Certified Trauma-Informed Somatic Life Coach ACCREDITED

Recognize the core presupposition that mind-body healing mechanisms—encompassing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels—are innate and activated when we get out of the way.

Emerging in the late 1960s as the fourth force, transpersonal psychology emphasizes consciousness and the higher self, expands mind, body, and spirit, and highlights collective unity and eastern influences.

Explore three core transpersonal models—Maslow's hierarchy with self-transcendence, Groff's Holotropic breathwork, and Wilber's integral theory—integrated with somatic trauma-informed tools to ground spiritual development in client healing.

Explore the six principles of trauma-informed coaching—safety, trust, peer support, collaboration, cultural responsiveness, and resilience—to guide transpersonal somatic coaching with client-led empowerment.

Practice somatic therapy to release trauma energy by breaking experience into small chunks, one sensation at a time, drawing on somatic experiencing and Polyvagal theory.

Explore polyvagal theory, ventral vagal social engagement, and dorsal vagal shutdown in trauma. Apply somatic techniques inspired by Levine, Ogden, and Hakomi to restore nervous system regulation.

Explore Hakomi therapy, a somatic mindfulness method that uses presence and awareness to reveal unconscious blocks and guide slow, focusing attention toward the felt sense and soul alignment.

Develop your therapeutic intuition by clearing limiting beliefs and developmental blocks to reconnect with your higher self and inner wisdom, learning to sense non-physical essence and intuition for client work.

Learn to clear blocks blocking your intuition by owning your emotions, using intention and mindful breath, and releasing triggers through somatic awareness and energy boundaries.

Develop intuition through somatic body-based awareness, daily body sensing, and present-moment mindfulness; Learn to distinguish higher self guidance from trauma-driven thoughts and release blocks.

Learn a simple intuition exercise that uses hand sensations to detect yes and no body responses, connecting with the higher self; grounded in dowsing and applied kinesiology.

Develop intuition by tuning into the body's responses, moving from yes-no checks to broader questions. Assess energy, eye cues, tone, touch, and boundaries to guide clients with higher-self language.

Guide students through a somatic intuition exercise to read bodily signals, using breath and hand awareness to differentiate yes, no, or neutral feelings for food choices and client scenarios.

Develop therapeutic intuition by asking questions and using the body's responses to align the higher self with the lower self and clarify client needs in sessions.

Explore the VAC model from NLP, identifying your dominant visual, auditory, or kinesthetic mode to enhance healing, learning, and intuition in somatic therapy through a practical quiz.

Cultivate a loving presence within a nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship that acts as a container for client nervous system regulation, boundaries, humility, and healing through mindful validation and collaborative experimentation.

Build immediate safety and trust by establishing rapport with clients, opening a path to healing. Tune into resonance to deepen connection, align intuition, and support deeper healing.

Develop the felt sense to access inner wisdom and healing power. Recognize the felt shift as your body signals progress through an inner process rooted in mind-body connection.

Develop the ability to identify and expand the window of tolerance, downregulating hyper and hypo arousal through grounding and breath, to regulate clients and integrate spiritual experiences.

Explore core somatic therapy techniques: somatic exploration, tracking body sensations, and slowing down and holding space to activate the right brain and ventral vagal safety for healing.

Guide clients through Hakomi mindfulness: report present experience, enter calm inward state, and speak honestly about painful emotions. Foster body awareness, safety, and a curious, slow approach to healing.

Use a card-based, two-model framework to guide clients through healing, soul rectifications, and inner alignment with their higher self, starting with clearing space, accessing the body, resonating, and deepening.

Guide yourself through the card model's four modes: clearing space, accessing, resonance, and deepening—using breath, body awareness, and inner guidance to support somatic healing.

discover the five movements of healing for transpersonal coaching, focusing on the five c's—caring and clarifying—used with the card model to guide client growth.

Learn to clear blocks, calm the nervous system, and connect with higher self by guiding clients through body sensations, resonance checks, and energy release.

Master reflective listening as a somatic, nonjudgmental skill that reflects clients' thoughts, feelings, and meanings to foster resonance, presence, and care.

Discover how to select and use soul resonant affirmations aligned with each soul quality in somatic transpersonal coaching, integrating them through body sensing and pauses to deepen healing.

Learn how the higher self guides life through seven soul emanations to trigger rectifications and restore balanced self-expression for healing in coaching.

Explore the first soul emanation: love and loving kindness, the foundation of all life, guiding giving, receiving, and altruism while addressing blocks and the path to unconditional love.

Explore the balance of restraint and discipline as channels for love, justice, and growth, highlighting healthy boundaries, avoiding rigidity and pathology, and grounding judgment in humility.

Live from truth by balancing love and restraint, rectifying ego, and embracing compassion with authentic presence, developing boundaries, reducing projection, and connecting to a higher reality beyond self.

Explore endurance as a soulful blend of patience, persistence, and determination, grounded in truth and love, to sustain reliable long term growth and steady progress.

Humility is a luminous quality of the soul that lets us yield without shrinking, recognizing our beauty and gifts, not ego-based, in service to others and something higher.

Bonding connects our self and others, transcending duality to form a foundation for growth through unconditional love. Balance prevents ego-based dependency and codependency, preserving self-love and trust.

Explore nobility, sovereignty, and leadership as a passive, selfless expression that transcends ego, balancing inner confidence with humility, love, and responsible authority for authentic guidance.

Begin sessions by choosing between two entryways: addressing current friction for healing or somatic checking in to reveal what arises in the body.

End each coaching session with a grounding, balanced close, using a warning before the finish, somatic integration, and a simple, individualized homework plan to support continued healing.

Practice somatic mindfulness to clear surface noise, access body sensations, and own intrinsic value to heal patterns of feeling unvalued by the external world.

Explore releasing external validation and affirming true value through somatic awareness, inner-child healing, and higher-self guidance to affirm I am worthy, I have value independent of others.

Develop self-worth and leadership through somatic process and psychoeducation, using reflective listening to access the body, clear blocks, and connect to higher truth and unconditional worth.

Learn how deepening somatic experience with clients expands sensations, resolves resistance, and reinforces safety to trigger limbic emotional arousal and rewire the nervous system.

Learn to clear blocks with clients by cultivating ownership and clear intention, guided by the felt sense in the body to release recurring patterns and rewire response.

Discover how to calm the nervous system by establishing physical and emotional safety, creating a compassionate container, and guiding breath awareness to lengthen the exhale for healing.

Guide clients through the higher self–lower self dialogue with somatic tools. Use visualizations and affirmations to anchor embodiment and alignment.

Explore Shelly's case study, addressing boundary issues, overwhelmed feelings, and burnout in daily life. Refine boundaries through truth, unconditional self-worth, and love to restore inner guidance, sovereignty, and balanced energy.

Exploring a case study with Dave, somatic work shifts financial anxiety toward unconditional care through the higher self guiding the lower self and reconnecting with a remembered father.

Clarifies the scope of practice for somatic transpersonal coaching, outlining when to use somatic awareness and trauma-informed psychoeducation, focus on present goals, and refer out for mental health disorders.

Complete your somatic transpersonal life coaching journey by integrating tools and personal healing for authentic client care. To receive your inner wellsprings academy certificate, follow two steps.