Trauma Training

Somatic Trauma Therapy Training

Embodiment, Yoga-Informed Interventions, and Nervous System Regulation

Trainer: Rebecca Kase, MSW, LCSW

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.

I'm Ready to Move Beyond Talk Therapy

Rebecca Kase 1 Trainer Trauma Therapist Institute

Why TTI

Built for Learning. Designed for Belonging.

Shame-Free Space for Learning™

Because the best learning happens when you feel safe. Ask freely, show up fully, and learn in a relational, non-judgmental environment built for practitioners like you.

Expert Clinical Training

Expect real case examples, clear guidance, and a teaching style that makes even complex topics feel approachable so you can confidently use what you learn in session right away.

Where Learning Meets Community

Join a community of clinicians learning side by side, sharing real case insights and peer support so you can grow your skills with confidence alongside your peers in meaningful connection.

Practical Skills

Practical Interventions You'll 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 Get

What's Waiting for You Inside This Training

Clinical Competencies in Treating Dissociative Identities (EMDR)

Vagal stimulation toolkit

Apply techniques that enhance parasympathetic activation and expand your client's window of tolerance.

Pendulation and titration skills

Move clients between activation and ease without overwhelm during somatic work.

Somatic tracking practice

Help clients build interoceptive awareness and a curious relationship with body signals.

Trauma-informed yoga interventions

Use supportive postures in session, no yoga teacher certification required.

Breathwork for autonomic resilience

Apply specific breathwork exercises to support vagal functioning and address hyperarousal and emotional dysregulation.

Cultural lineage of embodiment practices

Engage honestly with the yogic and Buddhist roots of somatic work, including colonization and misappropriation.

Lifetime on-demand access

Go at your own pace and return to the material whenever a client's somatic work calls for it.

Free community membership

Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.

Is This For You?

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

I'm Ready to Build a Somatic Toolkit

Meet Your Trainer

About Your Trainer

Rebecca Kase

MSW, 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.

Additional Information

Course Details

Agenda

Cultural lineage and orientation to Embodiment Practices
Vagal stimulation techniques
Titration, pendulation, and building integrative capacity
Somatic tracking
Somatic resourcing techniques for interoceptive awareness
Mindfulness techniques for anxiety, depression, and trauma
Trauma-informed yoga for the everyday therapist
Wrap Up

Learning Objectives

Describe the historical lineage of embodiment practices and their relationship to trauma healing.
Analyze the relationship between physiological state and psychological symptoms.
Assess vagal stimulation techniques for parasympathetic functioning.
Analyze mindfulness-based techniques to reduce distressing symptoms and overwhelm.
Analyze at least two trauma-informed yoga techniques.
Apply at least two embodiment interventions to reduce and symptoms of sympathetic hyper-arousal.

Prerequisites

This is not an EMDR training.

None! While this course was designed with therapists in mind, many professionals can benefit including but not limited to:
- Mental Health Professionals
- Teachers and Educators
- Healers
- Yoga Teachers
- Healthcare Professionals
- First Responders
- Lawyers and Law Professionals

Continuing Education

6 CEs are available upon completion of all course material.

Trauma Therapist Institute is an approved continuing education provider. ACE and NBCC CEs are available for this course. APA CEs are not available for this course.

Participants must complete the full training to receive credit.

ACE Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute, #1869, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/16/25 - 1/16/28. Social workers completing this course receive 6 clinical continuing education credits.

NBCC Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7033. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Kase & CO is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Course Completion

To receive a CE certificate, participants must complete the entire course, complete the post-test with a score of 80% or above, and complete the course evaluation. You may retake the post-test as needed. Once completed, a CE certificate will auto-populate to your online account.

Cancellation Policy

Please reference our cancellation policy here (bottom section of this page).

Take The Next Step

Ready to Begin?

Move Beyond Talk Therapy

You know the research case for somatic work. What you need is a training that makes the specific techniques feel grounded and usable in session. This course gives you vagal stimulation, pendulation and titration, somatic tracking, breathwork, and trauma-informed yoga interventions, plus the embodied practice to use them with clinical confidence.

Lifetime access. ASWB and NBCC CEs. Experiential, yoga-informed somatic training from one of the most recognized EMDR trainers in the U.S.