An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Session
The Trauma Research Foundation invites you to embody the wisdom of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s groundbreaking book, The Body Keeps the Score, in this virtual, free monthly program, Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma!
https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/integrate-mind-body-practice-for-working-through-trauma/
**This Session**
Sacred Symptoms: Transforming our Symptoms Into Portals of Healing
Every day, science is verifying what healing traditions of all kinds have always known: there is no division between the mind and body when it comes to our well-being. Our symptoms, ranging from physical pain and migraines to IBS and fibromyalgia, are presentations of underlying states of danger in our nervous system that express themselves through our bodies.
In this 1-hour workshop, you will be guided into a revelatory somatic inquiry with your symptoms, turning them from foes to friends and becoming a sacred path of self-connection, self-knowing, and self-healing.
Karden’s work focuses directly on the intersection of trauma and disease processes, and how to clinically integrate and apply therapies from multiple fields to heal the diseases and physical manifestations of trauma.
In this workshop you will learn:
- The relationship between chronic physical symptoms and underlying states in the nervous system
- Simple ways to use your symptoms to become more embodied and more connected to yourself
- How to transform symptoms into relief and healing
**The Recording**
**The Organization**
Somia International
Heal your chronic symptoms, stress, anxiety, & trauma
Website: https://somiainternational.com/
**The Presenter**
Karden Rabin is the co-founder of Somia, co-author of The Secret Language of the Body, and a Neuroplastic Medicine Practitioner specializing in chronic pain and complex stress-related illness. His work centers on the role of the brain’s protective and alarm systems in driving persistent symptoms, and on retraining maladaptive neural circuitry to restore regulation across organ systems.
After overcoming a decade of debilitating back pain by studying the psychophysiological mechanisms of chronic stress and trauma, Karden deepened his training with neuroplastic specialists such as Howard Schubiner, MD, and in somatic trauma therapies, studying with Bessel Van Der Kolk and becoming a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Through this integration, he developed a clinical framework for addressing symptoms as reversible neuroprotective responses rather than fixed structural disease. He has since helped thousands of clients worldwide resolve chronic pain, fatigue, and stress-based conditions through applied nervous system retraining.
He co-created HEAL, a structured neuroplastic recovery program that integrates somatic therapies, interoceptive retraining, and trauma-informed approaches alongside cognitive reappraisal and belief restructuring to restore neural circuit flexibility and physiological resilience. By addressing cognitive, emotional, and physiological processes simultaneously, the program targets the full architecture of stress-driven symptom patterns.
Karden has developed and led programming for The Wounded Warrior Project, Starbucks, and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and is a regular contributor to the Trauma Research Foundation.
He lives in the Berkshires of Massachusetts with his wife and their two daughters.
Website: https://www.kardenrabin.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kardenrabin/
**The Integrate Program**
Integrate: A Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma offers more than passive learning about the connection between the body and mind. It is an invitation to reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been set aside and embrace a more curious and connected you. We have created a safe space to move, explore, and discover.
Whether you support others working through trauma or focus on healing your own, there is something for everyone. Practice during the session, then walk away with easy-to-implement tools for whenever you need them.
https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/integrate-mind-body-practice-for-working-through-trauma/
