Balancing your client's and your own Autonomic Nervous System arousal via precise observation and regulation

Vicarious traumatization is a real, embodied risk for anyone who works with those who have suffered traumatic events. Psychotherapists, somatic psychotherapists, body workers, meditation and yoga teachers, and so on, will all benefit from increased ability to identify and track autonomic shifts in their clients and students, and -- even more importantly -- in themselves. This session will introduce a new model for reading the ANS in self and other as well as inteventions that will reduce the risk of embodied vicarious trauma in practitioners of all levels of experience.