THE EMBODY LAB PRESENTS

Healing Trauma
Through the Body

A Four-Session Experiential Somatic Experiencing® Workshop with Peter A. Levine, PhD

Grief · Attachment Trauma · Spirituality · Complex Trauma

Learn directly from Peter Levine, the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, across four sessions exploring grief, attachment trauma, spiritual disconnection, and complex trauma. Each session combines in-depth teaching with a live, one-on-one session—giving you the opportunity to witness Peter’s work firsthand or be considered to participate directly.

Nov 6, 13, 20 & Dec 4 · 2:00–3:30 pm ET · Live online

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One enrollment includes all four sessions.

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Witness the Art and Science of Somatic Trauma Healing

Trauma can reach into nearly every part of our lives. It can shape how we grieve, how safe we feel in relationships, and whether we experience connection, meaning, and belonging. These patterns often carry a history that words alone cannot fully express.

In this four-session workshop, Peter Levine draws on more than five decades of clinical work to explore grief, attachment trauma, spiritual disconnection, and complex trauma—and how the body’s natural capacities for recovery can be supported.

At the heart of each session is the opportunity to witness Peter working directly with someone, in real time. You’ll observe how he listens to subtle changes in breath, movement, and posture; when he slows down or follows an emerging movement; and how he works with the nervous system without forcing a particular outcome.

For practitioners, this is an opportunity to observe the sensitivity, clinical judgment, and moment-to-moment responsiveness that make somatic trauma work so nuanced. For those exploring their own healing, it offers a deeply human perspective on how protective patterns develop and how the possibility of change can begin to emerge through the body.

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What You'll Learn and Experience

Through Peter's teaching and live sessions, you'll develop a deeper understanding of how trauma shapes the body and how Somatic Experiencing® can support recovery.

You'll have the opportunity to:

  • Recognize how trauma shapes the nervous system. Understand patterns of activation, shutdown, bracing, withdrawal, and other protective responses that influence emotions, relationships, and everyday life.
  • Observe Peter's clinical approach. See how he tracks sensation, movement, and subtle physiological changes, and how he determines when to intervene, slow down, or support an emerging response.
  • Deepen your understanding of somatic intervention. Explore the role of pacing, titration, pendulation, resources, and attunement in supporting the nervous system.
  • Understand how trauma affects different areas of life. Explore the physiological and relational dimensions of grief, attachment trauma, spirituality, and complex trauma.
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What People Experience Learning From Peter Levine

Watching Peter work helped me understand aspects of Somatic Experiencing that are difficult to grasp through theory alone. His attention to the smallest shifts in the body, and the patience with which he follows them, changed how I think about pacing and supporting clients through trauma.
Dr AlexMinnesota
What stayed with me was how much care Peter brought to the experience of the person he was working with. I began to understand my own responses differently, with more compassion and less urgency to change them. It gave me a different sense of what healing through the body can look like.
KateBritish Columbia
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Explore Four Essential
Dimensions of Trauma Healing

Across four sessions, Peter Levine will explore how Somatic Experiencing® approaches grief, attachment trauma, spirituality, and complex trauma.

Each session includes in-depth teaching and a live, one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® session with a participant, giving you the opportunity to witness his approach in practice.

Nov 6Fri · 2:00–3:30 pm ET
I. Grief

Moving Through Loss — A Somatic Approach to Grief

Grief can change our energy, our relationships, and our sense of being at home in the world. When loss overwhelms our capacity to respond, the body may move into states of collapse, numbness, agitation, or withdrawal.

Peter explores how Somatic Experiencing® can support the grieving process through careful attention to the body's responses, helping people remain connected to loss without becoming overwhelmed.

You’ll explore

  • How grief and loss affect the nervous system
  • Recognizing overwhelm, collapse, numbness, and immobilization
  • Using pendulation to support movement between grief and available resources
  • Supporting emotional expression without forcing catharsis
  • Reconnecting with vitality and meaningful engagement while honoring loss
Nov 13Fri · 2:00–3:30 pm ET
II. Attachment Trauma

The Body in Relationship — Healing Attachment Trauma Somatically

Our earliest relationships shape how we experience closeness, safety, separation, and receiving care. When these experiences involve fear, neglect, or inconsistency, the body may develop protective patterns that continue to influence relationships long into adulthood.

Peter explores how attachment trauma shapes physiological responses to connection and how Somatic Experiencing® can support greater flexibility, regulation, and relational safety.

You’ll explore

  • How early attachment experiences shape nervous-system responses
  • Recognizing patterns of bracing, withdrawal, appeasement, and hypervigilance
  • Working with boundaries, proximity, and protective responses
  • Understanding the role of co-regulation and therapeutic attunement
  • Supporting greater flexibility and capacity for secure connection
Nov 20Fri · 2:00–3:30 pm ET
III. Trauma & Spirituality

Trauma, the Body & Spirituality — Reclaiming Connection and Wholeness

Trauma can affect our relationship with meaning, purpose, belonging, and the larger experience of being alive. Spiritual experiences may offer important sources of resilience, but they can sometimes also become ways of moving away from pain that has not yet been integrated.

Peter explores how embodiment, nervous-system regulation, and spiritual experience intersect, and how deeper contact with the body can support presence, connection, and meaning.

