Clarissa Cigrand, PhD, LPC,
Clarissa Cigrand, PhD, LPC is Content Expert at the Awake Network where she contributes to the design of summits and workshops and leads the Integration and Practice Labs, helping participants bring insights into embodied practice.
Aside from her work at the Awake Network, she is an Assistant Professor at Naropa University, a clinical supervisor, published researcher, and practicing counselor. Her work explores the reimagining of education through contemplative epistemologies, integrative wisdom traditions, and transformative learning experiences.
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Very much interesting what you say about the breath. Usually we don’t pay attention to this gesture. We just breath…otherwise we would die.
Thank you for this interview Dr. Kuhn! I really enjoyed the hand experiential! What an amazing representation of all the tension and emotions that we might be holding within the rest of our body, and the realization of how difficult it can be to let it go.
Yes, absolutely!! Thanks, Cheryl, for choosing the best words. Bravo to you and Dr. Kuhn!
Such great content and I love the focus on cultrual understanding which I think is super important and am sure to explore with my clients. So clear how it shapes their experience and expectations. Loved the hand experiment also—- such an easy way to access multiple issues.
Wow am so taking the ‘hands’ exploration of issue with what might I need to shift towards the non dominant hand breath space nd freedom… I used the ‘staff in conflict’ felt sense in my role of ‘wellbeing respect / inclusive culture development’ remit .. with tight fist … felt like staff most activated elements… and transference I experienced with so many ad hoc 1:2:1s nd small group huddles… nd the open relaxing tingling palm up … aspiration to be self in presence with each encounter and feel the openness to vented emotion and facilitate understaning self compassion in staff for themselves eqchother and return this also to residents they support… and meet my own health body mind at the end of each day … rest rooms will be my friend in this… and thank you Roger for the demo. I will be using this with staff nd own clients. I am looking to open multicultural celebrating difference not hiding shadow aspects … feeling my way gently somehow this exercise fits … will play with it.
Have so enjoyed this session too feel resourced after a somewhat over extended sense of self at the moment … thank you 🙏
Loved this! Thank you Roger, I felt the energy!
Such great energy. The part about getting familiar with your window of tolerance and bringing that into work with clients will stay with me going forward. Thank you!
Enjoyed Dr Kuhn Embodied in SF. Bless Community Love and re-membering the Truth of who we are where we come from and reclaiming sacred space. Bless our Trauma informed somatic training and love for community to come home in our bodies and sacred sexuality and presence. to help Liberate and heal in all intersectional community especially post colonial and the global changes in this time.
Thank you Roger. I enjoyed to hear about how our somacultural position and experience influences our lives.
Thank you, Dr. Kuhn, for sharing your expertise.
Sensational presentation that really helped me to get to know myself better. I can’t wait to experience the book, Somacultural Liberation.
An insight that appeared for me from this conversation : how someone else sees my body has far less to do with my actual body and more to do with the experiences and beliefs of the perceiver. What also deeply resonated for me is that healing is a life long journey, and it is best done in community. Thank you Roger…a very thought provoking and insight generating conversation.
Thank you for the technique shown. Great exercise for shifting the tension and feeling.