Hakomi Institute

Hakomi Institute Official Account of Hakomi Institute® a 501c3 Revolutionizing the practice & teaching of Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy.

In these turbulent times, the systems of oppression are literally pressing down on our clients in increasingly harmful w...
05/26/2026

In these turbulent times, the systems of oppression are literally pressing down on our clients in increasingly harmful ways. As clinicians, we have a powerful opportunity—and responsibility—to be a part of our collective healing. By showing up with cultural awareness, presence, and authenticity, we create the conditions for real transformation.

Come together to explore these questions and more!

How do we, as Indigenous people, members of the Global Majority, or committed Allies, meet suffering with compassion and skill?

How do we support the authentic unfolding of our BIPOC, Q***r, and other oppressed populations/clients, in order to increase their felt sense of belonging?

How do we, as either Indigenous, Global Majority or Allies, support all who are suffering?

Through the lens of 3 particularly relevant principles of Hakomi, we will “study” our own experiences, translate this into practical skills to support others unfolding, coupled with an opportunity to witness a “live” demonstration of the Hakomi Method!

Join us for this experiential introduction to Hakomi. You’ll learn about the foundations of our 7-month training and walk away with tools you can begin using right away to foster connection, safety, and depth in your clinical work.

What you will learn:

Describe the core principles of the Hakomi Method: including mindfulness, organicity, non-violence, unity and body-mind holism.
Be able to recognize the link between mindfulness, organicity, and non-violence specifically as pathways to increased safety and authenticity within the therapeutic alliance.
Describe 2 pathways for increasing trust across social location.

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An Experiential Introduction to Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy.This workshop is designed to provide an introductio...
05/22/2026

An Experiential Introduction to Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy.

This workshop is designed to provide an introduction of experiential learning in Hakomi.

The dynamic use of mindfulness is a foundation of the Hakomi Method.

When integrated into the therapy session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior.

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We find ourselves in a moment where coming together and taking action is our only real option. This is too much to hold ...
05/19/2026

We find ourselves in a moment where coming together and taking action is our only real option. This is too much to hold on our own.

That’s why we're excited to support The Outer Work Project — a program designed to connect and support all of us who care deeply, want to make a bigger difference in our communities and world, and want to learn how.

The Outer Work Project is a 3-month program starting this summer that centres around learning and transforming together while finding a social movement organization that resonates for you. Learn from people who have been there before, done the personal healing work and moved into collective action.

We all have a role to play. Let’s do together. Learn more and sign up via .

An online, synchronous, 6-week introductory program for the healing professions.Join three extraordinary Hakomi trainers...
05/07/2026

An online, synchronous, 6-week introductory program for the healing professions.

Join three extraordinary Hakomi trainers, Gregory Gaiser, Jaci Hull and Manuela Mischke-Reeds, to understand trauma through this miniseries from the perspective of the Hakomi Method. Expand your tools in an engaging, compassionate, and kind environment where learning is fun and transformative!

What does trauma mean? How is it different from deep emotional states clients might experience during sessions? Why does body psychotherapy can offer such an effective way of working with it?

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Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory WorkshopHakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is vi...
05/05/2026

Experience the power of Hakomi with an Introductory Workshop

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

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In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn and explore the nuances of boundaries that provide the foundation...
04/29/2026

In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn and explore the nuances of boundaries that provide the foundation for safe and successful therapeutic relationships.

With ample experiential exercises, you’ll learn about healthy, healthy, responsive, and flexible boundary setting through exploring your own relationship to interpersonal boundaries. This process will deepen your self-awareness and enhance your ability to recognize and enhance your own boundary setting patterns, fostering profound healing for both you and your clients.

This course is taught by Hakomi trainers who are also Right Use of Power teachers.

