Introduction
We will be implementing the "Mosaic of Healing" method for remote sessions with the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). It is a Mandala Practice that was developed by my teacher Ana do Valle. This method creates an “attachment protocol” for the SSP. Ana has used Mandalas in her healing practice for many years and developed the technique we will be using with the SSP to access pre-verbal procedural memories of our early childhood.
Introduction
We will be implementing the "Mosaic of Healing" method for remote sessions with the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). It is a Mandala Practice that was developed by my teacher Ana do Valle. This method creates an “attachment protocol” for the SSP. Ana has used Mandalas in her healing practice for many years and developed the technique we will be using with the SSP to access pre-verbal procedural memories of our early childhood.
Introduction
We will be implementing the "Mosaic of Healing" method for remote sessions with the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). It is a Mandala Practice that was developed by my teacher Ana do Valle. This method creates an “attachment protocol” for the SSP. Ana has used Mandalas in her healing practice for many years and developed the technique we will be using with the SSP to access pre-verbal procedural memories of our early childhood.
The Safe and Sound Protocol
The Safe and Sound Protocol can be done online and in person.
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidence-based and trauma-informed listening therapy using special headphones that shifts the nervous system to be more regulated. It uses frequencies to access the vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system through the auditory nerve. These frequencies, which are subliminal, are perceived by the brain as cues of safety. It can help improve digestion, heart rate variability and allow people to have a sense of ease.
The SSP was developed by neurologist Dr. Stephen Porges to improve social engagement, self-regulation, and attunement with others. The SSP uses music that has been algorithmically filtered to highlight characteristics of sound that people recognize as safe. Integrated Listening Systems currently offers three SSP programs to facilitate nervous system regulation and co-regulation. All are five one-hour tracks listened to in sequence, at least for the first time through. This sends cues of safety to the nervous system that helps the client be more regulated. Clients report feeling less stressed and have a quicker recovery after experiencing stressful events. Dr. Porges collaborated with Dr. Ron Minson at Integrated Listening Systems/Unyte iLS to train practitioners and create the SSP platform, which allows you to access the SSP programs. More information is available at www.stephenporges.com and www.integratedlistening.com.
I offer the Safe and Sound Protocol to clients in person during bodywork sessions that I have created for the SSP Series.
I can also offer it remotely via Zoom and in person with Ana do Valle’s SEGAN Method, which uses art and childhood photographs while listening to SSP to address inter-generational patterns.
The SEGAN MODEL which stands for, Sensation, Emotion, Gesture in colors, Action, and Narrative, while listening to The Safe and Sound Protocol.
My Teachers
Ana do Valle is the clinical director and supervisor for the Soma Healing Center in Boulder, CO. She has developed her studies in the areas of Anthroposophical Counseling, Sensory Processing and Somatic Experiencing. Ana specializes in working with the social nervous system. Her focus is on addressing the art of integrating sensory information in order to create embodiment, empowerment and coherence in our capacity to “experience” the other and ourselves.
Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. www.stephenporges.com