This is NOT a live course. 


The course will consist of pre-recorded videos and lessons.


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About Trauma-informed Relational Somatics


Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics is the foundation training created by somatic therapist, Natalia Rachel.
This is an integrative professional development training that focuses on attunement above all, and blends talk and touch therapy to support clients recovering from trauma, and moving into post-traumatic growth, and transformation.

Experiential Training
As this is an experiential training, participants should come ready to explore their own stories through vulnerable sharing and somatic exploration. As always, it is through our embodied experience, that we can best integrate our learnings and go on to share in the world!

Who would benefit from this training?
  • Talk therapists/counselors seeking to integrate a trauma-informed and somatic approach to care.
  • Somatic practitioners interested in deepening their touch skills and somatic listening capabilities.
  • Movement & Embodiment facilitators interested in cultivating a trauma-informed practice and enhancing 1-1 space holding capabilities.
  • Health professionals who want to expand their toolkit and adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.

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You will learn how to set an intention for a session, establish somatic resonance, and use both touch technique and verbal cues to safely somatize a client, repair the mind-split, and how to respond to spontaneous release. The curriculum has been developed with the intent not to re-traumatize, and to promote both internal and relational safety always.

More than techniques, more than by-the-book processes...

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Module 1 – Attunement & Safe Somatization

What will happen in Module One?

In this course, you will learn a relational approach to trauma recovery, how to understand what the client might need, and how to respond to different threat responses and trauma stories.

Areas of exploration Module One:

1) Safely somatize / repair mind-body split. 

2) Good handle on reading and responding to threat responses - helping the client approach ventral vagal. 

3) Hypnotic language to pair with holds.

4) Somatic intuition - learning to understand and respond to your own somatic signals in a session.

5) Touch skills Part A.

a) gentle touch holds
b) working with the head
c) promoting local unwinding (coming out of freeze)

6) How to layout a somatization session, from intention setting, to containment and integration.

7) Emotional somatics - how to identify emotional charge, and help the client make sense.

8) Responding to spontaneous release - how to increase safety, and ensure re-suppression doesn’t occur.

9) Processing shame - a precursor to deeper emotional processing.

10) Psychoeducation Part A.


NOTE: In order to join module 2, you will need to complete module 1.



Module 2 – Intentional Trauma Processing

What will happen in Module Two?


In Module Two, which is the sequel to Module One, we will explore intentional trauma processing. Module Two builds on the foundation set by Module One.
You will learn how to navigate the client's trauma story, identify trigger threads, and work to access suppressed somatic content for gentle and contained release and integration.
You will also learn how to psycho-educate a client and how to help them make sense of their experience.

Areas of exploration Module Two:

1) Emotional release theory: Understanding how emotions live in the body, gain movement, momentum, and release. We will explore the core triangle of emotions: fear, anger, grief.

2) Emotional release practice:  building tools to support release:
I) touch for release,
ii) verbal cues
iii) working with somatic expression - movement, breath & sound

3) Somatic intuition - developing the capacity to sense emotion, and bring gentle awareness to the client.

4) Working with resistance and fragmentation - an introduction to somatic parts therapy.

5) Touch skills Part B. Advanced touch applications - working the jaw, throat,  diaphragm, and psoas.

6) Psychoeducation Part B.

7) Root causes, trauma maps, and essential illuminations for processing:  emotions, thoughts, unconscious organizing principles, and somatic presentation.

 8) Introduction to transference.

 9) Introduction to existential exploration - working with un-belonging in the body and the world.


Watch session demos here

Full Table Demonstration with Chloe
Full Table Demonstration with Dominica
Full Table Demonstration with Stephanie
Full Demonstration with Xiao Ting

Praise for Trauma-informed Relational Somatics

“There is a real push for healthcare to be trauma-informed and so I was seeking my own development in this, as a health professional and an educator. I have now attended a couple of different trainings with Natalia and, apart from having a lot of experience and wisdom, she also curates her learning experiences to support a structured progression with clear direction for how learnings can be applied. And this is always done within a context of safety. In the TIRS modules, I really welcomed being challenged and stretched to find new ways of understanding clinical practice, and as part of that, exploring my own relational journey.”

