2027/2028 Bangalore, India / Two-Part In-Person
Foundation Training
The NeuroAffective Touch® training builds a vital bridge between our verbal and nonverbal selves to address the key elements of developmental deficits, emotional trauma, and attachment repair. NeuroAffective Touch is a somatic approach that integrates relational and psychodynamic psychotherapy with the therapeutic use of touch and somatic practices. Our approach transcends the limitations of talk therapy or body-centered work used separately and opens the way for post-trauma growth.
The training welcomes all professional practitioners who wish to integrate body and mind to resolve emotional and relational deficits and trauma. We invite and include psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and pre-licensed interns; certified bodyworkers, massage, and body-centered practitioners; addiction counselors; nurses, acupuncturists, allopathic, naturopathic, and holistic doctors; movement and yoga practitioners; and coaches.
In-Person, Two-Part Training in Bangalore, India
PART I • 6 days • November 24th ― 29th • 2027
Healing the Relational Matrix offers the missing nonverbal experiences of somatic support and safety― a secure bottom-up foundation based on trust and care from which a new top-down narrative can emerge. We attune your touch presence to address the three essential self-states necessary for secure attachment and emotional well-being: I exist; I am loved; My needs are important.
PART II • 6 days • March 19th ― 24th • 2028
Renegotiating the Capacity for Social Engagement explores how we process sensory perception. Facial expressions, contractions at the cranial base, the openness of the gaze, the listening capacity of the ears, and the prosody of the voice all convey information about a person’s emotional states. Yet, these areas, which reflect the deeper states of vagal regulation, rarely receive the gentle, transformative power of attuned touch.
Visit our Curriculum webpage for the complete training content and learning objectives.
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- Orientation to touch and embodiment
- Meet your body and mind. How anatomy, physiology, psychology, and emotional-relational experiences interface.
- Touch-related psychological issues such as oppressive parenting, neglect, abuse, shame, prediction, the effects of missing developmental movements, pre- and perinatal earliest experiences, and much more.
- Touch skills. The language of touch, the three sensory touch systems, working with the sympathetic, parasympathetic, interoceptive, and neuroceptive aspects of the nervous system.
- Self-directed intentional touch. Because we increasingly work online, the training emphasizes self-directed, intentional touch protocols and self-care guidance.
- Personal somatic practice. We support you in establishing a personal Somatic Contemplation® practice for embodied awareness by offering an in-depth interoceptive and proprioceptive experience of your own body, helping you teach your clients how to work with their bodies.
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- Hands-on protocols to ground the theory and clinical material.
- Anchoring the healing power of touch in somatic resonance.
- Demonstration sessions live with real-time commentary.
- Breakout supervised touch practice.
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- Video links to the training to review in your own time
- Manual ― 200 pages online
- Lecture slides
For questions about the training
please get in touch with Rashmi Ajay
rashmi9944@gmail.com
Training Schedule and Admissions
Further details to be announced.
For information about Rashmi Ajay and The Healing Circle website.
Training Dates
| Part 1 Healing the Relational Matrix | Nov 24-29, 2027 |
| Part 2 Renegotiating the Capacity for Social Engagement | Mar 19-24, 2028 |
Faculty
Dr. Aline LaPierre
Coordinator
Rashmi Ajay rashmi9944@gmail.comAdmissions and Training Coordinator
Rashmi Ajay rashmi9944@gmail.comTraining Location
TBA
Schedule
| See Above |
Review Videos
Students receive links to the videos of the training modules. For ease of viewing, video chapters are titled according to subject: lectures, demos, practice debrief, and Q&A. The video links are active for three years from the end of your training.
