SAVE THE DATE: Deep-healing, Somatic Workshop with Jason Smith on February 28!

The Wisdom Beneath the Wound; Somatic Practice for Deep Healing 
Saturday, February 28th, 2026, Noon — 3:30 PM

Living with chronic pain. Recovering from trauma. Breaking free from addiction. Carrying grief that won’t leave your body. Sensing your life needs alignment, peace, clarity, strength.

Your body holds the story of everything you’ve survived—the tensions, the bracing, the grief held in your chest, the places you learned to protect yourself. This isn’t talk therapy about your body. This is working directly with your nervous system to release what thinking alone cannot reach.

Join Jason Carey Smith for this special half-day workshop during which, through presence of the group and gentle movement, your nervous system will remember safety and where you can access healing & wisdom.

Workshop Schedule: 

— Noon to 1:30 PM : Gentle Somatic Movement (Hanna Somatics)

Slow, mindful movements that help your nervous system release chronic tension and bracing patterns. You’re not stretching or strengthening—you’re teaching your body it can let go of what it’s been holding. This works with the places you’ve tightened without knowing: shoulders pulled up from years of stress, hips braced from old injuries, the subtle contractions your body learned as protection.

Through gentle, awareness-based movement, your muscles remember they can release. Your nervous system begins to soften.

— 1:30 to 2:00 PM: Break

 — 2:00 to 3:30 PM:  Group Somatic Talk-Therapy (Somatic Experiencing)

Individual work in the presence and care of the group. You work directly with what’s arising—sensation, emotion, memory—while your nervous system completes what it couldn’t finish before.

This isn’t traditional talk therapy. It’s tracking what’s happening in your body as you speak: the tightness in your throat, the heaviness in your chest, the impulse to brace or collapse. With gentle guidance and group witness, your body moves through what it’s been frozen around—grief releases, fear completes, the held story finds its way out

In even simpler terms . . . 

First half: Your body learns it can let go through gentle, mindful movement.

Second half: With support and witness, your nervous system completes what it’s been holding—grief, fear, protection—and remembers safety.

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How is somatic therapy different than regular therapy?

Regular therapy works with your story. You talk about what happened, gain insight, understand patterns. The healing happens through thinking and speaking.

Somatic therapy works with what your body is still holding. The tension in your shoulders from years of bracing. The grief lodged in your chest. The places your nervous system learned to protect you and never learned to stop.

Trauma, pain, and survival patterns don’t just live in memory—they live as sensation, posture, breath, tension. Somatic therapy doesn’t talk about your body. It works through your body to release what thinking alone cannot reach.

In short:

Regular therapy works with insight and understanding through conversation. Somatic therapy works directly with your nervous system—the actual held tension, shallow breathing, and protective patterns living in your body. It releases what talking about cannot reach.

Living with chronic pain. Recovering from trauma. Breaking free from addiction. Carrying grief that won’t leave your body. Sensing your life needs alignment, peace, clarity, strength.

Your body holds the story of everything you’ve survived—the tensions, the bracing, the grief held in your chest, the places you learned to protect yourself. This isn’t talk therapy about your body. This is working directly with your nervous system to release what thinking alone cannot reach.

Through presence of the group and gentle movement, your nervous system will remember safety and where you can access healing & wisdom.

 Investment: $60 | Limited to 20 participants; Pre-registration required

About Jason Carey Smith

Jason works at the intersection of body and spirit, where healing happens not through force but through presence. Trained in Somatic Experiencing, yoga, and martial arts, he understands that transformation requires both gentleness and strength—the yin of allowing, the yang of engagement.

His approach draws from the body’s own wisdom: that what we’ve survived lives in us as sensation, breath, and held tension, and that release comes when we create the conditions for safety rather than demand change. Through movement, presence, and the witness of community, he guides people toward what their nervous systems have been trying to complete—the grief that needs to move, the protection that can finally rest, the alignment between inner truth and outer life.

Jason’s work is informed by Swedenborg’s understanding of regeneration—that we heal not by perfecting ourselves but by allowing what is false to fall away, revealing what has always been true beneath. He sees healing as a return: to the body’s intelligence, to authentic presence, to the freedom that comes when survival patterns complete their purpose and dissolve.

For more information about this special workshop, please write Jason at: JasonCareySmith@gmail.com