Introduce Yourself
In case you aren’t sure what to write, here are some prompts for your introductions:
- Why you are here, how long have you been actively doing SBSM (what year did you start?), were you in the BETA cohorts?
- What do you hope to gain from SPT-Level 1?
- A brief recap of your professional background, past career-based experiences (even non-health related ones!).
- If you are new to the healing/helping worlds, let us know what you are currently doing.
- Any relevant information you wish to share so your peers can get to know you a bit more (where you live in the world, hobbies, pets, kids, partners, favourite resources, etc.)
- Be sure to add your profile picture (See our Forum FAQs section for instructions on how to do this)
- There is an option to upload images within the comment section if you should want to share an image of a positive resource or something personal (please, no images of minors/infants/children/teenagers).
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Hello everyone!! You all know me! Just a reminder to start a NEW POST/COMMENT for your introduction (rather than writing a reply under another introduction). Also, be sure to UPLOAD a profile picture. Thx! 😊
Hi Everyone – I’m one of the Sophie’s! I was actually quite shocked on the introductory zoom call to see so many Sophies as I’ve only been in groups with maybe a Sophia, but never other Sophie’s – let alone multiple!
I currently live in Topanga California, right outside of Los Angeles, with my husband on some land so it doesn’t feel like we’re as close to the city as we are. I grew up outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in Bucks County, but both of my parents are English so I am first generation in the USA. I grew up mainly between Pennsylvania, England, and Switzerland, but also travelled a lot all over Europe, studied abroad in Japan, and backpacked through Central/South America in my 20’s. I went to Colorado College and then hopped out to Los Angeles California for graduate school where I did my first masters in Spiritual Psychology. After that I got into training in bodywork with an ex-navy seal trained in Chinese meridian theory and my internal life took a drastic turn – I was brought up in a spiritual community and going into the bodywork I realized all my meditating and trying to transcend the body was actually reinforcing my trauma response of living in dorsal. I came to the realization that feeling into my body was actually going to be my true transformation. Eventually I went back to school to do a second master’s and then my Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. My dissertation focused on the interrelational dynamics of physical contact between people blending more esoteric energy work with neuroscience. I have also become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and have trained in several other modalities. I started SBSM in 2022 and did the 2nd Beta round. I am currently finishing up Doula training and am also starting a course to become a birth educator where I plan to blend trauma/nervous system/somatic work with birthing work/education. Currently I see clients one-on-one in-person and online and also coach groups in my husband’s group coaching program.
My hobbies are taking care of my little dog Rosie, three cats (Speckles, Stormy, and Smokey), and my 11 chickens. Continuing to plant and tending to the many fruit trees we have planted over the past few years and learning as much about gardening/tree tending as possible. Training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, hiking, dancing and swimming. Eating really good high-quality food, and I recently learnt how to make sourdough, which I’m really excited about!
I am hoping to deepen my own nervous system healing journey as well as gain more tools for working with clients and potentially moving more into group facilitation, especially with a birthing focus. I am also hoping to become a parent myself in the coming year or so and I want to have as much regulation on board and education in my toolbox as possible before that. Really looking forward to meeting those of you coming to the North America intensive next week and being on this journey of life with everyone here:)
Hello everyone!
My name is Stephanie, I have enjoyed reading about everyone and I appreciate you taking the time to read about me.
I’ve been a professional cellist my whole life, but I now work primarily as a somatic coach, using movement and music in my sessions to help professionals manage stress and improve well-being. I design and deliver stress-less and relaxation programs focused on well-being for organizations, including the National Institutes of Health. I also integrate my background as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) with training in neuro-based fitness, primarily Z-Health (Dr. Eric Cobb) and ELDOA (Guy Voyer).
In 2019, I discovered Irene’s work through the “Baby Liv” video and participated in her 21-Day Nervous System Tune-up program, followed by SBSM. I then continued with two pods led by Seth and many private SE sessions. Seth invited me to add cello tracks to his compositions, which was a fun and rewarding experience. Joining SPT is the next exciting step in enhancing my wellness and creating new professional opportunities. I’m eager to connect with a community of like-minded professionals and further develop my fitness and somatic offerings.
I have traveled extensively as a touring musician and public speaker, particularly in North America, the UK, and Southeast Asia. I have lived mostly in NYC but also in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Leeds, UK. In my downtime, I enjoy coffee, walking in nature, jigsaw puzzles, and wool felting.
