CURRICULUM
Day 1: The Body Keeps the Score
Applied Neurobiology & Somatic Interventions for Trauma Healing
Trauma is not just a memory — it’s an interruption in the body’s core biological processes of regulation, integration, and adaptation.
Day 1 opens by grounding practitioners in the latest science of how trauma imprints itself in the nervous system, sensory-motor loops, and interoceptive pathways. We go far beyond the classic “fight/flight/freeze” model into the deeper layers — how trauma disrupts implicit memory consolidation, autonomic patterning, predictive coding, and the brain-stem rhythms that shape the felt sense of safety.
Day 1 translates this advanced research (polyvagal theory, interoceptive mapping, default mode network, memory reconsolidation, predictive processing, neuroinflammation) into somatic skills practitioners can apply immediately.
Day 2: Resetting the Foundations
Working With Developmental Trauma & Preverbal Imprints
Developmental trauma is not stored in narrative memory — it lives in the implicit, preverbal layers of sensation, movement, and early relational patterning.
Day 2 maps how disruptions in core biological rhythms, early developmental milestones, and unmet relational needs fundamentally shape nervous system architecture, affect regulation, self-structure, and long-term relational capacities.
We explore how early interruptions in attunement, co-regulation, sensorimotor sequencing, and the satisfaction cycle create fragmentation in the foundational layers of identity, orientation, and safety — and how these implicit wounds give rise to the life-long patterns clinicians encounter again and again.
Day 3: Working With Dissociation & Complex Trauma
Restoring Coherence, Embodiment & Narrative Integration: Live Demonstration
Complex trauma and dissociation require precision, pacing, and profound attunement.
Day 3 offers an advanced clinical map for understanding fragmentation across identity, physiology, memory, and time — and how to guide clients back toward embodied continuity without overriding their protective strategies.
We integrate somatic therapy with parts-based approaches (IFS-informed), EMDR sequencing, and state-specific resourcing to support the reintegration of dissociated self-states and disrupted sensory-motor memory.
Day 4: Attachment Repair & Relational Trauma Healing
Somatic Approaches to Repatterning Connection, Boundaries & Co-Regulation
Relational wounds don’t just shape how clients connect — they shape how their physiology anticipates connection, how their bodies protect against intimacy, and how their systems negotiate proximity, boundaries, and co-regulation.
Day 4 brings together the somatic, relational, and cellular layers of healing to repattern the embodied templates of connection that were shaped through both relational trauma and attachment injuries.
We explore how chronic misattunement, relational unpredictability, boundary violations, and inconsistent care imprint themselves into autonomic strategy, micro-movement patterns, affect expression, relational timing, and even oxytocin receptor sensitivity.
Day 5: Eudomina
Applied Skills for Post-Traumatic Growth, Integration & Embodied Wholeness
Eudomina — the state of living from one’s most integrated, coherent, and embodied self — is the culmination of trauma healing.
Day 5 brings together the entire immersion: neurobiology, developmental repair, dissociation integration, attachment restoration, and somatic sequencing to support lasting transformation.
FIVE-DAY INTENSIVE CURRICULUM
DAY 1: THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Applied Neurobiology & Somatic Interventions for Trauma Healing
Trauma is not just a memory — it’s an interruption in the body’s core biological processes of regulation, integration, and adaptation.
Day 1 opens by grounding practitioners in the latest science of how trauma imprints itself in the nervous system, sensory-motor loops, and interoceptive pathways. We go far beyond the classic “fight/flight/freeze” model into the deeper layers — how trauma disrupts implicit memory consolidation, autonomic patterning, predictive coding, and the brain-stem rhythms that shape the felt sense of safety.
Day 1 translates this advanced research (polyvagal theory, interoceptive mapping, default mode network, memory reconsolidation, predictive processing, neuroinflammation) into somatic skills practitioners can apply immediately.
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You’ll learn to:
Identify the physiological signatures of trauma across autonomic, sensory, and motor systems.
Track disruptions in the brain–body feedback loops described in The Body Keeps the Score — including shifts in breath density, diaphragmatic motility, ocular orientation, vagal tone, and oscillatory rhythms.
Use somatic tools that restore regulation — not only orienting, titration, interoceptive scaffolding, pendulation, and bottom-up sequencing, but also more advanced approaches such as rhythmic synchronicity practices, micro-tracking of sensorimotor fragmentation, re-patterning of impaired mapping processes, and somatic coherence techniques that reintegrate dissociated physiological rhythms.
