Aya Healing Retreats

SOMATIC PLANT MEDICINE INTEGRATION PRACTITIONER

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Plant medicine ceremonies are sacred spaces for profound healing and transformation. The real work happens afterwards, in integration, where insight becomes embodied change. Without effective integration, participants can struggle to bridge their ceremonial experiences with daily life, leaving them feeling unsupported and disconnected.

The 60-hour SPMI programme helps you create safe, trauma-aware spaces where clients can process, stabilise, and translate ceremonial insights into embodied wisdom and lasting growth.

It’s designed for integration practitioners, therapists, plant medicine facilitators, psychedelic professionals, tripsitters, medicine guides, and anyone seeking an embodied, trauma-informed approach to psychedelic integration.

The curriculum blends somatic psychology, embodiment and trauma-informed care into a practical, client-led model. Gain a clear map of the integration journey so you can guide others with skill and compassion.

The 60-hour SPMI programme helps you create safe, trauma-aware spaces where clients can process, stabilise, and translate ceremonial insights into embodied wisdom and lasting growth.

Book now and get a $100 discount with the code AYAHEALING100

SOMATIC PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION

The Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practitioner Program (SPMI) blends the latest in somatic psychology, trauma-informed care, and plant medicine wisdom into a cohesive, practical model. Designed for integration practitioners, facilitators, and plant medicine coaches, this program empowers you to guide others with skill, compassion, and a deep understanding of the integration journey.

Integration is the key to lasting transformation. Without it, the profound insights from sacred medicine journeys can fade into fleeting memories.

The Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Model is a trauma-informed, inner-directed approach designed to help clients embody their medicine insights. By turning profound realizations into meaningful actions and everyday resilience, you’ll guide them toward true, sustainable change.

This model equips you with the skills to create a safe, compassionate space where clients can metabolize, anchor, and expand their experiences into deep personal transformation. Learn to turn insights into embodied wisdom and help clients achieve profound, lasting growth.

Led by Atira Tan—a #1 bestselling author, somatic trauma specialist, and TEDx speaker—this program will deepen your knowledge and practice, helping you support meaningful, embodied healing for yourself and your clients.

“In this training, I was taken straight back to my deepest experience and revelation of all of my plant medicine journeys in the Somatic Plant Medicine Program and I could integrate the experience even deeper. I experienced how profound integration is to resolving challenging journeys and bringing blessings into daily life in this program.

Atira has embodied the wisdom of trauma and plant medicine skillfully together. This work is essential and should be embodied by all plant medicine facilitators and in all plant medicine ceremonies and workshops.”

PAAL BUNTZ

FOUNDER OF THE WILD MAN, NORWAY

The Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practitioner Training is a deep dive into the world of somatic psychology, embodiment, trauma-informed foundations, and plant medicine wisdom. Through the experiential educational approach, students will deepen their personal skills in embodied communication and attunement to support the integration process in body, heart, and mind.

The course is delivered over 10 weeks of online learning, and we encourage a commitment of 5 – 8 hours/week from students who would like to join us live. Students are welcome to participate in their own time and pace in the self-study format. All students who complete our certificate requirements will receive our certificate of completion.

PETER BRANDT

BREATHWORK FACILITATOR, USA

“This workshop was absolutely the best I’ve attended (online or in-person) in a long time.

I’m so grateful for the eloquence, attention to detail, professionalism, and depth with which this important work was presented.

This in-depth approach to integrating plant medicine experiences is definitely the missing link for me both personally and in my work in facilitating sacred ceremonies.”

SOMATIC PLANT MEDICINE INTEGRATION PRACTITIONER PROGRAM IS FOR:

INTEGRATION COACHES & THERAPISTS

PLANT MEDICINE FACILITATORS

PSYCHEDELIC PROFESSIONALS

TRIPSITTERS

MEDICINE GUIDES

INDIVIDUALS LOOKING FOR AN EMBODIED INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK

REVOLUTIONISING TRAUMA HEALING WITH BODY-ORIENTED THERAPIES AND PLANT MEDICINE

In recent decades, groundbreaking advancements in body-oriented therapies and neuroscience have transformed our understanding of trauma. We now know how deeply interconnected the body and mind are, how trauma affects the brain, and how it is stored in the body and nervous system. This knowledge has revolutionized trauma recovery and the integration of healing insights and experiences.

THE ROLE OF PLANT MEDICINE

Plant medicines interact with neurotransmitters in the brain and work somatically with the intelligence wired into the nervous system. This connection is why users often experience various body sensations, such as heat, cold, purging, or yawning. The language of the nervous system is sensations, and plant medicines uniquely engage this automatic nervous system in the healing process.

