
7 Weeks: Oct 6 - Nov 21
Finding Safety inYourself
Recover From Stress And Trauma Through Somatics & Nutrition
Registration closes on Oct 5th

You don’t have to heal all of your trauma to live a beautiful life.
Anxiety, joy, pain, pleasure, and grief can coexist within you without taking over. By befriending your body and learning to relate to big sensations, you can find peace and safety in the present moment.

What does it mean to
release stress & trauma?
Traumatized and overwhelmed bodies are not broken or defective — they’re actually working overtime.
Our bodies are exhausted by chronic bracing from holding onto past traumas and expecting future ones.
The body associates bracing with safety so we are attracted to foods, people, and experiences that keep us constricted and stressed out.
Living in chronic constriction makes the body believe it’s experiencing a potential threat at all times.
My work will teach you how to befriend the body and become its guide so you can slowly release constriction. And this is what healing trauma really means:
The ability to be in the current moment without bracing.
It is this new state that changes your life because, without chronic bracing, your food habits, behaviors, and relationships will completely transform.

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Practicing with Luis' guidance felt like a huge exhale after a lifetime of holding my breath.
I've gone through lots of shifts personally and professionally these past 2 years while working with different coaches and practitioners. Throughout this time, I've felt that what I learned from Luis has been truly foundational and timeless.
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— Cleodia Martinez

This course will teach you…
How to trust your body and understand what it’s doing.
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The difference between intuition & trauma response.
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To honor yourself in relationships and express more of your truth.
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How food can directly impact your recovery from stress & trauma.
Most of us grew up with the practice of avoiding and numbing our bodies.
Now we get to practice how to connect with them again.

Let’s explore the intersection of…
Food, Trauma, Relationships & Self
The 7-week course is designed to teach you how to recover from stress and trauma in a way that’s gentle, simple, and trauma-informed.
Somatic Experiencing
Learn how to become the witness of your body & support its instinctual ways of expressing & releasing.
Nutrition & Herbalism
Learn how powerful, yet simple, the application of foods & herbs can be for transforming stress & trauma.
Self-Relating
Learn how to repair the relationship between you & your body so you can cultivate inner safety & peace.
Virtual Community
Receive support from hundreds around the globe + support from my team throughout the course.
Registration closes on Oct 5th


This work is about…
…becoming friends with your body.
I teach this work through the lens of animism. I see the body as a sovereign being with its own desires, instincts, memories, and needs.
Learning how to relate to the body as a being flips the script entirely because I no longer identify with what it’s doing.
I’m no longer anxious or traumatized. Instead, I’m aware that my body is holding anxiety and trauma within it.
Being able to witness and relate to my body means I get to be its friend, its guide, and its parent. I spent so much of my life making my body work for me until it burnt out and got really sick.
Now, I get to live with my body and it feels like a loving relationship with a friend instead of an object I make work for me.

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A wonderfully insightful set of teachings and practices - a complete nugget of gold - delivered with sensitivity, humor, generosity, and a genuine sense warmth.
After twenty years of working with trauma healing in different modalities, this course has been life-changing. I would recommend it to anyone willing to do the work.
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— Janny McKinnon

