Life is a series of regulation plateaus and changes. We gain and lose these regulation capacities moment to moment, day to day, week to week. This is a natural and often unconscious part of life. Over time individuals, families and relationships develop their own unique regulation patterns.
With trauma, either a single incident or long-term, these patterns become interrupted, unintegrated, and dysregulated. This affects our ability to stay in embodied connection with ourselves and with people and situations in our lives.
Consistently poor or absent parental attunement is also a major disruptor of our capacity to maintain these regulatory patterns of flow within self and between self and others. In such circumstances the most potent regulator, a safe and secure ongoing human connection is unavailable, inconsistent or threatening. Resulting in anxious, avoidant, and disordered attachment patterns.
In this somatically oriented seminar, we will identify and observe how these disruptions occur energetically in the physical body. The cognitive, emotional, and behavioral correlates of different regulatory patterns will be presented. Special focus will be given to how these patterns affect one’s current attachment patterns and sense of connection. In the context of a few case studies, some interventions will be presented and demonstrated that have been found to be effective in the restoration of these natural energetic regulatory rhythms.