Somatic Library

Healing Chronic Symptoms with Nervous System Medicine with Karden Rabin

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma session **This Session** This session focuses on the link between trauma and physical health issues. Findings from the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) studies reveal that exposure to one or more forms of trauma during childhood significantly increases the risk of various health conditions, including chronic pain, cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and addiction, among others. Conventional and complementary medicine often addresses these “physical” issues in isolation. However, they frequently overlook the vital role that trauma plays and its ongoing negative effects

16 September 2025

Guided Visualizations for Trauma Healing with Kathy Hayes-Bloch

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma session **This Session** This highly experiential program will guide participants through visualizations and meditative practices that foster a healthy sense of safety, resilience, and well-being. Practices will be trauma-informed offerings. All are welcome. We value and appreciate your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us here: https://forms.gle/NKEFF4Wuyo68MBM29 **The Recording** **The Presenter** Kathy Hayes-Bloch, MSW, LCSW, is a seasoned psychotherapist who has accompanied many people on their healing journeys over the past twenty years. Recognizing the limitations of traditional mindfulness and psychotherapy,

21 August 2025

Hip Hop Therapy: Cultivating Community through Rhythm and Rhyme with J.C. Hall Copy

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Session **This Session** In this highly interactive session, J.C. Hall, a Hip Hop artist and clinical social worker, will guide us through embodying the therapeutic rhythm of rapping and invite us to write our own lyrics. Hip Hop therapy (HHT) is a culturally relevant and engaging therapeutic approach that leverages the power of Hip Hop culture to promote mental health and well-being. HHT serves as a platform for self-expression, empowerment, and social connection. Hip Hop’s ability to resonate with individuals on

22 July 2025

Embodied Empowerment: Trauma-Informed Yoga for Every Day Resilience with Julie Fernandez

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Event Overview of the Program Trauma-informed yoga (TIY) is a somatic practice designed to support survivors of trauma by restoring agency, choice, and connection to the body. It also offers tools that providers and supporters can use to co-regulate and stay grounded while holding space for others. In this experiential session, Exhale to Inhale Lead Trainer Julie Fernandez will introduce key principles of TIY and guide participants through 2–3 accessible, grounding tools to regulate the nervous system, reconnect with the body,

26 June 2025

Embodied Awareness: Integrating Rhythm and Sensation in Therapeutic Practice with Licia Sky

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Event Overview of the Program How we experience our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories and heal from traumatic events. Verbally-oriented therapists may wonder how to introduce embodied awareness into work with clients. Join Licia Sky and learn to follow the rhythms—of breath, heartbeat, footsteps, vocal expression, gesture, and conversation—and come into synchrony—attunement, alignment, proximity, safety, engagement, meaning-making, and play. Explore practices that guide attention to nonverbal awareness of physical sensations, orientation, attraction, and our split-second impulses and unconscious choices

2 May 2025

Waking the Tiger: A Somatic Healing Journey Peter A Levine, PhD, Developer of Somatic Experiencing®

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Event Overview of the Program Somatic Experiencing®(SE™), developed by Dr. Levine, is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to the treatment of trauma and other stress related disorders. SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, fawn, freeze, or collapse responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It offers practical skills appropriate to various healing and helping professions, including medical and mental health providers, first responders, educators, and more. Trauma can come

16 April 2025

Jeanne Catanzaro: Healing Your Relationship with Food: An IFS Approach

A TRF Tuesday Event Overview of the Program This 4-part series focuses on healing eating and body-related issues using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. You’ll have the opportunity to explore some constraining beliefs and emotions that disconnect you from knowing what you want and need. You’ll also learn ways to get to know and work with the different parts of yourself who carry these burdens so that you can release them and more readily connect with your core wisdom. Sessions: 1 – Intro to IFS: How Parts

22 November 2023

Bridget McCarthy-Burnout Prevention: Somatic Practice for Tired Healers

A TRF Tuesday Event Overview of the Program Join us for a transformative program designed for healers and caregivers seeking to enhance their well-being and resilience. Led by the experienced facilitator, Bridget McCarthy, participants will explore the powerful connection between care culture and somatic practices to combat burnout effectively, especially for those for whom care is central to their professional or personal identity. Throughout the five sessions, starting with “Finding Your Rumble Strips” on Oct 3, participants will learn to recognize their limits and establish healthy boundaries to prevent exhaustion.

9 August 2023

Kelly Vogel-Sound Passage: Use Your Voice to Find Your Voice!

A TRF Tuesday Event Overview of the Program Using our voice can release tension and bring calm. Gentle sounds such as humming, sighing, and a variety of others can increase breath control, slow the heart rate, reduce anxiety, and block the release of stress hormones. Combining those sounds with soft, intentional movements allows the body and mind to unite for clarity and focus. The sounds and movements made in Sound Passage workshops activate the vagus nerve to settle the nervous system, creating a peaceful, calming effect. The vagus nerve, also

28 July 2023