TRF Tuesday Library

Somatic Resources

To participate in our current TRF Tuesday session, please visit here

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 […]

Click Here

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 […]

Click Here

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 […]

Click Here

Trauma2Therapy: Embody the Hero Within

A TRF Tuesday Event Overview of the Program Traumas, or wounds, are initiations that demand of you to cross the threshold between light and dark, order and chaos, oneness and separation, ordinary and extraordinary worlds. Myths are maps meant to help you navigate the crossing from the descent into your personal underworld, your subconscious, to […]

Click Here

Karden Rabin: Transforming Triggers: A Top Down & Bottom Up Approach

A TRF Tuesday Event Overview of the Program Practically speaking, the way we experience the impact of trauma, attachment injuries, and stress in our lives is through triggers. Whether that be how we feel when we visit our parents, receive an urgent email from our boss, or pass by the site of a traumatizing incident […]

Click Here

Afro Flow Yoga®: Restoring Our Roots to Restore Our Inner Strength

A TRF Tuesday Event Overview of the Program Afro Flow Yoga® is an embodied practice integrating dance movements of the African diaspora with meditative yoga and live healing music, promoting individual and collective healing in a compassionate, non-judgmental, inclusive, and safe environment. Afro Flow Yoga® grew out of Leslie and her husband’s explorations of healing […]

Click Here

Linda Thai – Trauma 101: Trauma Education

A TRF Tuesday Event Trauma 101: Trauma Education Overview of the Program Learning about trauma can be empowering and transformative….and we also know that the traumatized brain may have limited capacity to learn, integrate and apply new information.  Too much information can be dysregulating. Over this next month, Linda Thai will take us through how […]

Click Here

Michael Lee – Meditate with Michael

A TRF Tuesday Event Meditate with Michael Overview of the Program Michael will guide four distinct theme focused meditation experiences over four weeks  Each session will build upon the previous one but feel free to drop into one or more.  If you are new to meditation this is a great opportunity to make an easy […]

Click Here

Staci K. Haines – Embodied Hope

A TRF Tuesday Event Embodied Hope Overview of the Program:  When we become more present and embodied, we feel more.  We sense more of ourselves, the environment, and the world.  This can allow us to discover more deeply what we are made for, what we long for, and what questions we are in. When we […]

Click Here

Marshall Davis Jones – MindBodySpeak

A TRF Tuesday Event MindBodySpeak  Overview of the Program: Step by step, we rebuild verbal behavior by reinforcing new habits. Each week we are invited to discover how the entire body contributes to the way you communicate. Steps to prepare you for our work together: 1st – procure a speech, a poem, or song lyrics. We […]

Click Here

Bessel van der Kolk – Breathing with Bessel

A TRF Tuesday Event Breathing with Bessel Join us for a calming, regulating, experiential exercise with our co-founder and the world-renowned author of The Body Keeps the Score. We’ll learn how breath works to calm our nervous system to bring us out of the past and into the present.

Click Here

Edy Nathan – Sexual Grief: Bring the mind and body into sync with hostage negotiation techniques

A TRF Tuesday Event Sexual GriefTM: Bring the mind and body into sync with hostage negotiation techniques.  Overview of the Program: Sexual Grief is a response to sexually traumatic events which can occur over the span of one’s life. Sexual Grief can include abuse of any kind, ridicule after an initial sexual experience, being unwanted […]

Click Here

Stephanie Kimble – Filling our Cup from Within: Increasing Energy by Listening to our Internal Cues

Embodied visualization practice

Click Here

Melissa Nussbaum – Embodied Narrating: Playback Theatre for Social Change (Collection)

This mini-workshop will give participants direct experience in the interactive storytelling skills of deep listening and embodied narrating through improvisation, that make Playback Theatre a powerful tool for community bonding and social change.

Click Here

Gang Capati – Pop Goes the World: A Lighter Look at Mental Health through Popular Media (Collection)

This fun, engaging series takes a unique look at mental health issues, such as childhood trauma, family systems, and romantic attachment, through the lens of popular culture.

Click Here

DE-CRUIT: Using Theatre to Treat the Effects of Trauma: Integrating Shakespeare and Science in Healing-Centered Practice (Collection)

A TRF Tuesday Event DE-CRUIT program uses theatre—and specifically Shakespeare—to address traumatic stress and associated problems encountered by veterans as they navigate the transition from military life to civilian life.  The treatment program was originally designed specifically to address the range of military, pre-military and post-military traumas that veterans need to work through in order to […]

Click Here

Mariah Rooney – On the Other Side of “This or That”: Breathing, Moving, and Knowing into a More Expansive Be-ing (Collection)

A TRF Tuesday Event Program Title: On the Other Side of “This or That”: Breathing, Moving, and Knowing into a More Expansive Be-ing Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5   Overview of the Program: In a complex and nuanced world, we naturally seek to make sense of ourselves, others, and all […]

Click Here

Linda Thai – Movement, Breath and Sound for Transforming Grief (Collection)

