Somatic Trauma Healing Summit

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Remembers the Unmet Needs: Somatic Pathways to Healing Developmental and Collective Wounds

Our bodies carry the imprint of unmet needs from our earliest relationships and contexts, including the families, communities, and systems that shaped us across generations. In this didactic and experiential session, we explore how foundational developmental needs live in the body as posture, movement, and nervous system patterns, and how both personal history and collective wounding shape their expression. Drawing on somatic, parts-based, and liberatory frameworks, participants will be guided toward new possibilities for healing in themselves, and in community.

Inside a Somatic Therapist's Office

What clinical purpose does the furniture, objects and sensory supports inside a somatic therapy office actually serve? In this experiential and practice-oriented session, Linda Thai offers a guided look inside her therapy space, exploring how specific tools, furniture, environmental cues, and embodied interventions support nervous system regulation, trauma processing, and relational safety.

Regulating The Nervous System With Food

This session explores the overlooked connection between our eating behaviors and nervous system regulation. Participants will dive into food-induced stress, understand carbs and glucose in a whole new way, and learn how to eat in a way that supports the nervous system. Drawing from science-backed research and years of experience as a certified nutritionist, Luis will guide participants through using their cravings as a compass, somatic exercises to support a body in overwhelm, and how this all works together for a more flexible nervous system.

Memory Without Words: Repairing the Legacy of Trauma

Trauma lives not just in what we remember, but in how we feel — and how we brace, shrink, or freeze without knowing why. In this session, we explore a neuroscience-informed shift in trauma treatment: moving away from a primary focus on traumatic events toward the implicit somatic and emotional responses that keep those experiences alive in the body, sometimes for decades. Drawing on current understandings of memory and the nervous system, we'll examine why attending to the body's habitual trauma responses — rather than reconstructing narrative timelines — can be a more direct path to lasting change. Somatic and emotional reactions are themselves a form of memory, and when we learn to observe and work with them directly, we open the door to genuine transformation. Participants will explore practical approaches for facilitating new somatic experiences that gently challenge entrenched trauma patterns, helping clients move through feelings of fear, shame, and inadequacy. While we cannot erase the past, we can help clients build a new relationship with their bodies — and a new sense of who they are.

Self as Grounding for Trauma: An alternative to the window of tolerance.

Sacred Biology: Where the Science of Trauma Meets the Mystery of the Soul

What if healing your nervous system could awaken something sacred within you? In this extraordinary dialogue, Dr. Scott Lyons and Peter A. Levine, PhD — founder of Somatic Experiencing® — explore the luminous intersection of trauma biology and spiritual transformation. Together, they reveal how the body holds not just pain, but profound intelligence; how nervous system healing can become a doorway to expanded consciousness; and why the science of trauma and the wisdom of spirit have always been pointing toward the same truth.

Beyond Regulation: What Disabled Embodiment Reveals About Somatic Trauma Healing

Much of somatic trauma healing assumes that increased regulation leads to symptom reduction, greater embodiment, and expanded capacity. But disabled and chronically ill bodies often complicate these assumptions. Symptoms may persist even as agency, discernment, and coherence grow. This session explores how disabled embodiment reveals hidden assumptions within healing spaces about regulation, pacing, participation, and what it means to heal. Through experiential practice and reflection, participants will explore distinctions between healing and cure, and consider approaches that support self-trust and dignity without demanding symptom disappearance or normative functioning.

The Body as Healer: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Action

Trauma often leaves enduring procedural patterns that continue to shape a survivor's present-day experience. While the past cannot be changed, healing can occur by transforming the body-based habits and survival responses that trauma leaves behind. In this compelling webinar, witness a recorded Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) session featuring therapist Pat Ogden. Through this experiential demonstration and analysis, you'll observe how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy addresses traumatic arousal states using somatic sequencing, mindful awareness, and body-oriented interventions to support transformation and integration. As layers of recent, historical, and transgenerational trauma emerge, participants will gain insight into how trauma becomes organized in the nervous system and how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can facilitate meaningful change. This session offers a unique opportunity to see trauma-informed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in action and deepen your understanding of the path of transformational healing.

From Survival to Self: Releasing the Identity You Built to Survive

This workshop explores how childhood survival patterns become adult identity and how healing begins when we stop calling protection personality. Participants will learn how people-pleasing, perfectionism, over-functioning, emotional shutdown, and hyper-independence are often nervous system adaptations built for safety. Through somatic reflection and experiential practices, we’ll uncover the shame beneath these patterns and explore how reparenting happens in real time through small moments of choice, self-trust, and repair.