Somatic Healing in Nature: Transforming Trauma and Living Into Aliveness
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Somatic Healing in Nature: Transforming Trauma and Living Into Aliveness

Sat, Oct 25th, 2025
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Feel what’s been missed. Move toward what’s possible.

Trauma doesn’t just live in memory, it lives in the body. When our nervous system holds tension, survival patterns, or stuck energy, we may feel “safe” but not fully alive. This live webinar invites you, as a helping professional, to engage the body, awaken the nervous system, and access aliveness behind the survival story.

Learn -To recognize how trauma continues to live in the body, and learn gentle, body-safe somatic practices to release it. -Explore how embodiment, nervous-system regulation, and felt experience form the foundation for meaningful change. -Practice actionable techniques you can integrate immediately into your clinical setting to move clients from surviving to thriving. -Engage in a live, interactive format: ask questions, connect with peers, feel supported in real time.

For those who want to expand your capacity to support clients toward greater aliveness, presence and resilience.

This webinar will explore somatic healing with nature. Somatic experiencing practices are a skillful and safe way to heal trauma. We will learn how nature offers a healing container to support the transformation and healing of trauma. Building on the practices of mindfulness with nature we will learn how to become present to the stored traumas stuck within the body, connect to the inherent potential to heal, and learn to release the unhealthy patterns of trauma to experience the fullness of our aliveness. You will be invited to consider ways in which your continued healing can inform ways to integrate these teachings and practices into the therapeutic container. Suggested practices for application to the therapeutic experience will be offered.

Live Event
This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Rochelle Calvert

Rochelle Calvert

Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, licensed clinical psychologist, certified mindfulness teacher, somatic experiencing practitioner has a devoted love to share the power and healing potential of mindfulness, somatic awareness and nature. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 20 years and knows personally the transformational potential. To share the love of these healing practices she has published a book Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma. Dr. Calvert leads courses and retreats in mindfulness, somatic experiencing, and Awake in the Wild, nature-based mindfulness. She also facilitates professional trainings in mindfulness for clinicians and travels the country teaching retreats and seminars. She is the director of the Ecotherapy Program at SouthWestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a certified mindfulness teacher with the Mindfulness Teaching Institute, the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, and Awake In The Wild organization. Rochelle is the founder and clinical director of New Mindful Life, which offers mindfulness, nature-based, and somatic experiencing therapies. She teaches individual meditations with nature that assist in healing from trauma.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Summarize the foundational teachings of somatic experiencing to heal trauma.
  2. 2 Describe how nature is a container, resource and stabilizing entity to support the healing of process trauma.
  3. 3 Practice various techniques/practices and meditations in somatic healing with nature- resourcing, orienting, grounding, pendulation and balancing/healing the nervous system.

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Calvert, R (2021). Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and somatic practices to heal from trauma. New world Library

Kuhfuß, M., Maldei, T., Hetmanek, A., & Baumann, N. (2021). Somatic experiencing–effectiveness and key factors of a body-oriented trauma therapy: a scoping literature review. European journal of psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1929023. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1929023

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Nickel, A., Brooks, E., Flores, J., Loeser, M., & Richason, H. (2021). Healing the Body and Mind: Sensory and Somatic Interventions for Interpersonal Trauma.

Ogden, P., Minton, K., & Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy (norton series on interpersonal neurobiology). WW Norton & Company.

Payne, P., Levine, P. A., & Crane-Godreau, M. A. (2015). Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 124489.

Sewall, L. A. U. R. A. (2012). All sorts of healing: Nature and psyche together. Minding Nature, 6(1), 48-54.

Schlief, A. M. (2023). Somatic experience treatment techniques for trauma symptoms: A qualitative case study.

Tarsha, M. S., Park, S., & Tortora, S. (2020). Body-centered interventions for psychopathological conditions: a review. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2907.

Thompson, C. (2013). Mindfulness & the Natural World: Bringing Our Awareness Back to Nature. Leaping Hare Press.

Veckalne, R. (2023). Somatic transformation: examining the role of body-oriented therapy in restoring health and well-being. Science and Education, 4(4), 137-143.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00 - 11:15 am:  Welcome and Introduction
11:15 - 12:30 pm: Defining Trauma and Somatic Experiencing/Understanding the Nervous System and Importance of Healing Trauma with Nature
12:30 -12:45 pm: Break
12:45 -1:45 pm: Somatic practices with nature to support healing trauma/Integration of healing, health, and aliveness
1:45 - 2:05 pm: Inquiry and discussion on the application of these teachings and practices into our profession
2:05 - 2:15 pm: Q&A

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