Somatic Mindfulness Coach: Trauma Informed Stillpoint Method
Healing ourselves Helping others
This is for folks who want to train as a Somatic Mindfulness Coach. Building on the knowledge, awareness and resilience from the 6 week course Strong Mind and Resilient Nervous System, we learn to support others in this exploration and healing. (10 weeks total)
The Stillpoint Method is a somatic mindfulness based inquiry practice that can be used in conjunction with your own methods of coaching and counseling.
Gender Fluid, Nonbinary, Queer
Let’s have deep conversation. What does gender identity mean personally and in our culture at this time? How were we conditioned into the gender binary? How does present day culture define what a woman is or a man is?
What does it mean to self identify as a woman, a man, or to reject the gender binary completely?
Teaching Trauma Informed Yoga
Six week online course with Lynn Fraser and Alyson Raskin, PhD. This course begins Tuesdays at 7PM Eastern beginning October 15 2024.
Teaching Trauma Informed Yoga Nidra
Teaching Yoga Nidra allows us to offer students deep nourishing rest, and to experience stillness in their mind.
In this 6 week online course, you will learn about and become proficient at the practices that lead us to the deep still brain wave states that characterize yoga nidra.
Teaching Trauma Informed Yoga Practicum
Four week online practicum course with Lynn Fraser and Alyson Raskin, PhD. Tuesdays at 7PM Eastern beginning February 18, 2025
Strong Mind and Resilient Nervous System
In this practical course, we learn the basics of trauma, the hypervigilance and negativity bias of our nervous system, and how to regulate ourselves.
We get to know ourselves somatically (in our body). We practice tools to work with the uncomfortable sensations and energy that we’ve disconnected from. We use powerful tools to stay grounded in the safety of the present moment and to break the trance of catastrophic thinking.
The Stillpoint Method is a somatic mindfulness based inquiry practice that can be used in conjunction with your own methods of coaching and counseling.
Nurturing Rest and Ease
A day of nurturing rest, connection, and touching into joy
for women and nonbinary folks, with Elizabeth Shein and Lynn Fraser
Saturday March 2 from 10 to 4 In person
Christmas Day Conversation
Holidays at this time of year can bring up fond memories and traumatic ones. Many people feel lonely or are grieving loss.
You are welcome to join us for a short meditation and an hour of conversation in community.
Silence Retreat Online
Silent Retreat Day - an annual celebration, with Lynn online, after 8 years of continuous daily practice.
“We meditate to dive through the surface habits to the depth of our true nature, the intrinsic part of our being, which is ever pure, ever wise, ever free.” Swami Veda Bharati
To celebrate 8 years of continuous daily practice, we’re joining together for a full day Saturday December 2, 2023. Please feel free to participate the whole time or for what works for you.
Yoga Nidra 7 Day Practice Challenge
Yoga nidra is the only known way to rest the unconscious mind. It is a state of conscious sleep in which a person is both alert and deeply relaxed on a physical, nervous system, mental and emotional level. For thousands of years, meditation masters have used the methods of sleepless sleep (yoga nidra) to learn the secrets of the Self, to discover depths of sciences and arts, and to rejuvenate and heal themselves.
Friends with Your Mind
This 4 week online class covers the basics of how thought works, the role of the predictive protective brain and nervous system in generating catastrophic and anxious thoughts, and tools to orient to the safety of the present moment. We meet Thursdays at 7PM Eastern.
Healing Ordinary Trauma Rotary Club
In this experiential workshop you’ll learn about how practicing somatic mindfulness can help you regulate your emotions to reduce anxiety and depression.
Women Healing Trauma Group (Copy)
Our next Women Healing Trauma group begins October 1. We meet online 8 Sundays from 1 to 2:30 PM Eastern.
Please check here for details and registration
Breathing Week: a 7 day practice challenge
The autonomic nervous system will not allow us to relax our vigilance while our breathing is rapid and shallow, or while we’re holding our breath. Often accompanied by tension in our body, this breathing pattern sends a strong signal to our nervous system that we are in danger.
We can do practices to change this to allowing our breath to signal safety and make our neuroception (perception of safety and danger) more accurate.
Join us for Breathing Week: a 7 day practice challenge.
Friends with Your Mind
This 4 week class covers the basics of how thought works, the role of the predictive protective brain and nervous system in generating catastrophic and anxious thoughts, and tools to orient to the safety of the present moment.
Trauma Informed Stillpoint Method for Coaches and Counsellors
The trauma informed Stillpoint Method for coaches, counselors and others
Healing ourselves Helping others
By participating in this course, you will:
Build resilience and strength in your nervous system and whole mindbody
Become more grounded, resourced, and present in the safety of this moment
Know the basics of how trauma shows up in your clients, recognize when they are in a trauma response of fight/flight/freeze/fawn, and become skilled at emotionally co-regulating with them
Learn and be comfortable teaching practical somatic healing tools for your clients to work with troubling thoughts and energies
This is for you if:
You are a life coach, facilitator, or counselor who helps people align with their values and supports them in making practical changes
You are a therapist wanting to integrate more trauma informed somatic therapy into your cognitive based work with clients
You are a yoga teacher, school teacher, nurse, chiropractor, doctor, massage therapist, general holistic practitioner, or peer supporter to whom people turn for help
You are a student or newly certified in any of these professions
The Stillpoint Method is a somatic mindfulness based inquiry practice that can be used in conjunction with your own methods of coaching and counseling.