological Kinesiology (Psych-K).

He lives with his wife Kyung-sun Baek and their 11-year-old daughter Kiana in Freeport Maine.

Deb Grant

Deb Grant

Practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years, Deb Grant, LCSW, LSMT integrates Body-oriented Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), UZAZU Embodied Intelligence, other somatic methods, energy psychology (including EFT), and ego state work in her trauma-informed psychotherapy work with clients to help create lasting healing and change.

She brings consultation and professional development workshops to therapists and other helping professionals, exploring the integration of somatic/body-based work with psychotherapy. As a trainer for UZAZU Embodied Intelligence, a movement-based comprehensive therapeutic change modality, Deb also provides professional workshops and certification programs in UZAZU for coaches and therapists.
 

Read More About Deb... 

In 2015 Deb was honored to co-present polyvagal theory workshops with Deb Dana, LCSW, at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as well as at Omega Institute. Among her many collaborations with Deb Dana, she co-authored a chapter in the book entitled Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-informed Therapies (Editors Stephen Porges and Deb Dana).

Deb is a Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and holds two yoga teacher certifications. She teaches improvisational dance using somatic and relational approaches, offering students ways of using dance as a personal practice for health, well-being and embodiment. 

About UZAZU Embodied Intelligence

An integrative approach for understanding & working with embodied states.

UZAZU Embodied Intelligence gives helping professionals a clear, research-based, integrative model & method for understanding how embodied states work: how to identify state imbalances and how to rapidly shift & re-pattern them, using a set of simple postures & movement patterns.

As a Helping Professional, UZAZU gives you a comprehensive, highly adaptable, embodiment-based methodology for effectively working with clients on almost any issueーin a way that easily integrates with and amplifies the potency of your existing skill sets.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need any prior UZAZU or embodiment knowledge to do this workshop?

This 3-hour workshop requires no prior knowledge, in UZAZU or otherwise. As an embodiment method, UZAZU Embodied Intelligence is an approach beginners find quite user-friendly, intuitive, and easy to experience positive results quickly. Of course, the more used you are to listening to your bodily sensations, and being conscious of your own body posture and body language, the more readily & deeply you'll be able to apply what is taught.

What if I already have a lot of experience in UZAZU, could this still be useful to me?

This topic is something we typically only get into in this depth during our 9-Month Practitioner Training. Here, however, I'll be sharing the main ways we use UZAZU for ourselves as practitioners when working with others in a simple way that also people with no prior experience will be able to understand and make immediate use of. If you already know UZAZU, it will just make it that much easier to quickly & skillfully apply what is taught.

Is there anything I should do to prepare for this workshop?

There's nothing you need to to to prepare. That said, if you like, you could take our free, online UZAZU Embodied Intelligence Self-Assessment, which helps you identify the imbalanced states you most typically experience, in your daily life. Often, these patterns of how you tend to most often become imbalanved or dysregulated also carry over in some way into your work with clients. And so having this assessment results in advance could help you get even more out of the workshop.

That said, you could also opt to take this self-assessment AFTER the workshop. (Or not at all ;-). Whichever you prefer.

What's the difference between this workshop and the Professionals Foundations Training you offer?

The Professional Foundations of Embodied Intelligence Training is a 7-Week live online Training that trains you to identify and help rebalance a full-spectrum of state-imbalances your clients experience. It's focussed on helping empower you to do skillful embodiment work with clients. Whereas this introductory workshop here is designed to help YOU become more aware of and balance your own core states, at a basic level. If you find you get a lot out of this workshop, then the Foundations Training is a great possible next step for you. Click here to read more about this training.
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