Somatic Stress Release™ Training
Level I Foundations
with Dr. Scott Lyons
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings.
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This is Level 1 of 3. All levels of this training series comprise 30 hours of study each plus 10 hours of homework & assesment, totaling 100 hours all together. Complete Levels 1-3 to receive our Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate. (Each Level of Training qualifies for 30 hours of CEU's with Yoga Alliance)
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SOMATIC STRESS RELEASE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
ABOUT THIS TRAINING
Learn to restore your biological stress response system with Dr. Scott Lyons’ live, online Somatic Stress Release™ training.
Somatic Stress Release™ is a holistic system to enhance body awareness and increase capacity to complete biological stress responses. The intention is to restore and optimize your fundamental ability to adapt and navigate life with ease and agency. You will learn how to enhance your capacity to identify internal responses to stressors, and mobilize that energy towards restoration and ease.
In this 100 hour certificate program you will:
Gain a deeper understanding of the biological, social, and psychological aspects of stress.
Identify somatic symptoms and triggers for emotional and physical distress.
Learn embodied mindfulness and resilience training techniques.
Engage in movement meditations and breath work to release trapped or stored arousal energy.
Stop burnout and rebuild depleted biological resources.
Learn to take control of your relationship to stress in order to live a life of greater well-being.
Somatic Stress Release™ empowers you and your clients to holistically discharge stress, blocked emotions, and body tension, as well as relieve stagnated energy while restoring resilience.
“The Somatic Stress Release™ training with Dr. Scott Lyons was a really powerful introduction to the way we experience stress in the body, uncovering our common patterns for responding to stress, and best of all a range of practices that help us move past stress and take more control of our lives. It gave me an incredibly helpful frame of how to better support myself and others with stressful events and responses in life. But what makes Scott’s trainings so powerful is the immersive experience he creates, interweaving lecture with practice and embodied experiences that not only help you get a more complete conceptual understanding of the work, but an embodied one from real experience—so that you go home embodying and practicing the concepts right away. Can’t recommend it enough, and can’t wait to do the next one!”
PRICING
Complete Levels 1-3 to receive recognition with our Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate.
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
Practice in your own time, over and over again. Your training fee includes LIFETIME ACCESS to the course recordings at no extra cost.
PRICING FOR LIVE SSR LEVEL 1 ONLY
You will have access to the live training sessions and
lifetime access to the on-demand recordings.
$847 $727
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$677
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
TAKE ALL 3 LIVE TRAININGS IN 2024 AND SAVE!
PRICING FOR THE LIVE ONLINE TRAINING BUNDLE FOR LEVELS 1-3
You will have access to the live training sessions as well as
lifetime access to the on-demand recordings.
$2181 $1947
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$1847
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
Please note: the 3 private practical sessions and the 2 sessions you conduct with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100-hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each SSR practitioner sets their own fees, but they typically range from $90 - $150 per session. Sessions can be completed online via Zoom. Please see the “Final Steps to Certification” below.
TRAINING EXPLORATIONS
Open to anyone (i.e yoga teachers, therapists, parents, teachers, etc.) who wishes to addresses stress from a multidisciplinary holistic approach.
This comprehensive immersion introduces students to Somatic Stress Release™, addressing the underlying psycho-physical patterns associated with stress while promoting well-being through the lens of body-oriented therapies.
Stress related health challenges are now a widespread global issue. Research links stress to physiological conditions like cardiovascular distress, immunosuppression, and gastro-intestinal problems. Stress adversely impacts attention, concentration, critical thinking, and other cognitive functions. Family and social relationships suffer.
Chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health, impacts biological energy conservation, and makes us less attuned to the need for self-care. When a person encounters stress they form neuromuscular patterns to manage and protect themselves from the situation. A person maintains this activation even after the stressor is eliminated. This behavior prevents them from properly processing or mobilizing the stress. Similarly, individuals can get trapped in thought cycles which continually activate a physiological response, limiting their tolerance and capacity to manage additional stressors.
A physiological stress response happens throughout every system of the body, ultimately interacting with every cell. It’s no wonder that stress responses are interwoven with our emotions, immune function, thoughts, breath, and movements. Somatic Stress Release™ is a holistic approach that recognizes the complex layering of each individual's relation to stress. Stress manifests itself in each person’s body differently. Understanding this unique body response allows each person to process and navigate the intricate layers of stress. One of the most effective pathways towards that awareness and negotiation is through feeling a deeper sense of and connection with the body-mind, an approach called somatics.
In this somatic approach there is a recognition that we engage with others and the world through sensations and movement. As stress is something experienced and expressed through the body, a somatic or body-focused approach can more quickly address habitual responses to internal and external stressors.
