Trauma 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.

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

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.