Embrace your ancestors’ legacy and become the catalyst for breaking the cycle of unresolved traumas by clearing the remnants of the past — using powerful mind-body healing practices and tools, such as working with family photographs, sacred objects, ancestral traditions, attachment theory, and therapeutic journaling.
Address collective and generational wounds to pave the way for personal transformation and healing, so you can live a life filled with freedom, joy, peace, and self-acceptance.
Do you experience worries you can’t quite explain?
Or maybe you have a sense that no matter what you’re dealing with, you just can’t seem to make lasting changes in your life... so you end up right back where you started.
Maybe you feel stuck in a cycle of scarcity or financial difficulties, or find yourself in an unhealthy relationship yet again...
These struggles may have been passed down from your ancestors through what’s called legacy trauma, says renowned therapist and author Dr. Arielle Schwartz.
These wounds can become deeply held beliefs and emotional patterns that impact your self-esteem, your mental and emotional health, and every area of your life.
While it can feel like these limitations and blocks have become unchangeable parts of who you are, you absolutely can release the burdens of trauma that stem from your family history, says Arielle...
This leaves you feeling lighter, with a greater sense of choice, and a deeper sense of belonging as you move through the world.
Join Arielle for a brand-new 7-week course and become the brave member of your lineage who steps forward to break the trauma cycle...
Through weekly resilience-informed teachings, the latest scientific research, reflective exercises, deep inner work, and guided practices — you can ultimately heal and release the burdens of your past, move away from scarcity towards abundance, quiet your self-critic, and ultimately discover self-acceptance.
Within your lineage lies the potential for profound healing that transcends past, present, and future generational wounds. Arielle will help you recognize your relationship to the suffering you’re experiencing, as you do your part to facilitate intergenerational healing.
As Arielle guides you to integrate spiritual principles and practices with deep psychological insights, you’ll release and transform your inherited wounds, bringing about a profound shift in consciousness and holistic growth.
As Arielle will explain, transgenerational trauma will be carried forward in families until someone is ready to feel the impact, release the burdens, and, in turn, find a felt sense of freedom. You can be that person, and Arielle will show you how.
In this 7-week live video course, you’ll explore:
- The true meaning of legacy trauma in all its forms, and how to recognize collective ancestral trauma within yourself
- The essential role of somatic embodiment when you’re healing generational trauma — as Arielle says, “once you feel it, you can heal it”
- Key practices that support collective and legacy trauma recovery
- The Ancestor Effect as it relates to resilience
- Techniques for acknowledging the pain of the past while staying open to new possibilities for your future
- How your attachment style impacts your life and connections with others — and can help you break the pattern of toxic relationships
- Healing movement practices to unburden yourself from your past
- The art of mindful grieving and caring for your inner wounds with compassion and lovingkindness practices
- Guided weekly practices that incorporate neuroscience, somatic psychology, therapeutic yoga, and spiritual principles
- And much more...
Arielle is a leading pioneer in trauma therapy whose integrative approach blends neuroscience, somatic psychology, therapeutic yoga, parts work, and spiritual principles.
Her passion comes from her own healing journey. Having resolved her childhood trauma and chronic illnesses, she’s now dedicated to guiding others who struggle with anxiety, dissociation, panic attacks, depression, chronic pain, self-harm, or feeling stuck in post-traumatic stress.
She’s back by popular demand, and we’re honored she’s teaching her fourth course with The Shift Network.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Arielle will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully move from scarcity into abundance by healing your familial wounds.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Arielle and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Arielle’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Arielle. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to transform and heal collective and generational traumatic wounds — so you can live a life of freedom, joy, peace, and self-acceptance now.
Module 1: Begin to Break the Cycle of Generational Wounds So You Can Let Go of Feelings of Fear & Scarcity (July 2)
As your journey through this course begins, you’ll define generational trauma and explore beliefs rooted in fear and scarcity that have been based down through generations.
When left unaddressed, these beliefs can impact your sense of self, your health, or even your financial success.
Arielle will guide you to explore whether your worth is tied to your achievements — and help you to break the cycle so you can know deep inside that your self-worth is inherent, not earned.
In this opening module, you’ll explore:
- How to recognize collective and transgenerational trauma, and discover how these legacy traumas impact you
- Ways to begin healing and releasing these burdens of your past
- How to move away from scarcity towards abundance
- Ways to silence your inner critic so you can fully accept yourself
- A guided visualization practice to free yourself from limiting narratives that inhibit your growth
Module 2: Nourish Your Ancestral Roots to Boost Your Health & Resilience and Open to New Possibilities (July 9)
Arielle will guide you to focus on building the fertile ground for your health and resilience.
You’ll build your capacity to skillfully attend to the pain of the past while opening yourself up to new possibilities for your future.
