TRAININGS & RETREATS
Cranio, Somatics
& The Wild Body
January 30th-February 1st 2026
The Wellness Center
Tucson, Arizona
Applications due December 15th!
Eligible for 15 LMT CE Credit Hours
We are excited to announce Cranio, Somatics & The Wild Body; a three day, fifteen hour immersive held in person in Tucson, Arizona.
Have you ever felt curious about our bodies as fractals of the magic of the natural world?
Have you ever wondered about the magic of touch, the transformation of co-regulation and the miracle of living cells, living tissue, and a body made of this multiplicity?
Perhaps you feel stuck in the medicalization of the human body, the pathology of what’s not working, and the absence of safe connective touch in the dominant culture.
Perhaps you have a felt sense that more is possible living within these potent forces of consciousness—more connection, more play, more presence.
This three day immersive will be an exploration of these ponderings. We will offer introductory physiology into the nervous system of the human body, an exploration of these states within the body and how to feel them within ourselves, clients on the table and the collective field.
Bodies in attunement naturally heal themselves and each other. As we live under the modern form of captivity within empire, we feel the impact of being fragmented not only from one another but also from our own bodies. Our wild bodies know how to be, know how to heal & know how to protect themselves.
This training will be an exploration in returning to our wild, resilient states. Learning to trust what we feel both within ourselves and within others experience. These are skills to take with you into whatever work you already do, with clients or patients, with your family or community.
We will oscillate between group co-regulation, physiology and somatic skill sharing, and practicing these skills with one another both on and off the massage table.
Kevin Lanoue & Lee Datura will be leading this immersive. Both have extensive backgrounds as nervous system coaches and as craniosacral therapists. They come to this work through a politicized lens, working to grow their belief that collective trauma requires collective healing and that tapping into attuned safe touch is a powerful tool towards that collective healing.
Craniosacral therapy is modality originating from the Cherokee & Shawnee peoples, it was appropriated into Osteopathic medicine in the 1800s and in the 1970’s Craniosacral Therapy emerged as an offshoot of Osteopathic Medicine. To learn more about Craniosacral therapy & its history and origins check out this essay https://www.susanraffo.com/
This course requires prerequisite of any of the following: a bodywork background (craniosacral, massage, acupuncture, etc), actively working in the care field (healthcare, therapy, somatic coaching), completion of a somatics course (OI, SE, Hakomi, etc) or you attended our collective’s Intro to Politicized Somatics training.
Craniosacral is a hands-on touch approach to whole system integration and healing. You do not have to have a license to touch to practice craniosacral techniques in certain states as clients remain clothed throughout the duration of the session and no pressure is applied nor tissue directly influenced with techniques. This is not a Craniosacral Certification course, that is often a two year intensive, this is an intro to somatic/cranio touch technique that can be utilized within practitioners studied modalities.
This will be a cohort of up to 14 students.
Training will run from approximately 10am-5pm each day.
Meals & housing are not provided.
Sliding scale $300-$1100
We prioritize accessibility to all trainings within the collective, we offer this expansive sliding scale following the belief that what is best for you is what is best for community.
Partial & Full scholarships available. Indigenous & Black folks and then QT/BIPOC folks will have priority with scholarship.
We are excited to offer Intro to Politicized Somatics - an immersive four day training to support community builders in gaining nervous system regulation and skills.
We are hosted an info call for interested participants before our October 2025 training. The Zoom link for this info call is still available below. If you might be interested in joining us for our next round of this training feel free to watch & be in touch with questions.
This training is designed to support individuals engaged in frontline and change work and those with marginalized backgrounds/identities who want to take the healing practices back into their own communities to support collective nervous system healing.
This is a beginner's course to somatic nervous system regulation practices. No previous somatic or therapeutic training required to attend. In the future our collective will be offering more specialized trainings and this intro will be a requirement to attend some of our future offerings. It is a great way to step into the world of Politicized Somatics as well as find community that is engaged in similar work.
This four day training will provide a safe container for embodied somatic practice, to support expanding your capacity towards regulation and embodiment with the intention that these skills carry with you into your life, your families and your communities. We will be offering practices to teach you one-to-one somatically informed therapeutic techniques, how to hold space for trauma and an intro in working with the collective nervous system of groups.
This teaching will be under the framework of our four cornerstones: Resource, Resiliency, Capacity, and Sustainability. There will be time for learning, practice, demo’s and rest built into this time together.
What might it look like to expand your thresholds for conflict, discomfort, and struggle?
What might it look like to learn how to lean into pleasure and rest in a way that is radical in this era of dysregulation and institutionalized harm?
What might it feel like to do the work you do in a way that is resourced, resilient, and sustainable, and offer that to others around you?
We are excited to bring this immersive four day training to support you in all of the work you do in the world.
We intend to hold a space where individuals regardless of identity and background feel safe, seen and heard. This of course, is nuanced and doesn't mean we will all agree on various things. We do acknowledge that the majority of the facilitation team is white-bodied. Part of the intention of this training is to shift that balance and make these skills more accessible to non-white folks so that others can become teachers, facilitators, and healers within this lineage and/or take these skills to their own communities.
We expect all participants to be committed to non-violent engagement, direct communication & care regarding disagreement. Homophobia, racism, transphobia, and discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. Our community agreements within the retreat will center open dialogue.
This will be a space for our mind and bodies to not only learn and grow but to decompress and feel in broader community.
Cost for this four day training is sliding scale $400-$2000. We are offering an expansive sliding scale as to make this accessible to all. Trainings of similar style typically cost the high end of our sliding scale and we recognize that that may be inaccessible to most folks. We encourage you to pay what you can in order to value this training, the skillset, the facilitators and also yourself.
Limited full and partial scholarships available for those that find the low end of the sliding scale inaccessible financially. In an attempt towards transparency and equity in a time and culture that has gate kept and appropriated healing practices, folks indigenous to the lands of the Sonoran Desert and Black folks and then qt/BIPOC folks will be first considered for scholarship.
Any funds made from this retreat after costs are covered will be dispersed equitably to our facilitation team, as well as grow our scholarship fund for future offerings. We prioritize full transparency within our collective. Let us know if you have questions about how this money is being spent!
If you were not able to make our info call live for this training, you can watch a video found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-HYDpvMFPjUWog-LzccfEjAFShTJley/view?usp=share_link
Intro to Politicized Somatics
for Community Builders
Next Training TBA
“At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love.”
— Resmaa Menakem
