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Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners & educators wanting to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing. This program brings together world renowned somatic trauma therapy teachers into one training. The intention of this program is to offer a holistic framework for understanding and working with trauma from a body-centered perspective. This extraordinary program offers a collection of practical tools that will help access the innate wisdom that guides the healing process for yourself and your work with others.
Cultivate Authentic Leadership, Service, & Prosperity in Your Life & Work
In this workshop, you will uncover how to connect with your unique Inner Authority using Human Design as a powerful tool. This connection will help you make decisions with greater ease, build confidence, and attract prosperity and fulfillment in alignment with your true self. We’ll also explore how embracing desire, cultivating your mindset, and applying Universal Laws can transform and expand your life. Additionally, we will engage in a brief movement practice and energy healing to support the next steps of your journey.
The Wisdom of Trauma Healing Immersion
Join us for a transformative journey at The Wisdom of Trauma Healing Immersion, led by Dr. Peter A. Levine, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Dr. Scott Lyons.
At this incredible six-day event, you will learn how to access the wisdom of the body, the science and practice of mind-body unity, and the blueprint to restoring vitality, flow, and resilience. You will also utilize somatic embodiment practices to attune to your internal compass, guiding you towards healing.
Throughout the immersion, you will also have many rare opportunities to observe or participate in live demos of Compassionate Inquiry and Somatic Experiencing®, where you will witness the body's innate wisdom of healing.
Whether exploring your own healing, deepening your skills as a therapist or coach, or simply curious about somatic therapeutic approaches to trauma, this 6-day immersion will offer valuable insights and tools to enhance your well-being.
Every Inhale Begins With an Uprising
What does it really mean to embody social justice? What is the direct body experience that gives these words meaning? How can movement liberate from oppression, trauma, fear in our bodies? This experiential conversation will share ideas and practices from the facilitators human rights somatic framework for working with trauma and oppression. The concepts of microempowerments, state-shifting and interoception will be explored through embodied theory and movement in service of an inquiry into how movement liberates.
Somatic CBT Meet the Faculty Session
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event with the full certificate faculty!
Anxiety Rx
After years of trying different therapies for his debilitating anxiety without success, Dr. Russell Kennedy had an epiphany: anxiety does not start in the brain.
Anxiety starts in the body, where trauma is stored and physical and emotional perception begin. Alarm bells originating in the body are what trigger those anxious thoughts that we call anxiety, and Russ realized that true healing starts only when we learn not to conflate the two. He understood that existing therapies focused only on the mind would never get to the root of the problem―at best, they could help manage symptoms, but they’d never truly heal anxiety.
Wanting to make a difference for the millions who suffer from anxiety disorder, Russ created Anxiety Rx, a book that blends his personal story with medical science, neuroscience, and developmental psychology. Readers learn how to sever the connection between the somatic alarm and the flood of anxious thoughts―in the process they begin to heal old trauma and gain a sense of control previously unknown.
Somatic CBT Certificate Program
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Information Session
Join Dr. Scott Lyons, founder of The Embody Lab and the Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Program, for the live info session where he will offer answers to the most frequently asked questions.
Mentorship (and somatic supervision) are a vital way to enhance and refine your skills as a practitioner and receive guidance and support in the challenges and journeys you are facilitating with your clients.
ONE-DAY SUMMIT: The Relationship Summit
Relationships can inspire our deepest sense of connection, joy and belonging--both to ourselves and others. They can also provoke our deepest insecurities, pains, and disconnection. Bringing an embodied understanding and awareness to our relationships supports us in creating deeper, more empathic and nurturing relationships with ourselves and others.
In this FREE One-Day Summit with world leading embodiment, relationship and somatic attachment experts we’ll explore how to foster relationships that inspire connection and deep intimacy. We’ll explore how to co-create our relationships based on intention, self-acceptance empathetic understanding and safety.
Somatics and Trauma Healing: The Body Keeps the Score
Join Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps The Score, and Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab, in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of somatics to heal trauma, heal past wounds, and create a brighter more resilient future for yourself and others!
Fall Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Program
Join the Somatic Practitioner Mentorship program mentors Dr. Peter Levine, Deb Dana, Diane Pool Heller, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Nkem Ndefo, Dr. Scott Lyons, Kai Cheng Thom, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Staci Haines and more for this 26-hour Mentorship Program designed to enhance your capacity to bring the power of somatic therapies into your work with others.
Mentorship (and somatic supervision) are a vital way to enhance and refine your skills as a practitioner and receive guidance and support in the challenges and journeys you are facilitating with your clients.
The Path to Healing Trauma with Peter A. Levine, PhD
In this transformative four-part series, Dr Levine will demonstrate a deep understanding of how complex trauma originates––and how somatic-based therapy can help clients address, process, and begin healing more quickly and effectively.
