Nobody can do it alone. Trauma is undigested experience, something too overwhelming for people, or even places. Our presence is essential for recognition and acceptance of trauma and for gathering strength to change into healing lifestyle.
Nobody can do it for another. Processing of trauma is done by the body, in combination with awareness. Post traumatic growth is an ongoing nurturing and digesting of experience. In this course we will learn the skills of trauma healing
- Learn how to process emotions
- Discover and release chronic tension
- How to diagnose deeply into the origin of trauma
- Ways to develop your senses and intuition
- How to be aware of collective, ancestral and trans generational levels.
- How to heal the collective split of earthling from earth
1. Core Concept: Trauma-Informed Meridian Therapy
Trauma = undigested experience.
From a meridian perspective, trauma is “experience the system could not move, digest, integrate, discharge, or contextualize.”
It becomes:
- Bound qi
- Chronic holding in fascial networks
- A narrowed perceptual field
- A collapse or rigidity in the spirit of the organ systems
- Dissociation from relational fields (including Earth)
The practitioner’s work is not to “fix,” but to restore the conditions in which qi can move, awareness can return, and the client can digest experience safely.
2. Capacities Trauma Disrupts (and that the Course Rebuilds)
These are the foundational human capacities that trauma inhibits, and that any trauma-informed meridian practitioner needs to understand intimately:
1. Capacity for Co-Regulation
Ability to feel safe in the presence of another; ability to use another nervous system as a stabilizing anchor.
2. Capacity for Interoception
Feeling internal signals: hunger, breath, tension, impulses, emotions, subtle qi shifts.
3. Capacity for Self-Agency
The ability to make choices, set boundaries, say yes/no, and feel one’s own will (Zhi).
4. Capacity for Affect Tolerance
Ability to stay present with emotion without overwhelm or shutdown.
5. Capacity for Sensory & Qi Discrimination
Differentiating internal sensations, emotional tones, resonance fields, intuitive signals.
6. Capacity for Attachment to Life
Reconnection with meaning, purpose, desire, and vitality (Shen–Zhi integration).
7. Capacity for Belonging
Reconnection to collective fields, lineage, Earth, and relational context.
8. Capacity for Integration
Ability to digest experience, metabolize emotions, and reorganize patterns sustainably.
Your course should explicitly build these capacities in the practitioner, so that they can hold them for their clients.
3. Course Structure: 8 Sessions (each 2–3 hours)
Each session includes:
- Theory
- Meridian-based clinical application
- Somatic experience drills
- Practitioner embodiment practices
- Homework and observation practices
I use your session titles and expand each into a full teaching module.
SESSION 1 — Nobody Can Do It Alone
Theme: The relational field in trauma healing
Element: Earth (holding, containment, nourishment)
Key Concepts
- Trauma as undigested experience
- Why overwhelm = absence of relational buffers
- Co-regulation as the foundation of every healing modality
- Why some places hold trauma (geographic, architectural, collective qi fields)
Meridian Focus
- Spleen–Stomach as holding fields
- Pericardium as protector in relational trauma
- Triple Heater as relational boundary regulator
Practitioner Skills
- Building a steady relational field
- Tracking client’s regulation (breath, tone, pulses, micro-tension)
- Creating safety without rescuing
Somatic Practices
- Grounding into Earth as co-therapist
- Developing presence as a regulating signal
Seed Book Integration
Use the introduction and the section on overwhelm/containment as the theoretical base.
SESSION 2 — Nobody Can Do It For Another
Theme: Sovereignty and self-agency
Element: Water (will, boundaries, Zhi)
Key Concepts
- Why trauma healing cannot be done on behalf of someone
- Agency as a physiological state, not a belief
- Role of practitioner: conditions, not direction
Meridian Focus
- Kidney–Bladder channel and protective boundary
- Gallbladder meridian on the lateral body: decision-making and courage
- Liver’s role in movement and initiative
Practitioner Skills
- Micro-choice interventions during treatment
- “Follow the client’s pace” diagnostics
- Avoiding reenactment: not over-leading, not collapsing
Somatic Practices
- Slow titration of sensation
- Orienting and pendulation
Seed Book Integration
Use the sections on agency and listening to the body.
