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Level 2: Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
In Level 2, Dr. Arielle Schwartz deepens your journey of applied Polyvagal Theory in therapeutic yoga with topics that expand into the connection between stress, trauma, and your health. You will learn how trauma can dysregulate the nervous system and discover the tools to facilitate greater access balance and wellbeing. In the ten hours of level two we will apply core principles of body-centered psychotherapies into therapeutic yoga. You will also learn brain and body integration practices including bilateral movements and reflex integration. You will come away with compassion based practices to work through barriers to wellness.
Somatic Recovery: Embodied Healing for Addiction and Sobriety Support
Join renowned spiritual teacher and author Sah D'Simone for an illuminating exploration of craving and attachment through the lens of Buddhist wisdom. In this 90-minute workshop, you'll discover how ancient Buddhist teachings can transform your relationship with addictive patterns and compulsive behaviors. Through guided meditation, somatic practice, and interactive discussion, Sah will share practical tools for breaking free from cycles of craving and returning to present-moment awareness. Whether you're dealing with substances, relationships, social media, or other forms of attachment, this workshop offers profound insights for your healing journey.
Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help heal attachment wounds and trauma, and support the creation of profound and empowering relationships for yourself, clients, communities and the world?
Are you committed to holistically and compassionately transforming pain and relational challenges into growth, meaning, deep connection, and resilience?
Then we invite you to the first-of-its-kind 60-hour Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program.
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore the transformative power of somatics and attachment work, one that fosters true healing in the form of compassionate and sustaining relationships.
Join us for this free, live, online Info Session event with the certificate Co-Director and Founder!
Healing Trauma with EMDR & Applied Neuroscience
In this FREE 1-Day Summit we’ll explore the transformative tools of EMDR therapy and the latest insights from body-based therapies. Join us on this incredible journey of discovery, healing, and growth as we explore the profound connection between trauma, the body and the brain.
During this immersive online event, you'll have the unique opportunity to learn from world-renowned experts in the fields of EMDR therapy and applied neuroscience. Through a series of engaging presentations and experiential workshops, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of trauma's impact on the brain and how EMDR therapy, combined with cutting-edge neuroscience principles, can facilitate healing and promote resilience. Whether you're a mental health professional, a trauma survivor, or simply curious about the power of mind-body practices, this summit will provide invaluable insights and strategies to enhance your own healing journey or support your work with others.
How Trauma affects Support, Suspension & Breath
Betsy Polatin will explore with us how Trauma affects Support, Suspension, and Breath. Trauma tends to fragment and/or diminish our sense of self. This experiential presentation will offer simple exercises to enhance sensory skills by exploring the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems, and how they relate to the larger universe, and to trauma. Learn to awaken inherent potential by finding the support from the ground that can lead to full stature and the expanded Self, while noting how trauma and overwhelm can interfere with this process. Session will include live demos with participants.
Level 3: Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
In Level 3, Dr. Arielle Schwartz helps you to compassionately explore how dissociation can show up in a yoga practice and discover pendulation strategies to navigate nervous system states. You will learn how to integrate parts work therapies to work with your internal family system through body dialogues on the yoga mat. We will deepen the journey through applied polyvagal theory in therapeutic yoga with restorative practices and a trauma-informed approach to meditation and yoga nidra. This 30 hour course concludes by teaching you tools to personalize the model to create therapeutic yoga practices for yourself, a student or a client including learning a model for a 6-week group class.
Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you looking for a way to help your clients heal from trauma more effectively and holistically? Do you want to learn how to integrate EMDR therapy and somatic psychology in your trauma treatment practice? Or daily life as a way to process stress, release what's holding you back, and expand your resilience?
This program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators who want to discover the power of a unified somatic approach to EMDR therapy to address and repair the psychological and physiological effects of trauma. When brought together these two cutting-edge modalities help process traumatic memories and reduce emotional distress, while reconnecting with the body and restoring a sense of safety and agency. In fact, according to Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, Somatic Therapy and EMDR Therapy are considered the best approaches for the treatment of trauma.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate faculty!
Profit in Flow: Identifying Leaks & Maximizing Margins
This workshop explores how to identify hidden profit leaks and make small shifts to maximize margins without sacrificing well-being. Learn how small adjustments to your offers and operations can restore financial flow and create space for sustainable growth. Discover practical ways to stay aligned with your values, ensuring profitability feels like a natural outcome of your business choices.
Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate
Are you looking for a way to help your clients heal from trauma more effectively and holistically? Do you want to learn how to integrate EMDR therapy and somatic psychology in your trauma treatment practice?
