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 Become a S.O.M.A Practitioner 

Learn to guide your clients through the  S.O.M.A Practice®

 

Help Your Clients: 

  • Take each phase S.O.M.A deeper during sessions.
  • Identify the story, shape and shadow parts within their adaptive/traumatized self (Parts Work) 
  • Transition protective & wounded parts of self into their authentic roles. Parts remember their truest expression
  • Process emotional shame using S.O.M.A in trauma therapy 
  • Experience the healing and regulating effects of Breathwork

Training Includes:

  • Create a felt sense of safety and support in the body.
  • Guidance on the felt sense inquiry (Gendlin). Build clients’ interoceptive awareness.
  • Inner child dialogue. Learn a specific dialogue to engage younger orphaned/exiled/ashamed parts.
  • Breathwork and many other “physicalizing” interventions to activate somatic connection and emotional expression (Bi-lateral stimulation, tapping, qi-gong, sounding & movement practices).
  • How to use attention (stretching towards something) in healing work 
  • Breathwork and NLP (neuro-linguistic programing) prompts to facilitate the imprinting of new beliefs.
  • Mindfulness, centering and visualization to help client access their adult consciousness and deepen capacity to access their always available internal resting place.
  • An understanding of trauma, neuroscience,  polyvalel theory, the nervous system and protective somatic shapes.

  • Master facilitating the four phases of a SomaTalk™ session.

Training Schedule:

Next cohort begins Janurary 4th, 2026 

Training occurs every week on Sunday's at 2:00 cst. Replay's are available.

Month one: offers training in the four languages of S.O.M.A: Sensing, Opening, Moving, and Awakening. 

Month two: practical application of The S.O.M.A Practice® in trauma therapy and parts-work. 

Eight week training:

 Week 1

Sense: 

Sensor tracking 

Gendlin’s focusing work 

Week 2

 Open:

Neuroscience - Polyvagel theory

Attachment theory

Adaptive personality shapes

Week 3

Move:

Somatic Expressing tools 

Breathwork

Week 4

Awaken:

Inner-child dialogue, resourcing

Somatic attuning & healing messages

Weeks 4-8: Practical Applications of S.O.M.A

  • Learn to apply S.O.M.A to Parts-Work and Trauma Therapy
  • Engage in practice sessions and receive clinical supervision
  • Lead a S.O.M.A Practice® and submit recording

Upon Completion:

State in bio: Certified Somatic Practitioner

Become an affiliate of The S.O.M.A Course

 

Online Course for your clients: Earn $15 every time your client purchases the course.

The  S.O.M.A Practice® Course

  • Why important to listen to the body. Why and how "The body speaks"
  • Understand parts work: Story, Shape, Shadow and Self
  • Learn breathwork practices used in The S.O.M.A Practice®
  • Learn the S.O.M.A Practice™ -- a self-regulating, moving and breath-work meditation

  

Training Cost:

$695

  • 8 Live Interactive Sessions: These sessions are didactic and experiential including break out sessions for practice.  
  • Online lectures: In addition to live classes, study at your own pace with our practical online learning material. 
  • Client Resources: Registration includes a course you can offer your clients preparing them for SomaTalk™ sessons.  

Two Payments

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Post-Training Opportunities

Private Consultation Sessions

$250

  • Private supervision or consultation Sessions with Dr. Kutsko can be purchased separately.  Sign up with others to share cost.  Click here to register for private consultation.
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