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Embodied Recovery Institute

Experiential training for mental health and wellness providers She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS).

Embodied Recovery Institute provides experiential training for mental health and wellness professionals, to support them in their care for patients with eating disorders. Rachel Lewis-Marlow (co-founder) is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has adv

anced training and 25 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies

Paula Scatoloni (co-founder) is a somatic psychotherapist trained in North Carolina.

05/19/2026

Might it have begun before birth? Before language?

Growing Seeds of Attachment: an Exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes is an experiential 4-day training examining the body’s earliest and most innate capacity for movement which creates the foundation for the relational cycle of movement: yield, push, reach, grasp, pull.

The relational language of movement is built on our somatic tone and primitive reflexes.

These movement patterns develop before and shortly after birth.

Participants explore how cellular tone and primitive reflexes establish the foundation for complex volitional movements that support completing the developmental tasks of embodiment, meeting needs, expressing wants, experiencing intimacy and belonging.

Integrating these building blocks of movement facilitates coordination of our everyday actions and activities and supports nourishing relationships between ourselves, each other and the world in which we live.

Co-taught by Rachel Lewis-Marlow and Bob Lehnberg (BMC® Practitioner), this training is designed for clinicians ready to work at a pre-verbal, developmental level.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 May 28–31, 2026
Prerequisite: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment / Clinical Applications of ERED

05/13/2026

💟 Two spots still available 💟

Primitive reflexes and cellular tone form the earliest architecture for how we relate—to our bodies, to caregivers, and to the world. When these foundational patterns are unintegrated, they can disrupt regulation, interoception, and capacity to eat.

In our Tier 2 training, Growing Seeds of Attachment: An Exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes, you’ll learn how to:

✔ Define, demonstrate, and facilitate key cellular patterns & primitive reflexes
✔ Identify somatic indicators of unintegrated reflexes inhibiting recovery
✔ Provide psycho-physical education to clients & teams
✔ Integrate reflex-based work into interdisciplinary treatment

Across four days, we explore reflexes such as:
• Tonic Labyrinthine
• Moro
• Landau
• Babkin
• Traction
• Oral Rooting
…and more.

This training is ideal for mental health clinicians, dietitians, OTs, nurses, psychiatrists, medical providers, yoga therapists, and all members of multidisciplinary ED treatment teams.

Prerequisite: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment or Clinical Applications of ERED: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment.

A strongly experiential training—expect movement, floor work, and touch-based exploration. Participate at your comfort level.

📍 Growing Seeds of Attachment: An Exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
Final call to register. All details can be found in link in bio

05/11/2026

Two spots remaining!

Growing Seeds of Attachment: An Exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes is a 4-day, in-person training designed for practitioners who want to deepen their work through a more embodied, relational lens.

Rooted in the integration of Body-Mind Centering® and Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED), this training supports you to:
Refine your therapeutic presence
Expand your capacity for co-regulation
Strengthen your assessment skills and therapeutic interventions

Through an experiential approach, we’ll explore primitive reflexes and somatic tone as foundational elements of the Relational Cycle of movement—shaping how we connect, receive nourishment, and experience belonging.

This training offers space to engage directly with the body’s innate intelligence for movement and relationship, bringing these principles into your clinical and relational work.

The course is co-taught by Rachel Lewis-Marlow and Bob Lehnberg, a certified Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, and will be held in Chapel Hill.

Training Details
Dates: May 28–31, 2026
Location: 18 South Circle Drive, Chapel Hill
Times: Thurs–Sat 9:00am–5:30pm, Sun 9:00am–3:00pm
2 spots left 💟 link in bio to register.

Don’t miss out on this uniquely experiential training that dives deep into the origins of where our relationship to nourishment all began.

04/12/2026

What if body image distortions aren’t cognitive distortions at all?

What if they emerge from sensory disorganization?

Coming to Our Senses explores how Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) intersect with eating disorders—shaping food preferences, body perception, and treatment outcomes.

Co-facilitated by Kim Clairy and Rachel Lewis-Marlow, this in-person blends clinical education with immersive experiential practices—offering a felt-sense of what it’s like to live in a sensory world that doesn’t always align with dominant expectations.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 October 22–25, 2026
✨ Tier 1 · In-person
🎟 Early Bird until May 31
Open to all interested professionals.
No prior ERED training required.

04/05/2026

If you’re already trained in somatic, trauma-informed, or attachment-based work and eating disorder symptoms keep showing up in your office, our trainings gives you the missing bridge (without you needing to become an eating disorder specialist).

Through experiential learning, didactic processes, and somatic mapping, we’ll explore the layers that shape the embodiment of our attachment, defense and digestive systems, and how to work with them in an integrated and coherent way.

Our tier 1 and tier 2 trainings offer experiential dives into:
• Protective attachment adaptations
• Behavioral change supported by increased embodiment
• Facilitating relationally attuned, somatically integrative work

Link in bio to check out our upcoming 2026 trainings 🔗

03/21/2026

Our trainings explores why these protective eating and body adaptations exist, and how to support clients to transform them through bottom-up resourcing.

