Healing Trauma

This module introduces a new integrative approach to working with breath, movement, and touch in Myofascial Energetic Release, focusing on managing and healing trauma. You will explore how to charge and regulate energy, understanding the fundamentals of working with underlying trauma in the body, including identifying the 27 zones of fear.

Techniques and Fundamentals

• Energy Regulation: Learn how to charge and regulate the discharge of energy effectively.
• Trauma Fundamentals: Understand the fundamentals of working with underlying trauma, focusing on physiological and emotional aspects, including the identification of 27 zones of fear and how trauma affects the body’s fascial systems.

Emotional Engagement and Healing

• Pro-Active Practitioner Skills: Align in harmonic resonance with your client, mastering 5 definitive steps to successfully engage emotions.
• Myofascial Unwinding: Explore the theory and practice of Myofascial Unwinding for Somatic Emotional Release. This includes supervised practice sessions to deepen understanding and master skills.
• Understanding Trauma’s Impact: Discuss how daily activities, stress, and repressed emotions contribute to physical tension, spasms, and weaknesses. Understand how emotional energy becomes “frozen” in the body and evolves into personality character structures as described by Wilhelm Reich’s “Frozen History.”

Advanced Therapeutic Techniques

• De-armouring Techniques: Learn methods to help clients dismantle the ‘armour’—psychological and physical defense mechanisms—that protect but also block genuine emotional expression.
• Vagus Nerve and Autonomic Response: Understand the role of the Vagus Nerve in trauma response and techniques to restore the flow of a disrupted ‘Fight/Flight/Freeze’ reaction.
• Character Structures and Personal Development: Identify and work through the five different Reichian character structures, understanding how these defense mechanisms form in early life and affect adult behavior.

Integration and Application

• Movement Meditations and Trauma Release: Employ trauma release techniques and movement meditations to empower your client towards more embodied emotional awareness.
• Practical Application: Engage in practice sessions that reinforce the learning and application of techniques, ensuring participants can confidently apply these methods in their professional practice.

By the end of this module, you will have a profound understanding of how to handle complex trauma cases, providing your clients with a path towards healing and emotional freedom. This comprehensive training will empower you to facilitate deep, transformative work that addresses both physical and emotional dimensions of trauma.

Location: Bussum

Date: 14-19 September 2026

Teacher: Roland Engelbracht