Revive Your Authentic Self: From Shadow & Trauma into Somatic Freedom
You’ve walked the path, and now your body’s wisdom is calling you deeper. Your spirit’s authenticity is ready to be revived. Somatic integration and freedom awaits. Live online Jan 20, 2026!
Revive Your Authentic Self:
From Shadow & Trauma Into Somatic Freedom
There are days that we feel exhausted from our habitual ways of performing; feeling disconnected from our body’s aliveness, overthinking and overdoing to cope, overriding our gut feelings in relationships, and using all of the positivity or spiritual jargon that we can muster just to get through. We find ourselves spinning our own mental wheels, and consistently ending up in the same places that we began: tired, hurt, feeling sad. anxious or shameful, and cut off from ourselves and others.
What would it be like to slow down and feel ourselves underneath these ways of being; to drop deeply into the wisdom within our bodies and spirits, and meet ourselves authentically? ✨
6-Month Somatic Program | Live Online | Community Forum
Starts Tuesday, January 20th from 7-9pm EST (Further Tuesday dates below)
Why this Course
When we’ve done all of the pyscho-spiritual work that we can manage, yet still catch ourselves exhibiting the same behaviours when things get hard, where do we go?
Maybe you’ve meditated for years, understood the body-mind connection, self-reflected endlessly, read countless self-help books, years of therapy, and attended numerous workshops on cultivating your own inner well-being…
But you haven’t been able to understand and shift how your body and subconscious bypass your spirit’s deep yearning for freedom.
While we may understand intellectually what traumatic events happened in the past that have led us to feel how we do now, we still can’t think, transcend, achieve, or please our way into a life of authentic aliveness.
These psychic wounds that we haven’t integrated hold us hostage through nervous system dysregulation, postural, mental, emotional, behavioural imbalances, and numerous ways of overriding our bodies and bypassing our own well-being.
However sophisticated, these ways of being get in the way of us realizing our authentic self and vibrant life force that lies underneath.
There is a niggling feeling that you are missing something, because you find yourself:
🎭 Overthinking instead of feeling — analyzing your trauma and related patterns endlessly but it still loops through your mind
🎭 Spiritually bypassing — using “love and light” or high spiritual concepts to avoid feeling anger, grief, or meeting your own shadow
🎭 Perfecting and overdoing — achieving to prove your worth, and staying busy to avoid feeling inadequate
🎭 People-pleasing and shape-shifting — overriding your boundaries to avoid being rejected
🎭 Forcing positivity — toxic “bright-side” thinking that silences yours and other’s inner emotional pain
🎭 Staying in your head — consistently disconnecting from your bodily sensations and trying to think your way out of situations
🎭 Performing and masking — exhausted from being who you think you should be
🎭 Escaping through distraction — numbing, dissociating, avoiding what’s living in your tissues by mentally leaving life
🎭 Desiring to know yourself deeply — relationships still feel surface or never go anywhere, you yearn to connect with awe again
The Shift
Every override, way of hiding and bypassing — from spiritual to overthinking intellectually, to the overdoing perfectionist, and relational overriding — was developed to protect you from overwhelm. Yet they also have us avoid feeling and meeting our life fully. Even coping strategies, that can act as bridges towards gaining nervous system capacity, overtime, can have us fall short of living our authentic self and somatic freedom if we don’t know how to go beyond them.
Sustainable healing requires:
✨ Feeling instead of thinking — moving from analysis to embodied experience
✨ Including instead of transcending — shadow AND light, human AND sacred, body AND mind/spirit
✨ Being instead of doing — worth that isn’t earned through achievement
✨ Authenticity instead of performing — dropping the masks and people-pleasing
✨ Full emotional range instead of forced positivity — anger, grief, joy, all of it
✨ Presence instead of escape — staying with what is, in your body and spirits, now
✨ Integration instead of bypass — weaving ALL parts into wholeness, body, mind and spirit
This is somatic shadow and unmasking work. Trauma integration and revival of our underlying authentic self at its best.
