M-Bodied Therapy & Coaching

10/06/2026

6 CEs (in-person) on Friday, November 13!

It is the start of the new CE cycle...AND this is when longtime EFT and NVC therapist Mukti Jarvis will be in the US from Australia joining Fred Shelton and Dee Wagner for a somatically-focused CE for supporting romantic partners. 💞

Fred brings together Chi for Two and RESMAA ROCKS. In Resmaa Menakem’s book Monsters In Love, are the words: “You are not each other’s baby.” Chi for Two offers somatic two-person practices that help couples “grow up,” as Resmaa says couples need to use their relationship to help them do. 🌟

Mukti is a long-time couples counselor, a long-time user of Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples and Non-violent Communication. Certified Chi for Two Embodiment Coach and Trainer, Mukti is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. 🌀

Dee brings in nuanced understanding of vagal functioning, which honors the aspects of polyvagal theory that are supported scientifically outside polyvagal theory. During the controversy that is threatening to “debunk” the theory, those who resonate with the theory will appreciate learning these details about vagal and striatal physiology. 🧠

https://www.chifortwo.com/repatterning-the-lover-dance

💞 Repatterning the Lover Dance: Chi for Two Awareness of Vagal Anatomy, Bite/Snap, and Language

6 Core CEs Approved by LPCA of GA
Friday Nov 13
9am-4:30pm (8:30am arrival/check-in)
In-person at Harbor of Dreams Art
Stone Mtn, GA

❓Questions:
Contact: John Cargile at [email protected]

Learn more about Chi for Two, a mindful embodiment method: ChiforTwo.com

09/01/2026

Calm is out, Energy is in. But—Can you mobilize without adrenaline? Yes, you can!

Healing, growing, and moving toward the things that light you up might likely and initially involve some nerves, some adrenaline. But, saturating yourself in adrenaline to get things done is not sustainable.

There’s another way to mobilize, to inhabit your body and life. A relational somatic experience can be a sustainable, nourishing and accessible practice to feed your body and life force a more satisfying and present practice of living, moving and relating.

*Tuesday* Movement Group (in Kirkwood) - new openings!

M-Bodied: Developmental Re-patterning and Relational Somatics

With Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator

1:00-2:00pm Kirkwood/Atlanta
Weekly on *Tuesdays* now
Ongoing, closed group
3-month commitment
Interview required
$200 month
All bodies, 18+ welcome
No experience necessary

Register: [email protected]

Along with developmentally significant yoga shapes and sequences, members get to explore relational somatic movement practices including:

• Navel Radiation: Move from your core with fluidity
• Contralateral Movement: Explore blockages & invite more energy to flow
• Gesture: Discover your energetic skin for presence as well as boundaries with others
• Handling: Expand your movement vocabulary for a more satisfying and eventual self-supported experience

Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator with ISMETA and a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. With decades of experience in movement education, yoga, developmental movement, trauma healing, and eating disorder care, she brings both professional depth and lived understanding to this work. Her practice draws from multiple somatic and trauma-healing approaches, including the mindful embodiment method Chi for Two®, which uses early relational movement experiences as embodied symbolic “redos” to support nervous system regulation and healthier relationships.

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08/26/2026

Chi for Two® originator Dee Wagner and co-developer Caroline Gebhardt wrote a journal article (published June 2025), and it is now available to read in its entirety on the Chi for Two website.

Infant reflexes have long been studied by occupational therapists. Dance/movement therapists shine light on the therapeutic dance, helping us see how client/therapist interactions “re-parent” nervous system functioning. 🧠💛

We invite all helping professionals who appreciate polyvagal theory, who consider themselves trauma-informed, whose work is attachment-based, to read this article and join us for discussions of this important information about the rhythm of the firing and refractory period of the myelinated and unmyelinated vagus and its effect on digestion, breathing and the striatum—the part of the brain that allows movement to be a choice.

The article is:

Chi for Two® developmental relational practices: a lens for examining how somatic therapy might resolve infant reflexes.

Published in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

Read article here:
https://www.chifortwo.com/vagus-nerve-articles/chi-for-two-developmental-relational-practices-a-lens-for-examining-how-somatic-therapy-might-resolve-infant-reflexes

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08/15/2026

*Tuesday* Movement Group (in Kirkwood) - new openings!

M-Bodied: Developmental Re-patterning and Relational Somatics

With Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator

1:00-2:00pm Kirkwood/Atlanta
Weekly on *Tuesdays* now
Ongoing, closed group
3-month commitment
Interview required
$200 month
All bodies, 18+ welcome
No experience necessary

Register: [email protected]

https://www.mbodiedtherapy.com/events/mbodied-somatic-movement-group-atlanta

Along with developmentally significant yoga shapes and sequences, members get to explore relational somatic movement practices including:

• Navel Radiation: Move from your core with fluidity
• Contralateral Movement: Explore blockages & invite more energy to flow
• Gesture: Discover your energetic skin for presence as well as boundaries with others
• Handling: Expand your movement vocabulary for a more satisfying and eventual self-supported experience

Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator with ISMETA. She developed M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine as an offering of movement and shapes based on developmental and relational patterns for deep nourishment from the inside-out. M-Bodied is also grounded in the principles & practices of the somatic trauma healing method Chi for Two®, which groups and sequences early relational embodiment practices as symbolic redos for nervous system functioning and healthy relationships.

*When “Mother” is referenced, we are inviting the “mothering quality of oxytocin,” which plays a major role in signaling safety within our Social Engagement system functioning as related to nervous system science. Therefore, those who identify as female, male, or non-binary may offer and embody that “Mother” quality.

