Trauma Training
Somatic Trauma Therapy Training
Embodiment, Yoga-Informed Interventions, and Nervous System Regulation
Trainer: Rebecca Kase
On-Demand: Available with lifetime access for asynchronous learning. | This course was recorded on March 13th, 2025.
Somatic interventions are some of the most powerful tools in trauma therapy, and some of the most underused. Not because therapists don't believe in them, but because most training programs don't go deep enough to make them feel clinically grounded and practically usable.
This somatic trauma therapy training with Rebecca Kase is an experiential, on-demand course that integrates breathwork, trauma-informed yoga, vagal stimulation techniques, somatic tracking, and mindfulness-based interventions into a cohesive clinical framework. Drawing from yogic and Buddhist traditions alongside contemporary somatic therapy research, the course also examines the cultural lineage of embodiment practices, including how colonization and misappropriation have shaped their use in modern therapeutic contexts.
This is an experiential training. Come ready to practice the interventions as you learn them. No yoga teacher certification is required.
Practical Interventions You Will Learn
This training gives you a hands-on toolkit of somatic interventions you can bring directly into trauma therapy, grounded in nervous system science and adapted for the everyday therapist.
In this somatic trauma therapy training, you'll learn how to:
- Apply vagal stimulation techniques to enhance parasympathetic activation and expand your clients' window of tolerance for internal experience
- Use pendulation and titration to safely regulate and process trauma responses, moving clients between states of activation and relative ease without overwhelm
- Practice somatic tracking to help clients develop interoceptive awareness and build a curious, compassionate relationship with their body's signals
- Integrate breathwork exercises that promote vagal functioning and autonomic resilience, with direct application to emotional dysregulation and hyperarousal
- Apply trauma-informed yoga interventions in your therapy practice, including supportive postures designed to enhance parasympathetic functioning without requiring formal yoga teacher training
- Use mindfulness and therapeutic presence as active clinical tools for symptom reduction, co-regulation, and creating the conditions for somatic healing
What You'll Learn In This Advanced Trauma Training
This training bridges the gap between traditional somatic therapy research and the body-centered wisdom of yogic and Buddhist traditions, giving you both the theoretical grounding and the hands-on practice to bring embodiment interventions confidently into your clinical work.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the historical and cultural lineage of embodiment practices, including their roots in yogic, Buddhist, and somatic traditions, and explain how colonization and misappropriation have shaped their use in modern therapeutic contexts
- Analyze the relationship between physiological state and psychological symptoms, and apply this understanding to how you orient clients to their body's role in trauma healing
- Assess vagal stimulation techniques for their role in supporting parasympathetic functioning and nervous system regulation
- Apply at least two embodiment interventions to reduce symptoms of sympathetic hyperarousal, including breathwork and somatic tracking approaches
- Analyze at least two trauma-informed yoga techniques and integrate them into phase-oriented trauma therapy without formal yoga certification
- Use mindfulness-based approaches to reduce distressing symptoms, with attention to therapeutic presence as the foundation of an attuned somatic practice
Who Is This Training For
This course was designed for trauma therapists who want to integrate body-based interventions into their existing clinical approach, and is open to any helping professional curious about somatic and embodiment practices. No yoga training or somatic certification is required.
Somatic Interventions for Trauma Therapy is a strong fit if you are:
- A trauma therapist who knows the research case for somatic work but hasn't found a training that makes the specific techniques feel clinically grounded and immediately usable in session
- Interested in integrating breathwork, trauma-informed yoga, or somatic tracking into your practice but unsure how to introduce body-based interventions without formal yoga or somatic certification
- Wanting to understand the nervous system science behind embodiment practices, including vagal stimulation and parasympathetic activation, rather than just learning techniques in isolation
- Looking for a training that takes the cultural lineage of somatic and yogic traditions seriously, including honest engagement with colonization and misappropriation in therapeutic contexts
- An EMDR therapist or practitioner of another trauma modality who wants a complementary somatic toolkit for stabilization, resourcing, and nervous system regulation work
- Seeking NBCC or ASWB/ACE continuing education in somatic trauma therapy in a flexible, experiential, on-demand format with 6 CEs
About Your Trainer, Rebecca Kase, LCSW
Rebecca Kase is the founder of Trauma Therapist Institute and one of the most recognized EMDR trainers in the United States. A licensed clinical social worker, EMDRIA-approved professional EMDR consultant and trainer, and registered yoga teacher, Rebecca has been working in trauma counseling since 2006.
She is the author of Polyvagal Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing and the Applied Polyvagal Theory Flipchart. Her clinical specialties include complex trauma, dissociation, and the integration of somatic approaches, yoga therapy, ego state work, and Polyvagal Theory into EMDR practice. She has worked with veterans and adults with Complex PTSD across both nonprofit and private settings.
Rebecca is known for making complex clinical content clear, engaging, and immediately usable. Her registered yoga teacher credential is not background decoration here. The yoga-informed interventions in this training come from someone who has practiced and taught these approaches clinically for years. Expect a training that is rigorous, embodied, and yes, occasionally funny.
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