ALL UPCOMING EVENTS

Somatic Stress Release™ Level I: Foundations
This comprehensive live, online training 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. It empowers you and your clients to holistically discharge stress, blocked emotions, and body tension, as well as relieve stagnated energy while restoring resilience.

Get Comfortable with Discomfort: The Somatics of Being Human
Join Sah D’Simone, founder of the Somatic Activated Healing Method™, for a 90-minute exploration of how we reckon with our humanity. Being human hurts. The somatics of being human is how we stop turning that hurt into war.
You’ll begin with a 30-minute practice combining trance dance, body keys, dynamic meditation, breathwork, and affirmations—designed to help you embrace discomfort and unlock growth. This is followed by a 30-minute talk on the healing power of discomfort, and a 30-minute Q&A exploring how to move through emotions with clarity and care.

Two-Day Summit: The Somatic Trauma Healing Summit
We've assembled some of the most sought-after trainers in the world for one exclusive event to teach you exactly how to improve outcomes with your clients and confidently treat trauma in this new and powerful way.
The 2025 Somatic Trauma Healing Summit presents the most up-to-date techniques and methods for therapists and other clinicians to dive into the latest methods in somatic trauma work.
And the best part, The Embody Lab and PESI have teamed up to offer it LIVE and completely FREE!
PLUS, if you’d like CE credits, we’ve got you covered – after registering, you can upgrade to get up to 10 CE credits for this training event for just a nominal upgrade fee.

When the Mind Protects and the Body Holds On: Barriers to Somatic Healing
Even with the best tools, healing can stall—not because you’re doing it wrong, but because old survival patterns are still protecting you. In this presentation, Dr. Russell Kennedy (The Anxiety MD) unpacks the five hidden barriers that block somatic healing, even when we’re “doing the work.” Through the MADDS framework and his ABC method, you'll learn how to gently identify and dissolve the protective patterns keeping you stuck—so you can move from managing anxiety to truly healing it at the root.

Somatic Stress Release™ Level II: Intermediate
This live, online Somatic Stress Release™ Level II: Intermediate training follows our Level I: Foundations course. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the biological, social, and psychological aspects of stress, identify somatic symptoms and triggers for emotional and physical distress. This certification is open to anyone (i.e yoga teachers, therapists, parents, teachers, etc) who wishes to addresses stress from a multidisciplinary holistic approach.

Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate
Understand more about what holds you back from creating the life you want. Transform stuck parts of yourself into inner resources of strength, love, and freedom. Remove the barriers in your relationships, and gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others.
Our Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate Program with Fran Booth - trainer for PESI and the IFS Institute - will take you on a journey to discover and heal yourself and your clients.

One-Day Summit: Healing Developmental Trauma
In this FREE One-Day online event you’ll gain practical tools and insights into healing trauma, fostering secure relationships, enhancing regulation skills, and expanding resilience for yourself and others. We’ll explore how not just trauma is transmitted but also how to fully heal using the tools of somatic, body-centred therapies.
Ideal for therapists, coaches, and individuals on a healing journey, this summit provides a comprehensive understanding of how to compassionately work with the complex emotions, sensations and psychological states associated with developmental trauma.

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Free Preview Event
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
Join us for this free, live, online Preview Event with the certificate Co-Directors!

Somatic Approaches to Trauma Healing and the Role of Psychedelics
Join Dr. Scott Lyons and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk for an illuminating Master Class, Somatic Approaches to Trauma Healing and the Role of Psychedelics. This session explores the profound connection between body-based practices and trauma recovery, offering insights into how somatic approaches help regulate the nervous system and promote healing. Discover the emerging role of psychedelics as a transformative tool in trauma therapy, bridging mind and body to unlock deeper resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from two leading experts in trauma healing and somatic integration.

Somatic Stress Release™ Level III: Advanced
This live, online Somatic Stress Release™ Level III: Advanced training follows our Level I: Foundations and Level II: Intermediate courses. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the biological, social, and psychological aspects of stress, identify somatic symptoms and triggers for emotional and physical distress. This certification is open to anyone (i.e yoga teachers, therapists, parents, teachers, etc) who wishes to addresses stress from a multidisciplinary holistic approach.

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
Are you ready to help heal trauma from a holistic and body based unified approach? Are you committed to transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning, change and resilience?
Then we wholeheartedly invite you to our first-of-its-kind 60-hour Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program.
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners & educators wanting to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing. This program brings together world renowned somatic trauma therapy teachers into one training. The intention of this program is to offer a holistic framework for understanding and working with trauma from a body-centered perspective. This extraordinary program offers a collection of practical tools that will help access the innate wisdom that guides the healing process for yourself and your work with others.

