The next 7-week course begins is between March 10th and April 25th.

This is an understandable and common fear. Because these classes are recorded, you can pace yourself based on your capacity.

Some people find that they need the support of a professional while taking the course, others just need more time.

This work doesn't promise safety, but it does give you many tools to cultivate your capacity to feel the things inside of you that seem scary and impossible to feel.

The course is capped at 500 and we usually have 80-150 people attend the live sessions, while others follow along via replays due to timezones, work schedules, or capacity.

The program is designed as a foundational look into trauma healing - we don’t go into specific areas, such as sexual trauma, or eating disorders etc.

Each individual brings their subject to the course. It’s created as a container to teach from the body — and then whatever is in your body, in your experience, you can bring to the Wednesday discussion and practice circles, or bring to the online conversation. I will speak to those questions and work with more specifics.

But the course itself is a foundation for teaching how we relate to trauma (regardless of what kind) inside of your body.

That’s why I got into this work. Somatic work doesn’t need context to the subject matter. It was created to help people who didn’t have context.

Whether it’s ancestral trauma, intergenerational trauma, pre-verbal trauma, we may not have firm memories, but we do have all the residual symptoms of these events.

Whether you know about it or not, this course is designed to hold it.

You will still get the same result - relationship building with that part of you, with or without context.

One thing I want to stress is that these 7 weeks are not therapy.

We’re using some real life material so it will be personal and apply to you absolutely - but if you’re in the midst of some serious hardship or trauma, dealing with daily panic attacks or even suicidal ideation, any kind of edge that feels too overwhelming to handle, I always recommend having someone who can do this with you.

Whether it’s a partner, a mentor, a therapist, a doctor, or coach.

If you're new to somatic work, getting in touch with your body can be big and intense. You might want additional support.

Traumahealing.org is where you can find a practitioner to work with 1:1, and many students have worked with a private practitioner while taking the course.

Hundreds of people who experience dissociation have gone through this course without any problems.

There is no guarantee of how you will emerge from this space, but you are definitely welcome here.

Of course. I felt much the same when I began this work. I like to remember that what trauma equals, is stored threat.

The state you were in during the event gets stored in your body. When you’re doing this work, you actually begin to feel it, and that can be incredibly scary at first. The community inside of this course, as well as the support from me and my team, PLUS the exercises and work, are so solid that most people have felt very safe and held through the 7-weeks.

If this is a fear though, we want you to have some safe space you lean on to work with what comes up, one on one, with a partner, friend, or therapist. If you’re currently looking for support from a somatic experiencing therapist please visit the directory at traumahealing.org.

No. I am trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner but these 6-weeks are not therapy.

They are teachings of the tools I have learned and developed so that you can apply them to your life and your own healing work

Yes! In my experience with somatic training and work, it rarely delves into nutrition and animism. Understanding trauma healing through relating, ancestry, or how certain foods can activate a trauma response is very different from the way we typically see somatic work in our institutions.

If you have a ton of experience with trauma, somatic work, nutrition, self-inquiry, and animism, this will be fun for you but you probably won’t learn a whole lot of new information.

That being said, you may find it fun to connect with me, learn more about my perspective/practices, as well as be in community with the rest of the cohort for a few weeks.

Absolutely! You’ll be able to integrate some of these tools into your own practice depending on the particular needs of your clients. We’ll make connections between trauma, somatic work, nutrition, self-inquiry, and animism that are typically not addressed, and many of your clients have probably never considered.

Every person who takes this course will enter it having a different journey of relating to their body. For anyone having trouble connecting to their bodies or if they become overwhelmed by sensations, there is a reason for that -- we just don’t have the resources or capacity to be with it at the moment.

We have structured the course so that you get all these tools and resources in a download. As a result, you can show up, learn the information cognitively even if you can’t implement it immediately, and then you can practice the exercises over the following days, week, or months. You will then begin to find your capacity steadily increases at its own rate – some people have a breakthrough in the very first class while I’ve also gotten emails from participants a year after their cohort ended saying they were able to make a connection or they felt something shift in their body.

Absolutely! I have ADHD and we’ve had many participants with mild to severe Autism or participants with ND kids. I find this work to be even more important for those who are ND because some forms of neurodivergence are expressions that come from an overwhelmed nervous system, i.e. a high sensitivity to sensation. Since this course focuses on rehabilitating the nervous system and building capacity, we’re indirectly working with expressions of the nervous system as well.

That doesn’t mean we get rid of the neurodivergence. Instead, we learn how to relate to those expressions better as well has how to shift our nutrition or coregulate with our environments to find safety, which lowers our charge.

We’ll exclusively focus on nutrition in Week 2. But it is only one tool of many we’ll explore in the course. If you’d like to dive deeper into nutrition work, you can join the waitlist for the next Embodied Nutrition group.