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Somatic Healing Course for Women Recovering from Religious Trauma
Learn practical tools to calm fight-or-flight, reconnect with your body, rebuild self-trust, and begin creating a life guided by your own voice.
Filmed in forests & rivers, this four-week, self-paced online course invites your system to unwind patterns it learned under fear-based religious systems and feel safe to explore beyond the past.
What's Included:
Enrollment $90*
Self-Paced, Online Course
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21 videos [teaching & guided practice]
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4 audio soundscapes set to healing frequencies for somatic reflection
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Practical somatic tools you can use for life
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Movement and nervous system regulation practices
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Rituals to mark your return to embodied choice
*The course is part of a growing vision to make healing resources and accessible programs available to more women impacted by religious trauma. As this work grows, we intend to use funds we receive from participation in this course to develop scholarships and direct support for women who may not otherwise be able to access healing resources.
You'll learn how to:
Recognize how high-control religious environments shaped your body’s activation and settling patterns.
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Understand fight, flight, freeze, and fawn as protective adaptations your body intelligently developed.
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Track sensation, allowing your body to be felt without judgment.
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Rebuild internal safety that may have been organized around external authority.
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Strengthen boundaries as lived, physical experiences — sensing your own edges from within.
This is experiential work. Transformation happens through the felt sense as you practice the movements, tools, tracking, and rituals.
You're understanding the change and embodying it.
What You’ll Experience
Each module follows the same grounded structure.
1. Nervous System Foundations
How your system learned safety, threat, and adaptation.
Clear, accessible teaching on how high-control religious environments shaped your nervous system patterns and how those adaptations continue to influence your body today.
4. Movement Practice
Restoring flow through intentional movement
[🌱 Filmed in Nature]
Simple, instinctive movements that help release bracing, soften freeze, and restore fluidity to the body.
2. Embodied Tool for Life
A rooted practice to carry forward
[🌱 Filmed in Nature]
A grounded somatic tool you can use beyond the course, supporting regulation, clarity, and embodied decision-making.
5. Guided Somatic Practice
An audio-led return to sensation and presence
A paced, trauma-informed audio practice designed to help you orient, settle your nervous system, and reconnect with internal sensation in your own environment.
3. Doctrine & the Body
Explore how teachings became embodied patterns
A thoughtful look at how specific spiritual messages organized your sense of safety, identity, and agency, not just intellectually but physiologically.
6. Closing Ritual
Marking integration with personal ceremony
[🌱 Filmed in Nature]
A self-directed ritual to anchor your growth and honor your return to an empowered, embodied self.
Questions?
Course Instructor
Kristen F. Dawn, CST, ISP
Kristen Dawn is a somatic practitioner and craniosacral therapist who helps people reconnect with their bodies after years of disconnection and stress. Raised in a high-control religious environment herself, her work bridges nervous system healing, embodied awareness, and time in the natural world.
Kristen Dawn is the founder of Riverways Somatic Practice, where she helps people reconnect with their bodies through craniosacral and somatic work. Her approach weaves nervous system healing with time in the natural world, supporting people in returning to steadiness, intuition, and embodied presence.
She also serves as Director of Communications for an international NGO and leads communications for an organization dedicated to restoring the Earth through the wisdom of indigenous knowledge.
Pssst… You are welcome here. However you identify. Whatever your race, story, or background. However your faith has shifted or softened or unraveled. There is space for you in this return — exactly as you are. 🤍