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About Licia Sky |
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Licia Sky is co-founder and Global Ambassador of the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a Boston-based somatic educator, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing, and connection. In the course of over 25 years of bodywork practice, Licia developed her methods of vocalizing for embodiment in physical and emotional healing. She began using her voice with her bodywork clients by vocalizing and toning – to help them release the constriction from repressed vocal expression. She found that breathing, toning and vocalizing led to profound beneficial changes of physical and emotional state. She has been teaching workshops on these subjects around the US and numerous countries around the world.
History: 1979 – Present: Intuitive Energy Bodyworker 1980 – Present: Peer Counselor 1980-1985: Theater Workshop Boston— Psychodrama Training 1992-2012: Kripalu Bodywork & Massage Certification, L.M.T. 1992- Present: Performance poet & singer-songwriter 2007: BFA Studio for Interrelated Media— Massachusetts College of Art 2009: Sustainable Design Building Certificate Yester-morrow 2011: Certified Reiki Master 2012- 2017: Creative Writing Seminars for Mystic Valley Elder Services 2012-2014: Writing, research, and illustrator for The Body Keeps The Score 2014: Shakespeare and Company advanced actor’s training 2014-2015: Wrote, produced, and staged the original play, Henrietta-Anarcha, about the life of Henrietta Lacks and the history of medical research using slaves, prisoners, and indigent people 2016- Present: Experiential Psychodrama Workshop Co-Leader with Bessel van der Kolk 2018- Co-founded Trauma Research Foundation with Bessel van der Kolk 2020-2023: CEO Trauma Research Foundation 2024: Global Ambassador for the Trauma Research Foundation Partial List of Workshops & Symposiums: 2012- Present: Kripalu- Workshop co-leader Frontiers of Trauma Treatment 2013- Present: Esalen Institute - Frontiers of Trauma Treatment workshop co-leader 2014- Present: Embodied Awareness and Embodied Voice facilitator 2016: Cairo, Egypt—Embodied Awareness workshop 2016: Garrison Institute— Embodied Voice Trauma Workshop 2016: Avalon Hills— Embodied Voice Songwriting Workshops 2016: Hollyhock--Trauma, Body & the Brain: Restoring the Capacity for Rhythm & Play 2016: Insight International, Auckland, NZ: Embodied Voice and Songwriting 2017 - 2023: Psychotherapy Networker Conference Presenter 2017: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC Songwriting and Embodied Voice 2017: Florence, Italy Body Keeps the Score- Restoration of Synchrony 2018: International Trauma Conference, Boston, MA— Embodied Self Experience 2019 - Present: Kripalu- Beyond Words: Embodied Self Experience and Foundations of Connection 2019: Nederlands, Uitgeverij Mens— Beyond Words: Embodied Self Experience 2019: International Trauma Conference, Boston, MA–Social Justice Symposium 2019-Present: Cape Cod Institute, Eastham, MA— Embodied Self Experience 2019: Hailan Family Well-Being, Beijing, China— Beyond Words: Embodied Self Awareness for Connection & Peer Coaching 2019: Experiential Psychodrama Structures Intensives 2020: CIIS online workshop— Embodied Self Awareness 2021 - Present: Faculty Ketamine Training Center 2022 - 2023: Blue Spirit, Wellness Week Faculty 2022: Kigali, Rwanda–Keynote Presenter at the Community Based Sociotherapy Hybrid Conference 2023: Australia–Byron Clinics Frontiers of Trauma Treatment Conference Presenter 2023: Master Series: Pain Edition 2023: Faculty Embody Lab 2023: Faculty MindMedicine Australia 2023: Presenter Master Series Oxford Trauma Conference 2023: Presenter Global Exchange Conference The best way to reach Licia Sky is through her assistant, Mary Frangie – assistant@liciasky.com |