Upcoming Events
The Politics of Trauma: The Difficult Times are the Most Important Times to Keep Practicing
Self-paced online program
With 8 modules, live q&a sessions, a somatic practice library, and curated movement leader interviews, The Politics of Trauma Self-Paced Online Program offers a pragmatic understanding of the impacts of personal and collective trauma, and ways to cultivate vision, connection and transformative practice to navigate the contradictions and complexities we are living in. This self-paced program will support you in embodied healing, bringing your longings into practice and action, and cultivating relationships that can weather the chaos of healing and social change. These relationships are integral to our resilience in facing a difficult world, together.
Somatics, Trauma, & Resilience
June 5th - 8th, 2025, Oakland, CA
In this powerful 4-day intensive, move through somatic practices to address and release old traumas so you'll have more choice in your responses under pressure -- as you heal from within, and cultivate your own sense of safety and resilience.
Movement Leaders Program
April 10th - 13th, 2025, London, UK
Healing Justice London is hosting a 4-day politicized somatics programs for movement leaders, organizers and politicized healers in the UK. Staci Haines, Erika Lyla and Brandon Sturdivant partner with HJL in this work and their other Movement Medicine cohorts.
Past Events
Movement Medicine Retreat
April 1st - 6th, 2025, London, UK
Radical social change is only as effective as it is made sustainable. Operating amidst state violence, austerity, rising fascism, imperialism, climate catastrophe and more has left us under-resourced and in constant cycles of burnout, conflict, and under-interrogated change. Trapped in these cycles, our communities, movements, and grassroots solutions don’t have the space to grow and thrive. This pattern prevents us from building shared strategy, having lasting wins that we can build on and from. Without sustainable, politically-literate support systems to enable embodied leadership, collective alignment, and action, we risk staying stuck in these patterns.
Our Movement Medicine programme looks to grow the capacities, skills and resources of grassroots movements, community health providers and those at the frontlines to become sustainable and adaptive in contexts of oppression that rely on our un-survivability. Through this work, we aim to bring about conditions for meaningful movement making and liberation.
Somatics, Trauma, & Resilience
March 27th - 30th, 2025, Bogis Bosey, Switzerland
In this powerful 4-day intensive, move through somatic practices to address and release old traumas so you'll have more choice in your responses under pressure -- as you heal from within, and cultivate your own sense of safety and resilience.
Embody Lab Somatic Practitioner Mentorship - Case Study (Virtual)
February 13th, 2025
The Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Program is designed to enhance students' capacity to bring the power of somatic therapies into their work with others. The format and concept of the program is very similar to that of the ISTT Mentorship Program, the main difference being that students from various programs will be joining, rather than alumni of a single program.
Brave Earth Politicized Somatics Retreat
Feb 1st -7th 2025, Tierra Valiente, Costa Rica | Brave Earth
Politicized Somatics Retreat organized by Education for Racial Equity, a nonprofit organization committed to dismantling the global system of white supremacy, and cultivating cultures of wholeness. We offer educational events which inspire personal, cultural and systemic transformation. Guided by the principles of Anti-Racist activism, we practice communal healing for collective liberation.
Belonging @ Scale
January 6-10, 2025, Naguabo, Boriken (Puerto Rico)
This is a small, intentionally curated gathering featuring some of the most provocative and expansive sense-makers, visionaries, and practitioners of transformation capable of holding and acting on big questions. The invitation to co-creation is focused on exploring leverage points where our networks can collectively experiment with systems transformation at scale.
It is an invitation to inquiry and co-grappling, a place for you to speak your longings among kindred spirits:
What vision do you want to see flourish at global scale? What do you long for that you don't know how to bring into being/make happen?
Embody Lab: Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
September 29th - December 13th, 2024
60-hour certificate program
This unique 3-month online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care: including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing. This program brings together world renowned somatic trauma therapy teachers into one training. The intention of this program is to offer a holistic framework for understanding and working with trauma from a body-centered perspective. This extraordinary program offers a collection of practical tools that will help access the innate wisdom that guides the healing process for yourself and your work with others.
The Power of Embodied Transformation with Coaches Rising
June 5th - November 20th, 2024
Learn directly from the founder of somatic coaching — Richard Strozzi-Heckler — alongside contemporary coaches who have integrated this powerful approach with new discoveries in neuroscience, trauma-work, and leadership development.
Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program 2024
Join the waitlist to be the first to hear updates for this one-of-a-kind, once per year, 3-month certificate program committed to collective liberation by increasing awareness, unlearning oppressive social patterns, repairing relationships and building trust & belonging.