You’ll explore

  • The relationship between trauma, embodiment, and spirituality
  • Distinguishing embodied presence from dissociation
  • Understanding spiritual bypassing in trauma healing
  • Exploring awe, meaning, belonging, and connection
  • Supporting integration between psychological healing, bodily experience, and spirituality
Dec 4Fri · 2:00–3:30 pm ET
IV. Complex Trauma

Beyond Survival — Working with Complex Trauma Through the Body

Complex trauma can shape enduring patterns of activation, shutdown, dissociation, emotional overwhelm, and disconnection. These responses often develop through repeated or developmental experiences and require sensitivity to the ways the nervous system has adapted to survive.

Peter explores how Somatic Experiencing® approaches complex trauma through careful pacing, tracking, and attention to protective responses, supporting greater capacity without overwhelming the system.

You’ll explore

  • Recognizing hyperactivation, hypoactivation, freeze, and collapse
  • Understanding the effects of repeated and developmental trauma
  • Using titration, pacing, and resource development
  • Tracking defensive impulses, movement, and subtle physiological changes
  • Supporting greater regulation, agency, and relational capacity
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Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is for therapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, somatic practitioners, coaches, healthcare professionals, and other helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding of trauma healing through the body.

Whether you're experienced in Somatic Experiencing® or exploring somatic approaches for the first time, you'll have the opportunity to learn directly from Peter Levine and observe how he works with the complexities of trauma in real time.

You do not need to be a clinician to attend.

The workshop also welcomes anyone drawn to Peter's work for their own healing journey, particularly those seeking a deeper understanding of grief, relationships, nervous-system responses, and the body's capacity for recovery.

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See Peter Levine's Work in Action

Some of the most meaningful aspects of Somatic Experiencing® become clearer when you witness them.

Watch how Peter attends to the body's subtle responses, follows what emerges in the moment, and works with a person's experience at a pace their nervous system can manage.

This is the kind of attentive, responsive work you'll have the opportunity to witness throughout the workshop.

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Peter A. Levine, PhD

Meet Your Teacher

Peter A. Levine, PhD

Developer of Somatic Experiencing®

Peter A. Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-oriented approach to trauma healing, and the author of influential books including Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma and In an Unspoken Voice.

For more than five decades, his work has explored how overwhelming experiences affect the nervous system, how survival responses can remain active in the body, and how carefully attending to physiological experience can support recovery.

His contributions have influenced the fields of trauma therapy, somatic psychology, and body-oriented healing.

In this workshop, Peter brings his extensive experience into direct teaching and live sessions, giving you the opportunity to learn from both his understanding of trauma and the moment-to-moment ways he works with people.

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Join Peter Levine for Healing Trauma Through the Body

Your Enrollment Includes All Four Sessions

  • Session 1 — Grief: Moving Through Loss (Nov 6)Explore the body's responses to grief and loss.
  • Session 2 — Attachment Trauma: The Body in Relationship (Nov 13)Explore how relational trauma shapes patterns of protection and connection.
  • Session 3 — Trauma & Spirituality: Reclaiming Connection and Wholeness (Nov 20)Explore how embodiment, meaning, and spiritual experience intersect.
  • Session 4 — Complex Trauma: Beyond Survival (Dec 4)Explore how Somatic Experiencing® works with layered trauma responses.
  • Lifetime recordings access

Every session includes in-depth teaching and a live, one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® session with Peter Levine.

$167 USD

The complete workshop is also included in The Embody Lab's Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this one workshop or four separate workshops?

Healing Trauma Through the Body is one comprehensive workshop consisting of four sessions. One enrollment includes all four sessions.

Will Peter Levine teach every session?

Yes. Peter will teach all four sessions and conduct a live, one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® session during each one.

Will I have the opportunity to work directly with Peter?

Each session includes a live Somatic Experiencing® session with one selected participant. Everyone attending will have the opportunity to witness Peter's work, and participants may be considered to work with him directly. Additional information about selection will be provided.

Do I need previous Somatic Experiencing® training?

No. The workshop is open to practitioners from a variety of backgrounds as well as people interested in somatic approaches to their own healing.

When are the live sessions?

There are four live online sessions, all on Fridays from 2:00 to 3:30 pm ET:

  • Nov 6: Grief
  • Nov 13: Attachment Trauma
  • Nov 20: Trauma & Spirituality
  • Dec 4: Complex Trauma
Will the sessions be recorded?

Yes. Every session is recorded, and enrolling gives you lifetime access to the recordings.

What if I can’t attend a session live?

That’s fine. The recording will be in your library, and you can watch it whenever suits you. Your access never expires.

Are CE credits available?

After purchase, please submit your interest in CEs in this form.

Is this workshop included in the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program?

Yes. The complete four-session workshop is included in The Embody Lab's Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.

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Trauma touches how we grieve, connect, find meaning, and move through the world.

Experience Somatic Trauma Healing With Peter Levine

There is a depth of understanding that comes from witnessing an experienced practitioner work with another human being, attending to the smallest changes and responding to what unfolds.

Through four sessions devoted to grief, attachment trauma, spirituality, and complex trauma, you'll have the opportunity to learn from Peter Levine's decades of experience and see how his approach comes to life in real sessions.

Join Peter Levine for Healing Trauma Through the Body.

Enroll in the Workshop