Trauma is shaping your everyday life in ways you may not imagine...
Whether it stems from past relationships, difficult events, or deep emotional wounds, trauma imprints itself on your nervous system, coloring your stress responses, emotional patterns, sense of safety, and the way you relate to the world.
The same principle applies to ancestral trauma. The struggles and pain of those who came before you aren’t just stories of the past — they’re embedded in your family lineage, passed down energetically and even genetically.
In fact, the science of epigenetics has shown that trauma-related gene expression can influence your health and behavior and be passed along to future generations.
Somatic trauma therapist Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT, affirms that trauma memories are more than psychological. They also live in your body — often without your conscious awareness — affecting everything from your posture to how you breathe to the way you respond to daily life.
Left unaddressed, these stored patterns can create ongoing emotional blocks, chronic tension, a persistent feeling of disconnection, and even physical illness.
But what if there was a way to shift these patterns and rewire your nervous system for greater resilience and emotional stability? There is.
Manuela teaches that you canintegrate and evolve inherited imprints into sources of strength and wisdom — through powerful somatic practices. By working with these unconscious imprints, you can release the patterns that no longer serve you and reclaim your ability to shape your own path forward.
Manuela’s somatic trauma therapy approach combines polyvagal theory with techniques from Hakomi Therapy, Somatic Experiencing®, and Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma TherapyTM — giving you a comprehensive set of tools to help you feel grounded, held, and resourced in moments of stress.
In her new 7-week live video course, Manuela will show you how to bring somatic awareness to the way trauma shapes your body — through movement, breath, stillness, and ritual — and retrain your entire somatic system. These exercises can support you in enhancing your ability to navigate stress, improve relationships, and build lasting fortitude.
With Manuela’s expert guidance, you’ll learn how to shift from survival-based reactivity like flight, fight, or freeze, into a state of calm, grounded presence. Small yet intentional shifts in posture, breath, and movement can create new neural pathways — opening the door to sustained transformation and embodied sovereignty.
Through Manuela’s unique somatic exercises — including her “Resilience Sequence,” the “Coming Home to the Body” practice, and the “Shake, Sound, Soothe for Safety” technique — you’ll build your own personal “Safety Toolkit.” This collection of sensory-based techniques will become your foundation for daily nervous system regulation.
This journey isn’t about reliving the past. It’s about reshaping your relationship with your body, yourself, your history, and the world. It’s about reclaiming your voice, your empowerment, and your right to move through life with confidence, trust, and self-acceptance.
You’ll go beyond healing and step into post-traumatic growth. By connecting with your ancestral roots, you’ll uncover the courage and strength of those who came before you — reframing their legacy as a source of power that enables you to transform limiting patterns, consciously decide what to carry forward...
... and determine how your personal evolution can serve as a catalyst for change — for yourself and future generations.
As you move through this program, you’ll discover that healing is not about erasing or recovery from trauma — it’s about integrating it, honoring the past while stepping forward with intention, and choosing which narratives to keep and which to release.
And, you’ll reconnect with your lineage — not as a source of pain, but as a wellspring of wisdom and strength.
This is your opportunity to liberate yourself from the shadows of inherited and personal trauma and step boldly into your future — and your legacy — defined by clarity, healing, and empowerment.
If you feel stuck in patterns of self-doubt, isolation, or inherited beliefs that limit your potential, Manuela’s somatic approach can help you transform — through the wisdom of your own body.
With compassionate awareness and intentional movement, you’ll loosen the grip of outdated narratives and consciously create a future you can fully embrace.
In this 7-week transformational course, Manuela will guide you through the wisdom and experiences you need to unlock the healing power of somatic awareness to release stored trauma, rewire your nervous system, and reclaim your autonomy — building resilience, safety, and a deep connection to your ancestral wisdom.
You’ll connect with Manuela and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Manuela’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Manuela. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and somatic principles you’ll need to harness the wisdom of your body to process trauma, restore nervous system balance, and rediscover emotional and physical wellbeing.
Trauma is not just personal — it’s passed down through generations, shaping your emotions, beliefs, and behaviors.
In this opening module, you’ll explore the foundational concepts of intergenerational trauma and why somatic awareness is essential to healing.
You’ll learn that trauma doesn’t just live in the mind. It's stored and woven into the body through the nervous system, posture, breath, and inherited belief systems.
You’ll begin mapping where the wounds of your lineage live in your body, uncovering the subtle yet profound ways ancestral patterns of trauma shape your internal experience.
This class lays the groundwork for nervous system regulation, embodied resilience, and trauma integration, providing a foundation for the journey ahead.
