What You’ll Receive | Program Details & Curriculum | About Manuela Mischke-Reeds | Bonus Collection | FAQs
As a practitioner in the fields of psychotherapy, social work, mental health, or wellness coaching, you might sense that your patients’ or clients’ traumatic experiences call for more than conventional interventions.
Trauma survivors rarely possess the spoken language to express the complexity of their pain. Many experts believe the memories stored within their physical bodies tell the real story.
Years ago, these same realizations inspired Manuela Mischke-Reeds, clinical therapist and international somatic psychology teacher, to develop her own therapeutic approach — with the goal of improving her patients’ outcomes.
Manuela began her career 25 years ago, working with survivors of torture.
She realized her clients were often at a loss to verbally convey their trauma — which stayed with them in debilitating forms of flashbacks, night terrors, anxiety, depression, and much more.
Yet, she found that their bodies could express it all.
Manuela focused on learning the body’s expressions and somatic patterns and discovered the body’s innate ability to heal through this powerful silent language.
Now you can learn how to understand this silent language from your clients in Manuela’s breakthrough Somatic Trauma Therapy approach, which acknowledges pathways in which fear and healing coexist in the body.
Her approach draws on various somatic therapy practices that are rooted in polyvagal theory — including key practices from Hakomi Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy.
She’ll show you how to safely use these same somatic resourcing, breathwork, mindfulness, pendulation, and titration skills in your own practice to guide your clients’ transformations and healing...
... from a place of profound compassion — because first, you’ll experience each of these healing tools yourself.
Join us for a 20-module training as Manuela guides you to expand your inner soma toolkit with these Somatic Trauma Therapy skills and techniques.
You’ll first apply each approach to your own life experiences, so you can ultimately bring new dimensions of healing to both your clients — and yourself. Once you learn to regulate your own nervous system, you’re able to effectively navigate systemic trauma issues that may be overwhelming both you and your client.
Manuela will guide you to develop these skills (and many more) so you can become more present with your clients’ suffering, assess which embodiment tools they’ll benefit most from...
... and empower them to trust their own innate somatic intelligence beneath the trauma. You’ll also learn how to best track results so you know when these somatic skills are working.
At the heart of supporting your clients’ journeys towards whole and healthy lives is your own process of facilitating your inside-out transformation as their healer...
... applying Somatic Psychology Tools to your triggers, projections, and countertransferences so you can mediate them when working with clients.
From this grounded space, you can then effectively and compassionately guide your clients into the healing potential they’ve always held in their bodies and hearts.
Befriend Your Own Healing Process — Experience firsthand why Somatic Therapy work is so essential in healing trauma, as you learn to work with your own trauma and train to apply these practices with clients. Gain an understanding of what it means to cultivate a somatic mindset as an embodied therapist.
Guiding Clients Into the Soma — Help clients experience the integrated embodiment of their entire being, without taking on their trauma yourself. Learn to read your clients’ bodies accurately, and what these body indicators tell you about their influences and internal shaping through different stages of their childhood development.
Somatic Therapy Practices in Each Class — These are rooted in trauma-informed polyvagal theory, plus Hakomi Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy. Learn about somatic resourcing, grounding, co-regulating the nervous system, embodiment, and safe-release technique.
Regular Integration Sessions — Integrate everything you’re learning in small group sessions so that you can develop the skills necessary to apply these tools in your own practice.
This program focuses on skills-building and experiential practices — you’ll master each technique by first using it on yourself.