Hello everyone,
I am Luminita (pronounced Luminitza), romanian but living in Italy for the last 3 years.
I work as a software engineer and also currently pregnant in 13 weeks.
I came across Irene’s work 2 years ago, in my search for tools for dealing with disregulation(even if I didn’t have that vocabulary then).
The last 2 years were transformative for me as I understood for the first time childhood trauma and the impact it had on me.
I took the 21 day course after and SBSM this year. It brought new understanding and hope to me. This was a missing piece in my journey too so I took the opportunity to join SPT to learn more for myself and others. I am passionate about this aspect of life and I’m looking forward to develop it more.
See you soon 😊
Hi everybody.
My name is Iris (53) and I am a newby in the SBSM world and just started SBSM this spring. I am German and live in Denmark on a little island in the Eastern Sea called Ærø. 2010 my husband, our son and I moved with our horses and dogs to this wonderful quiet place, where we own a small farm 700 meters from the coast in the middle of almost nothing. Our son (22) is a student now and comes home every now and then. We have 3 dogs, 5 horses, 5 sheep and 6 cats. I go bathing every morning (including winter), love to hike, do yoga, sing, and love to spend as much time in nature as possible. I am a family person and l try to spend lots of time with my 3 brothers and their families (all of them unfortunately living quite far from us).
I’m a registered nurse and a social worker/ social pedagogue and used to work with clients who had problems with integration at their workplace.
When we moved to Denmark, I started working as a riding instructor and horse trainer. Dogs and horses have always been a major resource for me and I wanted to show people that horses mirror us and are very good in showing us our weak spots. I love the holistic training of horses together with their riders, taking care of the physis and the psyche.
Over the years I realized that my ideas of how my students could improve their riding were confronted with reality: My students had problems feeling and moving themselves in a subtle way, sometimes they would not even be able to feel or move at all.
I started learning as much as I could about movement, movement patterns, physiology and the function of the nervous system. I became a movement trainer and learned to assist the student with materials such as body-bandages, Franklin Balls and more. The results got better, but still there were some students, who seemed not to be able to break their old patterns.
In 2020 I had a bad riding-accident that left me crashed with many broken bones. The doctors told me that riding wouldn’t be an option for me in future. I recovered very quickly, ignoring all the doctor’s advice, doing my own thing. In 2021 I started to dig deeper into the nervous system work and discovered neuroathletics, a neuro-centered way to train the brain to get better results for professional athletes. The more I got to know, the more I wanted to learn. I started teaching workshops and realized that the feedback from these workshops concerned mostly problems that weren’t related to riding, f.ex. attention deficit disorders, pain-historys, balance problems and much more. Last year I was offered to do an online workshop on a spiritual work-psychology-platform and had 350 participants, many of them with chronic diseases and mental/psychic diagnosis. Some wanted to try this “nervous system work” right away and I started working with clients via zoom. I still have my riding students, but working with the nervous system really caught me. Then I met an old friend of mine, who told me about Irene’s work and I started the SBSM in march ‘24.
I want to teach the nervous system trauma-work in person, integrating movement training and neuroathletics, especially to groups. I hope to be able to work together with the community health care to reach out to people often left behind.
I know that I will learn so much here in SPT, that will improve my way of treating/training clients.
So now I am here, happy and excited and eager to learn!
Hi,
My name is Anna and I’m here to deepen my education and practice in Somatics. I did SBSM for the first time in Spring 2021 and did 21 Days in 2018, and was in the SED 2 cohort.
I’ve had many different jobs and throughout that time been a songwriter and musician running a DIY label.
I’m currently nomadic and will be in Europe for the fall.
I love yoga, TV and film, walks and picnics, and music.
I’m looking forward to all the learning and living we will be doing! 💖
Hello, my name is Nina.
I am Slovenian and if I may share, I feel excitement joining the SPT. I have first joined SBSM in 2019 and since then I have tried diving deep into this work, whenever I could.
I haven’t joined the BETA version, but maybe this SPT level 1 will replace some of the BETA content. I hope to gain deeper wisdom about the Nervous System work, the way of implementing it into my field of work and to gain some capacity or make some shifts on my own.
Professionally I am a Social Worker and currently trying to build my own business, blending it with different knowledges. I worked under the Government since I have left University, where I have gained an insight of the system itself but also encountered on plenty different occasions where I could have seen the profound need for the somatic work to be incorporated.