In this first module, you’ll:
Trauma isn’t just a memory from the past — it lives in your body, shaping how you move, breathe, and experience the world.
You’ll explore how intergenerational trauma is passed down through unconscious movement patterns, chronic tension, and nervous system responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.
You’ll also examine the role of epigenetics and how trauma-related gene expression can influence your health, behavior, and future generations.
You’ll learn how chronic nervous system dysregulation contributes to autoimmune issues, and how emotional suppression and inherited beliefs like “I must keep pushing” or “My needs are too much” can manifest as self-attack patterns — both psychologically and biologically.
Through somatic movement inquiry, you’ll begin identifying and repatterning the inherited “shapes” your body holds, unlocking new pathways for healing, choice, and resilience.
In this module, you’ll:
Cultivating a deep, internal sense of safety is essential for nervous system healing and trauma integration.
You’ll explore how intergenerational trauma, cultural history, and ancestral experiences may have influenced your ability to feel safe, seen, and connected. You’ll begin rebuilding that safety from the inside out.
You’ll learn how regulation arises through sensory awareness, breath, grounding, and subtle movement. By working with micro-movement practices — gentle, intuitive motions that restore calm and rhythm — you’ll engage in a gradual, accessible approach to reconnecting with your body.
These small movements are especially useful when larger motions feel overwhelming, helping you re-anchor safety somatically, one moment at a time.
You’ll also begin creating your own personal “Safety Toolkit” — a collection of sensory, breath, and movement-based tools to support daily nervous system regulation.
In this module, you’ll:
Shame and fear are often among the deepest imprints of intergenerational trauma, shaping how we experience ourselves and the world.
This module offers a somatic approach to working with these emotions — helping you move them through the body instead of staying stuck in them.
You’ll explore how inherited emotional patterns of shame and fear manifest in the nervous system, and learn how to regulate them without getting lost in the story behind them.
Through shaking, sound, and self-soothing practices, you’ll begin to discharge stored emotions, interrupt inherited emotional patterns, and create more space for resilience and self-compassion.
These techniques can help interrupt automatic nervous system responses and restore a felt sense of safety. By working with the body directly, you’ll begin reshaping your relationship with these emotions, fostering greater ease and integration.
In this module, you’lll:
Your body holds the stories of your ancestors — messages about identity, worth, safety, and belonging — that have been passed down through generations.
In this session, Manuela will walk you through the ways these inherited narratives shape your posture, voice, and self-perception. By bringing awareness to these patterns, you can begin discerning which beliefs have limited you and which carry the strength and wisdom of your lineage.
Through movement, reflection, and somatic repatterning, you’ll learn how to shift from inherited postures of limitation to embodied dignity and power.
As you’ll learn, healing isn’t just about releasing old stories. It’s about reclaiming the resilience and agency that are also part of your lineage.
Manuela will guide you through a practice to experience firsthand how small shifts in posture and movement can transform your internal experience and self-expression.
In this module, you’ll:
You’ll learn how to consciously create new neural pathways that support resilience, growth, and wisdom.
You’ll practice ways to evoke transformation by rewiring your nervous system. Through mindful movement, breath, and intention, you’ll experience how the body can adapt and heal, using conscious repetition and embodied practice.
Manuela will share how post-traumatic growth is possible when you reframe your trauma as a source of wisdom and strength. You’ll explore how trauma can offer valuable lessons in resilience, and how we can embody these lessons to foster ongoing healing.
You’ll experience a structured flow of movement and breath designed to reinforce your body’s ability to stay regulated, grounded, and empowered. This sequence will help you anchor safety and vitality, providing a core practice for navigating future challenges with strength and fluidity.
This session will help you:
Legacy work is the practice of consciously choosing what you carry forward, and what to let go of from your ancestral line. It’s the final, integrative step of intergenerational healing — transforming inherited patterns into an intentional path for the future.
In this closing session, you’ll honor the wisdom, gifts, and burdens of the past while anchoring new ways of being in your body.
Through reflection, ritual, and movement, you’ll claim your own embodied story — not as something inherited by default, but as something consciously shaped with presence and purpose.
This is the work of becoming a living legacy — a bridge between what was and what is yet to come. You’ll explore what ends with you and what begins with you, ensuring that the patterns you pass forward are chosen with awareness.
In this final module, you’ll:
In addition to Manuela’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
In addition to Manuela’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The body holds stories that words alone can’t express. This guided self-inquiry script — a reflective practice for exploring inherited beliefs, trauma, and embodied insight — invites you into a compassionate dialogue with the parts of yourself that carry past wounds, fears, or intergenerational narratives. Through a gentle process of embodied listening and somatic exploration, you’ll uncover insights, shift limiting patterns, and reclaim a deeper sense of agency in your healing journey.