What You Will Be Learning Weekly
7 weeks to learn, a lifetime to practice.
Week 1:
The Somatics Of Trauma & Safety
Learn how to speak the Language of the Body.
You'll discover what happens in the body during a traumatic event.
We'll explore the biology, sensations, and expressions of stored trauma, as well as the concepts of survival, safety, and peace.
You'll learn to experience safety by cultivating an embodied connection with yourself. This connection will help you create a physical state of safety that doesn't rely on external factors but comes from within you.
Week 2:
Food is our First Regulator
How nutrition affects our healing & stress levels.
We will learn how certain foods & food rituals can turn our trauma responses and stress levels up or down.
Integrating somatic nutrition brings a biological balance that supports your body during this trauma-healing work.
Learn to gently nudge your body away from adrenaline spikes and triggering substances with somatic nutrition - so that you can make room to attune to the biological state of peace and appreciate its gifts.
Week 3:
How We Relate
Techniques to move stuck trauma & stress in the body.
Regulation is about understanding our relationship with stress. We'll explore how our interactions with devices, foods, and people affect us. This will help us identify which habits increase our resilience and which ones numb us and reduce our capacity.
We'll learn the difference between co-regulation and co-dependence. We'll also explore the innocence and complexity of our coping mechanisms and discover new ways to find safety beyond just coping.
You’ll begin using somatic practices to work with sensation in your body, and replace unhelpful patterns that numb agitation with a body-based toolkit that supports regulation.
Week 4:
Integration Week
During this integration week, we will take this time to review the first 3 weeks and notice what’s landing and what is not.
We will explore this in a 90-minute integration call with 30-minute breakout groups at the end.
We will also offer a live sound healing to help your body “feel” more than think. This pause is helpful before diving into the next 3 weeks.
Week 5:
Our Subconscious Bodies
Learn to create a more loving relationship with yourself.
We will explore how the body IS the subconscious. It holds meanings, thoughts, beliefs, and memories that are not conscious to our minds. These can create a biology of stress and imbalance.
Learning to use sensations as a doorway to the body allows us to communicate with our subconscious somatically without painful experiences backing up.
You’ll experience finding balance and safety within your body, and connect with the question: “Am I attuning to peace or stress?”
You will go at your own pace gently while listening to your capacity & needs.
Week 6:
Meaning Creates
Our Biology
How our thoughts & meanings impact our physical bodies.
Discover how meaning shapes both our identity and our way of being.
By actively studying the mind-body connection, you'll learn to transform old triggers, detach stressful meanings that no longer serve you from everyday experiences, and increase your capacity for joy and pleasure.
You'll also learn the difference between intuition and trauma response and how to reconnect with your body’s intuitive wisdom.
Week 7:
Self Regulation
Developing the Practice of Self-Relating for a Lifetime.
We will learn to relate to the big sensations like stress, fear, overwhelm, and sadness without instantly trying to regulate or control them.
While regulation is a useful technique, it can sometimes act as repression if we immediately try to calm down uncomfortable feelings.
We'll explore how our response to activation, not the activation itself, often causes stress and ways to approach activation without fear, urgency, or panic.
And you’ll practice cultivating the life-changing ability to find safety & peace within your body via more advanced somatic practices.

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It was so deep,
yet so simple…
— Eileen (Coach & founder of Relax & Expand)

Oct 6 - Nov 21
Program Calendar
7 weeks • 29 meetings • 90 min sessions
Mondays at 10am ET: Lecture and Q&A
Wednesdays at 10am ET: Practice and Q&A
Thursdays at 10am ET: Sound Healing
Fridays at 12pm ET: Q&A sessions
All classes & practice sessions are recorded for those of you who cannot attend live.
You will have daily support from my team and your classmates through a private online platform created just for this course. You will also get PDFs each week for review and receive audio exercises that you can download right to your computer.
Registration closes on Oct 5th

Oct 6 - Nov 21
Program Calendar
7 weeks • 29 meetings • 90 min sessions
Mondays at 10am ET: Lecture and Q&A
Wednesdays at 10am ET: Practice and Q&A
Thursdays at 10am ET: Sound Healing
Fridays at 10am ET: Q&A sessions
All classes & practice sessions are recorded for those of you who cannot attend live.
You will have daily support from my team and your classmates through a private online platform created just for this course. You will also get PDFs each week for review and receive audio exercises that you can download right to your computer.
Registration closes on Oct 5th

Three live bonus sessions with three leading experts:
Unique Hammond
Whole food nutritionist & teacher
How Beans Heal & How To Begin
Aemen Bell
Herbalist & Author
How Three Herbs Can Repair
Your Adrenals & Nerves
Maureen Gallagher
Somatic psychologist
Transforming Self-Sabotage
Through Inner Relating

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I didn’t know what I was getting into when I signed up…
… to join Luis’ holistic healing circle I just knew that my body was craving more after having listened to him speak for just an hour.
What I’ve gained from these sessions cannot be paid back in any monetary way and the value goes beyond a lifetime of experiences.
I feel I’m at a place now where I can safely move on with my life after receiving the tools and countless hours of attention from Luis. I was a bundle of nerves when I first started and as someone who has a lot of trauma with speaking up and using my voice I was scared about being amongst a group of strangers and talking about just that. But there is such an ease, such a presence that Luis had that I was comfortable being in a group of strangers sharing our stories our pains our traumas and ourselves with each other.
As someone who did more witnessing than speaking I still found immense value in being immersed in the original 6 week program, the 6 additional weeks and even now in our continued circle which has gone on 6 months now. With that I just felt the sting of hot tears in my eyes itching to fill them.
There aren’t any words that would do justice for how I feel after participating in this group with Luis. I will forever be grateful to him and this experience I’ve had the privilege to have.
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— Ineisha

