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Working with What the Body Knows
Introduction to Somatic Experiencing®, tonic immobility, the vagus nervous system, mirror neurons, titration, and pacing therapy safely.
Body-Oriented Trauma Training
Help Trauma Clients Heal When Talk Therapy Isn’t Enough
Learn Peter Levine’s step-by-step Somatic Experiencing® approach and discover how to read the body’s signals, safely release traumatic stress, and guide clients toward regulation, agency, and deeper healing.
Recorded Master Class Real Clinical Demonstrations Body-Oriented Trauma Tools
4 Core Clinical training modules
3 Cases Real in-session demonstrations
SE® Bottom-up trauma approach
Why This Course Matters
When talk therapy is not enough, the body often holds the map.
Many trauma clients carry fear, helplessness, shame, anxiety, and pain as fragmented body-based responses. This course shows how Somatic Experiencing® works with physical cues to support controlled, empowering release.
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Trauma Beyond Words
Learn how traumatic stress can appear through posture, muscle tension, shutdown, sensation, and nonverbal cues.
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Bottom-Up Healing
Explore a body-first pathway that helps clients regain balance before moving deeper into emotional processing.
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Practical Interventions
Use breath, movement, imagery, vocalizations, and awareness exercises to create new experiences in the body.
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Safer Trauma Work
Apply pacing and titration to help clients access emotion without overwhelming or retraumatizing them.
The Big Promise
Turn body signals into clinical direction.
Many trauma clients cannot explain what happened, cannot access clear memories, or shut down when emotions become intense. This course helps clinicians work with what is available first: posture, breath, sensation, movement, tension, and nervous-system state.
For clients who stay stuck in shame, fear, helplessness, pain, or collapse.
For clinicians who want more than insight-based trauma conversations.
For therapy work where pacing, safety, and body awareness matter.
Why Clinicians Buy This
A practical trauma training built around real clinical moments.
Instead of only explaining Somatic Experiencing® theory, Peter Levine demonstrates how the work unfolds in session, then breaks down the clinical reasoning behind the interventions.
✓ Watch real clinical demonstrations with trauma, shame, attachment wounds, and chronic pain.
✓ Learn how to pace interventions so clients do not become overwhelmed.
✓ Understand how to use bottom-up tools before pushing deeper emotional processing.
✓ Add body-based methods to your existing therapy approach without starting from zero.
✓ Build confidence with clients who struggle to talk about traumatic experiences.
Before vs After
Position the course as the bridge from stuck trauma work to body-informed clinical confidence.
This section is designed to make the buyer clearly feel the transformation they are purchasing.
Before This Course
- Clients talk about trauma but remain physically tense, frozen, or shut down.
- Sessions can feel stuck when clients cannot access clear memories or emotions.
- Shame, chronic pain, and body symptoms feel difficult to integrate into treatment.
- The clinician knows the client is activated but is unsure what to do next.
After Learning the SE® Framework
- You can notice body cues and use them as clinical information.
- You can pace trauma work through titration, sensation tracking, and resource states.
- You gain interventions using movement, breathing, imagery, boundaries, and vocalization.
- You can help clients reconnect with agency, regulation, and embodied confidence.
What They Get
Download the complete Somatic Experiencing® Master Class.
Give buyers a clear reason to act now: this is a complete recorded training experience with clinical demonstrations, structured analysis, and body-oriented trauma tools they can revisit anytime.
Download Course Complete recorded course access Study the training at your own pace and revisit important clinical concepts anytime.
Clinical demonstrations with analysis See how Peter Levine works with real trauma-related presentations and explains the process.
Bottom-up trauma intervention tools Learn practical ways to work with breath, posture, sensation, boundaries, movement, and imagery.
Useful for difficult clinical cases Especially relevant for shame, chronic pain, attachment wounds, shutdown, and implicit trauma memory.
What’s Included
Clinical demonstrations, analysis, and tools for real trauma work.
This Master Class combines bottom-up and top-down learning so therapists can understand both the technique and the clinical thinking behind it.
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In-Session Demonstrations
Watch Peter Levine work with clients facing chronic pain, attachment wounds, shame, self-sabotage, and childhood sexual abuse.
