Aya Healing Retreats
SOMATIC PLANT MEDICINE INTEGRATION PRACTITIONER
50-HOUR TRAINING PROGRAM
- 10TH MAY - 12TH JUL 2025
- ATIRA TAN
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Upskill your psychedelic integration toolkit Learn effective Somatic tools, Methods & Models Support your clients in Psychedelic Transformation & Personal Growth
Plant medicine ceremonies are sacred spaces for profound healing and transformation. But the real magic unfolds in the days, weeks, and months after the ceremony—during the integration process, where insights are transformed into lasting, embodied change.
Without the right tools and support, integration can become a source of confusion, re-traumatization, or stagnation. Participants may struggle to bridge their ceremonial experiences with everyday life. Sadly, this crucial phase of plant medicine work is often overlooked, leaving individuals feeling unsupported and disconnected.
This is where the SPMI program comes in. Over 10 weeks, this comprehensive program offers the tools, knowledge, and trauma-informed skills you need to guide others—and yourself—through the sacred process of integration, creating a pathway for profound, sustained transformation.
This 50-hour practitioner training will provide students with an understanding of how to support the integration process with awareness, attention, and compassion, and is suitable for those interested in working as plant medicine integration practitioners, coaches & guides for individual and group integration sessions.
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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
Our Program Description
This 50-hour training is delivered over 3 modules spanning 10 weeks from the 10th May – 12th July 2025. The program includes a combination of:-
Online live Zoom workshops (28 hours)
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Video lectures (8 hours)
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Q & A sessions (5.5 hours)
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Mentorship Session (2 hours)
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Experiential practice cohort sessions & self-study (5 hours)
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Bonus Video demonstration sessions (1.5 hours)
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Our
Schedule
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1 Opening Ceremony: 10th May Saturday 5 – 7 pm CEST
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2. Q&A: 29th May Thursday 5 – 7 pm CEST
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3. Zoom Workshop 1: 7th June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST
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4. Zoom Workshop 2: 13th June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST
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5. Zoom Workshop 3: 21st June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST
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6. Zoom Workshop 4: 28th June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST
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7. Mentorship Session: 5th July Saturday 5 – 7 pm CEST
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8. Closing Ceremony: 12th July Saturday 5 – 7 pm CEST
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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 KEY CURRICULUM SUBJECTS:
Principles of Somatic Psychology
- An introduction to Somatic Plant Medicine Integration
- Concepts and Definitions of Psychedelic Integration
- The different categories of Embodied Integration.
- Foundational principles of Somatic Psychology.
- Cultivating the Body-Mind Relationship
- Trauma and the Nervous System
- Plant Medicine Healing and the Importance of Trauma Awareness
- The Somatic Approach vs Talk Therapy Approaches
- Working with Implicit and Explicit Memory
- Polyvagal Theory and working with altered states
- 10 Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Integration Principles
- Upholding Therapeutic Presence through Trauma-Informed Principles
- Neuroscience and Somatic Psychology
MODULE 2 KEY CURRICULUM SUBJECTS:
Embodied Communication & Interoception
- An introduction to Embodied Communication
- Interoceptive Awareness
- Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation
- Expanding Inner and Outer Resources
- Aspects of Self in Integration
- Working collaboratively with Inner Healing Intelligence
- The Art of Therapeutic Presence
- Foundational Principles of Trauma-Informed Care in Psychedelic Integration.
- The Somatic Inquiry Model
- Somatic Resourcing and Anchoring Psychedelic Insights.
- The art of guiding inner directed healing.
- Understanding how to work with plant spirit intelligence.
MODULE 3 KEY CURRICULUM SUBJECTS:
Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Model
- An Introduction to Somatic Plant Medicine Integration
- Objectives of Somatic Plant Medicine Integration
- The Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Model
- The Anatomy of a Session
- Working with Trauma Imprints
- Navigating transference and countertransference issues in Integration Sessions.
- The Hero’s Journey: An application to plant medicine integration
- The Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Paradigm
- Practice Sessions with Student Cohorts
- Mentorship Sessions
- Working with Resources and Trauma Imprints in Psychedelic Integration
TRAINING SCHEDULE & DETAILS
You’ll receive:
- 36 hours of LIVE Zoom classes with Atira Tan, alongside community connections, from the 10th of May – 12th July 2025. All Live Zoom sessions will be recorded and you have 2-year access.
- 8 hours of 18 downloadable video lectures.
- SPMI in ACTION bonus demonstration videos.
- 1 x 2-hour follow-up group mentorship online session with Atira.
- 6 hours of practice sessions with fellow students.
- Personal and professional self-reflection inquiry worksheets.
- Your PDF manual, worksheets, and integration resources.
- Psychedelic Integration Practice journal articles and handouts.
- Recommended reading list.
- Access to our community group on Mighty Networks.
- A certificate upon submission of homework assignments and completing the prerequisites of the training, which includes a reflection essay and conducting 5 practice sessions.
Our Schedule:
1. Opening Ceremony: 10th May Saturday 5 – 7 pm CEST/ 11 am – 1 pm EST/ 8 – 10 am PST
2. Q&A: 29th May Thursday 5 – 7 pm CEST / 11 am – 1 pm EST/ 8 – 10 am PST
3. Zoom Workshop 1: 7th June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST/ 10 am – 5 pm EST/ 7 am – 2 pm PST
4. Zoom Workshop 2: 13th June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST/ 10 am – 5 pm EST/ 7 am – 2 pm PST
5. Zoom Workshop 3: 21st June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST/ 10 am – 5 pm EST/ 7 am – 2 pm PST
6. Zoom Workshop 4: 28th June Saturday 4 – 11 pm CEST/ 10 am – 5 pm EST/ 7 am – 2 pm PST
7. Mentorship Session: 5th July Saturday 5 – 7 pm CEST/ 11 am – 1 pm EST/ 8 – 10 am PST
8. Closing Ceremony: 12th July Saturday 5 – 7 pm CEST/ 11 am – 1 pm EST/ 8 – 10 am PST
This program is for you if you’d like to…
EXPAND YOUR EXPERTISE:
SUPPORT PSYCHEDELIC HEALING:
WORK FROM A HOLISTIC FRAMEWORK:
LEAD WITH A TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH:
VALUE HANDS-ON TRAINING:
PRIORTISE DEEP PERSONAL GROWTH:
A CERTIFICATION OF COMPLETION:
RESONATE CLIENT-CENTRED CARE:
VALUE COMMUNITY AND NETWORKING:
ENJOY FLEXIBLE LEARNING:
EMPOWER OTHERS:
GUIDE OTHERS FROM CUTTING-EDGE KNOWLEDGE:
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.
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