In addition to utilizing body-based stress release techniques, this immersion will also integrate experiential anatomy and physiology, mind-body medicine techniques, elements of cognitive-behavioral therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programing, movement meditations, and yoga nidra.
Module 1: Foundations
Introduction to Somatics and Somatic Therapy
Introduction to the History of Stress
Mind-Body Medicine for Stress
Mobilization Practices of Stress
Embodied Resilience Work
Experiential Anatomy of Stress 1
Integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Somatics for Stress
Introduction to Yoga Nidra
Integration of Compassion and Acceptance Therapy
Muscular-Fascial Release work with Balls
The Somatic Stress Release™ Training will prepare you to:
Work with your self or clients to recognize blocks in the stress response cycle and address them from a unique and humanistic lens.
Gain a deeper understanding of the biological, social, and psychological aspects of stress for each client.
Identify somatic symptoms and triggers for emotional and physical distress.
Identify what techniques are needed for your client in each moment.
Learn to work with stress as it is reflected in facial expressions, posture, muscular patterns, or other forms of body language.
Learn cognitive reframing and stress tolerance techniques.
Explore self hypnosis for relaxation.
Learn neuromuscular repatterning procedures to release unconscious habituated stress cycles.
Identify yours and other’s resources for negotiating stress.
Learn embodied mindfulness and resilience training techniques.
Apply body work techniques to yourself or others to prepare them to release stored arousal energy.
Engage in movement meditations and breath work to release trapped or stored arousal energy.
Apply manual-therapy techniques to guided meditation.
Stop burnout and rebuild depleted biological resources.
Learn to take control of your relationship to stress in order to live a life of greater well-being.
* This is an experiential training. Participants will be expected to explore personal stressors and work in both the client / practitioner role through out the training.
* Please note that as this is a somatic training, there will be an emphasis on moving the body. Please wear comfortable clothes. Movement may include free movement, yoga, and specific actions related to mobilizing stress.
* Please have a pair of massage balls and a bolster on hand for the training.
* Foundations is the first of three Somatic Stress Release™ modules. For more information on what each module entails please visit this link: https://www.theembodylab.com/somatic-stress-release-certificate
“Somatic Stress Release™ with Dr. Scott Lyons fundamentally re-oriented how I think about stress in just five days. My personal background is varied and includes notoriously stressful environments such as military service, consulting and startup software engineering. Scott doesn’t offer quick fix tricks to somehow make your stress magically go away. Instead, he dives into a deep exploration of what stress is, and how it’s woven into the fabric of our lives. By expertly layering academic research, experiential exercises, and group discussions, Scott has a unique talent to facilitate the journey of helping us understand what makes us human. Somatic Stress Release™ was a deep dive into the study of how stress arises both within myself and others. Equipped with actionable techniques and tools, I left the training with a newfound capacity to create space between stressors and my response to them, as well as begin to facilitate others in doing the same.”
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION
Participants will receive a Certificate of Participation of Somatic Stress Release™ after each module, and will be eligible to receive 30 hours of CEU’s from the Yoga Alliance.
Upon completion of all three Somatic Stress Release™ modules as well as the additional items listed below under “Final Steps to Certification,” you will be eligible for your 100hr Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner Certification.
| LEVEL 1 TRAINING LEVEL 2 TRAINING LEVEL 3 TRAINING |
30 hours 30 hours 30 hours |
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| HOMEWORK + ASSESSMENT | Minimum of 10 hours |
| FINAL STEPS TO CERTIFICATION |
You will be eligible for your 100hr Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner Certification after you have:• Attended live or watched the recordings for all SSR levels 1, 2 and 3Please note that the 3 private practical sessions and the 2 sessions you conduct with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100-hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each SSR practitioner sets their own fees, but they typically range from $90 - $150 per session. Sessions can be completed online via Zoom. |
TOTAL SSR PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION HOURS: 100 HOURS
SSR TRAINING DATES
| LEVEL 1: FOUNDATIONS | April 14th, 2024 live with Dr. Scott Lyons + self-paced learning via recordings |
|---|---|
| LEVEL 2: INTERMEDIATE | May 19th, 2024 live with Dr. Scott Lyons + self-paced learning via recordings |
| LEVEL 3: ADVANCED | August 3rd, 2024 live with Dr. Scott Lyons + self-paced learning via recordings |
SSR LEVEL 1 - DETAILED SCHEDULE
SUN, APRIL 14TH, 2024 from 10am-12:30pm + 1:30-4pm ET
Live Session with Dr. Scott Lyons
TUES, APRIL 30TH, 2024 from 12 - 1:30pm ET
Review session with SSR Senior Somatic Stress Release Assistants Kate Middleton and Shanyn Emerson
TUES, MAY 7TH, 2024 from 2 - 3:30pm ET
Q & A session with Dr. Scott Lyons
WED, MAY 15TH, 2024 from 8 - 9:30pm ET
Review session with SSR Senior Somatic Stress Release Assistants Kate Middleton and Shanyn Emerson
SELF-PACED WORK
Participants to work through the 30-hour Level 1 modules at their own pace.
