Somatic Intuitive Healing®
PROFESSIONAL SOMATIC TRAININGS
for Therapists & Wellness Practitioners
Somatic Intuitive Healing® Training Center
Portland, Oregon
Trainings For
Transformative Experiences
Professional somatic training for therapists and wellness practitioners ready to move beyond just the theory and into embodied transformational awakening through presence, relational attunement and therapeutic somatic touch.
ACCREDITED SOMATIC TRAININGS
Somatic Intuitive Healing® Training Center is a registered educational organization with the National Alliance of Energy Practitioners, Yoga Alliance, and in-process with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America and International Affiliation of Biodynamic Trainings
Next cohorts begin March 2027.
Spaces are limited, are located in person in Portland, and will fill in advance
Applications are reviewed in the order received
SOMATIC TRAININGS FOR SOMATIC PEOPLE
Our trainings go beyond teaching the theory. We are interested in supporting wellness professionals to become exceptionally skilled somatic practitioners. Many trainings will teach you what somatic work is. We teach you how to embody somatically and offer transformative life-changing healing for your clients (and yourself)
If you feel ready to deepen into the potential of your somatic practice, this is the what are trainings are designed to support
We don't just teach more protocols. We teach you to listen, notice, attune and respond, and to trust what's unfolding because you trust yourself from your own depth of experience.
"I found her teachings to be relevant right away to my work, changing the way I relate with my clients"
- MaryLee, LPC & SIH Graduate
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
WHAT SOUNDS MOST LIKE YOU?
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"I need the practical tools & processes for working somatically with clients."
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"I'm currently working with clients and would like practical somatic tools to use"
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"I'm new to somatic healing work and want to learn more before going deeper"
Somatic Skills (self-paced online course)
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Go beyond "Where do you feel that in your body?". For working therapists and practitioners looking to learn the practical tools and processes of somatic work. You will learn language, pacing and presence to deepen somatic skills so you feel confident in guiding your clients beyond just that first inquiry into their body. Start today and use it in your next session.
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"I have taken a somatic training but I don't know how to facilitate from my own body"
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"I'm a wellness practitioner and I want to learn somatic work in-person"
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"I have experienced somatic work personally and am now ready to start professionally"
The Embodied Guide (three 6-day in-person modules)
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Move the work from your head into your lived experience through restorative yoga, somatic movement, breath and coregulation, so you facilitate from a more embodied place.
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"I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and I want to learn somatic touch"
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"I am a RCST (certified Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist) and want to learn more about working with the nervous system in my bodywork"
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"I am certified in a somatic modality, have a private practice and I'm ready to go deeper into relational healing and somatic touch"
SIH Practitioner Training (five 4-day in-person modules)
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Advanced somatic bodywork training rooted in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy through the lens of Somatic Experiencing, with practicum at our Student Clinic.
FIND COMMUNITY & SUPPORT
As practitioners, we hold space for everyone else and don't have a place for themselves to receive that same level of support. At SIH you learn in a small cohort, receive work as often as you give it, and stay connected after certification through our ongoing community.
"From day one, Jessica and the SIH team created a welcoming and supportive space—it was immediately clear that we were in good hands."
"I’m blown away by how powerful this modality is. It’s like a full-body and mind “tune-up,” helping to shift things physically, emotionally, and relationally in ways I didn’t even realize were possible."
"Jessica is incredible. She teaches with zero pretense, loads of humor, and heart wisdom, meeting everyone exactly where they are."
OUR APPROACH
SIH draws on two foundations. From Somatic Experiencing, we understand trauma through the nervous system and see health as the capacity to move flexibly between activation and rest. From Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, we orient toward the health and intelligence already present in each person. From Polarity Therapy, when energetic opposites are in balance and moving, health arises. And from yoga therapy, movement and posture induce nervous system states and support the return of organic rhythms.
Together, they change the question from "What's wrong and how do I fix it?" to "What's happening here, and how can I support what's already trying to emerge?"
"This program didn't just teach me to do but transformed me to just BE."
Kim, Artist and Somatic Healer
Meet Jessica
CREATOR OF SOMATIC INTUITIVE HEALING®
Somatic Intuitive Healing was created by Jessica Garay, SEP, RCST, PLC, who has taught since 2009 and trained yoga teachers and somatic practitioners since 2015.
After years of teaching nervous system work, bodywork, movement and relational healing, one idea kept standing out: knowing about the body isn't the same as practicing from the body. SIH exists to bridge that gap.
