Somatic Experiencing Master Class: Eye of the Needle I & II

w/ Ergos Institute Somatic Experiencing Faculty Joshua Sylvae, PhD
joined by guest faculty Ian Macnaughton, PhD with additional support from faculty Mahshid Hagar

When clients are “stuck,” it’s not always resistance.

Sometimes they are:
→ anchored in shock
→ suspended in altered states
→ carrying unresolved near-death activation

Eye of the Needle Somatic Experiencing Master Class offers tools for precisely this work.

LEARN TO WORK SOMATICALLY WITH NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES

Two-Part Series
In-person ONLY

Humphreys Half Moon Inn
San Diego, California

Part I 2026 Monday, August 17th - Friday, August 21st
Part II 2026 Wednesday, November 4th - Sunday, November 8th
Series sold as a package

Small Class Size approx. 30 students
+ SEI and Ergos Assistants, Coordinators, and Organizers receive a special promotion for attending
+ 50% Off Audit Option for past EOTN students
+ Financial need partial scholarships are available

CEs: 55 credits
Included:
+ 2 SEI Case Consultation Credits for Faculty Supervision (value $225)
+ 2 BONUS Demonstration Videos w/ Dr Levine (value $115)
Prerequisite: SEI Advanced I +

All trauma involves an encounter with threat and, hence, a touch with death. However, some individuals actually experience states of death from which they are revived. In fact, some of the deepest and seemingly most intractable trauma symptoms occur with clients who become “stuck” in these profoundly altered states of consciousness that emerged out of a near-death experience (NDE).

Every year, in the USA alone, over 50 million people undergo surgery and other invasive medical procedures, often with powerful dissociative and amnesic agents. Many individuals experience partial (or full) awakening during these procedures. These terrifying ordeals can create ruptures deep in consciousness; these often go far beyond our conscious/verbal capacity, making these traumas difficult to access and heal.

According to the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, 774 varied NDEs occur every day. Often debilitating, these same near-death experiences hold the extraordinary potential for deep, positive, and enduring personal and spiritual transformation if they receive proper guidance and support.

Dr Levine’s EOTN two-part series for advanced level SE students and SE graduates addresses how to apply SE principles to a variety of near-death experiences, including but not limited to: drowning, vehicular accidents, physical attacks, illness, and surgery. SE techniques applicable to a wide variety of traumatic experiences are not always sufficient to treat trauma related to NDEs, and Eye of the Needle work is vital to complex cases demanding the most dedicated and skilled practitioners of SE.

Ergos Somatic Experiencing Faculty

After many years of in-depth mentoring by Dr Levine, Ergos Somatic Experiencing Faculty member Dr Joshua Sylvae will join us as your teacher. We are very glad to have him with us continuing the Legacy of this important work.

Letter from the Dr Sylvae

The first time I was with Peter Levine, PhD, for the Eye of the Needle Masterclass was in 2014. As someone who experienced a near-drowning in my youth, I found it remarkable to see the way EOTN work helped me renegotiate nearly dying as a child. I found the work benefited many clients upon my return to my practice, and have enthusiastically assisted Peter and co-taught the program with him multiple times since.

In this class, we clearly see how traumas involving general anesthesia, a near-death experience, or other existential aspects have particular elements and a unique signature, making them less amenable to treatment using our normal SE tools. In this class we learn to support the transition between expanded states of consciousness and embodied awareness, facilitating the return of presence in the here and now (or, to say it another way, inviting the soul to return to the body). This requires clients to move through the eye of the needle, as it were, a challenging passage that requires practitioners to be steady and grounded in their tracking of altered states.

Master Class Series Includes

• Didactic Lecture with Q&A

• In-depth demonstration sessions with extensive debrief

• Supervised breakout group practice, including touch based table-work in part II

• Eye of the Needle Certificate available to those who attend the entire two-part series, opening to closing each day

• 2 SEI Case Consultation Credit for Faculty Supervision

• 55 Continuing Education Credits are available for Health Professionals, more information below

• Master Level Assistants will be supporting practice and offering private sessions (private sessions not included in cost)

• 2 Dr Levine EOTN II Bonus Client Demonstration Videos (watch below)

  • This class does not include live teachings from Dr Levine

Schedule

• 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

• 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch Break

• 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Part I 2026 Monday, August 17th - Friday, August 21st
Part II 2026 Wednesday, November 4th - Sunday, November 8th
Tuition includes both modules

Location

Humphreys Half Moon Bay
San Diego, CA
In-person ONLY

Hotel:

The workshop will be held at a recently renovated, reasonably priced Inn located directly on the marina. A variety of restaurants are within easy walking distance, and the venue is conveniently situated just minutes from the San Diego Airport by car.

We highly encourage staying onsite for the best integration of the work. We hope the serene coastal environment will lend well to your experience.

Group-rate Lodging at the Venue

• Per night for lodging, includes resort fee: $209 August/$186 November (a great deal for the location)

• Booking instructions with a special link for lodging will be in your welcome email upon registration

  • Special rate expires approx one month prior to programming - book rooms soon

• If you choose to book by phone, please mention it is for the program with Ergos Institute

• Recommended booking dates for part I: August 16th - 22nd

Registration for Part I & II

+ SEI and Ergos Assistants, Coordinators, and Organizers receive a special promotion for attending
+ 50% Off Audit Option for those who have taken EOTN in the past
+ Financial need partial scholarships and payment plans are available

• Tuition for Part I and II $3,300

• Payment Plans Available

• Series sold as a package for both modules

• Mandatory Prerequisite SEI Advanced I +

Information on Payment Plans and Reduced Rate Options are available at checkout.

If you have questions, please contact programs@somaticexperiencing.com.

Learning Objectives for Part I & II - 55 CE credits

1. Apply the skills to support intrinsic rhythms and facilitate pendulation

2. Identify the implicit and physiological relationship between the client and the therapist

3. Identify the beginning of procedural memory and bring attention as the movements and implicit memories start to emerge.

4. Demonstrate the ability to explore the narrative with the client while tracking physiology and energy wells working with titrated activation/settling cycles.

5. Explain how widespread of a problem that anesthesia and NDE’s are

6. List the symptomologies of shattered consciousness.

7. Use the skills needed to weave dislocated conscious states together, and then moving through the shockcore.

8. Demonstrate how to take a client intake from an individual with possible Anesthesia trauma and unprocessed NDE states.

9. Identify your own unresolved surgical trauma and how to work with those experiences.

10. Explain how to work with post I.C.U. debilitation 

11. Demonstrate how to access dissociated and dislocated altered states of consciousness and liberate problematic fixations.

12. Explain, develop, and refine perceptual skills and practical tools

13. Demonstrate the ability to resolve difficult somatic symptoms

14. Utilize table touch work to address delicate states of consciousness.

15. Identify the indicators of shifts in the autonomic nervous system. 

16. Demonstrate the ability to precisely track autonomic nervous system shifts amongst their clients.

17. Identify fixations or triggers related to altered states of consciousness

18. Prepare clients for reexperiencing altered states of consciousness

19. Prepare clients for accessing states of shock

20. Describe Somatic Experiencing techniques for working with dissociation

21. List the symptoms of trauma related to surgery

22. Predict strategies for preventing future trauma occurring after surgery

23. Design Somatic Experiencing sessions for accessing dissociated procedural memories

24. Design Somatic Experiencing sessions for accessing near-death experiences

25. Describe approaches for working with altered states of consciousness under anesthesia

26. Identify partial awakening under anesthesia and surgical trauma symptoms amongst their clients

27. Assess the impacts of any partial awakening under anesthesia

28. Analyze the effects of post-intensive care syndrome

29. Describe how syndromes and other physical symptoms can be related to near-death experiences

30. Discuss the mythopoetic plane, and how the psyche symbolizes unprocessed events

31. Demonstrate the ability to interact with the mythopoetic plane.

32. Assess unconscious influences on conscious experience after near-death experiences

33. Utilize spiritual experiences in renegotiating near-death experiences 

34. Explain how patterns in the body are involved in the maintenance of trauma symptoms

35. Describe and alternate your approach to working with different types of anesthesia.

36. Select and recommend a proper Somatic Experiencing pain management and anesthesia protocol for reducing the chances of trauma related to surgery

37. Demonstrate the ability to stitch together fragments of consciousness

55 Continuing Education Credits (CEs)

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals

• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.

• LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.

• For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Ergos Institute at programs@somaticexperiencing.com. 

For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly. 

For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

Conscious Life Presents

Nervous System Regulation Summit!

FREE for a Limited Time August 1-3, 2026

featuring Peter A Levine, PhD and more

If you missed any part of the Nervous System Regulation Summit, the team at Conscious Life is offering a free replay of the entire event, available this weekend only, August 1–3.

Over 100,000 people from around the world joined us for the live event, and the response has been really moving. So many attendees shared that something genuinely shifted for them, in how they understand their nervous system, and in how they're approaching their own healing.

Claim your free replay access here

Across seven days, 60+ respected experts in trauma, neuroscience, somatic therapy, functional medicine, and psychology shared their most practical and evidence-informed approaches to nervous system regulation. Whether you caught some of it or none of it, this weekend is your opportunity to experience the full event at no charge.

Your replay access includes:

• In-depth expert interviews with doctors, researchers, therapists, and healers

• Guided yoga and somatic nervous system practices

• Recorded therapy sessions offering real, practical insight into the healing process

If you've been navigating chronic stress, fatigue, anxiety, trauma, or simply a persistent sense that something feels off, then this summit was created with exactly that in mind.

Replay access closes August 3rd. Register here for free while there's still time.

P.S. The feedback from attendees has been really touching. People are describing the expert sessions as "captivating," "incredibly valuable," "fascinating," and even "life-saving." If you've been on the fence, this is your chance to see for yourself. Replay access is free and open August 1–3 only. 

Presented by Conscious Life & Alex Howard Group - please click the button below for registration & customer service.

