The Archetypal Pulse and the Kinetic Chain: Their Roles in Resolving Trauma and Restoring Health
The Archetypal Pulse and the Kinetic Chain: Their Roles in Resolving Trauma and Restoring Health
Four two-hour classes
June 12, 19, 26 and July 3
Classes start Noon Eastern Time
The notion of the Deep Pulse is a powerful yet under-appreciated principle in much of therapy. In Formative Psychology, Stanley Keleman calls it the archetypal pulse. Other versions of this concept can be seen in other modalities as well.
In craniosacral and Polarity Therapy it is called Primary Respiration or the Long Tide; in the yogic and Chinese health traditions it is called prana or chi, also the Pilot Wave in the work of David Bohm in physics and in the Process-Oriented Psychotherapy of Arnold Mindell, among others.
This Deep Pulse underlies all experience, as well as all physiological and psychological rhythms. The pulse encodes information gleaned from the evolutionary trajectory of life process. Structured pulsatory ordering occurs at molecular, cellular and macro-level anatomical processes, such as motor activity. It is in effect a “hierarchy of living oscillations (Sync).
This organizing pulse, when interrupted or over-aroused, such as in trauma or other challenging life experiences, disturbs the homeostatic and embodiment process.
This short course will introduce the Pulse and suggest some ways to access it directly, primarily through the methodology of Formative Embodiment. The course will consist of lecture, demonstration, and selected small group activities. The attendee should come away with a clear sense of the possibilities of this approach to the health and healing process.
Each seminar will consist of lecture, demonstration, and selected experiential and skill-building activities.
Course Contents:
- The complete pulse cycle.
- The regulation of arousal and activation.
- The layering of the pulse pattern.
- Volitional influence of the deep pulse.
- Motor activity and the maintenance and reorganization of form and expression.
- The organization of action – from “readiness to act” to the completion of motor intention.
- The genetic, neural and emotional blueprint of action.
- The body´s primary intention: to form the “conceived adult” present from the moment of conception.
- Body strategies in managing life events – challenges, crises, dilemmas, trauma, opportunities.
- Formative Methodology: Introduction to Stanley Keleman´s Bodying Practice. Working with the body´s reflex and learned stress responses.
- Recognizing somatic markers and internal formative signaling.
- Building the self-other pulse – forming closeness and distance, extending and returning to self.
- The skills of recognition, naming and of differentiation in forming a self.
Your Instructor
Dr. Jim Feil, MA, DC, RPP has over 45 years in the study, practice and teaching of energetic and somatic therapeutic practices. His first career was as teacher of English and American Literature.
He began his career in therapy by studying with the founder of Polarity Therapy, Dr. Randolph Stone in 1970, and went on to earn his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in California in 1986. He began studying Formative Psychology with Stanley Keleman in 1981, continuing until his passing in 2018.
He has studied and taught Craniosacral Biodynamics (with Franklyn Sills), and Pre and Perinatal Therapy among other methodologies. He works with adults using verbal and body-oriented techniques, specializing in formative and somatic methodologies. He has taught in the US, throughout Europe and in China.
His work directs itself at helping individuals form themselves to effectively and competently respond to life transitions, challenges, crises, and opportunities.