If I may share more, I am currently feeling an immense feelings of gratefulness, being able to live in my country, in Bled location, surrounded by Nature. For the past two years I have been implementing some notable changes in my life, moved through a lot of heavy feelings, connected deeper with the Nature and its energies and overall started living differently, in more regulated and feminine way.
Embodying femininity is one of my passions I am taping into lately. My cats Zeus and Athena are great contributors to that, especially with providing the cuddling part.
My free time I like to spend in mountains and play with my curiosity of how much weight I can carry to the pick. Beside that, I love other sports like dancing salsa, swimming, playing volleyball, tennis and the newest hobby I guess, shooting sport.
Last but not least I feel joy of joining this SPT program and looking forward to see you on the calls or in-live workshops. 🙂
Hello everyone!
I feel great joy being here within this wonderful field of people who are also interested in spreading this essential knowledge of our nervous systems…
Especially I am looking forward meeting the half of us in person at Seminarhof Tratzberg in Austria – I was almost there 2 weeks ago when I did a hiking tour in the Zillertal Alps. https://x.com/1753_hsp/status/1828531371293180263?s=46
In October I will pass the Achensee again (see photo on the bottom of this comment) to go swimming in this very clear and clean lake.
So – my name is Julia Bender and I live in a little village called Malsch – it’s between Heidelberg and Karlsruhe (Germany).
End of February this year I ended my career of being a Software Developer (23 years) and Business Coach (2 years) to now immerse fully into my new journey of being a trauma therapist.
It was very clear to me immediately that I have to immerse fully into my new task as everything else would be a distraction from the core work.
I have joined SBSM in February 2021 (SBSM 10.0). Before I did the 21-days-tune-up.
Since then I have joined every SBSM round. The first I have passed all exercises as a „soldier“ – the last this year I have passed all exercises as a „benevolent“. In between I had incomplete rounds – a very valuable experience as well…
I was not in the BETA cohort and so I am very surprised about everything what will come 🙂
Chaos is my friend and enemy at the same time.
When being regulated I can be a master of getting complex and chaotic situations under control and into a certain direction – when being dysregulated, I feel like the chaos is swallowing me up. An echo from childhood where I felt lost and insecure most of the time (it’s an assumption as I cannot remember at all of what must have happened to me —> EDT, Early Developmental Trauma). I probably learned very early that it’s better to adapt to my surrounding… Chameleon was my second name 😉
I am here because I love it supporting others getting into contact with themselves, others and their surrounding. It is wonderful seeing people getting alive after all this struggle in survival mode.
Currently I am also very passionate within several fields of self-experience in my life:
I take singing-lessons (Rabine-method), Alexander-lessons and I am practicing Honest Sharing (self-help method where everyone communicates sensations, feelings and thoughts in this very moment, ventral vagal heaven 😉 ).
In the last 3 years I did a professional training in the new trauma therapy method FLOATING (not the water tanks 😉 ) specialized in resolving developmental trauma (invented by Gopal Norbert Klein, German trauma therapist). Projections about the other person (whether if he/she fights, flees or ignores me) are checked with reality. A very direct method aiming the core what has not been communicated in direct contact since childhood.
Right now I am preparing for the exams of being an official health care provider in Germany (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie).
Some other personal information:
I am 43, since 2 weeks in a partnership :-), love doing sports and being in nature, forest, lakes, don’t have pets but love animals, love board games (I am just developing my own one, topic: connecting people on nervous system level 😉 ), …
My past:
Played the clarinet for over 23 years, gave clarinet lessons, played volleyball, ran a marathon (in survival mode), …
Last but not least my favorite resources:
🔥 Sauna
💦 swimming in lakes/creeks
🕸️ connecting with good friends
👀 orienting with ease and lying on the ground, sensing body boundaries
🏃♀️🏊♀️🥾⛷️💪🚴♀️🛼⛸️🏸🏇🚣♀️🧗♀️ movement
I am looking forward seeing you all on Monday 😊!
Julia 🌻
Hey Everyone! My name is Mitch Webb. I’m 38 and live in Apex, North Carolina in the US.
I left the corporate world in 2017 to start my own health coaching business. I was struggling with a slew of chronic health issues–from multiple traumatic brain injuries, to Lyme disease, metabolic dysfunction, panic attacks, insomnia, mold toxicity and chronic fatigue.
My coaching business has evolved into the 1:1 support and custom approach to healing that I wish I had throughout my journey to wellness. As my own practice has evolved, so have the tools that I use with clients.