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Therapist-to-Therapist Analysis
Go behind the scenes with clinical conversations that explain the “why” behind each intervention and session choice.
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Body-Based Techniques
Learn interventions using movement, images, breathing, vocalization, posture, boundaries, and resource states.
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Somatic Assessment Skills
Develop the ability to notice physical shifts such as rigidity, collapsed posture, skin color changes, and pulse changes.
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Trauma & Attachment Focus
Understand how Somatic Experiencing® addresses panic, abandonment issues, shame, implicit memories, and attachment injuries.
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Practical Clinical Integration
Discover tools for clients who cannot access memories, shut down emotionally, or become overwhelmed by intense sensations.
Course Modules
Step-by-step Somatic Experiencing® training with Peter Levine.
Follow the course from foundational SE® principles to advanced demonstrations involving chronic pain, attachment wounds, shame, and trauma.
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Addressing the Emotional Roots of Physical Pain
Watch Levine identify body cues linked to chronic pain and guide the client toward emotional release without relying on pain-specific interventions.
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Healing Abandonment Issues & Attachment Wounds
Explore how suppressed emotion, separation panic, self-sabotage, posture, healthy aggression, and inner-child work can be addressed somatically.
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Bottom-Up Healing for Childhood Sexual Abuse
Learn how boundaries, pacing, shame reduction, guided imagery, and client control can support trauma resolution in sensitive clinical work.
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Healing From the Bottom Up: Resource States
Master the SIBAM model, observe nonverbal responses, and guide clients in “riding the waves” of sensation as they exit immobilization responses.
You’ll Learn
Clinical skills you can apply inside trauma and stress-disorder work.
- Help clients safely release traumatic stress that blocks engagement in therapy.
- Read the body’s clues to a client’s emotional and nervous-system state.
- Use controlled exercises to access and release suppressed emotions.
- Work with shame, powerlessness, low self-esteem, and shutdown responses.
- Support clients who cannot access memories or cannot talk about intense emotion.
- Use titration and pacing to avoid overwhelming vulnerable clients.
Best For
Designed for mental health and helping professionals.
This course is especially relevant for professionals working with trauma, stress disorders, chronic pain, attachment wounds, shame, dissociation, and body-based symptoms.
Full Course Description
Complete module breakdown, objectives, outlines, and clinical focus.
Explore the full structure of Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® Master Class, including clinical demonstrations, therapist analysis, body-based interventions, and resource-state work.
Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches for Better Outcomes
Dramatic clinical demonstrations with in-depth analysis by Peter Levine and Networker founder Rich Simon make this Master Class a practical learning experience for skilled therapists who want to bring a deeper body-oriented dimension into trauma therapy.
The sessions demonstrate Somatic Experiencing® with trauma, attachment injuries, chronic pain, shame, sexual abuse, and clients who struggle to access or speak about traumatic memories.
Working with What the Body Knows: Introduction to Somatic Experiencing®
Objectives
- Analyze the link between emotional stress and muscle tension and how this can direct treatment to specific areas of need.
- Analyze clinical methods for releasing traumatic stress.
- Distinguish how traumatic stress manifests through somatic symptoms to inform clinical interventions.
- Evaluate the importance of asking open-ended questions in therapy to direct treatment.
Outline
- Introductory comments and patient Nancy presenting with a variety of somatic symptoms.
- Explanation of “tonic immobility” with examples from the animal kingdom.
- The vagus nervous system and feedback loops.
- The mirror neuron system and how it guides therapy.
- How the therapist uses their own nervous system to interpret the client’s state.
- The principle of titration and learning to pace therapy so it does not cause harm.
Addressing the Emotional Roots of Physical Pain
Objectives
- Develop strategies for teaching simple approaches that help clients release pent-up energy.
- Analyze suppressed emotions within clients in order to address difficult “treatment resistant” symptoms.
Outline
- Introductory comments and the early stages of defining PTSD.
- Two primary client presentations: overwhelmed by sensations or emotionally shut down.
- Introduction of client PJ/TJ and review of somatic and emotional symptoms.
- Clinical demonstration discussions focused on watching physical changes and learning from the client’s body.
- Teaching the client to move between physical sensation and emotion.
