trauma informed acupuncture course

“When healing meets healing”

Trauma is not just a clinical category. It is a relational rupture—a wound in the field of connection. And the medicine we offer here is not only technique—it is presence, touch, and reweaving the web.

In trauma, the nervous system contracts to protect life.
In healing, the body slowly, gently, remembers that life is safe to feel again.

Even something as simple as taking the pulse—or holding someone’s hand—can become a ceremony of repair.
When we listen with our whole being, the Heart Protector softens.
The palace of weariness Per. 8, opens.
And two nervous systems meet in a place beyond defense.

This is not abstract. It’s tangible, embodied, sacred.

In this training, we will explore how acupuncture, somatic presence, and the five elements can become vessels of collective healing—when trauma is not just understood, but honored.

 What You Will Receive:

 8 live or recorded lessons (60–90 min each)
 Transcripts & downloadable study materials
 Practice prompts & clinical guidance
 Bonus: Private session option with Katerina
 Access to a private circle for integration & sharing

 Curriculum Overview

Module 1: Trauma as Frozen Intelligence

How trauma lives in the nervous system—and how the animal body wants to process, complete, and return to flow.
We explore survival states, dissociation, and the somatic rhythm of safety.
Key Practice: Supporting completion through presence & pacing.

Module 2: Touch as Medicine – Co-Regulation and Holding

Before needles, before words, there is contact.
We explore the polyvagal system, regulation through relationship, and how trauma healing begins with coherence.
Key Points: PC8 (Laogong), HT7 (Shenmen), CV17 (Shanzhong)
Bonus Practice: The art of pulse-taking as trauma listening.

Module 3: The Illusion of Separateness

Why we can’t heal trauma from a separate self.
Exploring the interwoven boundaries between personal, ancestral, and collective trauma—and how systems of oppression entangle the body.
Key Practice: Constellation-informed acupuncture approaches.
Discussion: When the trauma isn’t “yours”—but lives in the field.

Module 4: Fire Element – Restoring Trust & Expression

Collective trauma has severed the fire of connection, joy, and spontaneity.
We explore how to reopen trust in relationship.
Key Points: HT7, SI3, PC8, SJ5
Theme: Betrayal, heartbreak, dissociation from joy.

Module 5: Earth Element – Healing Nourishment & Belonging

Trauma often imprints through unmet need.
We reconnect with the body’s right to receive, digest, and feel at home in the world.
Key Points: ST36, SP6, CV12
Theme: Motherline, overcare, food-body trauma.

Module 6: Metal Element – Grief, Boundaries, and Return

Collective grief is unspoken, unprocessed.
We open space for loss, reverence, and ancestral dignity.
Key Points: LU3, LU7, LI4
Theme: Frozen grief, migration, separation from lineage.

Module 7: Water Element – Restoring Safety and Stillness

Fear contracts. Deep trauma often hides in the kidneys.
We learn to create containers for deep stillness and restoration.
Key Points: KD1, KD3, UB23
Theme: Developmental trauma, fear states, dissociation.

Module 8: Wood Element – Movement, Anger, and Boundaries

When trauma is expressed, it becomes power.
We explore trauma recovery through assertiveness, direction, and creative emergence.
Key Points: LR3, GB34, LV14
Theme: Healthy anger, rupture repair, future vision.

 Format & Flow:

• Each module includes live or recorded teaching, guided practices, and suggested point protocols

• Opportunities for personal integration, peer dialogue, and optional 1:1 sessions

• Somatic pacing: we will go slow, with respect for the field

 Suggested Contribution (Sliding Scale)

• €100 – supported

• €200 – sustainable

• €300 – supporting others
  No one turned away for lack of funds.