Polyvagal-Informed Techniques and Embodiment Tools — Regulate and resource your own nervous system so you can successfully guide your clients into safe embodiment processes
Attention Skills — Cultivate a centered, relational somatic presence to use with your clients
Co-Regulating Tools — Create a safe space for stressed or disconnected clients to help them feel calm as they connect to your nervous system
Early Experience Theory — Understand how core wounds, traumas, and early attachment connections with others are shaped by early experiences (during the ages of 0-3 and 3-6)
Body Reading & Tracking Skills — Identify exactly how the body is communicating, what it tells you about the client, and when somatic tools will be useful
Self-Regulation & Grounding Breath Techniques — Utilize them in your own life so you can then apply them in your client sessions
Assessment Approaches — Identify which embodiment tools your clients will benefit from most, and which will ultimately empower them to trust their own innate somatic intelligence that is beneath the trauma
Results Tracking Skills — Discern when the somatic intervention you chose is working as intended
You’ll spend 20 modules with Manuela, developing a more effective healing practice as you integrate somatic psychology tools into your own life and in your work with your clients.
This program will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Manuela. 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 cultivate an in-depth understanding of your own soma as you guide your clients to transform their trauma with somatic psychology.
Your journey to becoming an embodied therapist begins by cultivating your own internal skill set of self-regulation and grounding techniques.
Explore ethical, supportive techniques and practices for bringing these somatic therapy tools you’ve utilized for yourself into your healing practice for others…
… so your clients can ultimately learn to trust themselves and transform their trauma.
As this course begins, learn what the field of somatic psychology offers you as a practitioner who wants to help your patients heal within a body-oriented framework.
Manuela will explain different approaches within somatic psychology — including lowering the internal noise as opposed to using amplification techniques, and what it means to cultivate a somatic mindset as a therapist.
She’ll share ethical, supportive ways to bring somatic therapy tools into the therapy room, and what it means to learn through the body. You’ll also learn about the polyvagal theory as it applies to somatic therapy work.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Part of becoming an embodied therapist is cultivating an internal skill set of self-regulation and grounding techniques.
Manuela will guide you in developing a repertoire of ways to skillfully navigate your inner somatic states.
Using these breath techniques helps you learn about your own inner experience so you can apply these with clients.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Part of an effective embodiment practice is learning how to sense through your own somatic experience.
You’ll learn where to locate your inner knowing, and how to access wisdom — as you’ll discover, this information doesn’t come from your thinking mind.
Manuela will guide you to practice sensing your body for self-regulation.
In this module, you’ll explore:
One of the greatest gifts you offer as a therapist or other kind of practitioner is your ability to listen compassionately to your clients’ experiences.
As Manuela will explain, you can cultivate focused attention through mindfulness and somatic practices, enhancing your capacity to be present.
Even in times of trauma when you’re experiencing difficult emotional states, you must find the capacity to be present without distraction or avoidance.
In this module, you’ll explore:
In this first integration module, work in a small group to integrate attention and presence.
Practice the key skills of sensing, feeling, and breathing through your soma.
In this module, you’ll:
You’ll build on your somatic psychology skills with more complex techniques, including co-regulating your nervous system with that of a client — with your loving-yet-healthy boundaries firmly in place.
Learn new ways to create safe spaces for clients as they share their most profound experiences, cultivating confidence in your role as a practitioner along the way.
Learn the skills for co-regulating with your clients or patients.
As Manuela will explain, clarity of mind, heart, and body arises when your boundaries are in place — so you can skillfully work through challenges like transference, countertransference, and projections.
In this module, you’ll:
The challenges therapists face are immense.
For sessions to be successful, the client must be emotionally and somatically regulated during therapy work.
Learn how overwhelm and resistance are common experiences in therapy — but you can feel prepared with careful co-regulation skills.
An embodied therapist knows her own boundaries and operates from an abundance of somatic connection, supporting her client.
In this module, you’ll:
The need for belonging, safety, and connection are common attachment themes.
Manuela will discuss attachment theory as it applies to somatic work, and how to work with client needs to sensitively and effectively guide them through these core therapeutic themes.
Through guided practices, discover how to work with core beliefs that have interrupted a sense of safety and belonging.
In this module, you’ll:
Learn techniques for asking the right questions during sessions — and when to ask no questions at all.
How can you help a client discover their inner experience without overthinking things yourself, and getting pulled into their head?
Manuela will guide you through wisdom, techniques, and practices to create this boundary so you can most effectively serve your clients.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Integrate the main techniques of Unit 2 and practice the skill sets you’ve acquired.
