When the body asks, will you know how to answer?
Touch is the first language any of us learned. Long before words, a body discovered it was safe because another body helped it feel so. Our clients carry that first grammar into the room, sometimes fluent, sometimes broken, and in expanded states it rises to the surface asking to be spoken. Most of us were trained to answer it with words alone, and something in the client goes unanswered.
We carry it too. Each of us learned this language in a particular home, with its own dialect of tenderness or absence, of intrusion or silence. What we have not yet tended becomes projection, and it speaks through us anyway: a part that rushes in to comfort, a part that freezes, a part that pulls back before the client has finished reaching, a part that needs the client to be all right. Our clients feel those parts as surely as they feel our touch.
Touch Matters is where we become fluent again: tending our own touch history until the body’s wisdom can speak, and bringing that fluency, with skill and with heart, into the relational space we share with our clients.
Sabrina’s schedule allows her to offer this circle only a few times a year. If it is calling you, now is the time.
The next group begins 11/4/2026
First Wednesdays, 9:00 to 10:30 am Mountain
Six monthly sessions on Zoom
11/4/2026, 12/2/2026, 1/6/2027, 2/3/2027, 3/3/2027, 4/7/2027
Equitable contribution: $695 for all six sessions
Registration is for the full series, so the circle stays the same from the first session to the last. One registration per person: each person registers in their own name.
Who It Is For
Therapists, psychedelic facilitators and guides, bodyworkers, coaches and doulas: anyone who sits with people where psyche and body meet. A license is not required. What matters is that touch is already part of your work, or is asking to be.
What We Tend Each Month
Each month the circle gathers around whatever the work has stirred. Bring your live cases: the client who reached for you in the middle of a journey, the session where you held back and wondered afterward whether you should have, the moment you wanted to offer touch and could not tell whether it was yours to offer, the touch that landed wrong and the repair that followed, or the one that never came.
Consent has its own grammar. We learn to hear it in more than one dialect: the yes of the ordinary mind and the yes that rises from an expanded state, which can sound alike and mean different things. We listen for the yes the mouth gives while the body is saying no: the shoulders bracing, the breath held, the hand that stays where it was placed, the gaze gone somewhere far away. And we practice inviting the no, welcoming it into the room before it has to fight its way in, because there is no true yes without the no.
We learn to feel the moment touch stops steadying a body and begins to flood it, and what to offer in the breath that comes after.
And we turn toward our own touch history, because it is in the room whether we invite it or not. Tended among peers who speak the same language, the old dialect loosens its grip, and the body’s wisdom has room to speak through us with more grace.
How the Sessions Run
Each 90-minute session begins by dropping in together and listening for what wants to happen. These are present-moment practices: we follow what is alive in the room, where curiosity gathers, where someone is struggling, where a body has gone into freeze, where something has begun to soften. From there the work may become a teaching, a discussion, an experiential practice or a live case held by the whole circle, shaped by whatever the moment is asking for.
The same small circle meets for all six sessions. The trust you build in November is there to lean on by spring, and you leave with colleagues who know this terrain from the inside.
About Sabrina
Sabrina Santa Clara, LPC, R-DMT, IFS-CTC, RYT
Sabrina began her life’s work as a massage therapist, learning what a body says before it finds words. That listening carried her into embodiment teaching and yoga, then to Naropa University for her Master’s in Body Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy. She is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist and consultant who has been working with the model for over 25 years, and has woven it into Neoshamanic IFS, where parts work meets spirits and ancestors, the land and the body, community and ritual.
She created Psychotherapeutic Touch, a certification training and standard for the ethical, skilled use of touch in therapy, after seeing too many practitioners caught between fear and instinct with no map to guide them. She designed the touch training for Fluence, has led trainings for Journey Clinical and other psychedelic organizations, and teaches internationally. She works from an elder’s seat: rigorous about ethics, tender with the people learning them.
Dates and Registration
The next group begins 11/4/2026
First Wednesdays, 9:00 to 10:30 am Mountain
Six monthly sessions on Zoom
11/4/2026, 12/2/2026, 1/6/2027, 2/3/2027, 3/3/2027, 4/7/2027
Equitable contribution: $695 for all six sessions
Registration is for the full series, so the circle stays the same from the first session to the last. One registration per person: each person registers in their own name.
Space is limited. Register now to hold your place.
Join the Waitlist
This circle is full. A new Touch Matters group begins in early 2027. Join the waitlist and you’ll hear first, before registration opens to anyone else.