DSP Two-Year Training

New York City 2013-15
  • October 2013 Start Date
    Apply now.
  • CEs available.
Woman and man sitting back to back: Yielding — “How much of myself do I give to you in this moment?"
Yielding — “How much of myself do I give to you in this moment?”
  • Location:
  • The Feldenkrais Institute
  • 134 West 26th Street
  • 2nd Floor
  • New York, NY 10001
  • To register, and for further information call the
    Center for Somatic Studies
  • +1 (212) 662 3322, or
  • send us an email

DSP Two-Year Spanish Language Training

2014-16 Madrid & New York
  • Madrid Jul. 13-18, 2014
  • New York Apr. 19-24, 2015
  • Madrid Sep. 13-18, 2015
  • New York Apr. 10-15, 2016
  • Madrid Location:
  • To be announced
  • New York City Location:
  • The Feldenkrais Institute
  • 134 West 26th Street
  • 2nd floor
  • New York, NY 10001
  • To register and for further information please contact:
  •  
  • Centro de Terapia y Psicología
  • García Luna 25
  • Semisótano A
  • 28002 Madrid
  • Spain

Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, created by Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is a relational and movement-oriented approach to psychotherapy within a gestalt therapy framework.

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DSP Training: Group Supervision. Working with Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions. Video: Eric Breitbart. ©2009 Center for Somatic Studies.

Inspired by the work of developmental psychologists, motor theorists, and somatic educators, Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy is a template for understanding and working with early psycho-physical blocks as they emerge in the here-and-now of the adult therapy session. more...

The Training Program:

Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy

Since the core of this training is experiential, an in-depth personal exploration of these early patterns is emphasized. Developing a distinct and cohesive experience of their own bodies teaches therapists to pay acute attention to the subtle rhythmic nonverbal patterns that continually emerge within the client and therapist relationship.

Starting in 2009, the training programs will consist of four separate modules of five full days and one half day each. more...

Early Childhood Session as part of Two-Year Training Program

From the book Creative License (Spagnuolo Lobb, Amendt-Lyon, Eds.), excerpt from Ruella Frank’s chapter “Embodying Creativity, Developing Experience: The Therapy Process and Its Developmental Foundation”

(...) I ask Michele to press her spine into the back of the chair and to wiggle around until she is sure that her spine and the back cushion are connected.

Then I ask her to lift and drop her arms and hands, one at a time, onto the chair’s arm rests. Once done, I ask Michele what she notices. “I feel my spine against the back cushion of the chair, but I don’t feel my arms or hands,” she says. more...