Bringing Movement into Trauma Work – Free Practitioner Training with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Some of the most important information in trauma treatment may appear before a client puts it into words. Posture, breath, gesture, inhibition, and movement can all offer meaningful clinical information about what is happening in the body.
Bringing Movement into Trauma Treatment: A One-Day Introduction to Trauma-Sensitive Movement is an experiential training with Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT, focused on helping clinicians strengthen their ability to notice and work with body-based signals in trauma treatment.
You’ll explore movement tracking, trauma-sensitive principles, co-regulation, the therapist’s own embodied presence, and practical ways to bring somatic observation into clinical work with greater care and precision.
The training is designed to connect body-based awareness with clinical decision-making, giving you a clearer framework for recognizing somatic openings, responding to movement patterns, and considering cultural context in embodied work.
Why Attend “Bringing Movement into Trauma Treatment”
Clients may describe an experience one way while their bodies communicate something else through a collapsed shoulder, a held breath, a protective gesture, a freeze response, or a movement that begins and then stops. Learning to track those signals can add another layer of clinical information to the work.
This training introduces movement tracking as a foundational skill for body-based trauma treatment. You’ll examine how posture, breath, gesture, inhibition, and impulse can be observed without reducing the client’s experience to words alone.
You’ll also explore how safety, pacing, containment, and resourcing can guide movement-based interventions. The focus is educational and practical: noticing what is happening in the body, understanding what it may mean clinically, and responding in ways that remain attuned to the client and the therapeutic relationship.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed for mental health and helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding of how movement and other body-based cues can inform trauma treatment.
It may be especially useful for clinicians who already notice shifts in posture, breath, gesture, activation, shutdown, or relational rhythm and want a more organized way to understand and work with those observations.
- Counselors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists and therapists
- Marriage and family therapists
- Addiction counselors
- Case managers
- Physicians, nurses, and other mental health professionals
What You’ll Learn
You’ll begin by learning to differentiate narrative tracking from body tracking and to recognize how trauma may present through patterns of action, posture, breath, gesture, inhibition, and impulse.
You’ll then explore how to identify somatic openings, apply trauma-sensitive principles, and use movement as both an assessment cue and an intervention within the therapeutic process.
The training also examines co-regulation, the therapist’s own nervous system and embodied presence, the clinical meaning of different kinds of movement, and the ways cultural identity and context can shape a client’s embodied experience.
- How to distinguish body tracking from narrative tracking in trauma treatment
- How to recognize movement patterns in posture, breath, gesture, inhibition, and impulse
- How to identify somatic openings and consider their clinical meaning
- How to apply safety, pacing, containment, and resourcing when working with movement and breath
- How to use the ROAMING protocol to resource the body across a range of autonomic responses
- How to understand co-regulation as a bidirectional process
- How to use your own embodied presence while maintaining clear professional boundaries
- How cultural identity and context can shape embodied experience and somatic intervention
Event Schedule
The workshop is organized around two complementary areas of practice: understanding why the moving body matters in trauma treatment, and learning to use the therapist’s own body as a clinical instrument.
Each module builds from observation toward application, connecting movement tracking, nervous-system awareness, relational attunement, and culturally responsive somatic work.
Module 1 — Why the Moving Body Matters in Trauma Treatment
- Recognize trauma in movementObserve posture, breath, gesture, inhibition, and impulse as clinically meaningful information.
- Spot somatic openingsNotice moments when the body signals a possible opening for deeper therapeutic work.
- Apply four trauma-sensitive principlesWork with safety, pacing, containment, and resourcing as organizing principles.
- Use movement as assessmentLet body-based information help guide how you understand and respond to the client.
- Include the cultural bodyConsider identity and context when making sense of embodied experience.
- Use the ROAMING protocolExplore a structured way to resource the body across autonomic responses.
Module 2 — The Therapist’s Body as a Clinical Instrument
- Build a grounded, relationally attuned presenceNotice how your own embodied presence affects the therapeutic relationship.
- Track relational rhythmObserve breath, pacing, and tone as shifts unfold in the room.
- Differentiate movement typesExamine how different forms of client movement may carry different clinical meanings.
- Work with co-regulationUnderstand regulation as a two-way relational process.
- Regulate your own nervous systemPractice staying present and responsive while monitoring your own activation.
- Consider embodied history and cultural positioningReflect on how your own history and context shape moments of clinical contact.
About Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT, is a somatic psychotherapist, international teacher of Somatic Psychology, author, and consultant. She is the founder of Embodywise and co-director of Hakomi California.
Her teaching brings together extensive clinical practice with Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, somatic trauma therapies, embodied mindfulness practices, and movement therapy.
She is also the founder of ISITTA trauma training and the author of 125 Somatic Psychotherapy Tools for Trauma and Stress and 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being.
Free Gifts for Attendees
Printable Presentation Slides
- A printable copy of the presentation slides is included with registration
- Use the slides as a reference for key concepts, frameworks, and clinical principles covered in the training
- Keep the material available as a learning resource as you reflect on the workshop content
Interactive Q&A and Certification Discount
- The training includes an interactive question-and-answer component
- Registrants are offered an exclusive discount toward Manuela Mischke-Reeds’ full somatic certification training
- The certification pathway expands on trauma-sensitive movement approaches to nervous system recovery
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Join Manuela Mischke-Reeds for an experiential introduction to movement tracking, trauma-sensitive principles, co-regulation, and embodied clinical attunement.
- Jan 20 2027
- 6:00 am - 2:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Jan 20 2027
- Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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