Healthy Relating Through Somatic Awareness

Two-Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day

Healthy relationships with the people we love, our families, friends, and communities are at the core of our deepest longings. However, our habitual way of relating, the way we learned how to relate from our childhood and past experiences, can interfere with our longing. By cultivating a practice of somatic awareness, we can start listening to our body’s wisdom to guide us towards new ways of healthy relating.   

Join Somatic therapist and founder of Relational Somatic Healing, Shirley Dvir for an experiential workshop exploring somatic awareness for relational healing. Through a mix of lecture, demonstration, guided exercises, small group practice, and group sharing Shirley provides ways of understanding healthy relating and increased somatic awareness to help you start practicing steps for better relating. Shirley guides participants through embodiment exercises to increase somatic awareness, noticing our body’s sensations including breath, vibrations, skin, and energetic field. Understand your habitual ways of relating, what healthy relating feels like, and acquire tools to cultivate healthier ways of relating.  

This workshop is open to anyone interested in deepening their connection to their body and enhancing the quality of their relationships.  

Shirley Dvir, PhD, is the founder and lead teacher of Relational Somatic Healing and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She earned her PhD in Somatic Psychology from California Institute for Integral Studies. She wrote her dissertation on “Beholding: Relational touch in psychotherapy for the healing of relational developmental trauma.” She earned an MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and a BA in Social Work from Haifa University in Israel. For over 10 years, she taught as a Certified Hakomi Teacher at the Hakomi Institute of California, John F. Kennedy University, California Institute for Integral Studies, and Shiluv Center in Tivon, Israel. Shirley has been practicing psychotherapy since 1997, working in both agency settings and private practice, serving families, children, couples, and individuals. She has training in psychodynamic work, attachment, EMDR, Sensorimotor Trauma Therapy, Hakomi, family therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, and Body-Mind Centering (Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen). Her spiritual practice and meditation support how she holds her work and her teaching. She has a small private practice based in San Rafael, CA. 

Accessibility Information If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility web page. 

Recording Policy Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to all ticket buyers. 

Refund Policy Tickets for this event are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event. No refunds are available within 7 days of the event except for CIIS Public Programs Members, who can get a full refund up to 24 hours before the event. Read our full refund policy on our Frequently Asked Questions web page.