SOMATIC STRESS RELEASE™ CERTIFICATE
“Truly understanding and embodying your biological processes of stress is the keystone to your freedom, resilience & well-being. It allows you to come home to your body and use that power to adapt and thrive.”
— DR. SCOTT LYONS
PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE
Learn to restore your biological stress response system with Dr. Scott Lyons’ 5-day, 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.
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WHAT IS STRESS AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
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.
While we might perceive stress as happening around us, it is actually happening within us. A physiological stress response happens throughout every system of the body, ultimately interacting with every cell. Our stress responses are interwoven with our emotions, immune function, thoughts, breath, and movements.
Our innate stress response could be described as a natural and helpful response to adapt and thrive in the world. But at times a lack of support and resources take our stress response offline and thwart our ability to utilize our stress response to navigate and have agency in relation to our current situations. When this happens we are unable to properly process and mobilize stress. We begin to form compensational patterns that over time wear down on our nervous system and show up as challenges to our health, focus, productivity, behavior, and relationships.
As we lose our ability to adapt, we start to experience a flooding of incomplete stress responses, known as chronic stress. Chronic stress wreaks havoc on our health, impacts biological energy conservation, and makes us less attuned to the need for self-care.
A SOMATIC APPROACH TO STRESS RELEASE
Somatic Stress Release™ is a holistic approach that recognizes the complex layering of each individual's relationship 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.
‘Soma’ is a Greek word for ‘the living body known from within’. As infants, we addressed stress through our primarily modes of communication and expression- movement, sound, and touch. Stress is experienced and expressed through the body- and therefore can only truly be processed, metabolized, and healed through the body. We can’t think our way out of stress, and we can’t meditate our way out of stress. Stress is fundamental to our survival- however it was never meant to be unchecked and driving our lives.
The inability to process and actualize our stress response creates an overwhelm in the body. This can take us away from feeling at home in our body, and creating a split within ourselves. This disconnection leaves us with less resources to work through stress to adapt and return to balance. Addressing this damaging cycle is an integral component of this modality. Returning to our primal modes of processing stress through body-based therapeutic techniques allows us to come home to ourselves to address habitual responses more quickly of internal and external stressors, and processes unresolved and stored stress in the body. Somatic Stress Release™ offers holistic techniques for clients to sense and regulate their own physiology and states of being. This includes building more resources, building trusting and co-regulatory relationships, being invited deeper in the body to restore impulse and intuition, and given time and space to process the underlying emotions as guidance towards actualizing needs. Somatic Stress Release can access and metabolize deeply stored stress to help restore optimal functioning and well-being.
Join us and learn the power of somatics to release stress and restore resilience!
WHO IS THIS TRAINING 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
• Anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of human relationships and the power of Somatic Stress Release™
“Equanimity is not about pretending that things don’t affect you. Equanimity is actually about realizing that everything affects you, and learning to stay present with that truth.”
— ETHAN NICHTERN
MEET YOUR TEACHER
DR. SCOTT LYONS
Dr. Scott Lyons is a licensed holistic psychologist, educator and author of the book Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others, with Hachette publishing. Scott is also the host of The Gently Used Human Podcast, a delightfully depthful and often hilarious exploration of what it is to be human, to have lived life, and come out gently used.
As a renowned body-based trauma expert, Doctor of Osteopathy (Spain) and Mind-Body Medicine specialist, Scott helps people to break free from cycles of pain, limited beliefs, and trauma. Scott is an innovator in transformative wellness and trauma therapy, teaching over half a million people internationally over the past twenty years how to relieve stress and restore vitality. Scott has worked with many of the country’s top leaders and CEOs as an executive coach and wellness consultant.
Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab—the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies—and developer of Somatic Stress Release™, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries.
Scott 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 Scott 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 has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, ForbesWomen, Fast Company, The Telegraph, The Guardian, INC., CNBC Make It, Fortune, Bustle, Reader’s Digest and Goop. He has also appeared on The Mel Robbins Podcast, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The We Can Do Hard Things Podcast, The Mental Illness Happy Hour, The Human Upgrade, The Genius Life, and The Chopra Well.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
CURRICULUM
This 100 hour certificate program will run over three separate 5-day trainings, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace. All sessions can be completed via your online Content Library which you will gain access to upon registration.
In addition to utilizing body-based stress release techniques, these immersions will also integrate experiential anatomy and physiology, mind-body medicine techniques, elements of cognitive-behavioral therapy, movement meditations, and yoga nidra. For a full breakdown of the topics covered in each module are featured below.