Recognize trauma-based distortions in perception, time, and self–other boundaries — and intervene precisely without overwhelming the system.
Observe live demonstrations showing how applied neurobiology translates into real-time clinical change.
Practitioners leave Day 1 with a clear map of the neurobiological mechanisms of trauma — and a refined somatic toolkit to repair the disrupted processes of regulation, sequencing, and integration.
DAY 2: RESETTING THE FOUNDATIONS
Working With Developmental Trauma & Preverbal Imprints
Developmental trauma is not stored in narrative memory — it lives in the implicit, preverbal layers of sensation, movement, and early relational patterning.
Day 2 maps how disruptions in core biological rhythms, early developmental milestones, and unmet relational needs fundamentally shape nervous system architecture, affect regulation, self-structure, and long-term relational capacities.
We explore how early interruptions in attunement, co-regulation, sensorimotor sequencing, and the satisfaction cycle create fragmentation in the foundational layers of identity, orientation, and safety — and how these implicit wounds give rise to the life-long patterns clinicians encounter again and again.
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You’ll learn to:
Identify somatic presentations of early wounding:
Fawning / Over-Adaptation: forward-leaning, collapsed chest, shallow breath
Chronic Defiance: rigid jaw, bracing shoulders, narrowed focus
Avoidant Independence: disconnected core, floating energy, lack of grounding
Collapse / Indecision: flaccid tone, unfocused eyes, low voice
Freeze in Choice: stillness without alertness, stiff extremities
Flight: anxiety unbuffered by co-regulation, high motor agitation (running, fidgeting)
Recognize how early implicit ruptures form deep core beliefs such as:
“I shouldn’t exist,” “I am not wanted,” “I do not belong,”
“My body is not safe,” “I must perform to be loved,”
“It is not okay to be me,” “I cannot protect myself,”
“I will be dominated if I express needs,”
“If I disagree, I lose connection,”
“My preferences disappear others,” and more.
Track developmental disorganization in tone, sequencing, orientation, and affect flow using developmental movement analysis, infant neurophysiology, and somatic pattern recognition.
Restore the missing experiences of early development through two pathways:
Implicit Restoration — rhythmic synchrony, developmental repatterning, tactile attunement, re-sequencing early movement patterns, rebuilding the satisfaction cycle (yield → activation → engagement → completion → rest).
Explicit Relational Containers — co-regulated boundaries, attuned pacing, relational safety, and clarified roles that allow preverbal material to surface without overwhelm.
Rebuild missing developmental layers (yielding → pushing → reaching → grasping → pulling → rolling → sequencing → verticality) as the structural basis for affect regulation, identity formation, and agency.
Engage in case consultations that show how repairing early developmental ruptures transforms long-standing patterns of dysregulation, relational difficulty, and therapeutic “stuckness.”
Practitioners leave Day 2 with a clear clinical framework for evaluating and repairing developmental trauma at its root—restoring the biological, rhythmic, and relational foundations required for secure embodiment, emotional coherence, and therapeutic progress.
DAY 3: WORKING WITH DISSOCIATION & COMPLEX TRAUMA
Restoring Coherence, Embodiment & Narrative Integration: Live Demonstration
Complex trauma and dissociation require precision, pacing, and profound attunement.
Day 3 offers an advanced clinical map for understanding fragmentation across identity, physiology, memory, and time — and how to guide clients back toward embodied continuity without overriding their protective strategies.
We integrate somatic therapy with parts-based approaches (IFS-informed), EMDR sequencing, and state-specific resourcing to support the reintegration of dissociated self-states and disrupted sensory-motor memory.
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You’ll learn to:
Distinguish forms of dissociation (structural, somatoform, affective, narrative, attachment-based) and identify their physiological markers.
Track the micro-patterns of “leaving the body”: gaze defocusing, breath collapse, proprioceptive fade-out, micro-freeze, motor fragmentation, and shifts in relational orientation.
Map dissociated self-states using parts-work principles, including protector/manager dynamics and the somatic signatures of exiled states.
Apply EMDR-informed interventions somatically: bilateral rhythmicity, orienting rhythm repair, dual awareness scaffolding, titrated memory-touch, and resourcing that supports stable state transitions.