Your guide & teacher
My name is Luis Mojica, and I am a Somatic Therapist & Educator. My journey into this work began with my own history of PTSD, self-hatred, and chronic illness.
At 16, I started healing my body through whole foods, which led me to study and apprentice in whole food and herbal healing. Later, I discovered somatic therapy and underwent a three-year immersive training at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.
My work is deeply personal. I was born with an intersex expression, which led to a childhood filled with bullying, sexual assault, and a profound disconnect from my body. Music became my first form of medicine, helping me find a sense of safety and connection within myself.
Now, I teach people from around the world how to relate to themselves in a new way. Through somatic experiencing, whole food nutrition, and self-connection, I guide others to find peace within their bodies, transforming their relationship with life itself.
Over the past 20 years, I have dedicated my life to understanding and transforming trauma, both in myself and in others. This course is the culmination of those two decades of learning, practice, and healing.
It’s not just about recovery; it’s about rediscovering the pleasure of being in your body and, ultimately, in your life.
For more on my story and how I turned my trauma into a gift, you can listen to the first episode of my podcast. It’s a privilege to share this work with you.

Join Today & Receive
19 live sessions & recordings
(lessons, practices, Q&As)7 live sound healings & recordings
An online community platform + HLN team support (for 7-weeks)
A beautiful 85-page manual with all the teachings & practices
25 downloadable audio practices
3 bonus sessions with leading experts
22+ bonus resources
The opportunity to join membership after completion
If you have any questions or concerns about the course, email us, we’re happy to help.

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The next 7-week course is Oct 6th through Nov 21st 2026. A visual calendar with all the dates is located in the middle of this webpage.
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This is an understandable and common fear. Because these classes are recorded, you can pace yourself based on your capacity.
Some people find that they need the support of a professional while taking the course, others just need more time.
This work doesn't promise safety, but it does give you many tools to cultivate your capacity to feel the things inside of you that seem scary and impossible to feel.
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We don’t have a registration cap for the course, although we usually have around 350 registrants, with 80-150 people attending the live sessions, while others follow along via replays due to timezones, work schedules, or capacity.
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The program is designed as a foundational look into trauma healing - we don’t go into specific areas, such as sexual trauma, or eating disorders etc.
Each individual brings their subject to the course. It’s created as a container to teach from the body — and then whatever is in your body, in your experience, you can bring to the Wednesday discussion and practice circles, or bring to the online conversation. I will speak to those questions and work with more specifics.
But the course itself is a foundation for teaching how we relate to trauma (regardless of what kind) inside of your body.
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That’s why I got into this work. Somatic work doesn’t need context to the subject matter. It was created to help people who didn’t have context.
Whether it’s ancestral trauma, intergenerational trauma, pre-verbal trauma, we may not have firm memories, but we do have all the residual symptoms of these events.
Whether you know about it or not, this course is designed to hold it.
You will still get the same result - relationship building with that part of you, with or without context.
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One thing I want to stress is that these 6 weeks are not therapy.
We’re using some real life material so it will be personal and apply to you absolutely - but if you’re in the midst of some serious hardship or trauma, dealing with daily panic attacks or even suicidal ideation, any kind of edge that feels too overwhelming to handle, I always recommend having someone who can do this with you.
Whether it’s a partner, a mentor, a therapist, a doctor, or coach.
If you're new to somatic work, getting in touch with your body can be big and intense. You might want additional support.
Traumahealing.org is where you can find a practitioner to work with 1:1, and many students have worked with a private practitioner while taking the course.
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Hundreds of people who experience dissociation have gone through this course without any problems.
There is no guarantee of how you will emerge from this space, but you are definitely welcome here.
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Of course. I felt much the same when I began this work. I like to remember that what trauma equals, is stored threat.
The state you were in during the event gets stored in your body. When you’re doing this work, you actually begin to feel it, and that can be incredibly scary at first. The community inside of this course, as well as the support from me and my team, PLUS the exercises and work, are so solid that most people have felt very safe and held through the 6-weeks.
If this is a fear though, we want you to have some safe space you lean on to work with what comes up, one on one, with a partner, friend, or therapist. If you’re currently looking for support from a somatic experiencing therapist please visit the directory at traumahealing.org.
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No. I am trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner but these 6-weeks are not therapy.
They are teachings of the tools I have learned and developed so that you can apply them to your life and your own healing work
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If you have a question that was not answered in the FAQ, please email us at info@holisticlifenavigation.com and we will assist you.