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Trauma-informed Relational Somatics is a Game-Changer. Here's why:/ Master the art of trauma-informed relating./ Learn h...
08/06/2022

Trauma-informed Relational Somatics is a Game-Changer. Here's why:

/ Master the art of trauma-informed relating.
/ Learn how to touch safely to invite somatization.
/ Empower yourself with skills around titration, pendulation + containment. When you feel safe, your client will feel safe.
/ Develop a touch-based toolkit to support your client to process in an embodied way.
/ Become an expert navigator to link the trauma story across body, mind + relationships.
/ Learn how to help your client intentionally process their trapped emotions in ways that transform their lives.

Are you ready to go on to the next level as a practitioner?
Sign up for TIRS now.

https://illumahealth.podia.com/trauma-informed-relational-somatics-2022-live-in-singapore

03/06/2022

In recent years, we have seen a huge increase in people craving support to heal from their trauma.

We're listening to the needs of our clients and have noticed that the biggest areas that need support are:
- Need for a safe space
- Need for space where they can authentically express themselves
- Need for accessible resources for support and self-healing to be processed

There's a need to bridge parts of therapy that can help clients meet their needs. Trauma-informed Relational Somatics is this bridge. TIRS 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.

Do you feel a calling to be a trauma-informed practitioner and take your practice to the next level?
Are you ready to help your clients heal and reintegrate?
Sign up now for TIRS live in Singapore 2022!

https://illumahealth.podia.com/trauma-informed-relational-somatics-2022-live-in-singapore

While there’s no quick fix to many of the world’s issues, we can take small steps to learn how to look after ourselves a...
30/05/2022

While there’s no quick fix to many of the world’s issues, we can take small steps to learn how to look after ourselves and each other in new ways.

➡️Understanding the impacts of trauma and how they show up inside our mind, body and relationships is the first step towards greater empathy and compassion.

👉 and the team are making our foundation online workshop free til the end of the month.

This is a starting point only.

But we have to start somewhere.

✅Let’s start healing together.

Register for trauma-informed fundamentals for free using code:

TIFUN-CHOOSE-HEALING

Link to workshop in comments.

✨Pls share. It costs nothing and can change everything.

Drop a 🤍 to share the intention to heal together.

Now that you've started making space for self-inquiry, feeling and expression through intential check-in points, and som...
13/05/2022

Now that you've started making space for self-inquiry, feeling and expression through intential check-in points, and somatic inquiry, here are two more ways to give yourself a little more room for expression and exploration:

3. Mind-body Integration
Can you go a layer deeper and link the sensations to what emotion you are feeling? This is called ‘somatic bridging’ and helps us become more connected to ourselves and integrate our body and mind. So much of our experience is non-verbal, and to truly know ourselves, we need to explore through feeling first!

4. Expression
Let it out! You may need to cry, scream, shake it out, run it out or write in your journal. Find some way to let it exist and express. Because that’s what it needs for transformation.

Learning how to work with your emotions can open the door to incredible healing and growth. Rather than simply working with these tools reactively, we can engage with them proactively too.
This is the work of self-mastery. It’s big and it takes time to integrate. Go gently, be compassionate with yourselves.

Calling all practitioners who are ready to step up their game in practice and take their healing to the next level!How w...
10/05/2022

Calling all practitioners who are ready to step up their game in practice and take their healing to the next level!

How we communicate, how we touch, the intention that goes behind the session surpasses what happens on the table. Touch is one of the most powerful forms of communication. Become an expert in navigating the story of the body and transform the lives of your client.

Are you ready to transform the way you practice?
Sign up for Trauma-informed Relational Somatics now. Live workshop in Singapore in 2022!

We need more people holding space for trauma-healing. People who are truly trauma-informed. Are you a practitioner, and ...
29/04/2022

We need more people holding space for trauma-healing.
People who are truly trauma-informed.

Are you a practitioner, and have gone through your own embodied trauma healing?
Can you provide a safe, contained space for your clients to freely express their pain and the full spectrum of their emotions?
Are you ready to be a practitioner who can be truly safe to work with?

Step into service. Register for Trauma-informed Relational Somatics now!

https://illumahealth.podia.com/trauma-informed-relational-somatics-2022-live-in-singapore

Did the last post on ways to cultivate resilience resonate with you? Here are 2 more areas where you can cultivate resil...
29/04/2022

Did the last post on ways to cultivate resilience resonate with you? Here are 2 more areas where you can cultivate resilience. Let us know how it goes for you!

