Course Overview:
Somatic Mindfulness workshops teach massage therapists how to integrate trauma-informed somatics into bodywork through the art of attuned touch.
In each workshop, you’ll learn how to listen more deeply, move with less effort, and invite lasting shifts in your clients’ bodies — without overriding their nervous system or exhausting your own. These practices help you work with clarity, ease, and presence, creating conditions for therapeutic change that are both effective and sustainable.
You’ll gain tools that enhance your client outcomes and support your physical and emotional well-being, so you can grow your practice without burning out. Each theme explores how specific areas of the body respond when invited, through attuned touch, to become the best possible version of themselves. All workshops share the same foundation, with each theme offering a distinct focus.
Somatic Mindfulness: Continuity Intensive is a 16-hour continuing education course designed for massage therapists and bodyworkers who have previously completed Somatic Mindfulness coursework. This two-day immersive course provides extended guided practice in applying previously learned Somatic Mindfulness principles within therapeutic touch sessions.
Somatic Mindfulness bridges somatics and therapeutic touch, teaching self-care as a professional skill in which the practitioner’s own wellbeing informs professional presence and hands-on practice. Continuity Intensive supports participants in strengthening perceptual clarity, deepening familiarity with established Somatic Mindfulness principles, and cultivating greater coherence and sustainability within their existing modality and scope of practice. This course magnifies prior learning rather than introducing a separate modality.
Through extended instructor-guided practice, observation, and discussion, participants revisit familiar concepts in a deeper experiential context while remaining grounded in their own therapeutic approach and professional identity.
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Apply previously learned Somatic Mindfulness principles within therapeutic touch practice.
2. Demonstrate increased perceptual awareness during hands-on therapeutic interactions.
3. Integrate somatic self-awareness into professional presence and therapeutic touch practice.
4. Demonstrate greater continuity and coherence in the application of previously learned Somatic Mindfulness concepts.
5. Identify ways somatic self-awareness and professional sustainability relate to therapeutic touch practice and practitioner wellbeing.
6. Reflect on the integration of Somatic Mindfulness principles within their existing modality and professional scope of practice.
**This class is eligible for 16 CE's to Licensed Massaged Therapists.**
Tragerwork Mindfulness presented by Fernando Rojas, LMT PhD. Fernando has been a bodyworker since 2004, a therapeutic massage instructor since 2010, and a NCBTMB authorized CE provider since 2013. He has had the privilege to train and certify under recognized masters of Osho Rebalancing and Joint Release, the Trager Approach, Traditional Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, Medical Massage, Yoga, Zen, among others. Recipient of a grant to pursue and complete a doctoral program with Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK where he explored the intersection of Mindfulness and skilled action. Published author in academic journals, international conferences and a doctoral thesis.
