The Practitioner's Arc Training

A Professional Training In Trauma-Sensitive Embodiment

You hold space for others every day — listening, guiding, supporting. But presence isn’t something you give away; it’s something you cultivate.

Maybe you’ve noticed the quiet fatigue that follows a long day of teaching or sessions — the subtle pull between what you offer and what you actually feel inside. That’s not failure; it’s your body asking for connection.

As practitioners, developing attunement with our own thoughts, emotions, and body signals is essential. When we are grounded in our own awareness, we can genuinely attune to those we serve, creating a space for deep understanding, safety, and connection.

The Practitioner’s Arc is a year-long professional training in trauma-sensitive embodiment for teachers, therapists, and facilitators who want to work from the inside out. It’s for practitioners ready to move beyond methods and tools — toward embodied clarity, authentic presence, and sustainable leadership.

A Pathway Back to Embodied Clarity

Across four pathways, you’ll learn how to stay steady in your body, clear in your purpose, and responsive in your work — even when things get complex. Each pathway explores a layer of embodied practice that helps you reconnect to yourself and your work with more awareness, stability, and meaning. This isn’t about learning more techniques; it’s about finding a way of working that feels aligned, human, and real.

Designed to Develop Inner Stability, Clarity, and Alignment that Sustain Embodied Practitioners in Real World Work.

Pathway 1 – Orientation & Foundations

Arriving in the Practitioner’s Body

Learning to arrive before you engage — cultivating awareness, regulation, and the steadiness that allows you to meet others with clarity and care. This first pathway builds the foundations of embodied awareness and professional steadiness. You’ll explore how to orient through sensation, ground before engagement, and clarify the values that guide your work. Through experiential practice and reflective study, you’ll begin developing the capacity to stay connected while showing up for others.

Focus Areas:

Orientation & Body Mapping
Grounding & Regulation Before & After Sessions
Breath as Relationship, not Technique
Sustaining the Practitioner
Clarifying Personal Values and Motivation
Developing Consistent Home Practice for Awareness and Self-Trust

15 hours total, including 5 hours of self-study & reflections

Feb 28 & March 1, 8am - 1pm Pacific Time

Investment $199

Pathway 2 – Structure & Support

The Architecture of Embodiment

Safety is something we create, not assume. This pathway explores how pacing, rhythm, and communication can build stability — first within yourself, and then within the spaces you hold. Here, structure becomes support, not restriction. You’ll learn to sense what steadiness feels like in your own system — how to recognize when you’re anchored, when you’re pulled off-center, and what helps you find balance again.

It’s about learning to move through your work with awareness and flexibility, so that what you build can hold both you and those you serve.

Focus Areas:

Boundaries that support presence
Internal pacing and rhythm
Inner Language that communicates personal safety and choice
Structure as a living framework, not a fixed plan
Reflective self-study on how you speak and move within yourself

15 hours total (5 hours of self - study and reflection)

May 16 & 17. 8am - 1pm Pacific Time

Investment: $199

Pathway 3 – Authentic Expression

Facilitating From the Inside Out

This is the heart of the practitioner's arc — the moment embodiment becomes expression.

You’ll explore what it means to live and work from your own truth — to articulate what you stand for and bring that clarity into relationship, facilitation, and leadership. Through movement, reflection, and creative exploration, you’ll discover the personal rhythm that’s already yours — the pace and tone that sustain your authenticity.

Focus areas:

Finding your voice and professional presence
Embodying values in action
Authentic expression as a form of regulation
Working with empathy and boundaries in relational space
Personal rituals and rhythms that support clarity

August 8 & 9, 8am -1pm Pacific Time

15 hours total (5 hours of self-study and reflection)

Investment: $199

Pathway 4 – Embodied Integration & Continuity

Living the Practice

Integration isn’t a finish line — it’s a way of living. This final pathway focuses on continuity: maintaining connection, capacity, and alignment as ongoing practice. You’ll explore how to stay embodied during complexity, how to return after depletion, and how to sustain integrity as both a practitioner and a person.

Focus areas:

Practices for renewal and regulation
Staying connected during challenge and change
Ethics and integrity as embodied actions
Professional sustainability and longevity
Building your personal framework for resourcing and reflection

November 7 & 8, 8am - 1pm Pacific Time

15 Hours total (5 hours of self study and reflection)

Investment: $199

Together, the Four Pathways Form a Living Practice

Each pathway builds on the last — moving from awareness to structure, from expression to continuity.
Rather than a linear curriculum, they offer a cyclical process of deepening — a way to practice alignment as a living, embodied discipline.

Embodiment isn’t about doing more — it’s about being in alignment while you do what matters.

The Practice of Invitation

Across every pathway, you’ll practice inviting instead of directing — the foundation of trauma-sensitive facilitation.
Invitation honors autonomy, creates agency, and trusts that each person knows what safety feels like in their own body.

You’ll find your authenticity, not just in your words, but your timing, tone, and presence within yourself — so your facilitation carries integrity even in silence.

How It Works

Four pathways, each focusing on a layer of embodiment
Choose each pathway separately or choose the year-long program
Approximately 60 professional development hours
Monthly Practitioner Circles for continued connection
Embodiment Toolkit for home integration

Participants receive documentation of training hours suitable for continuing-education from the Yoga Alliance.

Who It’s For

Yoga and movement teachers expanding their trauma-sensitive embodiment
Therapists and mental health practitioners integrating somatic awareness
Coaches and facilitators building embodied leadership capacity

If you guide others toward presence, this program helps you stay present yourself.

You’ll Leave With

Tools for your own personal embodiment
A body-based understanding of regulation and rhythm
The confidence to lead from your own values and voice
Sustainable personal practices that keep your work alive
A professional community grounded in empathy and compassion

Accessibility & Inclusion

This program welcomes all bodies, identities, and learning styles.
Movement options are adaptable and invitational. You are always free to engage, modify, or pause according to your own capacity.

Join the Practitioner's Arc

If you’re ready to reconnect your practice with purpose —
to move from your values, to lead with clarity, and to stay resourced while you serve —
you’re ready for The Practitioner’s Arc: A Year of Embodied Development.

Invest in Each Session: $199 each or Invest in all 4 sessions: $599