Lester Jones (Physiotherapist/Educator)

“I deeply appreciated learning from Natalia through TIRS 1, 2 and the mentorship, as well as assisting. Natalia holds safe, gentle space that welcomes curiosity. She breaks down the teachings so that they are digestible. I enjoyed the interactive learning as well as the theory of approaching care for trauma. With the training, I felt more confident and resourced to work with various individuals to process their trauma stories. 100% recommend TIRS for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding and relationship to themselves, or to extend care to others with this gentle somatic approach.”

Stephanie Leong (Somatic Therapist)

“In my practice as a psychotherapist, I recognized that talk therapy has a limit in terms of the healing of emotions and trauma. Learning TIRS modules 1 and 2 with Natalia has been groundbreaking not only for my practice but also in my exploration of my journey. I appreciate the somatic and relational approach of TIRS which is both gentle and powerful. Along with the learning of theory and techniques, Natalia also curates the learning experiences to support a structured progression and direction of how the learnings can be applied for everyone. Through the course, she has held a safe space that welcomes curiosity, authenticity, and expression. I’d not only built my resources as a therapist but also deepened my understanding and relationship with myself. I deeply appreciate the learnings and her space holding for everyone, and recommend TIRS to any therapists, caregivers, or individuals who wish to build their care kit and relationship with others and themselves.”

Vivian C. (Psychotherapist)

About Natalia

Natalia Rachel

Writer | Poet | Speaker | Facilitator

Natalia Rachel is a writer and innovator who helps us understand how to heal and co-create a kinder, more intelligent and connected world. Her work weaves together the healing arts, the creative arts and education, and continues to have intersectional impact across industries. It inspires a greater understanding of our human experience, why we behave the way we do, and how to move the needle individually, and collectively through unearthing our innate primordial intelligence. Her belief is that the more of us who heal, become embodied and self-aware, the more swiftly our world will transform for the better. Her current mission is to bring healing work to new spaces in ways that are creative, accessible, and transformational. As a creator and facilitator, Natalia is known for her words and voice that speak straight to the heart, wake up the spirit, and curate a field of greater compassion and capacity. Her work always lives and breathes on both the somatic and relational planes. Her ability to bring us into greater felt sense, and a deeper relational awareness continues to welcome deeper healing, epiphany and the kind of shifts that we often seek but can’t access. Her following is truly global, and she has had the opportunity to speak and teach in Asia, USA, Europe, and Australia. Natalia engages as a keynote speaker, leadership trainer, consultant and runs several open programs that attract participants who are committed to serving, leading and relating in ways that heal, as well as their own continued healing work. Natalia’s first book ‘Why Am I Like This?’ is out now with Penguin Random House, and inspires a shift in the way we think about who we are, and how to live in ways that heal rather than harm. She’s currently writing her second book ‘Love Sex Poetry Peace’ which explores the ways we give and receive love in the modern world. Natalia is also a prolific poet, and writes two columns for Singapore mega publication ‘Her World’. Commencing her career in the clinical space as a practitioner and clinical director, Natalia made strides in developing Asia’s first integrated somatic trauma clinics. Aside from bringing much needed alternative therapies to greater access in Asia, Natalia also shone in the realm of eco-system building, communicating with key stakeholders and building a vision-oriented strategy that was practical to implement. During her time in Asia, Natalia saw the need for more education and healing spaces that were both trauma informed as well as human centric and accessible. Her teaching career began with professional development for clinicians, expanded to healthcare leadership and personal and community-based programs that would allow those outside the clinical world opt into their own healing process. Natalia is the proud recipient of several awards for her purpose-driven work including The Women Icon’s Asia Award and the World Women Leadership Award. Currently Natalia resides in Sydney Australia, where she is exploring how art can become our greatest healer. ‘The Living Poetry Project’ pilot program, in conjunction with University of New South Wales, inspired youths to explore their relationship narratives through group process and poetry, and received praise across the board. The muti-media experiential process will serve as a point of departure for future projects in Australia and abroad. Illuma Health continues to operate as the healthcare division of Illuma Vision, Natalia’s multimedia and production company that produces programs for purpose and media for mankind.

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