Use somatic tools that reintroduce safe embodiment: oscillatory pacing, movement-based orienting arcs, boundary contouring, time–space anchoring, diaphragmatic rhythm entrainment, and micro-dosing presence to avoid flooding.
Restore coherence across disruptions in temporal integration, interoceptive mapping, autobiographical continuity, and the internal “observer” function.
Observe a live demonstration showing how to safely guide dissociated systems toward grounded, stable embodiment while working respectfully with protective parts.
Practitioners leave Day 3 with a sophisticated, integrative framework for working with dissociation and complex trauma — one that preserves protective adaptations, restores internal coherence, and supports clients in moving from fragmentation to embodied continuity.
DAY 4: ATTACHMENT REPAIR & RELATIONAL TRAUMA HEALING
Somatic Approaches to Repatterning Connection, Boundaries & Co-Regulation
Relational wounds don’t just shape how clients connect — they shape how their physiology anticipates connection, how their bodies protect against intimacy, and how their systems negotiate proximity, boundaries, and co-regulation.
Day 4 brings together the somatic, relational, and cellular layers of healing to repattern the embodied templates of connection that were shaped through both relational trauma and attachment injuries.
We explore how chronic misattunement, relational unpredictability, boundary violations, and inconsistent care imprint themselves into autonomic strategy, micro-movement patterns, affect expression, relational timing, and even oxytocin receptor sensitivity.
-
You’ll learn to:
Track somatic expressions of relational dysregulation: over-compliance, shutdown autonomy, hypervigilant intimacy-seeking, collapse in contact, defensive independence, and ambivalent approach–avoid movement patterns.
Identify micro-cues of relational patterning: pacing mismatches, orienting habits, gaze aversion, breath entrainment failures, bracing around boundaries, and fluctuations in vocal tone and rhythm.
Use somatic practices for connection repair: boundary contouring, co-regulated rhythm entrainment, micro-mobilizations that restore trust, titrated contact negotiation, and dyadic timing work.
Apply emerging research in applied cellular biology — including oxytocin receptor recalibration and reuptake modulation — to support practitioners in restoring the neurochemical baseline for healthy bonding and interpersonal safety.
Work with relational ruptures through somatic attunement, rhythmic repair sequencing, empathic pacing, and movement-based practices that reintroduce safety in connection.
Engage in case consultations that reveal how relational trauma lives in posture, gesture, breath, voice, and timing — and how to intervene with precision and attuned pacing.
Practitioners leave Day 4 with a deeply embodied, neurobiologically informed framework for repatterning relational and attachment trauma, rebuilding co-regulation, and restoring the body’s capacity to trust, connect, and stay authentically present with others.
DAY 5: EUDOMINA
Applied Skills for Post-Traumatic Growth, Integration & Embodied Wholeness
Eudomina — the state of living from one’s most integrated, coherent, and embodied self — is the culmination of trauma healing.
Day 5 brings together the entire immersion: neurobiology, developmental repair, dissociation integration, attachment restoration, and somatic sequencing to support lasting transformation.
-
You’ll learn to:
Facilitate post-traumatic growth through embodied coherence, agency, self-authorship, and meaning-making.
Integrate fragmented self-states into an adaptable, flexible, and whole system.
Guide clients into sustainable regulation using advanced somatic practices: dynamic sequencing, embodied identity work, cross-lateral integration, rhythmic entrainment, and narrative somatics.
Support clients in developing relational resilience, internal leadership, creative self-expression, and the capacity to choose rather than react.
Build long-term integration maps that help clients maintain progress beyond sessions.
Practitioners leave Day 5 with a comprehensive applied skillset for guiding clients from trauma into integration, resilience, creativity, and embodied wholeness.
FIVE-DAY INTENSIVE CURRICULUM
DAY 1: THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
Applied Neurobiology & Somatic Interventions for Trauma Healing
Trauma is not just a memory — it’s an interruption in the body’s core biological processes of regulation, integration, and adaptation.
Day 1 opens by grounding practitioners in the latest science of how trauma imprints itself in the nervous system, sensory-motor loops, and interoceptive pathways. We go far beyond the classic “fight/flight/freeze” model into the deeper layers — how trauma disrupts implicit memory consolidation, autonomic patterning, predictive coding, and the brain-stem rhythms that shape the felt sense of safety.