A TRF Tuesday Event Program Title: Movement, Breath and Sound for Transforming Grief   Week 1:  Week 2: Week 3:   Week 4:   Week 5: Week 6:   Overview of the Program: Grief grips the body in many ways: the numbness and disorientation of shock, the body armoring of frozen love and loss, the […]

Click Here

Beth Gibbs – The Five Layers of Self-Awareness, Companions on the Journey to Healing (Collection)

A TRF Tuesday Event Program Title: The Five Layers of Self-Awareness, Companions on the Journey to Healing Overview of the Program: This program will share a contemporary view of self-awareness based on a 3,000-year old wisdom tradition, describing humans as having five layers of being: physical, energetic, psycho-emotional, intuitive wisdom, and bliss. When self-awareness skills […]

Click Here

Vital Connections with Lou and Maren – Edgework Consulting (Collection)

A TRF Tuesday Event Vital Connections: Exploring the role of the caring adult relationship as a powerful resilience factor for children and adolescents Program Overview Since the pandemic began, there has been a loud and urgent call to pay more attention to the mental health crisis that is gripping so many people around the world. […]

Click Here

Breathing with Orisha (Collection)

Breathing With Orisha  Breathing With Orisha introduces the use of Orisha dance, song, and prayer as a tool for deep breathing, meditation, and spiritual clarity   Week 1:   Emi & Eemi: The life force and Breath       Week 2:   Ori: Living with consciousness   Meet Your Instructor: Baba OluDaré Bernard is  a master Apon, […]

Click Here

Mini-Journeys: Expanded Awareness In Practice with Licia Sky and Bessel van der Kolk (COLLECTION)

What better way to end 2021 than to spend time in the practice of being present in the moment? Licia Sky and Bessel van der Kolk join us for this special December series.

Click Here

Laughter Yoga for Everyone – with Zara Dureno (COLLECTION)

Laughter yoga is a fun way to help the body and mind to feel more relaxed and joyful. It uses child-like playfulness and laughter combined with yogic breathing to foster connection, higher levels of peace and health. Laughter is the best medicine and after a laughter class with me, you’ll see why!

Click Here

SMARTmoves – Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (COLLECTION)

Welcome to TRF Tuesday with SMARTmoves! SMART stands for Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment, an innovative mental health therapy for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma to help them with emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal regulation.

Click Here

Therapeutic Applications of Hip Hop (COLLECTION)

We are excited to announce this eight-week program that explores the therapeutic applications of Hip Hop as a culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate vehicle to foster engagement, regulation, and integration for complex and developmental trauma. These workshops will be led by a collaborative of innovators in the field who will engage participants in various exercises such as lyrical analysis, beat making, rhyme writing, and rapping.

Click Here

Tijana Coso || Radical Resilience with Tapping (COLLECTION)

Join us to learn the benefits of Tapping with Tijana. It is highly effective, universal, easy to learn, can be done with others or alone, and is free and easy to practice at any-time!

Click Here

Masgutova Institute || Simple is Profound: MNRI® Reflex Integration (COLLECTION)

Simple is Profound: MNRI® Reflex Integration

Click Here

Be Here Now with Michael Lee (COLLECTION)

BE HERE NOW - EMBODIED and PRESENT AWARENESS MEDITATION

Click Here

Coming Home to the Body: A Short Course on Trauma and Mind-Body Re-Connection with Matthew Sanford (COLLECTION)

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.”

Click Here

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

Click Here

Stress Reduction and Mindfulness with Holistic Life Foundation (COLLECTION)

Join the founders of Holistic Life Foundation—Ali Smith, Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez for this 6 week program. Every Tuesday they will incorporate yoga, mindfulness, centering exercises, and meditation to help us all find some inner peace.

Click Here

Practical Connection: Nurturing Healthy Development with Dafna Lender (COLLECTION)

Enter your information below to view past recordings of Dafna's 8-week program where she teaches us to explore practical tips and techniques that lead to positive interactions with children. This series will be full of action-packed, accessible, and useful interventions to connect with the children in your life.

Click Here

Coming to Your Senses with Licia Sky (COLLECTION)

In a series of short meditative exercises, Licia Sky guides us to notice 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.

Click Here

A Moment for Yourself with Linda Thai (COLLECTION)

Enter your information below to view past recordings of Linda's 8 week program that seeks to help you recognize and safely release the tension patterns of survival responses, so there is more ease and openness in the body, and new choices become available for the neuro-muscular system.

Click Here

Let’s Move with Josefin Wikstrom (COLLECTION)

Enter your information below to view past recordings of Josefin's 8 week program that combines movement sequences and therapeutic yoga.

Click Here

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.

Josefin-Wikström

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.

linda-thai

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.

DAFNALENDER_AP_AZUREEWIITALA-2958

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.

BLEsalen2020Hi.res.2

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

HLF-5

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.

Screen-Shot-2020-12-21-at-11.02.37-AM

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.”

Michael-Lee_CIRCLE-Headshot

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.

Pamela.Teaching

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.

Sign up to our newsletter and be the first to get our news and updates direct to your inbox.
Follow us on social media
Make a donation

A gift to Trauma Research Foundation helps expand the field of trauma treatment by increasing awareness and providing access.

Donate