Upcoming Events
Live in Singapore and the U.S., Certificate Provided
February 2023 & March 2023 (Singapore) | Trauma-informed Relational Somatics 2023 (Module 1 & 2)
April 2023 & May 2023 (U.S.A) | Trauma-informed relational Somatics 2023 (Module 1 & 2)
Trauma-informed Relational Somatics 2023
Live Training in Singapore and the U.S.
Certificate Provided.
Module 1 & 2
[Singapore]
February: Monday 6 February 2023 - Friday 10 February 2023 (10am - 5pm)
March: Monday 6 March 2023 – Friday 10 March 2023 (10am - 5pm)
Module 1 & 2
[U.S.A: Mental Health America @ Blue Ash, Ohio]
April: Monday 17 April 2023 – Friday 21 April 2023 (9am - 4pm)
May: Monday 15 May 2023 – Friday 19 May 2023 (9am - 4pm)
Note: In order to join module 2, you will need to complete module 1.
Location: Live in Singapore and the U.S.
Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics is the foundation training created by somatic therapist, Natalia Rachel.
This is an integrative professional development training that focuses on attunement above all, and blends talk and touch therapy to support clients recovering from trauma, and moving into post-traumatic growth, and transformation.
Certification by Illuma Health provided, pending post-training assessment and case submissions.
For more information on certification please contact us.
Experiential Training
As this is an experiential training, participants should come ready to explore their own stories through vulnerable sharing and somatic exploration. As always, it is through our embodied experience, that we can best integrate our learnings and go on to share in the world!
Who would benefit from this training?
Talk therapists/counselors seeking to integrate a trauma-informed and somatic approach to care.
Somatic practitioners interested in deepening their touch skills and somatic listening capabilities.
Movement & Embodiment facilitators interested in cultivating a trauma-informed practice and enhancing 1-1 space holding capabilities.
Health professionals who want to expand their toolkit and adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.
Module 1 – Attunement & Safe Somatization
What will happen in Module One?
In this course, you will learn a relational approach to trauma recovery, how to understand what the client might need, and how to respond to different threat responses and trauma stories.
You will learn how to set an intention for a session, establish somatic resonance, and use both touch technique and verbal cues to safely somatize a client, repair the mind-split, and how to respond to spontaneous release. The curriculum has been developed with the intent not to re-traumatize, and to promote both internal and relational safety always.
More than techniques, more than by-the-book processes...
Areas of exploration Module One:
1) Safely somatize / repair mind-body split.
2) Good handle on reading and responding to threat responses - helping the client approach ventral vagal.
3) Hypnotic language to pair with holds.
4) Somatic intuition - learning to understand and respond to your own somatic signals in a session.
5) Touch skills Part A.
a) gentle touch holds
b) working with the head
c) promoting local unwinding (coming out of freeze)
6) How to layout a somatization session, from intention setting, to containment and integration.
7) Emotional somatics - how to identify emotional charge, and help the client make sense.
8) Responding to spontaneous release - how to increase safety, and ensure re-suppression doesn’t occur.
9) Processing shame - a precursor to deeper emotional processing.
10) Psychoeducation Part A.
NOTE: In order to join module 2, you will need to complete module 1.
Module 2 – Intentional Trauma Processing
What will happen in Module Two?
In Module Two, which is the sequel to Module One, we will explore intentional trauma processing. Module Two builds on the foundation set by Module One.
You will learn how to navigate the client's trauma story, identify trigger threads, and work to access suppressed somatic content for gentle and contained release and integration.
You will also learn how to psycho-educate a client and how to help them make sense of their experience.
Areas of exploration Module Two:
1) Emotional release theory: Understanding how emotions live in the body, gain movement, momentum, and release. We will explore the core triangle of emotions: fear, anger, grief.
2) Emotional release practice: building tools to support release:
I) touch for release,
ii) verbal cues
iii) working with somatic expression - movement, breath & sound
3) Somatic intuition - developing the capacity to sense emotion, and bring gentle awareness to the client.
4) Working with resistance and fragmentation - an introduction to somatic parts therapy.
5) Touch skills Part B. Advanced touch applications - working the jaw, throat, diaphragm, and psoas.
6) Psychoeducation Part B.
7) Root causes, trauma maps, and essential illuminations for processing: emotions, thoughts, unconscious organizing principles, and somatic presentation.
8) Introduction to transference.
9) Introduction to existential exploration - working with un-belonging in the body and the world.
About Natalia Rachel
Natalia Rachel works with clients across the spectrum from trauma recovery to transformation and self-mastery. Known for her ability to attune to the psyche, soma and spirit with incredible empathy and acuity, Natalia is sought after by clients who have tried many avenues and have yet to ignite the change they are seeking. Her formative trainings as a hypnotherapist and craniosacral therapist led her to blend traditional talk therapy with therapeutic touch that ignited states of healing, epiphany and integration. Her exploration of trauma through the lens of somatic psychotherapy led her to develop the modality ‘Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics’ and mentor therapists in integrating modalities and expanding their ability to connect to the unseen, non-verbal stories of their clients.
As a therapist she specializes in trauma & abuse recovery (where dissociation and fragmentation are present), empathy & emotional integration for leaders (with a focus on shadow and parts work), couples (her process ‘dissolving the trauma bond’ is a highly sought after method for couples moving out of volatility & into conscious separation)
As a teacher and mentor, Natalia creates safe trauma-informed space that invites an experiential learning process. She utilizes field of resonance to attune to groups and navigate a responsive path to both individual and collective learning. She invites students to enter beginners mind, explore their intuition and move towards integration of their many learnings, and experiences. She also places a strong emphasis on power dynamics, boundaries and somatic counter-transference. Her intention is to support the continued embodiment, humility and confidence of all her learn with her.
Read more about Natalia’s influences
If you are not located in Singapore…
Sign up for our online training course instead, consisting of pre-recorded videos and lessons.
Register now: Trauma-informed Relational Somatics Online!
Introductory price when you sign up for Module 1 & 2 together:
USD $389
E-certificate Provided.