The Most Complete Education in Scar Tissue Out There
Would you like to change the paradigm in favor of more meaningful relationships with your patients and clients while improving their participation and accountability? STREAM Certification is an advanced training opportunity for professionals already working in somatics, scar tissue remediation, and healthcare.
For professionals who feel ready to put STREAM training to work ASAP, STREAM Certification is the way! You can sign-up and begin your training by declaring your intent to certify immediately, rather than waiting for the end of your first year.
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STREAM Certification is perfect for midwives, doulas, pelvic PTs, wellness professionals, nurse practitioners, health coaches, therapists, and more. If you work with human beings, you encounter blockages due to scar tissue. Everybody with a body has scars - it's part of being human. From the STREAM perspective, unseen scars also occur in the emotional domain due to trauma. Whether painful or subtle, problems arise from these scars.
Scars get overlooked, yet almost everyone lives
with their consequences.
Unseen emotional aspects of scars show up in both physical and psychological therapeutic work. Whether your work is based on physical contact, conversation, or both, you'll learn how to effectively root out persistent scar-related problems.
Ellen Heed is renowned and respected as a scar tissue expert. Her pioneering work remediating pelvic floor scar tissue has been studied and celebrated worldwide. She teaches from an inclusive, holistic perspective that identifies and connects four essential physical and emotional health domains, illuminating their cause-effect relationships.
Three Certification Options
If you feel passionately invested in your work, your client's results,
and your own personal development, then STREAM Certification is an excellent choice for you.
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STREAM is committed to changing the story of scar tissue - from benign neglect to empowered action. It's graduate-level training for professionals eager to learn and grow.
STREAM practitioners walk their walk - our body-based education
inspires you to make the changes you crave in your personal and professional life.
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STREAM training offers a uniquely embodied method of learning.
We encourage you to try out all of our interventions to remediate scars, both seen and unseen. When you've walked the walk by trying STREAM for yourself, we're confident you'll want to share these cutting-edge methods with your clients and patients.
STREAM Certification: Four Domains of Health
18 months, 2 Workshops
4 Client Practicums + 1 Case Study
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For yoga teachers, wellness coaches, therapists, and care providers focused primarily on incorporating conversational and somatic to nervous system awareness and the Four Domains Methodology (how to direct the sequence of care)
Acquire super-assessment skills, workable solutions, & educational strategies to create lasting change
STREAM Certification: Scar Tissue Remediation & Bodywork
21 months, 3 Workshops
6 Client Practicums + 1 Case Study
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For providers focused on hands-on work: doulas, massage & craniosacral therapists, Sexological Bodyworkers, & more
In addition to learning everything in the Four Domains Certification track, learn to work with scars through one-of-a-kind techniques for hands-on scar tissue remediation, client self-help strategies, and more.
STREAM Certification: Hands-in
Pelvic Specialist
24 months, 4 Workshops
8 Client Practicums + 1 Case Study
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This track is for professionals who work specifically in the areas of sexuality, pelvic health, and hands-on care: Sexological Bodyworkers, midwives, PTs, nurses, acupuncturists, & more
In addition to receiving all of the training in the other certification tracks, learn to work with scars from inside the body, teach self-help, empowerment, educate about healthy sexuality, and more.
Which Certification Option is Right for Me?
There are three options available for STREAM Certification; the track you choose depends on your professional goals. If desired, Ellen and her team of mentors will help guide you to your best choice––one that makes sense for your location, profession, and stage of career development.
STREAM training includes reviewing your professional goals and identity once you're grounded in the STREAM foundations and 75% through your first year.
We acknowledge the kind of practitioner you already are
and the direction you'd like to grow in.
WHAT STREAM STUDENTS ARE SAYING
the Four Domains of Health
Thank you so much.
I’m learning more and more.
This is my calling -
this stuff is so neat!
PRO ATHLETE TRAINER,
SWITZERLAND
Scar Tissue Remediation & Bodywork
I have to tell you how delighted
I've been with the results
I'm getting from applying the STREAM approach! I used the protocols in every single
massage I gave this week,
with much success.
MASSAGE THERAPIST, OHIO
Hands-in Pelvic Care
I really had no idea just how expansive this whole journey would be into STREAM study. It's really just blown my mind. it's a philosophical framework that now informs everything.
NURSE MIDWIFE, AUSTRALIA
Why STREAM Certification?
... because you want to evolve your healthcare delivery to be truly integrated and holistic; to be a part of the change we all crave in this world.
... because you know that the human body and lived experience are inextricable. And that compartmentalized or reductionist approaches don't often serve.
... because you want to be able to attend to the whole person–not just a part of them.
... because you believe in addressing issues at their root cause(s).
... because you earnestly want to deliver truly effective, life-changing care.
... because you have the desire (and courage) to create a cutting-edge practice.
... because you want to bring in additional income.
... because you yearn for significant, lasting improvement for your clients.