08/09/2026

The more you get to know tension, and become curious about it, instead of hastily swiping it away by fixing something or forcing something, the more it becomes a regular and less threatening fixture, something that can be amusing rather than frightening.

What might you be giving birth to this time?

How might you stay a little longer and try a new move, a new pause, a new response, the way you’d ideally hold a baby or a child when they’re working through a strain that you know they will eventually release?

How might you stretch with breath, befriend the tension without letting it consume you?

That’s where the “aha” happens, the shift that happens beyond words.

Sometimes, it’s nice to have support along the way.

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08/07/2026

✨ Emotion = Energy in motion ✨

Interested in learning to move your energy skillfully, mindfully, relationally, wisely, sustainably?

*Tuesday* Movement Group (in Kirkwood) - new openings!

M-Bodied: Developmental Re-patterning and Relational Somatics

With Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator

1:00-2:00pm Kirkwood/Atlanta
Weekly on *Tuesdays* now
Ongoing, closed group
3-month commitment
Interview required
$200 month
All bodies, 18+ welcome
No experience necessary

Register: [email protected]

https://www.mbodiedtherapy.com/events/mbodied-somatic-movement-group-atlanta

Along with developmentally significant yoga shapes and sequences, members get to explore relational somatic movement practices including:

• Navel Radiation: Move from your core with fluidity
• Contralateral Movement: Explore blockages & invite more energy to flow
• Gesture: Discover your energetic skin for presence as well as boundaries with others
• Handling: Expand your movement vocabulary for a more satisfying and eventual self-supported experience

Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator with ISMETA. She developed M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine as an offering of movement and shapes based on developmental and relational patterns for deep nourishment from the inside-out. M-Bodied is also grounded in the principles & practices of the somatic trauma healing method Chi for Two®, which groups and sequences early relational embodiment practices as symbolic redos for nervous system functioning and healthy relationships.

*When “Mother” is referenced, we are inviting the “mothering quality of oxytocin,” which plays a major role in signaling safety within our Social Engagement system functioning as related to nervous system science. Therefore, those who identify as female, male, or non-binary may offer and embody that “Mother” quality.

08/07/2026

With big developmental stages, you can also expect BIG feelings, behaviors, impulses, confusion, asks, demands, feelings and BIG needs for connection with you, the parent(s).

Parents, are you ready to handle what your kids are trying to tell you?

Developmentally appropriate boundaries and consequences and limits are all really important (*they are nuanced for each unique child and family).

However, before those things happen, your kids are begging for connection.

"See me. Hear me. Notice me."

"Put down your phone and look at me."

"Heads up, be solid for my Push!"

M-Bodied Therapy & Coaching offers neuroaffirming, attachment-based psychoeducation. *But before the cognitive understanding and intellectualizing and instructions have time to become organized, your parent-body needs to know more.

New movement patterns aren't just for babies, they are for all bodies to experience to:

a) redo what you didn't get, and
b) be prepared to embody the pause that creates space for connection, catching and channeling.

This is an embodied process for parents & kids.

When 70% of our relational dynamics are mismatch, the elders in the system get to be more informed beyond the calming techniques and more so than ever about both the developmental rhythms that help with agency and separation, as well as what might also be dysregulation.

All responses need to be relational, from elder to child, and handled with TLC, steadiness & strength.

Body to body. Heart to heart. Life force to life force. 🌟

M-Bodied guides parents & caregivers how to:

• better recognize nervous system, developmental, & trauma responses
• appreciate attachment as an ongoing relational practice
• feel equipped to offer body-based co-regulation practices to children that benefit the whole family

Both M-Bodied Therapy & Coaching are grounded in the principles and practices of Chi for Two®, which groups and sequences early relational embodiment practices as symbolic redos for nervous system functioning & healthy relationships.

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💛 ChiforTwo.com

08/02/2026

Monday Movement Group - new openings!

M-Bodied: Developmental Re-patterning and Relational Somatics

With Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator

1:00-2:00pm Kirkwood/ATL
Ongoing, closed group
3-month commitment
Interview required
$200 month
All bodies, 18+ welcome
No experience necessary

Register: [email protected]

https://www.mbodiedtherapy.com/events/m-bodied-monday-movement-group

Along with developmentally significant yoga shapes and sequences, members get to explore relational somatic movement practices including:

• Navel Radiation: Move from your core with fluidity
• Contralateral Movement: Explore blockages & invite more energy to flow
• Gesture: Discover your energetic skin for presence as well as boundaries with others
• Handling: Expand your movement vocabulary for a more satisfying and eventual self-supported experience

Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, is also a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator with ISMETA. She developed M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine as an offering of movement and shapes based on developmental and relational patterns for deep nourishment from the inside-out. M-Bodied is also grounded in the principles & practices of the somatic trauma healing method Chi for Two®, which groups and sequences early relational embodiment practices as symbolic redos for nervous system functioning and healthy relationships.

*When “Mother” is referenced, we are inviting the “mothering quality of oxytocin,” which plays a major role in signaling safety within our Social Engagement system functioning as related to nervous system science. Therefore, those who identify as female, male, or non-binary may offer and embody that “Mother” quality.

08/02/2026

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One of the main things that tip people toward garden-variety depression is a “low tolerance for sadness.” It is the inability to bear dark emotions that causes many of our most significant problems, in other words, and not the emotions themselves. When we cannot tolerate the dark, we try all kinds of artificial lights, including but not limited to drugs, alcohol, shopping, shallow s*x, and hours in front of the television set or computer.