Discuss common transference and countertransference issues that surface, and review skills for safely guiding a client into the somatic process.
Review both the sensitivity the clients bring to the topic of attachment, as well as the limits the therapists can face.
In this module, you’ll practice:
Delve into increasingly advanced Somatic Psychology skills as you become even more fluent in the secret language of the body (yours and your clients’).
Human development maps help you visualize complex experiences so you can better understand how environment shapes the inner world.
Learn how core wounds and traumas that occur from the ages of 0-3 and 3-6 often lay the foundation for somatic experiences throughout life.
The body has its own communication and language.
Manuela will guide you to practice even more precise observation skills. Through the skill of body reading, you’ll identify the unspoken voice the body expresses.
The client often doesn’t know what the body is communicating. The job of the therapist is to help the client connect with their own expressions and meanings.
In this module, you’ll learn:
Character development reflects how people responded to their earliest human developmental challenges.
Everyone is shaped and formed by their environments, learning to make meaning of life within each one of its stages.
Focus on how critical development in utero and during the birthing experience shapes your relationship to self and the world.
Manuela will share maps of somatic therapy work, illustrating the experiential work you’ll be doing into clear ideas and concepts.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Continue examining how the human development map shapes inner experiences.
Manuela will explain how core wounds and traumas that occur from the ages of 0-3 impact every stage of life going forward.
Learn how the early phases of bonding impact the shaping of core themes — including the need to belong and feel safe.
These core themes are critical to understanding the templates of self-regulation through co-regulation.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Examine human development from 3-6 years and its implications in somatic therapy work.
As Manuela will explain, these formative years develop the child’s inner sense of connection with self and others.
Ages 3-6 years shape the personality and temperament a child brings into the family of origin, community, and early schooling years.
Discover how these early imprints of how we learn, need support, are accepted by others, and require both independence and interdependence are all imprinted into the soma.
In this module, you’ll:
Integrate the somatic body reading and developmental maps segments as you focus on practicing the skills you’ve learned in Unit 3.
Practice body reading and tracking skills to identify what the body is communicating.
Manuela will also review how character is shaped by early experiences as you practice identifying the origins of core wounds and traumas and the earliest connections with self and others.
In this integration session, you’ll:
In this final unit, you’ll harness somatic therapy’s full potential for renegotiating and healing traumatic experiences — including your own.
Guide your clients to invite the mind and body to tune into sensations of safety, calm, and goodness.
Support clients as they expand feelings of peace and ease, while sensing and interrupting habitual patterns like anxiety, stress, or fear. But first, apply all these tools to yourself.
Learn to make meaning of your “new” remembered experiences, and help your clients take their new memories and new understandings of themselves out into the world.
Begin Unit 4 by focusing on transformational moments.
Manuela will explain how you can recognize small and dramatic changes in clients’ perceptions, beliefs, and new habits — and understand how you can use this knowledge to support their growth.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Manuela will share key aspects of polyvagal-informed techniques for helping your clients feel well-resourced.
Somatic resourcing refers to the ways we strengthen our sense of stability and safety in the world.
Learn how to guide your clients to identify the resources that help them feel secure — including significant people, relationships, skills, strengths, and more — so clients can ground and stabilize their emotional intensity.
The regulated nervous system is important in trauma therapy, as it helps clients stabilize their inner activated states of fight, flight, and freeze responses.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Somatic therapy is a powerful tool for renegotiating trauma experiences.
Manuela will explain how trauma is stored in the body and not in the event itself, and share tools to transform these traumatic memories.
Learn about nervous system health from the polyvagal theory perspective, so you can teach your clients to transform how they remember their traumatic experiences.
In this module, you’ll explore:
Learn how the practical and theoretical elements of polyvagal theory can make your somatic therapy work more effective and compassionate.
Discover what arousal symptoms are and how they impact your clients’ abilities to process trauma.
In this module, you’ll:
In this closing integration module, Manuela will prompt you to ask essential questions, including:
How do you make meaning of your new experiences?
