Politicized Somatics Trainings

We are excited to offer our 2026 Intro to Politicized Somatics Training: Resourcing in Community - an immersive five day training to support community builders in gaining nervous system regulation and skills.

We will host an info call for interested participants on June 27th, 1pm-230pm PT. Please sign up for the info call by following the link above if you would like to attend. This link can be shared with anyone interested. During the info call, facilitators will be sharing about overall themes and content of training and available to answer any questions you may have.

This training is designed to support individuals engaged in community work with various backgrounds/identities who want to take the resourcing practices back to their own communities to support collective nervous system healing. Whether you have or would like to have a private practice in therapeutic practices oriented around liberation, you are a frontlines organizer who would like to gain skills to support your own nervous system and bring resiliency to your community on the frontlines, you are a teacher, health care worker or work in another field and you would like to bring these liberatory practices of regulation into your field, this is a workshop for you. 

This is a beginner's course to somatic nervous system regulation practices, no previous somatic or therapeutic training required to attend.  This can be a first step into the world of politicized somatics, a place to support and grow your somatic practice built in other modalities and a place to grow your community of others engaged in radical and politicized healing work.

This intro will be a prerequisite to a practitioner training series our collective is growing. Details about next level trainings will be made available in the coming months.

This five day training will provide a safe container for experiential 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 centering Resource within the framework of our four cornerstones: Resource, Resiliency, Capacity, and Sustainability. Eight Sonoran Desert Somatic Collective members all with various backgrounds and with established somatic practices will be co-teaching, facilitating and mentoring.

We will explore somatic practices that center questions like:

• What might it look like to expand your thresholds for conflict, discomfort, and struggle?

• What might it look like to co-regulate and attune to resource as a collective or group?

• 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 five 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 this 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 rest into the collective nervous system and broader community.

Cost for this five day training is sliding scale $750-$2000. We prioritize accessibility to all trainings within the collective, we offer this sliding scale following the belief that what is best for you is what is best for community.
The sliding scale represents the idea that financial resources, including income, are not and should not be the only determining factor in whether or not someone can access  services/care/etc. For a sliding scale to work it relies on the principles of truthfulness, respect for complexity, and accountability.   

Limited full and partial scholarships are 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, QT BIPOC folks will be first considered for these limited scholarships. If you are applying for a full or partial scholarship please email us directly after filling out an application explaining how a scholarship would support you in attending this training and any relevant information you would like us to know. 

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!

Participants are responsible for their own meals and housing; we will provide snacks and dinner for our two later evenings in the training. A full itinerary will be made available in coming months. We will meet some days from 930am-5pm and others 930am-7pm. Meals and break times will be spacious throughout the training.

This is a cohort of up to 30 participants.

Applications are due August 1st
Application Decisions made by August 15th