Learning Objectives:

*Identify the impact of emotions on our ability to set a health boundary

*Explore power dynamics in therapeutic relationships

*List the characteristics of healthy boundaries in a clinical setting

*Develop mindfulness as the foundation of ethical practice

*Develop a felt sense of a healthy, safe, and effective boundary with yourself and clients in a clinical setting

*Understand self-care as an ethical responsibility


“Power is simply the ability to have an effect, or to have influence. However, the right use of this influence is complex. The right use of power in positions of trust is not simply the result of good intentions. It is also the ability to act sensitively, creatively, and effectively in the service of others and yourself. This requires engaging attention, relationship mastery, and a lifetime involvement in increasing sensitivity to the impact of our use of power.”

~Dr. Cedar Barstow, the founder of the Right Use of Power and Hakomi trainer emeritus

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Level One offers a thorough grounding in the theories and techniques of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Level One ...
04/23/2026

Level One offers a thorough grounding in the theories and techniques of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Level One includes in-depth coverage of the Hakomi principles, Hakomi theories, maps and models as well as specific techniques. Training weekends include a mix of didactic material, experiential exercises, discussion, movement/embodiment exercises, group maintenance time and supervised practice times.

This training is for licensed mental health professionals, graduate students working towards becoming a therapist, and licensed healing arts practitioners, and people transitioning into the field of somatic therapy who have experience working 1-to-1 with clients who want to learn the method in its entirety.

The goals of the Training are to provide students with: first, a deep understanding of the principles of the Hakomi Method and the ability to work within them in an attitude of loving presence. Second, an understanding of the techniques of the Hakomi therapeutic process and the ability to use these precisely and appropriately. Third, an understanding of the organization of personality and character into patterns that reveal developmental and cultural wounding, and the ability to use this understanding discriminatingly. Fourth, an understanding of one’s own inner organization and the process of using self as an instrument for therapy.

Faculty:
Deah Baird N.D., L.P.C., CHT, Certified Hakomi Trainer
Scott Eaton, M.A., M.F.T., C.H.T. Certified Hakomi Trainer

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How can learning the Hakomi method help you in your practice?Many young, recently-licensed psychotherapists and other pr...
04/16/2026

How can learning the Hakomi method help you in your practice?

Many young, recently-licensed psychotherapists and other practitioners such as coaches begin their practice without the experiential, inside-out, bottom-up learning necessary to become an embodied healing professional.

We support professionals to develop not only therapeutic skills, but also continually refine the most essential tool: their own state of somatic awareness and mindful relational presence with clients.

The complexity of social challenges–including collective trauma, empathy burnout, systemic pressures, and implicit bias among helping professionals–requires psychological healing that centers the embodiment of self, relationship, and community.

We provide intensive professional training to enhance therapeutic skills, refine somatic awareness, and uncover the internalized assumptions, body memories, and implicit beliefs that influence relationships with self and others– all critical skills that are in large part missing from conventional therapeutic programs.

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how y...
04/09/2026

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” ~ Maya Angelou

Research shows that the benefit of psychotherapy is most determined by the quality of presence of the therapist and the quality of the created therapeutic relationship. In this 2-day workshop we will explore the foundational aspects of an authentic therapeutic presence.

Through lecture, discussion, explorations in mindfulness, breakout room practices, and Q & A, you will get to know the principles of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy and foundational Hakomi skills as we explore our own way of being in therapy.

We will discover what enriches our therapeutic presence and which parts inside might come in the way of us meeting our clients with authentic heart qualities like true connection, calm, compassion, curiosity, creativity, spaciousness and more.

-How can we be anchored and fully engaged in moment-to-moment presence?
-Connecting to “being” before “doing”.
-Providing safety and connection: The “therapeutic bubble,” and providing co-regulation from the ventral vagal state.
-Loving presence & embodying qualities of our “Organic Self”
-Exploring our own conditioned parts that at times take over (“the helper,” “thefixer,” the “adviser,” the “caretaker,” “feeling not good enough”, “knowing what is best” and more.

We will explore at the intersections of Hakomi, Parts Work, Neuroscience and Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Applied Polyvagal Theory.

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865 Albion Street STE #250
Denver, CO
80220

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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