You’ll work with family photographs, sacred objects, and family traditions to honor your ancestors’ legacy and clear the unfinished business of the past.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover techniques that help you cope with difficulty
- Attend to the pain of the past as it arises in the present
- Move out of pain to a world filled with new possibilities
- Create a family altar to honor your legacy, and write a letter to an ancestor during a guided practice
Module 3: Understand the Origins of Your Generational Trauma Through Your Attachment Style — Free Yourself From Toxic Relationship Patterns (July 16)
You’ll explore the relationship patterns that have been passed down across generations. Arielle will guide you to explore your roots of generational trauma by understanding your attachment style.
As Arielle will explain, attachment trauma comes from a rupture in the bonding process between a child and their primary caregiver. Its effects can last well into adulthood.
You’ll learn the practices that can transform attachment trauma, fostering relational success to promote wellness in your personal life and strengthen the legacy you leave behind.
In this module, you’ll:
- Free yourself from relationship patterns that no longer serve you
- Discover what your attachment style says about your collective past
- Learn the ABCs of healthy attachment
- Practice nervous system regulation strategies and embodied resources that promote nourishing connections with yourself and others
Module 4: Movement Practices for Intergenerational Healing to Set You Free From Your Past (July 23)
Recognize how symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress might be linked to your ancestors.
Discover why embodiment is an essential key to healing.
Embodiment recognizes that what we think and feel influences how we move in the world, and how we move in the world influences how we think and feel. This bi-directional feedback loop shapes our perceptions of ourselves and the world.
Our familial, social, and cultural norms guide patterns of emotional expression and behavior. As Arielle will explain, embodiment is socially and culturally determined.
Embodiment is cultivated through reflective awareness of sensations in the present moment. You’ll explore movement practices to free yourself from the ties that bind you to your past.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn the science of intergenerational memories
- Understand epigenetics and legacy trauma
- Empower yourself through somatic practices for healing your past
- Experience a guided embodiment practice
Module 5: Mindful Grieving and the Collective Body — Practicing Forgiveness to Set Yourself Free From Trauma Wounds (July 30)
Grief typically sits at the heart of all trauma recovery, including generational and collective trauma wounds.
Arielle will explain the art of mindful grieving and attending to those wounds with compassion and lovingkindness practices geared toward healing the wounds of the past.
While forgiveness is often a delicate topic, it’s one that can support a greater degree of freedom when it comes to ancestral trauma.
You’re invited to engage in forgiveness as a gift to yourself.
In this module, you’ll:
- Cultivate transgenerational empathy
- Receive support to let go of legacy burdens
- Explore forgiveness practices to free yourself from the past
- Discover the transformational power of compassion and lovingkindness with a guided practice
Module 6: Access the Ancestor Effect to Help Create Meaning & Purpose in Your Life (August 6)
Research indicates that when people actively reflect on family history, they then experience a boost in cognitive performance.
In an Austrian study, “The Ancestor Effect,” university students who were asked to think about their ancestral roots produced higher scores on problem solving and intelligence tests when compared to students thinking about random historical events.
In this module, you’ll learn how knowledge of your past helps you create meaning and purpose in your life now.
As you’ll discover, therapeutic journaling has been widely researched and has been shown to support your health and wellbeing. Arielle will guide you through a writing practice designed to cultivate transgenerational resilience.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover the Ancestor Effect and awaken transgenerational resilience
- Explore how to foster wellbeing across generations
- Participate in a guided therapeutic journaling practice that incorporates the Ancestor Effect
Module 7: Defining the Future So You Can Live in Alignment With Your Core Values (August 13)
Ideally, the outcome of any trauma recovery process is a greater sense of your own resilience and the potential for post-traumatic growth.
As this 7-week journey comes to a close, Arielle will guide you to reflect on the strength and wisdom that you’ve gained as a result of your courageous engagement with this course.
Arielle will share practices for helping you explore the legacy you wish to leave behind you — as you take responsibility for your emotional wake and mindfully reflect upon the impact you can have on the world around you.
In this module, you’ll:
- Understand key factors associated with resilience
- Define Post Traumatic Growth and identify what supports it
- Increase your ability to be a healing presence for others — as you strengthen a coherent sense of yourself and your impact on others
- Live in alignment with your core values to create a meaningful life today with a special closing guided practice
The Break the Cycle of Legacy Trauma Bonus Offering
In addition to Arielle’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Releasing Burdens of the Past
Video Teaching and Guided Practice From Arielle Schwartz
Follow along with Arielle as she guides you to begin releasing the impacts of your past traumatic experiences in this 22-minute video. As Arielle will explain, trauma is anything that overwhelms your coping capacities. Whether you’re navigating your own trauma, or trauma that your ancestors have passed down to you, you’ll learn to connect to the inner source of wisdom you carry within.
Transformation: Planting the Seeds of Potential
Digital Excerpt From The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook by Arielle Schwartz
Arielle’s guidebook is an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your life’s journey. A hero’s journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This 56-page digital excerpt, a chapter from the guidebook, contains practices that focus on releasing the impact of painful losses or traumatic events. You’ll be guided to cultivate self-compassion and find freedom from your inner critic.
What Graduates of Arielle’s Courses Are Saying...
“This very informative and supportive course gave me so many soothing and energizing practices to add to my toolbox of healing resources!”