INTEGRATING BODY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPIES

Given the close relationship between plant medicines and the body/mind connection, integrating contemporary body-oriented psychotherapies and bottom-up paradigms can greatly enhance the healing process. These approaches support and amplify the embodied integration of plant medicine experiences, fostering deeper, more effective trauma recovery.

Learn how to harness the transformative power of body-oriented therapies and plant medicine and combine these cutting-edge approaches to facilitate profound healing and integration through this training program.

OUR CURRICULUM

MODULE 1: Foundational Principles of Somatic Psychology

Principles of Somatic Psychology
Somatic vs Talk Therapy Approaches
Cultivating the Body–Mind Relationship
Working with Polyvagal Theory and Expanded States
Understanding trauma-informed psychedelic principles
Working with a bottom-up, top-down holistic framework

MODULE 2: Cultivating Therapeutic Presence

Embodied Communication
Cultivating Interoceptive Awareness
Working with self-regulation and co-regulation
Expanding Inner and Outer Somatic Resources
Categories of Psychedelic Integration
Aspects of Self in Integration
Understanding the nervous system & trauma responses

MODULE 3: Somatic Psychedelic Integration in Practice.

Introduction to the Somatic Plant Medicine Integration model
Objectives and Goals of SPMI
SPMI in Practice
The anatomy of an SPMI session
How to work with trauma imprints
The application of the Hero’s Journey

Somatic Parts Work

Program Description:

The programme combines live, interactive Zoom workshops, video lectures, experiential exercises, and peer practice sessions to deliver a well-rounded learning experience.

Over the 12 weeks, you can expect to commit 5 hours per week to live calls, practice time, and self-study.

The programme will include:

38 hours of live Zoom workshops with Atira Tan
8 hours of video lectures on theory and practice
4 hours of community connection time with the cohort
10 hours of practice sessions and self-study to develop skills in real time
Bonus: 2 hours of somatic integration demonstration videos
2 years of access to session recordings for self-paced learning
Comprehensive materials, including manuals, worksheets, and resources
Access to a supportive private community group on Mighty Networks

If you can’t attend a live class, replays are available so you can study at your own pace.

Participants who fulfil course requirements will receive a certificate of completion.

Atira Tan has trained practitioners for two decades. As an experienced somatic trauma educator, she’ll help you build a practical, trauma-informed framework to use with clients.

Schedule:

CEST = Europe • EST = US East • PST = US West

Opening Ceremony
Thu 2 Apr 5–7 pm | 11 am–1 pm | 8–10 am

Q&A 1
Thu 16 Apr 5–6:30 pm | 11 am–12:30 pm | 8–9:30 am

Workshops

Sat 2 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sun 3 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sat 9 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sun 10 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sat 23 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sat 24 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sat 30 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Sat 31 May 5–8:30 pm | 11 am–2:30 pm | 8–11:30 am

Q&A 2
Thu 4 Jun 5–6:30 pm | 11 am–12:30 pm | 8–9:30 am

Mentorship Session
Thu 18 Jun 5–7 pm | 11 am–1 pm | 8–10 am

Closing Ceremony
Thu 25 Jun 5–7 pm | 11 am–1 pm | 8–10 am

Optional: Community Connections
Sat 2 May 8:45–9:30 pm | 2:45–3:30 pm | 11:45 am–12:30 pm
Sat 9 May 8:45–9:30 pm | 2:45–3:30 pm | 11:45 am–12:30 pm
Sat 23 May 8:45–9:30 pm | 2:45–3:30 pm | 11:45 am–12:30 pm
Sat 30 May 8:45–9:30 pm | 2:45–3:30 pm | 11:45 am–12:30 pm

THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR:

Psychedelic facilitators
Psychedelic-assisted therapists
Plant-medicine guides and ceremonialists
Therapists and clinicians
Integration coaches
Space-holders seeking to build safer, deeper, more skilful containers

Learn more Atira

A TED speaker, activist, somatic trauma specialist, #1 Best Selling Author, and yoga teacher & group facilitator, Atira Tan is a powerful agent of transformation and change.

She has touched the lives of thousands of women, men, and children in her 17 years of experience in various somatic and creative trauma recovery approaches.

Passionate about creating safer spaces through trauma-informed education, and bringing healing in the ‘shadowy’ areas of life, Atira has worked as a trauma-informed somatic plant medicine integration specialist in retreat centres such as the Temple of the Way of Light. She is currently the head of integration at AYA Healing Retreats.