Go from using somatic tools to being a somatic practitioner
What makes it different
The actual language. And how to apply it with presence & confidence
- Adaptable prompts and frameworks
- Practice for pacing, pause, and presence
- Clear attention to how to adapt to your practice
- Live quarterly case consultations with Jessica included for Fall 2026 - Summer 2027
Presale Enrollment Open Now
An online course to learn practical, trauma-aware language for helping clients slow down, find resources, stay connected to choice, and deepen their own awareness with embodied presence and skilled facilitation that doesn't lead or step out of your scope
The Missing Piece
Presence & Embodied Facilitation + Attuned Skilled Language
Somatic work often reaches a moment that no training manual quite prepares you for: a client grows quiet, a sensation changes, emotion arrives, or the nervous system begins to move toward overwhelm. You can feel that the moment matters but the words are not obvious. Many practitioners have learned the concepts of grounding, resourcing, attunement, and regulation. Maybe you even have language you've learned. But far fewer have been taught how to apply the somatic tools you know in real time with presence & embodied awareness. Somatic Verbal Skills online courses closes that gap. Jessica Garay guides you through a practical framework for centering yourself, helping clients find resources, creating more space, offering kindness, deepening inquiry, and recognizing when not to go somatic.
Trauma-aware communication does not push for a breakthrough. It supports safety, choice, collaboration, and enough space for the client’s own knowing to emerge
“Professionally, this work gave me confidence to support someone where they are right now.”
— Kim; Artist & Somatic Practitioner
This course is for you if
- You notice client shifts but sometimes aren't sure what to say next.
- You want language that supports choice instead of directing or fixing.
- You want a repeatable way to center, resource, slow down, pause, and deepen.
- You want the confidence to know what to say to your clients that will support them not risk harming them.
- You want to know how to feel somatically not just talk it
This course is not for you if
- You are looking for a clinical license, certification, or replacement for supervision.
- You want to diagnose what a client’s physical sensation “means.”
- You want cathartic techniques that push through activation.
- You want one-size-fits-all scripts or a way to have a set protocol for a session.
- You don't want to work with your own body awareness or nervous system in the process of learning
A CORE PRINCIPLE OF THE COURSE
The goal is to create enough safety & space for the client's own experience to come forward
Not to find the perfect interpretation, fix them, or diagnose their sensations.
CLEAR LANGUAGE + EMBODIED PRESENCE PROVIDES CREATES THIS EXPERIENCE
Not more somatic theory. A way to work in the moment.
- What to do when I freeze and don't know what to say?
- When the client says "I don't know", what that really is telling you.
- How do I invite someone inward without making them feel overwhelmed?
- What can I say when a client cannot feel their body?
- When does an interruption creates deepening and when it might feel like abandonment?
- How do I deepen an exploration without suggesting the answer?
- How do I recognize when the body is saying “enough”?
- When should I stop, refer, or move back toward the external environment?
- How do I stay grounded and present when emotions are big?
This course turns difficult session moments into practical frameworks, sample prompts, guided practices, and clear decision points. You will learn the language and pacing but most importantly how to do that from presence & embodied facilitation. So you can go from using somatic tools to being a somatic practitioner
RCST | SEP | PLC | ERYT-500
MEET JESSICA GARAY
Creator of Somatic Intuitive Healing® | Founder, Moon Vibe Sanctuary
Jessica Garay has spent more than 20 years in the healing arts and has taught and certified hundreds of practitioners in biodynamic craniosacral, somatic and yoga-based work. She has taught international retreats, co-created and launched multiple yoga studios and is currently running her wellness center & somatic training school.
She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (Advanced 2), Polarity Therapy practitioner, and E-RYT 500 yoga teacher trainer, with nearly a decade of advanced training under Anna Chitty at the Colorado School of Energy Studies. She is currently on the teacher-certification track with the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America and on her way to founding one of only a handful of IABT-recognized biodynamic training schools in the world.
From her wellness and somatic training centers in Portland, Oregon, much of her work today is teaching clinicians and practitioners how to bring somatic skills into real sessions not as a theory, but as something you can actually say and do. Jessica came to this work through her own healing. She knows what it is to be stuck, and what it takes to come back and she teaches from that lived experience, not just her professional background.
Inside Somatic Verbal Skills
Six Core Modules and Twenty-one focused sub-lessons move from practitioner presence into resourcing, space, kindness, deeper inquiry, and responsible scope.
Everything online & available to you to work at your own pace.
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4 bonus modules
Foundational Somatic Practices & Theory
Live Case Consultations Quarterly for Fall 2026 - Summer 2027
Building Presence
Learn where verbal skill begins: with the practitioner. Explore Center, Ground, and Neutral, then integrate the sequence through a guided audio practice.
Resourcing The Body
Support nervous-system stabilization, recognize accessible resources, and guide a resource practice without forcing calm or suggesting what the client should feel.
Giving Space
Use orienting, peripheral awareness, slowing down, and intentional pause to create room for experience without abandoning the client or crowding the moment.
Offering Kindness
Work with appreciation, relational blueprints, “adult eyes,” and the distinctions between kindness, compassion, understanding, and forgiveness.
Deepening Wisdom
Ask about sensation with more nuance, continue an exploration without becoming repetitive, and move beyond generic instructions to “feel the body.”
Contraindications
Recognize overwhelm, understand when not to move further into somatic material, and make appropriate referrals while staying within scope.
Practice, reference, and live integration
Bonus Modules & Support
Guided Audio & Practices
Meditations and audio practices to embody the material rather than only understand it intellectually.
Scripts & Worksheets
Practical prompts, frameworks, templates, and client-facing worksheets for practice and reflection.
Restorative Yoga
Gentle practices designed to support the practitioner’s own nervous system and capacity for presence.
Live Case Consults
Bring real questions and situations into a monthly live learning environment with Jessica. Quarterly live sessions included - Fall 2026, Winter, Spring, Summer 2027. Sessions are recorded.
Somatic Theory 101
If you are new to somatic work, this bonus module will fill you in on the basics so that you have everything you need to apply the skills taught in the course.
Somatic Verbal Skills
This not-so-mini-course gives you the actual language and embodied frameworks you can bring into your very next session and the confidence to stay with what unfolds. For psychotherapists, counselors, and somatic practitioners who are done getting lost after the first question.
Forever Access | Course Opens September 15th, 2026
Practitioners Testimonials From Trainings
"Jessica is warm, funny and so knowledgeable! I found her teachings to be relevant right away to my work, changing the way I relate with my clients, an immediate deepening in myself that translates to my work effortlessly."
— Marylee: Licensed therapist
"I came into this with curiosity but only a little prior experience in somatic work, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But after just a few days, I’m blown away by how powerful this modality is. It’s like a full-body and mind “tune-up,” helping to shift things physically, emotionally, and relationally in ways I didn’t even realize were possible."
— Felicity: Licensed therapist
"Any human in relationship with other humans would benefit from this experience."
— Jenna: Somatic Practitioner
Bring more presence, clarity, and choice into your next session
You do not need a perfect line. You need a grounded framework, a clear sense of scope, and language that keeps the client connected to their own experience.
Next Cohort Starts September 15th, 2026
Includes all 6 modules · guided audio practices · worksheets & scripts · restorative yoga videos · Free Quarterly live case consults for Fall 2026 - Summer 2027
Questions? I'm here to help. Send me an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you.