How Somatic Training Can Build Your Practice (Without Feeling Like Marketing) Clients are becoming surprisingly sophisticated. They'll come into therapy talking about polyvagal theory, fascia, the vagus nerve, or something they saw on TikTok the night before. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're.....creative. Either way, they're interested in how their body fits into healing.

We invite you to enhance your expertise, connect with fellow professionals, and explore new techniques to remove trauma from the body.

For some people, sitting quietly is exactly what they need, yet someone else, it feels awful. There are actually studies suggesting that certain forms of still, internally focused meditation can be contraindicated for people with significant dissociation or unresolved trauma.

The Hidden Cost of Staying “Professional” All Day I was scrolling through a therapy group the other day and somebody posted a question: “If you were considering not being a therapist anymore, what would you do instead?” What shocked me wasn’t the question. It was that there were almost 300 comments and it hadn’t even been 24 hours yet. Everything from food trucks to house cleaning was on the list of things someone would rather do all day than be a therapist, and that told me

A few years ago, James Nestor wrote a book called Breathe that caught a lot of people’s attention because it took something incredibly ordinary — breathing — and showed how dramatically it can influence your health, sleep, anxiety, jaw structure, energy, and even the shape of your face.

Therapists are tired in a way that sleep doesn’t seem to fix anymore. To be fair, most folks seem to be experiencing this in some way, shape or form due to the tremendous pressure we've all been under the last few years. Yet due to the nature of their work, I see more fatigue in the mental health field than I've ever seen. I see a lot of therapists trying to remain emotionally present, regulated, ethical, empathic, grounded, attentive, attuned, productive, and somehow still f

What Yoga Already Knew Holistically, We’re Now Separating and Calling Somatic Work I’ve been noticing something interesting happen over the last few years when a new trauma modality comes out. Therapists are being introduced to body-based approaches through a lot of different modalities — somatic experiencing, parts work, EMDR adaptations, even newer things like ART™, accelerated resolution therapy.

I would hope no therapist would casually introduce ketamine into a session without proper training. But body-based interventions can shift the nervous system just as powerfully—often without being recognized that way. And because it looks simple — a breath, a posture, a small movement — it’s easy to underestimate what’s actually happening underneath it.

Yoga isn't just a complementary activity to trauma therapy. It is the original blueprint for bottom-up stabilization.

According to the Life Science of Yoga, Ayurveda, the spring time is known as kapha season. And as we move into Kapha season, there’s often a subtle seasonal shift that most people aren't aware of. Things feel heavier. Slower. Sometimes even a little harder to start.

A lot of what is now being taught as “somatic therapy” isn’t new. It comes from systems that have existed in yoga for a thousands of years—breath, awareness, regulation, the mapping of emotional experience in the body. What’s new is the language and the clinical framing.

The Direction Trauma Therapy Is Moving The field of trauma treatment is evolving quickly. Psychological insight is still important, but more clinicians are recognizing that the nervous system has to be part of the conversation. Somatic interventions for trauma are not replacing traditional therapy. They’re offering an opportunity to enhance it.

Yoga training for therapists that is clinically appropriate and fully within scope.

Where are your clients getting their somatic information? In all likelihood, your clients are getting their degree at the University of TikTok and YouTube. That’s just the reality. They are searching for how to heal trauma and continually being lead down the path of somatics. Which is great! That's where the research is pointing - yet do you know if the info they are getting is accurate? And who is leading your client down that path? We would rather it be you. Somatic moveme

Why Holistic Yoga Training Matters More in the Age of AI

Ayurveda, the Life Science of Yoga, teaches us to keep things simple during this seasonal change. Simple routines, transitions, and choices. These are the things that actually bring balance when our life is full.

Most embodiment or holistic trainings stop short. They give great information, but they don’t give you the bridge between theory and practice.

Therapy feels different for many therapists than it did a few years ago. Not just because the world has changed — though it absolutely has — but because we have changed as a collective. Since 2020, it’s been one long stretch of adaptation. First it was learning how to hold space through online sessions. Then it was trying to support clients who were living through collective trauma while they were living through it right alongside them at a personal level. Then came the slo

The season changing from fall to winter can often give us a sense of urgency or overwhelm that’s hard to pin down. That’s because there’s an unconscious effect on our emotions coming from an ancient fears that the limbic brain still senses: getting the crops gathered up so that nothing goes to waste, getting things organized and stored to make it through the winter, and wondering about all the seeds you planted during the spring. I know this may sound silly — most of us aren

Right now, there’s no regulation for trauma-informed yoga. No licensing, no standardized curriculum, no accountability. That means anyone can use the label — and many do.