I’ve always been interested in root cause and healing at the deepest level possible instead for myself and my clients.
Discovering Irene’s work in 2023 was a game changer for my health and the way I look at healing. I was unaware of how trauma contributes to chronic disease and how building capacity/regulation can HEAL instead of providing yet another tool to “manage” illness.
I’m so excited for this opportunity to learn, grow my capacity to regulate my nervous system and share with others.
I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the USA with my husband and our senior dog. I did my first round of SBSM March of 2020 and have participated in each round since. I did the second BETA cohort as well. I started with SBSM after my therapist handed me a piece of paper with Irene’s website on it. About 5 years before that the wheels had fallen off of the bus for me health wise. I had a surgery that ended with me getting a trip to heaven and back. There was both really challenging aspects to this as well as it leading to me finding massive emotional, mental, and spiritual growth. I am so thankful for that!
I started life as a little person surrounded by a lot of adversity, I took that with me unknowing and lived my life with that in the driver seat. I finished osteopathic medical school (in the USA), did my pediatrics residency and worked in Haiti and with other nonprofits. After my trip to heaven and back and the resulting physical changes it brought to my life, mixed with some additional car accidents with injuries, I started to add on to my professional skills. I added on holistic life coaching with The Adult Chair. I know where I am today, but I don’t know how it all comes together yet. I am excited to have all my days leading up to now, come together and bloom into what is next. I’m not sure how scooping poop out of a wave pool as a lifeguard will contribute, but I’m sure it likely will, along with all the other parts of my life on Earth so far : )
My hobbies include listening to live music, meeting up with friends, traveling, spending time with my husband and exploring new places and things. These things are also related to some of my favorite resources. Music, orienting to places and new experiences, animals, fuzzy/soft things (blankets and stuffed animals), and nature are a few of my favorite resources. I have been enjoying taking notice of how my resources have been shifting and how the way I use them has been shifting too.
What I hope to learn during SPT Level 1, is to further my knowledge, make these foundations very solid and to be able to use the information in my personal and professional life in a skilled way. I am also excited to see how my own journey progresses while doing this SPT Level 1, for new adventures, another day on the green Earth, and to gaining new colleagues.
Hi everyone!
I am really excited to be with some of you again and meet some others for the first time.
So so excited for this experience. Something I have been waiting for for a long time! 🙂
My name is Selden Beylouni and I came into this work after trying MANY and literally everything else there is in holistic healing to heal the autoimmune disease Lupus.
At the time, I knew I was fatigued and had incredible body pain and that was what I wanted to heal.
Since releasing that first bit of freeze the amount of pain and discomfort became even more apparent and the associated symptoms were so much more understood which led to the possibility (and continuing resolution) to also heal, ADHD, dissociation, brain fog, and a slew of emotional and neurological issues.
I started my journey as an Ayurvedic health coach, then integrative health coach. From there, I dove into energy work and went through the masters education in Reiki and Pranic healing. Then hypnotherapy and NLP.
Then finally somatics!
I just recently finish the Applied Quantum Biology course and continue to dig away at German New Medicine, a current fascination!
They all helped me and I love them all but love them even more now with regulation and continue to integrate everything I know with my clients.
I started SBSM in 2021 and I was in the 2nd Beta cohort.
I am truly 100% devoted to this work because it saved my life. So my intention is to go as far as I can go with it to help others.
I have included the basics into my coaching business and weave it into my energy healing and quantum sessions with clients.
I would love to continue education with Irene and dive deeper into preverbal, in utero, birth, EDT, craniosacral therapy and deeper womb work.
I have 2 amazing kiddos who continue to blow my mind everyday and I really do not think I would be here without them. Something that brings a tear to my eyes every time I think about it.
Somewhere in my future I would love to work with babies or help new mothers on their attachment journey with their little ones.
I am building a retreat center in North Carolina as well and want to host many yearly events to build community and continue this work more in person than it has been the last few years.
I’m excited to build new friendships here and am looking forward to having a network of peers to grow with.
❤
Selden
Hello fellow SPTers and Team Lyon!
I am Lisa. I live in eastern US in Lancaster, PA near Philadelphia. I found Irene’s work through the 3 part healing trauma video. I went looking for education on ‘survival mode’ which was a newer phrase to me. This search was inspired through a support group I was in 2018. I have been learning about nervous system health and working through of neuroplastic healing since I started tune up 2019 and then each SBSM session that has been run since that time. I enjoyed the Up & Down Workshop which was a fun integration of this work.
