Spiritual Somatics® Practitioner Certification Program:
“Where Magic Meets Real World Solutions”
How do we hold non-judgemental space to guide individuals and groups into the highest expressions of themselves and what are the benefits of this practice?
How do we calm our nervous systems to stay in challenging environments and situations?
How do we begin the process of decolonizing our bodies and our consciousness by learning how to witness and honor the truth of our bodies?
How do we bravely facilitate embodied, open-hearted, accountable spaces that are rooted in respect for ourselves and each other?
This Certification Program is for Changemakers and New Earth Leaders in any and all life paths to learn somatic-based tools to become stronger practitioners, facilitators, and mentors--which translates to building more effective leadership teams.
This Practitioner Training offers pragmatic methods, tools, and practices to bring heart-based practices into outdated systems and structures in order to alchemize these spaces from the inside out.
We are living in an era of compounded intergenerational trauma during late stage capitalism. That is to say, we are all doing the best we can with taxed adrenals and saturated nervous systems that makes it difficult to show up as our best selves.
We are also in an exciting moment where more cycle breakers are waking up than ever before to begin to heal our inherited collective pain bodies for the well-being of futures generations.
With these unparalleled times, we need unparalleled tools.
Therapists, social workers, coaches, non-profit workers, teachers, spiritual leaders, and facilitators of all kinds will find effective, pragmatic tools in this Practitioner Training. While it is rooted in spiritual principles, we will address how to share this work in different registers to meet people where they are, regardless of where (or if) they are on their spiritual path.
From start to finish this is an 18-month commitment where participants first experience their own inner revolution which will allow them to hold deeper space for others. From here we move into the academic component of the training, reading and learning various methods and practices. The last third of the program is practicum based where participants practice these skills with each other and begin to work with their own clients as well as identifying their specific interventions and build their own curriculum.
Part One: Heal the Healer: Locating the Liberated Spiritual Self
The initial 6-months of this training consists of 12 online modules and supporting curriculum for
self-healing. Students will receive 1-on-1 sessions with Trish and her Spiritual Somatics Team
to clear trauma and rewire the nervous system to prepare themselves hold healing space for
clients. The methods practiced by students in this opening section of the course will later be
taught to them as practitioners in Part III of the course. During this segment of the course
students will read Eckart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Sonya Renee
Taylor’s The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Peter Levine’s Waking
the Tiger: Healing Trauma, and Bessel van Der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind,
and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
Part Two: Collective Healing in an Era of Cultural Trauma
While Part I focused on the microcosmic aspects of individual healing, Part II places healing in
the context macro level context of cultural trauma and collective liberation, as well as
introducing culturally inclusive care techniques. This 3 month section of the course includes 6
modules that teach fundamental concepts of social justice, including themes surrounding
power, oppression, and colonization through the lens of healing justice. During this segment of
the course students will read recent books such as Dr. Jennifer Mullan’s Decolonizing Therapy:
Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, Prentis Hemphill’s What It Takes
to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, Lama Rod Owen’s The New
Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors, and Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s
Hands and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
Part Three: Bridging East & West: Becoming a Multidimensional Soul Worker & The Healing of Collective Consciousness
The first 9 months of the Training Program lays the foundation to prepare students to learn the
Spiritual Somatics Methods to work as community healing practitioners. This next 6 month
section of the course provides detailed online module instructions and overviews for the
specific methods used to rewire the nervous system and to clear trauma from mind, body,
heart, and spirit. Students begin practicing these methods with each other in class, as well as
holding practice sessions with each other outside of class. During this segment of the course
students begin reading recent books that blend eastern and western approaches to holistic
healing, including Dr. Shamani Jain’s Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of
Health, Kimberly Beekman’s Inner Alignment Soul Retrieval for Healing Childhood Trauma,
Anodea Judith’s Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System for Path to
the Self, and Eileen McKusick’s Electric Body, Electric Health.
Part Four: Actualizing Your Purpose: Bringing Your Gifts into Community
This remaining 3 month section of the course works with students to identify their unique
Kuleana (responsibility/purpose)—their sweet spot where their innate gifts, resources, and
communities all align. Here Trish works independently with each student to help them build
their own service led holistic healing practice, blending the techniques and practices they
learned in this training with their others trainings, skills, commitments,
and gifts. We focus on helping them to put together their unique offer and
practice, and how to build a clientele, be clear in their services, and find their unique, authentic
expression. During this section of the course students read adrienne maree brown’s Emergent
Strategy, Sheri Mitchell’s Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Spirit-Based Change,
and Dr. Trish’s The Rise of the Edgewalker: A Lineage Weaver’s Guide to Surviving the
Apocalypse.
We start February 26th!
What participants can expect:
—6 Online Transform! (Level I) Modules with lifelong access
—6 Online Align! (Level II) Modules with lifelong access
—6 Online Radical Self-Love for a Just World Modules with lifelong access
—8 Online Learning Modules of Practitioner Methods Content with lifelong access
—Several specific somatic practices to be integrated with your existing work
—Weekly group Q&A and discussions on the program material
—A supportive cohort to learn and grow with
—Regular 1-on-1 support with Trish & the TC Team
—Practitioner Practicum working with your own clients under mentorship with Trish
—Support and direction from Trish on cultivating your own specific curriculum and offerings based on your sphere of influence
Self-healing is the path to self-sovereignty. Self-sovereignty is the path to collective liberation.
Financial Investment:
Because of the intensive nature of this program, there is a substantial financial investment, which can be offset by partial scholarships, teaching assistantships, and a payment plan spread out over the 15-months. There is also the possibility of participants receiving a VSAC grant. These details can be worked out through discussing your specific situation with Trish.
The tuition for this innovative, rigorous curriculum is 100% tax deductible.
Participants will receive their Spiritual Somatics® Practitioner Certification at the end of this coursework.
What is the process of being accepted?
Interested participants will need to set up a consult/interview with Trish to see if this program is a match. There is also an application process for participants to identify their reasons for joining the program and to begin identifying their goals. You can reach Trish at trish@transformativeconsciousness.com.
*This training is intended for people who are looking to put these tools into practice in their communities*
Who is Trish?
Dr. Trish DeRocher is a metaphysical bridge-builder of Celtic ancestry walking a path of service to social healing and collective liberation. A frequency worker, ceremonialist, multi-modal educator, author, podcaster, and former professor of 18 years, Trish lives for the both/and as a Heart Warrior, Edgewalker, and Spiritual Activist in the lineage of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Trish is passionate about working with Changemakers, Visionaries, and New Earth Leaders to heal from intergenerational trauma so that they have full access to the gifts of their soul blueprint in this life expression.
She has completed trainings and certifications in Bhakti Yoga, Inner Alignment Coaching, Ayurveda, Biofield Tuning, Reiki, Druidry, Herbalism, Radical Dharma, and Somatic Abolitionism in addition to holding a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies with a focus in Transnational Feminist Thought (coalition and alliance building). Trish works with individuals, groups, and institutions to unlearn and somatically reprogram to collectively heal and free ourselves from the legacy of cultural trauma that systems of colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and cisheteronormativity have ensnared us within so we can re-embody our Spiritual Sovereignty.