The Embody Lab & Ergos Institute Presents
Increasing Client Emotional Tolerance

featuring Dr Levine

Promotional Rate Expires August 15

Emotional tolerance isn't built through insight alone — it's built through the body. And there's no better way to learn that than watching it happen in a real session.

Somatic Therapy in Action: Increasing Client Emotional Tolerance brings together four expert practitioners — Deb Dana, Dr. Ruella Frank, Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler, and Dr. Peter Levine — each demonstrating their distinct approach to nervous system regulation, trauma, and emotional resilience. You're not reading about polyvagal theory or Somatic Experiencing®. You're watching them work.

• See Deb Dana guide a client through homeostatic states using imagery and pendulation.

• Watch Dr. Frank's Gestalt somatic approach track the subtle relational field in real time.

• Witness Dr. Strozzi-Heckler help a client befriend anxiety through breath, centering, and affirmations that actually land in the body.

• And see Dr. Levine work with chronic pain and medical trauma — slowing everything down until integration becomes possible.

Five hours of clinical demonstration, organized around five core competency areas: nervous system literacy, therapeutic presence, body-based interventions, working with anxiety and chronic pain, and resourcing for integration.

If you work with clients carrying anxiety, trauma, or chronic pain, this is required watching.

Right now it's $157 — $240 off the regular price of $397.

$157.00 — Flash Sale Price

Expires August 15th
Eligible for 5 CE hours. CE credits available upon completion.

Presented by The Embody Lab - please click the button for more information and to reach customer service.

Regulate to Communicate: Somatic Practices to Heal in Connection

w/ Peter A Levine, PhD & Neil Sattin

3+-HOUR Workshop - Recorded

Open to Public and Professionals

Through August 15, 2026 the workshop is $30 off
$67 instead of the regular $97

Nearly every aspect of our lives involves some sort of communication and relationship. While some things are as easy to discuss as today’s weather, it’s much more common that our efforts to communicate run into the brick wall of an activated nervous system. As soon as your nervous system senses anything it perceives as danger, your inner resources shift to survival strategies and away from the higher functions that allow you to be resourced in collaboration.

Put more simply, if you have anything to communicate that’s stressful or challenging, your nervous system can easily take over and prevent you from having the conversation you wanted to have. Instead, you get into an argument, or one person shuts down, or avoids the connection altogether. Becoming dysregulated can make “how you would prefer to be” in those situations almost impossible.

In a therapeutic setting, this tendency can feel like a lightning-fast, unexpected rupture with a client. Or if you hold space for couples, you might see a conflict quickly spiral into patterns of defensiveness, attacking, overwhelm, and shame, despite many sessions of psycho-education.

The presence of trauma (both resolved and unresolved) only accentuates this phenomenon, as implicit memories evoked by stress or challenging communication make it even easier to react when the stakes are high.

Our workshop, Regulate to Communicate, gives you a path forward.

Join Dr. Levine and Neil Sattin to learn and experience a new framework for communication that will help you (and your clients) connect in times of uncertainty or stress. Whether you are a practitioner or someone with important things to communicate about, this workshop will help you understand precisely why communication goes wrong - and give you practices to facilitate a healing exchange.

This workshop includes practical instruction in Neil Sattin's “Regulate to Communicate” framework, plus regulation practices and a live demonstration by Dr. Levine. By the end of the three hours, you will have a solid foundation for stepping into any communication challenge—personal, professional, or political—with tools to keep yourself grounded, resourceful, and connected.

This is a unique opportunity to learn directly from Dr. Levine, one of the pioneers of body-based trauma healing work, alongside relationship expert Neil Sattin.

By participating in this workshop, you will:

• Understand the hidden purpose of any type of communication - and how to leverage this purpose in your interactions with others

• Recognize the warning signs of communication gone wrong, and identify the best strategy for bringing things back into balance

• Experience body-based practices, facilitated by Dr. Levine to help you hear the inner wisdom, safely experience nervous system dysregulation, and discover tools to help you come back into balance

• Know how to salvage communication when it goes amiss

• Utilize the tools to help others in triggered moments, diminishing the risk of making things worse

• Get familiar with the pathway to repair, both within and with others

Workshop Format

• Neil Sattin presents the Regulate to Communicate framework

• Dr. Levine and Neil discuss the subtle signs that our nervous system is engaged - and either helping or getting in the way - specific to communication scenarios

• Dr. Levine provides a demonstration with a workshop participant

• Debrief with original workshop participants and detailed Q&A with Dr. Levine and Neil

Peter A Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine recently finished his Autobiography, An Autobiography of Trauma, A Healing Journey, and is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. Learn more at somaticexperiencing.com.

Neil Sattin is a coach, educator, and host of the Relationship Alive podcast. With more than 7 million downloads, Relationship Alive has featured interviews with leading experts in the field of relationships, intimacy, attachment, and trauma recovery for the past decade. Along with the podcast, Neil’s research, and work with couples and individuals over the past 15 years, have given him the unique opportunity to synthesize the best-of-the-best wisdom, making it practical for his worldwide clients and audience.

Through August 15, 2026 the workshop is $30 off
$67 instead of the regular $97

Customer Service

This workshop is produced by Ergos Institute in partnership with Neil Sattin
For sales support, please contact Neil Sattin

Workshop Open to Public and Professionals

Listen to the FREE Podcast with Peter & Neil…

Reconnection for High Conflict Couples - When your Partner Becomes the Trigger

Relationship Alive Podcast Presents
Reconnection for High Conflict Couples

w/ Peter A Levine, PhD & Neil Sattin

Free Online

Have you ever wondered how to apply Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) in your relationships, or when navigating conflict?

Recently Peter sat down for a return visit to the Relationship Alive podcast to cover important new territory with host (and friend) Neil Sattin. Building on their earlier conversations, they get specific and practical: what can you actually do when your partner (or another person) becomes a trigger for you? How do you get past the trigger and back to connection?

And if the episode leaves you wanting more - Peter and Neil also co-taught a workshop, Regulate to Communicate, that bridges the gap between Peter’s work and concrete steps for communicating more effectively.

Do you ever have trouble staying “in it” when things get intense - in a session with a client, or when you’re trying to talk to someone about something challenging in your own life?

In this 3-hour recorded workshop, Peter and Neil show you how to use the Regulate to Communicate framework and internalize it, so that, over time, it becomes automatic - in your life and your work with others. 

Through August 15, the workshop is $30 off ($67 instead of the regular $97)

Enjoy - we hope you find these programs helpful!

Customer Service
For support, please contact Neil Sattin

Neil Sattin is a coach, educator, and host of the Relationship Alive podcast. With more than 7 million downloads, Relationship Alive has featured interviews with leading experts in the field of relationships, intimacy, attachment, and trauma recovery for the past decade. Along with the podcast, Neil’s research, and work with couples and individuals over the past 15 years, have given him the unique opportunity to synthesize the best-of-the-best wisdom, making it practical for his worldwide clients and audience.

SE™ Master Class: Eye of the Needle I

w/ Ergos Institute SE™ Faculty Dave Berger

In-person ONLY
Leuven, Belgium

Part I 2026 July 8th - 12th
Part II 2027 July 8th - 12th
Belgium series sold separately

Prerequisite SEI Advanced I +

When clients are “stuck,” it’s not always resistance.

Sometimes they are:
→ anchored in shock
→ suspended in altered states
→ carrying unresolved near-death activation

Eye of the Needle offers tools for precisely this work.

All trauma involves an encounter with threat and, hence, a touch with death. However, some individuals actually experience states of death from which they are revived. In fact, some of the deepest and seemingly most intractable trauma symptoms occur with clients who become “stuck” in these profoundly altered states of consciousness that emerged out of a near-death experience (NDE).

Every year, in the USA alone, over 50 million people undergo surgery and other invasive medical procedures, often with powerful dissociative and amnesic agents. Many individuals experience partial (or full) awakening during these procedures. These terrifying ordeals can create ruptures deep in consciousness; these often go far beyond our conscious/verbal capacity, making these traumas difficult to access and heal.

According to the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, 774 varied NDEs occur every day. Often debilitating, these same near-death experiences hold the extraordinary potential for deep, positive, and enduring personal and spiritual transformation if they receive proper guidance and support.

Dr Levine’s EOTN two-part series addresses how to apply SE principles to a variety of near-death experiences, including but not limited to: drowning, vehicular accidents, physical attacks, illness, and surgery. SE techniques applicable to a wide variety of traumatic experiences are not always sufficient to treat trauma related to NDEs, and Eye of the Needle work is vital to complex cases demanding the most dedicated and skilled practitioners of SE.

EOTN I & II Learning Objectives:

• Cultivate and refine perceptual skills and practical tools.

• Track autonomic nervous system shifts.

• Develop theoretical and practical frameworks to access dissociated and dislocated altered states of consciousness and liberate problematic fixations.

• Practice the skills needed to weave dislocated conscious (and unconscious) states together and then move through the shock core.

• Identify surgical trauma symptoms and partial awakening states from anaesthesia.

• Alternate approaches to working with different types of anaesthesia.

• Using SE, recommend proper pain management and anaesthesia protocol for reducing the chances of trauma related to surgery.

• Explore working with post ICU debilitation.

• Resolve difficult somatic symptoms by working with NDEs.

• Interact with the mythopoetic plane.

• Enable authentic spiritual experiences, including NDEs.

• Learn how to take a client intake from an individual with possible unprocessed NDE states and/or anaesthesia trauma.

This SE Master Class Includes:

• Didactic Lecture with Q&A

• In-depth demonstration client sessions with extensive debrief

• Supervised triad practice and touch work (touch in part II)

• This class does not include live teachings from Dr Levine
  

Ergos SE™ Faculty: Dave Berger, MFT, PT, MA, SEP, BASE-P

Daily Schedule (Subject to evolution):

• 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

• 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Lunch/Break

• 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Prerequisite: SEI Advanced I +

Location: Leuven, Belgium

Part I 2026 July 8th - 12th
Part II 2027 July 8th - 12th
Belgium series sold separately

If you have questions, please click here for customer service.

