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Your Body's Wisdom: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Somatics

Name: Your Body's Wisdom: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Somatics
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An Experiential Entry Point into Somatic Healing

This beginner course introduces the foundations of trauma-informed somatics — the practice of understanding and working with your body's automatic stress responses rather than fighting them. Rooted in the idea that the body is a self-healing organism, the course walks through how the nervous system reacts to stress and trauma, and why those reactions exist in the first place.

Who It's For

Anyone who feels chronically disconnected from their body, stuck in their head, or unable to fully relax will find this a useful starting point. No prior knowledge of somatics or bodywork is required.

Key Takeaways

What body awareness means and why it matters for regulation
How a resilient nervous system differs from a dysregulated one
Practical exercises drawn from Somatic Experiencing and related modalities
How to begin building a personal practice for self-regulation

Expect a mix of video lectures and guided practical exercises rather than pure theory — this is a course meant to be felt, not just watched.

About this course

If you often feel disconnected from your body, caught up in your head and struggling to calm down and rest, this experiential course will help you understand why it is happening and how you can start to reconnect with your body to feel calmer and more grounded.

Your body's wisdom

'Soma' means living body and in somatics, we believe that your body is an intelligent, self-healing organism. It is designed to serve and protect you even when it may not seem this way when you are stressed or triggered. Once you start to understand your body and your nervous system's automatic reactions, you will learn how to work with them instead of resisting them. You don't need to fix your body, you just need to help it heal itself.

In this course, I will guide you through the basic concepts from trauma-informed somatics to discover the healing power inherent in your own body.

The course will give you a basic overview of:

what is body awareness and why it is needed;
what is a resilient nervous system;
how your nervous system can get dysregulated due to stress and trauma;
why wild animals don't get traumatised and what we can learn from them;

and most importantly,

how you can start tapping into your innate body wisdom for self-regulation and healing.

What is included:

This is an experiential course, where in addition to video lectures you will also get to try practical exercises from different somatic modalities including Somatic Experiencing.

What you will get:

By the end of the course, you will have an embodied understanding of your body-mind connection and how it can be affected by chronic stress and trauma. And towards the end of it, you will learn how you can start befriending your body and your nervous system through simple trauma-informed somatic techniques that you can integrate into your daily practice.

So let's dive into the world of somatics and your body's wisdom!