Join the Trauma Research Foundation on a transformative journey to bring the wisdom of The Body Keeps the Score to life in a free online webinar series.

Every Body is Welcome

The only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what’s going on inside.

— Bessel van der Kolk, MD

This series 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, to explore, to discover.

That space is Integrate: A Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma. Each month, we host free virtual, mind-body sessions led by experts in trauma and movement.

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.

Come as you are. Stay to discover who you were meant to be.

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Curious? Please join us in exploring, playing, and moving – to the extent that works for you. We look forward to seeing you here!

When The Body Says Yes: Embodied Pleasure & Trauma Healing

with Kai Cheng Thom

In this gentle yet powerful session, somatics expert and intimacy educator Kai Cheng Thom will offer participants transformative frameworks and practices that unlock the potential of pleasure and joy for trauma healing.

Drawn from the lineage of somatic intimacy coaching and somatic sex education, this work is grounded in embodied consent and nervous system science.

Participants will leave with a somatically grounded understanding of how pleasure and healing are intrinsically connected, as well as techniques that can be immediately applied for growing empowered choice and voice, de-shaming pleasure, and cultivating joy in their own lives and in work with trauma recovery clients.

Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, Qualified Mediator, Certified Professional Jungian Life Coach, and Certified Somatic Sex Educator, is a coach, process facilitator, and mediator whose work focuses on the intersections of trauma healing, Transformative Justice, and social change. 

A noted theorist and practitioner in conflict resolution, Kai Cheng has made significant contributions through her writing and teaching to the integration and application of conflict transformation, crisis intervention, and body-based trauma healing methods in an activist context. 

Kai Cheng maintains a private practice as a one-on-one somatic coach, consultant, and group facilitator. She draws from extensive professional training in a wide variety of healing and wellness disciplines, including politicized somatics through the Strozzi and Generative Somatics lineages, depth psychology, Processwork, somatic sex education, clinical hypnotherapy, yoga nidra, and Thai massage. She has trained hundreds of embodiment and wellness professionals as Adjunct Faculty with the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education and a Senior Teacher at The Embody Lab.

Come as you are. No special clothing or tools needed for this session. 

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What if...

What if you gave yourself permission to know what you know and feel what you feel?

What if acknowledging your body’s messages opened the door to recovery?

What if there is something new to discover here?

Neuroscience tells us that those “what-ifs” are opportunities for true and long-lasting healing. Evidence shows that acknowledging our inner experience is key to self-acceptance. When combined with movement, the connection between mind, body, and brain can open pathways to new ways of being.

Integrate will help you get in touch with feelings, sensations, and thinking to recover the disconnection trauma creates.

Missed the live session? Find the recordings in our Somatic Library:

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