Through participatory embodiment work, participants learn how to:

• Recognize survival-driven patterns in clients
• Support regulation and actions of eating
• Build the relational container for deeper embodiment
• Work skillfully with resistance, shutdown, and overwhelm

If you’re ready to learn somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders, step into deeper personal embodiment work that enhances effective clinical presence, and join a supportive, relational learning environment in which to explore the edges of your comfort zone, our Tier 1 and Tier 2 trainings could be for you!

Link in bio to learn more about our 2026 in-person and online offerings.

03/13/2026

Primitive reflexes and cellular tone form the earliest architecture for how we relate—to our bodies, to caregivers, and to the world.

When these foundational patterns are unintegrated, they can disrupt regulation, interoception, and capacity to eat.

In our Tier 2 training, Growing Seeds of Attachment, you will explore how early movement patterns shape the capacity to receive food, care, and connection.

This work is subtle. Precise. Profoundly developmental.
And highly relevant to eating disorder recovery.

✨ Growing Seeds of Attachment
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC

A 4-day experiential training, integrating Body-Mind Centering and ERED for clinicians and allied professionals who have completed Tier 2: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment 🙇‍♀️ link in bio to register 🔗

03/09/2026

We’re proud to spotlight Kimberly Clairy, MS, OTR/L, Tier II Faculty for Coming to Our Senses about Eating Disorders Treatment 📣

Kimberly Clairy, MS, OTR/L—occupational therapist, autism advocate, and autistic adult—has dedicated her work to educating clinicians about the intersection of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, and eating disorders.

This March, her and her husband are offering a free virtual series, What’s Brewing, on marriage, advocacy, and lived experience. Join them on March 3, 17, and 31, 8-9am EST 🩵

Register for What’s Brewing here: https://ocali.org/whats-brewing-conversation-on-marriage-autism-and-life

She’s also launched a new YouTube channel where she answers real-world questions about autism and sensory processing from both clinical and lived perspectives. Don’t forget to subscribe! 🎯

And in October, she joins us in Chapel Hill to co-facilitate Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment 👏
Oct 22–25, 2026

A 4-day experiential workshop exploring how sensory processing patterns shape food relationships, body perception, and treatment outcomes.

Early Bird discount through May 31. Link in bio to register.

Learn from someone who bridges lived experience and clinical practice.

03/06/2026

Growing Seeds of Attachment is an experiential 4-day training examining the body’s earliest and most innate capacity for movement which creates the foundation for the relational cycle of movement: yield, push, reach, grasp, pull.

Co-taught by Rachel Lewis-Marlow and Bob Lehnberg (BMC® Practitioner), this training is designed for clinicians ready to work at a pre-verbal, developmental level.

Participants explore how cellular tone and primitive reflexes establish the foundation for complex volitional movements that support completing Action Cycle stages for nourishing ourselves with food and relationships.

📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 May 28–31, 2026
4 spaces available!
Prerequisite: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment / Clinical Applications of ERED

03/03/2026

Coming To Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment is a training that doesn’t just teach about sensory processing.

It invites you to experience it. Through didactic learning and embodied exploration, participants gain a felt sense of neurodivergent sensory worlds—and how to adapt treatment accordingly.

This is essential knowledge for ethical, attuned eating disorder care.

If you work with eating disorders, neurodivergence, or complex trauma—this training belongs in your foundation.
📍 Chapel Hill, NC
🗓 October 22–25, 2026
✨ Tier 1 · In-person
🎟 Early Bird until May 31
Open to all interested professionals.
No prior ERED training required.

03/02/2026

We’re proud to spotlight Kimberly Clairy, MS, OTR/L: Tier II Faculty for Coming to Our Senses about Eating Disorders Treatment.

Kim brings something rare to the field: Professional OT training and lived experience of autism, SPD, and eating disorder recovery.

This March, she’s hosting a free 3-part virtual conversation series

☕ What’s Brewing: Marriage, Autism, and Life
March 3, 17, 31 | 8–9am ES

An honest look at advocacy, partnership, and living as an autistic adult navigating systems that weren’t built with neurodivergence in mind.

Register here: https://ocali.org/whats-brewing-conversation-on-marriage-autism-and-life 🙏

📺 She’s also launched a new YouTube channel:
where she answers real-world questions about autism and sensory processing from both clinical and lived perspectives. Don’t forget to subscribe!

If you work in eating disorder treatment, trauma therapy, or neurodivergence-informed care, this is a voice worth listening to.

And if you want to go deeper, Kim co-facilitates our 4-day experiential training:

👀 Coming to Our Senses About Eating Disorders Treatment
Oct 22–25, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC

Link in bio to register. 5% Early Bird discount until May 31.

Address

18 S Circle Drive
Chapel Hill, NC
27516

Telephone

+19199728381

Website

http://www.embodiedrecovery.org/

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