Sacred Somatix: The Alchemy of Embodied Healing

1. 👉🏽 Introduction to Sacred Somatix

   10 lessons

   1. How unresolved trauma manifests in your physical?
   2. Why somatic sensation is the key to self knowledge
   3. Self awareness vs embodied self knowledge
   4. Owning your body sensations so you don't have leave your body
   5. Your Somatic Memory is Your Truth - How to Accept it
   6. READ: What is somatic healing?
   7. READ: How unresolved trauma impacts your somatic awareness
   8. READ: Your brain's ability to process somatic sensation
   9. Read: Why somatic work is key
   10. Somatic Healing Monthly Tracker Journal

2. 🧘🏾‍♀️ Practices for Somatic Healing

   8 lessons

   1. Creating the space in your daily life to feel and heal
   2. How to build deeper nervous system resilience so external triggers don't derail you
   3. Deepening your inner perception and somatic connection
   4. Owning your inner sensations as a path to deeper safety within
   5. Staying present and accessing your felt senses
   6. Connecting to sensation level using dialogical skills
   7. Aligning your Coccyx to Centre & Reground Your Energy Body
   8. Shaking it Out: A Pat Schurr Inspired Practice for Releasing Tension

3. 🧘🏾‍♀️ Somatic Healing Practices to Try

   15 lessons

   1. Powerful Body Mapping Practice - Get to the Root Cause
   2. Grounded and Playful: Adding Fun to your Daily Grounding Practices
   3. Tuning into Your Body: A Body Scan for Deep Connection and Healing
   4. Pelvic Floor Release: Freeing Tension and Restoring Balance
   5. Soothe Anxiety in Just 15 Minutes: A Guided Practice
   6. Daily Grounding: A 20-Minute Practice for Finding Stability
   7. Internal Movement: A Practice for Feeling and Healing Your Body
   8. Spine Surgery and Healing with Light: Tools for Somatic Healing
   9. Breathwork for Self-Mastery: A Practice for Deep Connection
   10. Becoming Your Own Therapist: A Guide to Self-Healing
   11. Draw Your Triggers: A Practice for Body Awareness and Emotional Release
   12. Womb Healing: A Movement Practice for Softening and Opening
   13. Connecting to Your Emotional Body: A Practice for Deeper Awareness
   14. Listen to Your Organs: How to Hear the Wisdom of Your Body
   15. Healing Painful Periods: A Holistic Approach to Hormonal Balance.

4. 🧘🏾‍♀️ Practices from other Practitioners

   15 lessons

   1. Peter Levin's 'easing despair'
   2. Somatic Practices to Relieve Stress and Self-Soothe
   3. Peter Levine's Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body
   4. Release anger from the body
   5. Somatic full practice - total body stretch
   6. Somatic flow sequences
   7. Somatic practices for PTSD
   8. Somatic practices for sexual growth
   9. Freeing the spine
   10. Movement for deep fascia release
   11. Address chronic holding patterns
   12. Unlocking tunnel vision
   13. Release pain in back and hips
   14. Full somatic unwind
   15. Release chronic muscle tightness and pain

5. ❤️ Uncovering and Releasing Buried Emotions

   12 lessons

   1. Useful body map of emotions
   2. DIAGRAM: How repressed emotions show up in the body
   3. READ: The hormonal system and trauma
   4. READ: Why you don't feel safe in your own body
   5. Read: The spectrum of emotions
   6. Why you need to express your emotions to heal
   7. Working with your heart field
   8. Anger and sacred rage
   9. Emotional healing is the gateway to your deeper purpose
   10. How to identify and connect to deeper buried anger in order to heal
   11. Repressed anger, emotional armour and numbing
   12. READ: Why you need to release your emotions to heal your body and trauma

6. ❤️ Emotional Healing Practices: Discover Powerful Tools to Transform Your Life

   8 lessons

   1. Unlocking Your Emotional Blocks: How to Identify Buried Emotions Holding You Back
   2. Nurturing Your Emotional Body: Ways to Deepen Your Connection and Enhance Healing
   3. Sitting with Triggers: How to Stay Present When You Want to Run
   4. 15 minute guided heart opening daily practice
   5. Sensations and Emotions: How to Connect with Your Heart for Deeper Healing
   6. Practice 5: Organ Dialogue: A Guided Practice to Connect with Your Body's Wisdom
   7. Practice 6: Unleashing the Fire Within: A Guided Practice to Release Anger and Find Inner Peace
   8. Practice 7: Cultivating Forgiveness and Compassion

