School of Unusual Life Learning

A place to connect

to

the life rhythm of self, others, community, the natural world

and

train to help others

do the same

 

Some Quotes we can use…

The strange by-product of deep, supported learning about death is both love and true vitality. Our scientific theories cannot explain this. It turns them upside down.

 

There is no separation between our Life VS Death perspective and our bigotry.  Learning a death positive view IS a radical confrontation with our biases, and a very strong medicine.  In my view it is even the MOST radical confrontation and the strongest medicine.  It is surely a profound and necessary piece for environmental sustainability.  That should be obvious.


Somatic SoULL (School of Unusual Life Learning)  is a 6-month program about human development that helps you take your life and your practice to a new level of depth and presence.  It teaches how life energy naturally moves and shapes us through every stage of bodily life, including its end. It is about birth, death, all that is between and after, the body, energy, how we grow, change, connect, release, die and love. It also teaches how to stay vital in the work of love and how to become fearless.  

This is a natural language, a wisdom teaching that historically was held by all people living and working in the natural world. In our time we must work to consciously remember this language.  We must deliberately rediscover how to honor ourselves as natural beings. To do so is a radical and powerful act.  

This program will take place in three residential weekends with distance learning and group dialogue between.  
 

Residential Weekends AT ALISON HOUSE

 Stony Point CENter in NEW YORK:

June 13 - 16, 2019
September 5 - 8, 2019
November 7 - 10, 2019

Please note:  Group is small and space is limited. 
Advanced registration is required.


Who is this program for?  

  • Heart-centered practitioners who enjoy thinking about the mind and body as one, are curious about mortality, energy, and are willing to touch into the unseen.

  • Psychologists, social workers, healthcare workers, clergy, and end of life doulas who have a body-centered orientation or training.

  • Professionals or students in helping, teaching or healing work: somatic therapists, healers, yoga teachers, or bodyworkers, for example.

  • Anyone with an inexplicable stirring within that says "I know I need to be there" is encouraged to apply.

Why do it? 

  • This program will teach you how to be more deeply alive while radically reducing your existential anxiety.

  • Group learning will deeply support your personal growth and professional practice.

  • You will joyfully expand your service into stages of life that may be unfamiliar to you and see greater continuity in life processes.

  • You will deepen your intuition about all stages of life.

  • You will expand your clients ability to find peace within a culture of epidemic existential anxiety.

  • You will learn to become fascinated with aging and even dying rather than arrested by fear and discomfort. You will help others do the same.

 

Somatic SoULL is focused on developing capacities in students, rather than teaching them tools or techniques. Future courses for practitioners will focus on applying these teachings in practice.  This course is the foundation for that work.  

 

See if this journey is for you.

Schedule an interview WITH Jeanne at jeannedenney@gmail.com or CALL (845) 598-1727 

 

ABOUT JEANNE

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Jeanne Denney is a transpersonal and somatic psychotherapist, educator, a hospice worker, healer, and author of The Effects of Compassionate Presence on the Dying.  She works in many venues to help people fearlessly embrace a life which includes aging and dying.  Jeanne has spent years at bedsides, contributed pioneering ideas to somatic psychology, death and grief work, and been deeply involved with creating the Art of Dying projects in New York City.  Her insights on energy and the body through aging, illness, and dying are derived from a wide lens of human experience and deep understanding of our mortal journey. Visit www.jeannedenney.com for more information about Jeanne's work.


What students have said: 

"Doing this work with Jeanne Denney and the exploration of my own fear and beliefs is some of the most profound work I have ever encountered. In many ways just the path offers comfort and acceptance in a way I have never experienced before leaving me with more room for the full extent of my grief and my love. Please give yourself this amazing gift."  - A.B.