Scott Lyons (Dr.)
Founder of The Embody Lab
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Courses by Scott Lyons (Dr.)
A Somatic Guide to Working with Shame
A five-module course offering a somatic approach to shame and shadow work. Embodied tools for distinguishing healthy from toxic shame, reclaiming disowned parts of self, and guiding clients through real transformation.
Applied Polyvagal Theory: Science of Safety
A course with Dr. Stephen Porges and guests on the neurobiology of safety. Explore how nervous system states shape perception, behavior, and our capacity for connection, healing, and higher functioning.
Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate
A 60-hour online certificate with world-leading faculty on breathwork and somatic movement for trauma healing. Become a Breathwork & Movement Facilitator and guide clients from disconnection to vibrant aliveness.
Cultivating Presence, Compassion and Connection
A course for professionals on building embodied presence, somatic attunement, and compassionate engagement. Experiential tools for resonating with clients, navigating tough dynamics, and creating safe therapeutic relationships.
Embodied Intimacy and Relationship Coaching Certificate
A 4-month online certificate exploring the science, strategies, and tools of embodied intimacy — taught by leading relationship experts, somatic sex therapists, and intimacy coaches.
Embodied Practitioner Skills: Resources, Relationships, and Emotional Processing
An integrative somatic course with Dr. Scott Lyons and Manuela Mischke-Reeds on resourcing, transference, and the body's role in shame. Tools to deepen relational attunement and clinical presence.
Enhancing Self-Worth & Finding the Authentic Self
A demonstration course on the somatic journey toward self-worth. Tools for nervous system safety, working with protective parts, and guiding clients to process core emotions and reclaim authentic self-acceptance.
Expert Series - Trauma in the Body: Conversations on Somatic Transformation
A 4-hour expert series with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, and Dr. Scott Lyons on the body's path through trauma. Somatic recovery, attachment, and the ethics of emerging therapies.
How to Work with Resistant Clients
A course on working with resistant clients through a somatic lens. Tools to recognize resistance as protective, build trust, and create the conditions for engagement, safety, and healing.
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate
Learn a holistic, body-centered framework for understanding and working with trauma — for yourself and your clients. A 3-month online certificate with world-renowned somatic trauma faculty.
Mind-Body Coaching Certificate
Join 1,200+ practitioners who raised their coaching rates 50% within 6 months. A 120-hour live online certificate in somatic, mindfulness-based coaching.
One Day Summit - The Relationship Summit
A 7.5-hour on-demand summit with leading somatic and attachment experts on building conscious, connected relationships. Tools for rupture and repair, healing core wounds, and creating safety in intimacy.
Polyvagal Trauma Therapy Certificate
Neuroception determines whether your intervention lands or gets blocked. This teaches you to work with it. Most practitioners know about polyvagal theory. This program teaches you how to use it — session after session, with confidence and precision.
Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate
A 3-month online certificate offering a holistic, body-centered approach to healing relational wounds — bringing together the world's leading somatic attachment therapy teachers in one training.
Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate
Transform attachment wounds and trauma through a body-centered approach — for yourself and your clients. A 60-hour online certificate with world-renowned somatic attachment faculty.
Somatic CBT Certificate
A first-of-its-kind 60-hour Somatic CBT Certificate that integrates evidence-based cognitive tools with body-centered practice — taught by world-leading faculty.
Somatic Developmental Trauma Therapy™ Certificate
Learn to recognize and repair developmental trauma in adults — going beyond story and attachment theory into the body's earliest imprints. A somatic certificate program for therapists and practitioners.
Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate
According to Bessel van der Kolk, somatics and EMDR are the two most effective trauma treatments — this 60-hour live online certificate brings them together, with Dr. van der Kolk, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, and Dr. Scott Lyons.
Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate
Learn to discharge stress, blocked emotions, and body tension — for yourself and your clients. A 5-day live online Somatic Stress Release™ training with Dr. Scott Lyons.
Somatic Therapy in Action: Navigating Boundaries and Boundary Ruptures
A four-module package of real somatic healing sessions with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Pat Ogden, Staci K. Haines, and Jessica Montgomery. Witness master clinicians guide trauma processing, defensive completion, and embodied release.
Summit: Body as Nature
A one-day on-demand summit with six embodiment experts on remembering the body as nature. Yoga, breath, and elemental practices to reclaim wholeness through your essential nature.
Summit: Boundaries & Self Care
A one-day on-demand summit on Boundaries & Self-Care with six world-leading embodiment experts. Somatic yoga tools for replenishment, healthy limits, and sustainable self-care rituals.
Summit: Deep Rest & Restoration
A one-day on-demand summit with seven embodiment experts on the art of rest. Somatic yoga, breathwork, fascia work, Yoga Nidra, and sound healing for deep restoration.
Summit: Embodied Journey
A one-day on-demand summit with six leading embodiment experts on the somatic journey home to the body. Yoga, breathwork, fascia embodiment, and meditation for connection and regulation.
Summit: Healing Trauma with EMDR and Applied Neuroscience
An 8.5-hour on-demand summit with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and seven leading experts on integrating EMDR with somatic therapy. Body-based tools, applied neuroscience, and play to deepen trauma healing.
Summit: Mind-Body Toolkit for Change & Transformation
A full-day on-demand summit exploring somatic coaching tools for personal growth and transformation. Six experts share practices for navigating conflict, releasing self-doubt, breaking compulsive patterns, reclaiming ritual, and embodying lasting change.
Summit: Somatic Attachment Healing
A one-day on-demand summit on somatic attachment healing. Six expert teachers share embodied tools for repairing relational rupture, healing insecure attachment patterns, and cultivating secure connection — both with self and with others. Includes a bonus recording with Dr. Sue Johnson.
Summit: Somatic Trauma Healing
A two-day on-demand summit on somatic trauma healing with 17 world-leading experts. Explore body-based tools for working with triggers, preverbal trauma, attachment wounds, nervous system regulation, healthy aggression, parts work, and collective trauma — plus bonus sessions with Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Richard Schwartz, Arielle Schwartz, and Thomas Hübl.
Summit: The Embodied Relationships Summit — Building Secure Love & Healing Attachment Wounds
A two-day on-demand summit on attachment, secure love, and embodied healing. 16 leading experts share practical tools for regulating reactivity, repairing rupture, healing codependency, navigating heartbreak, and building relationships rooted in consistency, clarity, and emotional safety.
The Four Pillars of Healing and Wellbeing
A four-session, 8-hour on-demand workshop with four embodiment experts on the foundations of Embodied Yoga Therapeutics. Applied philosophy, anatomy, somatic psychology, and Ayurveda as integrated pillars of healing.