Elevation Hive/Advanced Communications and Clinical Energetics with Gary Strauss August 2026

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Advanced Communications and Clinical Energetics with Gary Strauss August 2026

August 13-16, 2026 Thursday-Sunday 9:30-6:30 32 CEs for LMTs Advanced Communications and Clinical Energetics with master teacher Gary Strauss of the Life Energy Institute in Los Angeles. For practitioners and individuals seeking depth beyond technique, this advanced training builds on Somatic Communication Level One, developing trauma-informed presence and the capacity to hold complex energetic processes.

Advanced Communications & Clinical Energetics: Orientation, Holding, and the Journey of Resolution with Gary Strauss

An advanced in-person training

Overview

This advanced training explores Clinical Energetics as a way of being with energy rather than a technique-based system or intervention-oriented modality.

Clinical Energetics is a disciplined, relational, and receptive practice that supports the natural movement of energy toward coherence. Rather than fixing, correcting, or imposing change, this work creates the conditions in which energy can recognize itself, resolve distortion, and reorganize toward health.

This course is designed for practitioners who wish to deepen their somatic communication skills, perceptual clarity, and capacity to hold complex energetic processes over time, both within individual sessions and across longer arcs of work.

Participants will explore and refine skills related to:

  • Non-verbal communication and pacing, including presence, mirroring, and energetic reflection

  • Somatic and energetic boundary awareness, recognizing when boundaries are clear, diffuse, or under strain

  • Recognizing patterns of energetic looping, including repetitive thought, emotional, or behavioral tendencies that contribute to stuck or incoherent energetic states

  • Working skillfully with habit patterns and dependency dynamics, approached through energetic and somatic awareness rather than interpretation or diagnosis

  • Tracking relational and energetic cues that signal overwhelm, destabilization, or loss of coherence

  • Recognizing early indicators of crisis or dysregulation and responding through orientation, holding, and appropriate pacing

  • Knowing when and how to refer out, including recognizing when a process is outside one’s scope or would benefit from additional professional support

  • Supporting resolution without fixing or advising, allowing energetic processes to unfold and complete organically

  • Maintaining practitioner steadiness in the presence of intensity, uncertainty, or complexity

  • Observing how energy organizes and reorganizes over time, including layered resolution across sessions

  • Strengthening discernment between supporting energetic process and over-engagement

  • Cultivating ethical clarity and self-responsibility in practitioner–participant relationships

  • Deepening trust in energetic intelligence while developing practical skills for staying present with complex human experience

  • Cultivating trauma-informed practitioner presence, including pacing, boundary clarity, and sensitivity to nervous system capacity

  • Supporting safety and coherence without overwhelm, allowing energetic processes to unfold at an appropriate pace

A Practice Beneath Technique

Before assessment.
Before strategy.
Before clinical decision-making.

There is orientation.

Orientation defines how we enter the work at its most essential level. It shapes presence, perception, and the practitioner’s relationship to the energetic process itself.

In Clinical Energetics, experience shows that resolving even a single fine filament of energy can allow an entire energetic constellation to unwind. Much like loosening one thread in a tightly wound structure allows the whole system to soften and reorganize or recalibrate.

Coherence is not imposed.
It emerges naturally as strain is released and flow is restored.

Orientation

Orientation is the first and ongoing act of Clinical Energetics.

Students will explore how orientation includes:

  • Releasing the impulse to fix or correct

  • Letting go of agenda

  • Trusting the inherent intelligence of energetic process

  • Allowing the work to reveal itself

Without orientation, technique becomes mechanical and presence collapses into effort. With orientation, the practitioner aligns with the natural direction of resolution.

Relationship: Meeting Energy as a Living Process

From orientation, the work becomes relational.

Energy is not approached as a symptom, problem, or object. It is met as a living, responsive process. Through relationship, trust and safety arise, and subtle patterns, rhythms, and organizing principles begin to reveal themselves.

This training supports practitioners in cultivating relational contact that allows energy to be intelligible without interpretation or manipulation.

Holding Space: The Central Axis of Clinical Energetics

At the center of this work is holding space.

Holding space is not passive. It is an active, steady, relational presence that allows energetic processes to unfold fully and complete their journey.

Through experiential practice, students will refine their capacity to:

  • Stay present with intensity without collapse

  • Remain steady through uncertainty

  • Allow movement without directing it

  • Support resolution without rushing it

Holding space is the ability to stay with a process through layers, phases, and time.

Receptive Awareness & Phenomenological Tracking

As holding space deepens, awareness becomes receptive and phenomenological.

Students will learn to recognize energy as it expresses itself through:

  • Sensation and pain

  • Movement and stillness

  • Breath, sound, and vocalization

  • Emotional expression

  • Shifts in rhythm, density, and spatial organization

These expressions are not interpreted or analyzed. They are recognized as energy resolving itself. Practitioners learn to track how energy moves, rather than why.

Cultivating Presence

Resolution often unfolds in layers, across sessions and life phases.

This training emphasizes continuity of presence and supports the practitioner’s ability to hold space long enough for energy to complete what it has been attempting to do and for coherence to stabilize and integrate.

In Clinical Energetics, the practitioner does not provide the healing.

The practitioner provides:

  • Orientation

  • Relationship

  • Receptive awareness

  • Holding

Through these capacities, energy is allowed to recognize itself, resolve distortion, and restore coherence. The system, individual or collective, resumes its inherent capacity for self-regulation and care.

Who This Training is For

This course is intended for experienced practitioners and individuals seeking an in-depth exploration into somatic energetic communication skills, including:

  • Polarity Therapy practitioners

  • Craniosacral practitioners

  • Somatic and energy-based bodyworkers

  • Coaches and facilitators seeking somatic and energetic communication tools

  • Holistic health professionals such as holistic nurses, acupuncturists, and allied care providers

  • Social workers, counselors, and holistic health practitioners interested in integrating somatic and energetic awareness into their existing scope of practice

  • Birth doulas and death doulas working with transitional, liminal, or end-of-life processes

  • Individuals drawn to cultivating greater depth, presence, and skill in relational and somatic communication, whether in professional roles or personal contexts

  • Practitioners seeking advanced relational, perceptual, and holding skills

All material is approached through somatic and energetic awareness and is intended to support participants in working within their existing personal and professional scope.

This training is not about learning new techniques. It is about refining presence, perception, and ones capacity for holding space in advanced energetic and somatic work.

A Note on Scope of Practice

This training develops somatic and energetic communication skills for practitioners and does not train or authorize participants to provide psychotherapy or mental health care.

All material is approached through embodied awareness, energetic process, and relational presence.

Learning Style

This class is unique to our other bodywork centered trainings. There is little to no hands on bodywork. This material is not meant to be understood all at once.
It is meant to be lived into over time.

The training emphasizes experiential learning, reflective inquiry, and embodied understanding rather than prescriptive or diagnostic models or protocols.