Strozzi Institute - Somatics, Trauma, & Resilience: Depthful Practices for Healing Personal and Collective Trauma and Shame
June 27th - 30th, 2024
A 4-day in-person intensive for coaches, leaders, and individuals who want to increase their own resilience, support their clients’ healing, and successfully address deeper aspects of transformation.
Strozzi Institute - Somatic Bodywork Level 1
April 3rd - 7th, 2024
Somatic Bodywork Level One course is designed to teach the fundamentals of Strozzi Institute for Somatics’ Bodywork on an introductory level.
It builds off of the foundational elements you learned in Embodied Transformation and and will help lead you to a more embodied level of centering.
California Institute of Integral Studies, Weekend Workshop
February 10th & 11th, 2024
Two-Day Online Workshop, Three Hours Per Day
How do we transform the habits, survival strategies, and worldviews that are held deeply in our human tissue? Somatic awareness and embodied practices take us far, but we need somatic opening to get to the roots of change and healing. We adapt as we try to meet our inherent needs of safety, belonging, and dignity. We also have automatic survival strategies that help us navigate personal and collective trauma, oppression, and other tragedies. All of this ends up as embodied patterns, some of which still serve us, and others that don’t—getting in the way of things that are important to us like love, purpose, right action, and compassion.
Embodywise: Somatics, Trauma, Healing and Social Justice
January 12th - 14th, 2024
Open to healers, clinicians and social activists, Erika Lyla and Staci Haines present a holistic framework for embodied trauma healing that integrates an understanding of how we are shaped by our social conditions. Discover the connection between personal and social transformation, and how each can serve the other.
Embody Lab: Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program
Live & Online September 26th - December 15th, 2023
Staci will be joining on October 9th as part of a 60-hour training certificate program for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care, including a deeper understanding of the body’s relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural wounding and healing.
Embody Lab Master Class: Complexity and Contradictions: Healing & Practice
LIVE & ONLINE DECEMBER 5TH, 2023 | 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Holding complexity and navigating contradictions seems to be essential life skill these days. Whether it’s working with our internal experiences and healing, navigating relationships and family, or engaging in the world and our collective future, complexity and contradictions are there. How do we work with these skillfully, from a somatic perspective? How can we welcome complexity and not lose ourselves? How do we navigate contradictions without polarizing?
Through this masterclass we’ll learn to expand our embodied ability to notice, be with, and take skillful action amidst complexity. We’ll discover how contradictions live in the soma, and how we can shift from reacting to them to embracing them. Complexity and contradiction hold wisdom. Through embodied practice and process, we’ll discover this wisdom and let it inform our healing, relationships, and action.
Strozzi Institute: Change Makers Embodied Transformation
November 2-5, 2023. In person.
Designed for Change Makers: develop your vision, celebrate your gifts, and learn to transform the habit of reaction into presence, discernment, and choice. This in-person program offers the core practices of Embodied Transformation where you’ll deepen your embodiment of declarations, and learn practices to align your actions with what you most care about.
Strozzi Institute Somatic Coaching Intensive: Embodied Trauma Healing and Resilience
October 19th - 23rd, 2023. In person.
Designed for coaches, this intensive aims to understand the impacts of personal and systemic trauma, using advanced pieces of the methodology to explore complexity and contradictions. By the end of this course, coaches will discover inherent resilience, and learn to distinguish it from embodied survival reactions.
Healing Justice London x Staci Haines: Somatics and Collective Liberation
August 21-24, 2023, London UK. In person.
This invitation only intensive is for UK movement leaders and Healing Justice London organizers.
Transformative Change (XC): Being Changed- A Half Day Intensive with Staci. K Haines
July 9th, 2023 | Virtual
It's said that it takes 300 repetitions to create muscle memory and 3,000 repetitions to reach embodiment. Traverse the "I", the "you", the "we” and the "all" in this intensive with Staci K. Haines. Sharpen and hone in on the most critical somatic practices for those of us who are committed to embodied social justice. Practice on Purpose in community as you explore questions like: In what ways can we let our practice change us? How do we hold complexity? What am I longing for? What is my "embodied vision"?
Transformative Change (XC): Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program
April- June 2023 | Virtual
This one-of-a-kind, once per year, 3-month certificate program is committed to collective liberation by increasing awareness, unlearning oppressive social patterns, repairing relationships and building trust & belonging.