Embodied Recovery Institute

12/29/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we’re wishing you a season of rest, digestion, integration, and renewal.

This is a time to let the year settle in the body; to allow the learning, the challenges, and the growth to integrate at their own pace. There is plenty of time and space for you to metabolize, assimilate and release.

May the final weeks of the year offer you space to land, a softening toward what matters, the capacity to welcome what 2026 will bring with clarity.

Thank you for being part of this community.

We look forward to sharing the year ahead with you.
Feel free to sign up to our newsletter to stay updated with all our upcoming 2026 online and in-person trainings, workshops, podcast interviews, and more. Link in bio 💜

Warmly,
The Embodied Recovery Institute

12/22/2025

We believe eating disorder treatment can and must evolve… which means our Introduction to ERED Online training is open for enrollment 🦋

The Embodied Recovery approach fills in missing details in the picture of what shapes our clients’ relationship with feeding and eating:
• nervous system dysregulation
• sensory and interoceptive challenges
• attachment imprints
• developmental disruptions
• defensive patterns

This training helps practitioners understand these root layers so they can support clients with greater clarity, compassion, and effectiveness 👁️

If you feel called to join a global community shifting the paradigm of ED treatment, we would be honored to have you in the 2026 cohort 🌎

Enrollment closes Feb 28.
Learn more via the link in our bio.

12/19/2025

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’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: A 4-day experiential training
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
🔗 Registration in bio

12/16/2025

If you’ve been considering joining us for in-person trainings, next year could be your year.

Begin your ERED journey with this 3-day introductory Tier 1 training, March 6–8, 2026 in Silver Spring, MD.

This training invites you to see and feel more possibilities as we expand the paradigm of eating disorder recovery treatment.

Through a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and neurobiologically grounded lens, you’ll learn why the body is not the obstacle to recovery, but a key to relational, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

This foundational course introduces the maps, concepts, and embodiment practices that form the heart of the ERED approach.

This is the first step on the ERED learning path. Whether you’re new to somatic work or already weaving body-based approaches into your practice, this course offers both depth and accessibility.

You’ll leave with:
- The 4 Foundational Principles of ERED
- Developmental maps and neurological models that reframe disordered eating through a bottom-up lens
- Scientific grounding in nervous system regulation, interoception, and embodiment as support for normative eating
- Experiential activities that illuminate how sensory and somatic experiences shape behaviors and relational dynamics
- The provider’s own embodiment as a vital therapeutic resource
- Connection with like-minded community of professionals committed to embodied recovery

Join us March 6–8, 2026 in Silver Spring.
Registration now open. Link in bio to learn more.
💟 Early Bird discount until Jan 2, 2026 💟

12/12/2025

Eating disorder symptoms are not failures—they are expressions of attempts at establishing safety and protection.

Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training that explores the felt-sense experience of these barriers, why these protective adaptations exist, and how to support clients transform them through bottom-up resourcing.

Through participatory embodiment work, participants learn how to:

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

If you’re ready to learn more advanced somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders, bring theory into felt understanding, 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 2 training could be for you!

New York
April 23–27, 2026 & September 24–28, 2026.
Link in bio to register.
🦋 Early Bird discount until Jan 23, 2026 🦋
Open to those who’ve completed the Intro to ERED (online or in-person).

12/10/2025

Embodied Recovery Institute is expanding—and we’re thrilled to make our foundational training accessible to practitioners around the world 💻

If you’ve been wanting to train with us but travel wasn’t possible, this is your opportunity.

The updated online format includes:
7 live virtual sessions
Pre-recorded modules
Downloadable handouts
Experiential learning
A global professional community

Designed for 👉 Therapists, Dietitians, Body-based practitioners, and and medical or mental health providers working with feeding and eating struggles

Whether you’re new to somatic ED work or expanding your current skill set, this training offers the maps, models, and frameworks that shape the Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders approach, including:
💟 The 4 foundational principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatically integrative eating disorder treatment
💟 Developmental and neurologically-based models that explain how embodiment and nervous system regulation support “normative eating”
💟 Experiential exploration of attachment patterns and how they influence regulation, feeding dynamics, and recovery
💟 Evidence-based rationale for expanding the ED treatment team to include specialists in trauma, sensory processing, embodied movement, and CAM
💟 Opportunities for self-reflection to help providers better understand their own embodied patterns and capacity for co-regulation

Registration is open until February 28.
Link in bio to learn more. Hope to see you online!

12/08/2025

The Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders is now online! 📌 Join us in March 2026 from anywhere in the world to learn about the ERED approach 💟

Embodiment isn’t an “add-on” to eating disorder work—it is the foundation.

Clients who struggle with feeding, fullness, digestion, hunger, and eating behaviors are often navigating overwhelm in their nervous systems, early attachment imprints, or sensory challenges that go unseen in traditional ED treatment.

The Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders model helps clinicians understand these missing layers 🧅

If you’re ready to integrate a deeper, more compassionate, and neurobiologically informed approach into your practice, this training, blending theory and experiential practice, is for you 😇

Now fully online and open to practitioners worldwide.
March 13 – July 27, 2026
More info via the link in bio.

12/04/2025

Join us in NYC next April and September 🍎

Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training that gives you the language, tools and experiential practices to work with nourishment patterns in a somatically-integrative, relationally-oriented, and trauma-informed way.

