This program is for those who want to go much deeper into the depths of your being:

• to heal that which is holding you back,
• to engage your authentic power and freedom,
• to catapult you into your own powerful awakening and activation of who you truly are.

The Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program is for you if:

• You want to go deeper with this powerful healing modality to heal the negative voices and unhealed trauma in your being. You are ready to transmute any painful program and step into full freedom and sovereignty.
• Maybe you’ve done work to shift your sense of unworthiness and all of the other negative voices that have caused chaos in your life. But you are ready to go deeper and fully step into and claim your full worthiness, peace, grace, empowerment, and all that your higher self can shower in your life.
• You are ready to step out of dysfunctional relationships and the feeling of lack in your life; and step into healthy, harmonious connections and the powerful flow of abundance that is aligned to your true essence.
• You desire to feel better inside of your body. You long to be more fully embodied within. You yearn to live in deep alignment with your higher self, activate awakening, and align to your true essence within you. 
• You are ready to step into divine empowerment, an awakening of your soul’s purpose, and claiming the miracles that are meant for you.

Somatic Awakening® was shown to me by higher beings of Christed Consciousness, especially Mary Magdalene. It is a path of pure grace that transformed my pain into peace and opened the door to numerous awakening experiences which totally transformed my life.

I then brought this path into my clinical practice as a Naturopathic Doctor and Mind-Body-Spirit Specialist with amazing results. Here it became clarified and nuanced with many years of practice.

The Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program

The Level I Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program is a six-month program that runs from Dec. 2022 – May 2023

In this program, you are taken through the foundations of deeply understanding your own psyche, somatic being, spirit, and soul. You are also taught how to fully engage Phase I Gestalt Somatic Awakening® and Somatic Awakening®: The Practice in your life.

This program also teaches aspects of Quantum Somatic Awakening® that will greatly help to stabilize and evolve your healing and awakening, as well as throw the doors open on embodying your higher self in your life.

This program takes the basics of what is taught in Embody Healing and Freedom and goes much deeper in the breadth of understanding, engaging, and embodying this work. Level I has been recently revised so that it is an inclusive program for everyone, both those who want to go deeper in their healing and spiritual path, as well as those who want to become Somatic Awakening® practitioners.

Upon completion of Level I, those who are interested in becoming certified Somatic Awakening® practitioners will go onto Level II, which is a 6-month program that focuses exclusively on the specifics of how to be a Somatic Awakening® Practitioner and how to share this profound work with others in a healing practice. For more information, go here.

This program is for those who are ready to:

• Courageously step into deeply shifting the negative voices, beliefs, and programs that keep you hidden, frozen, and suppressed. You are ready to heal and shift all levels of victim consciousness, and any old worn-out way of being that suppresses who you are.
• Fully activate your higher self in your life which powerfully heals that which suppresses your true power, your authentic voice, and your sovereignty. You are ready to go much deeper into who you truly are and step into powerful freedom.
• Go deeper with what you have already experienced in the realms of Somatic Awakening® and the Divine Feminine Healing Principles to fully heal and embody the essence of your being.
• Activate your awakening, step into your own Source Connection, and do what you came here to do. You have a FULL YES with stepping into your true and authentic life.
• You feel and sense that Somatic Awakening®, and all it offers, will help you immensely in manifesting all of the above.

By the end of the Level I program, you will:

• Understand more fully the workings of your psyche, subconscious patterns, somatic body (and its internal contractions), and energy body. You will also know how to make contact with and bring potent healing to these parts inside of you.
• Experience and embody the multiple aspects of your higher self (your adult consciousness, higher self witness consciousness, the conduit of divinity, and more.) Take a quantum leap in your healing and evolution through this personal awareness and embodiment. Because here, you don’t just “know” this practice cognitively; you embody it.
• Understand and embody the spiritual principles that Somatic Awakening® is based upon, such as organic presence and the three awareness of the present moment, which allows this practice and modality to powerfully shift in gear and blossom in your life. You will be guided to move beyond a static mental understanding of these principles and utilize and engage them in your practice and daily life.
• Be able to engage this modality and practice in some of the most difficult aspects of your life and inner psyche. Here, you come into contact with some of the deepest healing and awakening possible with Somatic Awakening®. And, it is here that even in the most difficult of circumstances, you come to powerfully know and trust that you can find your way through to healing, ease, grace, and peace.
• More fully embody your holy higher self and engage the most potent levels of support, stabilization, and manifestation to help you evolve in your healing, awakening, and your life in general.
• Fully step into this Embodiment practice so that you are guided in your daily life to live in deep alignment with your higher self and the embody this aspect of yourself in your being. This opens you to the powerful feedback, support, and guidance of your higher self and the divine moving into every aspect of your life. Ultimately awakening your own source connection of the divine in the center of your soul within.
• Create a community of connection with others of like minds and hearts. Step into a community of others who are deep divers just like you. Those who share a powerful desire for healing and awakening. Here you are united to the deeper Somatic Awakening® community with others who share with you a mutual language, experience, and connection.
• Those of you who go on to complete the Level II Practitioner Program will be able to bring this potent work into a healing practice with others. As someone who has practiced this for years, I can honestly say that there is nothing like sitting in the potent presence and healing container of the powerful divine healing that Somatic Awakening® opens us and others too. Very often, it borders on the miraculous and is an incredible boon to offer to others and to ourselves.