Through four 90-minute live sessions, Dr Levine will personally guide you through client demonstration videos. At every step, he will pause to explain his approach and techniques, generously sharing his wisdom. By immersing yourself in this experience, you will gain insight into a method that can be immediately integrated into your practice, enabling you to access the power of somatics to heal trauma and restore a sense of wholeness, peace and well-being.
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate Information Session
Stress and trauma can lead to imbalances in the physiology of the autonomic nervous system. If these imbalances are left unaddressed, they can lead to mental and physical health problems.
This 3-part 30-hour Certificate Program explores the benefits of Therapeutic Yoga and Applied Polyvagal Theory as related to trauma recovery with world-leading teachers Dr. Arielle Schwartz and special guests Dr. Stephen Porges and Deb Dana.
Join us for this free, live, online Info Session event with the certificate program director Dr. Arielle Schwartz!
Where the Light Plays
Our human bodies, like the earth, are mostly water. Continuum is a practice that engages breath, sound and movement to restore our inherent fluidity and moving flow. This pre-solstice movement class in the Northern hemisphere’s dark time will explore how and where our light can play in our own inner landscape. Come prepared to play with the audability and emergent music of breath as an invitation to invoke your authentic ways of moving and being. Dress comfortably for movement, and please bring “nesting” materials (mats, blankets, cushions) and something to write in.
Level 1: Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, you will learn about how the vagus nerve is a bi-directional information highway between mind and body—more importantly, you will learn breath, movement, and awareness practices that become the building blocks of a life-changing daily practice. Within the first ten hours of this training you will develop an understanding of the 8-limbs of yoga for trauma recovery. We will explore key elements of polyvagal theory as applied to yoga including how to integrate vagal toning, neuroception of psychological safety, and co-regulation within the practice. Each class offers lecture, practice, and group discussion. Classes are offered on a yoga mat, however accessible modifications and chair yoga alternatives are offered.
Level 2: Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
In Level 2, Dr. Arielle Schwartz deepens your journey of applied Polyvagal Theory in therapeutic yoga with topics that expand into the connection between stress, trauma, and your health. You will learn how trauma can dysregulate the nervous system and discover the tools to facilitate greater access balance and wellbeing. In the ten hours of level two we will apply core principles of body-centered psychotherapies into therapeutic yoga. You will also learn brain and body integration practices including bilateral movements and reflex integration. You will come away with compassion based practices to work through barriers to wellness.
Level 3: Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
In Level 3, Dr. Arielle Schwartz helps you to compassionately explore how dissociation can show up in a yoga practice and discover pendulation strategies to navigate nervous system states. You will learn how to integrate parts work therapies to work with your internal family system through body dialogues on the yoga mat. We will deepen the journey through applied polyvagal theory in therapeutic yoga with restorative practices and a trauma-informed approach to meditation and yoga nidra. This 30 hour course concludes by teaching you tools to personalize the model to create therapeutic yoga practices for yourself, a student or a client including learning a model for a 6-week group class.
Somatic CBT Certificate Information Session
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the full certificate faculty!
Healing Developmental Trauma: A Somatic Path to Secure Attachment
Join Peter A. Levine PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), and Diane Poole Heller PhD, author of The Power of Attachment (2019) and Healing Your Attachment Wounds (2017), hosted by Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of somatics to hear what the body is saying, reconnect to your innate resilience, and heal developmental trauma.
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate - Level 3
In Level 3 of this 25-hr Certificate, you will deepen your conceptual and experiential knowledge of Integrative Somatic Parts Work. This Level 3 training will include didactics and experiential learning, video demonstrations, meditations, case presentations, and discussion.
Discover how the theory and practice of Integrative Somatic Parts Work can deepen your ability to “see” the heart of the matter for yourself and your clients, and help heal it.
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate
This 3-part 30-hour Certificate Program explores the benefits of Therapeutic Yoga and Applied Polyvagal Theory as related to trauma recovery with world-leading teachers Dr. Arielle Schwartz and special guests Dr. Stephen Porges and Deb Dana. In order to better understand the connection between stress, trauma, and our health, we must turn our attention to the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve can be thought of as a bi-directional information highway that communicates between the mind and body. Imbalances in the vagus nerve and physiology of the autonomic nervous system can lead to feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, depression, or dissociation. Stimulating the vagus nerve helps to regulate both sympathetic hyper-arousal and parasympathetic hypo-arousal. The best ways to naturally modulate these nervous responses are through breath and movement. LEARN MORE HERE
The Power of Polyvagal Theory: Somatics for Healing Trauma
Join Peter A. Levine PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), and Stephen Porges PhD, creator of the Polyvagal Theory and co-founder of Polyvagal Institute, with your host Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab, in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of Polyvagal Theory and somatics to heal trauma, heal past wounds, and create a brighter more resilient future for yourself and others!