THIS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IS DIVIDED INTO THREE TRAINING LEVELS:
LEVEL I: FOUNDATIONS
• Introduction to Somatics and Somatic Therapy
• Introduction to the History of Stress
• Mind-Body Medicine for Stress
• Mobilization Practices of Stress 1
• Movement-Therapy Approaches for Stress Release
• Stress Response Cycle 1
• Embodied Resilience Work
• Experiential Anatomy of Stress
• Understanding and working with pain and stress cycles.
• Integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Somatics for Stress
• Integration of Compassion and Acceptance Therapy
• Muscular-Fascial Release Work with Balls- Full Body Protocol
• Authentic Movement Practices
• Restoring and actualizing impulses through both intrinsic movement and contained/structured movement.
LEVEL II: INTERMEDIATE
• Stress Response Cycle 2 / Breaks
• Addressing Resistance In The Stress Response Cycle
• Healing Boundary Ruptures
• Proprioception Re-Patterning
• Central Nervous System Tension Release
• Experiential Anatomy of Stress 2
• Precentral - Motor Balancing Techniques
• Iliopsoas Complex Release Work
• Body Work and Manual Therapy for Stress Release
• Organ/ Enteric Nervous System Release Work
• Somatic Eye Work Protocols for stress Desensitization
• Full-body vocal work to support stress mobilization
• Embodied Breath Work
• Authentic Movement Practices 2
• Somatic Approaches to working With Freeze/ Immobilization Patterns
• Attachment Theory and Associated Stress Patterns
• Somatic Application of Polyvagal Theory and Stress
• Tremoring and Mobilization Practices 2
• Motor Reflex Repatterning (Startle Reflex Release)
• Nutrition for Stress Reduction
LEVEL III: ADVANCED
• Embodied Practitioner Skills
• Stress Postural Assessment and Repatterning
• Dialogue Work for Somatic Stress Release
• Experiential Anatomy of Stress 3
• Addressing Autoimmune and Inflammatory diseases through Somatic Stress Release™
• Unwinding Stress Memories
• Practice sessions with feedback
• Self Hypnosis for Stress
Two online support sessions will be offered after each module to help participants integrate the material.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
This 100 hour certificate program will run over three separate 5-day trainings, all available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace.
All sessions can be completed via your online Content Library which you will gain access to upon registration.
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Learn the power of somatics to unblock stuck emotions, release body tension, restore resilience, and free yourself and others from the ongoing impact of stress on your wellbeing.
TRAINING BUNDLE DISCOUNT
TAKE ALL 3 ONLINE TRAININGS AND SAVE!
Upon registration you will receive a welcome email with details on how to access the program. You will have lifetime access to the on-demand training sessions.BECOME A MEMBER OF THE EMBODY LAB FOR FREE & SAVE $100
*Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100hr 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 via Zoom.
Not ready to complete the full certificate?
Each level of Somatic Stress Release™ can be purchased as an individual workshop. You will have lifetime access to the recordings.
LEVEL 1: FOUNDATIONS
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND!
LEVEL 2: INTERMEDIATE
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND!
LEVEL 3: ADVANCED
AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND!
*Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100hr 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 via Zoom.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Identify yours and other’s resources for negotiating stress.
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.
Apply manual-therapy techniques to guided meditation.
Learn to take control of your relationship to stress in order to live a life of greater well-being.
Gain a deeper understanding of the biological, social, and psychological aspects of stress.
Identify somatic symptoms and triggers for emotional and physical distress.
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.
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
You will be eligible for your 100hr Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner Certification after you have:
• Watched the recordings for all SSR levels 1, 2 and 3.
• Watched the recording of the 2 online support sessions offered after each module to help participants integrate the material.
• Completed 10 hours of student practice sessions.
• Completed 4 private practical sessions with Dr. Scott Lyons or a Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner.
*Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100hr 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.
If you’re ready to free yourself and others from blocked emotions, body tension, stagnated energy, and the ongoing impact of stress on your wellbeing then join us and learn the power of somatics to release stress and restore resilience!
PROGRAM DETAILS
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
The 100hr certificate program consists of three separate 5-day training levels, and may be taken online via the on-demand recordings.