Day 1 translates this advanced research (polyvagal theory, interoceptive mapping, default mode network, memory reconsolidation, predictive processing, neuroinflammation) into somatic skills practitioners can apply immediately.
-
You’ll learn to:
Identify the physiological signatures of trauma across autonomic, sensory, and motor systems.
Track disruptions in the brain–body feedback loops described in The Body Keeps the Score — including shifts in breath density, diaphragmatic motility, ocular orientation, vagal tone, and oscillatory rhythms.
Use somatic tools that restore regulation — not only orienting, titration, interoceptive scaffolding, pendulation, and bottom-up sequencing, but also more advanced approaches such as rhythmic synchronicity practices, micro-tracking of sensorimotor fragmentation, re-patterning of impaired mapping processes, and somatic coherence techniques that reintegrate dissociated physiological rhythms.
Recognize trauma-based distortions in perception, time, and self–other boundaries — and intervene precisely without overwhelming the system.
Observe live demonstrations showing how applied neurobiology translates into real-time clinical change.
Practitioners leave Day 1 with a clear map of the neurobiological mechanisms of trauma — and a refined somatic toolkit to repair the disrupted processes of regulation, sequencing, and integration.
DAY 2: RESETTING THE FOUNDATIONS
Working With Developmental Trauma & Preverbal Imprints
Developmental trauma is not stored in narrative memory — it lives in the implicit, preverbal layers of sensation, movement, and early relational patterning.
Day 2 maps how disruptions in core biological rhythms, early developmental milestones, and unmet relational needs fundamentally shape nervous system architecture, affect regulation, self-structure, and long-term relational capacities.
We explore how early interruptions in attunement, co-regulation, sensorimotor sequencing, and the satisfaction cycle create fragmentation in the foundational layers of identity, orientation, and safety — and how these implicit wounds give rise to the life-long patterns clinicians encounter again and again.
-
You’ll learn to:
Identify somatic presentations of early wounding:
Fawning / Over-Adaptation: forward-leaning, collapsed chest, shallow breath
Chronic Defiance: rigid jaw, bracing shoulders, narrowed focus
Avoidant Independence: disconnected core, floating energy, lack of grounding
Collapse / Indecision: flaccid tone, unfocused eyes, low voice
Freeze in Choice: stillness without alertness, stiff extremities
Flight: anxiety unbuffered by co-regulation, high motor agitation (running, fidgeting)
Recognize how early implicit ruptures form deep core beliefs such as:
“I shouldn’t exist,” “I am not wanted,” “I do not belong,”
“My body is not safe,” “I must perform to be loved,”
“It is not okay to be me,” “I cannot protect myself,”
“I will be dominated if I express needs,”
“If I disagree, I lose connection,”
“My preferences disappear others,” and more.
Track developmental disorganization in tone, sequencing, orientation, and affect flow using developmental movement analysis, infant neurophysiology, and somatic pattern recognition.
Restore the missing experiences of early development through two pathways:
Implicit Restoration — rhythmic synchrony, developmental repatterning, tactile attunement, re-sequencing early movement patterns, rebuilding the satisfaction cycle (yield → activation → engagement → completion → rest).
Explicit Relational Containers — co-regulated boundaries, attuned pacing, relational safety, and clarified roles that allow preverbal material to surface without overwhelm.
Rebuild missing developmental layers (yielding → pushing → reaching → grasping → pulling → rolling → sequencing → verticality) as the structural basis for affect regulation, identity formation, and agency.
Engage in case consultations that show how repairing early developmental ruptures transforms long-standing patterns of dysregulation, relational difficulty, and therapeutic “stuckness.”
Practitioners leave Day 2 with a clear clinical framework for evaluating and repairing developmental trauma at its root—restoring the biological, rhythmic, and relational foundations required for secure embodiment, emotional coherence, and therapeutic progress.
DAY 3: WORKING WITH DISSOCIATION & COMPLEX TRAUMA
Restoring Coherence, Embodiment & Narrative Integration: Live Demonstration
Complex trauma and dissociation require precision, pacing, and profound attunement.
Day 3 offers an advanced clinical map for understanding fragmentation across identity, physiology, memory, and time — and how to guide clients back toward embodied continuity without overriding their protective strategies.
We integrate somatic therapy with parts-based approaches (IFS-informed), EMDR sequencing, and state-specific resourcing to support the reintegration of dissociated self-states and disrupted sensory-motor memory.