3) Routine
Our nervous systems like routine. It helps them to regulate, to know what to expect and find a sense of ease. When the world is in chaos, finding ways to incorporate routine in our lives is a wonderful remedy. It may be getting up or going to sleep at the same time, scheduling time for your self-care or reading, or introducing ritual into your daily life and even with your families. In my home, my children and I have gratefulness dinner every Friday night and this is a beautiful marker for all of us to meet and connect.

4) Finding Joy
When we are experiencing overwhelm, we can lose connection to joy and happiness… We need to actively engage in things that ignite that within us. For me, boxing brings me immense joy and so does singing and laying in the sun. I'll make sure to try and do at least one of these in my week… and If I’m feeling really low… which happens sometimes… I know that these things might remedy my state. Intention is everything.

Drop a 🤍 if you resonate and comment below what OTHER ways you are building resilience?

Working with the intent to not retraumatize is a key area in trauma-informed care. Too often trauma is not focused on en...
14/04/2022

Working with the intent to not retraumatize is a key area in trauma-informed care. Too often trauma is not focused on enough when working with clients. There is a need to introduce the concepts of trauma systematically in approaches that work with mind-body connection.

In Trauma-informed Facilitation Workshop, learn how to orient your client to the present moment while you work with them, creating a safe space for expression so that resilience can be cultivated, and teach their bodies that what is known as the 'perceived sense of threat' is over and that they can let go of their bracing patterns. If any of these concepts seem interesting for you to deep dive further in a trauma-informed world, click on link to the course in bio!

Previously, we touched on cultivating resilience and why it was important to do so. Here are two areas to cultivate resi...
12/04/2022

Previously, we touched on cultivating resilience and why it was important to do so. Here are two areas to cultivate resilience:

1) Nervous system self-care
Self-care tools like meditation, breath work, mindfulness and yoga, work in building capacity in our nervous system. They create a little bit more bandwidth to deal with overwhelm or threat… They do not, however, cure it or make it go away.

2) Relationships
Our relationships have a direct impact on our resilience.
Having connection, support and intimacy in our lives helps us increase our capacity to exist, recover and thrive. Not all of us have these relationships… Thus, being able to cultivate connections in experiences like this, is really important. If we do have them, we may need to make extra effort to maintain them..like scheduling a call, or if we are able, a meal.

Drop a like if you resonate and comment below what are the ways you are building resilience?

Trauma lives and breathes in us. When we start to shift the question from "what is wrong with you?", to "what happened t...
07/04/2022

Trauma lives and breathes in us. When we start to shift the question from "what is wrong with you?", to "what happened to you?", leads to understanding how trauma has affected us, and this could lead to a gentler and more comprehensive way of how we treat ourselves, and how we work through our responses to the issues we face.

It is important to understand our triggers, the physical symptoms associated with it, how we co-regulate with others, recognize what toxic behavior is, what healthy empathy is, and more... This is what our "Trauma-informed Fundamentals Workshop" seeks to cover. Interested to learn more? Click on the link in our bio!

Aside from showing up in the nervous system, the psyche, and the body, trauma shows up in relationships. Trauma decontex...
04/04/2022

Aside from showing up in the nervous system, the psyche, and the body, trauma shows up in relationships.

Trauma decontextualizes into relating patterns. These show up through life and can also be present in the facilitator-client relationship.

Learning how to spot relational signs of trauma can be a game-changer, as then you can understand what the root cause may be (in terms of relationship) and how to engage with the most supportive relational approach to care.

This topic goes deep, but understanding some of the trauma archetypes can change how you relate to your clients.
The Fawner
The Victim
The Warrior

Interested to learn more? Check out our Trauma-informed Facilitation Online Workshop.
Link in bio!

31/03/2022

Bracing in body can be picked up from little cues such as making facial expressions , or clenching of the jaw. Verbal cues are very helpful in allowing attunement to happen, and this can be done just by saying, "If you allow your jaw to relax..." You'll notice almost an immediate shift when they allow their jaw to relax and their mouth to widen slightly.

Verbal cues can help the client a) relax into the experience; b) feel and associate and c) drop into the emotional somatics.

If you’re a therapist, coach or health practitioner interested to learn more, join TIRS live in Singapore in April/June 2022.
Link in Bio!