HOMEWORK
There are no homework assignments during the program. Please see Certificate of Participation and Practitioner Certification sections below for more information.LEARNING PLATFORM FORMAT
ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: The online learning platform will host all the information about the course including:
• Detailed schedule
• How to access the online sessions
• Supporting materials such as PDFs of the reading material and presentations
ACCESSIBILITY
VIDEO / AUDIO: Within the online learning platform, students may watch the video within their online library or download the video or audio to their computer. They will have lifetime access to the content.
READING LISTS: Manuals will be provided for each level in PDF format.
CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION
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.
PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION
You will be eligible for your 100hr Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner Certification after you have:
• Watched the recordings for all SSR levels 1, 2 and 3.
• Watched the recording of the 2 online support sessions offered after each module to help participants integrate the material.
• Completed 10 hours of student practice sessions.
• Completed 4 private practical sessions with Dr. Scott Lyons or a Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner.
Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner required to receive the full 100hr 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 and session. Sessions may be completed via Zoom.
REGISTRATION / ENROLLMENT / TUITION
Enroll for the certificate program by choosing one of two registration options— register for the training bundle which includes all 3 online trainings, or register individually for each training. Once you register, you will receive a welcome email with how to access all the details for the certificate program.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
+ Who is the training for? I’m not a yoga teacher— can I take the training?
Yes, absolutely! The training is suitable for yoga teachers, therapists, bodyworkers, naturopaths, counsellors, or anyone who wants to understand and release their own stressors.
+ Will all levels of Somatic Stress Release™ be online?
Yes. You’ll receive LIFETIME access to the on-demand training sessions. You’ll also get a detailed and comprehensive training manual to accompany each training level.
+ What’s involved in the training? What does a typical day look like?
A typical schedule is based on 5 hours of training a day: 10AM — 12:30PM and 1:30PM — 4PM ET.
+ How much homework will there be?
If you are completing the entire certification (Levels 1—3), in addition to watching the recordings of the training sessions, you will also need to:
- Watch the recording of the 2 online support sessions offered after each module to help participants integrate the material.
- Complete 10 hours of student practice sessions.
- Completed 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner.
Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each SSR practitioner sets their own fees.
+ What’s included in the cost of the training course?
You’ll receive LIFETIME access to the on-demand training sessions, available to watch at your liesure in your On-Demand Content Library. You’ll also get a detailed and comprehensive training manual to accompany each training.
Two online support sessions are also included after each level to help participants integrate the material.
Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each SSR practitioner sets their own fees.
+ What are the steps to the full certification?
Receive your Certificate of Completion for 100 hours after you have:
- Attended live or watched the recordings for all SSR levels 1, 2 and 3.
- Attend or watch the recording of the 2 online support sessions offered after each module to help participants integrate the material.
- Completed 10 hours of student practice sessions.
- Completed 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner.
+ How do the 4 private practical sessions with a practitioner work online and how much will they cost?
You’ll be given a list of practitioners to choose from to complete these sessions. Please note that the 4 Private Practical Sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner to receive the 100hr certification are not included in the cost of the training. Each practitioner sets their own fees.
+ What am I certified for?
You’ll be certified as a Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner.
+ Once I have my certificate, can I advertise as a Somatic Stress Release™ Practitioner?
Yes!
+ Is there a payment plan?
No, there is no payment plan available for the on-demand certificate program.
+ Will I receive Continuing Education Credits for the completion of this training?
If you are a member with Yoga Alliance, you will be eligible to receive 30 hours of CEU’s after completion of each module (Levels 1—3) and an additional 10 hours for the completion of the homework.
Completion of the entire Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate is therefore eligible for 100 hours of CEU's with Yoga Alliance.
If you have any other professional memberships you’ll need to apply to that organisation directly.
+ Do you offer scholarships?
We are only able to offer scholarships for the LIVE certificate program.
“The Somatic Stress Release™ training with Dr. Scott Lyons was an unfathomable source of knowledge and wisdom. Every time I have studied 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 Scott’s help, we were able to dissect what lies beneath this term 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.”
- SUSANNE BAUMANN-COX
“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 training 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 for the next one!”
- DR. JENNIFER GROFF
“The Somatic Stress Release™ training with Dr. Scott Lyons fundamentally re-oriented how I think about stress in just 5 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.”
- ARI S.
“Scott is an accomplished facilitator and this course more than lives 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. Scott has a breadth of knowledge and an openness of mind and intellect which allowed the presentations to be evolved from neuroscience, bodywork, psychotherapy, and 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.”
- ORLAGH, SWEDEN
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*Please note that the 4 private practical sessions with a Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner required to receive the full 100hr 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 via Zoom.
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