The Embody Lab – Somatic Anxiety Therapy Program

The Embody Lab – Somatic Anxiety Therapy Program

Program At-A-Glance

Are you looking for a way to help your clients find deep, lasting relief from anxiety through the wisdom of the body? Do you want to learn powerful somatic approaches to guide people from overwhelm to ease, from tension to flow, and from panic to peaceful presence? Then we invite you to our 60-hr Somatic Anxiety Therapy & Coaching Certificate Program.

This program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to discover how body-based approaches can transform anxiety into embodied calm, increased resilience, adaptability, and a sense of agency and control. Through somatic practices and coaching techniques, you’ll learn to help clients release stored tension, regulate their nervous system, and cultivate a natural state of ease that extends far beyond traditional “anxiety” coping strategies.

In this unique online certificate program, you will learn evidence-based somatic techniques that address anxiety at its physiological and psychological roots. Discover how to guide gentle movements, breath work, and body awareness practices that help your clients shift from fight-flight-freeze into states of safety, groundedness, and inner peace. You’ll benefit from interactive learning, practical exercises, and peer support as you develop these transformative skills.

Taught by world-leading faculty, this program will equip you with the confidence to offer your clients a comprehensive approach to anxiety that works directly with the body’s natural capacity for regulation and renewal. Learn to facilitate lasting shifts from hypervigilance to presence, from constriction to openness, from reactivity to responsive calm.

Join us and discover how somatic therapy & coaching can guide the journey from anxiety to embodied ease for yourself and your clients. Register now and get ready to transform your practice and your client’s lives through the power of body-based healing.

About The Program

Learn Evidence-Based Tools To Guide The Journey From Anxiety To Embodied Ease!

This unique 10-week online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to discover how body-based approaches can transform anxiety into embodied calm, increased resilience, adaptability, and a sense of agency and control.

Join us and learn evidence-based somatic techniques that address anxiety at its physiological and psychological roots. You’ll discover somatic practices to help clients release stored tension, regulate their nervous system, and cultivate a natural state of ease that extends far beyond traditional “anxiety” coping strategies.

You’ll discover how to guide gentle movements and offer breath work and body awareness practices to help your clients shift from fight-flight-freeze into states of safety, groundedness, and inner peace.

You’ll benefit from interactive learning, practical exercises, and peer support as you develop these transformative skills.

This program is more than an anxiety management training. Taught by world-leading faculty, this program will equip you with the skills and confidence to offer your clients a comprehensive and unified approach to somatics for anxiety management.

The faculty will guide you through interactive theory and learning, practical application of exercises, interventions and protocols, demonstrations, and peer practice sessions to inspire and empower you through this effective and powerful healing process for yourself and the people you work with. Once the foundational material is learned and embodied, advanced integration classes will teach you how to modify the foundational tools for the diversity of individuals you are working with.

Join us and discover somatic practices to help clients release stored tension, regulate their nervous system, and cultivate a natural state of ease that extends far beyond traditional “anxiety” coping strategies.

SOMATICS HELP HEAL

‘Soma’ is a Greek word for ‘the living body known from within’, or known to the Self. This ‘knowing’ signifies wholeness. Somatic therapy is an experiential approach towards mindbody integration. The pain, overwhelm, and coping responses manifested by trauma take us away from feeling at home in our body, and as a result there is often a split within ourselves.

Somatic Therapy helps:

• Restore the body as a place of safety while helping to expand the capacity to process body (preverbal and nonverbal) memory
• Metabolize unprocessed emotions
• Complete thwarted (incomplete) stress responses
• Restore our optimal relationship to our self and the world around us
• Somatic therapy offers techniques for clients to sense and regulate their own physiology and states of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting and co-regulatory relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper in the body, and being given time and space to process the trauma. These somatic techniques unwind trauma and restore well-being.

What Is Somatic Anxiety Therapy?

