

Somatic Trauma Healing Summit
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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.


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.




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.

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.