Here are what past alumni have to say about the Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program:

What You Will Receive as a Student of the
Level I Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program:

Live and Interactive Zoom Classes Twice a month

In these classes, we will discuss different topics, which are designed to give you the background, personal experience, and know-how to bring Somatic Awakening® deeper into your own life. We will meet two Sundays per month from 4:00-6:30 PM PT. Classes will also include meditations, transmissions, council check-ins, one-on-one experiential processes with other students, and Q & A. The dates for the 2022-2023 SAPP Sunday classes are as follows: Dec. 11, Jan. 8th, Jan, 15th, Jan. 29th, Feb. 12th, Feb. 19th, March 5th, March 19th, April 16th, April 30th, May 7th, and May 21st. Note: The three retreats are listed below. 

Multi-Day Retreats

In the Level I program, we begin with a 3-day retreat on Dec. 2nd-4th, 2022 (which begins Friday morning and ends on Sunday afternoon.) In the middle of the program a 2 1/2 day retreat in the middle of the program on March 24th-26th, 2023 (begins Friday morning and ends Sunday mid-afternoon.) We end with a 3-day final retreat on May 27th-29th, 2023 (which begins Friday morning and ends on Sunday afternoon.)

These retreats are included in the tuition below. They are offered to powerfully help you go much deeper into an embodied understanding of Somatic Awakening®. They include wisdom teachings, experiential exercises, meditations, transmissions, and more.

The retreats are offered both on line and in person. See below for more information.

Online/In-Person Teaching

For ease, due to our national/international student base, all Sunday classes and retreats will be offered online for the upcoming program.

However, there will also be an in-person option for the retreats in Sonoma County, California for those who live close by or who can travel. There will also be a streaming Zoom option for those who can’t attend live.

*All classes and retreats will be recorded in case you can’t attend.

Guided Buddy System with Other Students

Monthly Guidance

You will receive monthly guidance in the form of “homework” with inquiry questions, readings, recorded meditations, transmissions, and more. Some of these practices you will do individually and others with your buddy.

4 One-On-One Somatic Awakening® Individual Sessions

For those who choose Tier #1 (see below for more information), you will receive four one-on-one sessions, which will help you go deeper with the teachings and correlate what you are learning directly into your life with what you are specifically struggling with or need extra help on. These sessions help you uniquely embody the information taught with your specific needs. 

Monthly Recorded Meditation, Experiential Processes, or Transmissions

The meditations and experiential processes will help take you deeper into the inner planes of transformation and awakening. The transmissions will help clarify high vibrational wisdom connected to the topics covered and bring powerful activations for the somatic body, your healing and embodiment process, as well as your emotional, physical, and spiritual bodies overall. The intention of these transmissions is to help you go deeper in your healing and awakening process.

Membership in the Somatic Awakening® Sangha

What You Will Learn in This Program:

• The power and importance of grounding and being in your body with Somatic Awakening®
• How to create sovereign and neutral space with yourself and others.
• More fully understand the aspects of your inner self (the Ego, Psyche, Subconscious, Somatic Body, Higher Self, Soul, etc.)
• Learn how to engage the Higher Self more in Somatic Awakening® and in your daily life.
• A deep dive into more deeply understanding and knowing how to engage Gestalt Somatic Awakening® to engage in your personal life.
• Also, a deep dive into more deeply understanding and knowing how to engage all phases of Somatic Awakening® The Practice: Including the many principles that allow The Practice to flow with ease in your personal life.
• Learn how to fully engage the power of the Higher Self Witness Consciousness and the Conduit of Divinity to alchemically dissolve somatic trauma and ego density.
• Gain a deep understanding of how to work with higher dimensional guides as mentors in Somatic Awakening® and in your life.
• Receive deep wisdom on how to shift and transmute common egoic programs such as the Trauma Triangle, Attachment Issues, and the “Less Than/I Am Not Worthy” Program.
• Advance your understanding of engaging your higher self more in your healing, awakening, and everyday life with Quantum Somatic Awakening®.
• Take your next steps in mastering The Power of the Word Decree in your life, which powerfully opens the doors to healing and, when it’s aligned with full trust and highest good…literal miracles.
• Embodiment Part I: Activation of higher self and oversoul. The importance of the “Up and Out” awakening into your universal galactic self. Which will then move down and into your body to stabilize your life.
• Embodiment Part II: Activation of Divine Feminine Awakening of moving the energy down and into your body to stabilize your life in the “Down and In” process of embodying your spirit, activating your soul, and the Spirit-Heart-Soul Complex.
• Drop into a powerful connection with the spiritual aspects of Somatic Awakening®, the power of The Practice, and your deeper essence by spending two days in meditation and contemplation in the last retreat.
• Final Somatic Awakening® Completion Ritual and Graduation.

