Trauma and Memory:
Brain and Body in Search of the Living Past
With Peter A. Levine, PhD
from 2-3:30pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time) each day
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone. Check how this translates into your local Time Zone.
YOUR BONUS OFFER!
4 HOURS OF PRE-RECORDED VIDEO SESSIONS
• Unpacking Hope with Dr. Levine, Dr. Sará King & Dr. Scott Lyons
• Evolution of Somatic Trauma Therapy with Dr. Levine
• Healing Intergenerational & Attachment Trauma with Dr. Levine
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
FEATURING PETER A. LEVINE, PHD, DEVELOPER OF SOMATIC EXPERIENCING®
During your time together, Dr. Levine will be working live with a demonstration client, giving you the rare opportunity to witness his approach in real time. In a follow-up session, he’ll revisit the recording and walk you through his process step by step—sharing the insights, choices, and somatic nuances that aren’t always visible in the moment. This powerful combination allows you to feel the immediacy of the live work and then deepen your understanding through his thoughtful debrief, creating a more personal and connected learning experience.
“I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening—a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation.”
― PETER A. LEVINE, PhD
Conscious, explicit memory is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a vast reservoir of implicit, emotional, and procedural (body-based) memory that profoundly shapes our behavior, perceptions, and responses to threat. These layers of memory often hold the key to understanding trauma—and to accessing the pathways toward resolution and healing.
Without a grounded understanding of the multidimensional nature of traumatic memory, therapists can easily become mired in uncertainty. Clarifying how memories are encoded, stored, and retrieved in both mind and body is essential for working effectively and ethically with clients, and for reducing confusion or inadvertent harm in the therapeutic process.
In this series, Dr. Levine will illuminate how implicit emotional and procedural memory systems emerge and intertwine in the experience of trauma, and how they can be accessed to support integration and transformation. Through live demonstrations, discussion, and practical guidance, participants will witness how to work skillfully with non-verbal memory traces, guide clients towards discovering their innate self-protective responses, and support them in restoring a sense of agency and connection with the Authentic Self.
This program moves beyond traditional approaches that rely solely on recollection or retelling of events. Instead, it emphasizes a holistic, somatic-based model that recognizes the body as both the repository of trauma and the portal to healing.
In this program, Dr. Levine will:
* Explore the origins and structure of traumatic memory in both the brain and the body.
* Demonstrate somatic interventions with live clients, followed by integrative teaching and Q\&A.
* Provide participants with tools to engage implicit memory systems safely and effectively.
By immersing yourself in this course, you will deepen your understanding of how trauma imprints the body and observe concrete skills for facilitating safe, effective, and lasting healing.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
Differentiate among forms of memory, including declarative (verbal), episodic, emotional, and procedural (somatic) memory, and describe their relevance to trauma.
Explain practical interventions to access and work with implicit emotional and body-based memories in clinical settings.
Identify which memory systems are engaged in a client’s presentation and which somatic tools will best foster regulation, integration, and empowerment.
Demonstrate ways to support clients in working with difficult or confusing memory experiences in a safe and stabilizing manner.
Integrate bottom-up (somatic) and top-down (cognitive) processes to support the emergence of coherent narratives and the client’s connection to their Authentic Self.
What’s included in your registration?
Four live & online 90-minute sessions with Dr. Peter A Levine, including client session video debriefs to identify SE techniques and explain the work in action, and a Q&A
Lifetime access to video, audio, transcripts, & additional course resources.
Every session is recorded and available to you in your online content library. Learn at your own pace or revisit the material again.
PRICING
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!
If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
$215
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$195
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
PLEASE NOTE: These sessions are a workshop series and are not available to be purchased individually.
SCHEDULE
This Master Workshop consists of four 1.5 hour sessions,
PLUS 4 hours of BONUS pre-recorded content.
November 14th and 21st, and December 5th and 12th, 2025
from 2-3:30pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time) each day
Recordings will also be available as part of our On-Demand Content Library. You will receive clear instructions on how to access your classes upon registration.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR
This course is designed for mental health professionals, bodyworkers, yoga devotees, mindfulness practitioners, coaches, and anyone seeking to find a greater sense of internal harmony, acceptance, confidence, calmness, wisdom, compassion, and connectedness.
EACH SESSION IN DETAIL
“Taking time is very important as body time is much slower than cognitive time or emotional time.”
― PETER A. LEVINE, PhD
This year's series with Dr. Levine will guide us through client demonstration sessions where he evaluates healthy or insecure attachment patterning in order to structure ways to implement deeper healing using Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) tools. His method supports a client’s lean into difficult emotions to facilitate a release of locked trauma and increase true resiliency. By using the SE rhythm of titration and pendulation Dr. Levine is able to work with early developmental trauma in the body without overwhelm by reinforcing choice and curiosity.
SESSION ONE: Honoring Your Younger Self
Dr. Levine works with a young female struggling with alcohol and marijuana use, self-destructiveness, and racial and developmental trauma. She has been sober for 6-7 weeks at the time of the session. She grew up in severe poverty and was neglected by her parents, who abused hard substances. As a young child they were in and out of jail. She experienced near death in childhood due to medical abandonment when she required surgery. Her siblings have followed the same path as her parents. She promised herself that she would not use negative coping mechanisms but now feels she has failed her younger self.
