[Video] The Art of Somatic Tracking and Slowing Into a Deeper Rhythm

While we may live in a culture defined by speed, urgency, and the analytic mind, some of the deepest work in therapy can require us to slow down, and, as somatic therapist Manuela Mischke-Reeds puts it: “enter a completely different realm of processing.”

In this short video, Manuela explores how slowing down into what she calls “organismic time” can help therapists notice the way a client’s experience can emerge through subtle shifts in the body before it is ever put into words—and how somatic tracking can inform what happens next.

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Embodied Approaches to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: The Role of Somatic Techniques in Expanded States is coming up on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 11am PT/2pm ET (recording available) Register Now for $47 >>

Upcoming Live Workshop with Manuela (1.5 CEs available)

Whether you’re actively working with psychedelic-assisted therapy, or have clients who are pursuing psychedelic healing in other contexts, the therapist’s role and skillset in preparing for, navigating, and integrating these experiences are becoming increasingly important.

Learning to attune to nonverbal expressions, sensations, and body states can offer important pathways for understanding and supporting clients — and an embodied perspective offers clinicians a valuable framework.

In this 90-minute experiential workshop — Embodied Approaches to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: The Role of Somatic Techniques in Expanded States — Manuela Mischke-Reeds explores the role of somatic psychotherapy in psychedelic-assisted therapy and how embodied approaches can deepen therapeutic and integration work. Drawing from her book Embodied Psychedelic Therapy, she introduces practical somatic principles for preparation, therapeutic presence, and integration that can help clinicians work more skillfully with expanded states.

Participants will leave with an embodied lens for understanding expanded states, along with practical somatic approaches that can inform their clinical work — including supporting clients in integrating both transformative and challenging experiences.

In this workshop you will:

  • Explore the role of somatic therapies in psychedelic-assisted therapy within the broader landscape of psychotherapy.
  • Discover how a somatic perspective reshapes our understanding of psychedelics and expanded states.
  • Learn how an embodied framework can deepen therapeutic presence and support clients before, during, and after transformational experiences.
  • Explore how somatic approaches can support integration for clients following profound, transformative, challenging, or adverse expanded states experiences.
  • Experience practical somatic principles and body-based practices that support regulation, integration, and therapeutic change.
  • Participate in a LIVE Q&A with Manuela Mischke-Reeds
  • Gain Lifetime access to the recording and transcript

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About Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT, is a somatic trauma psychotherapist, author, international teacher of somatic psychology, and Hakomi trainer. She is the founder of Embodywise and a co-founder of the Hakomi Institute of California. She is the developer of the Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA), an integrative somatic psychotherapy framework that supports trauma recovery through nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, movement-based integration, and relational therapeutic processes.

With over 25 years of clinical experience, Manuela has taught professional training programs internationally across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In the field of psychedelic therapy, she offers specialized somatic approaches, including somatic therapy techniques, movement-based integration, and ethical touch practices, to support psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with a trauma-informed and relational lens. She is the author of several books, including Embodied Psychedelic Therapy (W. W. Norton), Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox (PESI), Trauma-Sensitive Movement (PESI), and 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness (W. W. Norton).

Learn more at: www.embodywise.com & www.manuelamischkereeds.com