I had to move past the voice that told me “I should have known” about this sooner as I have been a healthcare provider since 1992. I studied exercise science and physical therapy. I then became a 500 hour classical yoga instructor and a practitioner of myofascial release therapy. Fast forwrd to now, I have added SBSM theory and neurosensory exercises to my work. I offer group classes, private movement lessons, and private myofascial release therapy. I call my work Therapeutic Movement which blends all of the disciplines mentioned.
My aim is to expand my reach into my community (and beyond) with special emphasis on early childhood development, addiction and recovery, and all things trauma care. I hope to share this engaging work in groups as continuing education opportunities, at wellness events, and within early childhood centers to include parents, families and caregivers. The empahasis on early childhood development is likely sourced from my own (little person) trauma as well as my background in early intervention. I worked with children with special needs and developmental delays. I enjoyed working with families and caregivers.
I am a mom to 3 adult children, 1 entering senior year, a son in-law and a dog we adopted from Mexico. We lived there as expats for 3 years. I am married to my middle school boyfriend. I am still learning so much and am feeling more alive at age 54. I can feel myself growing in boldness as I grow in capacity. I am enjoying the ride. My go to resources: music, feeling the sun on my face, dancing, and a particular therapy ball. I am looking forward to connecting with each of you.
Hi fellow SPTers,
My name is Magda and I’m based in Warsaw, Poland.
I came across Irene in the summer of 2021, started 21 days in mid-December and then signed up for SBSM in Feb 2022. I did Beta 2.0 last spring and a few months later I started my first professional training in somatic work with Steve Terrell (Transforming Touch®, TT), which I finished in January this year.
Up until winter last year, I had been doing one SBSM thing or another basically daily since starting Irene’s courses. I’ve had some time off from doing practices with full focus (I still had them on in the background before sleep etc.) for a while, as I started really enjoying the experience/concept of someone else doing the work for me for once 😉 via session trades with my TT colleagues. I’m at a point of slowly feeling the capacity and will to be more actively engaging with SBSM again – perfect timing, I guess!
I’m here because I’ve finally found something (and someone) I feel I want to study for years to come. I had been looking for some sort of therapeutic training for a few years, but nothing seemed to quite fit until finding Irene’s offerings.
What I hope to gain from SPT-Level 1 is: foundations, foundations, foundations. I’ve been incorporating NS knowledge into all areas of my life for a while now and I’ve also been working with a few people in the modality I’m trained in, yet I oftentimes find myself feeling like I’m lacking some very basic training (and enough of my own capacity) when it comes to holding therapeutic space for trauma healing. I trust in the standards and frameworks that Irene & Team Lyon operate in and I believe that SPT might be the most comprehensive entry-level training for somatic practitioners available at the moment.
As for my past activities, I sometimes feel that I’ve lived many different lives already. I spent almost a decade half-nomading around the world, organizing my own projects, doing work-trades etc. I’ve self-published three books, have some experience with public speaking, giving workshops and teaching – all self-taught and kind of guerilla-executed. Even though I’ve done a lot of cool things in life so far, it’s only now that I’m beginning to have the bandwidth and capacity to start building a scaffolding of professional and financial stability and continuity for years to come. One of the many things I’m super grateful for on this journey of NS healing.
Nowadays I split my work time between teaching English combined with psychoeducation & deep ecology and offering TT sessions. I’ve recently started an online TT group for my friends and I’m excited to see where that leads us – I’d love to offer group work to clients once I get some experience with this format.
At the moment I live in my hometown and enjoy the space of my flat and little urban garden, even though I know it isn’t my final destination. I dream of living a more Earth&community-based life than my current one.
I enjoy spending time outdoors, love the sea, sand, rocks, forests and mountains. I have a connection with volcanos and volcanic islands are some of the most impactful places I’ve visited/lived on when it comes to my spirituality and life path. Fire and stones teach me a lot. I adore strong wind on my face, listening to birds, sunbathing and being barefoot. I’m a book worm and a total foodie. I love organic movement and I enjoy dancing salsa, walking, hiking and laughing.
I’m really looking forward to learning and connecting with y’all, while also cautiously assuming that it’ll be a quite intense experience for me and my still-more-often-than-not overwhelmed NS system. Here’s to taking on new challenges and fostering more capacity and regulation together!
