The Embodied Woman Facilitator Training Program
A 14-Month Online Certification in Somatic Trauma Healing & Embodied Leadership for Women
Start Date: May 12th, 2026
End Date: June 7th, 2027
The Embodied Woman Facilitator Training is a 14-month professional certification designed to guide women into profound somatic healing, trauma integration, and embodied feminine leadership.
Across 8 comprehensive modules, you will engage with trauma-informed somatic practices, ancient feminine wisdom, nervous system rewiring, embodied leadership, and practical facilitation skills — preparing you to guide women through transformational healing.
This journey is not only a professional training, but also a deeply personal metamorphosis. For 14 months, you will move through your own layers of healing, expansion, and embodiment within a powerful sisterhood of women and alongside experienced, attuned facilitators who walk with you every step of the way.
A Deep Journey of Feminine Embodiment, Trauma Healing & Leadership
To anchor the journey, we gather in person for an 8-day immersion, offering co-regulation, connection, and embodied practice with the group. You will feel, express, dance, move, soften & rise together
embodied woman journey
Polyvagal Theory in practice
Shadow Work
Systemic intergenerational trauma healing
Ancestral healing work
Natural Gynaecology & Women’s Health Herbology
Rewiring Patriarchal Programming
Feminine Embodied Leadership
The Embodied Business & Trauma-Informed Facilitation
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Program Overview
Foundational Modalities You Will Study
Accreditation:
Internationally accredited by ISMETA.
Community Support:
A 14-month mentorship and sisterhood container with deep connection, safety, and nourishment.
Somatic Experiencing® foundations
Trauma informed embodiment practices
Trauma Release Breathwork
TRE (Trauma Release Exercises)
Somatic Sexuality Healing & Pleasure Practices
Nervous System Regulation & Rewiring
Fascia & Myofascial Release
Developmental Trauma healing (Somatic inner-child work)
Eight Initiations Into the Embodied Feminine
Each module is a sacred initiation—five weeks of deep exploration, followed by spacious integration periods for rest, reflection, and embodied assimilation.
Who This Program is For
- Any woman ready to reclaim her life through the wisdom of her body voice, sensuality and sovereignty.
- Yoga teachers & bodyworkers who want to expand your work with somatic, trauma-sensitive, fascia-based tools.
- Somatic therapists & coaches. Integrate nervous system regulation and body-based trauma healing into your practice.
- Somatic Facilitators & Community Leaders. Learn to guide women in circles, workshops, and 1:1 sessions with trauma-informed presence.
- Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and other mental-health professionals seeking to complement talk-based modalities with somatic trauma-informed practices.
This training is for women who feel called to heal, embody, lead as a Somatic Trauma Healing practitioner.
And for:
What You Will Explore & Learn
This program weaves together theory, embodiment, and hands-on somatic practice.
Understand the physiology of trauma, stress cycles, and the healing process.
Trauma Biology & Neuroscience
Spiral fascia fluidity & spontaneous movement. Felt - sense awareness through emotional interplay with the fascial system
Somatic Embodiment through fascia fluidity
Leading from body, intuition, authenticity, presence, and deep inner alignment.
Feminine Embodied Leadership
Resourcing, titration, pendulation, trauma-informed language, completing survival responses (fight/flight/freeze/fawn). Learn the foundational language of Somatic Trauma healing.
Somatic Experiencing® Foundations
Leading women's circles, workshops, and sessions from a trauma-sensitive, embodied foundation.
Facilitation Skills & The Embodied Business
Gentle abdominal manipulation for thawing immobilization and restoring flow.
Gut & Vagal Work for Freeze Release
Re-parenting, attachment styles, repairing childhood imprints.
Developmental Trauma & Inner Child Healing
Accessing natural shaking mechanisms and emotional discharge safely.
TRE (Trauma Release Exercise)
Techniques for releasing emotions and traumatic imprints stored in fascia allowing them not only to be released but to unwind and repattern.
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Myofascial Release & Tension Unwinding
Restoring safety, boundaries, sensuality, and body sovereignty after non-consensual or traumatic experiences.
Somatic Sexual Trauma Healing
Reclaiming nourishment, aliveness, and embodied expression in safety, slowness and allowance.
Trauma-Informed Sensuality
Somatic rewiring from chronic stress states into expanding window of capacity
Nervous System Regulation & Repatterning
Understanding and shifting between ventral, sympathetic, and dorsal states.
Polyvagal Theory in Practice
Cycle wisdom, womb health, herbs, rituals, and holistic feminine wellbeing.
Natural Gynaecology & Ancestral Feminine Wisdom
Healing intergenerational wounds through somatic and systemic field practices.
