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Resources
Looking for practices, tools, or just a good place to start? This page gathers trusted links and organizations offering thoughtful, body-based, and practical support—for right now, or whenever you're ready.
Organic Intelligence
The Organic Intelligence® (OI™) is an educational organization dedicated to the study and teaching of a somatic approach to healing and personal growth. Founded by Steve Hoskinson, OI integrates body-centered interventions with mindfulness-based practices to support trauma resolution, nervous system regulation, and resilience-building.
OI offers trainings and certification programs for therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals, as well as courses for individuals seeking personal transformation. Its methodology is informed by neuroscience, complex systems theory, and an understanding of how the body naturally moves toward healing. OI’s approach emphasizes shifting from pathology-focused models to a framework that fosters deep attunement, self-organization, and lasting change.
Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a holistic system of medicine originating in India over 5,000 years ago, emphasizing balance in body, mind, and spirit through natural therapies, diet, and lifestyle practices. Rooted in the principles of the three doshas—Vata, Pitta, and Kapha—Ayurvedic medicine seeks to prevent and treat disease by restoring harmony within the individual.
Ayurvedic education includes comprehensive training in herbal medicine, nutrition, bodywork therapies, and mind-body integration. Accredited programs offer certifications for Ayurvedic Health Counselors, Practitioners, and Doctors, preparing students to provide holistic care. Ayurveda is informed by classical texts, modern research, and an understanding of the body's innate healing intelligence.
Hakomi Institute (Ron Kurtz)
Founded in 1981 by Ron Kurtz and a core group of trainers, The Hakomi Institute is the original and most extensive organization providing training and information on Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy worldwide.
Our website provides in-depth info about Hakomi, including an international Directory of Practitioners, a Calendar of Workshops and Trainings with links to Hakomi organizations internationally, an online Professional Journal, and many other resources.
The Polyamory Toolkit
The Polyamory Toolkit is crafted by Dan and Dawn Williams, a couple with nearly two decades of polyamorous experience. It delivers a conversational, anecdotal guide filled with practical tools and insights designed to help navigate real-world challenges—agreements, hierarchy, communication—making it a go‑to resource for thriving polycules
Jessica Fern's Polysecure
Jessica Fern's Polysecure extends attachment theory into consensual non‑monogamy through her HEARTS model and six evidence‑based strategies. This somatically informed, trauma‑sensitive guide empowers individuals and partners to cultivate secure attachment dynamics across multiple relationships
Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients)
Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients) by Martha Kauppi is a foundational resource for clinicians and their clients. With research-based theory, clinical case studies, worksheets, and exercises, it addresses everything from forming agreements to navigating jealousy, making it as beneficial to lay readers as to therapists
Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships
The collaborative work by Jessica Fern and David Cooley, Polywise, advances beyond introductory guides. Drawing on grounded‑theory insights and thousands of therapeutic hours, it dissects the root causes of common issues—broken agreements, communication struggles, jealousy—and offers restorative and somatic strategies for fostering deep clarity, intimacy, and relational resilience
Neurodiverse Love
Neurodiverse Love is an inclusive platform offering guidance, workshops, and community support at the intersection of neurodiversity and relationships. It provides practical resources—articles, coaching, and events—for neurodivergent individuals and partners seeking to understand and enhance connection through a neuro‑affirming lens.
Psycho-Physical Therapy (Bill Bowen)
Psycho-Physical Therapy (PPT) is an integrative approach to somatic psychotherapy. It is defined by the active engagement of the body as central to the psychotherapeutic process. This method synthesizes both psychological and body therapy concepts and techniques into one simultaneous process. A client's physical, mental and spiritual issues are seen as parts of a complex interactive system, where all parts are inseparable from the whole.
The body is viewed as a primary vehicle for the therapeutic process, where psychological and physical interventions are continuously overlapping. It is a unique way of working that differs from many therapeutic approaches in its emphasis on building somatic resources, its focus on the creative process and its direct use of movement, somatic patterning interventions and hands-on-work. The heart of the therapy lies in the belief that the client has within them the source and capacity for establishing their own well-being. Psycho-Physical Therapy is grounded in understanding the importance of awareness, compassion and kindness, which is balanced by clear theory, analysis and skills.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (Pat Ogden. Ph.D.)
The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) is an educational organization dedicated to the study and teaching of a somatic approach to clinical psychotherapy practice. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-oriented talking therapy that integrates verbal techniques with body-centered interventions in the treatment of trauma, attachment, and developmental issues.
SPI offers trainings and workshops for psychotherapists and allied professionals in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and courses for body therapists on somatic resources. The courses taught by SPI are based on principles of mindfulness and mind/body/spirit holism and informed by contemporary research in neuroscience, attachment theory, trauma, and related fields.
EMDR INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) is a professional association where EMDR practitioners and EMDR researchers seek the highest standards for the clinical use of EMDR therapy. EMDR is designated as an effective treatment by the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and many other international health agencies. This powerful psychotherapy approach has helped over an estimated two million people of all ages relieve many types of psychological distress. This website provides information to the greater EMDR community including clinicians, researchers, and the public that our members serve.
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