This very informative and supportive course gave me so many soothing and energizing practices to add to my toolbox of healing resources! Learning about the connection between the vagus nerve and the mind, body, and spirit filled me often with intense validation that I have been on the correct path for healing my past traumas and living up to my full potential! I am so grateful to Dr. Arielle Schwartz and The Shift Network for providing this class!
— Karen
“Arielle is a gifted teacher and such an insightful person.”
This course was a real blessing. I experienced many shifts, I felt safe and allowed myself to be vulnerable. Arielle is a gifted teacher and such an insightful person. I have gone from super hyper vigilance to being calm, confident, and curious.
— Lynn, Gloucester, Massachusetts
“I have experienced the feeling of awakening and joy for the first time in many years, after being in what I now know as a state of collapse.”
I have experienced the feeling of awakening and joy for the first time in many years, after being in what I now know as a state of collapse. The course helped me to couple or balance the feelings of fear and anxiety that hold me back from becoming the person I know I am, with the emotions of safety/excitement necessary to move forward. The neuroscience backing the information in this course was critical for my Western brain to understand how the vagus nerve works, and its role in my own personal psychology.
— Allison Ciancibelli, Twisp, Washington
“Dr. Schwartz is the most gifted healer I’ve ever worked with, as she mindfully combines polyvagal science with grounded personal experience.”
I’ve been actively engaged in healing my childhood developmental trauma for several decades. Dr. Schwartz is the most gifted healer I’ve ever worked with, as she mindfully combines polyvagal science with grounded personal experience. The vagus knowledge and certain practices from the series are now part of my life! Thank you!
— Robert, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“I found the information illuminating — both personally and professionally.”
I found the information illuminating — both personally and professionally. The majority of my work is with complex developmental trauma — and incorporating breathwork with my clients had profound changes on their ability to access their emotions, and it really expedited their ability to benefit from the therapy.
— Karen, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey
Join the Global Community
Break the Cycle of Legacy Trauma offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Arielle Schwartz, PhD, will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from clinical psychologist, author, and therapist trainer Arielle Schwartz, PhD, founder of Resilience Informed Therapy — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to embrace healing mind-body practices and tools to honor your ancestors’ legacy — and be the one to break the trauma cycle, clearing unfinished traumas of the past. Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Break the Cycle of Legacy Trauma Bonus Offering
- Releasing Burdens of the Past
Video Teaching and Guided Practice From Arielle Schwartz - Transformation: Planting the Seeds of Potential
Digital Excerpt from The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebookby Arielle Schwartz
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Break the Cycle of Legacy Trauma
We feel honored that Arielle Schwartz, PhD, has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a clinical psychologist and the founder of Resilience Informed Therapy whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about embracing your ancestors’ legacy and becoming the catalyst for breaking the cycle of unresolved traumas by clearing the remnants of the past, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Break the Cycle of Legacy Trauma — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before July 16, 2024 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Arielle Schwartz, PhD...
“A treasure for any somatic psychotherapist or seeker of trauma healing.”
A treasure for any somatic psychotherapist or seeker of trauma healing. Dr. Schwartz elegantly guides the self-discovery process by integrating two powerful healing systems. The practical application of yoga — the ancient body-wisdom practice — with the contemporary neurophysiological model of trauma recovery is an effective offering. This trauma-informed lens empowers the inner healer in ways that are both gentle and transformative. These precise and accessible practices will benefit wellbeing and enhance the skill set of any clinician who values somatic therapies.
— Manuela Mischke-Reeds, LMFT, author of Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox, director of Hakomi Institute of California, and founder of Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approaches
“Dr. Schwartz brings forth a brilliant synthesis of the bodies of wisdom that have illuminated her path of healing.”
Dr. Schwartz brings forth a brilliant synthesis of the bodies of wisdom that have illuminated her path of healing. You will be guided through a journey toward embodied healing that’s rooted in compassion, curiosity, and care. She offers a wise, deeply human, and heart-centered perspective that empowers you to enjoy the inherently multifaceted experience of being alive. As a collective, we are being called to remember our shared humanity. As we reorient to this new path, Arielle is a wise and warm ally helping to light the way.
— Amy Annesley, psychotherapist and yoga student
“Dr. Schwartz guides us into a field of healing practices and possibilities founded in a resilient-informed approach.”
Dr. Schwartz guides us into a field of healing practices and possibilities founded in a resilient-informed approach. She offers portals into the untold and hidden stories of pain that live in the nervous system in the biology of people affected by chronic traumatization. She reminds us of the power and strength that lay in the core of human existence, and puts us in touch with our inner capabilities.
— Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC, author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation
About Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She’s an internationally sought-out speaker, a leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of seven books, including The Complex PTSD Workbook... EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology... The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook... and her latest, Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, she offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. She specializes in applied polyvagal theory, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions.
Arielle provides informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage with live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is any connected device. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Q: Can I still benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can stream the recordings and download the transcripts of all course sessions, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage with the full community and leaders in our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is July 16, 2024. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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