Discover how movement can be a powerful tool for self-regulation, healing, and transformation. In this exclusive excerpt from Manuela’s book, Trauma-Sensitive Movement: 96 Somatic Techniques to Support Nervous System Regulation and Embodied Transformation in Therapy, you’ll explore five trauma-sensitive somatic practices designed to engage the parasympathetic nervous system — promoting deep relaxation, nervous system balance, and emotional resilience. Through mindful movement, breath, and body awareness, you’ll cultivate a greater sense of safety, ease, and vitality in your daily life.
Manuela is a powerhouse teacher, facilitator, and therapist. She fully embodies what she teaches and is a much-needed leader in somatics and trauma. I’m so grateful for everything she’s taught me. I find her wildly inspiring.
Somatic coach
In my journey as a therapist, Manuela’s trauma training was essential to developing the skills to support healing in my clients. Manuela is a master of her craft, and with her guidance, I was able to learn to hold a space of safety that allows clients to learn to regulate their nervous system and, in a gentle way, move through and heal their trauma. I consider this one of the most transformative training experiences in my 30 years in the field.
Manuela’s trauma training has been essential in my understanding of trauma and my capacity to be at ease with my clients’ trauma responses and offer thoughtful somatic interventions. Taking her training and watching her work, with her 25 years of clinical experience and her deep personal experience with somatic and spiritual practices, has been a gift that keeps on giving.
Certified Hakomi practitioner
This course opened me to a whole new world of exploring my own soma, my family, clients and other people in my life. I loved how Manuela had us work on ourselves and learn good self-care so we are able to help others. I almost use everything I learned in this course on a daily basis. I wish I had this knowledge in the 50 years I taught counseled in the public school system. Especially the 35 years working with special needs students. I could have helped so many more children and also less stress on myself.
Austin, Texas
I have realized how important it is to be in a regulated state myself to serve others. I deepened my knowledge and understanding of the different somatic interventions. I loved every experience we went through the course and I will continue with experiments I have learned. I feel more equipped to serve my coaching clients as I experience changes and great insights coming from my body, which helps me be authentic to my clients.
Poland
Transcending Inherited Trauma offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from somatic trauma therapist Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to transform your relationship with trauma using somatic practices that help you regulate your nervous system, reclaim personal sovereignty, and cultivate lasting resilience, safety, and ancestral connection. Course sessions are on 2025-05-14 9:00:00 am.
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
We feel honored that Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT, has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with a somatic trauma therapist and Hakomi trainer whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about integrating your stored trauma to restore your emotional and physical health, strengthen resilience, and reconnect with the wisdom of your ancestors, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
While the original enrollment deadline has passed, you’re still welcome to join us with a few important notes:
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Transcending Inherited Trauma — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before May 28, 2025 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
I have had the fortunate opportunity to train with Manuela through the Hakomi Institute of California and through her trauma training over the past eight years. Manuela has offered me exceptional guidance and support in my skill-building as a licensed clinical psychotherapist and educator. I have gleaned the skills to navigate trauma work with my clients mainly from her, and I can’t recommend her trainings enough. They offer the theory and practice through embodied exercises and frameworks to really step into the territory of trauma healing with experience and grace. She really teaches you how to work somatically with trauma to transmute from the inside out. Her presence and expertise are a gift to this world.
Faculty at Earth Medicine Center, Oregon
The course gave more confidence in my private practice. I’ve studied under Manuela for years and needed a tune-up. This was just what I needed.
Klamath Falls, Oregon
Simply being in Manuela’s presence felt transformative for me — especially witnessing the demos and hearing the examples she gave in class.
Quincy, Illinois
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT, is a somatic trauma psychotherapist and an international teacher of somatic psychology. She integrates movement and mindful embodiment tools into her work. She was co-director of the Hakomi Institute of California, and recently founded Embodywise, a learning community that supports somatic psychology methods that promote wisdom through the body.
She developed an integrative trauma methodology called Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA) that focuses on somatic movement and somatic therapy techniques in an in-depth training program for therapists and practitioners.
Manuela has more than 25 years of clinical experience in the field of trauma and somatics, including working with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with first responders. She lectures and trains professionals on the topics of mindfulness, somatic psychology, trauma therapy, and compassionate relational approaches to healing.
She has hosted the Hakomi Summit for The Shift Network, and is an author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy Tools for Trauma and Stress... and 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Wellbeing. She'll soon be releasing a new book on movement therapy tools for clinicians.