29/08/2025
The body carries stories that words alone can’t tell. Our nervous system holds the imprints of our experiences — moments of safety, connection, and joy, but also traces of overwhelm and disconnection. This nine-week training is an invitation to come closer to that intelligence, to learn the language of the body through movement, mindfulness, and gentle somatic exploration. Together, we’ll explore the Autonomic Nervous System and Polyvagal Theory not as abstract concepts, but as living processes we can feel and shape in real time.
Rather than pushing or forcing, we move in the Hakomi spirit of curiosity, loving presence, and nonviolence. Each week offers embodied practices that help us touch uncomfortable places with care — using titration (small steps) and pendulation (moving between activation and calm) so that the body knows it is never alone. We will experience how ventral vagal states feel like home, how sympathetic energy can become strength and boundary, how dorsal states can hold rest as well as collapse. Movement, co-regulation, and somatic experiments will guide us, offering both resources and renewal.
This training is for therapists, facilitators, and students of body-based work who want to deepen their understanding of trauma and nervous system healing in a way that is experiential, integrative, and profoundly human. It is also for anyone longing to feel more at home in their body. As we journey together, we will discover how awareness, movement, and connection open pathways to resilience — so that wellbeing is not just an idea, but a lived, embodied experience.
**Starts October 2nd 2025**
Wisdom of the Body training
a Hakomi Approach to Healing Trauma ONLINE
with Vicky Gaughan and Gabriela Valdés Villarreal
Expand your healing practice and join us for a deep experiential learning and transformation through somatic practices, learning the skills for trauma healing.
Duration
9 sessions of 3 hours
Dates 2025
October 2nd, 9th,16th
October 30th,
November 6th,13th 20th 27th
December 4th
Schedule
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm UK
* 12:30 am – 3:30 pm CST
Time change adjustments for October 30th onwards * 1:30 – 4:30 pm CST