The Embody Lab & Ergos Institute Presents
A Somatic Guide to Working with Shame

featuring Dr Levine

*Promotional Rate Expires June 7th

For decades, the work of healing SHAME has been approached as a cognitive or relational task — a matter of insight, of narrative, of understanding where the story began.

But those of us who work somatically know that shame doesn't live in the story. It lives in the body. In the collapse of the chest. In the drop of the eyes. In the breath that never quite returns.

That's why we're excited to share an in-depth program that speaks directly to working with shame.

We've partnered with The Embody Lab to offer their course A Somatic Guide to Working with Shame — a five-module program featuring some of the most respected voices in somatic and trauma-informed practice — at a special flash sale price.

What's inside:

The course brings together Dr. Peter A Levine with others in the field, like Deb Dana, Dr. Scott Lyons, Sergio Ocampo, and Kai Cheng Thom for a deep, embodied exploration of shame — from its neurological roots to its clinical manifestations to the somatic techniques that can actually move it.

Over six hours of CE-eligible content, you'll learn how to:

— Distinguish healthy from toxic shame in the body
— Recognize shame's physiological signatures in clients
— Apply Somatic Experiencing® techniques developed specifically for shame work
— Use parts work models to work with both the shaming and ashamed parts
— Integrate polyvagal, somatic, and depth psychology frameworks in a single clinical container

In Dr Levine’s SE™ session demonstration included in Module 5, you'll see how shame and pride operate as physiological opposites — and how techniques like the extended "Voo" sound and boundary-setting gestures can restore dignity from the inside out. This is the kind of clinical demonstration that changes how you sit with clients.

Shame is one of the most pervasive yet least explored experiences practitioners encounter in clinical work.

This course was designed to help change that — and this offering provides a rare opportunity to engage the material at an unusually accessible rate.

$397.00 regular price

$157.00 — Flash Sale Price

Expires June 7th.

Presented by The Embody Lab - please click the button for more information and to reach customer service.

SE™ Master Class: Imagination, Dreams, and Somatic Experiencing®

w/ Peter A Levine, PhD

2-5 May 2026

10:00am – 5:00pm

Live in Australia & Livestreaming Online

Frankston Arts Centre 27-37 Davey St, Frankston VIC 3199

FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA

Open to all Levels of SEI Somatic Experiencing® students and graduates
Not open to the public

Without imagination, we are constrained to constantly relive the past. It is only with imagination that we can envision a future different than the past. A future that brings us nourishment and more positive life experiences. Dreams are what allows access to the collective unconscious and to experience the rich boarder-realm between sleep and wakefulness.

It seems like everybody has a different theory of dreams. In this class we will explore the possibility that dreams exist on their own merit. Carl Jung observed that most of the neurosis today, along with the feeling or isolation, and fragmentation, arises from the disconnection between the “ego-mind” and the unconscious. He also wrote that the most important question that anyone can ask (is) what myth am I living? Dreams are a royal road to discovering our myths and living them in our lives. This workshop is not just about understanding our dreams (which can be revealing) but is primarily about bringing the dreams to life in our wakeful imagination. This way we can be enriched by this source of collective wisdom.

Dreams – and active imagination – can be sources of guiding transpersonal experiences, knowledge, and wisdom. By working with dreams, we have the possibility to uncover these profound archetypes and to discover how they direct the forward movement of our lives. Once we become aware of these inner-energetic forces, we have the option to change the direction of our lives.

This first-ever Australian masterclass with Dr Peter A Levine is designed especially for SEI Somatic Experiencing® students and graduates. It offers a rare opportunity to expand your clinical lens by exploring how imagination, dreams, and symbolic processes can deepen the effectiveness of SE™ work.

By attending, you will:

• Enrich your SE™ practice by learning how dream material and active imagination can reveal implicit patterns, themes, and archetypal forces beneath your clients’ somatic experience.

• Strengthen your ability to track meaning-making alongside sensation, helping clients integrate the symbolic and the somatic with greater coherence.

• Explore dreams as an expression of the collective unconscious, broadening your understanding of what moves through your clients beyond personal narrative alone.

• Learn how imagination supports forward movement, allowing clients to shift from repeating old survival patterns into envisioning and embodying new possibilities.

• Understand the role of myth and archetype in healing, and how these deeper currents can provide orientation, purpose, and momentum in trauma resolution.

• Develop skills to bring dream imagery into conscious awareness, inviting clients to engage with these images in ways that support regulation, integration, and transformation.

• Gain clarity on the relationship between the ego-mind and the unconscious, and how restoring connection between the two promotes wholeness and reduces fragmentation.

This masterclass goes far beyond dream interpretation. It invites you to work with dreams as living experiences—resources that can animate your clinical work, expand your perceptual field, and support clients in accessing their own inner wisdom.

This is a unique opportunity to learn directly from the founder of SE™, in Australia, in a way that will meaningfully enrich and deepen your work with clients.

Dr Levine Bio

Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International, where his work has been taught to almost 2,000,000 therapists in 55 countries.

He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Mills College; Antioch University; the California Institute of Integral Studies; and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, The Sigmund Freud University of Medicine in Vienna and the department of psychiatry at the school of medicine in Zurich Switzerland. He has also taught at the Hopi Guidance Center in Second Mesa Arizona. He was a stress consultant for NASA on the early space shuttle mission.

He is the author of several landmark books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 33 languages); In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness; and Trauma and Memory, Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past. And in 2025 published, An Autobiography of Trauma, A Healing Journey.

Logistics

$2200.00 AUD – In Person

$1295.00 AUD – Live-stream access for international participants outside of Australia

Register by 16 April 2026

Open to all Levels of SEI Somatic Experiencing® students and graduates
Not open to the public

Customer Support for this Program:

secoordinator@restoringresilience.com.au

Recreating Songlines from Trauma Trails

Weaving Indigenous Wisdom, Somatic Experiencing® and Collective Healing

24-26 April 2026 | Lake Ainsworth Sport & Recreation Centre, Bundjalung Country, Australia

Friday 5:00pm - Sunday 8:00pm local time

w/ Peter A Levine, PhD + more

Restoring Resilience is honoured to be co-hosting the Recreating Songlines from Trauma Trails - Weaving Indigenous Wisdom, Somatic Experiencing® and Collective Healing on the lands of the Bundjalung Nation — led by Prof Judy Atkinson and Dr Caroline Atkinson (We Al-li), in collaboration with Dr Peter A. Levine, Maggie Kline and Ashley Dargan, and Restoring Resilience Co-Founders Anna Skolarikis and Phyllis Traficante.

This workshop weaves We Al-li Storywork and Somatic Experiencing® through the lens of Two-Eyed Seeing — walking with both eyes open:

• one eye grounded in Indigenous cultural knowledge, sovereignty, and ways of being

• one eye informed by deep observation of nature, physiology, instinct, and the body’s innate capacity to heal

Together, these ways of knowing help restore what has been fragmented — returning people, families, and communities to belonging, dignity, and wholeness.

Held by Lake Ainsworth — a place of cleansing, reflection, and renewal — participants will move through a culturally held process of listening, story, movement, learning, and remembrance, guided by Country as teacher.

The Northern Rivers workshop is designed to:

• Honour the leadership, wisdom, and sovereignty of First Nations Peoples

• Practise Two-Eyed Seeing as a respectful meeting place between Indigenous and non-Indigenous healing knowledges

• Deepen into We Al-li’s 6 Stages of Healing, as articulated by Prof. Judy Atkinson

• Explore Somatic Experiencing® as a body-led, nature-informed approach to healing trauma, rooted in the study of animals in the wild, human physiology, and the rhythms of regulation and recovery

• Introduce The GROW Program practices where individual healing happens in relationship

• Support the emergence of Relational Proprioception™ — the nervous system learning safety and negotiating trauma imprints through relationship and connection

• Foster pathways of reciprocity, responsibility, and collective wellbeing across cultures

We Al-li’s 6 Stages of Healing

(Atkinson, 2002 — Return to Wholeness)

This gathering is guided by the six culturally grounded stages of healing, which are relational, cyclical, and held within community, allowing people to move at their own pace and in their own way:

1. Creating Culturally Safe Places

Establishing cultural, emotional, physical, and spiritual safety where people feel respected, protected, and supported.

2. Finding and Telling Our Stories

Sharing our stories in ways that are witnessed, honoured, and held with care — without judgement or shame.

3. Making Sense of Our Stories

Reflecting, understanding, and finding meaning — connecting experiences with identity, culture, and lived truth.

4. Feeling the Feelings

Allowing emotions to surface safely — grief, sadness, anger, fear, love — and letting the body process what it holds.

5. Moving Through Layers of Loss and Grief

Working through loss with support, restoring ownership, choice, and agency through gentle healing and self-determination.

6. Strengthening Cultural and Spiritual Identities

Reconnecting with spirit, culture, community, and belonging — restoring identity, purpose, and wholeness.

Program Highlights:

• Welcome to Country & Cultural Ceremony — Bundjalung Elders

• We Al-li Storywork & Healing Processes guided through the 6 Stages

• Somatic Experiencing® teachings — Dr Peter Levine & Maggie Kline

• Honouring the body’s innate wisdom, instinct, and capacity to restore balance

• GROW Program & Relational Proprioception™ — restoring safety, agency, and dignity in the body

• Yarning Circles — respectful dialogue across cultural knowledge systems

• Cultural performance, story, and music — Ash Dargan and local community

• Nature-based embodied practices by Lake Ainsworth

Each element is held in alignment with the 6 Stages of Healing, ensuring a paced, respectful, and supported journey from arrival to departure.

Guiding Principles - Respect | Reciprocity | Relationship | Renewal

Participants are invited to engage with humility, courage, curiosity, and deep listening — recognising Country as teacher and community as medicine.

