Full Embodiment Program
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Full Embodiment is an experiential training and workshop series created by Ariel Giaretto that explores the emotional, psychological, relational, and physical impact of sexuality, attachment, and trauma on our lives. Rooted in the Somatic Experiencing trauma model, the series offers a compassionate and body-centered approach to healing, prioritizing safety, respect, and embodied consent.

We are born embodied, sensual, and naturally oriented toward connection. Yet over time, family systems, culture, religion, intergenerational beliefs, trauma, and relational experiences can gradually distort our connection to our bodies, our sensuality, and our essential selves. These experiences may shape how we relate to intimacy, pleasure, self-acceptance, boundaries, and our ability to give and receive authentic love.

Taking into account the many ways sexuality trauma can affect the nervous system and the whole person, Ariel has developed specific and carefully designed somatic exercises that support healing and recovery regardless of one’s history. Through the science and heart of attachment and trauma, this series explores how human beings are physiologically wired not only for survival and protection, but also for closeness, pleasure, connection, and love — and what happens when these natural capacities are disrupted or denied.

Through a blend of educational material, experiential practices, reflections, and practical applications, participants are invited to reconnect with the body, deepen their capacity for pleasure and authentic connection, and identify the patterns, beliefs, and protective responses that may stand in the way.

This series will explore:

• The science and psychobiology of attachment needs
• The physiology of trauma and how disconnection from the body can interfere with trauma resolution
• Somatic exercises that support fuller embodied pleasure, self-acceptance, and relational safety
• Ways of recovering from sexuality trauma and sexual abuse at a respectful pace that helps prevent re-traumatization
• Pathways toward greater embodiment, intimacy, resilience, and connection

Full Embodiment offers a structured and supportive space for participants to return more fully to themselves, their bodies, and their relational lives with greater awareness, choice, safety, and vitality.

Who can participate?

Each module of the four-module program has a different focus. In addition to developing professionals’ skills in working with clients on issues of sexuality, the program also includes opportunities for individual exploration. Modules 1 and 4 focus on working with sexual trauma and are intended exclusively for professionals. Modules 2 and 3 focus on participants’ individual experiences, adding depth to their processes of working with clients from this perspective.

Module Dates

• Module 1: Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality – 27–29 November 2026
• Module 2: Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma – 9-11 April 2027
• Module 3: The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality: Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately – 11–13 June 2027
• Module 4: Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality –  5-7 November 2027
• Participants are required to attend program modules via live video streaming.
• All modules will take place from 10:00–13:00 and 14:30–17:30 (İstanbul Time, GMT+3).

Module Descriptions

Module 1: Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality 
27 - 29 November 2026

This module forms the therapeutic foundation of the Full Embodiment Program. It is designed to address sexual trauma and provide information and practical exercises on how to work with these topics.

All of us work with clients who have endured sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, who grew up with strong religious messages. They present with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image. They experience their bodies with disgust, and as scary, dangerous places to avoid, and often struggle with sexual incompatibilities in their relationships.

This module is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

What will we learn?

• Recognize how sexual trauma uniquely impacts people
• Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most focused path to recovery
• Learn extraordinarily titrated and gentle ways that support those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies
• Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame
• Learn multiple exercises that support regulation in the present—to minimize daily triggers, and provide resource and stability now, without having to work content or history
• Raising awareness about ways to work with male survivors
• Discover multiple “mindfulness” exercises that take the startle out of touch—to help clients re-establish a felt sense of safety in their bodies, especially during contact with others.
• The order and steps that are most effective for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and for success

Module 2: Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma
9 - 11 April 2027

This first program is the foundation of the full embodiment practice. It examines the developmental imprints and other formative influences that destroy an easeful, shame-free relationship with ourselves as sexual/sensual beings. We will slowly rebuild that which was scarred by generations of sexual oppression, misogyny and cultural and religious influences. Participants will develop a personalized, embodiment practice, set well-examined goals, and begin to transform shame into pleasure. Time will be spent uncovering biases and settling triggers—which includes developing ease discussing sex and anatomy. The focus of this module is on self- exploration and personal enhancement, however it will provide numerous useful strategies for therapists working with sexuality and trauma. Well regulated clients, colleagues, friends and partners are invited to participate in this program.

We will not be working directly with sexual trauma. Our focus will be on providing a safe space that supports individual discovery and integration through knowledge and exercises.

What will we discover?

• Who are we underneath all of it?
• How would we inhabit our bodies in ways that reflect our true nature?
• How would we express and receive affection, sensuality and sexuality… on our terms … in our most genuine and authentic way?
• How to achieve ease and pleasure in our own bodies, identify biases, and recognise discomfort with sexuality so that we can all be a clear and effective support to clients
• How do we uncover our desires and attractions, and identify what inhibits them? Are these real, or are these learned?
• What is the best way to break old patterns in relationships and move towards healthy intimacy?
• How do we heal specifically what is damaged by the above influences?

What will we learn?

• Find ease, confidence and connection with your whole body
• Examine the messages than many are given about gender, the body and sexuality, and begin to access and embody more authentic beliefs and desires, underneath the conditioning
• Explore and heal the hidden social psychological and developmental influences that shape shame poor body image and disconnection from self and others
• Get comfortable talking about the body and sexuality with your clients and intimates
• Establish a strong somatic container and develop honest “embodied consent” through boundaries and learning how to voice preferences
• Identifying the unconscious “brakes” that thwart pleasure and desire
• Learn new ways of finding peace, pleasure and safety after sexual abuse or assault

Module 3: The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality: Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately
11 - 13 June 2027

This module focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. It is open to Individuals, either coupled or not, and those actively sexual or not. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. This workshop welcomes partners or colleagues of somatic participants who are not professionals. We’ll look at the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and uncover levels of disconnection, meaning making, shut down, and disembodiment that occur under conscious awareness.

