The Trauma Research Foundation

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Balancing our Nervous Systems with Body-Based Knowledge and Resources

Accessing Authentic Self for Embodied Healing with Loch Kelly

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** Accessing Authentic Self for Embodied Healing In this 60-minute session, Loch Kelly will guide participants through experiential practices to un-blend from our protective parts and access our Authentic Self, the most effective healer of trauma. Rooted in the world’s wisdom traditions and

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21 January 2026

Developing Somatic Rapport: An Energetic Approach to Reclaiming the Body with Presence and Grace with John Amaral

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** Join Somatic Energy developer John Amaral, DC, for a 75-minute experiential session designed to help participants restore connection to the body in a gentle, embodied way. This guided process teaches how to meet regions of pain, disconnection, or numbness not with effort,

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16 December 2025

When The Body Says Yes: Embodied Pleasure and Trauma Healing with Kai Cheng Thom

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** 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

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18 November 2025

Reinhabiting our Bodies: Finding Center & Holding Contradictions with Prentis Hemphill

An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Session **This Session** Join us for an engaging experience that explores how personal and societal conditions shape our bodies over time. Through guided practices, we will reconnect with our physical selves, sensations, and presence while embracing contradictions and staying connected to our center. This session is especially valuable in today’s polarized environment, promoting personal understanding. Everyone is welcome to participate in this journey of self-discovery and connection. We value and appreciate your feedback on this session! Please share your thoughts with us

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23 October 2025

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

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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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2 May 2025
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Embodied Awareness with Licia Sky

In a series of short meditative exercises, Licia Sky guides us to noticing our bodies and the spaces in which we practice these gentle, body-oriented movements.

Licia encourages us to connect with ourselves and access our imaginations with slow, intentional movements and a focus on balance, openness, and observation, allowing us to accept the sensations and feelings in our bodies, whatever they are.

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Let's Move with Josefin Wikstrom

Josefin Wikström from the Prison Yoga Project guides weekly classes with beneficial practices that have been co- developed with the women prisoners at the high security prison Hinseberg in Sweden.

Josefin has been specializing in creating movement-based programs for traumatic stress in confined environments such as prisons, isolation units, forensic psychiatry and juvenile justice institutions since 2008.

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A moment for yourself with Linda Thai

Join Linda Thai, MSW, ERYT-200, CLYL, for this 8-week program that explores and seeks to understand some of the survival strategies we depend on during a traumatic experience.

These strategies that kept us alive in the moment can keep us from living in the present. By learning to recognize and safely release the tension patterns of these survival responses, not only is there more ease and openness in the body, but new choices become available for the neuro-muscular system.

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Practical Connection: Nurturing Healthy Development with Dafna Lender

Join Dafna Lender, LCSW, for this 8-week program where she explores practical tips and techniques that lead to positive interactions with children. This series of eight 20-minute sessions will be full of action-packed, accessible, and useful interventions to connect with the children in your life.

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Election Day Special Event with Licia Sky and Bessel van der Kolk

A Moment of Calm: A Guided Session of Embodied Awareness Practices to Calm our Nervous Systems and Ground in the Present Moment

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Stress Reduction and Mindfulness with Holistic Life Foundation

Join founders of the Holistic Life Foundation—Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez. In this six week series they will incorporate yoga, mindfulness, centering exercises, and meditation to help us all find some inner peace.

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Coming Home to the Body: A Short Course on Trauma and Mind-Body Re-Connection

Your body is the best home your mind will every have. This is true for everyone, but not easy to put into practice, especially for survivors of trauma.

Mind Body Solutions Founder Matthew Sanford draws upon his experience as a trauma and post-traumatic stress survivor, his 42 years of living with a spinal cord injury, and his 29 years of practicing yoga to lead 8 experiential sessions of mind-body insights and simple practices. Sanford writes, “It is the body that always stays faithful to living, not the mind. In so doing, its wisdom plays a crucial role in the process of healing from trauma.”

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Be Here Now with Michael Lee of Phoenix Rising Yoga

In this 8 week series, Michael Lee, the Founder of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy will guide you in easy to follow body and breath meditation practices that will bring you home to now.

You will engage both body and breath as anchors to support a shift in your “lens of self-reference”. From a place of greater equanimity, stress, anxiety, fear and tension can be transformed. As the series progresses you will become more empowered to lean into life with greater ease and ride the bumps on the road of life without falling off the bicycle. Themes like Awareness, Acceptance, Choice, and Discernment will be focused in the meditation and in a short life integration that follows the practice.

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Masgutova Foundation || Simple is Profound: MNRI® Reflex Integration

During this 8-week program we will explore how our primary reflexes lay the foundation for survival. 

These reflexes govern our ‘fight and flight’ and ‘freeze” response. By working with this ancient code, we will explore how we can find safety in our bodies and quiet down our nervous system. Once we quiet down our survival response, we will explore additional reflexes that allow freedom in our body to experience the ‘here and now’ and joy.

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