Anxiety has classically been defined as excessive worry or fear accompanied by restlessness, dread, uncertainty, muscle tension, a lack of ease, with chronic catastrophization and negativity that impacts daily living. A somatic perspective of anxiety recognizes it as not just a mental condition but also a physical one.

A somatic perspective works past the symptoms of anxiety and addresses its origins.

From a body-based perspective, anxiety is considered an alarm in the body that signifies that there is a disconnect (in the mind-body). This disconnect can come from a fragmentation of emotions, safety, a sense of power, capacity, and control. Until it is properly addressed that alarm gets louder and more aggressive, escalating the symptoms of anxiety. Finding and soothing the alarm stored in the body is critical to healing chronic worry and a major proponent of Somatic Anxiety Therapy.

In addition to practices that address the alarm aspect of anxiety, Somatic Anxiety Therapy also addresses dysregulation in the body that stems from a perceived lack of safety and chronic patterns of survival playing themselves out, real or perceived separation, lack of sensory-motor balance (that can create a high level of unprocessed arousal energy), and unprocessed emotions and unmet needs that manifest as a deep discomfort in the body.

Anxiety is a feedback loop between the painful feelings in the body and the revving and distorted worried thoughts in the mind. They feed off each other, creating what can sometimes feel like an unbreakable cycle. Somatic Anxiety Therapy offers guidance into the healing power and wisdom of the body combined with powerful tools that address the thoughts, behaviors, and patterns that contribute to the chronic cycle of anxiety, ultimately breaking the loop.

In this program we’ll explore many tools including:

• Grounding: Grounding involves sensing the body, feeling your feet on the earth, and calming the nervous system.
• Cultivating Somatic Awareness: Teaching clients how to develop and sustain somatic awareness is a foundational step in the integration of body-centered work.
• Resourcing: When we help clients develop resources we focus on increasing a sense of choice and safety.
• Breathwork: Breathwork empowers individuals to regulate their nervous systems, fostering a sense of safety and connection within their bodies. By combining conscious breathing with somatic awareness, it helps release stored tension and trauma, offering a practical tool for long-term emotional resilience and healing.
• Mindfulness: practices that help generate states of curiosity, awareness, compassion, and acceptance.
• Self Containment: You’ll explore techniques to help clients contain their feelings of anxiety for example, butterfly hugs, leg press, weighted object, self hugging and many more.
• Shaking and tremoring: Guiding clients through sequenced shaking and tremoring practices can be a powerful way to discharge the excesses energy and turn off the alarm of anxiety.
• Titration: Titration refers to a process of experiencing small amounts of distress at a time with a goal to discharge the tension. During Somatic Anxiety Therapy, titration is also a key component of managing high levels of distress and reducing the likelihood of re-traumatization during the healing process.
• Somatic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Supporting client in understanding and repatterning their perceptions patterns, cognitive distortions, and behavioral habits that contribute to their personal cycle of anxiety. Additionally, tools will be given to address underlying beliefs and scripts contributing to the stuckness and lack of control.
• Somatic Inner Child Work: Helping clients meet their unmet needs and emotions, specifically through addressing inner child work can get to the root cause of the anxiety.

What You’ll Learn In Somatic Anxiety Therapy Program

1. Recognize and embody core principles of somatic anxiety therapy

Understand and integrate foundational principles of somatic anxiety therapy to address the mind-body connection and promote holistic healing.

2. Understand the interconnection between anxiety and collective stres

Explore how individual anxiety is influenced by collective stressors, including cultural, ecological, and systemic factors, and integrate this awareness into therapeutic practices.

3. Apply evidence-informed somatic approaches to anxiety management

Learn and practice evidence-based techniques, such as breathwork, movement, and body-based mindfulness, to reduce anxiety and support nervous system regulation.

4. Engage practical mind-body tools for anxiety regulation

Develop skills in mind-body interventions that help clients build inner resources, ground themselves, and manage anxiety effectively.

5. Facilitate co-regulation to support anxiety reduction

Discover and practice co-regulation techniques to create a sense of safety and connection, enabling clients to move toward self-regulation in their anxiety management.

