Trauma-informed Relational Somatics - A 5 day immersion for clinicians working with trauma*

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics (TIRS)

Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics is the foundation training created by somatic therapist, Natalia Rachel. This is an integrative professional development training that focuses on attunement above all, and blends talk and touch therapy to support clients recovering from trauma, and moving into post-traumatic growth, and transformation. Certification by Illuma Health provided, pending post-training assessment and case submissions. For more information on certification please contact us.

Experiential Training

As this is an experiential training, participants should come ready to explore their own stories through vulnerable sharing and somatic exploration. As always, it is through our embodied experience, that we can best integrate our learnings and go on to share in the world!

Who would benefit from this training?

• Talk therapists/counselors seeking to integrate a trauma-informed and somatic approach to care.
• Somatic practitioners interested in deepening their touch skills and somatic listening capabilities.
• Movement & Embodiment facilitators interested in cultivating a trauma-informed practice and enhancing 1-1 space holding capabilities.
• Health professionals who want to expand their toolkit and adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.

Module 1 – Attunement & Safe Somatization

Areas of exploration Module One:

1) Safely somatize / repair mind-body split.

2) Good handle on reading and responding to threat responses - helping the client approach ventral vagal.

3) Hypnotic language to pair with holds.

4) Somatic intuition - learning to understand and respond to your own somatic signals in a session.

5) Touch skills Part A.

a) gentle touch holds

b) working with the head

c) promoting local unwinding (coming out of freeze)

6) How to layout a somatization session, from intention setting, to containment and integration.

7) Emotional somatics - how to identify emotional charge, and help the client make sense.

8) Responding to spontaneous release - how to increase safety, and ensure re-suppression doesn’t occur.

9) Processing shame - a precursor to deeper emotional processing.

10) Psychoeducation Part A.

It is important to note that it is a processing-oriented training and may evoke some untapped content for exploration, and that by registering there is expressed understanding and consent. While the space will absolutely be trauma-informed, some participants may experience activation, which will be responded to as best as possible. 

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