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event with the certificate Co-Directors and faculty!
Unstoppable Confidence
Step into your power with the Unstoppable Confidence Master Class led by Justin Michael Williams.
Discover the transformative art of building genuine self-confidence and self-esteem. Equip yourself with practical tools to assert your authenticity and enhance every aspect of your life, from career aspirations to personal relationships. Join this dynamic session to transform your potential into reality, one confident step at a time.
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate - Level 2
In Part 2 of this 25-hour Certificate, each session will be didactic and experiential and will offer an introduction to the specific practices in Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy.
Discover how the theory and practice of Integrative Somatic Parts Work can deepen your ability to “see” the heart of the matter for yourself and your clients, and help heal it.
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!
One-Day Summit: Embodied Stress Release
Explore the power of Embodied Stress Release with Dr. Scott Lyons and other internationally recognized leaders in somatic-based approaches to stress release and healing. Gain practical tools and insights into understanding the body’s response to stress, how to enhance body awareness, and increase your capacity to complete biological stress responses. Discover how to restore and optimize your fundamental ability to adapt to and navigate life with ease and agency. Learn how to enhance your capacity to identify internal responses to stressors, and mobilize that energy towards restoration and ease. LEARN MORE HERE
Somatic Shadow Work
The body holds the secret to engaging with our deepest fears and darkest shadows. Join Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, Qualified Mediator, Certified Professional Life Coach, Certified Jungian Life Coach, for a somatic perspective on "shadow work"—a term that has become popularized in healing and personal development but is often ill-defined and poorly understood.
In this masterclass, Kai Cheng will draw from her study of the applications of depth psychology for coaching as well as her expertise in somatic trauma healing in order to provide participants with a clear and practical foundation for understanding the "shadow" in psychological terms and ways in which this concept relates to embodiment work.
Somatic CBT Certificate Information Session
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the full certificate faculty!
Happy Endings: Grief, Dying, and End-of-Life
Join us for 'Happy Endings: Grief, Dying, and End-of-Life,' a workshop that intertwines the art of poetry and somatics to explore these profound topics.
Under the expert guidance of Sah D'Simone, immerse yourself in a rich tapestry of poems that uncover the beauty and wisdom in the realms of loss, mortality, and life's inevitable conclusion. This workshop aims to cultivate somatic acceptance and a deeper understanding of these universal experiences.
Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck
You know those problems in your life that never change, no matter what you try? What if they are actually where your greatest growth and transformation can be found? It turns out that being stuck is not an endpoint, it’s a clue. Wherever there is something in your life that is impossible to think, or feel, or do, you are finding the exact spot where the next steps in your life are waiting to unfold.
Untangling®, a practice that can enable what is hopelessly stuck to untangle itself, was created by two internationally recognized innovators and teachers in the field of inner awareness. They developed the Untangling method to free themselves from their long-term struggles with depression, writer’s block, food, and alcohol. Based on 30 years of teaching, practice, and exploration, Untangling shows you how to create the environment in which impasse can transform into flow.
Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change
Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care. Editors Hala Khouri and Tessa Hicks and contributors Kazu Haga, Taj James, Nkem Ndefo, Jacoby Ballard, Sará King, and Kerri Kelly, demonstrate in real time how embodied leadership, interconnected collectives, and a bold vision for transformation are the vital tools we need for collective wellbeing, healing, and long-term social change.
Join Nkem Ndefo, Hala Khouri, and Jacoby Ballard for an intimate conversation on how we can do effective, sustainable social change without burning out, internalizing systemic toxicity, and replicating urgency culture.
Learn Somatic Self Touch
Enhance your personal and professional practice: Somatic Self Touch is a simple and highly effective way of bringing immediate relief and support to emotional and physical suffering.
Using targeted self-contact in areas where emotional and bodily tension is focused, individuals experiencing emotional overwhelm and trauma can find self-regulation and experience accelerated results in somatic and conventional therapy.
In this Master Class, participants will gain valuable skills to find significant support during challenging emotional states, such as anger, rage, fear, terror, disembodiment, and numbness.
Somatic Stress Release™ Level III: Advanced
This live, online Somatic Stress Release™ Level III: Advanced training follows our Level I: Foundations and Level II: Intermediate courses. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the biological, social, and psychological aspects of stress, identify somatic symptoms and triggers for emotional and physical distress. This certification is open to anyone (i.e yoga teachers, therapists, parents, teachers, etc) who wishes to addresses stress from a multidisciplinary holistic approach.
Chronic Pain: A Somatic Approach
Not knowing how to support a client with unpredictable, labile, and mutating pain and other somatic symptoms can leave practitioners at a loss.
