Embodied State-Shifting & Rebalancing with Clients
NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CHANGED
FROM ONLINE TO IN-PERSON
for Therapists, Coaches and other Helping Professionals
with Deb Grant, LCSW, RSMT
September 26, 2025, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. EST
at the Maine Center for Taiji, Portland, Maine
Approved by NASW Maine Chapter for 5.5 CE's
Unlock the power of embodied intelligence
in your professional practice
Are you wanting to work in a more consistently embodied way with your clients?
Learn a simplified diagnostic framework and effective embodied methods to help your clients identify and move from various forms of dysregulation and stress into states of coherence and flow.
What you will learn in this Workshop
This workshop will help you to become more skilled at discerning how (and in which embodied states) each of your clients tends to become dysregulated or under-resourced. Gain a simple & effective ‘embodiment roadmap’ to help guide yourself and your clients back into balance and integration. You will:
Learn the 4 Core Types Of Embodied States, and How they become Imbalanced
Learn about (cognitively AND experientially) the four main types of embodied states—what they look & feel like in both their balanced and imbalanced or dysregulated forms.
Learn to Better 'Read Your Clients' and Identify their Key Limiting Patterns
Learn to easily and accurately "read" your clients’ underlying, embodied patterns in these four areas (both from the body language and verbal cues they give you)—so you can more quickly help identify and work collaboratively on the core underlying, conditioned patterns that will most help promote lasting change.
Learn to Quickly and Effectively Help Your Clients Shift State and Rebalance
Learn to work with a set of four simple body movements/postures to help your clients become aware of and re-balance any dysregulation or imbalance they're experiencing, within the four core types of states.
Learn to Ease-fully Manage Your Own Attention & Energy, during Sessions
Improve how you manage your own attention, nervous system regulation, and body language while interacting with your clients—so you can serve multiple clients per day without 'taking their stuff on' and becoming tired or drained.
What people are saying...
"I would highly recommend this work to others because it is a powerful way of getting in touch with all the energies in our body. The movements are simple and therefore very accessible and, at the same time, they have great depth and subtlety. Through the focus on polarities, I can understand myself and others better."
Anita Palvaast, Coach & TRainer
“It felt like UZAZU Embodied Intelligence really offered the map, the framework, the developmental structure, and then tools to really support someone. Now that I have an embodied map, I can take any issue and kind of map it with the UZAZU and get a much more well rounded view of this is what's going on, so I can get to the roots of the issue easier.”
Albert Viljoen, Executive COAch & UZAZU PRactitioner
Training Details
NOTE: This training has been switched from on-line to in person.
September 26, 2025
10am-5:00 pm EST/USA
Held at the Maine Center for Taijiquan and Qigong, 500 Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine
A one hour meal break will be scheduled.
This foundations level embodiment-based training is intended for helping professionals of any kind (therapists, social workers, coaches, etc.) who wish to have a simple yet comprehensive framework and method for understanding, identifying, and helping rebalance their clients various patterns of imbalance & dysregulation, in an embodied way. All experience levels are welcome!
In order to help you develop practical skills and not just give you more theory, this workshop will requires participants to be present and engaged with the material, exercises, and practices we offer, with video enabled, on a laptop or PC. You will be welcome to turn your video off for periods of time, if you need privacy for your own regulation.
While this workshop doesn’t teach Polyvagal Theory (and does not require prior knowledge of it), it is highly informed by PVT, and builds further upon its central notions of ventral vagal tone, sympathetic mobilization, and dorsal-vagal immobilization. This then gives you more practical methods to address clients’ challenged responses to life experiences across a full range of contexts.
Similarly, this workshop does not teach attachment theory, nor require any prior knowledge of it. We will, however, make explicit the deep connections of Attachment Theory to the embodiment patterns and rebalancing protocols you'll learn, so you can organically carry over any knowledge and skills you may have.
This course is approved for 5.5 CE's for social workers by NASW-Maine. To determine whether you can apply this workshop toward your professional license outside of social work and/or Maine, contact your licensing board or professional membership organization. Note: LCPC's in Maine are often able to utilize SW CE's for their licensure.
Pricing and Signup
Registration for this workshop includes:
$185
Meet your Trainer:
Deb Grant
In 2015 Deb was honored to co-present polyvagal theory workshops with Deb Dana, LCSW, at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as well as at Omega Institute. Among her many collaborations with Deb Dana, she co-authored a chapter in the book entitled Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-informed Therapies (Editors Stephen Porges and Deb Dana).
Deb is a Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and holds two yoga teacher certifications. She teaches improvisational dance using somatic and relational approaches, offering students ways of using dance as a personal practice for health, well-being and embodiment.
About UZAZU Embodied Intelligence
An integrative approach for understanding & working with embodied states.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. UZAZU is designed to be accessible to all bodies, whether a facilitator or a client. The movements and postures associated with the Four Core Areas of Embodiment are simple to learn and can be adapted to suit the capacities as well as limitations of the person using it. During the workshop and, later, working with clients you are welcome to adapt your movement and positioning to what is comfortable and or doable.
You could also opt to take this self-assessment AFTER the workshop. (Or not at all ;-). Whichever you prefer.