This Tier 2, two-module in-person training offers an experiential dive into the protective attachment adaptations and behavioral barriers that express themselves through eating disorder symptoms 👀

Develop a felt-sense knowledge of what supports both you and your clients in stepping into authentic, relationally attuned embodiment 🙏

This training helps providers build:
• Clearer attunement
• Greater assessment skills
• Confidence working with complexity
• A stronger internal reference point for embodiment

What you’ll experience:
- Advanced somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders that build on the Intro to ERED Tier 1 training
- Experiential exercises that bring theory of the Action Cycle into felt understanding
- Personal embodiment work that enhances effective clinical presence
- A supportive, relational learning environment in which to explore the edges of your comfort zone.

This is where theory becomes lived experience. If you’re ready for the next level of integration, we’d love to welcome you 🫀

📍 New York City
🗓️ April + September 2026.
🔗 Link in bio to register.
📚 Prerequisite: Introduction to ERED (online or in-person).
🐦 Early Bird discount until Jan 23, 2026.

12/01/2025

The Advanced Skills for ERED is here!

Tier 3 training is a deep dive into the embodied dance between practitioner and client.

Over 15 months we explore:
• Personal embodiment as a clinical tool
• Nuanced assessment through the body
• Refining interventions for complex presentations
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• A wider range of body-based skills to enhance the effectiveness of the multi-disciplinary eating disorders treatment team

This Tier 3, 15-month hybrid intensive combines in-person gatherings, live virtual meetings, and independent study.

This is the training for those ready to expand their mastery of embodied, relational ED support and the embodied process of change.

January 2026–April 2027| Chapel Hill, NC & Online
Apply now by heading to our link in bio.

11/28/2025

The body matters in eating disorder treatment. Do you know how to effectively partner with it, as it is, to support your client in their personal discovery of resonant and attuned eating? 💜

Our Tier 1 training, Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, introduces you to the somato-psycho-social lens that underpins our entire approach.

You’ll learn:
• The neurobiology of embodiment
• How attachment and sensory processing shape ED symptoms
• How to decode the the body’s messages
• Foundational somatic and relationally oriented practices you can begin to incorporate into your work that support both you and your clients.

If you’re ready to understand eating disorders through a new paradigm, Tier 1 is where it begins 💟

Join us March 6–8, 2026 in Silver Spring.
Early Bird discount until Jan 2, 2026.
Link in bio to learn more.

11/26/2025

As we look toward 2026, we’re excited to share our first wave of in-person Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) trainings.

After a year of meaningful growth—expanding to Seattle, Boston, Bozeman, and New York—we’re continuing to widen access to embodied, trauma-informed, neurobiologically grounded care for eating disorders.

In 2026, we’re offering three core in-person trainings:

🔹 Tier 1: Introduction to ERED (please share with your network):
📍 March 6–8, 2026 — Silver Spring, MD
A 3-day In-person training that brings the body to the forefront of ED recovery and the learning process.

📍 March 13, 2026 – July 27, 2026 — Online!
7 live virtual sessions, with self-study pre-recorded content, and downloadable handouts for practitioners anywhere in the world interested in the ERED approach: a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatically integrative framework for treating eating disorders.

🔹 Tier 2: Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment (open to alumni):
📍 April 23–27 & September 24–28, 2026 — New York, NY
A two-module experiential deep dive into protective attachment adaptations and the behavioral barriers that express through ED symptoms.

🔹 Tier 2: Growing Seeds of Attachment-an Exploration of Somatic Tone and Primitive Reflexes
📍 May 28-31, 2026 — Chapel Hill, NC
For those who have completed Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment, this 4 day, in-person course explores the somatic scaffold of attachment and defense through the body’s earliest cellular and reflex patterns. By weaving principles of Body-Mind Centering® and Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders learn how to integrate these somatic building blocks to enhance the effectiveness of therapeutic presence and the treatment interventions.

🔹 Tier 3: Advanced Skills for ERED (open to alumni who have completed the prerequisites indicated on our website):
📍 Jan 2026–Apr 2027 — Chapel Hill, NC & Online
A 15-month hybrid cohort for clinicians ready to refine advanced somatic skills and relational embodiment.
✔ Applications now open
✔ Limited to 8 participants
✔ Deadline: December 1, 2025

Whether you're beginning your journey with ERED or ready for advanced integration, we’d love to welcome you into these embodied learning spaces.

Learn more + register here:

Eating Disorders Training Program The Embodied Recovery Institute Training program begins with Tier-1 courses, Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, Fundamental Skills for Working with the Body in Mental Health Settings, and Coming to Our Senses about Eating Disorders. Tier 1 cours...

11/26/2025

Our Tier 3 training—Advanced Skills for ERED—is now accepting applications for the 2026–2027 cohort ⭕️

This 15-month hybrid program blends:
• In-person gatherings in Chapel Hill
• Live virtual meetings
• Independent study
• Personalized mentorship

Areas of focus include personal embodiment, enhancing the clarity of assessment, refining interventions, and expanding the collaboration with clients and other providers 🙏

We explore and experience a wider variety of body-based interventions which enhance the effectiveness of the multi-disciplinary eating disorders treatment team.

Prerequisites:
-Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders
-Fundamental Skills for Working with the Body in Mental Health Settings
-Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment / Clinical Applications of ERED
-Growing Seeds of Attachment
-Coming to Our Senses About ED: An Exploration of SPD, ASD & EDs

Designed for providers ready to refine their relational, somatic, and clinical skills, this training is limited to 8 participants 👋

January 2026–April 2027| Chapel Hill, NC & Online
Applications now open until Dec 1, 2025 🤍

Apply now by heading to our link in bio.