Body-based trauma therapies and movement modalities are a powerful new approach to mental health with the potential to revolutionize the world and your offerings. This training gives students a rich and comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing trauma from a more integrated, mind-body approach. 

This training is more than an education, it is a transformational learning experience and an opportunity to expand from a teacher, leader, clinician, or caregiver, to an embodied facilitator, holder of braver spaces, and vessel of social justice and change. 

This 1 year long 300-hour continued professional development and Yoga Alliance certified training gives you the missing educational pieces as well as the space to explore somatic practices that will be useful for you both personally and professionally. 

Join Amanda, Kirsten, and our special guest faculty in this trauma-informed approach to facilitation, where you will learn the skills to share trauma-informed practices that include yoga, embodiment, and somatic therapies with all people and all bodies. Embark on this self-journey of wellbeing while simultaneously contributing to collective health and wellbeing for the globe and humans everywhere. Through a holistic and whole-being approach, this training will bring forth interconnected practices in trauma theory, social justice and systemic change, traditional and contemporary somatic and embodied therapies, spirit and energetic body explorations, inclusive physical yoga asana variations, functional anatomy and physiology, and immediate body-based tools and methods to encourage empowerment, nurture resilience, and restore connection between ourselves, our communities, and the globe.

This training is for:

• Mental health Counselors and Therapists

• Social Workers

• Substance Abuse Practitioners

• Nonprofit or Community Organization Staff

• Educators

• Yoga Teachers, Coaches and Wellness Professionals

• Human resources

• First Responders and Healthcare Professionals

Module 1: Trauma, Accessibility and Diversity - Expanding your Trauma Informed Toolkit

Module 2: Embodied Practices - Supportive Somatic Methods

Module 3:Social Justice and Somatic Change - The Body as a Catalyst for Equity

Equity in Investment  

Choosing your tier. We are committed to offering trainings, mentorships and opportunities that are of the highest quality, affordable and accessible while striving to keep equity and mutual exchange at the soul of how we serve.  We recognize that we live in systems of inequity and we strive to find ways of finding balance within this. We feel that the deepest engagement and greatest benefit comes when there is a meaningful mutual exchange. For these reasons, we offer tiered pricing. There is an invitation to reflect on your access to resources and privilege, the value of this work, what you can genuinely afford, and what you might pay for comparable training programs. By committing to what is truly within your means you make it possible for others to show up within theirs and we are all grateful for this.

Personalized payment plans are available. Payment plans are a binding contract between you and SomaPsych. If payments are not kept up-to-date, you may lose access to your course until payments are back on track. Email Esther at info@somapsych.org for registration with details of your payment tier, and installment choice for your plan.

TIER 1 – R68,250 For those who are financially well-resourced and who are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. Reflects the value of the course in Western economic markets.

TIER 2 – R58,025 For those on medium incomes and access to financial resources who also are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. 

TIER 3 – R47,800 For those on low incomes, caring responsibilities and from marginalized communities.

For Tier Pricing please visit the SomaPsych website. Prices are subject to change depending on currency exchange rates.

About Your hosts:

Kirsten Wilkinson

MA, TCTSY-F, E-RYT 500, RCYT, Qi Gong and iRest Certified, Thai Yoga Massage Certified, Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Mind/Body Practitioner, Breathe to Heal Facilitator Somatic Experiencing Advanced Cohort

Kirsten Wilkinson is the Founder and Executive Director of Legacy Motion. She has over 20 years of experience working with moving bodies, trauma, and building trauma-informed curriculum.

Kirsten has completed various trainings in yoga for specific communities including certifications through YogaEd, The Prison Yoga Project, Off the Mat - into the World, Yoga for Humankind, and Veterans Yoga Project. She has thousands of hours teaching Hot Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Yoga Nida, and yoga for children and teens. She is a Mind/Body Practitioner, which is a 300hr professional certification that blends psychology and somatic therapy modalities. She is also a certified Qi Gong and iRest Facilitator as well as Thai Yoga Massage Certified. She is participating in the 3-year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner professional certification program as well as working towards her Licensure in Clinical Psychology and Dance and Movement Therapy. In 2021 she began her PhD in Somatic Therapy and Psychology and in 2022 began her training in NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model).

Amanda Hanna

Amanda holds over 500 hours in trauma-informed trainings, including social justice and inclusivity. As a Certified Nutritionist, her focus is nervous system support and hormonal balancing through a whole-being approach. Amanda is a registered Psychology (Hons) student and holds regular workshops and trainings with an emphasis on trauma-informed facilitation, resilience, nervous system regulation, neuroscience and embodied practices. 

Amanda holds over 1000 hours in Yoga, Anatomy & Physiology Trainings as well as extensive training and experience in holistic nutrition, meditation, mindfulness neuroscience, and energetics allowing her to develop a style unique to her.

Amanda’s passion lies in knowing the sacred responsibility facilitators of any space or experience hold. Through her work, she helps people discover their power and voice within their offering while ensuring it is done with respect, kindness, informed intention, and evidence-based knowledge.