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WHAT IS NATOUCH?
NeuroAffective Touch® is a somatic approach that integrates relational and psychodynamic psychotherapy with the therapeutic use of touch and somatic practices. The NeuroAffective Touch training builds a vital bridge between our verbal and nonverbal selves to address the key elements of emotional trauma, attachment repair, and developmental deficits. 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 trauma and relational deficits. 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.
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM NATOUCH™?
The NeuroAffective Touch® Training welcomes mental health, somatic, body-centered, and healing professionals who wish to integrate body and mind in the resolution of emotional trauma and relational deficits.
This includes
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Somatic Therapists
Social Workers
Certified Bodywork and Massage Therapists
Counsellors
Nurses
Health Practitioners
Coaches
TRAINING SCHEDULE
The foundational program is 1 year.
TRAINING SCHEDULE 
2 modules / 6 days each (In Person)
MODULEMODULE DATES
Module 1August 24th - 29th 2026
Module 2 November 24th - 29th 2026
Location: Bangalore
Recordings will be available post each module.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Aline LaPierre
She is the creator of NeuroAffective Touch® and director of The NeuroAffective Touch® Institute. NeuroAffective Touch® is a somatic, neurologically informed psychotherapy that uses therapeutic touch as a vital psychobiological intervention.

She is currently President of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy (USABP) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ).

Dr. LaPierre is the co-author of the bestselling Healing Developmental Trauma: How Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship, a groundbreaking book in developmental psychology now available in fourteen languages.
In the field of somatics, she has studied Somatic Experiencing® (SE), Postural Integration, Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CST), Reichian Therapies, Bodynamics Analysis, Continuum, BodyMind Centering (BMC), and EMDR.

In the field of psychotherapy, Dr. LaPierre is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute, which intimately connected her with Jungian and Archetypal psychologies, and of The New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP), focusing on the evolution of psychoanalysis from Object Relations to Relational and Inter-Subjective approaches. She was a member of the Allan Schore Affective Neuroscience study group for several years. 

Her current interests include developing NeuroAffective Touch® programs for couples and families.
FOUNDATION TRAINING OVERVIEW
PART I • 6 days
Healing the Relational Matrix
The first part 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
Renegotiating the Capacity for Social Engagement
In this part we explore 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.

The foundational training consist of:
Lectures
Orientation to touch and embodiment
The functional unity of the body-mind anatomy, physiology, psychology, and emotional-relational experiences.
Touch-related psychological issues such as oppressive parenting, neglect, abuse, shame, prediction, the effects of missing developmental movements, pre- and perinatal earliest trauma, and much more.
Experiential Practices
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 therapists 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 well-being by offering an in-depth interoceptive and proprioceptive experience of your own body that helps you teach your clients how to work with their bodies.
Touch Skills
Hands-on protocols for 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.
Course Materials
Video links to the training to review in your own time
Color Manual ― 200 pages / online
Lecture slides in online Flipbook format
CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS
In-Person Parts 1 + 2 Two 6-day Modules —12 days total
Six personal NATouch therapy sessions with an approved session provider
Eight consultation credits―individual, group, or mentored-hands
Note: Personal sessions and consultations are not included in the tuition fee
THROUGH THE TRAINING, YOU WILL PRACTICE HOW TO
Meet a client’s tender attachment needs without creating dependency
Anchor proprioception in the midline regulatory axis to stabilize trauma-induced sensory disorientation and disorganization
Use Body-Mind Dialogues™ to expand languaging skills and bring nonverbal states into explicit verbal expression. This will lead to a collaborative mind-body relationship.
Use the NeuroAffective Touch® protocols to begin addressing developmental deficits: create a Nurture Surround™, release the cranial base and brainstem, and support the spine and back
Touch into the internal sensory systems of interoception and neuroception
Use body-mind collaborative language to develop a loving mind-heart relationship that reduces self-judgment and shaming
Track and welcome diaphragmatic and cellular breath
Help clients recognize when and how their mind overrides their body’s wisdom
Explore the neuropsychological convergence of the ears, eyes, jaw, cranial base, and throat to reset the vigilance system
Open the diaphragmatic gates at the shoulders, jaw, cranial base, tentorium, and dome
Bring awareness to the throat to release the vocal cords and reclaim the voice
Interrupt the brain’s predictive mechanism to maintain a time-line awareness of past, present, and future
To deconstruct survival adaptations of numbing, bracing, and collapse from abuse, neglect, and abandonment and reconnect clients to the creativity of their somatic individuation
Open new neural pathways that support the capacity and skills for loving connection often deeply buried by relational trauma
For more information on Neuroaffective Touch please visit: https://neuroaffectivetouch.com/
TUITION AND PAYMENT
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Payment PlansPayment DueIndian Students (fee is inclusive of 18% GST)International Student (transaction should only be in foreign currency)
Early Bird (limited seats)31 Dec 2025Rs 2,34,0003200 USD
Payment Plan6 month instalments, final payment must come 60 days before module 1 start dateRs 2,86,0003850 USD
Standard payment60 days before module 1 start dateRs 2,60,0003500 USD
Note: 
*Early bird offer is limited to the first 15 seats and needs to be paid in full by Dec 31, 2025.
*Tuition does not include accommodation for in-person training. It represents tuition costs only.
*Deposit of Rs 29500 (Indian students) and 500$ (international students) to be made to confirm your seat.
The deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable.
*Indian students are students who have an Indian passport.
* Depending on when you complete your registration process, Healing Circle Admin support will guide you with the payment installment plans.
* If you choose to cancel your participation, you will receive a refund of the amount paid minus the non-refundable deposit. Refunds will be processed within fifteen (15) business days from the date of the cancellation request.
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