What will we learn?

• Understanding attachment styles and how these affect intimacy
• Identify the most effective ways for couples to process and share, keeping in mind processing speeds and individual differences
• Learn about your ”erotic style”
• Uncover deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them
• Practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive 

Module 4: Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality
5 - 7 November 2027

This module is more informational—and addresses common sexual and intimacy issues that show up in couples and individuals—both straight and queer.

What will we learn?

• Common sexual and intimacy issues that affect couples
• Low or incompatible Libido
• Spicing up long-term relationships
• Sex and aging
• Pelvic/sexual complaints—including vaginismus, chronic pain and common sexual dysfunctions—for both women and men
• Infertility
• Kink and BDSM
• Plus time for questions and cases that want to be discussed

Registration

• Please fill out the REGISTRATION FORM by clicking here
• Location: Zoom Platform
  
• Program will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Turkish via the Zoom audio channel. 
• Participants who complete the entire program and fulfill all certification requirements will be eligible to revieve the Practitioner Certificate. 
• As an integral part of the program, participants will take part in assistant-facilitated practice groups. Places for the program and modules are limited.
• Participants may also register for individual modules. Modules 1 and 4 are open only to professionals who work with or have a professional interest in these topics. 
• Participants are required to attend all sessions live, on time, and with their cameras on. A certificate of attendance will be issued for each completed module.
  
  

Who is Ariel Giarretto?

Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP, CMT, CSB is an internationally known body-oriented therapist, trauma specialist, and Somatic Sex Educator. She is the co-developer of “The Full Embodiment Model”. Educated in psychology, and licensed as a marriage and family therapist, she studied a wide variety of somatic therapies, and is primarily informed by Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE), Since 2005 she has been full-time SE teaching faculty. Throughout the 90’s she was on staff at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA as a workshop and group leader, a private therapist and part of the bodywork and massage crew. She has extensive training in prenatal and birth therapy with Ray Castellino, as well as attachment and early developmental trauma, and has been a home birth “doula”, a dancer, a drummer, an athlete, a professional cook and baker, and is particularly fond of her dogs Freya and Lyra, her Green Cheek Conures, Tulip and Oscar, and of course her partner Jeffrey. Originally from the US, she is currently based in Delft Netherlands.

 For more info: www.fullembodiment.org

Guest Trainer Adriana Brablik

Adriana is a psychosomatic sex educator and depth coach with over 20 years of experience in somatic work and sexuality. She has worked closely with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, offering trauma-informed support that centers resilience, healing, and safety. She has collaborated with the University and Spinal Injury Unit of Perugia (Italy), supporting people with spinal cord injuries in reclaiming sexuality, pleasure, and embodiment. Passionate about conscious sexuality, she raises awareness around consensual, ethical BDSM and kink, helping individuals and communities navigate these realms with care and consent. Since 2017, Adriana has assisted Ariel Giarretto in Full Embodiment workshops worldwide. She now specializes in mentoring professionals— therapists, coaches, educators, and health practitioners—facing complex issues such as sexual boundary ruptures, gender-based violence, narcissistic abuse, and power dynamics in the helping professions. Integrating movement as a bridge between body, mind, and soul, Adriana guides clients toward a more authentic, joyful, and embodied relationship with themselves and their sexuality.

Guest Trainer Elizabeth Simonian

Elizabeth is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), a Master NARM Therapist, and a SOMA Embodiment Practitioner. Much of her work focuses on supporting clients with complex attachment and developmental trauma, as well as survivors of sexual abuse. She also assists in Somatic Experiencing trainings and in Ariel Giarretto’s Full Embodiment trainings, work that she finds deeply rewarding. She is deeply committed to supporting people in returning home to themselves and reconnecting with their hearts. She believes that inhabiting the body and expressing one’s authentic self beneath shame and fear is central to healing. With Swedish and Armenian roots, she grew up between Sweden and Cyprus. Growing up in a culturally diverse environment has nurtured her interest in different life experiences. Inspired by her clients’ resilience and uniqueness, Elizabeth also views her background as a musician as an important part of her therapeutic approach.

Program Fees
Full Program Fee*

• Special Early Bird (until 1 September ): €1,600
• Early Bird (until 1 November): €1,800
• Standard Fee: €2,080

*A limited number of places are available. To secure your place, a €300 deposit is required. The remaining balance must be paid by the applicable deadline listed above.

Single Module Fee

• Early Bird (until 1 November): €520
• Standard Fee: €590

Certification Requirements

To be eligible for the Full Embodiment Practitioner Certificate, participants are expected to complete the following requirements:

• Attend all four modules live with the camera on throughout the training.
• Attend 6 group supervision sessions with the trainer or an approved Full Embodiment Provider.
• Complete 6 individual sessions with an approved Full Embodiment Provider.
• Participate in at least 6 peer practice groups between modules.
• Develop an ongoing embodiment practice and complete the recommended journaling assignments throughout the program.
• Submit a written reflection on your personal learning and development process at the end of the program.
• Prepare and present a case study demonstrating the application of the Full Embodiment method.
  
  

Detailed information about the certification process and the FE Workbook will be shared with participants accepted into the Program.

For further information and registration: basvuru@somatikdeneyimleme.com