Trauma-informed Relational Somatics: A Path to Healing and Transformation

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Join our somatic training in Los Angeles. Support trauma recovery. Register now for TIRS 2024!

In the bustling heart of Los Angeles, a transformative opportunity awaits those seeking to deepen their professional practice and personal understanding of trauma recovery. Trauma-informed Relational Somatics (TIRS) offers an integrative approach that prioritizes attunement and blends talk and touch therapy to support clients on their journey from trauma to post-traumatic growth and transformation. This unique professional development training is designed to equip practitioners with the tools and techniques necessary to foster deep healing and resilience in their clients.

Register Now for TIRS 2024

Dates and Times:

  • Module 1: Attunement and Self-Somatization

    • Dates: 19 September - 23 September 2024

  • Module 2: Internal Processing for Integrated Healing

    • Dates: 6 February - 10 February 2025

Location: Beverly Hills / West Hollywood (Training Venue TBC)

Cost: USD $3000 for Modules 1 and 2

About Trauma-informed Relational Somatics

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics is the brainchild of somatic therapist Natalia Rachel. This foundational training merges the best of talk and touch therapies, focusing on attunement as the cornerstone of effective trauma recovery. The approach emphasizes the importance of creating a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore and integrate their experiences, leading to profound personal growth and transformation.

Certification

Upon completion of the training, participants will receive certification from Illuma Health, pending post-training assessment and case submissions. For more information on certification, please contact us at natalia@illumahealth.org.

Experiential Training

This is an experiential training designed to encourage participants to explore their own stories through vulnerable sharing and somatic exploration. It is through our embodied experiences that we can best integrate our learnings and share them with the world.

Who Would Benefit from This Training?

This training is ideal for:

  • 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 looking to cultivate a trauma-informed practice and enhance 1-1 space holding capabilities.

  • Health professionals who want to expand their toolkit and adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.

Overview of Module 1 and Module 2

Module 1: Attunement & Safe Somatization

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Safely somatize and repair the mind-body split.

  2. Read and respond to threat responses, helping clients approach ventral vagal states.

  3. Use hypnotic language paired with holds.

  4. Develop somatic intuition to understand and respond to their own somatic signals during sessions.

  5. Enhance touch skills, including gentle touch holds, working with the head, and promoting local unwinding.

  6. Layout a somatization session, from intention setting to containment and integration.

  7. Identify emotional charges and help clients make sense of them.

  8. Respond to spontaneous releases to ensure safety and prevent re-suppression.

  9. Process shame as a precursor to deeper emotional processing.

  10. Provide psychoeducation to support clients' understanding and integration.

Module 2: Intentional Trauma Processing

Building on the foundation set by Module 1, participants will delve into:

  1. Understanding how emotions live in the body, gain movement, momentum, and release.

  2. Building tools to support emotional release through touch, verbal cues, and somatic expression (movement, breath, sound).

  3. Developing the capacity to sense emotion and bring gentle awareness to the client.

  4. Working with resistance and fragmentation through somatic parts therapy.

  5. Advanced touch applications, including working with the jaw, throat, diaphragm, and psoas.

  6. Providing advanced psychoeducation.

  7. Creating trauma maps and understanding root causes for effective processing.

  8. Exploring transference and existential themes related to trauma and un-belonging.

How TIRS Was Born

Natalia Rachel, the creator of Trauma-informed Relational Somatics, has dedicated her life to understanding and healing trauma. After a 17-year journey through mental health misdiagnosis and physical illness, she emerged with a profound commitment to helping others find their way to peace and power. Her global teaching roster and deep exploration of trauma and oppression's impact on relationships and systems have informed the development of TIRS.

Praise for Trauma-informed Relational Somatics

Participants of TIRS have reported transformative experiences, both personally and professionally. The training's emphasis on attunement, safety, and integration has helped many practitioners enhance their ability to support clients through deep healing processes.

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics Video Series

For those unable to attend the live training in Los Angeles, TIRS offers an online video series. This series provides a comprehensive overview of the training, including full table demonstrations with practitioners. Sign up now for Trauma-informed Relational Somatics Online and get a free preview to explore the training's depth and impact.

About the Facilitator

Natalia Rachel is a somatic therapist, author, and speaker dedicated to healing trauma and fostering transformation. Her journey from trauma and illness to peace and power has inspired her work, which focuses on the intersections of trauma, oppression, and healing. Natalia's mission is to create safe spaces for exploring the unseen and unexpressed, offering a counterpoint to modern leadership norms and inviting societal reorganization.

Contact:

  • Email: natalia@illumahealth.org

Conclusion

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics offers a unique and profound opportunity for professional development and personal growth. By integrating talk and touch therapy with a focus on attunement, TIRS provides a pathway for practitioners to support clients through trauma recovery and transformation. Register now to join this transformative training and become part of a community dedicated to healing and growth.

Register Now for Modules 1 and 2!

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