Somatic Experiencing® Session Demonstration: Transgenerational Trauma
We invite you to a rare one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) session demonstration with internationally renowned trauma expert Peter A. Levine, PhD, developer of SE™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.
During this demonstration session, Dr. Levine will lead us in exploring how we may be influenced by circumstances that our ancestors experienced during their lifetimes. These influences may be beyond our conscious awareness - we may have no knowledge of our ancestors. Through awareness of our unconscious connection, we can approach the complexities of our family line and childhood trauma with reverence to heal the Self.

Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy: A Hakomi Approach to Trauma Healing
How can we work with the body's natural healing intelligence to create lasting change from trauma? Join experienced Hakomi trainer Manuela Mischke-Reeds in this masterclass Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy: A Hakomi Approach to Trauma Healing. Manuela will explore how trauma gets stored in the body and demonstrate practical somatic techniques that go beyond traditional talk therapy. You'll learn how to use mindfulness and movement interventions to help clients regulate their nervous systems and access their body's innate capacity for healing. Drawing from her extensive experience with first responders, torture survivors, and other trauma populations you'll explore concrete skills that you can immediately apply to help your clients achieve deeper stabilization and transformation.

Somatic Stress Release™ Certificate Information Session
Learn to restore your biological stress response system with Dr. Scott Lyons’ 5-day 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.
Join us for this free, live, online Info Session event with the certificate program founder, Dr. Scott Lyons!

Somatics for Political Resilience: Staying Well in Polarized Times
How do we stay balanced, heart-centered, and true to our values in these times of deep political strife and unrest? How do we face our fears and speak truth to power in an era of widespread censorship? What does it mean be alive and embodied when the world appears to be collapsing around us?
Join somatic teacher, trauma healer, and cultural worker Kai Cheng Thom for this Master Class on the somatics of resistance and resilience for trauma healing and social change.

Complex PTSD from a Somatic Perspective
Individuals with Complex PTSD and early childhood developmental trauma are at greater risk for dissociation or emotional flooding; both of which can lead to re-traumatization if not addressed successfully in treatment. In this engaging and practical training, we consider how we help others and/or ourselves recover from the costs of complex PTSD by deepening compassion and reducing shame.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz presents her Resilience Informed Approach to care which recognizes that every human has an intrinsic drive toward wholeness. You are invited to see traumatized individuals for the incredible strength they carry within them. LEARN MORE HERE

Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate
Are you ready to help clients break free from trauma patterns, restore vitality, and experience deep healing through somatic breathwork and movement therapy? Learn powerful breath & body-based healing techniques with world-leading faculty!
Trauma isn’t just a story the mind remembers—it’s an imprint the body carries. To truly heal and transform trauma, we must speak the body’s primal language: sensation, movement, and breath. Through integrative breathwork and movement practices, you'll learn to help clients release held patterns, regulate their nervous system, and facilitate powerful changes that goes far beyond conventional trauma treatment approaches.
This cutting-edge certification program is designed for practitioners, therapists, educators, and individuals who want to master the most effective and science-backed breathwork and somatic movement techniques for trauma healing.

Tuning In: Discerning Safety, Discomfort, and Readiness in Trauma Healing
How do we tell the difference between feeling uncomfortable and feeling unsafe, especially in the context of trauma healing? This experiential workshop explores the subtle yet essential skill of discernment. Through guided reflection, small group dialogue, and somatic inquiry, we’ll explore the difference between trauma stabilization and processing, and how to recognize readiness for deeper healing work. Together, we’ll cultivate a more nuanced awareness of internal signals, strengthen self-trust, and explore what it means to stay with ourselves in the presence of discomfort without crossing into overwhelm.

Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
Are you ready to help clients break free from trauma patterns, restore vitality, and experience deep healing through somatic breathwork and movement therapy? Learn powerful breath & body-based healing techniques with world-leading faculty!
Trauma isn’t just a story the mind remembers—it’s an imprint the body carries. To truly heal and transform trauma, we must speak the body’s primal language: sensation, movement, and breath. Through integrative breathwork and movement practices, you'll learn to help clients release held patterns, regulate their nervous system, and facilitate powerful changes that goes far beyond conventional trauma treatment approaches.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event with your certificate teachers!