“An unfathomable source of knowledge and wisdom, Scott is a teacher for whom I am happy to travel far. Every time I have been able to study under him, I took back with me not only numerous new tools and in-depth information but also fresh ideas and inspiration. As a mother, entrepreneur, and yoga facilitator, I was particularly interested in his programme on Somatic Stress Release™, because nowadays the term stress is so widely used and present in everyone’s life. With the help of Scott we were able to dissect what lies beneath this term or concept and find answers to questions some of which hadn’t even been asked yet. I warmly recommend getting to know Scott, studying or having sessions with him. It will certainly open up incredible insights and new dimensions for you.”
PRICING
Complete Levels 1-3 to receive recognition with our Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate.
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
Practice in your own time, over and over again. Your training fee includes LIFETIME ACCESS to the course recordings at no extra cost.
PRICING FOR SSR LEVEL 1 ONLY
$847 $727
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$677
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
BUY THE BUNDLE AND SAVE!
PRICING FOR SSR LEVELS 1, 2 & 3
$2181 $1947
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$1847
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
Please note: the 3 private practical sessions and the 2 sessions you conduct with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100-hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each SSR practitioner sets their own fees, but they typically range from $90 - $150 per session. Sessions can be completed online via Zoom. Please see the “Final Steps to Certification” here.
“Scott is an accomplished facilitator and the Somatic Stress Release™ course more than lived up to its promise. The presented paradigm of stress and stress response energy was insightful, evidence based, and transcended any other approach I have encountered despite years in the field. I fully believe this was because Scott has a breadth of knowledge and an openness of mind and intellect which allowed the presentations to be evolved from neuroscience, bodywork, psychotherapy, osteopathy but without bias or judgement to one simplistic truth, just the truth that simply is. This was further endorsed by its harness in experiential practice. Scott conveys a genuine warmth as a facilitator whilst casting both light on insights and uncovering shadows in one’s own stress response framework. The result is a layered understanding of how stress is an integral part of the human experience and it is how the manifested energy mobilizes which is the key to having personal and client freedom. I would highly recommend the Somatics Stress Release™ Level 1 course and Dr. Lyons as a teacher, and fully look forward to joining Level 2!”
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Dr. Scott Lyons
Dr. Scott Lyons is dedicated to teaching embodiment as a way of exploring human development, healing, growth and transformation. His deep passion is to integrate somatic practices, transpersonal inquiry and scholarly research into the creative and healing arts.
Scott is a Clinical Psychologist and Mind-Body Medicine practitioner who specializes in therapies for infants, youth and adults. He is a Certified Body-Mind Centering™ Teacher and Practitioner, Cranio-Sacral Therapist, Visceral Manipulation Therapist, Neuro-Developmental Therapist, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Registered Movement Therapist and Educator, Trauma Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Thai Massage Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness-based Executive Coach, Experiential Anatomy/ Developmental Movement and Yoga Practitioner, and a 500-hour registered yoga teacher. Additionally he holds a BFA in Theater/Psychology, MFA in Dance/Choreography, MS in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Mind-Body Medicine.
Scott is the co-creator of Embodied Flow and has had the privilege of teaching Embodied Flow and Body-Mind Centering workshops and trainings throughout the United States, Europe, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. He was an adjunct professor at New York University from 2007-2010 where he co-taught the Viewpoints Studio with Mary Overlie. As an artist, Scott’s work has been performed at BAM, Symphony Space, Dance New Amsterdam as well as theaters throughout the United States and Europe.
Foundational to Scott’s teaching is the principle that we can, through intention, expand our capacity to meet and be met. In this way, we can offer the profound gift to our self, others and the environment of being heard, seen, and feeling felt at a cellular level.
PRICING
Complete Levels 1-3 to receive recognition with our Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate.
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
Practice in your own time, over and over again. Your training fee includes LIFETIME ACCESS to the course recordings at no extra cost.
PRICING FOR SSR LEVEL 1 ONLY
$847 $727
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$677
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
BUY THE BUNDLE AND SAVE!
PRICING FOR SSR LEVELS 1, 2 & 3
$2181 $1947
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$1847
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
Please note: the 3 private practical sessions and the 2 sessions you conduct with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100-hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each SSR practitioner sets their own fees, but they typically range from $90 - $150 per session. Sessions can be completed online via Zoom. Please see the “Final Steps to Certification” here.