Who should attend:

This event is for people who understand that healing from trauma is not only individual, but relational, cultural, and collective.

It is suited to those who can arrive with humility, respect for Country, and a willingness to listen, learn, and be in relationship, rather than to extract knowledge or seek quick outcomes.

This is especially suited for:

• First Nations community members, Elders, cultural leaders, and

knowledge holders

• Indigenous healers, storytellers, artists, and community practitioners

• Psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and mental health clinicians

• Somatic Experiencing® practitioners and students, and other body-based practitioners

• Educators, early childhood professionals, school wellbeing staff, and youth workers

• Maternal and Child Health nurses and family support practitioners

• Health professionals, including Aboriginal health workers, nurses, and doctors

• Justice, youth justice, and forensic workers

• Community workers, humanitarian and crisis-response practitioners

• Organisational leaders and decision-makers shaping trauma-informed systems

• People with lived experience of trauma who are seeking healing grounded in culture, land, and community

This is not a clinical training or a certification program. It is a held, relational gathering that weaves Indigenous wisdom, Somatic Experiencing®, and collective healing.

Participants are invited to come with openness, respect for cultural protocols, and a readiness to engage in shared learning, reflection, and connection.

About your Presenters:

PETER LEVINE

Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International, where his work has been taught to almost 2,000,000 therapists in 55 countries.

He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Mills College; Antioch University; the California Institute of Integral Studies; and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, The Sigmund Freud University of Medicine in Vienna and the department of psychiatry at the school of medicine in Zurich Switzerland. He has also taught at the Hopi Guidance Center in Second Mesa Arizona. He was a stress consultant for NASA on the early space shuttle mission.

He is the author of several landmark books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 33 languages); In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness; and Trauma and Memory, Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past. And in 2025 published, An Autobiography of Trauma, A Healing Journey.

JUDY ATKINSON

Emeritus Professor Judy Atkinson is a Jiman (central west Queensland) and Bundjalung (northern New South Wales) woman, with Anglo-Celtic and German heritage.

Her academic contributions to the understanding of trauma related issues stemming from the violence of colonisation and the healing/recovery of Indigenous peoples from such trauma has won her the Carrick Neville Bonner Award in 2006 for her curriculum development and innovative teaching practice.

In 2011 she was awarded the Fritz Redlick Memorial Award for Human Rights and Mental Health from the Harvard University program for refugee trauma.

On the 26 January, 2019 Judy received a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to the Indigenous community, to education and to mental health.

Judy is:

• A member of the Harvard Global Mental Health Scientific Research Alliance.

• Chair of the Australian Childhood Foundations Cultural Governance Group.

• The founder and Patron of We Al-li.

CARLIE ATKINSON

Dr. Carlie (Caroline) Atkinson is a Bundjalung and Yiman woman and an accredited Social Worker with a PhD (Charles Darwin University, 2009). Associate Professor Atkinson is an international leader in complex and intergenerational trauma and culturally informed strengths-based healing approaches in Indigenous Australia. She is the CEO of her family organisation, We Al-li, designing and coordinating the delivery of Culturally Informed Trauma Integrated Healing Approaches (CITIHA) training and resource development for organisations and communities across Australia focusing on systems transformation and implementation and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and a Chief Investigator or 6 separate National research projects.

She is also the founder of the Northern Rivers Community Healing Hub, an Indigenous Framework response to the catastrophic floods in the Northern Rivers in 2022.

MAGGIE KLINE

Maggie Kline, LMFT has been in education since the 1970s, a Family Therapist and School Psychologist since the 1980s, and a Somatic Experiencing® International Faculty Member since the 1990s. She is owner of Conscious Connections PlayShops and co-author with Peter Levine of Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids.

She also wrote Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools, and contributed chapters in four anthologies, including EMDR for Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children and The Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice. Her latest contribution is My Inner Doggie Is Growling—a somatic and interactive children’s picture book to help kids (and grown-ups) discover the sensations hidden beneath big emotions.

ASHLEY DARGAN

Ash is a Larrakia artist, storyteller, adventurer and educator from Darwin in the Top End. As a cultural ambassador for the Northern Territory throughout the 2000’s he reached a global audience and achieved worldwide acclaim for his unique style of storytelling and live musical performance. He has received multiple national and international nominations for his recorded works. Ash gained his Masters of Indigenous Studies under Prof. Judy Atkinson following her work in Trauma Informed approaches to community recovery and has worked with We Al-li nationally as an Elder Facilitator for 14 years. Ash is currently a Chief Investigator with the University of Sydney leading research and development of a VR immersive experience to help Aboriginal youth at risk of entering the justice system reconnect to self, Country, Culture and spirit. He was previously the Northern Territory coordinator for the Federal Initiative MindMatters that was responsible for delivering and implementing Social and Emotional Wellbeing frameworks into all schools Nationally.

Acknowledgment

We acknowledge the Bundjalung people as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters on which this workshop takes place. We pay deep respect to Elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples who guide this work.

Logistics

Price:

$1495 AUD

Registration:

Register by 23 April 2026

Accommodation:

Three accommodation packages are available. Select and combine your preferred option at checkout.

General Admission Ticket + Group Dormitory Accommodation & Food $300 for 2 nights - $1795.00 AUD

Catered dormitory-style lodge accommodation sleeps 6 to 12 people per room and includes ensuites and a shared laundry.

Accessible accommodation is available for people with a disability.

Includes accommodation and three meals per day Friday dinner to Sunday lunch provided in a simple, camp style format.

• 12 lodges with 6 bunk beds and ensuite

• 2 lodges with 4 bunk beds and ensuite

• One accessible lodge with 9 bunk beds and accessible bathroom

• 2 lodges with 3 bunk beds and ensuite.

General Admission + Cottage Self-Contained/Self Catered Accommodation: $490 for 2 nights - $1985.00 AUD

• 3 units available

• Self-contained accommodation for up to 16 people

• Suitable for groups or families

• Each unit sleeps 4 people in 4 single beds

• Bathroom, living area, kitchen and verandah

• Private beach access

• Nearby BBQ area

• Shared laundry

General Admission Ticket + Villa Self-Contained/Self Catered Accommodation $709 for 2 nights - $2204.00 AUD

• 5 villas available

• Self-contained accommodation for up to 20 people

• Suitable for groups or families

• Each villa sleeps 4 people in 4 single beds

• Bathroom, living area, kitchen, full laundry and storage

• Private beach access

• Nearby BBQ area

Catering:

Nourishing food options will be available to purchase onsite throughout the event.

24-26 April 2026 | Lake Ainsworth Sport & Recreation Centre, Bundjalung Country, Australia

Friday 5:00pm - Sunday 8:00pm local time

Customer Support for this Program:

secoordinator@restoringresilience.com.au

AVAIYA University Presents
Healing From Covert Narcissism & Weaponized Kindness

FREE ONLINE featuring
Ergos SE™ Euphrasia Nyaki

presenting
Reconnecting To Your Body's Wisdom in the Face of Weaponized Kindness

FREE for a limited time
Online

Does this sound familiar?

On the outside, they play the hero. They’re the "selfless" partner, the "devoted" friend, the one everyone else admires. But behind closed doors, the air feels different. 

Do you feel a knot of dread or a sense of being indebted every time they do something nice for you?

Does their generosity feel less like a gift and more like a cage, leaving you smaller and quieter with every passing day?

If this resonates, please listen closely: What you are feeling isn't a lack of gratitude—it’s a loss of self.

This is Weaponized Kindness. It’s a quiet, calculated form of control that uses "niceness" as a silencer. It’s designed to make your needs feel like burdens and your intuition feel like craziness.

If you’re losing your mind in a relationship that the world calls perfect, I want you to know the truth: You are not crazy.

You deserve to step out of the fog and reclaim your sense of clarity. 

That’s why I’m so honored to invite you to a special online event our dear Faculty member, Efu, is a part of: Healing From Covert Narcissism & Weaponized Kindness.

Here’s just some of what you’ll learn from renowned psychologists, therapists, relationship experts & more:

• Escaping The Kindness Trap: Break the cycle of guilt, confusion, and the silent manipulation of weaponized kindness.

• The Covert Narcissism Survival Toolkit: Clear the mental fog of hidden abuse and trade your exhaustion for expert-led strategies that put you back in the driver’s seat of your life.

• Healing The Body After Gaslighting: Learn gentle strategies to calm your nervous system and find safety within your own skin.

• Overcoming The Leftovers of an Impossible Childhood: Identify and clear the lingering emotional clutter left behind by an upbringing where your needs were a secondary thought.

• Moving From Survival to Self-Trust: Rebuild your connection to your intuition by developing a deep sense of inner power, safety, and peace.

• Reclaiming Your Sense of Aliveness: Discover how to shake off the emotional numbness of abuse and rediscover the hobbies, passions, and joy that make you feel vibrantly alive!

• Healing "Invisible" Wounds: Learn to validate your experience in a world that often disregards covert abuse, and get support from outstanding experts who understand what you're going through.

• Exposing the Passive-Aggressive Playbook: Learn to identify the subtle jabs and jokes used to keep you small, so they never make you lose your inner balance again.

• The Sovereignty of "No": Transform saying "no" from a source of terror into a neutral boundary that preserves your energy and repels manipulative personalities.

• Your Body as Your Compass: Reconnect with your physical sensations so that you're able to detect weaponized kindness before your mind tries to rationalize it.

• The Attachment Trauma Reset: Explore gentle pathways to heal the anxious-avoidant loop created by hidden control and learn to build relationships based on transparency, not power plays.

• Breaking the Legacy of Silence: Identify the unspoken rules of a narcissistic upbringing and consciously choose which family patterns end with you.

This online series is brought to you by iKE ALLEN & Ande Anderson, Co-Owners of AVAIYA University (creators & teachers of transformational courses, books, films and online events such as Overcoming Anxiety & Depression, Healing From Childhood Trauma, Overcoming Betrayal & Deception, and many more).