In this session, you will learn how to:
• Connect any emotion, image, behavior, movement, or thought to its partner in sensation
• Work with a client to transition them out of the negative self-talk and other unproductive coping mechanisms
• Access the physiological awareness of the felt sense of safety in the body
• Celebrate the client’s sense of control and self-efficacy as they successfully re-negotiate their trauma
• Explore interconnectedness as a deeper spiritual level of trauma resolution; ie poetry and art
• Implement somatic based work during an online session with a client
During this Session, Dr. Levine uses: shame posture, resourcing, running flight, spontaneous breath, pendulation, opposites, shifting sensations, corrective languaging, orienting.
SESSION TWO: Untangling the Panic Sequence
Dr. Levine works with a patient who in the Navy during underwater work in a subsurface platform, had an emergency that required him to resurface too quickly. After that incident, he began having heart palpitations and his ears were popping. It appears the physiological response of sensing his heart racing has triggered deeper earlier trauma. Since the experience, he is struggling with generalized anxiety, panic disorders, agoraphobia, major depression, gut problems, and OCD. He dissociates often and has trouble having contact with others. The client would like to understand how and why he goes into panic states so that he can figure out how to stop it.
In this session, you will learn how to:
• Recognize when your client is stuck in a threat response that is keeping them from living in the present
• Build your client’s confidence in tolerating uncomfortable feelings in order for them to move through and dissipate
• Practice the pattern of interrupt as a pacing tool to build resiliency
• Use content as an entry point without overwhelm
• Develop somatic exercises to connect a client to their inner power as a healthy form of aggression
During this Session, Dr. Levine uses: titration, orienting, Voo, shifting sensations, spontaneous breath, connection to the belly, and jaw to the point of tension.
SESSION THREE: Overcoming Long Term Violence
Dr. Levine works with a client who since childhood has experienced domestic violence and emotional abuse from his father who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. His mother was codependent and frequently had boyfriends in the house who were very physically abusive. He suffered from bullying and assaults in his household, in his neighborhood and school. He has experienced suicidal intent, poor health, panic attacks, night terrors, academic fear of failure, financial hardship, and insomnia. His self worth has been difficult to grasp. He would like to reduce panic attacks/anxiety, form healthy relationships, have a long term job, and develop a restful sleep pattern. He is still living in his family of origin home which causes him a lot of anxiety.
In this session, you will learn how to::
• Orient your client towards sensing presence both internally and externally without overwhelm
• Weave in healing metaphors that arise from the client
• Help clients increase their tolerance for pleasure, joy, and nourishment
• Deepen your client’s ability to receive contact that strengthens embodiment and presence
• Review accomplishments at the end of a session and give somatic psychoeducation to reinforce the progress and empower the client
During this Session, Dr. Levine uses: The Voo, Voo jaw gut, orienting, drawing the environment in through the eyes, shifting sensations, titration, shame posture.
SESSION FOUR: Moving towards the Authentic Self
Dr. Levine works with a client who was born to a 15 yr old mother. At one week old she was put in a foster family and adopted soon after. At 3 weeks old she had a tonsillectomy and at 4.5 months she had episodes that stopped her breathing followed by being hospitalized for a week, but nothing could be identified for why the apnea occurred. She was hospitalized for a concussion at age 10. At ages 7-20 she struggled with connecting to her anxious, rigid, adopted mother. When she was approx 30 she had unfruitful reunions with her birth parents. Client desires to feel more rooted in the community and have relationships that last. She wants to move forward in becoming a “real” person and to let go of some of the ambivalence she has about being alive.
In this session, you will learn how to:
• Acknowledge pre-verbal medical interventions as a potential source of trauma responses
• Differentiate unhealthy aggression from healthy aggression
• Aid in connecting a client with their vitality, their lifeforce
• Use impulse to track sensations in the body regardless of what's happening in the client’s experience or lack of experience
• Access the story through imagination to expand the sense of relational resources
During this Session, Dr. Levine uses: resourcing, voo, smovey movement, grounding, pendulation, healthy aggression, psycho-drama, orienting.
FREE PREREQUISITE:
Somatic Experiencing® Handout
Please note, the one prerequisite for this workshop is the following Somatic Experiencing® PDF. Please use the button below to access the PDF. You may download it directly to your computer or print the PDF from the button link.
YOUR BONUS OFFER!
4 HOURS OF PRE-RECORDED VIDEO SESSIONS
• Unpacking Hope with Dr. Levine, Dr. Sará King & Dr. Scott Lyons
• Evolution of Somatic Trauma Therapy with Dr. Levine
• Healing Intergenerational & Attachment Trauma with Dr. Levine
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
PETER A. LEVINE, PHD
Developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)
Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing® International.
Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards, including from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. His work has been taught to over 50,000 practitioners in over 42 countries. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona, and continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. To learn more visit somaticexperiencing.com.
PRICING
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!
If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
$215
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$195
EXCLUSIVE
MEMBER PRICING
PLEASE NOTE: These sessions are a workshop series and are not available to be purchased individually.
INTEGRATIVE SOMATIC TRAUMA THERAPY CERTIFICATE
This workshop series is included in your registration for the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program. Participants who have registered for this certificate program will automatically be registered for this workshop absolutely free of charge.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM HERE →
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
More information will be provided on the number of CEs available for this program and how to register. Please note - *Live* attendance is required.
To register your interest for CE credits for this program and more detailed information, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/76mwhjgG5vnzVw9BA
Below is more information on the health professionals which may be eligible for CEs through the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program.
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact The Embody Lab at info@theembodylab.com.
For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
FROM A DIFFERENT STATE OR COUNTRY?
Health professionals from a state or country outside of California need to check with their licensing boards as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).
DIFFERENT CREDENTIAL?
If your credential is not listed, please check with your licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).
The SCA and The Embody Lab are not able to determine your eligibility.