What distinguishes somatic education? Who's this track for? Who's this for, end client? T
Certification Track #3: Hands-In
Certification Track #2: Hands-On
HOW IT WORKS
Getting Started with STREAM Certification
STREAM HEALTH COACHING
BEAR WITNESS
TO CLIENTS'
STORY AND STATE
MEANINGFUL MIND-BODY EDUCATION
& REFRAMING
TEACH EMBODIED REMEDIATION FOR TRAUMA
STREAM HEALTH COACH CERTIFICATION
18 months of active study plus
Two workshops or their equivalencies
Six months or more to complete Cert requirements after active study
HEALTH COACH Certification requirements: four client practicums / one case study
The entire program cost: $11,880 if completed in 24 months
$495/month for 24 months, or more depending on completion date
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The STREAM Health Coach Certification is for yoga teachers, physical trainers, health coaches, therapists, doulas, and anyone who works with physical and emotional scars
with limited hands-on contact.
Most people have mentally mapped their body separately from their emotions, thoughts, and beliefs. STREAM health coaches help clients understand the connection between mind and body more clearly. They also help clients understand the connection between physical and emotional pain, the capacity of their nervous system, how it functions, and how
autonomy plays a critical role in health, wellness, and relationships
(with ourselves and others).
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STREAM Health Coaches use somatic education
and connected movement along with language to
communicate, connect, and build trust with their clients.
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STREAM BODYWORK
REMEDIATE EXTERNAL SCARS & ADHESIONS, REALIGN POSTURE
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RE-NEGOTIATE THE EMOTIONAL BODY
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EXPAND NERVOUS SYSTEM CAPACITY
STREAM BODYWORK CERTIFICATION
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21 months of active study plus
Three workshops or their equivalencies
Six months or more to complete STREAM Certification after active study
BODYWORK Certification requirements: six client practicums / one case study
The entire program cost: $13,365 if completed in 27 months
$495/month for 27 months, or more depending on completion date
Life, pregnancy, and postpartum issues affect the body differently for everyone. STREAM Bodywork professionals help all bodies (especially bodies that have birthed) to regain emotional, postural, and organ integrity. STREAM Bodyworkers teach
and assist their clients to:
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Reverse pain syndromes
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Understand the connections between emotions and physical tension/pain
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Regain postural ease and grace
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Reorganize organ placement & function, correctly
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Relieve pain syndromes due to bone and joint misalignment
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Recover their right to pleasurable sexuality
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STREAM Pelvic Care Specialist
NAVIGATE THE PELVIS, REMEDIATE THE SCARS
LISTEN TO THE TISSUE to HEAR THE WHOLE BODY'S STORY
FACILITATE HEALTH BY MAKING MEANING
STREAM PELVIC SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION
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24 months of active study plus
Four workshops or their equivalencies
Six-to-twelve months to complete STREAM Certification after active study
PELVIC CARE SPECIALIST Certification requirements: eight client practicums / one case study
The entire program cost: $14,850 if completed in 30 months
$495/month for 30 months, or more depending on completion date
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Listening to the stories held within our tissues is a fine art. STREAM Pelvic Care Specialists help clients to connect with the stories they never knew their bodies held. When the body's truth is revealed, healing happens in rapid, unexpected, and profound ways.
Learn to navigate pelvic terrain as you hold space for the emotional body.
Trauma is commonly held in the pelvis and must be negotiated with grace and sensitivity.
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Clients report that:
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Their scars change texture, reducing restrictions
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Dots connect between symptoms & emotions
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Organs move, and structural changes are maintained
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By getting to the roots of the pain, it's eliminated
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INVEST IN YOURSELF, INVEST IN YOUR PRACTICE
Pursuing STREAM Certificiation is an investment in yourself and your practice.
Cost depends on your certification option, but monthly payments make it easy!
First-year students pay $495 monthly, which includes access to the online curriculum, mentorship, and coaching calls, and
STREAM Workshop I, Bodies, Bones & Trauma
Partial scholarships available for BIPOC students
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Second-year students pay $495 monthly based on your chosen certification track and configuration of STREAM Workshops.
To democratize the benefits of STREAM, I believe that STREAM information should be as accessible as possible–for everyone who’s interested. If you require financial assistance, let us know during your interview as you move trough the application process.
STREAM Certification requires a two-plus year commitment that includes 1:1 Mentorship, online learning, experiential "in-practice" learning, professional supervision, as well as live in-person learning, or its equivalent. To use STREAM as part of your personal branding, you must be STREAM Certified.
Requirements for STREAM Certification are listed above.
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STREAM Certification carries requirements to attend workshops (or pursue equivalency if students cannot attend workshops). Depending upon your certification track, the number of workshops required varies. Equivalence is decided individually depending on the qualifications and training
of each Certification Applicant.
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We all benefit by understanding the path to whole-body health before asking others to walk it with us. STREAM practitioners walk the walk. As the effects of STREAM are felt in your own body, you're better equipped to accompany your clients' journey compassionately. To this end, the STREAM Certification Program teaches students the tools and techniques to help themselves.
After one's self-care is secured, it's time to help others.