Somatic Intuitive Healing®
PROFESSIONAL SOMATIC TRAININGS
for therapists & wellness Practitioners
Somatic Intuitive Healing® Training Center
Portland Oregon
Go beyond knowing somatic tools
Professional somatic training for therapists and wellness practitioners ready to move past nervous system theory into deeper, embodied work through language, movement, relationship, and therapeutic 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 WORK IS MORE THAN A TOOLBOX
You can understand trauma.
Know nervous system states.
Teach regulation.
Ask clients what they notice in their bodies.
And still find yourself wondering...
What do I do with what I'm noticing?
That is the gap our trainings are designed to address.
At SIH, we don't simply teach more somatic interventions.
We teach you how to listen, notice, attune, respond, and eventually trust what is unfolding without always needing to fix it.
Because the deeper you go into somatic work, the less it becomes about what you do.
It becomes about how you are with another human being.
OUR APPROACH
We orient toward health, not pathology.
SIH is deeply influenced by two foundational approaches to somatic healing.
From Somatic Experiencing, we understand trauma through the nervous system and recognize health as the capacity to move flexibly between activation, settling, alertness, connection, and rest.
From Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, we orient toward the inherent health and intelligence already present within each person.
Together, these principles change the question from:
What is wrong and how do I fix it?
to:
What is happening here, and how can I support what is already trying to emerge?
Our work centers presence, nervous system awareness, relational safety, coregulation, curiosity, embodiment, and trust in the body's inherent capacity for healing.
FIND COMMUNITY & SUPPORT
Most practitioners work alone, and it wears on them
You know how to hold space for everyone else.
You track someone else's nervous system, stay regulated through hard sessions, keep your own needs quiet and go home empty.
You will learn in a small cohort, receive work as often as you facilitate, and stay connected long after certification through continued established community programs. In every training, you will learn how to be a practitioner in a sustainable way where you feel supported by your work and not burnt out by it.
You will leave with skills.
You will leave with a way forward.
And you will also leave with your people.
FIND YOUR ENTRY POINT
You do not need another certification simply for the sake of having another certification.
Start with the place where you feel stuck.
Somatic Verbal Skills
You notice what's happening. Now learn what to say next
For therapists, bodyworkers, and wellness practitioners who want to move beyond basic prompts like “Where do you feel that in your body?”
Learn how to use language, curiosity, pacing, and presence to deepen somatic exploration without forcing, fixing, or leading your client toward a particular experience.
An accessible online entry point into the SIH approach that you can begin integrating into your existing practice immediately.
SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSE
"I found her teachings to be relevant right away to my work, changing the way I relate with my clients."
The Embodied Guide
You understand somatic work.
But do you feel it?
For therapists and wellness professionals who know nervous system theory but still find themselves thinking their way through sessions.
The Embodied Guide moves the work from your head into your own lived experience.
Through restorative yoga, somatic movement, breath, nervous system exploration, presence, relational work, and coregulation, you learn to experience your own nervous system while developing the capacity to facilitate from a more embodied and attuned place.
Because your nervous system is part of the therapeutic relationship too.
THREE 6 DAY IN-PERSON MODULES
SIH PRACTITIONER TRAINING
You know how to work with the nervous system. Now learn to work directly with the body
Advanced hands on somatic bodywork training rooted in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy through the lens of Somatic Experiencing.
Especially relevant for therapists and Somatic Experiencing practitioners who have developed sophisticated skills for tracking the nervous system but have had little opportunity to learn how to safely and intentionally incorporate therapeutic touch and bodywork.
Learn to listen through your hands, recognize patterns within the body, work with nervous system states through touch, and bring the principles of presence, pacing, coregulation, and inherent health directly to the body.
300 HOUR TRAINING - 160 in-person + 100hrs+ online & practicum
GET HANDS ON EXPERIENCE WORKING DIRECTLY WITH CLIENTS AT SIH STUDENT CLINIC
ONE PHILOSOPHY
DIFFERENT WAYS IN
You might begin because you don't know what to say after a client notices a sensation.
You might come because you've spent years talking about nervous systems but realize you want to feel more connected to your own.
Or you may already be an experienced Somatic Experiencing practitioner who is ready to take the work beyond verbal facilitation and learn to work directly with the body.
Wherever you enter, the foundation is the same
Slow down.
Listen.
Notice what is already here.
Trust the intelligence of the body.
Support health rather than chase symptoms.
Facilitate from presence rather than performance.
This is the heart of Somatic Intuitive Healing
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
"I came into this with curiosity but only a little prior experience in somatic work, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But after just a few days, I'm blown away by how powerful this modality is."
FROM KNOWING
TO EMBODYING
CREATOR OF SOMATIC INTUITIVE HEALING®
Somatic Intuitive Healing was created by Jessica Garay, SEP, RCST, PLC, an educator and somatic practitioner who has been teaching since 2009 and training yoga teachers and somatic practitioners since 2015.
After years of studying and teaching nervous system work, bodywork, movement, yoga, and relational healing, one distinction became increasingly important:
Knowing about the body is not the same as knowing how to practice from the body.
SIH exists to help bridge that gap
"I have taken many trainings prior and Jessica takes the cake for most well rounded."
WHERE DO YOU FEEL STUCK?
"I need better language for working somatically with clients"
Start with Somatic Verbal Skills.
"I know somatic theory, but I want to become more embodied in how I practice"
Explore The Embodied Guide
"I already work with the nervous system and want to deepen into therapeutic touch and bodywork"
Explore SIH Practitioner Training
Not sure which path fits your work?