The practice and training home for Intimacy Trauma work.
EmbodiedLife Wellness Institute brings somatic practice, behavioral health research, and the emerging field of intimacy trauma into one place. This is where women, clinicians, and organizations come to address what capacity disruption does to the body, the relationship, and the culture.
The institute
What EmbodiedLife Wellness Institute Is Built For
EmbodiedLife Wellness Institute is the operational home of the SOFTEN Method™, a somatic intervention framework designed to restore intimacy capacity at the nervous system level. Through consulting, retreats, practitioner certification, intensive workshops, organizational leadership engagements, and the Softspaces Podcast, the Institute equips women, clinicians, and leadership teams to understand and restore what chronic stress, relational trauma, and intergenerational patterns have disrupted.
The Institute is grounded in neurobiological theory, attachment science, and the emerging evidence base around intergenerational trauma transmission, and it is the professional home of one of the most distinctive voices in the field of intimacy trauma.
OUR PROGRAMS
Where Would You Like Your Journey to Begin?
FOR WOMEN
Restore Your Intimacy Capacity
Group programs, retreats, and intensive workshops for women ready to stop performing wholeness and learn the tools for inhabiting it.
FOR CLINICIANS
Train in the SOFTEN Method™
Certification and intensive training for professionals working in a trauma-informed capacity who wants a psychosomatic framework for intimacy trauma work.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Address What Is Driving Your Culture
Consulting and leadership engagements for organizations navigating the behavioral, performance, and cultural dimensions of unaddressed trauma.
THE FOUNDER
"This is for the woman who has done the work, and still doesnt' feel free."
Yolanda Lewis is an intimacy trauma researcher, psychosomatic educator, the creator of the SOFTEN Method™, an EdD in Counseling: Traumatology candidate (2026), Certified Family Trauma Professional, TEDx Speaker, and Author of 16 books, including her latest book, Let Me In.