What You Will Receive as a Student of the
Level I Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program:

Live and Interactive Zoom Classes Twice a month

In these classes, we will discuss different topics, which are designed to give you the background, personal experience, and know-how to bring Somatic Awakening® deeper into your own life. We will meet two Sundays per month from 4:00-6:30 PM PT. Classes will also include meditations, transmissions, council check-ins, one-on-one experiential processes with other students, and Q & A. The dates for the 2022-2023 SAPP Sunday classes are as follows: Dec. 11, Jan. 8th, Jan, 15th, Jan. 29th, Feb. 12th, Feb. 19th, March 5th, March 19th, April 16th, April 30th, May 7th, and May 21st. Note: The three retreats are listed below. 

Multi-Day Retreats

In the Level I program, we begin with a 3-day retreat on Dec. 2nd-4th, 2022 (which begins Friday morning and ends on Sunday afternoon.) In the middle of the program a 2 1/2 day retreat in the middle of the program on March 24th-26th, 2023 (begins Friday morning and ends Sunday mid-afternoon.) We end with a 3-day final retreat on May 27th-29th, 2023 (which begins Friday morning and ends on Sunday afternoon.)

These retreats are included in the tuition below. They are offered to powerfully help you go much deeper into an embodied understanding of Somatic Awakening®. They include wisdom teachings, experiential exercises, meditations, transmissions, and more.

The retreats are offered both on line and in person. See below for more information.

Online/In-Person Teaching

For ease, due to our national/international student base, all Sunday classes and retreats will be offered online for the upcoming program.

However, there will also be an in-person option for the retreats in Sonoma County, California for those who live close by or who can travel. There will also be a streaming Zoom option for those who can’t attend live.

*All classes and retreats will be recorded in case you can’t attend.

Guided Buddy System with Other Students

Monthly Guidance

You will receive monthly guidance in the form of “homework” with inquiry questions, readings, recorded meditations, transmissions, and more. Some of these practices you will do individually and others with your buddy.

4 One-On-One Somatic Awakening® Individual Sessions

For those who choose Tier #1 (see below for more information), you will receive four one-on-one sessions, which will help you go deeper with the teachings and correlate what you are learning directly into your life with what you are specifically struggling with or need extra help on. These sessions help you uniquely embody the information taught with your specific needs. 

Monthly Recorded Meditation, Experiential Processes, or Transmissions

The meditations and experiential processes will help take you deeper into the inner planes of transformation and awakening. The transmissions will help clarify high vibrational wisdom connected to the topics covered and bring powerful activations for the somatic body, your healing and embodiment process, as well as your emotional, physical, and spiritual bodies overall. The intention of these transmissions is to help you go deeper in your healing and awakening process.

Membership in the Somatic Awakening® Sangha

What You Will Learn in This Program:

• The power and importance of grounding and being in your body with Somatic Awakening®
• How to create sovereign and neutral space with yourself and others.
• More fully understand the aspects of your inner self (the Ego, Psyche, Subconscious, Somatic Body, Higher Self, Soul, etc.)
• Learn how to engage the Higher Self more in Somatic Awakening® and in your daily life.
• A deep dive into more deeply understanding and knowing how to engage Gestalt Somatic Awakening® to engage in your personal life.
• Also, a deep dive into more deeply understanding and knowing how to engage all phases of Somatic Awakening® The Practice: Including the many principles that allow The Practice to flow with ease in your personal life.
• Learn how to fully engage the power of the Higher Self Witness Consciousness and the Conduit of Divinity to alchemically dissolve somatic trauma and ego density.
• Gain a deep understanding of how to work with higher dimensional guides as mentors in Somatic Awakening® and in your life.
• Receive deep wisdom on how to shift and transmute common egoic programs such as the Trauma Triangle, Attachment Issues, and the “Less Than/I Am Not Worthy” Program.
• Advance your understanding of engaging your higher self more in your healing, awakening, and everyday life with Quantum Somatic Awakening®.
• Take your next steps in mastering The Power of the Word Decree in your life, which powerfully opens the doors to healing and, when it’s aligned with full trust and highest good…literal miracles.
• Embodiment Part I: Activation of higher self and oversoul. The importance of the “Up and Out” awakening into your universal galactic self. Which will then move down and into your body to stabilize your life.
• Embodiment Part II: Activation of Divine Feminine Awakening of moving the energy down and into your body to stabilize your life in the “Down and In” process of embodying your spirit, activating your soul, and the Spirit-Heart-Soul Complex.
• Drop into a powerful connection with the spiritual aspects of Somatic Awakening®, the power of The Practice, and your deeper essence by spending two days in meditation and contemplation in the last retreat.
• Final Somatic Awakening® Completion Ritual and Graduation.