6. Enhance emotional and sensation tolerance for anxiety reduction

Teach clients tools to increase their capacity to tolerate uncomfortable emotions and physical sensations related to anxiety, fostering greater resilience.

7. Facilitate the interruption of anxiety loops and address core origins of anxiety

8. Balance top-down and bottom-up approaches to anxiety therapy

Understand and apply cognitive (top-down) and somatic (bottom-up) interventions to tailor the pace and approach of anxiety therapy to individual needs.

9. Identify and address anxiety-driven somatic holding patterns and beliefs

Explain how anxiety creates physical holding patterns and survival responses in the body, and learn methods to release these patterns for lasting relief.

10. Navigate post-anxiety hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal states

Recognize and address hyper-arousal (overactivation) and hypo-arousal (shutdown) states in anxiety, ensuring a balanced and individualized approach to care.

11. Facilitate resilience building for anxiety management

Equip clients with strategies to build resilience and adaptability in the face of anxiety, promoting long-term well-being and emotional flexibility.

12. Prioritize practitioner self-care in anxiety therapy practice

Learn self- and collective-care practices to maintain boundaries, avoid burnout, and sustain energy while working with clients experiencing chronic anxiety.

13. Learn to mobilize unresolved anxiety energy

14. Understanding of the social origins of anxiety

Curriculum

This 60-hour certificate program includes 27 online sessions. All sessions are recorded and available to watch online and on-demand at your own pace via your online Content Library which you will gain immediate access to upon registration.

MODULE 1: Foundations and Embodied Neurobiology of Anxiety

• Introduction and Neurobiology of Anxiety
• Origins and Systems of Anxiety
• Polyvagal Theory and Anxiety
• Practitioners Skills and Navigating Practitioner Anxiety

MODULE 2: Setting The Ground for Processing

• Embodying Resources and Cultivating Safety

MODULE 3: Somatic Interventions for Anxiety

• Mobilizing and Discharging Anxiety – Part 1
• Mobilizing and Discharging Anxiety – Part 2
• Movement and Breath
• Regulation and Resetting
• Containment And Capacity Building
• Somatic Practices and Demonstration
• Mindfulness for Anxiety – Part 1
• Mindfulness for Anxiety – Part 2
• Somatic Dialogue Processing – Part 1
• Somatic Dialogue Processing – Part 2

MODULE 4: Somatic Cognitive Behavioral Practices for Anxiety

• Introducing SCBT & Transforming Intrusive Thoughts
• Repatterning Cognitive Distortions
• Reshaping Limiting Beliefs
• Ecosystemic Interventions
• Integrating Somatic, Cognitive & Behavioral Approaches

MODULE 5: Advanced Tools for Anxiety

• Advanced Somatic Tools
• Expressive Arts Interventions for Anxiety
• Holistic Interventions for Anxiety: Rebalancing Ecological & Biological Rhythms
• Inner Child Work – Part 1
• Inner Child Work – Part 2

MODULE 6: Integration

• Somatic Anxiety Therapy Integration – Part 1
• Somatic Anxiety Therapy Integration – Part 2

Who Is This Program For?

This program is a certification process that distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as:

• Social Workers
• Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors
• Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers
• Movement Therapists
• Coaches
• Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants
• Nurses & Nurse Practitioners
• Psychologists
• Emergency Medical Personnel
• Meditation Teachers
• Educators
• Massage Therapists & Body Workers
• Acupuncturists
• Hypnotherapists
• Kinesiologists
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals
• Clergy & Religious Leaders
• Other Wellness Professionals

Meet Your Instructors

World Renowned Leaders in Somatic Anxiety Coaching And Therapy.

• Peter A. Levine, Phd
• Kai Cheng Thom
• Deb Dana
• Morgan Starr-Riestis
• Sharon Salzberg
• Anna Ferguson
• Karine Bell
• Dr. Scott Lyons
• Nkem Ndefo, Msn
• Dr. Arielle Schwartz

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