If you or your clients have tried everything to lose weight—and nothing sticks—it’s not a lack of willpower. It’s your nervous system asking for deeper healing.

This course offers a compassionate somatic and trauma-informed approach to true weight release—one that works with the body, not against it.

What You Will Learn

In this comprehensive training, you will learn how to guide clients through a body-based, emotional, and trauma-informed process for weight loss, including how to:

• Use somatic weight loss tools that address emotional and nervous system patterns beneath overeating, cravings, and weight-loss resistance

• Support clients in rebuilding safety, groundedness, and inner connection—foundations for (non-medical) mind-body weight release

• Understand trauma-informed weight loss principles and why unresolved stress patterns often block change

• Help clients work with stored emotional energy using gentle somatic techniques

• Facilitate nervous system regulation for weight loss, food freedom, and a healthier relationship with eating

• Use somatic inquiry to explore root emotional patterns influencing food behaviors

• Guide clients through awareness practices, attunement exercises, and body-based emotional healing processes

• Integrate mind-body coaching strategies to support sustainable lifestyle shifts without force, pressure, or shame

These tools can be used in coaching sessions, personal development, or as part of a holistic, non-medical emotional healing journey.

Why Somatic Weight Loss Is Different

Most weight-loss approaches focus on behavior: eat this, avoid that, exercise more, track everything.
But behavioral change rarely works when the nervous system is overwhelmed or carrying unresolved emotional patterns.

Somatic and trauma-informed weight loss recognizes that:

• Emotional states like shame, fear, grief, and overwhelm often influence food choices

• The body holds memories and survival patterns that shape weight and eating behavior

• When the nervous system feels unsafe, the body resists change—even if the person consciously wants it

• Weight loss without medication is possible for many when they address the mind-body layers that affect eating patterns and emotional regulation

This approach helps clients shift out of survival modes and into grounded presence, where natural, sustainable choices become easier.

How Trauma & the Nervous System Affect Weight

Drawing from the work of Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and somatic therapy pioneers, this course explores:

• How the body “remembers” past experiences on a physiological, emotional, and behavioral level

• Why unresolved emotional activation can contribute to emotional eating, binge-patterns, or resistance to change

• How trauma can create unconscious survival responses that influence one’s relationship with food and body

• How to help clients develop internal safety, self-connection, and emotional awareness

• How nervous system regulation can support weight loss without Ozempic or other weight loss medications, through building capacity, presence, and choice

You’ll learn to guide clients through gentle, practical, somatically-grounded processes that restore inner balance and reconnect them with their bodies.

Who This Course Is For

This training is ideal for:

• Coaches who want to integrate somatic and trauma-informed approaches into their weight-loss and emotional-eating work

• Practitioners supporting clients with emotional eating, stress eating, weight loss, or body-relationship challenges

• Wellness professionals wanting mind-body and somatic tools for client transformation

• Individuals seeking a compassionate, non-medical, somatic weight-loss approach that honors emotions, trauma patterns, and the nervous system

• People who want an alternative to medication-based approaches (such as Ozempic) and prefer a deeper mind-body root-cause process

• Anyone who has tried restrictive diets and wants a sustainable, trauma-informed method rooted in nervous-system regulation and emotional healing

No prerequisite somatic or trauma training is required—everything is taught step-by-step.

Benefits & Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will:

• Feel confident guiding a somatic, emotional, and trauma-informed weight-release process

• Understand how nervous system patterns shape weight loss, cravings, eating habits, and body connection

• Gain a toolkit of body-based practices for emotional root-cause weight loss

• Support clients in developing safety, presence, and self-trust

• Be able to incorporate somatic emotional healing into your coaching practice

• Experience your own healing journey through guided practices and nervous system awareness

• Help clients release inner blocks and create long-lasting, embodied change

This is a gentle, transformative approach that supports sustainable results—without force, shame, or extreme dieting.

Instructor

This course is taught by Shana Neril, a naturopath, somatic therapist, and mind-body healing practitioner with over 20 years of experience.
Her work weaves together somatic emotional healing, trauma-informed coaching, mind-body awareness, and deep nervous system work to help students and clients achieve real, lasting transformation.

A Final Invitation

If you’re ready to learn a compassionate, effective mind-body pathway for somatic weight release—one that honors the whole person and supports emotional, behavioral, and nervous system transformation—then join us inside.

Your journey into trauma-informed, somatic, and emotionally-rooted weight loss begins now.

Those who complete the full course can apply to receive their Accredited Certification as a Trauma Informed Somatic Weight Loss Coach from Inner Wellsprings Academy.

This training is part of a larger curriculum of alternative health training resources accredited by the International Association Of Therapists (IAOTH), designed by Shana Neril, and hosted within the Inner Wellsprings Academy for Health and Healing. The training course is accompanied by a 30-day money back guarantee, so if you’re not happy with the format, you can get your money back – no questions asked.

Disclaimer:

This course is not intended to replace professional medical healthcare or wellness care from a physician or emergency healthcare facility. If you are experiencing an emergency call 911. If you are experiencing emergency health issues, please go to the emergency room at your nearest hospital and consult with your doctor immediately. This course in no way guarantees health outcomes or claims to treat any physical or mental health condition or disease.

Who this course is for:

• Coaches who want to integrate somatic and trauma-informed approaches into their weight-loss and emotional-eating work
• Practitioners supporting clients with emotional eating, stress eating, weight loss, or body-relationship challenges
• Wellness professionals wanting mind-body and somatic tools for client transformation
• Individuals seeking a compassionate, non-medical, somatic weight-loss approach that honors emotions, trauma patterns, and the nervous system
• People who want an alternative to medication-based approaches (such as Ozempic) and prefer a deeper mind-body root-cause process
• Anyone who has tried restrictive diets and wants a sustainable, trauma-informed method rooted in nervous-system regulation and emotional healing