Healing from Trauma - 4 Week Somatic Therapy Course / 23 Feb - 16 Mar 2023 / Cork City

Cultivating Safety within our Bodies

23 February - 16 March 2023 | Thursdays, 7pm - 9pm

This four week course offers you a warm and supportive space to deepen your understanding of the nature of stress and trauma, while offering you somatic practices and resources for regulating your nervous system and supporting you in cultivating feelings of safety within your own self and coming into a more kind and nourishing relationship with your own self.

Weaving together somatic psychotherapy and breath and movement practices, you are invited to slow down and attune to the language deep inside your body- coming to know your bodily sensations, listening to your patterns of holding and tension and the ways in which your body may be stuck in fight/flight/freeze/fawn survival responses as a result of stress or past trauma.

By tending to your body in this way, you will deepen your capacity to listen to your own needs, strengthen your boundaries and come to know what can support and resource your body’s holding patterns. This supports you in regulating your nervous system, cultivating feelings of safety within and coming into a more compassionate relationship with your own self.

Learning to inhabit the felt sense of your body is also a doorway into presence, a way for you to access your own aliveness and creativity and to come to know what brings you joy and vitality.

In this course you will:

• Learn about the nature of stress and trauma

• Learn to identify your body’s holding patterns of fight/flight/freeze/fawn

• Learn about the role of the nervous system in regulating your emotions

• Learn somatic resources for regulating your nervous system and cultivating feelings of safety within your body

• Explore somatic practices for inviting your body into a place of rest and relaxation

• Deepen your awareness of what brings joy and nourishment to your body

Each week you will be offered a rich variety of resources, somatic practices, guided meditations and journal prompts to support and strengthen your process.

This course takes place at 4 Tuckey Street, Cork, a warm and nourishing space in the heart of Cork City.

Places are limited. Booking is essential. Please note purchases are non-refundable but are transferable.

Artwork licensed from Mirella Salame

€200