Find out more
Below you will find a range of resources freely available if you wish to find out more about any approaches mentioned:
- Stanley Keleman's website: http://www.centerpress.com
- (In German) Gerhard Zimmerman's practice website: https://www.stressmanagement.de
- Information on the twice-yearly workshop with Gerhard in Southampton, UK: http://southamptonpsychotherapy.co.uk/workshops.html
- Seth Porges' explanation of Polyvagal Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br8-qebjIgs
- Ruby Jo Walker's excellent diagram explaining the patterns of Polyvagal function: http://www.rubyjowalker.com/PVchart7HD.jpg
- Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing approach: https://traumahealing.org
- Peter Levine talking about how trauma energy gets stored in the body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByalBx85iC8
- Dan Siegel talks about Interpersonal Neurobiology: http://www.drdansiegel.com/about/interpersonal_neurobiology/
- Information about Bessel van Der Kolk - another trauma expert: http://www.traumacenter.org/about/about_bessel.php
"Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings."
Rumi