SESSION 3 — Post-Traumatic Growth: Digesting Experience
Theme: Integration, meaning, and long-term reorganization
Element: Earth/Wood
Key Concepts
- Healing is not returning to the old self; it is becoming someone who can integrate complexity
- Why digestion is ongoing
- Role of practice, repetition, ritual
Meridian Focus
- Spleen for ongoing digestion
- Liver for transformation and vision
- Heart for coherence and meaning
Practitioner Skills
- Recognizing when a client is reorganizing
- Supporting transformation without pushing
- Using seasonal resonances to time interventions
Somatic Practices
- Spiral movements for integration
- Journaling as “mental digestion”
Seed Book Integration
Use your seasonal and elemental frameworks to show how growth follows cycles.
SESSION 4 — Processing Emotions
Theme: Emotional literacy and somatic anchoring
Element: Fire/Earth/Metal
Key Concepts
- Emotion = movement (qi) with story, sensation, and impulse
- Emotional overwhelm vs. emotional flow
- Emotional literacy for acupuncturists and manual therapists
Meridian Focus
- Five Emotions and Five Spirits diagnostics
- Lung–Large Intestine for grief
- Liver–Gallbladder for anger
- Spleen for worry
- Kidney for fear
- Heart for joy and relational injuries
Practitioner Skills
- Holding emotional release without collapse
- Naming without pathologizing
- Guiding clients into somatic emotion processing
Somatic Practices
- Mapping emotion → sensation → movement → meaning
- Boundary work around emotional activation
Seed Book Integration
Use your 5-element descriptions of emotions.
SESSION 5 — Diagnosing the Five Emotions at the Origin of Trauma
Theme: Element-based trauma mapping
Element: All Five
Key Concepts
- Trauma imprints correspond to specific elemental disruptions
- How to identify the “root wound” vs. “presenting symptom”
- The Shen–K’e cycles in trauma adaptation
Meridian Focus
- Pulses for trauma patterns
- Color, odor, sound diagnostics
- Channel palpation for chronic holding
Practitioner Skills
- Identifying primary trauma element
- Determining which emotion was suppressed, overwhelmed, or absent
- Element sequencing for treatment planning
Somatic Practices
- Guided exploration of each emotional field
- Working with dissociated states through element anchors
Seed Book Integration
Use your diagnostic frameworks and elemental descriptions.
SESSION 6 — Developing Senses and Intuition
Theme: Practitioner embodiment and perceptual training
Element: Fire/Water
Key Concepts
- Intuition as refined perception, not guesswork
- Attunement as measurable physiological synchronization
- Expanding the practitioner’s sensory field
Meridian Focus
- Pericardium (attunement)
- Heart (clear seeing)
- Kidney (fear that blocks intuition)
Practitioner Skills
- Pulse listening vs. pulse taking
- Perceptual widening
- Managing practitioner countertransference somatically
Somatic Practices
- Tracking subtle shifts in your own body while treating
- Qigong for expanding perceptual fields
Seed Book Integration
Use sections on relational awareness and seasonal sensing.
SESSION 7 — Working with Collective, Ancestral, and Transgenerational Fields
Theme: Trauma that does not originate in the client alone
Element: Metal/Earth/Water
Key Concepts
- Collective trauma as a field phenomenon
- Epigenetic transmission of shock and relational patterns
- When the client is “carrying” something not personal
Meridian Focus
- Lung–Large Intestine: inheritance, ancestry, letting go
- Kidney: ancestral fear and fate
- Spleen: familial burden-bearing
Practitioner Skills
- Differentiating personal vs. collective material
- Working with “fields” in the treatment space
- Ensuring practitioner safety and boundaries
Somatic Practices
- Ancestral grounding
- Strengthening the practitioner’s boundary field
Seed Book Integration
Include your sections on collective resonance and history.
SESSION 8 — Healing the Collective Split from Earth
Theme: Reconnection, ecological belonging, and ending trauma loops
Element: Earth/Wood/Water
Key Concepts
- Planetary trauma and the loss of Earth’s field as co-regulator
- How disconnection from land perpetuates personal trauma
- Re-establishing belonging as a final stage of healing
Meridian Focus
- Stomach–Spleen: connection to Earth
- Kidney: survival fear
- Liver: vision for future
- Heart: meaning, purpose, coherence
Practitioner Skills
- Guiding clients toward reconnection with natural rhythms
- Using seasonal treatment frameworks for long-term healing
- Working with ongoing traumatization (climate, conflict, social instability)
Somatic Practices
- Earth attunement through sensory grounding
- Healing ritual: re-entering the relational field of Earth
Seed Book Integration
Your seasonal and elemental sequence becomes the backbone of this session.