DST Somatics: Foundations for Healing and Embodied Presence

The first step of the Dynamic Somatic Touch® Training

Whether you are a seasoned bodyworker, therapist, or healer — or just beginning your journey in the healing arts — Step 1 welcomes you into the world of DST Somatics, where touch becomes a language, presence becomes a tool, and healing becomes a pathway to transformation.

This foundational training offers more than trauma resolution. It introduces a way of working with the body that gets to the core of emotional overwhelm, life challenges, inner stuckness, and personal stuckness — quickly, gently, and with lasting impact. The methods you will learn are designed to not only support recovery from trauma, but to ignite growth beyond it — helping clients (and yourself) move into post-traumatic clarity, connection, and capacity.

You will learn how to make contact with the nervous system through intuitive, supportive touch — in a way that is felt as safe, attuned, and intelligent. Through gentle tracking of movement, tone, and tissue preferences, you’ll gain tools to help unwind old patterns, soften emotional tension, and reconnect to the body’s natural drive toward wellness.

Step 1 is a complete introduction to the principles of DST Somatics. Through hands-on learning, personal exploration, and guided practice, you will be empowered to begin using DST immediately — with clients, and in your own daily life.

In Step 1, you will:

• Learn how to support the body to unwind deeply held somatic and emotional patterns
• Discover how micro-movements and subtle tissue shifts reveal the body’s healing path
• Sense the preferences and unconscious communications in the tissues
• Explore how unprocessed emotions embed themselves in the body — and how to release them
• Use supportive touch to create safety, connection, and self-regulation
• Understand the difference between trauma-driven restriction and body-led reorganization
• Begin using DST to resolve not only trauma, but inner stuckness, life blocks, and emotional overwhelm
• Develop the skills to dynamically follow and support the body’s innate intelligence

Dynamic Somatic Touch® is a unique healing model that integrates the most effective elements of Ortho-Bionomy®, Somatic Psychotherapy, Osteopathy, Focusing, Psychophysiology, Biodynamics, and Depth Psychology — grounded in both western and eastern healing traditions.

It is a system designed not only to resolve trauma, but to awaken capacity, support emotional transformation, and help people return to the truth of who they are — grounded, open, and alive.