Your 6-Month Somatic Journey Starts Here
A 6-module course that weaves together:
Somatic Experiencing for trauma integration
Internal Family Systems for parts work
Shadow psychology for wholeness
Nervous system regulation for presence
Embodied spirituality without bypassing
Post-traumatic growth frameworks
Focusing on cultivating 6 core qualities:
Awareness for authentic change
Authenticity for self-knowledge and connection
Compassion for ourselves and others without bypassing
Somatic Freedom for uniting the sacred with the human
Wholeness & Aliveness for self-love, self-honouring and vitality
Resilience for increased flexibility and lasting change
What You’ll Learn
MODULE 1: AWARENESS ~ Jan 20 & Feb 3
Foundations of Shadow, Soma & the False Self
- How to recognize your bypass patterns: intellectual, spiritual, perfectionist, people-pleasing, positivity, dissociative, and more
- Somatic Experiencing fundamentals: building safe capacity to feel instead of escape through pendulation, titration, and tracking
- Understanding shadow, masks, and how they live as tension, armor, and holding patterns in your body
- Working with the voice of inner wisdom and spirit, alongside embodied self-compassion
Embodied practices: Body scanning, resourcing meditation, grounding techniques, deep listening and self-compassion with touch
MODULE 2: AUTHENTICITY ~ Feb 17 & March 3
Unmasking the True Self: Body, Shame & Belonging
- The exhaustion of performing, perfecting, and people-pleasing, and how to drop the mask
- How cultural conditioning creates masks and the somatic cost of performing or hiding
- Listening to your body’s authentic “yes” and “no” instead of overriding boundaries and needs
- Radical acceptance of your full humanity (including imperfection) and discovering Self-energy beneath the armor
Embodied practices: RAIN meditation, authentic movement, parts dialogue, vocal authenticity exercises
MODULE 3: COMPASSION ~ March 17 & April 7
Spiritual Bypassing & Somatic Freedom with Jaya’s L.I.F.T method
- Deep dive into spiritual bypassing: “love and light,” premature forgiveness, toxic positivity, emotional numbing disguised as peace
- Reclaiming anger and boundaries, moving beyond the “nice” mask that keeps you from authenticity, allowing grief and the full emotional range, not forcing gratitude or transcendence
- Discover Jaya’s L.I.F.T. method to bring you home to your body and spirit’s truth
- Understanding fierce compassion that includes truth and boundaries, not just accommodation and bypass
Embodied practices: Emotional expression work, parts meditation, boundary setting in the body, Jaya’s L.I.F.T method
MODULE 4: SOMATIC FREEDOM ~ April 21 & May 5
Trauma, Nervous System Regulation & the Land
- Why somatic freedom is the antidote to all forms of bypass, and how nervous system regulation makes it possible
- Understanding your window of tolerance and activation states: fight/flight/freeze
- How we can invite the land and natural world to support regulation through ritual
- What body signals/resources tell us we are safe to move more deeply into spiritual practice
Embodied practices: Orienting, grounding, vagal toning, becoming familiar with numbness, activation and embodied presence, nature practices listening to body’s safety signs
MODULE 5: WHOLENESS & ALIVENESS ~ May 19 & June 2
Post-Traumatic Growth & Sacred Transformation
- Five domains of post-traumatic growth: transforming through adversity without bypassing
- The body’s role in living authentic presence without transcending your humanity, and staying connected to your full emotional experience
- Moving from overdoing and martyrdom in service to sustainable purpose, grounded in your wholeness
- How ancient cultures, cosmologies, your own ancestral lines support trauma integration and human transformation, including spirit
Embodied practices: Attunement practices, gratitude embodied, self-led meditation, strength-building, interoceptive knowing, ancestral offerings
MODULE 6: RESILIENCE ~ June 16 & 30
Weaving It All Together Sustainably – Practice & Mastery
- Building resilience through your unique integrative approach that honors body, psyche, and spirit without bypass
- Working skillfully with resistance (yours and others’) as a form of nervous system protection, and recognizing when defenses need respect, not force, to build lasting resilience
- Ethical considerations: maintaining boundaries, navigating power dynamics, cultural humility, and honouring cross-cultural spiritual traditions in service
- Practitioner resilience: preventing burnout, managing vicarious trauma, and recognizing your own bypass patterns that undermine sustainability in helping roles
Embodied practices: Personal resilience practice design, nervous system capacity building, parts check-in, peer practice, ongoing integration
What’s Included
🪞 Twelve 2-hour live online sessions (two per month for integration time)
- Class 1: 90-105 minutes teaching & demonstration + 15-30 minutes experiential practice
- Class 2: Somatic integration based on that month’s theme + Q&A
🪞 Small group breakout sessions for practice and witnessing
🪞 Lifetime access to recordings (in case you miss a live session)
🪞 Private FB community forum for ongoing support and connection
🪞 Weekly Somatic Exercises provided including practices, and self-contemplations
🪞 Two expert guest speakers to support and explore course content further
🪞 Two Bonuses A digital Shadow Work Journal & Workbook ($97 value) + a Spiritual Bypassing Assessment Tool ($67 value)
🪞 A Certificate of Completion from Jaya’s School of Sacred Somatics™ (need to attend 75% or more live sessions to receive)
🪞 5% off of in-person or online Retreats or Trainings hosted solely by Jaya
Faculty
Shadow, Parts, and Presence:
An Embodied Approach to Trauma Integration
For more than 20 years, Carrie Prince, MSW, has walked alongside people as they return to themselves through trauma-informed counseling and embodied practices. In this class, she guides you to explore the intersection of personal and collective shadow.
