Special Week-Long Seminar at Esalen Institute

Trauma and the Restoration of Self:
The Marriage of Brain Science and Physical Experience
Week of February 22-27, 2009

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Traumatized people continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past. This workshop presents how the brain develops through attuned rhythms and resonances, and how development is disturbed by the impact of trauma on the body and self-experience. Participants will experience how they can regulate their focus, excitation, and serenity with rhythms, breath, movement, storytelling, and neurofeedback. "We will practice ways of befriending our bodies and explore how we can integrate the fragments of the past with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), theater, and movement,"

Please click HERE to visit Esalen Institute’s website for more information and to register.