Somatic Therapy Training Courses and Classes in Toronto

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In this post, you’ll find an overview of Somatic Coaching and Somatic Therapy Courses, Classes, and Workshops in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.

Somatic Therapy — also called Mind-Body Therapy — is a very broad field of therapeutic work with numerous types of treatment modalities, which typically integrate talk therapy, hands-on somatic practices, counseling, and coaching competencies.

In our overview further below, we’ve focused at listing organizations and individual trainers that offer training courses, classes, and workshops suitable for both psychologists and non-psychologists (such as massage, bodywork, dance, and movement professionals), that is, we’ve skipped Somatic Psychology college and university education (Body-Oriented Psychology) that aims at forming psychologists (clinicians).

Somatic Therapy and Somatic Coaching can integrate various disciplines and realms, such as Sexology, Embodied Sex Coaching and Sex Education, Tantra, Taoism, Dance & Movement, Breathwork, Neurobiology, Energy Healing, Applied Kinesiology, Sexological Bodywork, Psychology, Attachment & Trauma work, Body De-Armoring, massage, Yoga, mindfulness, meditation, music, and imagery, just to give you some examples. Thus, you’ll find different approaches and techniques, and hence different types of somatic therapies.

The core premise of somatic therapies is that the mind and body are intimately connected and reflect or influence each other’s function. Somatic therapies typically aim at cultivating the client’s body awareness as a means to understand how physiological processes relate to emotional/psychological experiences, and subsequently using this awareness so that clients can self-manage disturbing emotions and trauma triggers using a variety of techniques.

Additionally, somatic therapists and practitioners very often also guide and support clients in actual emotional and trauma release, in moments of Catharsis, and in the necessary aftercare and integration.

You’ll find that somatic therapies often focus on emotional and trauma healing, and a range of modalities specifically (or only) address sexual trauma, sexual dysfunctions and disorders, relationship problems, LGBTQIA+ and gender identity issues, and sexual healing, but several modalities are rather aimed at treating other types of emotional discomforts or trauma, giving tools for stress relief and relaxation, or at promoting the participant’s mind-body connection for other (health) benefits.

In any case, below then our overview of Somatic Coaching and Somatic Therapy training courses and workshops in and around Toronto.

Somatic Therapy and Coaching Courses and Training in Toronto

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