7. 🫀 Healing Your Inner Temple: Holistic Organ Healing

   9 lessons

   1. What emotions your organs hold
   2. Trauma & Organ Dissociation
   3. Principles of trauma focused organ healing
   4. Recognising the multi layered expression of organs
   5. Building awareness of trauma informed organ healing work
   6. The importance of using your visceral intelligence to heal
   7. How to recognise when you need to deepen your organ consciousness
   8. Lungs, grief and unresolved trauma
   9. Releasing Shock & Fear From Kidneys & Adrenals

8. 🌀 Reclaiming Your Sacred Womb

   6 lessons

   1. Levels of womb consciousness and healing
   2. Sacral Plexus, Sexual Arousal and Self Pleasure for Healing
   3. Arousal and your sexual healing
   4. READ: Dissociation and womb trauma
   5. READ: Why the hips and pelvis hold unresolved trauma
   6. Read: 5 Facts about the womb heart throat connection

9. 🌀 Womb Healing Practices

   5 lessons

   1. Practice: Release tension held in your pelvic floor
   2. Practice: Guided womb meditation
   3. Practice: Release your pelvic floor
   4. Practice: How to feel deeply enough to heal
   5. Practice: Build your Womb-heart-throat axis

10. 👁 Inner Revelation - Unveiling the Sacred

    7 lessons

    1. The importance of vibrational awareness
    2. Your third eye and inner perception
    3. Opening up to sacred inner realms
    4. Somatic intelligence for healing, meaning and growth
    5. Read: The Great Mother
    6. Read: Notes on Rebirthing and Ego Death
    7. Embodying the Sacred Feminine

11. 🎙️ Podcasts to Listen To

    44 lessons

    1. The role of the physical body in spiritual growth
    2. How to deepen your somatic healing work
    3. Guided Healing Session - Organ Healing & Fascia Unwinding
    4. What to do if you're feeling stuck
    5. Tired of being triggered? Why resilience is your key
    6. Recognising unhealed trauma
    7. Practice to connect to your heart and emotional body
    8. How to heal the root causes of your physical condition
    9. Reconnecting to your womb after trauma
    10. Do this if you feel like you're getting ill
    11. Procrastination, fear and flow states
    12. Sexual energy is a reflection of your own creation
    13. Sexual arousal, fear and shut down
    14. Why you need to trust your gut

    1. Womb Healing Podcasts 🎙️

       1. LISTEN: Why womb wisdom matters
       2. LISTEN: Womb and your sexual energy
       3. Pelvic floor health
       4. LISTEN: How to reconnect with your womb after trauma
       5. LISTEN: Heal your first bleed
       6. LISTEN: Healing after Hysterectomy
       7. LISTEN: The importance of womb healing for men
       8. LISTEN: Healing your womb after miscarriage

    2. Podcasts from other speakers 🎙️

       1. Why listening to your body is crucial for your mental health
       2. Free ways to support your nervous system
       3. The physiological effects of chronic stress and healing your nervous system
       4. Unpacking chronic pain and the nervous system
       5. Somatic experiencing - healing the trauma in your body
       6. How to recognise the fight / flight response
       7. Train your brain to fall asleep better
       8. How to release trauma from your body
       9. Men's hormone health
       10. Are you listening to your symptoms?
       11. Breathing for mental and physical health
       12. How to control your sense of pain and pleasure
       13. Full body presence, somatic exercise
       14. How trauma disrupts the mind body connection
       15. Why your muscles feel chronically tight
       16. The impact of fear on your mind and body
       17. Creating a total somatic approach to everyday activities
       18. Erasing fears and traumas based on neuroscience of fear
       19. How emotions get trapped in the body
       20. What really happens when you suppress your emotions
       21. How your emotions shape you
       22. Emotional resolution and somatic healing

12. 🌎 Replays from Group Healing Sessions

    7 lessons

    1. Spine Surgery
    2. Organ intelligence
    3. Howl at the Moon
    4. Heart alchemy
    5. Womb Alchemy
    6. Breath of Life
    7. Organ Healing

13. 👁 Watch Real Life Healing Sessions

    10 lessons

    1. Demo 1: Connecting to supressed anger to heal your inner child
    2. Demo 2: Connecting to pain of physical abuse held in the stomach
    3. Demo 3: Connect to emotions in stomach after history of ulcers
    4. Demo 4: Client works on brain and jaw
    5. Demo 5: Healing hysterectomy caused by unresolved trauma
    6. Demo 6: Womb Healing, the Father Wound and Fibroids
    7. Demo 7: Pelvic Re-Integration After Sexual Trauma
    8. Demo 8: Self Worth, Forgiveness and Growth
    9. Demo 9: Embody Your Abundance through Divine Feminine Frequency
    10. Demo 10: Meaning making from body sensations