After you register, keep an eye out for AVAIYA’s email for specific details on accessing the expert classes.

(Free replays will be available for 24 hours after each class airs).

It's your turn to stop seeking permission to exist and start enjoying healthy, honest connections that don't require you to sacrifice your soul to keep the peace.

P.S. Please share the love and forward this email to your friends, family and community – anyone who you think would benefit! Thank you for helping us change lives (-:

Please click the link to register or for customer service from AVAIYA.

RARE ONLINE RETREAT Presented by Ergos Institute in partnership with Spirit Rock

Resilience: Working with Trauma, Cultivating Aliveness

w/ Pawan Bareja, PhD & Peter A Levine, PhD

Online Workshop - Recorded

Saturday & Sunday, March 28-29, 2026
10:00am - 4:00pm US Pacific Time

Open to Public and Professionals

(CEs Available)

In a time when daily stress, social upheaval, and the climate crisis leave many of us overwhelmed or “stuck” in fight, flight, or freeze, our natural resilience can feel out of reach. This weekend retreat offers a grounded path back to your inherent aliveness and inner strength.

Together, we’ll explore practices that support the body and mind in returning toward balance during moments of fear, helplessness, and emotional overload. Drawing from time-tested mindfulness practices and evidence-informed stress-reduction and resilience tools backed by neuroscience, participants will explore ways to settle the body and meet challenges with clarity and compassion.

Our time will have teachings, guided stationary and movement meditations, trauma teachings, self-reflection, and Q&A.

This weekend will include teaching with Pawan Bareja, PhD and discussion and participant demonstration sessions led by Peter Levine, PhD.

This retreat is an opportunity to return to yourself—to reclaim ease, courage, and the essence of aliveness. Many practitioners experience a more joyful heart, deeper sleep, improved digestion, steadier relationships, and a renewed sense of belonging.

Online Only: We are offering this program online via Zoom.

We hope to see you there!

For sales & program support, please contact Spirit Rock Registration.

Conscious Life Presents

The Future of Therapy & Coaching
A Live 3-Day Exploration of What Comes Next

hosted by Dr Alex Howard & Anna Duschinsky, MA

FREE for a Limited Time
March 20th - 22nd
Online - Program Airs Live 4x’s a day for 3-hours

The lines between therapy and coaching are blurring.

Dr Alex Howard is hosting a live 3-day summit called The Future of Therapy & Coaching (March 20-22), and it's designed specifically for practitioners who are navigating the space between these two worlds.

Whether you're a therapist wanting to bring coaching frameworks into your work—or a coach who wants greater therapeutic depth without stepping outside your scope—this is for you.

What makes this different:

This isn't a pre-recorded interview collection. It's a live, focused exploration of where therapy and coaching are actually converging—and how to practice at that intersection with clarity, integration, and ethical confidence.

Alex has been unusually selective about who's part of this. Most sessions are led by his internal team, but he's bringing on a handful of carefully chosen guests—the kind of voices that don't often appear together in one conversation.

That tells you something about the caliber of this conversation.

The 3-day journey:

• Day 1: Understanding the crossroads—where therapy and coaching meet

• Day 2: The evolving edge of therapeutic work—trauma, nervous system, complexity

• Day 3: The future of integration—AI, live demos, and what comes next

This is for you if:

• You're a therapist seeking a more structured, goal-oriented framework

• You're a coach wanting therapeutic depth without losing clarity of scope

• You feel existing modalities no longer fully meet client complexity

• You're considering advanced training and want to understand the landscape

When: March 20-22, 2026
Format: Live (with replay access)
Program Airs Live 4x’s a day for 3-hours
Cost: Free

The lines between therapy and coaching are blurring. This summit will help you navigate that with confidence.

Presented by Conscious Life & Alex Howard Group - please click the button below for registration & customer service.

AVAIYA University Presents
Overcoming Codependency & Chaos Addiction

FREE ONLINE featuring
Ergos SE™ Faculty Joshua Sylvae, PhD

presenting
From Chaos to Coherence

FREE for a limited time
Online

Have you ever felt like you’re only "alive" when there’s a crisis to solve? Or that you only feel safe when everyone around you is happy?

If you’ve spent your life walking on eggshells, managing other people’s moods, or feeling a strange pull toward high-stress situations, I want you to know something important: This isn't a flaw in your character.

Often, this is simply how your nervous system was wired when you were young to help you survive. 

But as you’ve probably noticed, staying in that "survival mode" within chaotic relationships is incredibly exhausting.

Here’s just some of what you’ll learn from renowned psychologists, therapists, relationship experts & more:

• Codependency vs. Inner Peace: Learn to distinguish the "high" of chaos from true serenity and develop the skills to choose lasting peace over temporary intensity in your life & relationships.

• Healing at the Core: Go beyond the symptoms to address the foundational wounds of codependency, ensuring a recovery that is both deep and permanent.

• Breaking the Trauma Bond: Understand the biological "glues" that keep you stuck in toxic loops and learn the specific steps to safely detach and heal.

• Freedom from Relational Loops: Learn how to stop the cycle of rescuing and fixing, empowering you to free yourself from the weight of others' dysregulation.

• Subconscious Reprogramming: Discover how to identify and overwrite the hidden "scripts" that keep you stuck in people-pleasing and self-abandonment.

• Redefining Love: Shatter the myth that codependency is "loving too much" and learn the difference between healthy devotion and self-sacrificing enmeshment.

• Beyond the Chaos Blueprint: Uncover the childhood roots of your addiction to drama and learn how developmental patterns drive your current relational cycles.

• From Dysregulation to Regulation: Master the art of organizing your nervous system to move out of "fight or flight" and into a state of grounded balance, allowing you to stay calm and centered even in your most challenging relationships.

• Inducing Deep Self-Healing: Discover advanced methods to move beyond surface-level fixes and facilitate a profound, self-directed recovery from the inside out.

• Communication & Attachment: Understand how codependency & attachment styles impact your sex life and learn to communicate your needs without the fear of abandonment.

• Overcoming Chaos Addiction: Identify the subconscious "hit" you get from crisis and learn how to replace the need for drama with a healthy craving for stability.

• Calm Self-Acceptance as Your New Normal: Shift from constant self-criticism to a state of inner peace, making tranquility—rather than turmoil—your baseline.

• Reclaim Your Identity: Move beyond the roles you play for others and transform your internal world from "fragmented" to "calm and whole."

This online series is brought to you by iKE ALLEN & Ande Anderson, Co-Owners of AVAIYA University (creators & teachers of transformational courses, books, films and online events such as Overcoming Anxiety & Depression, Healing From Childhood Trauma, Overcoming Betrayal & Deception, and many more).

After you register, keep an eye out for AVAIYA’s email for specific details on accessing the expert classes.

It's your turn to let go of the need to please others, harness your own approval, and enjoy healthy relationships without sacrificing yourself.

P.S. Please share the love and forward this to your friends, family and community – anyone who you think would benefit! Thank you for helping us change lives (-:

Please click the link to register or for customer service from AVAIYA.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR RECORDING ACCESS

Transforming Trauma: Uniting Brain, Body, and Mind

w/ Peter A. Levine, PhD, Developer of Somatic Experiencing®
& Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Renowned Neuroscientist Specializing in Trauma

Embodied Healing:The Integration of Trauma, Emotion, and Being Fully Human

FILMED LIVE w/ Specialized Lessons + Live Session Demonstrations + Supervised Breakout Group Practices + Supported Debriefs

The Recording of this In-Person Program
+ Includes SE™ Case Consult ($115 value)
(not all offerings are included in the recording)
(16.5 Continuing Education credits are no longer available)

San Diego, CA
Humphreys Half Moon Bay
February 20-22, 2026

Dr. Ruth Lanius—an internationally recognized clinician-scientist in the neurobiology of trauma—and Dr. Peter A. Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing®, combine their complementary expertise to present a cohesive integrative framework for how trauma can be safely resolved and mind–body unity restored.

This 3-day workshop blends neuroscience, naturalistic observation, and somatic healing. Participants will learn to work with embodied memory, support emotional regulation, and cultivate resilience and joy through the body. The included half-day case consultation provides a powerful bridge between theory and practice, offering live demonstrations of SE in action.

Dr. Levine brings over 50 years of pioneering trauma-healing work, while Dr. Lanius contributes decades of research and clinical insight into the mind–body effects of trauma. Together, they guide attendees through a profound exploration of embodiment, emotion, regulation, and healing.

This program welcomes clinicians, body-based practitioners, SE students, and individuals seeking a deeper understanding of embodied trauma resolution. Whether attending in person or via livestream, you are invited into a deeper experience of what it means to be fully human—alive, connected, and whole.

Space is limited to maintain a supportive interactive learning environment. Reserve your spot today.

Didactic Knowledge. Experiential Wisdom.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the neurobiological foundations of developmental trauma and their effects on emotional regulation and embodiment.

• Explain the neurobiology of dissociation and discuss principles for its safe and effective treatment.

• Identify embodied feelings and memory and describe their role in trauma processing and resolution.

• Apply somatic techniques to track, sense, and integrate inner experience in trauma healing.

• Utilize neuroscientifically guided interventions for trauma-related behaviors.

• Apply somatic awareness practices to support vitality, resilience, and emotional coherence.

• Evaluate case material using a trauma-informed, body-based framework grounded in both neuroscience and somatic principles.

• Discuss the integration of sensory and motor pathways

• Explain how to establish autonomic regulation

• Compare and differentiate top down and bottom-up processing

• Describe how to access core regulation and brain-body integration

• Demonstrate how to establish coherence at neurobiological and somatic levels

Embark on a transformative journey into the heart of trauma healing with pioneers in the field. Over three days, explore the neurobiology of trauma, embodied memory, and somatic practices that restore balance, vitality, and connection.

