Soleil Hepner Hand on Heart Somatic Therapy Training

“Trigger,” “Dissociate,” “Disconnect.” These are just a few of the words that describe that moment your client clenches, scrunches, curls, holds, weeps, or shakes uncontrollably. All dialog stops as their gaze drifts away. In the silence, the visceral experience is happening – now. In this moment, the physical body, in all its presentation of trauma, becomes the most powerful tool available.

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The Somatic Session

Get out of the Chair and into the Body
For Therapists, Coaches, Teachers and Wellness Experts

Upcoming Trainings & Consultation Groups

Get out of the Chair & into the Body
With Soleil Hepner, C-IAYT
Somatic Therapy Educator since 2005

Hello Therapists & Teachers!

Join us for a transformative journey into harnessing the power of the body in your therapy or coaching or wellness practice. In The Somatic Session Series, I've distilled two decades of experience into a dynamic exploration of 'bottom-up' direct experiences, and offer simple, ethical, and effective tools to address trauma, pain, grief, stress, recovery, and holistic mental well-being.

Each module focuses on a TOPIC providing:

PERSONAL EMBODIED EXPERIENCE
DIDACTIC LECTURE on THEORY
LIVE DEMO and REAL PRACTICE
ON-GOING MENTOR / COACH SUPPORT

Therapists: The Top 6 Competencies You Learn.

Since 2005, I've taught therapists, coaches, and wellness experts of all kinds how to bring the body into their own client sessions. This is both a PRACTICUM as well as a THEORY course. We will experience and practice the tools to explore what is most effective for both in-person and online sessions, whether you are new to this, or already somatically inclined.

In Breath & Body,
Soleil

Details

Upcoming Programs

2024 - 4-Week Training
Oct 16 - Nov 6

4 Focused Weeks w/

4 Key Somatic Topics
4 Wednesdays - 2.5 hours

Hosted by Yoga United, an accredited school of Yoga Therapy

10 CEs for C-IAYT

2025 - 6 Month Training
Feb - July

6 Focused Months w/

6 Key Somatic Topics

6 - 2nd Tuesdays - Training

+ 6 - 4th Tuesdays - Consultation

12 CAMFT CEs

Presented by Soleil
20 years Somatic Educator

2024 - Consulting Group
Sept - Dec

4 Months w/

4 Topics - group choice

4 Tuesdays Sept-Dec

Limited to 8 Pros

Offered to anyone who has taken any training with Soleil

(You know me - it'll be fun & deep!)

Contact Soleil

Contact Soleil to build a specialized training for your group

TESTIMONIAL FROM A THERAPIST & YOGA TEACHER

I'm amazed at how perfectly this course aligns with my journey. Your guidance is helping me naturally merge my roles as a mental health professional and yoga teacher. The approach is resonating deeply and feels so accessible. I can already feel a sense of relief and excitement, knowing I finally have the support I've been searching for, for many years

-- Lisa Zaehringer MEd, LPCA, NCC, RYT500

The Top 6 for Therapist/Coach

Here are the top 6 competencies Therapists and Coaches - those who mainly use TOP-DOWN processing - get to explore to expand your scope of practice into Somatic Therapy:

Understand Somatic Principles
Train in mindful body awareness, and the fundamentals of somatic therapy.
Neuroscience of the Body
Apply somatic Psycho-Ed such as interoception and the vagus nerve
Body-Based Techniques
Train to safely cue body scans, breathing exercises, movement practices, while staying in your scope of practice.
Trauma-Informed Somatic Practices
Apply somatic techniques in a trauma-effective manner, to ensure safety.
Holistic Health Understanding
Integrate the physical, emotional, and mental and spiritual health.
Client-Centered Somatic Alliance
Build trust, self-agency, thru ongoing consent for touch and movement.

The Top 6
Somatic Competencies you will learn
to ethically expand your Scope of Practice

The Top 6 for Massage/Yogis

Here are the top 6 competencies yoga teachers and massage therapists - those who mainly use BOTTOM-UP skills - get to explore to expand your scope of practice into Somatic Therapy:

Understand Psychological Theories
Learn key psychological theories for appropriate therapeutic interventions.
Clinical Skills and Techniques
Train in evidence-based clinical skills including Embodied Dialog.
Diagnostic Skills
Recognize mental health conditions using standardized criteria and stay in scope.
Ethical and Legal Knowledge
Understand ethical guidelines and legal standards for a safe and ethical practice.
Apply Psycho-Ed & Research
Develop research literacy to integrate scientific evidence into your practice.
Cultural & Client-Centered Process
Train in cultural competence to provide sensitive, appropriate, and individualized care to clients from diverse backgrounds.

TOPICS

The Somatic TOPICS

Module 1: Awaken the Body

Setting dynamic
Somatic S.P.A.C.E.

This module lays the groundwork by introducing dynamic somatic
S. P. A. C. E.
Set. Prep. Allow. Connect. Examine.
Therapists begin by exploring the relationship with their own physical body to build an empowered and secure environment for using the body as the tool throughout a client session - from initial contact to the final note.

Get the Fundamentals

$100

Module 2: Explore the Body

Playing in
Direct Experience

This is a KEY module that uncovers how to work with clients to bridge the gap between their past and their future, and to integrate experiences from both into embodied presence.
Therapists will learn how to better "get" client’s narrative stories as it presents interoceptively in the body in order to shift REACTION to RESPONSE.

Get Present in Language

$100 Online

Module 3: Use the Body

Navigating
Proximity & Touch

This module focus is all about using the PHYSICAL body as the tool including how to cue the many forms of consensual touch, movement and propriceptive proximity in session. Therapists will explore the various ethical considerations when it comes to using the somatic space found between the client and therapist bodies as a tool to facilitate growth and healing.

Get Edgy in the Body

$100 online

Module 4: Know the Body

Applying Body Mind
Psycho-Education

This module provides an overview of western neuroscience and eastern philosophies that can be used to guide a holistic Mind-Body approach to therapeutic practice. Therapists will gain an understanding of how to effectively APPLY these theories when pain, trauma, loss, anxiety, ... arise in present-centered Direct Experience found in the body.

Get Educated

$100 online

Module 5: Discern the Body

Dialoging with
Somatic Parts

This module explores how to merge (Rogerian) Dialog techniques with somatic "parts" in the moment when pain, trauma, stress or grief arise as a part presenting in the body. Therapists learn to nourish an environment of acceptance and validation of the body’s organic responses and befriend the natural parts of the self that are revealed in Direct Experience.

Get Inspired

Go deeper

Module 6: Practice the Body

Transforming through
Embodied Action

As we complete the series, this module focuses on how to move from the insights found in embodied direct experience to actions that lead to lasting change through self-empowered at-home practices. Therapists will gain the skills needed to help their clients use their experience to move forward with informed choice and transform their lives.

Get Going

Still. $100

cost