Hello Everyone,
I’m Sophie from South Australia. Gosh, I feel the mixture of nerves and excitement as I sit down to write this! It’s starting to feel real!
I’m here because life put me on a healing path early on and I was determined to find answers to emotional pain. I began watching Irene’s youtube videos around 2019 and there was always a sense of relief at finally hearing the dots being joined and root-cause of trauma being discussed. Eventually I trusted this feeling and enrolled in SBSM in 2021. Becoming a student of SBSM changed my life and it was a clear yes to doing practitioner training when this was offered earlier in the year.
As part of SPT-1, I’m seeking to develop skills and confidence in teaching nervous system work to others. I’m also looking forward to making connections with other SPT practitioners and cultivating a support network. It’s pretty isolating doing this work so far.
My professional background is in psychology and academia. I’ve wanted to move into practice for a very long time! I started a masters in psychology in 2009, however, quit after one semester when I couldn’t stomach the theories and therapeutic models. I finally made the shift to practice in 2021 working in the disability space as a psychosocial recovery coach. I am in transition at the moment creating a coaching business and having lots coming up to work through along the way!
I live close to the beach with my kit, Biscuit, and a housemate. I enjoy dancing, movies, fiction, podcast, and board games. Being in nature is essential for me and I walk by beach or visit the hills as often as I can. I love simplicity and am grateful to SBSM for teaching me to how to embrace a slower life.
I’m looking forward to meeting you all and so curious about it’ll be like to be amongst a group of regulated humans!!
What’s up!? I’m John.
I’m here because Irene’s approach and tools changed everything for me.
I signed up to SBSM in early 2020 and in the first 1-2 weeks, I remember feeling like I’d made more progress in that 1-2 weeks than in the previous 10 years of daily meditation. It was wild.
I did 1 full run-through of SBSM.
1 round of the BETA cohort.
I also worked with Seth for a year 1-on-1.
And the rest of the time, I’ve been integrating all of it into my day-to-day life (because in my experience, that’s where the magic happens).
By the end of SPT-Level 1, I want to be better at doing this work with myself, as well as better at doing it with others.
I don’t have any certifications in this space. I’m not an SE practitioner. I don’t do Yoga. I’ve never learned Reiki or energy healing properly. I just love this nervous system work and I want to share it with others.
Before getting into this, I worked in marketing. Still do actually. Helping various companies with email marketing, social media, sales pages and more.
But 2 years ago, I started a company called Rageheart, where I’ve started teaching this approach and these techniques to people.
While I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, I’ve lived overseas for more than 10 years. Thailand for about 6 years. Bounced around for another few years (US, Canada, Europe and South America). And now I’ve been living in Peru for the last 3 years.
I used to say somatic work was the #1 tool that changed everything for me… but now, I put it together with psychedelics and BJJ, because all 3 of these things have completely changed the way I operate in the world.
Nothing beats going to a psychedelic ceremony one day where I’m feeling feelings and then going to do BJJ the next day to get choked or choke someone. They fit together so perfectly.
Currently single. Live with my sister and another Aussie friend. 2 cats (Zeus and Storm). Learning Spanish (by reading Harry Potter). Favorite resources include working out, reading fantasy books, BJJ, running, guitar, singing and staring at mountains.
Hi everyone, I’m Anna born in Germany and currently living in the Netherlands near Utrecht.
I’m here because I’ve studied so many different healing modalities and the nervous system work (the way in which Irene teaches it) was the missing piece that glued everything I had previously learned together. I’ve started my first round of SBSM February ’23 as an extension of my studies as a Massage therapist, broadening my hunger for a deeper understanding of the human body, specifically my own.
I feel studying again will help me to deepen my knowledge and confidence in bringing this work forward. There is tremendous growth in studying within a group setting, learning from experts and my peers that I’ve experienced from my previous studies. This is what I’m looking forward to in this space too.
I am currently working in my own private practice as a somatic therapist, combining different modalities such as massage therapy, focussing, working with charakterstructures, movement, Reiki, EEM, internal family constellations and last but not least nervous system work and education.
Back in the days I used to work as an office administrator but I always knew that this wasn’t my dream ;). I’ve travelled a lot and explored different cultures, done a lot of physical labour such as fruit and vegetable picking, worked in hospitality quite a lot as a side job and another fun fact is that my partner and me used to own a campground in Belgium.