Discover the power of a unified somatic approach to EMDR therapy to address the psychological and physiological aspects of trauma. When brought together these two cutting-edge modalities help process traumatic memories and reduce emotional distress, while reconnecting with the body and restoring a sense of safety and agency.
Somatic Experiencing® Session Demonstration: Shame & Pride
We invite you to a rare one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) session demonstration with internationally renowned trauma expert Dr. Peter A. Levine, developer of SE™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.
During this demonstration session, Dr. Levine will lead us in exploring how we can track shame patterns within our clients and lead them out of collapse into experiencing a sense of pride. Learning from observation, practice, and discussion is an integral way to understand bottom-up somatic-based healing, no matter what level. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to dive deeper into the understanding of SE™ and Dr. Levine's work in the field, including Q&A.
Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate
This unique 3-month live and online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore a somatic approach to attachment based therapy: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental and relational wounding and healing.
This program brings together world renowned somatic attachment therapy teachers to offer a holistic, body-centered method to healing relational wounds and trauma.
Somatic Approaches to Trauma Healing and the Role of Psychedelics
Join Dr. Scott Lyons and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk for an illuminating Master Class, Somatic Approaches to Trauma Healing and the Role of Psychedelics. This session explores the profound connection between body-based practices and trauma recovery, offering insights into how somatic approaches help regulate the nervous system and promote healing. Discover the emerging role of psychedelics as a transformative tool in trauma therapy, bridging mind and body to unlock deeper resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from two leading experts in trauma healing and somatic integration.
Cultivating the Container: Guiding Foundations and Ethos of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
The body is the foundation of all our experiences and is the place of transformation. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy welcomes and values the wisdom of the body as the landscape for therapeutic change. In this experiential and engaging session, we will lean into the guiding foundations and principles of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the wise therapeutic maps and structures that have been informed and emerge from these principles. We will learn and deepen understanding of how to nourish a therapeutic container in SP that sets the groundwork for embodied transformative healing.
Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you looking for a way to help your clients heal from trauma more effectively and holistically? Do you want to learn how to integrate EMDR therapy and somatic psychology in your trauma treatment practice? Or daily life as a way to process stress, release what's holding you back, and expand your resilience?
This program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators who want to discover the power of a unified somatic approach to EMDR therapy to address and repair the psychological and physiological effects of trauma. When brought together these two cutting-edge modalities help process traumatic memories and reduce emotional distress, while reconnecting with the body and restoring a sense of safety and agency. In fact, according to Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, Somatic Therapy and EMDR Therapy are considered the best approaches for the treatment of trauma.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate faculty!
Level 1: Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, you will learn about how the vagus nerve is a bi-directional information highway between mind and body—more importantly, you will learn breath, movement, and awareness practices that become the building blocks of a life-changing daily practice. Within the first ten hours of this training you will develop an understanding of the 8-limbs of yoga for trauma recovery. We will explore key elements of polyvagal theory as applied to yoga including how to integrate vagal toning, neuroception of psychological safety, and co-regulation within the practice. Each class offers lecture, practice, and group discussion. Classes are offered on a yoga mat, however accessible modifications and chair yoga alternatives are offered.
Where the Light Plays
Our human bodies, like the earth, are mostly water. Continuum is a practice that engages breath, sound and movement to restore our inherent fluidity and moving flow. This pre-solstice movement class in the Northern hemisphere’s dark time will explore how and where our light can play in our own inner landscape. Come prepared to play with the audability and emergent music of breath as an invitation to invoke your authentic ways of moving and being. Dress comfortably for movement, and please bring “nesting” materials (mats, blankets, cushions) and something to write in.
Flowing Through Tough Times: Aligning People, Processes & Technology
In this workshop, you’ll discover how to align your people, processes, and tools to create ease and resilience in your business. Learn how to stay in flow even during tough times, build agile systems that free up energy for personal well-being, and explore practical strategies for maintaining sustainable growth with ease. We’ll reflect on how aligned systems create freedom—giving you more space to focus on what matters most.
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate Information Session
Stress and trauma can lead to imbalances in the physiology of the autonomic nervous system. If these imbalances are left unaddressed, they can lead to mental and physical health problems.
This 3-part 30-hour Certificate Program explores the benefits of Therapeutic Yoga and Applied Polyvagal Theory as related to trauma recovery with world-leading teachers Dr. Arielle Schwartz and special guests Dr. Stephen Porges and Deb Dana.