-
You’ll learn to:
Distinguish forms of dissociation (structural, somatoform, affective, narrative, attachment-based) and identify their physiological markers.
Track the micro-patterns of “leaving the body”: gaze defocusing, breath collapse, proprioceptive fade-out, micro-freeze, motor fragmentation, and shifts in relational orientation.
Map dissociated self-states using parts-work principles, including protector/manager dynamics and the somatic signatures of exiled states.
Apply EMDR-informed interventions somatically: bilateral rhythmicity, orienting rhythm repair, dual awareness scaffolding, titrated memory-touch, and resourcing that supports stable state transitions.
Use somatic tools that reintroduce safe embodiment: oscillatory pacing, movement-based orienting arcs, boundary contouring, time–space anchoring, diaphragmatic rhythm entrainment, and micro-dosing presence to avoid flooding.
Restore coherence across disruptions in temporal integration, interoceptive mapping, autobiographical continuity, and the internal “observer” function.
Observe a live demonstration showing how to safely guide dissociated systems toward grounded, stable embodiment while working respectfully with protective parts.
Practitioners leave Day 3 with a sophisticated, integrative framework for working with dissociation and complex trauma — one that preserves protective adaptations, restores internal coherence, and supports clients in moving from fragmentation to embodied continuity.
DAY 4: ATTACHMENT REPAIR & RELATIONAL TRAUMA HEALING
Somatic Approaches to Repatterning Connection, Boundaries & Co-Regulation
Relational wounds don’t just shape how clients connect — they shape how their physiology anticipates connection, how their bodies protect against intimacy, and how their systems negotiate proximity, boundaries, and co-regulation.
Day 4 brings together the somatic, relational, and cellular layers of healing to repattern the embodied templates of connection that were shaped through both relational trauma and attachment injuries.
We explore how chronic misattunement, relational unpredictability, boundary violations, and inconsistent care imprint themselves into autonomic strategy, micro-movement patterns, affect expression, relational timing, and even oxytocin receptor sensitivity.
-
You’ll learn to:
Track somatic expressions of relational dysregulation: over-compliance, shutdown autonomy, hypervigilant intimacy-seeking, collapse in contact, defensive independence, and ambivalent approach–avoid movement patterns.
Identify micro-cues of relational patterning: pacing mismatches, orienting habits, gaze aversion, breath entrainment failures, bracing around boundaries, and fluctuations in vocal tone and rhythm.
Use somatic practices for connection repair: boundary contouring, co-regulated rhythm entrainment, micro-mobilizations that restore trust, titrated contact negotiation, and dyadic timing work.
Apply emerging research in applied cellular biology — including oxytocin receptor recalibration and reuptake modulation — to support practitioners in restoring the neurochemical baseline for healthy bonding and interpersonal safety.
Work with relational ruptures through somatic attunement, rhythmic repair sequencing, empathic pacing, and movement-based practices that reintroduce safety in connection.
Engage in case consultations that reveal how relational trauma lives in posture, gesture, breath, voice, and timing — and how to intervene with precision and attuned pacing.
Practitioners leave Day 4 with a deeply embodied, neurobiologically informed framework for repatterning relational and attachment trauma, rebuilding co-regulation, and restoring the body’s capacity to trust, connect, and stay authentically present with others.
Applied Skills for Post-Traumatic Growth, Integration & Embodied Wholeness
Eudomina — the state of living from one’s most integrated, coherent, and embodied self — is the culmination of trauma healing.
Day 5 brings together the entire immersion: neurobiology, developmental repair, dissociation integration, attachment restoration, and somatic sequencing to support lasting transformation.
DAY 5: EUDOMINA
-
You’ll learn to:
Facilitate post-traumatic growth through embodied coherence, agency, self-authorship, and meaning-making.
Integrate fragmented self-states into an adaptable, flexible, and whole system.
Guide clients into sustainable regulation using advanced somatic practices: dynamic sequencing, embodied identity work, cross-lateral integration, rhythmic entrainment, and narrative somatics.
Support clients in developing relational resilience, internal leadership, creative self-expression, and the capacity to choose rather than react.
Build long-term integration maps that help clients maintain progress beyond sessions.
Practitioners leave Day 5 with a comprehensive applied skillset for guiding clients from trauma into integration, resilience, creativity, and embodied wholeness.