Now we are living with our daughter Rael (6) and our dog Lilu in an old farm house close to Utrecht. I’m also 24 weeks pregnant at this point. Whilst writing the little one is doing her summersaults.
Connecting to my body is a daily habit since my studies and lately I catch myself in the act of orienting.
My favourite resources are gardening, going for walks, reading, singing and dancing. Dancing used to be one of those resources that helped me through difficult times in the past. I still regularly dance either alone or with my family in our living room.
I am grateful for your dedication Irene in putting this study together for the past years and that I can be part of it.
I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone within the next year.
Hi everyone,
I’m Sophie K, I live in Devon (UK) with my cat close to lots of beaches, and countryside.
I’m currently working as a pharmacist/manager in the NHS, but I’m also a yoga teacher and bodyworker and am looking to move into a more holistic self-employed role that is more aligned with my values and circadian rhythms.
I’ve been following Irene’s work for several years, and started SBSM in 2021/22 but I’ve been doing it very slowly so it’s taken me a couple of years to complete. I’ve tried many different modalities to work through some of what I now know is early developmental trauma, with varying degrees of success. SBSM has made the biggest difference by far, and whilst I haven’t found it easy, it has been hugely rewarding. And I would like to understand the work on a deeper level and be able to incorporate this more into my work as a practitioner.
I’m really excited to be part of this group and to get to you you all and learn alongside you
Hello everyone, my name is Léna, I’m 36 years old and live in Paris, FRANCE.
I’m here because I really do believe in nervous system work. It goes totally hand in hand with the field of mindbody that I love.
I did SBSM 3 times now and the BETA cohort. Not this year because I was pregnant so it will be good to start everything again with the SPT training and also because postpartum is not easy haha.
This work really helped me integrate what is regulation in my body, I loved the education about it and it goes well with neuroplastic pain education.
My hope is to gain and integrate knowledge very deeply so that I can start to help others truly and concretely (and not like “do the 4-7-8 breaths and you’ll be regulated…).
I’m an editor and voice over in advertising but it is my hope / or a possibility that I become a coach in this field (not in a hurry though, I will go with the flow).
I have a french podcast about holistic health (nutrition, trauma, spirituality, psychology etc,) which I do love. It brings me purpose, so is this field.
I love doing sport, reading spiritual books so that I can open my consciousness a bit, working on my podcast, listening to music (rock, folk, post rock, blues, metal) that literally speak to my soul, very important for my nervous system as well as my little sausage dog, Peanut.
I love community and deep connexion and always felt weird in this world where people speak not well to others, or are selfish, or where a lot of conversations stay superficial. Maybe this is connected to the fact that I have a twin sister.
Guess i’m a hippie in that sense haha but I do suffer a bit from this dysregulated world that prefer to judge and not be too nice with others…
I had a little baby in may, named SVEN and a musician boyfriend.
My favorite resources is music, sport, walks, trainings and connexion (with my body, my self and the world).
I love to learn. It took me 20 years to find a purpose, so thanks Irene to help megrow in this field that really speak to me <3 🙂
Looking to speak with you all!
Hi All!
My name is Deirdre (pronounced deer-tree), I live in Colorado and am currently dual-working as a somatic practitioner and providing child development support. I have a degree in early childhood development, worked in a Reggio-Amelia environment and taught in Japan.
I enjoy experiencing movement in different ways, such as through jiujitsu and dancing. Both of which are resources I utilize, along with my pup (an Australian Shepherd-Heeler mix), music (I play piano and flute), tea, and my garden.
I started SBSM in Spring 2023 after watching an interview with Seth. I had previously completed a 3 year program that integrated body therapies (reflexology, acupressure, myofascial release, cranial-sacral, Chapmans…) along with somatic trauma release, and herbology/natural remedies. While the theory of nervous system regulation was utilized in this work, it was not a focus of education and little understanding was built around the autonomic NS. Seth’s interview piqued my curiosity and lit a fire in me.
I know this SPT-Level 1 tract will help me to grow my understanding of myself and others so that I may be a better practitioner and have greater self mastery. Integrating this knowledge into my daily life has helped me to move more effectively through stressors, with increasing self-compassion, and to have more clarity in my true capacity as well as knowing some of the patterns that disallow for my authenticity to be present. I love that this work establishes the truth of feeling wholeness, even if it includes anxiety and unease, as that is the whole(ness) experience, and the key to it all is self-love. I am grateful for the opportunity to be part of this beautiful work.