Somatic Anxiety Therapy
Certificate Information Session
This series can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings.
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INFORMATION SESSION + GET THE RECORDING
INFORMATION SESSION:
February 16th, 2025 from 4 - 5:30pm ET
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Are you looking for a way to help your clients find deep, lasting relief from anxiety through the wisdom of the body? Do you want to learn powerful somatic approaches to guide people from overwhelm to ease, from tension to flow, and from panic to peaceful presence? Then we invite you to our 60-hr Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate Program.
This program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to discover how body-based approaches can transform anxiety into embodied calm, increased resilience, adaptability, and a sense of agency and control. Through somatic practices, you'll learn to help clients release stored tension, regulate their nervous system, and cultivate a natural state of ease that extends far beyond traditional “anxiety” coping strategies.
In this unique online certificate program, you will learn evidence-based somatic techniques that address anxiety at its physiological and psychological roots. Discover how to guide gentle movements, breath work, and body awareness practices that help your clients shift from fight-flight-freeze into states of safety, groundedness, and inner peace. You'll benefit from interactive learning, practical exercises, and peer support as you develop these transformative skills.
Taught by world-leading faculty, this program will equip you with the confidence to offer your clients a comprehensive approach to anxiety that works directly with the body's natural capacity for regulation and renewal. Learn to facilitate lasting shifts from hypervigilance to presence, from constriction to openness, from reactivity to responsive calm.
Join us and discover how somatic therapy can guide the journey from anxiety to embodied ease for yourself and your clients. Register now and get ready to transform your practice and your client's lives through the power of body-based healing.
“Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way.”
— BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
ABOUT THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
LEARN EVIDENCE-BASED TOOLS TO GUIDE THE JOURNEY FROM ANXIETY TO EMBODIED EASE!
This unique 10-week online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to discover how body-based approaches can transform anxiety into embodied calm, increased resilience, adaptability, and a sense of agency and control.
Join us and learn evidence-based somatic techniques that address anxiety at its physiological and psychological roots. You’ll discover somatic practices to help clients release stored tension, regulate their nervous system, and cultivate a natural state of ease that extends far beyond traditional “anxiety” coping strategies.
You’ll discover how to guide gentle movements and offer breath work and body awareness practices to help your clients shift from fight-flight-freeze into states of safety, groundedness, and inner peace.
You'll benefit from interactive learning, practical exercises, and peer support as you develop these transformative skills.
This program is more than an anxiety management training. Taught by world-leading faculty, this program will equip you with the skills and confidence to offer your clients a comprehensive and unified approach to somatics for anxiety management.
The faculty will guide you through interactive theory and learning, practical application of exercises, interventions and protocols, demonstrations, and peer practice sessions to inspire and empower you through this effective and powerful healing process for yourself and the people you work with. Once the foundational material is learned and embodied, advanced integration classes will teach you how to modify the foundational tools for the diversity of individuals you are working with.
What is Somatic Anxiety Therapy?
“Somatic approaches to anxiety guide you to harness the power of your thoughts, works directly with your body, and help you to face your fears. With the right support, you may just discover that you are stronger and more capable than you imagined.”
— DR. ARIELLE SCHWARTZ
Anxiety has classically been defined as excessive worry or fear accompanied by restlessness, dread, uncertainty, muscle tension, a lack of ease, with chronic catastrophization and negativity that impacts daily living. A somatic perspective of anxiety recognizes it as not just a mental condition but also a physical one.
A somatic perspective works past the symptoms of anxiety and addresses its origins.
From a body-based perspective, anxiety is considered an alarm in the body that signifies that there is a disconnect (in the mind-body). This disconnect can come from a fragmentation of emotions, safety, a sense of power, capacity, and control. Until it is properly addressed that alarm gets louder and more aggressive, escalating the symptoms of anxiety. Finding and soothing the alarm stored in the body is critical to healing chronic worry and a major proponent of Somatic Anxiety Therapy.
In addition to practices that address the alarm aspect of anxiety, Somatic Anxiety Therapy also addresses dysregulation in the body that stems from a perceived lack of safety and chronic patterns of survival playing themselves out, real or perceived separation, lack of sensory-motor balance (that can create a high level of unprocessed arousal energy), and unprocessed emotions and unmet needs that manifest as a deep discomfort in the body.
Anxiety is a feedback loop between the painful feelings in the body and the revving and distorted worried thoughts in the mind. They feed off each other, creating what can sometimes feel like an unbreakable cycle. Somatic Anxiety Therapy offers guidance into the healing power and wisdom of the body combined with powerful tools that address the thoughts, behaviors, and patterns that contribute to the chronic cycle of anxiety, ultimately breaking the loop.
In this program we’ll explore many tools including:
Grounding: Grounding involves sensing the body, feeling your feet on the earth, and calming the nervous system.
Cultivating Somatic Awareness: Teaching clients how to develop and sustain somatic awareness is a foundational step in the integration of body-centered work.
Resourcing: When we help clients develop resources we focus on increasing a sense of choice and safety.
Breathwork: Breathwork empowers individuals to regulate their nervous systems, fostering a sense of safety and connection within their bodies. By combining conscious breathing with somatic awareness, it helps release stored tension and trauma, offering a practical tool for long-term emotional resilience and healing.
Mindfulness: practices that help generate states of curiosity, awareness, compassion, and acceptance.
Self Containment: You’ll explore techniques to help cliemys contain their feelings of anxiety for example, butterfly hugs, leg press, weighted object, self hugging and many more.
Shaking and tremoring: Guiding clients through sequenced shaking and tremoring practices can be a powerful way to discharge the excesses energy and turn off the alarm of anxiety.
Titration: Titration refers to a process of experiencing small amounts of distress at a time with a goal to discharge the tension. During Somatic Anxiety Therapy, titration is also a key component of managing high levels of distress and reducing the likelihood of re-traumatization during the healing process.
Somatic Cogantive Behaveioral Therapy: Supporting client in understanding and repatterning their preceptions patterns, cognitive distortions, and behavrioal habits that contribute to their personal cycle of anxiety. Additionally, tools will be given to address underlying beliefs and scripts contributing to the stuckness and lack of control.
Somatic Inner Child Work: Helping clients meet their unmet needs and emotions, specifically through addressing inner child work can get to the root cause of the anxiety.
REGISTER FOR THE FREE LIVE
INFORMATION SESSION + GET THE RECORDING
INFORMATION SESSION:
February 16th, 2025 from 4 - 5:30pm ET
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
• Social Workers
• Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors
• Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers
• Movement Therapists
• Coaches
• Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants
• Nurses & Nurse Practitioners
• Psychologists
• Emergency Medical Personnel
• Meditation Teachers
• Educators
• Massage Therapists & Body Workers
• Acupuncturists
• Hypnotherapists
• Kinesiologists
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals
• Clergy & Religious Leaders
• Other Wellness Professionals
REGISTER FOR THE FREE LIVE
INFORMATION SESSION + GET THE RECORDING
INFORMATION SESSION:
February 16th, 2025 from 4 - 5:30pm ET