STEP 2- DST Foundations: Introduction to Overwhelm and Trauma

DST Foundations: Introduction to Overwhelm and Trauma
Learn the true sources of trauma and overwhelm — and how to heal.

(Prerequisite course: DST Somatics – Foundations for Healing and Embodied Touch.)
In this experience, we take a deep dive into the phenomenon of trauma and overwhelm — what it is, what causes it, and how to work with it somatically. This course opens the door to understanding trauma both biologically and psychologically, while offering tools to bring true safety to the organism — the essential foundation of all successful trauma resolution.

In this experience you will learn:

• • • What overwhelm and trauma is psychologically and neurologically (mind and body)
    • What makes us susceptible to overwhelm
    • What and how overwhelm is triggered
    • The biological responses of overwhelm
    • What the antidote to overwhelm is
    • What accumulated stress is and how it contributes to overwhelm
    • The concept of psycho-bio-residue — baggage
    • Locating hidden, less obvious signs of internal overwhelm
    • How the body goes into a freeze state as protection from overwhelm and what to do       about it
    • How to work with dialogue to help clients voice the sensations of overwhelm
    • How to enhance your invitational language skills
    • How to speak the language of the body:
    • o The art of pausing and sensing
      o Verbal emptying
      o Expression
      o Postponing conclusions
      o Dropping into deeper levels of experience
      o Curiosity/Exploration
      o Tracking experience

We will also take your touch skills and touch facilitation ability to the next level with more advanced additions to what you learned in Foundations for Healing and Embodied Touch.

What is DST?

Dynamic Somatic Touch® (DST) is a trauma-informed healing model designed to accelerate the resolution of emotional and physical stuckness, and to release deeply held body-based survival patterns. Rooted in the principles of DST Somatics, this method integrates the most effective elements of Ortho-Bionomy®, Somatic Psychotherapy, Osteopathy, Focusing, Psychophysiology, Biodynamics, and Depth Psychology — alongside both Western and Eastern traditions of healing.

DST empowers students to work with the nervous system through touch, narrative, and relational presence. It supports not only trauma release, but also transformation — helping individuals move toward greater freedom, emotional integration, and a return to the truth of who they are: grounded, open, and alive.

This is a 3-day live online experience, designed to offer deep somatic learning and immersive experiential practice.Each day includes 5 hours of guided engagement, giving you rich access to new tools, insights, and embodied skills — all from the comfort of your space.
You’re not just attending a class — you’re stepping into a meaningful journey of learning, sensing, and transformation.