Often, we are our own biggest critics, while at the same time, we often create safe spaces that are non-judgmental and n...
28/03/2022

Often, we are our own biggest critics, while at the same time, we often create safe spaces that are non-judgmental and non-discriminative towards others. This needs to be reciprocated towards ourselves. Can you start to build safe spaces to allow yourself to listen to, and express yourself in a new way?

How do you start to go about making space for inquiry, feeling and expression?

1. Intentional Check-in Points
Create check-in points in your day to ask yourself, ‘how am I really?’. See if you can name the emotions that are present, whatever they are.
This way, you are not letting the emotions slip under the radar (some of them are pretty sneaky and good at hiding).

2. Somatic Inquiry
Our emotions are often non-verbal. They present as feelings and sensations in the body and the right brain. Sometimes we don’t take time to feel them somatically, and so then we can't name them or make sense of them with our left brain. During your check-in points, see if you can sense areas in your body that have sensations, movement, heat, cool, texture.

Interested to learn more about ways to take care of yourself, to spot the signs and symptoms of trauma, to work with yourself on a deeper level, and in a more trauma-informed manner?
Click on our course link in bio: Trauma-informed Fundamentals Workshop to learn more!

We all have experienced trauma in our lives in one way or another, thus as practitioners, it is important to keep this i...
24/03/2022

We all have experienced trauma in our lives in one way or another, thus as practitioners, it is important to keep this in mind when we work with individuals or groups, so that we do not accidentally trigger our clients into a retraumatization response. Trauma puts the person affected by it in a sympathetic threat response, it's a survival response that is useful to protect the individual against more trauma, but at the same time, it block access to the existing, deeply rooted trauma in the body. As such, there might be some signs and symptoms that we can, as practitioners, pick up on and allow us to work with the intent not to retraumatize. One of the ways to work with this intent not to retraumatize is to work with trauma sensitive language.

In our Trauma-informed Group Facilitation workshop, we will cover all this and more! To find out more, click on link in bio!

We all have experienced times when we feel overwhelmed when facing adversity and hard times. How we react, bounce back, ...
22/03/2022

We all have experienced times when we feel overwhelmed when facing adversity and hard times. How we react, bounce back, and try again, reflects how resilient we are. We learn and build from experience, and we become wiser with each lesson we overcome. Cultivating our ability to handle challenging situations while learning to be empathetic towards ourselves and others will lead to growth and transformation.

We all have different ways of coping and resorting to different mechanisms when our resilience is low. We also experience trauma in one form or another throughout our life. Learn more about trauma, the signs and symptoms through our Trauma-informed Fundamentals workshop (link in bio), and stay tuned for our upcoming posts on ways that you can learn to build/cultivate resilience.

18/03/2022

Shoulder holds and containment is a very comfortable and nourishing hold. You can start a session with a shoulder hold. Before placing your hands on your client, make sure that you are comfortable, grounded, and stable in your body.
Wait and listen until your client's body is ready, and safe-touch may be introduced.

In Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics, Natalia Rachel trains practitioners how to apply safe touch to invite release and support somatic integration.

If you’re a therapist, coach, or health practitioner interested to learn more, join TIRS live in Singapore in April/June 2022.
Link in Bio!

As facilitators, it's important to always be mindful of retraumatization when working with clients. Being respectful of ...
15/03/2022

As facilitators, it's important to always be mindful of retraumatization when working with clients. Being respectful of emotional boundaries and working with consent is key to being a trauma-informed facilitator. Retraumatization can be triggered by any of these factors - touch, words, expression, situation or specfici environments that replicate the dynamics of their original trauma, leading to a situation where the client might feel like there is a loss of power or safety.

In our Trauma-informed Facilitation workshop, you will learn the basis of trauma, how to work with intent not to retraumatize, spot the signs and symptoms of retraumatization, and more. Keen to start your trauma-informed journey today? Sign up now! Link in bio.

11/03/2022

With some clients, tension and headaches gather in the forehead, and are held in the frontal and parietal bones. This hold requires lots of control, but is great for inviting release when the situation calls for it.

In Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics, Natalia Rachel trains practitioners how to read what's occuring in a session, and which holds to apply, while using safe touch and language to invite release.

If you’re a therapist, coach or health practitioner intersted to learn more, join TIRS live in Singapore in April/June 2022.
Link in Bio!

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