Through live demonstrations, experiential practice, and interactive Q&A, you’ll learn practical tools to sense, track, and integrate inner experience—bringing renewed depth to your healing work or personal growth.

A half-day case consultation (also available separately) offers rare opportunities for real-time observation, clinical discussion, and applied learning.

June 2023 Ergos In-Person Workshop Review: “I was deeply nourished and powerfully transformed by my recent training experience with Peter Levine and Ergos. I felt emotionally held by the overall therapeutic container and the beautiful grounds. Peter and the assistants delivered a high standard of clinical training, and I appreciated how well-organized the week was and how much time was set aside for experiential work and practice. Peter's client demonstrations, 12 in all, were deeply moving and brought the work down to a very practical and applied level. I returned home with my own Smovey rings and a six-foot attachment stick! I am deeply grateful to the staff of Ergos for making this training possible.” - Steven, Student

Meet the Presenters

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., is a best-selling author and the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology from International University. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International, where his work has been taught to over 30,000 healers in over 42 countries.

Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D.
Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D., is a Clinician-Scientist, Psychiatry Professor, and Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at Western University of Canada, where she is the Director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD. Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders. She has published five books and over 250 research articles and book chapters. She regularly lectures and teaches internationally about psychological trauma. Ruth is passionate about understanding the first-person experience of traumatized individuals throughout treatment and how it relates to brain functioning. She is regarded as a leading specialist in the mind-body effects of trauma and neuroscience-based approaches to trauma treatment.

Additional Workshop Information

• Recording included for in-person and live-stream registrations.

• Includes 1 SEI Faculty Group Case Consultation Credit for SEI students ($115 value).

• 16.5 Continuing Education Credits (CEs) for Health Professionals are not available for the recording only purchase.

• A Certificate of Attendance will be provided to all participants.

• Breakout sessions are available for in-person and live online participants. In-person breakout sessions of this workshop will be sectioned by SEPs/SE students and public and monitored.

• SE Assistants will be providing private sessions that qualify for SEI Credit - cost paid directly to the practitioner.

• Included is a recorded Orientation to SE & Chronic Pain w/ Dr Levine + Handouts (in the participant portal).

• This program is designed for clinicians, body-based practitioners, and individuals seeking a deeper understanding of embodied healing. It is geared towards SEI students and SE™ practitioners.

• Please honor your training level and scope of practice.

Schedule (subject to evolution)

Daily 10:00am - 5:30pm PST
2.5 Day Workshop + Half-day SE™ Case Consultation & Demonstration = 3 Full Days

February 20th & 21st
9:40 am Sign-In
10:00 am Lesson
1:00 pm Lunch
2:30 pm Lesson
5:30 pm Closing

February 22nd
9:40 am Sign-In
10:00 am Lesson
1:00 pm Lunch
2:30 pm SE™ Case Consultation w/ 2 Full-Session Demonstrations w/ Debrief
5:30 pm Closing
Book Signing at 5:30 pm
Book sales on-site

*Lessons include didactic lecture, discussions, participant demonstrations, breakout groups, and question & answer sessions

In-Person Location

Humphreys Half Moon Bay
San Diego, CA

Registration

PLEASE READ THE AGREEMENTS WITHIN REGISTRATION BEFORE COMPLETING YOUR PURCHASE.

Tuition Options

In-Person + Live-Stream Online + Recording

$895
Recording Special: $780

Registration includes: SE™ Case Consultation & Demonstration with 1 SEI Consult Credit ($115 value)

IMPORTANT: Registrants will receive an email receipt of purchase and a Welcome email with access to the Workshop Participant Portal which hosts the RECORDED WORKSHOP and CASE CONSULTATION, SLIDES, HANDOUTS, SIGNED CASE CONSULT SHEET, and CERTIFICATE.

For Customer Service, please contact:
programs@somaticexperiencing.com

SE™ Master Class:
Grief, Joy, and the Return to Your Authentic Self

w/ Ergos Institute SE™ Faculty Ursula Funke-Kaiser

February 5th - 8th, 2026 in Oslo, Norway
In-Person

RECORDING INCLUDED

This Master Class is for SEPs and SE students who have finished Beginning Level and beyond

Grief, Joy, and the Return to Your Authentic Self will explore our relationship with grief. Which losses happened in my life? What did I learn about how to grieve them – or not to grieve? And what did this mean for the further course of my life? Even “smaller” losses that were not seen or accepted as such by the people around me can become firmly stuck in the soul. So, identifying those different issues or portals of grief will be helpful for our exploration. In looking into this, dealing with experiences of loss and grief with all our SE tools, we will find ways to go deeper into what is unresolved in ourselves and how to let go of patterns and obstacles for further development and living joyfully. In doing this in the context of a course for SE practitioners and students, we will also strengthen our abilities to work with grief in our clients and support them on their way to their authentic selves.

When we learn to be open to emotional pain and sorrow and let ourselves grieve what is lost, we can find the well in our soul from which inner strength, much larger resilience, and joy of living can evolve.

Peter Levine refers to the I Ging, The Chinese Book of Change Sign 48, The Fountain or Well. This sign reminds us that it is not enough to change superficially but to take care of the deepest foundation of life, which is inexhaustible.

Doing this in a way that creates a safe ground first makes it possible to visit the places of pain and sorrow. There, we experience the emotional charge and raw power that has the potential to pull us away from the way we have to go, to free our authentic selves and be alive. Caring for the basic SE principles like titration, pendulation, SIBAM, coupling dynamics, and joining, the immense pain hidden in grief and our concealed sorrow can be touched slowly and with awareness. Moving through it, we can open up for joy again and reunite with our Authentic Self.

This multilayered inner process challenges us to transform our identity. The trauma we experience and the hidden energies of grief, sorrow, and heartache shape how we see ourselves. To change this belief (“That’s the way I am”) and find a new identity in which joy, well-being, and benevolence become central, we need inner and outer guidance, like in every journey through the deep night of the soul.

Grief: The 7 Portals
1 – Loss of someone or also something you dared to love
2 – The places that haven’t felt love and should have so – often connected to immobilizing shame and self-blame – early attachment woundings and developmental stress
3 - What we expected but did not get – which is often difficult to distinguish from 2
4 – Ancestral grief
5 - The sorrows of the world
6 – Pervasive disconnection, lack of social cohesion
7 – Existential grief – the illusion of separateness, a spiritual form of grief, a yearning for belonging and unity.

Very often, those portals are interconnected, and one experience of grief can trigger another one. Naturally, during those four days, we will not be able to look deeply into every one of those gates, but we name them, and we hope you will get an idea of how it might show in you and your clients.

This SE Master Class Includes

• Didactic Lecture with Q&A

• Supervised practice

Ursula Funke-Kaiser
Ergos SE™ Master Class Faculty
Stuttgart, Germany

Ursula Funke-Kaiser is a lawyer and certified healing practitioner for psychotherapy whose professional path was transformed after meeting Dr. Peter A. Levine. Since then, her work has been dedicated to trauma healing through Somatic Experiencing® (SE™). She has collaborated with Dr. Levine in trainings across Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, and Gaza, and today teaches SE Professional Training at all levels in Germany and throughout Europe.

A founding member of the Board of the German Association of Somatic Experiencing, Ursula is committed to advancing SE within the medical health system. Alongside her mentorship with Dr. Levine, she maintains a Somatic Experiencing® practice in Stuttgart. She is also a mother and grandmother, bringing warmth and depth of life experience to her teaching and practice.

Her background includes earlier studies in law and years of work as a judge, followed by extensive training in body and breath therapy, art therapy, and Jungian psychotherapy. She is engaged in Zen meditation and has completed the Nondual Teacher Training with Dr. Peter Fenner.

*Ergos Institute of Somatic Education is not managing this course. For more information, please email the SE Norway host.
*This Master Class is for SEPs and SE students who have finished Beginning Level.

RECORDING INCLUDED

Conscious Life Presents

2026 Trauma Super Conference

Featuring Dr Levine

FREE for a Limited Time
January 26th - February 1st, 2026
Online

Nearly half of all adults are carrying unresolved trauma—often rooted in early life stress—without ever realizing it.

When it goes unrecognized, this hidden imprint can quietly drive chronic exhaustion, anxiety, burnout, relationship challenges, and more.

Here’s the empowering truth:
 The effects trauma has on your mind, nervous system, and body aren’t always permanent. They can be undone—opening the door to deep healing and a level of ease and vitality you may have never imagined possible.

That’s why we’re thrilled to extend an invitation to the 2026 Trauma Super Conference, taking place FREE online from January 26th - February 1st.

In this unique event, over 60 internationally recognized trauma experts will dive into the many ways trauma affects us and offer proven tools and strategies to guide your healing journey.

We’re talking brilliant thinkers and healers like Dr Peter Levine, Thomas Hübl, Matthias Barker, Dr Fleet Maull, Irene Lyon, Dr David Perlmutter, John Assaraf, Anna Runkle, Dr Pedram Shojai, Jason Prall, Dr Avery Neal, Trudy Scott, Dr Rick Hanson, Britt Piper, Laura Frontiero — just to name a few!

Here’s a sneak-peek of the daily topics the experts will cover…

Day 1: Impacts Of Trauma: Understanding how trauma manifests as symptoms in the brain, body and behaviors

Day 2: Methodologies for healing trauma part 1: Therapies designed to help you feel whole again

Day 3: Collective Trauma: Understanding intergenerational, cultural, social and institutional trauma

Day 4: Functional Medicine: Supporting our healing from the inside out using nutrition, supplements and mindfulness

Day 5: Relational Trauma: When trauma happens in our close relationships and families, it requires a relational approach

Day 6: Trauma and the body: Trauma healing is more than understanding, it requires full body integration

Day 7: Methodologies for healing trauma part 2: Somatic approaches and therapies designed for treating trauma

It’s called a “Super Conference” because it offers thorough and groundbreaking approaches to healing trauma, shared by a host of brilliant doctors, therapists, researchers, bestselling authors, and more.

