Soleil Hepner Hand on Heart Somatic Therapy Training

The Somatic Session
for the Clients Body

2026 MENTOR GROUP ONLINE - JOIN NOW

Trainings & Groups to get out of the Chair and into the Body
For Therapists, Coaches, Teachers, Wellness Experts

TESTIMONIAL FROM A THERAPIST & YOGA TEACHER

I'm amazed at how perfectly this course aligns with my journey. Soleil's 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

TESTIMONIAL FROM A TRAINING DIRECTOR

Soleil’s teaching style is incredibly engaging and packed with practical insights! My students are thrilled with the clear, actionable tools they receive in each session. Soleil has a gift for demystifying complex somatic concepts, making them feel accessible and immediately usable. Plus, her vast resources provide a treasure trove for continued learning. My students now feel equipped and inspired to bring these new techniques into their client sessions. Truly a transformative experience!

Judy Sampath, C-IAYT, Director YogaUnitied, London

Bring the Body into your Work
with Soleil Hepner, C-IAYT
Somatic Therapy Educator since 2005

Hello Therapists & Teachers!

Are you seeing clients who get triggered - dissociate - or disconnect? These are a few of the words that describe that moment your client clenches, scrunches, curls, holds, weeps, or shakes uncontrollably. All dialog stops. In the silence, the visceral experience of [trauma, grief, pain, fear...] is happening NOW. The physical body, becomes the most powerful tool available.

Do you know how to use it?

Embark on a transformative journey to empower your therapy, coaching, teaching, or wellness practice through the intelligence of the body. In The Somatic Session Series for the Clients Body, I bring over two decades of expertise, distilled into a dynamic, 'bottom-up' approach to Direct Experience. Learn simple, ethical, and effective tools, to work with somatic S.P.A.C.E. using embodied dialog, physicality, living parts, and real action.

FLEXIBLITY = GROUP MEETINGS + RECORDING

All training topics are delivered via 90-minute recordings to watch at your own pace. THEN we meet live online - in mentored consultation groups to apply the somatic teachings. specifically, to your work.

2026 Monthly Meetings are on-going. Join any time.

Every Meeting focuses on a topic thru:

PERSONAL EMBODIED EXPERIENCE
DIDACTIC LECTURE on THEORY
REAL CASE-STUDIES
LIVE DEMOS and lots of PRACTICE

Since 2005, I've taught and supervised therapists of all kinds on how to bring the body into their own work. The Somatic Session Series for the Clients Body is both a PRACTICUM as well as a THEORY course, designed to equip you with tools that are effective for both in-person and online sessions, whether you’re new to somatics or looking to deepen your expertise.

Unlock the potential of dynamic Somatic S.P.A.C.E.
This isn't about following a rigid method. It's about empowering you to confidently adapt and elevate your existing techniques into a body-centered, bottom-up approach. Perfect for those moments when the mind needs to take a back seat.

Here are the Top 6 Competencies you learn.

Step into the work you have always imagined doing - more effective and more aligned with your values.

In Breath & Body,
Soleil

Details

2026 Groups & Trainings

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Somatic Mentor Group
Mar - Aug, 2026

6 Topics. 6 Months.

6 Mentor Groups (on weekends)

6 Training Recordings (self-paced)

Take any one topic. Add more.

Your first session - only $70

Starts March $70

Cost & Registration

In-Person Workshop
May 16, 2026

Somatic Conversations

Consent, Contact, Communication

IN THE ROOM in SAN DIEGO

Experiential for the Therapist Body

CAMFT & C-IAYT CEs

Sat. May 16, 2026 | 9a - 12p

In-Person, In San Diego

In SAN DIEGO

Cost & Registration

Self-Paced Learning
via Recordings

Training at your own pace.

