Healing Traumatic Stress Through Embodied Awareness

One-Day Online Workshop, Five Hours  
 
Our senses inform our nervous system about our physical state of safety or danger, agitation, or calm, and in turn, determine our capacity to focus and respond effectively to what is around us.  
 
Being out of touch with yourself and the feelings of people around you is one of the hallmark signs of traumatic stress. Awareness of our bodily sensations is important for self-understanding, self-balancing, co-balancing, and healing from trauma. Restoring the ability and capacity to be aware in the present moment requires reestablishing awareness of our senses and being able to attune and align our interior reactions to our surroundings.  

Join somatic educator and Co-founder and Global Ambassador of the Trauma Research Foundation, Licia Sky, to learn a gentle process of listening to bodily sensations that incorporates orienting, focusing attention, breath, sound, and movement. Participants learn detailed body tracking meditations incorporating interoception—the process of perceiving and interpreting internal bodily sensations, such as heart rate, breathing, temperature, and hunger—and proprioception—the sense of body position, movement, and force—discovering how they inform our sense of safety and availability to engage.  
 
Licia’s workshop offers healing tools for those on their own journey to awareness of their inner and outer senses and for those looking to incorporate the workshop offerings into their therapeutic work with clients. 
 

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Licia Sky is the Co-founder and Global Ambassador of the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, integration specialist, and bodyworker who works with people impacted by trauma, and guides mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing, and connection.  
 
She is a regular instructor in trauma healing workshops at Cape Cod Institute, Ketamine Training Center, and Esalen. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and laypeople around the world. Learn more about Licia's work at the Trauma Research Foundation website and Licia's website.

Important Workshop Information  

Accessibility 
 
If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility page.
 

Recording Policy 
 
Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to all ticket buyers. 
 

Refund Policy 
 
Tickets are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event start. Within 7 days of the event, a 50% partial refund is available. No refunds are available within 24 hours of the event start. Read our full refund policy on our Frequently Asked Questions web page.