Plus, in addition to these exclusive expert interviews, each day will include yoga, meditation, and mindfulness sessions designed to offer you immediate support as you embark on your healing journey!  

P.S. When you sign up now you’ll be given INSTANT access to 6 FREE GIFTS including the following exclusive video sessions…

• What Supports Cultivating Nervous System Safety - Dr Pedram Shojai

• Breaking Free from Your Old Trauma Story - Anna Runkle

• The Trauma–Boundary Connection - Dr Avery Neal

• Vagus Nerve Regulation for Trauma Recovery -  Dr Arielle Schwartz

• An Autobiography of Trauma - Dr Peter Levine

• How to Decode Your Trauma - Alex Howard Webinar

Presented by Conscious Life & Alex Howard Group - please click the button below for registration & customer service.

AVAIYA University Presents
Healing Childhood Trauma & Toxic Shame

FREE ONLINE featuring
Ergos SE™ Faculty Dr Ian Macnaughton

presenting
Working to Heal Childhood Trauma & Toxic Shame

FREE for a limited time
Online

*Your Free 5 days of viewing begin three days after you register
*Replays will be available for 24 hours after each class airs

It’s often said that time heals all wounds, but for many of us, the echoes of childhood trauma don't just fade away—they secretly settle deep within us. 

Over time, this can manifest as an inability to trust, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or a nagging voice constantly telling you that you aren’t "enough." 

If this sounds familiar, please know that you are not broken.

These behaviors were survival strategies your younger self developed to stay safe, to keep the peace, or to maintain connection in an environment that felt unstable. It was your armor.

But the armor that once protected you is now keeping you from the connection, clarity and peace you deserve.

You don’t have to carry this forever, and you are not alone.

Healing Childhood Trauma & Toxic Shame is brought to you by iKE ALLEN & Ande Anderson, Co-Owners of AVAIYA University (creators & teachers of transformational courses, books, films and online events such as Somatic Solutions For Chronic Pain, Overcoming Codependency, Breaking Free From Toxic Relationships, and many more.)

Here’s just some of what you’ll learn from 20+ trauma experts, renowned psychologists, somatic practitioners & more:

• Breaking the Shame Spell: Reclaim the authentic self that's been stuck living beneath the layered stories of unworthiness.

• Create Your Childhood Trauma & Toxic Shame Toolkit: Shift from surviving your past to thriving in your present with expert-led trauma release practices.

• Dispelling The "I'm Not Good Enough" Belief: Understand why shame thrives in the dark and how the courageous act of vulnerability can instantly dissolve its power.

• Becoming the Parent You Needed: Discover how to give your inner child & teen the safety, love, and belonging they’ve been waiting for.

• Understanding the Inner Critic & Urge to Check Out: Heal the shame of taking up space and unlearn the survival mechanism of "disappearing" to stay safe.

• Healing the Mother Wound: Address the complex pain of dysfunctional maternal relationships and begin rebuilding your self-worth.

• Outside of the Box Self-Care: Explore mindful ways to treat yourself with grace, quiet the judge within, and reshape your old wounds into wisdom!

• Beyond The Survival Mindset: Practical strategies to help you move beyond merely coping and start living a vibrant, empowered, fulfilling life!

• Overcoming The Narcissistic Parent Curse: Learn essential steps to reclaim your identity, rebuild autonomy, and find your footing after the storm of narcissistic abuse.

• The Physiology of Peace: Learn how to settle your overactive stress response with somatic practices and find the 'off switch' for stored trauma.

• Healing Your Inner Child: A compassionate guide to connecting with and healing the wounded parts of your younger self.

• Coming Home To Yourself: Use gentle tools to cultivate safety from within and find your way back to your true self, beyond the pain of your past.

It's okay to feel safe & empowered,

Ergos Team

P.S. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of adults have carried some form of childhood trauma into their adult lives. You’re far from alone in this journey. Please share the love and forward this email to your friends, family, and community - you never know who might be silently carrying this weight. Thank you for helping us break the cycle and heal together! 

After registering, look for AVAIYA’s email with specific details on accessing these transformative classes.

Share the love and forward this page to your friends, family, and community – anyone you think would benefit. Thank you for helping us transform lives.

Please click the link to register or for customer service from AVAIYA.

AVAIYA University Presents
Navigating Difficult Family Dynamics

FREE ONLINE featuring
Ergos SE™ Faculty Joshua Sylvae, PhD

presenting
A Sane Family in an Insane World

The holiday season can be challenging for many. The rhythms and patterns of daily life shift, and often we find ourselves needing more support than we have space for.

If this resonates, we invite you to take a moment to tune in to AVAIYA’s Free Online Event: Navigating Difficult Family Dynamics.

Take the time now—to have a better time with your loved ones.

After registering, look for AVAIYA’s email with specific details on accessing these transformative classes.

Share the love and forward this page to your friends, family, and community – anyone you think would benefit. Thank you for helping us transform lives.

Please click the link to register or for customer service from AVAIYA.

Evolution of Psychotherapy
40th Anniversary Celebration: The Legends of Psychotherapy

December 14, 2025 | Preconference
December 15-18, 2025 | Anaheim, CA

Dr Levine is honored to be speaking at Evolution 2025 this December in Anaheim—one of the most influential conferences bringing together the legends of psychotherapy. This is a must-attend event for anyone looking to deepen their practice and stay at the forefront of the field.

Learn from the legends. Celebrate foundational principles. Improve your practice.

Join Evolution in 2025 for the 40th-anniversary celebration — back in Anaheim, CA! Back and better than ever to celebrate this triumphant milestone of the most anticipated and beloved event for psychotherapy education alongside the greatest minds in psychotherapy. Participate in a forum that brings together the living legends in the field, plus breakout thinkers and on-the-ground professionals who will challenge you to become a more advanced clinician and reinvigorate your passion for the field. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out, this event is not to be missed.

Why Attend Evolution 2025?

A ‘persistent and consistent offering of the very best of the field’

The 2025 Evolution of Psychotherapy meeting is a golden opportunity for mental health professionals. 

Professor and therapist Gary Quan: "Evolution brings together the world’s best career psychotherapists, providing a unique opportunity to meet, learn from, and collaborate with the best clinicians in our field. Evolution’s 2025 faculty lineup is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity we may not have again, and I am excited about the possibilities around this year’s event – for myself, my colleagues, and the students who are entering the field of psychotherapy."

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Presented by the Milton H Erickson Foundation

Mindvalley Spiritual Summit
Nov 22nd - 23rd
Los Angeles, CA

featuring Dr Levine on Nov 23rd

In-Person & Online

Free Your Body from the Past: A Somatic Path to Healing

Peter A. Levine, PhD, developer of Somatic Experiencing®, brings a unique perspective to the relationship between healing, presence, and spiritual growth. His work shows that many of the barriers we encounter on our inner path are not failures of will or intention—they are the remnants of unfinished biological responses held in the nervous system. When these patterns soften and resolve, our capacity for clarity, connection, and expansion naturally increases.

In this keynote, Dr. Levine will explore how physiological safety forms the foundation for meaningful transformation. He will explain how the body’s instinctive responses shape our inner experience, and how a regulated nervous system allows us to access deeper states of awareness with steadiness rather than overwhelm. This is where the body and mind begin to work together rather than against each other.

A key part of the session includes a live Somatic Experiencing® demonstration, where Dr. Levine will guide a participant through a gentle process of tracking sensations and observing the body’s natural movement toward balance. This real-time experience illustrates how releasing old survival patterns frees energy that can support insight, intuition, and a greater sense of aliveness.

Dr. Levine’s teaching reminds us that spiritual growth is not about rising above the body—it begins by returning to it. When the nervous system is no longer bound to the past, it becomes a powerful ally on the path toward presence, coherence, and deeper inner expansion.

The Body–Mind Bridge: How Physiological Safety Supports Spiritual Expansion

You’ve consumed countless spiritual teachings over the course of your life. But have you truly embodied them? `

We collect insights faster than we can integrate them. We meditate, we read, we practice… but rarely do we give our bodies, energy, and emotions the space to catch up with what the mind knows.

That’s why embodiment matters. It’s the bridge between understanding and transformation.

The Mindvalley Spiritual Summit 2025 is a 2-day immersive experience designed to help you close that gap, to move from learning spirituality to living it.

Join 9 world-class teachers, @vishen, @drtaraswart, @mariediamondofficial, @the.new.dawn, @leeholdenofficial, @reganhillyer, @shihengyi.online, @drpeteralevine, and more, as they guide you through a complete framework for awakening: from Qi Gong and somatic release to Kundalini flow, trauma healing, and quantum consciousness work.

Online attendance is available FREE for a limited time.

Presented by Mindvalley

Trauma in the Public Eye VII

A Live 3-Day Experiential Workshop


Presented by Betsy Polatin & Peter A. Levine, PhD

Downtown Los Angeles, CA | November 7–9, 2025


After powerful sessions in London, New York, Los Angeles, and online, this will be the seventh time this workshop is offered by Betsy and Peter. Back by popular demand, Session VII builds on the same successful format, now with expanded content, deeper practices, and a full three-day experience!

Space is Limited
Detailed Information Below…

Entertaining. Healing. One-of-a-Kind.

Being seen can be exhilarating—and terrifying. Whether you're stepping on stage, speaking publicly, or simply entering a room full of people, the nervous system often tells a deeper story than words ever could.

For performers, therapists, teachers, leaders, and anyone navigating visibility, the demand to "show up" often collides with the body’s instinct to protect.

In Trauma in the Public Eye, internationally renowned Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) founder Peter A. Levine, PhD, and master movement and breath educator Betsy Polatin, MFA, SEP, team up to offer an experiential 3-day immersion into the powerful intersection of trauma, embodiment, and public presence.