Many medical professionals, physical therapists, and Psychotherapists attempt to chase after individual symptoms to little avail. In this workshop, we will learn how to identify the underlying stress conditions that often cause these perplexing symptoms. Once we know how to identify these stress/trauma conditions, we can more effectively treat them by utilizing special techniques to resolve the underlying autonomic dysregulation.
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!
ONE-DAY SUMMIT: Healing Developmental Trauma
Explore the power of somatics to heal developmental trauma and restore wholeness with internationally recognized leaders in somatic-based approaches to trauma healing and recovery.
You’ll gain practical tools and insights into healing trauma, fostering secure relationships, enhancing regulation skills, and expanding resilience for yourself and others. LEARN MORE HERE
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate
The Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate Program with Fran Booth - trainer for PESI and the IFS Institute - will take you on a journey to discover and heal yourself and your clients. Understand more about what holds you back from creating the life you want. Transform stuck parts of yourself into inner resources of strength, love, and freedom. Remove the barriers in your relationships, and gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others.
Find a greater sense of internal harmony, acceptance, confidence, calmness, wisdom, compassion and connectedness, and discover how the theory and practice of Integrative Somatic Parts Work can deepen your ability to “see” the heart of the matter, and help heal it. LEARN MORE HERE
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate - Level 1
In Part 1 of this 25 hour Certificate you will learn to “see” how core pain and unmet feelings and needs have created unnecessary challenges in life.
Discover how the theory and practice of Integrative Somatic Parts Work can deepen your ability to “see” the heart of the matter for yourself and your clients, and help heal it.
When You Wish You Could Stop But You Can't
In this Master Class with Dr. Ann Weiser Cornell, we will apply the somatic practice of Inner Relationship Focusing to cultivating the strong, compassionate self so unhelpful habits can be shifted without shame or self-blame. We will learn methods to support our clients who are struggling with numbing and distracting behaviors as well as the inner critics that make them feel bad without actually helping them stop. The result: An increase in self-acceptance and in the ability to make wise choices in life.
Two-Day Summit: The Somatic Trauma Healing Summit
While traditional therapy focuses on verbal processing and cognitive meaning making, a somatic approach to healing trauma invites the individual into the wisdom of their body as the intuitive place of healing and well-being. Somatic Trauma Healing offers a paradigm shift, situating the individual as the expert of their own journey of healing, transformation, and wellbeing.
Join us, and learn the power of body awareness to access an internal source of wisdom to guide the healing process and build resilience. LEARN MORE HERE
Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate
Are you ready to guide individuals and couples into deeper and more satisfying connection, sex, and sustained relationships?
Are you committed to holistically transforming intimacy challenges and supporting clients in mindful dating, break-up processes, grieving, relationship skills (strategies and tools), resolving sexual concerns, and facilitating embodied awareness and better sex?
Then, we invite you to join us for the first-of-its-kind 80-hour Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate.
This unique four-month online certificate is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to explore the power of somatic (body-based) intimacy coaching in a compressive and integrative process that fosters, awakens, and deepens wholeness through the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy.
This incredible program brings together world-renowned relationship and attachment experts, somatic sex therapists, and intimacy coaches to guide you in embodying and facilitating this holistic methodology to physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and spiritual intimacy.
Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
We invite you to the first-of-its-kind 80-hour Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate.
This unique four-month online certificate is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to explore the power of somatic (body-based) intimacy coaching in a compressive and integrative process that fosters, awakens, and deepens wholeness through the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event!
4 Essential Somatic Skills for Supporting Trauma Recovery
Whether participants are professionals in the trauma recovery field, or individuals engaged in their own healing journey, this presentation will provide simple and practical somatic tools that support the development of trauma recovery skills. Kathy will give an overview of four essential somatic skills that are particularly important for increasing the effectiveness of trauma recovery interventions.
Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate Information Session
We invite you to the first-of-its-kind 80-hour Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certificate.
This unique four-month online certificate is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to explore the power of somatic (body-based) intimacy coaching in a compressive and integrative process that fosters, awakens, and deepens wholeness through the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy.
Join us for this free, live, online Info Session event!
Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness
Join Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and author of No Bad Parts, and Peter A. Levine, PhD, developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), with Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab, in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of somatics and Parts Work to release the burdens of trauma and restore wholeness!
Navigating Emotional Triggers and Resistance: An IFS Approach for Practitioners
In this Master Class, Dr. Richard Schwartz offers a deep dive into the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, tailored specifically for practitioners. Explore the complex dynamics of emotional triggers and resistance from a professional perspective. Learn how to effectively identify and engage with the parts of clients that surface in reaction to stress or challenge. Dr. Schwartz will provide participants with practical IFS techniques and tools that foster compassion and understanding, enhancing therapeutic practice by being in Self, and aiding clients in achieving greater inner harmony and psychological resilience. Join us to refine your skills in managing emotional triggers through an IFS lens.