Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate

Name: Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate
Brand: The Embody Lab
Price: 987.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Trauma lives in the body. So does the way through.

From disconnection to embodiment. From rigidity to fluidity. From numbness to vibrant aliveness.

Trauma isn't just a story the mind remembers — it's an imprint the body carries. To truly heal, we must speak the body's primal language: sensation, movement, and breath. Join nine world-leading faculty for a 60-hour online certificate program in breathwork and somatic movement therapy for trauma healing. Learn evidence-based, science-backed techniques to help clients release held patterns, regulate the nervous system, and move from disconnection and rigidity into embodiment, fluidity, and vibrant aliveness.

Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate

Overview

Program at a Glance

Are you ready to help clients break free from trauma patterns, restore vitality, and experience deep healing through somatic breathwork and movement therapy? Learn powerful breath & body-based healing techniques with world-leading faculty and become a Breathwork & Movement Facilitator for trauma healing!

Trauma isn’t just a story the mind remembers—it’s an imprint the body carries. To truly heal and transform trauma, we must speak the body’s primal language: sensation, movement, and breath. Through integrative breathwork and movement practices, you'll learn to help clients release held patterns, regulate their nervous system, and facilitate powerful changes that goes far beyond conventional trauma treatment approaches.

This cutting-edge certificate program is designed for practitioners, therapists, educators, and individuals who want to master the most effective and science-backed breathwork and somatic movement techniques for trauma healing.

You’ll learn to guide clients:

✔ From disconnection to embodiment
✔ From rigidity to fluidity
✔ From numbness to vibrant aliveness

Join us and discover how breathwork and movement therapy can guide the journey from trauma to embodied wholeness for yourself and your clients.

Meet Your Lead Faculty

Learn from World-Leading Voices in Trauma Treatment

Internationally recognized leaders bring to life a holistic and unified curriculum.

Arielle Schwartz (Dr.)

Kai Cheng Thom

Amber Elizabeth Gray (Dr.)

Scott Lyons (Dr.)

Rae Johnson (Dr.)

Angela Grayson (Dr.)

Charné Furcron (Dr.)

Manuela Mischke-Reeds

Rosario Sammartino (Dr.)

Curriculum

01 MODULE 1 — Foundations of Breath & Movement

Build the conceptual ground and the somatic toolkit you'll draw on for the rest of the program.

- Fundamental Principles and Approach to Breath and Movement Trauma Therapy
- Movement, Breath, and the Cultural Body
- Somatic Toolkit for Trauma
- Foundational Techniques for Movement and Breath Trauma Therapy

02 MODULE 2 — Breathwork for Trauma Healing

Move into the breath as a primary tool — for soothing, opening, releasing, and integrating.

- Introduction to Breathwork and Trauma
- Soothing, Resourcing, and Grounding Practices for Breathwork
- Breathwork, Emotional Release, and Psychosomatic Opening
- Dynamic Session Work and Integration in Breathwork for Trauma

03 MODULE 3 — Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing

Work with the body's intrinsic intelligence — completing what trauma left unfinished.

- Movement Therapy and Trauma
- Completing the Incomplete Trauma Responses
- Expressive Arts for Trauma Resolution
- Developmental Movement and Trauma

04 MODULE 4 — Process-Oriented Movement & Breath Therapy

Refine the practitioner skills that make trauma work safe, attuned, and transformative.

- Movement, Breath, and Non-Verbal Communication
- Somatic Processing Skills
- Meaning-Making and Trauma Processing
- Working with Shame and Pain

05 MODULE 5 — Integration

Bring it all together — culturally attuned, practitioner-strong, and ready to facilitate change.

- Integration of the Cultural Body
- Practitioner Skills
- Integration and Synthesis

What You'll Learn

Skills you'll carry into your practice

Assess readiness to engage in breath and movement work

Read body cues for activation, deactivation, and recuperation

Work with kinesthetic empathy in the therapeutic relationship

Identify trauma breath patterns including hyper- and hypoventilation

Use breathwork for emotional access and release

Work with intrinsic movement impulses and patterns

Facilitate expressive movement in the context of trauma work

Identify traumatic developmental gaps through movement

Understand cultural movement patterns, norms, and taboos

Work with movement constriction as a trauma response

Identify somatic transference and countertransference

Who This Is For

Designed for practitioners who go deeper

- Social workers, mental health and pastoral counselors
- Yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and movement therapists
- Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC) and physician assistants
- Coaches, nurses, and nurse practitioners
- Psychologists and emergency medical personnel
- Meditation teachers, massage therapists, and bodyworkers
- Educators, acupuncturists, and hypnotherapists
- Kinesiologists and complementary medicine professionals
- Clergy, religious leaders, and other wellness professionals
- Suitable for both experienced practitioners and those new to the modality

Self-Paced & On-Demand

This certificate program is fully on-demand. All seven modules are available immediately upon enrollment, allowing you to move through the curriculum at your own pace.

Lifetime Access

Once enrolled, you have lifetime access to all course recordings, supporting materials, and downloadable resources — return as often as needed throughout your clinical practice.

Completion Timeframe

Most participants complete the 60-hour curriculum over 3–6 months, though there is no required pace. The program is designed to be integrated alongside an active clinical practice.

Zoom:

The live portion will be offered using Zoom in meeting format, allowing instructors and students to interact and participate in breakout sessions.

Online Learning Platform:

Detailed schedule and reminder emails
How to access via Zoom
All recordings available within 48 hours
Supporting materials including PDFs

Accessibility:

Download video or audio to your computer
Lifetime access to the content
Live captioning and transcripts in English

Requirements to receive the Certificate:

Attend the live sessions or watch the recordings
Complete any required assignments or reflections
Participate in supervision groups (where applicable)

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Train with the field's most trusted voices in somatic practice.