Calling All Wellness Professionals!
This one is for the wellness professionals in the room.
If you are a therapist, social worker, yoga therapist, yoga teacher, or any other kind of wellness/mental health practitioner, this email is for you.
One of the things I hear most often from wellness professionals is that they feel under-equipped to work with what is coming up for their students and clients in a body-oriented way. A student drops into deep emotions during savasana. A client's nervous system goes offline mid-session.
Whether it's in yoga or the therapy office, our go-to response is to try to talk people into regulation. But that's generally not how it works.
Regulation comes from a felt sense of safety inside the body, not the mind. Nervous system regulation is a body-centered practice that usually requires somatic skills, not more words.
That's exactly the gap the Module 2 facilitator training is designed to fill.
In eight weeks, you'll move through the full personal journey of the Somatic Immersion alongside the facilitation training - because the best somatic work always begins with your own experience.
Here's a snapshot:
Gain competency around trauma-informed best practices
Deepen your understanding and competency in working with all five pillars (nervous system regulation, self-compassion, deep listening, somatic parts work and deep imagery)
Engage in deep and supportive conversations with other professionals, and gain valuable insights from all of the experts in the room
Practice facilitating with real-time peer feedback
And the facilitation practice will be guided by you. If you're a therapist, you won't be practicing asana-based facilitation skills and if you're a yoga professional, you won't be practicing from a chair. You'll design somatic-based offerings that fit with the work you do in the world - offerings you'll be able to bring to your students and clients immediately.
Here's what one past participant had to say:
"I found Rachel's somatic immersion training to be very therapeutic and empowering. Rachel shared simple, effective frameworks that can be applied personally and within professional settings. The structure of the course allowed lots of space for questions, conversation, practice and integration. I highly recommend this course."
~ Heather
Module 2: The Facilitator Training begins September 30th
Space is limited to 10 participants per cohort
If someone comes to mind who might resonate with this work — a colleague, a student, a friend — please forward this along. Or send me their name and I'll happily reach out personally.
As always, hit reply if you have questions. I'd love to hear from you.
Sending so much love,
Rachel
Other ways to work with me...
Yoga Therapy Sessions, Courses and Trainings
Individual yoga therapy sessions.
Work with me one-on-one. In addition to yoga therapy, I offer yoga instruction and personal and professional mentoring. Reply to this email if you'd like to chat about whether this is the right time and fit for you.
Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness Classes
If you like practicing online, join the Your Yoga community! We meet on zoom for yoga and meditation 4 times a week and you'll have access to 100's of recorded classes in the Your Yoga library. Register here to start your free 7-day trial.
And if you prefer self-study, choose from a variety of pre-recorded mindfulness workshops and courses and explore at your own pace.