- Safe use of touch in therapy and the corrosive nature of shame.
- Consolidating breakthrough moments and recognizing muscle tension.
- Using the emotional engagement system and recognizing the subtext of the body.
- Helping clients manage expectations following therapy.
Releasing the Body from the Bonds of Trauma: Healing Abandonment Issues and Attachment Wounds
Objectives
- Analyze how Somatic Experiencing® addresses the emotional consequences of physical trauma.
- Analyze the ways Somatic Experiencing® can address attachment issues by working with childhood trauma.
Outline
- Introductory comments on the role of Somatic Experiencing® in panic disorders.
- Recognition of the structure of self-sabotage.
- Introduction to the concept of healthy aggression.
- Teaching the client to access healthy aggression.
- Viewing physical posture as an indication of emotional state.
- Introducing the bottom-up concept of Somatic Experiencing®.
- Working with the dissociated and collapsed client.
- Rebuilding the client from the ground up and directing healthy aggression.
- Teaching the client to protect themselves and using the “shelf method” of therapy.
- Guarding against self-sabotage and exploring “body-based CBT.”
Bottom-Up Healing for Childhood Sexual Abuse
Objectives
- Articulate the role implicit memories play in the lives of clients who have suffered sexual abuse.
- Analyze the importance of pacing in helping clinicians avoid retraumatizing clients.
Outline
- Introductory comments on trauma that is often not brought up in therapy.
- Discussion of boundaries and how early trauma impacts health.
- Addressing unconscious memories.
- Teaching clients to breathe deeply and recognizing shame in posture.
- Teaching the concept of boundaries.
- Discussion of attachment to the abuser and the role of shame in keeping the client stuck.
- Understanding that the structure of sessions is fluid.
- Knowing when to take risks in the session and helping the client feel happy again.
- Restoring a sense of power and using an indirect approach to resolving shame.
- Helping the client anticipate and cope with future symptoms while building on new experiences.
Healing From the Bottom Up: Resource States in Trauma Work
Objectives
- Explain how traumatized clients can use Somatic Experiencing® to improve clinical outcomes.
- Assess physical cues of internal states that indicate the resources clients can access to improve clinical outcomes.
Outline
- Master the SIBAM model for systematically observing clients’ nonverbal responses.
- Guide clients in “riding the waves” of their sensations as they exit from immobility response and experience release from original trauma.
- Titrate interventions to maximize impact and avoid retraumatizing vulnerable clients.
Meet the Course Expert
Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Peter Levine is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
His work draws from decades of research and clinical experience, including contributions to trauma treatment, disaster response, body psychotherapy, and the study of memory, stress, and nervous-system regulation.
Developer of Somatic Experiencing®
Author of Waking the Tiger
NASA stress consultant experience
Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
Expert Praise
Leading voices recognize Peter Levine’s impact on trauma treatment.
The course material includes recognition from respected trauma, psychotherapy, and mind-body experts.
“Peter Levine has captured the essence of trauma as residing in the unspoken voice of our bodies.”
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Trauma expert and bestselling author“Peter Levine is in the forefront of trauma healing, as theorist, practitioner, and teacher.”
Gabor Maté, MD Author and trauma/addiction expert“Peter Levine changed the world of trauma treatment.”
Diana Fosha, PhD Director of The AEDP InstituteFAQ
Common questions before downloading.
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Is this course practical or theoretical?
It is practical and demonstration-based, combining real in-session videos with in-depth clinical analysis by Peter Levine.
Who is this training for?
It is intended for therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, MFTs, addiction counselors, nurses, occupational therapists, and other helping professionals.
What clinical problems does it focus on?
The course focuses on trauma, stress disorders, chronic pain, shame, attachment wounds, implicit memory, boundaries, shutdown, and nervous-system dysregulation.
What makes Somatic Experiencing® different?
SE® uses body awareness, physical cues, pacing, and nervous-system regulation to help clients access healing when words alone may not be enough.
Stop guessing what the body is trying to say.
Download the complete Peter Levine Somatic Experiencing® Master Class and start learning a body-oriented trauma approach built around clinical demonstrations, nervous-system regulation, pacing, and real therapeutic change.
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