A full-day guided practicum for Somara alumni. Practice facilitating a S.O.M.A.™ session in real time, in triads, with direct mentorship from three facilitators in the room.
"The human organism is a self-healing, self-regulating, and self-organizing system. The practitioner's job is not to fix what is broken but to help restore the conditions under which that system can do what it already knows how to do."
— Will Rezin
Everything we practice rests on a single premise. The human organism is a self-healing, self-regulating, and self-organizing system, but that intelligence can only function when the brain is in clear communication with the rest of the body. When that sensory connection is disrupted, the system loses access to its own resources and gets stuck in patterns that once served survival but no longer serve living. Helping people recover that communication is the work. Not by thinking about the body, but through the direct, felt, sensory experience of being one.
S.O.M.A.™ gives us a way to see and work with this process. A S.O.M.A.™ session is a guided, relational practice where the practitioner tracks four dimensions of embodied life as they unfold in real time. It is a way of being with another person’s living process, of perceiving what is present and supporting what wants to move or settle. This is the system we are teaching, and this day is where you learn to do it.
Four dimensions of embodied life, always present, always interwoven, always available to the practitioner who has learned to perceive them.
What the body is forming right now. The posture, the tone, the structure of someone’s presence in the room.
How the pattern is sustained. The systemic coherence that keeps a person regulating and adapting moment to moment.
What wants to change. The impulse toward reorganization, the pulsation between expansion and contraction.
The felt tone. The emotion that accompanies every formation, the signal connecting inner experience to the relational world.
You already know these dimensions. This day is where you practice perceiving them in real time, in another person’s body, with someone beside you who can help you trust what you’re sensing.
"Confidence, the real kind, the kind that lives in your body and not just in your thinking, is a byproduct of practice hours. It cannot be studied into existence. It has to be practiced into being."
Our online trainings give you a foundation, and I believe in that foundation deeply, but there are things that can only happen when we’re together in person. The quality of feedback changes, the learning gets into the body differently, and there is something about the shared field that builds when people are doing real somatic work in proximity that shifts how you carry it forward into your own practice.
The founders of this tradition understood this. The original transmission of somatic knowledge happened in rooms with a small number of people and a skilled practitioner moving among them, watching their attention, offering guidance at the moment the thing was actually happening. The body learned as much from being witnessed in its own self unfolding as it did from any instruction.
This intensive is the beginning of something larger for our community. A culture of practitioners who support each other’s development, who practice together, who grow together over time. I’ve wanted to build this for a long time, and I’m glad it’s here.
Settling into the space. Movement, guided sensory work, and a live S.O.M.A.™ demonstration. Then your first practice round in triads, facilitating, receiving, and observing, with all three of us moving between groups.
The territory where most practitioners lose their footing. What to do when emotion surfaces mid-session, when the body wants to complete something and you’re the one holding the container. A second demonstration, a second practice round, and more risk, with the support to take it.
Shared food, connection, and the settling that happens through co-regulation with people who have been doing real work together all day. The dinner is part of the architecture of the day. It completes what the practice opens.
All three present the entire day, moving through the room during practice, sitting with your triads.
Founder of Somara, creator of Formative Somatics. Professional somatic practice since 2012, training practitioners since 2018. Developing the S.O.M.A.™ Practitioner Certification.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner completing advanced polyvagal certification with the Polyvagal Institute. Grounded in the somatics of attachment and community.
Leadership coach, conflict mediator, and somatic bodyworker who helps couples and leaders transform through embodied practice. Facilitates retreats and workshops on embodied leadership, conflict transformation, and the principles of threshold and initiation.
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This day is for graduates of Trauma and Somatics and Attachment and Somatics. If that’s you, you’re who I built this for.
Early bird pricing through March 14