How can you help your clients make sense of their new perceptions?
Learn how to develop somatic protocols with clients so they can practice between sessions.
Integrate the personal experiences you’ve had throughout this journey.
In this final integration module, you’ll explore:
What You’ll Receive | Program Details & Curriculum | About Manuela Mischke-Reeds | Bonus Collection | FAQs
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT, is a somatic trauma psychotherapist and international teacher of somatic psychology, integrating movement and mindful embodiment tools into her work. She was the co-director of the Hakomi Institute of California, and recently founded Embodywise, a learning community that supports somatic psychology methods that promote wisdom through the body.
She developed an integrative trauma methodology called Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA) that focuses on somatic movement and somatic therapy techniques in an in-depth training program for therapists and practitioners.
Manuela has more than 25 years of clinical experience in the field of trauma and somatics, including working with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with first responders. She lectures and trains professionals on the topics of mindfulness, somatic psychology, trauma therapy, and compassionate relational approaches to healing.
She has hosted the Hakomi Summit for The Shift Network, and is the author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy Tools for Trauma and Stress. and 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Wellbeing. She will soon be releasing a new book on movement therapy tools for clinicians.
In addition to Manuela’s transformative 20-module online course, you’ll receive this special bonus collection to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Are you a healing practitioner, therapist, coach, or spiritual guide looking for ways to expand your skills? In this 10-module audio course, Manuela and Rob Fisher will help you explore Hakomi, the body-mind-heart approach that integrates mindfulness and depth psychology. As you’ll discover, Hakomi blends mindfulness practices with an experience-based somatic approach that holistically meets each client where they are — and enhances your ability to work with them in a deeply relational way.
The complexity of trauma symptoms coupled with systemic, collective, and intergenerational traumas requires a multilayered approach to understanding and treating trauma successfully. Manuela’s short audio practices feature somatic resources to ground yourself within your work and relationships. Use them to sharpen your self-regulating capacity in your client sessions and in your everyday life.
— Noreen Buyers Greenblatt: “Manuela Is Wise,
Compassionate, and Uber-Knowledgeable, and
Her Clarity Imbues Her Teaching
With So Much Joy”
Manuela is a powerhouse teacher, facilitator, and therapist. She fully embodies what she teaches and is a much-needed leader in somatics and trauma. I’m so grateful for everything she’s taught me; I find her wildly inspiring.
Caitlin Clarke, somatic coach
In my journey as a therapist, Manuela’s trauma training was essential to developing the skills to support healing in my clients. Manuela is a master of her craft, and with her guidance, I was able to learn to hold a space of safety that allows clients to learn to regulate their nervous system and, in a gentle way, move through and heal their trauma. I consider this one of the most transformative training experiences in my 30 years in the field.
Giorgio Quittan, LCSW
I have had the fortunate opportunity to train with Manuela through the Hakomi Institute of California and through her trauma training over the past eight years. Manuela has offered me exceptional guidance and support in my skill-building as a licensed clinical psychotherapist and educator. I have gleaned the skills to navigate trauma work with my clients mainly from her, and I can’t recommend her trainings enough. They offer the theory and practice through embodied exercises and frameworks to really step into the territory of trauma healing with experience and grace. She really teaches you how to work somatically with trauma to transmute from the inside out. Her presence and expertise are a gift to this world.
Diana Justl, LMFT, faculty at Earth Medicine Center, Oregon
Manuela’s trauma training has been essential in my understanding of trauma and my capacity to be at ease with my clients’ trauma responses and offer thoughtful somatic interventions. Taking her training and watching her work, with her 25 years of clinical experience and her deep personal experience with somatic and spiritual practices, has been a gift that keeps on giving.
Paola Ceccarini, certified Hakomi practitioner
We feel honored that Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT, has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online course. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a somatic trauma therapist, Hakomi trainer, and founder of Embodywise whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about expanding your inner soma toolkit with the Somatic Trauma Therapy skills and techniques, 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.
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