One Day Summit: Releasing Stress & Calming Anxiety Through Somatics
Gather with us live and online for our FREE One-Day Summit to explore the power of somatics for stress release and anxiety management with Dr. Scott Lyons and other internationally recognized leaders in somatic-based approaches to releasing stress and calming anxiety.
While we might perceive stress or anxiety 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.
In this FREE One-Day online event you’ll gain practical tools and insights into understanding the body’s response to anxiety and stress, and how to enhance body awareness and increase your capacity to find peace and calm.

Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help clients break free from trauma patterns, restore vitality, and experience deep healing through somatic breathwork and movement therapy? Learn powerful breath & body-based healing techniques with world-leading faculty!
Trauma isn’t just a story the mind remembers—it’s an imprint the body carries. To truly heal and transform trauma, we must speak the body’s primal language: sensation, movement, and breath. Through integrative breathwork and movement practices, you'll learn to help clients release held patterns, regulate their nervous system, and facilitate powerful changes that goes far beyond conventional trauma treatment approaches.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!

Burnout Prevention & Healing for Practitioners
Burnout is a common yet deeply personal experience for those of us in the healing field. As somatic practitioners, we often find ourselves over-giving, overworking, and neglecting our own needs in service of others. This 60-minute immersive session offers a space for renewal and self-exploration, equipping you with powerful tools to prevent and heal from burnout.

Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate
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.

Healing Trauma and Addiction: A Holistic Approach to Recovery
Join Dr. Gabor Maté live and online in this 3-hour workshop and explore the deep connection between trauma and addiction through the lens of contemporary neuroscience, attachment theory, and clinical practice.
Drawing from Dr. Gabor Maté's groundbreaking work in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of addiction as a complex response to trauma and emotional pain, and positive solutions for healing and recovery. LEARN MORE HERE

Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
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.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event!

Authenticity Unleashed: The Science & Soul of Unlocking Your Power, Confidence & Truth
Learn actionable strategies to step into your power, ask for what you truly want, and live with bold, unapologetic authenticity. What does it truly mean to show up as your authentic self—in relationships, at work, and in life? In this music-infused, science-backed workshop, best-selling author and Grammy-nominated musician Justin Michael Williams introduces the 3 Skills to Build True Authenticity. Learn practical, Harvard-backed tools to boost confidence, navigate conflict, and create meaningful, lasting success in all areas of life.

One-Day Summit: Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing
Trauma lives in the body - in our muscles, fascia, and nervous system. Our movements and breathing patterns carry the imprints of past experiences, shaping how we interact with others and navigate social spaces. These physical patterns often operate below conscious awareness, yet they profoundly influence our relationships and sense of belonging across different cultural contexts.
Through mindful movement and conscious breathing, we can release trapped tension, regulate our nervous system, and rebuild a sense of safety and wholeness from within. These somatic practices help us move from surviving to thriving. LEARN MORE HERE

Body-First Healing
For too many people, traditional approaches to healing trauma fall short. Talking about it can only take you so far, and many are left feeling stuck, disconnected, and trapped in survival mode. Brittany Piper, a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, speaker, and trauma-trained educator, offers a powerful solution: healing trauma through the body.

Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help clients break free from trauma patterns, restore vitality, and experience deep healing through somatic breathwork and movement therapy? Learn powerful breath & body-based healing techniques with world-leading faculty!
Trauma isn’t just a story the mind remembers—it’s an imprint the body carries. To truly heal and transform trauma, we must speak the body’s primal language: sensation, movement, and breath. Through integrative breathwork and movement practices, you'll learn to help clients release held patterns, regulate their nervous system, and facilitate powerful changes that goes far beyond conventional trauma treatment approaches.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!

Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate
This unique 3-month live and online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore a somatic approach to attachment based therapy: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental and relational wounding and healing.
This program brings together world renowned somatic attachment therapy teachers to offer a holistic, body-centered method to healing relational wounds and trauma.

Somatic Experiencing® Session Demonstration: Shame & Pride
We invite you to a rare one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) session demonstration with internationally renowned trauma expert Dr. Peter A. Levine, developer of SE™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.
During this demonstration session, Dr. Levine will lead us in exploring how we can track shame patterns within our clients and lead them out of collapse into experiencing a sense of pride. Learning from observation, practice, and discussion is an integral way to understand bottom-up somatic-based healing, no matter what level. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to dive deeper into the understanding of SE™ and Dr. Levine's work in the field, including Q&A.

Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate Information Session
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.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!

Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
Are you ready to help heal attachment wounds and trauma, and support the creation of profound and empowering relationships for yourself, clients, communities and the world?
Are you committed to holistically and compassionately transforming pain and relational challenges into growth, meaning, deep connection, and resilience?
Then we invite you to the first-of-its-kind 60-hour Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program.
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore the transformative power of somatics and attachment work, one that fosters true healing in the form of compassionate and sustaining relationships.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session with the certificate teachers!

Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Information Session
Are you ready to help heal attachment wounds and trauma, and support the creation of profound and empowering relationships for yourself, clients, communities and the world?
Are you committed to holistically and compassionately transforming pain and relational challenges into growth, meaning, deep connection, and resilience?
Then we invite you to the first-of-its-kind 60-hour Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program.
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore the transformative power of somatics and attachment work, one that fosters true healing in the form of compassionate and sustaining relationships.
Join us for this free, live, online Info Session event with the certificate Co-Director and Founder!

An Introduction to Relationship Energetics
Does love mean that we ‘belong’ to one another?
This idea can sound romantic—but the normalized ownership template most of us were raised with has created some challenging dynamics within our partnerships.
Understanding the interplay of energetics and how they come to life in our relationships is the key to healing our codependent tendencies and creating more harmony in all of our relationships. This class is for all relationship types. These energetics are alive in all of us regardless of gender identification, sexual orientation and the ways we've all been socialized to hold gender binaries.

Two-Day Summit: Healing Through Somatic Attachment Therapy
Somatic attachment therapy helps us to build a more intimate, safer and authentic relationship with ourselves and others. Through a somatic approach to attachment therapy we learn how to help ourselves and others to rewire and reconnect, at all levels regardless of the past. Ultimately to experience an embodied sense of belonging and fulfillment.
In this Two-Day Summit we bring together some of the world’s leading experts in Somatic Attachment Therapy to explore how healing the wiring of relation wounds can create a culture of connection, compassion and more nurturing relationships with those that matter to us most—our communities, partners, families, children and our friends. LEARN MORE HERE

Unwinding Shame: Perspectives from Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology & Somatic Psychology
Shame is a wound of not belonging. It leaves you feeling like an exile; a stranger in a strange land. An important key to healing from shame is recognizing that inside of your embarrassment, sense of failure, or experience of rejection lies your undeniably legitimate human needs for connection, kindness, acceptance, and love. In this master class with Dr. Arielle Schwartz, we will take a look at the origins of shame and how to work with this therapeutically to cultivate a sense of compassionate connection to Self.

Trauma First Aid for Kids: Supporting Young Minds in Crisis
Discover essential tools to help children navigate the immediate aftermath of trauma in this transformative Master Class with Dr. Scott Lyons. Learn practical, age-appropriate strategies to foster safety, emotional regulation, and resilience in young minds. Whether you’re a caregiver, educator, or mental health professional, this class equips you with the insights needed to respond effectively to crises, empowering kids to process their experiences and regain a sense of stability.

How Trauma affects Support, Suspension & Breath
Betsy Polatin will explore with us how Trauma affects Support, Suspension, and Breath. Trauma tends to fragment and/or diminish our sense of self. This experiential presentation will offer simple exercises to enhance sensory skills by exploring the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems, and how they relate to the larger universe, and to trauma. Learn to awaken inherent potential by finding the support from the ground that can lead to full stature and the expanded Self, while noting how trauma and overwhelm can interfere with this process. Session will include live demos with participants.

Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate Information Session
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.
Join us for this free, live, online Information Session event with the certificate Co-Directors!

Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate
Are you looking for a way to help your clients heal from trauma more effectively and holistically? Do you want to learn how to integrate EMDR therapy and somatic psychology in your trauma treatment practice?
Discover the power of a unified somatic approach to EMDR therapy to address the psychological and physiological aspects of trauma. When brought together these two cutting-edge modalities help process traumatic memories and reduce emotional distress, while reconnecting with the body and restoring a sense of safety and agency.

Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate Meet the Faculty Session
Are you looking for a way to help your clients heal from trauma more effectively and holistically? Do you want to learn how to integrate EMDR therapy and somatic psychology in your trauma treatment practice? Or daily life as a way to process stress, release what's holding you back, and expand your resilience?
This program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators who want to discover the power of a unified somatic approach to EMDR therapy to address and repair the psychological and physiological effects of trauma. When brought together these two cutting-edge modalities help process traumatic memories and reduce emotional distress, while reconnecting with the body and restoring a sense of safety and agency. In fact, according to Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, Somatic Therapy and EMDR Therapy are considered the best approaches for the treatment of trauma.
Join us for this free, live, online Meet the Faculty Session event with the certificate faculty!