You long to more fully integrate your higher self energies into your day to day living.

You are ready to take full responsibility for your life because you know that in doing so your feet are placed firmly on the path to freedom, healing, and awakening, as well as brings oceans of ease, grace, peace, power, love, sovereignty, and so much more into your life.

If you are resonate with this dear one we welcome you to our community.

Here are what past alumni have to say about the Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program:

In order to be accepted into the program, you will need to:

• Complete the pre-requisite course of either Embody Healing and Freedom, and right now, this course is being offered at a reduced fee, or you have previously completed The Quantum You course. NOTE: If you apply for Embody Healing and Freedom now, you will need to have completed Modules 1 & 2 to be admitted into this program. 
• Go through an application and interview process. To begin that process, fill out the application here. Then follow the directions outlined on the application. After you turn this in, you will be contacted to schedule an interview.

Questions you may want to have answered before fully stepping in…

Still Thinking About It?

I invite you to give Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program a month-risk-free trial if you’re motivated by any of the following:

You have arrived at the place where you are not willing to compromise anymore…

You are ready to:

• step into the balance that comes in your life when you are living in Adult Consciousness and in relationship to your triggers, instead of your negative voices ruling you.
• step deeper into the journey of transmuting the density in your shadow and pain body and begin living the peace and love that you truly are.
• heal the ancient dysfunctional patterns, programs, and imprints of this life and beyond that live in your somatic body and psyche so that you are free.
• embody your higher self and all that it has to offer in your life, including stepping into your authentic power, sovereignty, freedom, and truth! You are done with being in reaction to life. You are ready to wholly know yourself, stand in your true power, and manifest your soul vision of your life and in the world.
• throw open the channel of Divine Love and allow it to flow into and through your life like a river…healing, stabilizing, and offering oceans of grace and ease. You are ready to know at a core level that you are not only receiving this love from the divine…but that you are ALSO THIS LOVE!
• reclaim all aspects of yourself and step deeper into this Divine Mystical Feminine Healing Path of essence, spirit, and soul…a path that powerfully heals awakens, and welcomes you back home into the essence of your being.

For those who want to go onto become a certified Somatic Awakening® Practitioner here is information on the Level II Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program.

This program offers the foundations, principles, and know-how to utilize Somatic Awakening® in a healing practice or with your friends and family.

Level II includes 2 monthly classes per month over six months, plus two – two-day Retreats. The dates for this program have not been set yet. The start date is enrollment-dependent. It will Ideally begin shortly after Level I completes.

To be a fully certified Somatic Awakening® Practitioner, students must complete the Level II curriculum. They will also need to complete a practicum internship consisting of 30 practice sessions offered to others. As part of this process, you will also have four individual guidance and assessment sessions with Dr. Melissa and complete a short oral exam.

Topics Covered in Level II Somatic Awakening® Practitioner Program:

Mind-Body-Spirit Counseling Part I, II, and III, which includes:

• Attunement with Others and Clients
• Empathy Versus Clarsentenience
• Listening, Reflecting, and Tracking
• Understanding Transference and Counter-Transference In Working With Others

Keeping Clients in the Window of Tolerance Part I and II

• Understanding Trauma and Trauma Reactivation
• The Reptilian Brain
• The Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn Response
• The Animal body in Relationship to the Ego and Somatic Body
• Working within the Window of Tolerance – Hypo and Hyperarousal
• The Importance of Safety and Regulation in Somatic Awakening®

Also, learn how to:

• Utilize Gestalt Somatic Awakening® in a Healing Practice.
• Utilize Somatic Awakening® The Practice in a Healing Practice.
• Engage The Power of the Word Decree (plus how to engage timelines and closing protocols) in a healing practice.
• Work with those who are very traumatized/and or have mental illness and how to make appropriate referrals.
• Engage the business of how to create a practice.
• Be a Somatic Awakening® Practitioner in the world.

Practitioner Students In Level II Will:

• Receive a total of 81 hours in Level I and 54 hours in Level II for a total of 135 hours of education for both levels.
• Receive 4 Practicum Mentorship Sessions in Level II.
• Complete a Practicum Internship consisting of 30 Hours of utilizing Somatic Awakening® in sessions with others.
• Upon completion will be a Certified Somatic Awakening® Practitioner.

**Note: For Licensed Therapists and Psychologists, since you are already educated on much of this information, one-on-one mentorships are available for certification.

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