Systemic & Ancestral Trauma Healing
Integrating rejected parts of the self and dismantling inherited patriarchal conditioning.
Shadow Work
Reclaiming agency, boundaries, and embodied sovereignty beyond patriarchal programming.
Decolonizing the Patriarchal imprints
Supports your body access its innate ability to unwind trauma, expand your energy, and restore a sense of clarity, openness, and inner freedom
Trauma Release Breathwork
The Structure
of the Program
8 Deep, Immersive Module Initiations Into the Embodied Feminine
Each initiation unfolds over 5 transformative weeks, woven together across 14 months of deep embodiment and growth.
- Fascia-fluidity spiral movements for emotional flow, grounding, and reconnection with your innate movement patterns
- Trauma-informed embodiment practices that support safety, nervous system regulation, and emotional release
- Self–myofascial release to gently unwind tension and dissolve long-held trauma imprints
- Abdominal organ massage to soften freeze patterns in the gut and support internal harmony
- Somatic tools for self-regulation, presence, and embodiment activate oxytocin to support self-love, bonding and inner safety
By the end of this module, you will have reclaimed a foundational felt sense of safety, trust, and presence in your body—the essential groundwork for all further somatic healing and facilitation.
You will learn:
This foundational module invites you to step fully into your body as a vessel of wisdom, emotion, and aliveness. Through the pathways of fascia, breath, and somatic awareness, you will learn to regulate your nervous system, ground into your felt sense, and reconnect with sensations, emotions, and inner guidance.
- The physiology and neurobiology of trauma, including fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses
- The foundation of Somatic Experiencing®
- Explore the Neuroscience of trauma and embodiment, understanding how the brain and body communicate to hold, release, and transform emotional patterns.
- Polyvagal principles and their practical application in regulation and facilitation
- Resourcing, titration, and pendulation for safe and incremental trauma release
- Somatic language and communication skills for trauma-sensitive facilitation
- Hands-on and movement-based techniques to help the body complete stuck survival responses
In this module, science and somatic wisdom converge. You will learn how trauma is held in the body, how it shapes nervous system responses, and how the body holds the capacity to restore itself when given the tools and awareness.
You will learn:
This module deepens your understanding of trauma, offering both clarity and experiential practices that allow the body to remember and restore its innate equilibrium.
This module is an embodied invitation to freedom: to dissolve patterns that no longer serve you, to inhabit your body fully, and to expand your capacity to hold space for others with compassion and clarity.
TRE® — Trauma Release Exercises
A sequence of movements designed to activate the body’s natural shaking mechanism, discharging deep-seated tension and survival energy. TRE® restores nervous system balance, inner calm, and emotional resilience.
You will learn to apply these practices for:
A sequence of movements designed to activate the body’s natural shaking mechanism, discharging deep-seated tension and survival energy. TRE® restores nervous system balance, inner calm, and emotional resilience.
You will learn to apply these practices for:
- Group facilitation
- One-on-one sessions
- Personal healing and integration
Trauma Release Breathwork
Guided breath practice to reconnect you with your natural rhythm, allowing suppressed emotions and stuck energy to move safely through the body. This practice emphasizes presence, pacing, and safety as you release tension and reclaim vitality.
Guided breath practice to reconnect you with your natural rhythm, allowing suppressed emotions and stuck energy to move safely through the body. This practice emphasizes presence, pacing, and safety as you release tension and reclaim vitality.
Here, we explore two transformative modalities designed to safely unlock and release trauma stored in the body:
In this module, we explore the ancestral and systemic patterns that shape women’s bodies, emotions, and relationships. You will learn to identify inherited trauma and to disentangle from patterns that are not yours, creating space for healing and freedom.
- How ancestral trauma influences sexuality, embodiment, and emotional patterns
- Principles of systemic constellations and the dynamics of family fields
- Somatic lineage practices, rituals, and ancestral meditations
- Group exercises for healing the lineage
- Guiding others in ancestral and somatic repair
You will explore:
This module offers a profound reminder that when we heal our lineage, we restore our own body, psyche, and the collective feminine energy for generations to come.
This module guides you through reclaiming sovereignty over your body after sexual trauma. It blends somatic trauma healing, womb care, natural gynaecology, and trauma-informed sensuality to create safety, restoration, and empowerment.