Join us for this free, live, online Info Session event with the certificate program director Dr. Arielle Schwartz!
The Path to Healing Trauma with Peter A. Levine, PhD
In this transformative four-part series, Dr. Peter Levine demonstrates a deep understanding of how complex trauma originates, and how somatic-based therapy can help clients address, process, and begin healing more quickly and effectively. Dr. Levine will personally guide you through client demonstration videos. At every step, he pauses to explain his approach and techniques, generously sharing his wisdom. By immersing yourself in this experience, you will gain insight into a method that can be immediately integrated into your practice, enabling you to access the power of somatics to heal trauma and restore a sense of wholeness, peace and well-being. LEARN MORE HERE
Fall Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Program
Join the Somatic Practitioner Mentorship program mentors Dr. Peter Levine, Deb Dana, Diane Pool Heller, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Nkem Ndefo, Dr. Scott Lyons, Kai Cheng Thom, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Staci Haines and more for this 26-hour Mentorship Program designed to enhance your capacity to bring the power of somatic therapies into your work with others.
Mentorship (and somatic supervision) are a vital way to enhance and refine your skills as a practitioner and receive guidance and support in the challenges and journeys you are facilitating with your clients.
Healing and Relieving Pain: The Power of Somatics
In this Master Class, we’ll apply somatic tools to help relieve and uncover the real causes of chronic pain patterns that evade diagnosis. Often, unresolved trauma and emotional stress are deeply involved. Through somatic techniques, we’ll explore effective methods for pain relief and work towards lasting resolution.
Somatics and Trauma Healing: The Body Keeps the Score
Join Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps The Score, and Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab, in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of somatics to heal trauma, heal past wounds, and create a brighter more resilient future for yourself and others!
ONE-DAY SUMMIT: The Relationship Summit
Relationships can inspire our deepest sense of connection, joy and belonging, both to ourselves and others. They can also provoke our deepest insecurities, pains, and disconnection. Bringing an embodied understanding and awareness to our relationships supports us in creating deeper, more empathic and nurturing relationships. In this One-Day Summit with world leading embodiment, relationship and somatic attachment experts we explore how to foster relationships that inspire connection and deep intimacy. You’ll learn how to co-create our relationships based on intention, self-acceptance empathetic understanding and safety. LEARN MORE HERE
Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Information Session
Join Dr. Scott Lyons, founder of The Embody Lab and the Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Program, for the live info session where he will offer answers to the most frequently asked questions.
Mentorship (and somatic supervision) are a vital way to enhance and refine your skills as a practitioner and receive guidance and support in the challenges and journeys you are facilitating with your clients.
Making the Most of Micro-Moments
Science shows us that extended periods of regulation aren’t necessary to shape new patterns. In this experiential session, we’ll explore the power of micro-moments to resource regulation. We’ll consider how small naturally occurring moments accumulate, shape our biology, and how we might intentionally use them to write new stories of safety and connection. We’ll learn how the negativity bias gets in the way of taking in positive experiences, build a glimmer practice, and test the steps of savoring.
Anxiety Rx
After years of trying different therapies for his debilitating anxiety without success, Dr. Russell Kennedy had an epiphany: anxiety does not start in the brain.
Anxiety starts in the body, where trauma is stored and physical and emotional perception begin. Alarm bells originating in the body are what trigger those anxious thoughts that we call anxiety, and Russ realized that true healing starts only when we learn not to conflate the two. He understood that existing therapies focused only on the mind would never get to the root of the problem―at best, they could help manage symptoms, but they’d never truly heal anxiety.
Wanting to make a difference for the millions who suffer from anxiety disorder, Russ created Anxiety Rx, a book that blends his personal story with medical science, neuroscience, and developmental psychology. Readers learn how to sever the connection between the somatic alarm and the flood of anxious thoughts―in the process they begin to heal old trauma and gain a sense of control previously unknown.
Somatic CBT Certificate Program
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Somatic CBT Meet the Faculty Session
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event with the full certificate faculty!
Every Inhale Begins With an Uprising
What does it really mean to embody social justice? What is the direct body experience that gives these words meaning? How can movement liberate from oppression, trauma, fear in our bodies? This experiential conversation will share ideas and practices from the facilitators human rights somatic framework for working with trauma and oppression. The concepts of microempowerments, state-shifting and interoception will be explored through embodied theory and movement in service of an inquiry into how movement liberates.