14. 📝 Blog Posts To Read

    14 lessons

    1. The benefits of somatic therapy vs talking therapy
    2. The importance of working with an experienced somatic therapist to release trauma
    3. Interoception and Somatic Therapy: How We Heal and Understand Our Internal World
    4. How unresolved trauma creates toxicity in the body
    5. Unraveling the Mystery of IBS: Understanding the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
    6. Your lymphatic system and your mental health
    7. Why the kidneys and adrenals are the gateway organs
    8. Julia's organs have a board meeting
    9. Why the liver holds anger
    10. Hormonal imbalance and trauma
    11. Stretching and your mental health
    12. Gout and the kidney-gut axis
    13. Alzheimer's - trauma and neurotoxicity
    14. Unlocking the Mysteries of Fascia: Understanding Your Body's Connective Tissue

15. 📚 Books to Read

    16 lessons

    1. Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice
    2. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Dr Gabor Maté
    3. The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
    4. Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
    5. Daily Vagus Nerve Exercise: Train Your Vagus Nerve to Refurbish Your Brain and Your Body. Be Relieved of Anxiety and Depression
    6. The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
    7. The Somatic Therapy Workbook: Stress-Relieving Exercises for Strengthening the Mind-Body Connection and Sparking Emotional and Physical Healing
    8. Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach
    9. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    10. Recovery from Complex PTSD: From Trauma to Regaining Self Through Mindfulness & Emotional Regulation Exercises
    11. Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing and Transformation Through Body-centered Psychotherapy
    12. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma:
    13. Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life
    14. The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Guide for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes
    15. Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
    16. The Inflamed Mind: A radical new approach to depression

16. 📖 Science and Practice of Somatic Medicine

    11 lessons

    1. Polyvagal Theory: Neuroception – the Fundament of Feeling
    2. Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety
    3. Vagal Pathways: Portals to Compassion
    4. Neuroception: How Your Brain Decides if Your World is Safe
    5. Emotion processing through interoceptive attention
    6. Mind-Body Interaction in East Asian Medicine
    7. Illness -the Aftermath Of Nervous System Dysregulation and Untreated Trauma
    8. How emotions and emotional pain manifests in the body
    9. Incorporating somatic awareness into medical practice
    10. Mind-body approach to medically unexplained symptoms
    11. The neurosomatics of referential, interactive, and combinatorial knowledge

17. 📖 Polyvagal Theory: Benefits and Limitations

    5 lessons

    1. Polyvagal Theory and Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Understanding the Connection
    2. Understanding Vagal/Autonomic Tone in the Context of Stress and Trauma
    3. Polyvagal Pathways to Emotional Regulation
    4. Understanding the Polyvagal Theory: Exploring the Science behind Emotional Regulation
    5. Exploring the Benefits and Downsides of the Polyvagal Model in Understanding Trauma and the Autonomic Nervous System

18. 🎥 Programmes to Watch

    16 lessons

    1. Stressed
    2. How early childhood experiences affect children’s future
    3. Body Talk: Stories of Somatization
    4. Does Somatic Experiencing (SE) Work? SE practices for healing
    5. Vagus Nerve Reset To Release Trauma Stored In The Body (Polyvagal Exercises)
    6. An Eating Disorder Specialist Explains How Trauma Creates Food Disorders
    7. How to release anger from the body - somatic healing tool
    8. The Autonomic Nervous System: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Divisions
    9. Sex With The Wrong Person Can Cause Chaos In Your Life And Psyche
    10. Ancient Secrets About The Vagus Nerve: Revealed
    11. Psychosomatic illness: Are some diseases caused by our memories?
    12. The harder i try the worse it gets. Relax!
    13. Feeling is the secret
    14. Vagus nerve reset
    15. Releasing trauma trapped in your body
    16. Healing the nervous system from trauma

19. 🌸 More Resources for Somatic Healing

    10 lessons

    1. Trauma-Informed Somatic Exercises for Physical and Emotional Healing
    2. 10 Ways to Move Your Body for Somatic Healing
    3. Creating a Calming Environment for Somatic Healing at Home
    4. Physical Objects to Support Healing and Recovery
    5. Nourishing Foods for Somatic Healing, Hormonal Health, Grounding, and Women's Cycles
    6. Grounding Techniques: Essential Oils for Somatic Healing
    7. Cold Exposure for your Nervous System & Mental Health
    8. Grounding Music for Somatic Healing Practices
    9. Teas for Grounding and Nervous System Rebalancing
    10. Copyright and Disclaimer Notice for the School of Healing Alchemy