Trauma Resolution
Accessing Mind–Body Resources for Integration and Healing

Trauma is not only held in memory or emotion — it can become deeply embedded within the body’s tissues, nervous system, movement patterns, physiology, and sense of self. When unresolved trauma remains stored within the mind–body system, the body may lose access to its natural capacity for regulation, ease, and restoration. Clients may experience persistent states of tension, overwhelm, shutdown, hypervigilance, emotional distress, or a feeling that their system cannot fully settle or recover.

This course explores how trauma affects the integrated relationship between body, nervous system, emotions, perception, and consciousness, and how therapeutic presence and relational attunement can support healing and reintegration. Rather than attempting to force change, we learn to listen deeply to the language of the nervous system and support the body’s inherent intelligence toward self-correction and resolution.

In the Trauma Resolution course, we examine how impaired self-regulation manifests within the body–mind continuum and explore gentle, relational approaches for restoring safety, responsiveness, and integration. Through tracking the nervous system and working with the different Phases of Ortho-Bionomy techniques, we learn to recognise the subtle expressions of regulation, dysregulation, and emerging self-corrective responses.

Using sensing, contact, interaction, and therapeutic presence, participants will develop skills to support clients in reconnecting with their internal resources and resolving held traumatic patterns in a safe, embodied, and integrated way.

Drawing from biological, somatic, and polyvagal-informed trauma models, we will:

• Identify physiological, emotional, and relational signs of unresolved trauma
• Explore mind–body techniques for restoring self-regulation and resilience
• Facilitate functional and integrated nervous system responses
• Develop greater sensory awareness, therapeutic presence, and nervous system tracking skills
• Understand how relational safety supports trauma resolution and embodiment
• Support the reintegration of fragmented or protective patterns held within the system

By working through a relational and embodied framework, this course supports practitioners in facilitating deeper nervous system integration, emotional resilience, and a more connected experience of wholeness and well-being for their clients.

Prerequisites: Fundamentals – Ph4

Course Venue:
Community Hub
34 McDougall Street, Wānaka 9305

𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝 pricing is available 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐭 $𝟒𝟓𝟎; thereafter $𝟓𝟎𝟎.
For registration, please visit: https://www.juliafast.nz/events/wanaka-july-2026
or get in touch directly with Julia Fast (ob@juliafast.nz)