Soleil Hepner Hand on Heart Somatic Therapy Training

“Trigger - Dissociate - Disconnect.” These are just a few of the words that describe that moment your client clenches, scrunches, curls, holds, weeps, or shakes uncontrollably. All dialog stops. In the silence, the visceral experience of trauma is happening – NOW. The physical body, becomes the most powerful tool available.
Do you know how to use it?

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The Somatic Session

Get out of the Chair and into the Body
For Therapists, Coaches, Teachers and Wellness Experts

Upcoming Trainings & Consultation Groups

Get out of the Chair & into the Body
with Soleil Hepner, C-IAYT
Somatic Therapy Educator since 2005

Hello Therapists & Teachers!

Embark on a transformative journey to empower your therapy, coaching, teaching, or wellness practice through the intelligence of the body. In The Somatic Session Series, I bring you over two decades of expertise, distilled into a dynamic, 'bottom-up' approach to Direct Experience. With simple, ethical, and effective tools, we'll address trauma, pain, grief, stress, recovery, and holistic mental wellness.

Each module focuses on a TOPIC providing:

PERSONAL EMBODIED EXPERIENCE
DIDACTIC LECTURE on THEORY
LIVE DEMO and REAL PRACTICE
CONSULTATION SUPPORT GROUP

Here are the Top 6 Competencies you will learn.

Since 2005, I've taught therapists of all kinds how to bring the body into their own work. The Somatic Session Series is both a PRACTICUM as well as a THEORY course, designed to equip you with tools that are effective for both in-person and online sessions—whether you’re new to somatics or looking to deepen your expertise.

Unlock the potential of dynamic Somatic S.P.A.C.E. This isn't about following a rigid method - it's about empowering you to confidently adapt and elevate your existing techniques into a body-centered, bottom-up approach. Perfect for those moments when the mind needs to take a back seat.

Join me and fellow somatic practitioners to transform your practice. Now is the time to offer clients a more profound, holistic experience. Step into the work you have always imagined doing - more powerful, and more aligned with your values.

In Breath & Body,
Soleil

Details

2025 Somatic Programs

The 6 Month Training
Feb - July, 2025

6 Focused Months includes:

6 Key Somatic Topics

6 - 2nd Tuesdays - Training

+ 6 - 4th Tuesdays - Case Consult

12 CAMFT CEs

Presented by Soleil
20 years Somatic Educator

Closes March 11

Cost & Registration

Self-Paced Learning
Starts Feb 2025

The training at your own pace.

All 6 Somatic Topics

via 6 Zoom Recordings
w/ Optional Consultation Group

CEs for C-IAYT only

For anyone who can't be at the training in person

$75 per Recording

Cost & Registration

The Consultation Group
Feb - July, 2025

6 Months of Somatic Consultation

Focus on the 6 Somatic Topics

4th Tuesdays online

Optional add the Self-Pace Learning via Recordings

For anyone who has taken any somatic training with Soleil

Contact Soleil Directly

$50 / session

Contact Soleil to build a specialized training for your group

TESTIMONIAL FROM A THERAPIST & YOGA TEACHER

I'm amazed at how perfectly this course aligns with my journey. Your guidance is helping me naturally merge my roles as a mental health professional and yoga teacher. The approach is resonating deeply and feels so accessible. I can already feel a sense of relief and excitement, knowing I finally have the support I've been searching for, for many years

-- Lisa Zaehringer MEd, LPCA, NCC, RYT500

The Top 6 for Therapist/Coach

Here are the top 6 competencies Therapists and Coaches - those who mainly use TOP-DOWN processing - get to explore to expand your scope of practice into Somatic Therapy:

Understand Somatic Principles
Train in mindful body awareness, and the fundamentals of somatic therapy.
Neuroscience of the Body
Apply somatic Psycho-Ed such as interoception and the vagus nerve
Body-Based Techniques
Train to safely cue body scans, breathing exercises, movement practices, while staying in your scope of practice.
Trauma-Informed Somatic Practices
Apply somatic techniques in a trauma-effective manner, to ensure safety.
Holistic Health Understanding
Integrate the physical, emotional, and mental and spiritual health.
Client-Centered Somatic Alliance
Build trust, self-agency, thru ongoing consent for touch and movement.

The Top 6
Somatic Competencies you will learn
to ethically expand your Scope of Practice

The Top 6 for Massage/Yogis

Here are the top 6 competencies yoga teachers and massage therapists - those who mainly use BOTTOM-UP skills - get to explore to expand your scope of practice into Somatic Therapy:

Understand Psychological Theories
Learn key psychological theories for appropriate therapeutic interventions.
Dialog Skills and Techniques
Train in evidence-based skills of Embodied Rogerian Dialog.
Diagnostic Skills
Recognize mental health conditions using standardized criteria to stay in scope.
Ethical and Legal Knowledge
Understand guidelines and legal standards for a safe and ethical practice.
Apply Psycho-Ed & Research
Develop research literacy to integrate scientific evidence into your practice.
Cultural & Client-Centered Process
Train in cultural competence to provide sensitive, appropriate, and individualized care to clients from diverse backgrounds.

TOPICS

The Somatic TOPICS

Module 1: Awaken the Body

Set Dynamic
Somatic S.P.A.C.E.

This module lays the groundwork by introducing dynamic somatic
S. P. A. C. E.
Set. Prep. Allow. Connect. Examine.
Therapists begin by exploring the relationship with their own physical body to build an empowered and secure environment for using the body as the tool throughout a client session - from initial contact to the final note.

Get the Fundamentals

$50 Recording

Module 2: Explore the Body

Dialog in
Direct Experience

This is a KEY module that uncovers how to verbally guide clients to bridge the gap between their past and their future, into the embodied presence of Direct Experience.
Therapists will learn how to better "get" client’s narrative stories as it presents interoceptively in the body allowing for their shift from REACTION to RESPONSE.

Get Present in Language

$75 Recording

Module 3: Use the Body

Navigate
Proximity & Touch

This module focus is all about using the PHYSICAL body as the tool including how to cue the many forms of consensual touch, movement and propriceptive proximity in session. Therapists will explore the various ethical considerations when it comes to using the somatic space found between the client and therapist bodies as a tool to facilitate growth and healing.

Get Edgy in the Body

$75 Recording

Module 4: Know the Body

Apply Body Mind
Psycho-Education

This module provides an overview of western neuroscience and eastern philosophies that can be used to guide a holistic Mind-Body approach to therapeutic practice. Therapists will gain an understanding of how to effectively APPLY these theories when pain, trauma, loss, anxiety, ... arise in present-centered Direct Experience found in the body.

Get Educated

$75 Recording

Module 5: Discern the Body

Dialog with
Somatic Parts

This module explores how to merge (Rogerian) Dialog techniques with somatic "parts" in the moment when pain, trauma, stress or grief arise as a part presenting in the body. Therapists learn to nourish an environment of acceptance and validation of the body’s organic responses and befriend the natural parts of the self that are revealed in Direct Experience.

Get Inspired

$75 Recording

Module 6: Practice the Body

Transform through
Embodied Action

As we complete the series, this module focuses on how to move from the insights found in embodied direct experience to actions that lead to lasting change through self-defined
at-home practices. Therapists will
gain the skills needed to help their clients use their experience to move forward with informed choice and transform their lives.

Get Going

All 6 - $350

cost