What to Expect

This is a live, interactive, and highly experiential in-person workshop with supervision.

This dynamic, live workshop blends:

• Engaging lecture and theory

• Live demonstrations with participants

• Group exercises and breakout sessions

• Optional movement and performance-based practices

• Opportunities to explore your own comfort with being seen

You’ll learn to:

• Recognize how trauma patterns show up in the body

• Release freeze, collapse, and performance anxiety

• Cultivate embodied confidence, vocal freedom, and authentic presence

• Deepen nervous system awareness through movement and breath

• Reclaim your unique vitality—even in high-pressure moments

Who Is It For?

This program is open to everyone—actors, musicians, dancers, educators, therapists, facilitators, and anyone who engages publicly and wants to feel more alive, expressive, and grounded.

• For an actor, this workshop raises the question – How can I make a character truly believable?

• For a musician – How can I express the music most authentically?

• For everyone – How can I learn to be comfortable with myself as I interact with others? How can I feel safer in public?

After all, aren’t we all performers in our own public eye?

Choose your level of participation

• Be a witness, holding presence and learning through observation

• Join practice groups to explore embodiment at your own pace

• Or volunteer for live demonstrations with Peter or Betsy — a powerful opportunity for personal insight and growth

Some participants may choose to perform a short monologue, song, or speech in small groups, and others may explore a large group demonstration on “stage”—all is optional; participating as an observer is welcome. You do not need to perform or share a personal trauma history to fully benefit from this work.
The only requirement is a desire to explore and expand.

Workshop Includes

• Three days of in-person teaching with guided practice


• Participant demonstrations with Peter and Betsy


• Small group breakout sessions with Master Level SE™ Assistants

• Informational handouts
 & resources

• 
Introduction to SE video w/ Dr Levine to help prepare for the workshop


• Onsite bookstore featuring Peter & Betsy’s writings

• A celebratory movement and dance party

• Workshop Certificate

Workshop Schedule

November 7th – 9th, 2025

Daily 10:00am - 5:00pm
Lunch 1:00pm - 2:30pm
*The workshop room is closed at lunch for individual sessions.

The daily schedule rotates between didactic lectures, demonstrations, and interactive practice groups.

Book signing with Peter & Betsy:
Nov 9th at 5:00pm
Books are available for purchase each day.

45-minute Individual Sessions with SE practitioners 1:30pm - 2:15pm:
*Additional cost
Available in the large group room at lunch (spread out - not complete privacy)
Bring lunch for 1:00pm - 1:30pm on the day you book your session.

Betsy & Peter

Betsy Polatin, MFA, SEP, AmSAT, is an internationally recognized somatic educator, author, and performance coach with over four decades of experience in movement, breath, and trauma healing. A master teacher of the Alexander Technique, she integrates Somatic Experiencing®, spiritual inquiry, and neuroscience to support personal transformation, authentic expression, and nervous system regulation.

Betsy is the author of The Actor’s Secret, Humanual: A Manual for Being Human, and her latest book, Exploracises, a practical guide of movement-based explorations for embodied healing and self-discovery. She has taught at Boston University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the Smithsonian Institute, and internationally. Betsy collaborates frequently with Dr. Gabor Maté and Dr. Peter A. Levine, among other leading figures in wellness, and works with private clients across the performing arts, healing, and therapeutic communities.

Peter A Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine recently finished his Autobiography, An Autobiography of Trauma, A Healing Journey, and is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 30 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.

Join us in Los Angeles this Fall

We welcome you to this unique opportunity to reclaim power, presence, and joy in the spotlight—and beyond.

Registration Open

Current Price $935

Space is limited

Because of the depth, intimacy, and physical nature of the experiential practices and demonstrations in this workshop, Trauma in the Public Eye will be offered in person only. We’ve found that the safety, connection, and nuance of this work are best supported in a shared, embodied learning environment. For those unable to attend in person, we hope to offer an online adaptation in the future.

Important Information

*Open to healing practitioners and the public.
*This workshop is in person.
*This workshop will not be online.
*Please register using the email from which you would like to receive correspondence.
*Upon completing registration, you will receive an email with a confirmation receipt.
*About 3 days before the workshop, we’ll send you a Welcome Email with everything you need to attend—including venue information and preparation materials.

Payment-Support
Partial financial support is available to BIPOC practitioners experiencing systemic discrimination and/or practitioners working primarily with underserved populations (clinics, reservations, volunteer work, etc.). To submit your qualifications, please email programs@somaticexperiencing.com.

Workshop Location

Skyline Loft

Downtown Fashion District

224 E. 11th St., Ste 601

Los Angeles, 90015

6th floor - we will provide the building entrance code the day prior,

(parking information)

Note—the LA Fashion District looks a bit gritty, but we are confident in the venue’s suitability for this workshop. Plus, there is lots of parking and food within walking distance of the space.

(hotels, restaurants, groceries, notable locations)

Curious about the space?

Watch Kate Hudson bring the Skyline Loft to life—the same studio we’ll be in this November!

Workshop Hosted by Ergos Institute

Program Director

Melissa A Stager

Administrative Support

Sherri Pula

AVAIYA University Presents
Healing Betrayal and Abandonment Wounds

Free for 5-days
Viewing begins three days after you Register

FREE ONLINE for a limited time

Featuring Ergos SE Faculty Euphrasia Nyaki presenting The Complexity of Betrayal & Abandonment Wounds

Have you ever been blindsided by betrayal or left feeling completely abandoned by someone you love? If so, you're not alone. 

The pain can feel overwhelming, and it can be hard to move forward in life.

Signs that you have unhealed Betrayal & Abandonment wounds might include:

• Low self-worth

• Trust issues

• Paranoia

• Separation anxiety

• Intrusive thoughts and images

• Irritability or angry outbursts

• Difficulty sleeping

• Fear & anxiety  

• Social withdrawal   

• Nightmares or flashbacks 

• Feeling emotionally numb

• Shame & depression

• Headaches, migraines, digestive upset & fatigue

If any of these symptoms hit home for you, the good news is that you don't have to carry this burden alone.

Join a FREE online series called Healing Betrayal & Abandonment Wounds from AVAIYA University. 

This online series is brought to you by iKE ALLEN & Ande Anderson, Co-Owners of AVAIYA University (creators & teachers of transformational courses, books, films, and online events such as Overcoming Childhood Trauma, Breaking Free From Toxic Relationships, Overcoming Emotional Abuse, and many more).

During this free 5-day series, you'll learn from over 30 experts, therapists, and speakers - including me! We'll be sharing tools and strategies to help you heal, reclaim your power, and finally enjoy the respectful, loving relationships you deserve. 

Ergos SE Faculty, Efu Nyaki be speaking about The Complexity of Betrayal & Abandonment Wounds.

Here’s just some of what you’ll learn from over 30 relationship experts, trauma-informed therapists, best-selling authors & more:

• Finding Freedom From Anxiety, Self-Doubt, Depression, Trauma, Trust Issues, Hypervigilance & More: Learn mind-body strategies & practices to alleviate your most painful emotional challenges.

• Create Your Betrayal & Abandonment Healing Toolkit: Learn methods and practices to release your trauma and free yourself once and for all.

• Why Betrayal Leaves You Furious, Sickened & Stuck: Discover how to break free with practical steps & self-compassion.

• When Old Wounds Still Run The Show: How childhood memories shape our adult relationship patterns.

• Rebuilding Financial Trust After Betrayal: Discover practical steps you can take to start feeling more confident and in control of your money.

• Healing Through Divorce: How to find strength and clarity & recognize there is hope beyond betrayal.

• Overcoming Obstacles On The Road To Healing: Learn how to navigate common roadblocks to healing from betrayal trauma & integrity abuse.

• Reclaiming the Self: How abandonment wounds lead to self-betrayal and steps & strategies to finally leave your pain in the past.

• Healing Emotional Wounds: Explore modalities like Mindfulness, Tapping, Reiki, Somatics & Inner Bonding, to heal your heart.

• Brain Network Science: How it can very quickly soothe old wounds & help you move from chaos to clarity!

• Resolve The Trauma Stored In Your Brain & Body: Learn how to decrease Complex PTSD symptoms like fear, shame, distrust, guilt & more.

• How to practice self-compassion, self-respect, quiet the inner critic, turn your wounds into wisdom & so much more!

This is your chance to turn pain into a springboard for change.

After registering, look for AVAIYA’s email with specific details on accessing these transformative classes.

Share the love and forward this page to your friends, family, and community – anyone you think would benefit. Thank you for helping us transform lives (-:

Please click the link to register or for customer service.

Conference In-Person & Online

Barcelona 2025 Trauma Congress

Dr Levine Keynote: Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma on Oct 5th

October 3rd - 5th, 2025

Somatic Experiencing®(SE™), developed by Dr. Levine, is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to the treatment of trauma and other stress related disorders. SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, fawn, freeze, or collapse responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It offers practical skills appropriate to various healing and helping professions, including medical and mental health providers, first responders, educators, and more.

Trauma can come from many things like war and abuse, but it can also come from a difficult birth, an automobile accident, loss of a loved one, or even an invisible threat that stokes fear. These protective mechanisms can get stuck in the body and many become frozen in the past, unable to be fully present in the here and now, and unable to move forward in life with ease and joy. For some, traumatic experiences may lead to chronic fear, anxiety, and depression, as well as various physical symptoms, like chronic pain, IBS, etc.

During this unique program, through personal stories and lecture, Dr. Levine will guide us in how the SE approach gently facilitates the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms, allowing us and our clients to better manage stressful times without overload, burnout, or regretful transgressions.  

•   Define how trauma responses are a set of defensive bodily reactions meant to protect us and how they may present in a patient.

•   Identify how trauma-based perceptions remain fundamentally unchanged until the internal experience of the body changes.

•   Demonstrate various techniques to aid with nervous system regulation.

Customer Service

This program is hosted by Esstim - please contact them for questions.