Through authenticity and curiosity, an unwinding emerges. Spirit begins to reveal what is both astonishing and deeply familiar. Carrie draws from her training in SE, IFS, Hakomi, Brainspotting, TRE, core shamanism, and MBSR.
Her professional background is in mental health counseling, college level teaching, healing circle facilitation, naturopathy, energy work, and many years of teaching meditation and yoga.
Reclaiming the Embodied Self:
A Somatic Journey Through Yoga
Tina Nance, E-RYT 500, Yoga Teacher Trainer, has been guiding people worldwide to reconnect with their body-mind and Spirit through embodied practices for over 30 years. In this work, she creates space for the unraveling of holding patterns that no longer serve. Through heart-centered presence and somatic listening, a deep integration emerges. The body begins to remember what the mind has forgotten.
Tina draws from her extensive training in Somatic Experiencing, IFS, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Nervous System Regulation, alongside her foundations in Yin Yoga, Yoga Therapy, and Embodied Mindfulness.
Her professional background includes founding HELD: School of Embodied Self Integration, long-term teaching and training at The Yoga Barn in Bali, and developing Nervous System Rewire and Embodied Unwinding practices. She holds diplomas in Kinesiology, Shiatsu, Remedial Massage Therapy, Health Sciences, and Vibrational Medicine.
This Course Is For
Practitioners (therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, healers) wanting somatic trauma skills and to address your own bypass patterns
High-achievers who’ve processed trauma intellectually but still feel it compromising your body, relationships, and vitality
Spiritual practitioners recognizing bypassing in yourself or your community, ready for embodied authenticity
Healing professionals knowing you need to do your own deep work to serve others more effectively
Anyone exhausted from masking and performing, ready to integrate shadow, spirit, and soma into wholeness
Why This Course Is Different
Most trauma work focuses on:
- Techniques without personal work
- The mind without the body
- Theory without practice
- Individual healing without community
Most spiritual trainings miss:
- The shadow and difficult emotions
- Nervous system regulation
- Trauma integration
- The difference between bypassing and genuine growth
Revive Your Authentic Self integrates it all:
Somatic + Psychological + Spiritual
We don’t separate these because they’re not experienced separately
Personal + Professional
You’ll transform yourself while learning to support others
Ancient Wisdom + Modern Somatic & Neuroscience
Honoring both timeless medicines and current research
Theory + Practice + Community
Learning with your mind, body, and in relationship
Safety + Depth
Going deep while staying within your window of tolerance ~ Space Limited to 22 only to maintain both
Investment & Enrollment
INVESTMENT OPTIONS:
Option 1: Pay in Full
$1,297
$1,111
CAD
($800 USD)
Save $186
One month free!
Training begins: January 20, 2026
Limited spaces: 22 spots only
Option 2: Payment Plan
$427
$397
CAD
($288 USD)
Save $30
3 Bi-monthly Payments
Training begins: January 20, 2026
Limited spaces: 22 spots only
Early Bird Pricing Ends January 13, 2026
FAQ Section
Yes. Module 1 briefly shares the SE fundamentals that you will need. We also pace the material carefully, and I will share additional video content to people who are new to somatic work. That said, if you’ve never tracked sensations in your body before, be prepared, this will be new territory! There will be added practices and support in the FB group.
I don’t use spiritual language that requires specific beliefs. When I say “sacred” or “spiritual,” I mean connection to something larger than ego, whether you call that Self, soul, nature, interconnection, or nothing at all. The practices are grounded in neuroscience and somatic psychology. If you’re secular and want body-based trauma work, and are open to connection with something larger than yourself, you’ll find what you need here.
Deep work can activate material. That’s different from being triggered or re-traumatized. We work carefully with resources, and staying within your window of tolerance. You’re always in control of how deep you go. That said, if you have a therapist, I recommend staying connected with them during this training or reach out to me for SE sessions throughout the course duration.
All sessions are recorded and available within 24 hours. However, the live experiential component is valuable, you’ll want to attend live when possible. If you know you’ll miss more than 2 sessions, consider waiting for the next cohort in 2027.
If following Module 1 you aren’t satisfied that this course is for you, write me within 7 days and I will return your money to you!
From coping to authenticity
From bypass to integration
From mask to freedom
From fragmented to whole
Come home to your nervous system, body and spirit’s journey, and sustainable vitality.
Still not sure?
Email me: info {@} jayahollohan.com with your questions
Write me to book a 15 minute WhatsApp call: +1 (613) 866-7091 for more clarity
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