Session 1 — Pleasure Heals: Embodied Consent, Somatic Pleasure Coaching & Developmental Trauma
Kai Cheng Thom · 75-minute experiential session
Contemporary trauma frameworks emphasize safety and regulation but often leave out pleasure, choice, and intimacy. Somatic Sex Educator and Master Jungian Life Coach Kai Cheng Thom explores the role of pleasure in trauma recovery and post-traumatic growth — including how to expand nervous system models, work with traumatic shame, and facilitate empowered choice, voice, and embodied pleasure practices.
Session 2 — Unwinding Birth and Infancy Traumas
Dr. Martha Eddy · 75-minute experiential session
Martha shares her journey through birth challenges and somatic work with babies — cord entanglements, brain injuries, breathing reversals, and more. How do these psychophysical challenges transform families? What does "It's never too late for a happy childhood" really mean? Drawing on her upcoming book Dynamic Embodiment of Freedom, she explores how cell-brain-hormonal connections from birth shape personality across the lifespan.
Session 3 — Where It All Began: Reclaiming the Nervous System After Early Trauma
Sergio Ocampo · 75-minute experiential session
Discover how early-life trauma shapes your nervous system — and what you can do to heal it. Gain practical somatic tools to gently process developmental trauma and release long-held patterns of fear, disconnection, and overwhelm. Walk away with embodied skills you can apply right away.
Session 4 — Navigating Barriers to Self-Compassion: Understanding the Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Dr. Arielle Schwartz · 75-minute experiential session
Even when we long for connection, we sometimes push the people we love away. Many of us carry conflicting needs for closeness and separateness — a dilemma amplified by relational wounds. Dr. Arielle explores how unrecognized approach-avoidance conflicts can sabotage healing, and offers steps to navigate them in the therapeutic relationship.
Session 5 — Healing Developmental Trauma: The Unspoken Roots of Safety & Trust
Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray · 75-minute experiential session
Drawing from her Polyvagal-informed Somatic & Dance/Movement Therapy framework, Dr. Amber introduces Yield as the foundational state of grounded receptivity and humanness. Through scientific and psycho-spiritual developmental perspectives, explore embodied practices that cultivate awareness and reveal the relationship between movement, developmental stages, and nervous system regulation.
Session 6 — Transforming Traumatic Experience in Developmental Trauma: Powerful Practices for Everyone
Tracy Jarvis · 75-minute experiential session
This experiential session blends interoceptive and mindfulness-based tools adapted from leading trauma modalities — Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems. Focused on down-regulation and processing of traumatic shock without recounting events, participants learn first steps for shifting their relationship to traumatic memory and opening the door to core belief and identity change.