- Body-centered approaches to sexual trauma repair
- Nervous system regulation and rebuilding internal safety
- Womb healing, cycle awareness, herbal medicine, and pelvic care
- Reconnecting with pleasure, sensuality, and embodiment in safe, grounded ways
- Boundary work, consent practices, and voice activation
- Completing blocked instinctive responses through Somatic Experiencing®
- Restoring Conscious Power dynamics, agency, dignity, and a felt sense of presence
You will explore:
This module is a sacred reclamation—a return to your embodied aliveness, sovereignty, and pleasure. It teaches you how to move with power, choice, and safety, integrating trauma release with self-trust and presence.
Here, we tenderly explore developmental trauma, attachment patterns, and early relational imprints. Through somatic practices, meditation, and group work, you will learn to give your inner child the care and attunement it has always deserved.
- Developmental phases and unmet childhood needs
- How early experiences shape adult relational and emotional patterns
- Somatic re-parenting and nurturing the inner child
- Understanding and working with attachment styles: anxious, avoidant, disorganized
- Supporting clients and yourself in reorganizing secure attachment imprints
- Meditative, somatic, and experiential practices to restore safety and presence
You will explore:
This module rebuilds foundational layers of your nervous system and emotional life, offering the grounding from which embodiment and leadership naturally arise.
This module invites you to explore the unconscious—the shadow self that contains rejected, silenced, and orphaned parts. Through deep reflection and embodiment, you will reclaim these pieces and integrate them with compassion.
- Releasing internalized beliefs of obedience, pleasing, and shrinking
- Reclaiming voice, boundaries, intuition, and personal agency
- Restoring a body that moves from sovereignty and inner truth
- Stepping out of inherited narratives around sexuality, motherhood, beauty, and power
Decolonizing Patriarchal Programming:
This module is a powerful awakening—liberating the body, heart, and mind from fear and conditioning, and reclaiming authentic, embodied feminine power.
- Integrating exiled aspects of yourself into conscious awareness
- Meeting your innate need for visibility, love, and acceptance
- Releasing shame and inherited narratives
- Exploring the feminine shadow under patriarchal conditioning
You will explore:
In the final module, all previous learning integrates. You will step into embodied feminine leadership, learning to hold safe, trauma-informed space while honoring your own nervous system and presence.
This module is the culmination of 14 months of deep healing. Here, your embodiment, wisdom, and leadership converge, empowering you to lead from presence, authenticity, and embodied feminine power.
- Principles of feminine leadership rooted in presence, coherence, and intuition
- Somatic attunement and regulation when leading groups or individuals
- Ethical and trauma-informed facilitation practices
- Leading women’s circles, workshops, rituals, and one-on-one sessions
- Designing aligned offerings, programs, and sessions rooted in embodiment
- Embodied business strategies: integrity, boundaries, and aligned creation
You will explore:
After 14 Months, You will be able to
- Facilitate somatic trauma healing for any gender.
- Guide people safely through nervous-system-based transformation
- Hold trauma-informed, embodied, powerful space
- Lead women’s circles, groups, and 1:1 sessions
- Support healing of sexuality, embodiment, sensuality, and feminine power
- Bring somatic trauma work into your personal or professional practice
- Create a deeply embodied, ethical, feminine-centered business
You will graduate as a Somatic Trauma Healing & Embodiment Facilitator — internationally accredited by ISMETA
Program Structure
- Weekly sessions on Tuesdays at 9am CET
- 3-hour sessions with a short break
- Replays available within 24 hours
- Integration weeks between modules
- Two weeks off in December for holidays
- Occasional scheduling shifts for guest teachers
- 4 weeks off in July/August for Summer holidays and Embodiment integration
Duration: 14 months
Format: Live + pre-recorded sessions on Zoom
Immersion days include:
Co-regulation
Somatic practice
Ritual, dance, movement
Emotional release
Group healing
Connection, sisterhood, nourishment
An opportunity to experience & embody the modalities you will study during the training.
In Person Immersions
Two immersion opportunities:
Portugal — March 2026
Bali — July 2027
Only one 8-day immersion is required, but attending both deepens your embodiment and community experience.
In Person Immersions
embodied woman journey
Guest Teachers
(Specialists in trauma, embodiment, ancestral work, and feminine wisdom.)
Harmony Scott
Shadow work, sacred sensuality, trauma-informed sexuality
Morena Cardoso
Somatic leadership & cultural embodiment
Maria Terra
Ancestral healing, womb care, natural gynaecology
Certification Process
After completing the 14-month program, you will have 6 months to submit your assignments and apply for certification:
Somatic Trauma Healing & Embodiment Facilitator
Internationally accredited by ISMETA.
Somatic Trauma Healing & Embodiment Facilitator
Internationally accredited by ISMETA.
Resources Included
- Embodied Trauma Healing e-book
- Physical copy of the book during immersion
- Workbooks, practices, guided audios, and resource library
