Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
The struggles you face today may be the lingering echoes of unresolved trauma — both your own and your ancestors’ — showing up in your body and holding you back from the life you desire.
Experience the power of somatic practices to identify and release the trauma patterns locked in your system, rewire your nervous system, and reclaim your personal autonomy — transforming pain into resilience, safety, and wellbeing — while cultivating a profound connection to the gifts of your lineage.
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.
During this transformative experiential program, you’ll:
- Learn how both personal and intergenerational trauma are stored in the body, dysregulating your nervous system and shaping your self-perception and the way you interact with the world
- Discover how to recognize and shift inherited patterns of flight, fight, and freeze, giving you full agency over your choices
- Develop a personal toolkit of somatic practices — movement, breath, embodiment, and sensory awareness — to regulate your nervous system, boost immunity, and enhance your physical and emotional wellbeing
- Learn somatic tools for grounding and internal safety to support nervous system regulation
- Deepen your relationship with your body through somatic-based practices that create new neural pathways, cultivate autonomy, resilience, and post-traumatic growth
- Reveal how familial trauma and inherited belief systems shape the stories you tell yourself — and learn how to rewrite limiting narratives for a sovereign, self-directed life
- Discern the parts of your ancestral inheritance you want to carry forward as gifts of strength, resilience, and wisdom. .. and what you choose to leave behind
- Determine the legacy you want to pass on by integrating these practices into your daily life for lasting transformation
- Be guided through practices that help you rebuild an internal sense of safety and belonging
- Participate in a closing somatic ritual to honor what ends with you and what begins with you
- And much more...
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.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
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.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
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.
Course Sessions are on 2025-05-14 9:00:00 am
(except the June 11 class, which will be at Noon Pacific)
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.
Module 1: Foundations of Intergenerational Trauma, Somatic Healing & Nervous System Resilience (2025-05-14 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Understand the difference between trauma recovery and trauma integration
- Experience Manuela’s “Coming Home to the Body” practice — a grounding and body-mapping practice to deepen awareness and build resilience
- Discover how ancestral patterns are held in the body and nervous system
- Explore why intergenerational beliefs shape posture, movement, and breath
- Begin to recognize the systems that have shaped your body
- Learn somatic tools for grounding and internal safety to support nervous system regulation
Module 2: The Body Remembers - Ancestral Imprints, Somatic Patterns & Immune Health (2025-05-21 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Identify how trauma is passed down through posture, tension, and breath
- Be guided through the “Discover Your Ancestral Shape” practice — explore inherited postures and emotional shapings through movement, and start reclaiming fluidity and choice in how you inhabit your body
- Recognize nervous system survival responses (freeze, flight, fight, fawn) as inherited patterns
- Explore how family dynamics, epigenetics, and autoimmune expression shape your body’s experience
- Understand how chronic dysregulation and internalized self-attack patterns impact immune health
Module 3: Rebuilding a Felt Sense of Safety & Belonging for Nervous System Healing (2025-05-28 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Come to understand how trauma disrupts the body’s sense of safety and belonging
- Be guided through Manuela’s “Safety Nest” exercise — a supportive, sensory-based practice that helps you feel grounded, held, and resourced in moments of stress
- Learn somatic tools to calm and regulate your nervous system
- Explore themes of family and important relationships that have helped you ground and thrive
- Explore micro-movements as a gentle, accessible pathway to embodied safety
Module 4: Meeting Shame & Fear as Gateways to Healing & Embodied Emotional Integration (2025-06-04 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Explore how shame and fear are inherited emotional imprints and how they affect your nervous system
- Experience the “Shake, Sound, Soothe for Safety” practice —a guided exercise to discharge shame and fear, settle the nervous system, and initiate deep somatic healing
- Develop emotional resilience by releasing trauma’s hold through the body
- Learn self-witnessing and self-care techniques for supporting ongoing healing and integration
Module 5: Beliefs, Identity & the Stories We Carry - Find a Sense of Profound Freedom by Rewriting Your Internal Narratives (The time of this class will be Noon Pacific instead of 9am for this session only) (2025-06-11 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Identify inherited beliefs that shape your body, identity, and self-perception
- Experience the “Pathway of Embodiment” practice — a guided movement exploration to shift from inherited postures to an embodied presence
- Explore how posture and movement reflect ancestral narratives — both their limitations and their strengths
- Reclaim your inner power by embodying “Postures of Strength and Resilience” and movement repatterning
- Honor the gifts, wisdom, and resilience carried through your lineage
Module 6: Rewiring Resilience - Creating New Neural Pathways for Embodied Empowerment & Post-Traumatic Growth (2025-06-25 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Understand how mindful movement and breath create new neural pathways for resilience
- Reinforce nervous system regulation through Manuela’s structured “Resilience Sequence”
- Integrate strength, safety, and vitality into your body’s felt sense
- Experience post-traumatic growth as an embodied possibility, gaining insight into the wisdom and growth from your experiences
- Gain tools for navigating trauma with fluidity and strength
Module 7: Integration, Embodiment & Legacy Work - Honoring the Past, Living the Present & Shaping the Future (2025-07-02 9:00:00 am)
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:
- Gain a deeper understanding of legacy work and its role in generational healing
- Participate in a closing somatic ritual to honor what ends with you and what begins with you
- Integrate practices, stories, and insights from your personal healing journey
- Reflect on your embodied transformation and how you choose to carry it forward
- Identify what you are consciously releasing and what you are choosing to pass on
- Recognize the systems that have shaped you and your self-agency in relating to these systems
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
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.
When you register by 2025-05-03 12:00:00 am (), you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Manuela’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Micro-Movements for Nervous System Resilience
PDF and Guided Audio Practice From Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
Experience the power of subtle, intentional movement for regulating your nervous system and releasing stored tension. In this guided audio practice, Manuela will lead you through micro-movements designed to gently unwind trauma imprints, restore fluidity, and invite a felt sense of calm. These techniques work beneath your conscious awareness, helping to re-pattern your body's responses, reduce overwhelm, and support long-term healing.
Restoring Nervous System Harmony - Somatic Tools for Stress & Emotional Resilience
PDF Guide From Manuela Mischke-Reeds. MFT
Chronic stress and unresolved trauma can create deep imprints in your nervous system, leading to cycles of tension, fatigue, and emotional overwhelm. This guide provides practical somatic tools you can do on your own — including self-touch techniques, guided breathwork, and reflective journaling prompts — to help you regulate your nervous system and foster a sense of inner balance. By learning to track and respond to your body’s signals with gentle awareness, you’ll build greater resilience, ease, and self-compassion in your daily life.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Inner-Body Dialogue - A Somatic Self-Inquiry for Healing
PDF Guide and Interactive Script From Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
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.
5 Somatic Practices for Healing & Resilience
PDF Excerpt From “Trauma-Sensitive Movement” by Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
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.
What People Are Saying About Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT…
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
Join the Global Community
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.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
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.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
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.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
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.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
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.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
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.
Online Community
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.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Transcending Inherited Trauma
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.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
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.
More Praise for Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
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
About Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT
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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.
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