The Wisdom of Trauma Healing Immersion
Join us for a transformative 6-day journey with Dr. Peter A. Levine, Dr. Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk and Dr. Scott Lyons, where you will learn how to access the wisdom of the body, the science and practice of mind-body unity, and the blueprint to restoring vitality, flow, and resilience. You will also utilize somatic embodiment practices to attune to your internal compass, guiding you towards healing.
This immersion will also offer many rare opportunities to observe live demos of Somatic Experiencing®, where you will witness the body's innate wisdom of healing. LEARN MORE HERE
Cultivate Authentic Leadership, Service, & Prosperity in Your Life & Work
In this workshop, you will uncover how to connect with your unique Inner Authority using Human Design as a powerful tool. This connection will help you make decisions with greater ease, build confidence, and attract prosperity and fulfillment in alignment with your true self. We’ll also explore how embracing desire, cultivating your mindset, and applying Universal Laws can transform and expand your life. Additionally, we will engage in a brief movement practice and energy healing to support the next steps of your journey.
Somatic CBT Certificate Information Session
Discover the power of Somatic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to empower yourself and your clients with evidence-based tools that confront challenges, interrupt habits, and significantly impact the healing journey. In this training, you will learn to holistically transform unhelpful patterns while simultaneously addressing the root of these challenges. You will expand your skills that draw on the connection between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviors to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the full certificate faculty!
Healing Developmental Trauma: A Somatic Path to Secure Attachment
Join Peter A. Levine PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), and Diane Poole Heller PhD, author of The Power of Attachment (2019) and Healing Your Attachment Wounds (2017), hosted by Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of somatics to hear what the body is saying, reconnect to your innate resilience, and heal developmental trauma.
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate - Level 3
In Level 3 of this 25-hr Certificate, you will deepen your conceptual and experiential knowledge of Integrative Somatic Parts Work. This Level 3 training will include didactics and experiential learning, video demonstrations, meditations, case presentations, and discussion.
Discover how the theory and practice of Integrative Somatic Parts Work can deepen your ability to “see” the heart of the matter for yourself and your clients, and help heal it.
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Certificate
This 3-part 30-hour Certificate Program explores the benefits of Therapeutic Yoga and Applied Polyvagal Theory as related to trauma recovery with world-leading teachers Dr. Arielle Schwartz and special guests Dr. Stephen Porges and Deb Dana. In order to better understand the connection between stress, trauma, and our health, we must turn our attention to the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve can be thought of as a bi-directional information highway that communicates between the mind and body. Imbalances in the vagus nerve and physiology of the autonomic nervous system can lead to feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, depression, or dissociation. Stimulating the vagus nerve helps to regulate both sympathetic hyper-arousal and parasympathetic hypo-arousal. The best ways to naturally modulate these nervous responses are through breath and movement. LEARN MORE HERE
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners & educators wanting to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing. This program brings together world renowned somatic trauma therapy teachers into one training. The intention of this program is to offer a holistic framework for understanding and working with trauma from a body-centered perspective. This extraordinary program offers a collection of practical tools that will help access the innate wisdom that guides the healing process for yourself and your work with others.
The Power of Polyvagal Theory: Somatics for Healing Trauma
Join Peter A. Levine PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), and Stephen Porges PhD, creator of the Polyvagal Theory and co-founder of Polyvagal Institute, with your host Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab, in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of Polyvagal Theory and somatics to heal trauma, heal past wounds, and create a brighter more resilient future for yourself and others!
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event with the certificate Co-Directors and faculty!
Unstoppable Confidence
Step into your power with the Unstoppable Confidence Master Class led by Justin Michael Williams.
Discover the transformative art of building genuine self-confidence and self-esteem. Equip yourself with practical tools to assert your authenticity and enhance every aspect of your life, from career aspirations to personal relationships. Join this dynamic session to transform your potential into reality, one confident step at a time.
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate - Level 2
In Part 2 of this 25-hour Certificate, each session will be didactic and experiential and will offer an introduction to the specific practices in Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy.
Discover how the theory and practice of Integrative Somatic Parts Work can deepen your ability to “see” the heart of the matter for yourself and your clients, and help heal it.
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!
One-Day Summit: Embodied Stress Release
Explore the power of Embodied Stress Release with Dr. Scott Lyons and other internationally recognized leaders in somatic-based approaches to stress release and healing. Gain practical tools and insights into understanding the body’s response to stress, how to enhance body awareness, and increase your capacity to complete biological stress responses. Discover how to restore and optimize your fundamental ability to adapt to and navigate life with ease and agency. Learn how to enhance your capacity to identify internal responses to stressors, and mobilize that energy towards restoration and ease. LEARN MORE HERE