“It is important to recognize the patterns life makes as it courses through physical life forms. We have to back up to see not just the the trees, or the forest, but the wind moving through the forest which takes us back and forth from birth to death. It has a rhythm and pattern that can be trusted. Everyone can learn to see it.”

— Jeanne Denney

The Nature of Being Human

Unit 1 of Year 1: Pilgrim SoULL

This course offers a way for students to step into SoULL material without a full year committment. In this course students are introduced to a language of human life that includes growth, aging and dying as we do a somatically-oriented overview of human development. Students learn to see spiritual, energetic and physical experience as deeply connected through the human life span and beyond. On its own, this course helps people reorient their ideas of life and death and know themselves as part of nature, not opposed to it. This radically reduces existential anxiety.

The Nature of Being Human is taught in small classes and, like all SoULL material, is both didactic, interactive and highly experiential. It is sometimes taught online (usually late winter) and sometimes in person (late spring in Wisconsin). Wherever we teach it, we support students in linking insights from this class to existing theories within somatic psychology, especially Neo-Reichian ideas.  However do not think that this course is only for professionals. This material is powerful and completely accessible for people who are not therapists. It is for any curious, open-minded adult.

Who is this for?

  • Therapists and other professionals who want to better support their clients through existential anxiety

  • Regular folks who struggle to feel connected to their purpose

  • People who want to free themselves from the fear of death and dying so they can live more fully

Students are often interested in continuing to complete Units 2 and 3 of Pilgrim SoULL after taking this course. We hope you do this, and we will accommodate as space allows in the class. However, we encourage people to commit to the full program if they are able to do so.

Dates for 2027 offerings coming soon.

Interested? Fill out an inquiry HERE.

We will be back in touch with details when they are available.

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SoULL is a United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) approved program.