All 6 Somatic Topics

via Training Recordings
+ 2026 Mentor Group Recordings

CEs for C-IAYT only

For anyone who can't be at the meetings in person

$75 per Recording

Cost & Registration

Contact Soleil to build a specialized training for your group

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
Build mindful SENSORIAL awareness - the fundamentals of somatic therapy.
Neuroscience of the Body
Apply somatic Psycho-Ed such as interoception and the vagus nerve
Body-Based Techniques
Learn to safely cue body scans, breathing, moving, sensorial 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
Expand into neuroscience theories for appropriate therapeutic interventions.
Dialog Skills and Techniques
Train in evidence-based skills of Embodied Rogerian Dialog.
Diagnostic Skills
Recognize mental health conditions using standardized criteria to stay in scope.
Ethical and Legal Knowledge
Understand 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

2026 Training TOPICS

Module 1: Awaken the Body

Set 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.

MARCH - $70

Get the Fundamentals

Module 2: Explore the Body

Dialog in
Direct Experience

This is a KEY module that uncovers how to verbally guide clients to bridge the gap between their past and their future, into the embodied presence of Direct Experience.
Therapists will learn how to better "get" client’s narrative stories as it presents interoceptively in the body allowing for their shift from REACTION to RESPONSE.

APRIL $80

Get Present

Module 3: Use the Body

Navigate
Contact & Consent

This module focus is all about using the PHYSICAL body as the tool including how to cue the many forms of consensual contact, 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.

MAY $80

Get Physical

Module 4: Know the Body

Apply 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.

June $80

Get Knowledge

Module 5: Discern the Body

Dialog 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.

JULY $80

Get Inspired

Module 6: Practice the Body

Transform 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-defined
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.

AUGUST $80

Get Going

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COST & REGISTRATION

2026: Somatic Monthly Training

6 Mentor Consultation Groups

+ 6 Recorded Trainings

$80 each module = $480 for all 6

Try one - or more. March - Aug, 2026

Mar 29 (Sun) | Apr 25 (Sat) | May 23 (Sat)

Jun 20 (Sat) | JUL 18 (Sat) | Aug 22 (Sat)

9 - 11am PST = 12 - 2pm EST

Continuing Ed Credits for an additional cost

> CAMFT CEs thru the Pain Trauma Institute

> C-IAYT CEs thru IAYT

Prepay Series: $420 by Mar 1 (save $60)

Try one! $70 for March

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TESTIMONIAL FROM A THERAPIST

Soleil is an incredible educator and practitioner. I gained an incredible amount of wisdom from her through this course which has truly shifted the way that I show up in the therapy room as a clinical counselor. My confidence and skill in connecting with mind, body, emotions and spirit in sessions with clients have grown exponentially. As a result I have seen a huge shift and growth in my clients as a result of adding in somatic approaches and framework to my work.

Ellie Messinger-Adams, LPCC - ematherapy.com

The Somatic Session for the Clients Body

Bring the Body into your Work with Soleil Hepner, C-IAYT Somatic Therapy Educator since 2005

2026 Groups & Trainings

Somatic Mentor Group Mar - Aug, 2026

In-Person Workshop May 16, 2026

Self-Paced Learning via Recordings

The Top 6 for Therapist/Coach

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

The Top 6 for Massage/Yogis

2026 Training TOPICS

Module 1: Awaken the Body Set Dynamic Somatic S.P.A.C.E.

Module 2: Explore the Body Dialog in Direct Experience

Module 3: Use the Body Navigate Contact & Consent

Module 4: Know the Body Apply Body Mind Psycho-Education

Module 5: Discern the Body Dialog with Somatic Parts

Module 6: Practice the Body Transform through Embodied Action

COST & REGISTRATION

Register here with Soleil:

The Somatic Session
for the Clients Body

Bring the Body into your Work
with Soleil Hepner, C-IAYT
Somatic Therapy Educator since 2005

Somatic Mentor Group
Mar - Aug, 2026

In-Person Workshop
May 16, 2026

Self-Paced Learning
via Recordings

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

Module 1: Awaken the Body

Set Dynamic
Somatic S.P.A.C.E.

Module 2: Explore the Body

Dialog in
Direct Experience

Module 3: Use the Body

Navigate
Contact & Consent

Module 4: Know the Body

Apply Body Mind
Psycho-Education

Module 5: Discern the Body

Dialog with
Somatic Parts

Module 6: Practice the Body

Transform through
Embodied Action