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Embodied Recovery Institute

Experiential training for mental health and wellness providers She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS).

Embodied Recovery Institute provides experiential training for mental health and wellness professionals, to support them in their care for patients with eating disorders. Rachel Lewis-Marlow (co-founder) is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 25 + years of experience in diverse somatic therapies

Paula Scatoloni (co-founder) is a somatic psychotherapist trained in North Carolina.

02/02/2026

Connection begins in movement.

Before we learn to talk, self-soothe, or eat independently, our bodies follow an ancient cycle:

Yield → Push → Reach → Grasp → Pull (repeat)

Each is shaped by somatic tone and primitive reflexes.
Each forms the continuous, foundational cycle for how we connect, protect, attach, and nourish ourselves across a lifetime.

Growing Seeds of Attachment invites clinicians into an embodied exploration of this relational movement arc. Having this kind of understanding is both groundwork and groundbreaking.

Through Body-Mind Centering® and ERED’s developmental maps, participants explore:

• Cellular patterns of tone & presence
• Reflexes shaping belonging, boundary, and intimacy
• Hands-to-mouth patterns supporting eating behaviors
• The earliest templates for co-regulation and attachment

By reconnecting to these foundations in your own body, you expand your capacity for precision, presence, and attunement in the therapeutic relationship.

If you’re drawn to early development, somatics, and the origins of connection, this training will meet you there.

✨ Growing Seeds of Attachment
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC

A 4-day experiential training for ED clinicians and allied professionals who have completed Tier 2: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment

🔗 Learn more & register via the link in bio

01/21/2026

Our 3-day, in-person Introduction training in Silver Spring, MD is designed for therapists, dieticians, and somatic practitioners who already work with trauma and want clearer orientation when food and body distress arises.

Our Tier 1 training, Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, introduces you to the somato-psycho-social lens that underpins our entire approach.

You’ll learn:
• The neurobiology of embodiment
• How attachment and sensory processing shape ED symptoms
• How to decode the the body’s messages
• Foundational somatic and relationally oriented practices you can begin to incorporate into your work that support both you and your clients.

📅 March 6–8, 2026
🕰 Registration closes Jan 30, 2026
📍 Silver Spring, MD

If this feels like the missing piece in your work, trust that signal.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more

01/19/2026

Moving Through the Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 of the ERED pathway designed providers who know the body matters.

This is not about adding more theory.

It’s about refining how you embody the change process and model that for your clients.

This is what we will uncover in our upcoming Tier 2 training in NYC.

Get more info on the training and what we will explore together on our website.

Don’t miss the early bird discount!

❗️👉Early Bird discount until Jan 23, 2026👈❗️
📍 NYC | Tier 2 (Prerequisite: Tier 1 Intro to ERED)
April 23–27, 2026 & September 24–28, 2026
Link in bio to register

01/15/2026

Our Tier 2 training - Moving Through The Barriers of Embodiment - is where the ERED approach becomes lived, practiced, and precise.

If Tier 1 helped you see more clearly, Tier 2 supports you in working skillfully where embodiment gets blocked.

This training is for clinicians who have completed our Tier 1 Intro to ERED training, and are ready to deepen integration, not accumulate more information.

🗓 Jan 23 early bird deadline
📍 NYC | In-person | Tier 2
April 23–27, 2026 & September 24–28, 2026
Link in bio to register

01/13/2026

If food and body issues keep showing up in your therapy room, our Intro to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders helps you meet them with clarity and confidence.

This Tier 1 foundational training introduces the maps, concepts, and embodiment practices that form the heart of the ERED approach.

📍 In-person | Silver Spring, MD
📅 March 6–8, 2026
⏰ Registration deadline: Jan 30, 2026
🔗 Link in bio

12/29/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we’re wishing you a season of rest, digestion, integration, and renewal.

This is a time to let the year settle in the body; to allow the learning, the challenges, and the growth to integrate at their own pace. There is plenty of time and space for you to metabolize, assimilate and release.

May the final weeks of the year offer you space to land, a softening toward what matters, the capacity to welcome what 2026 will bring with clarity.

Thank you for being part of this community.

We look forward to sharing the year ahead with you.
Feel free to sign up to our newsletter to stay updated with all our upcoming 2026 online and in-person trainings, workshops, podcast interviews, and more. Link in bio 💜

Warmly,
The Embodied Recovery Institute

12/22/2025

We believe eating disorder treatment can and must evolve… which means our Introduction to ERED Online training is open for enrollment 🦋

The Embodied Recovery approach fills in missing details in the picture of what shapes our clients’ relationship with feeding and eating:
• nervous system dysregulation
• sensory and interoceptive challenges
• attachment imprints
• developmental disruptions
• defensive patterns

This training helps practitioners understand these root layers so they can support clients with greater clarity, compassion, and effectiveness 👁️

If you feel called to join a global community shifting the paradigm of ED treatment, we would be honored to have you in the 2026 cohort 🌎

Enrollment closes Feb 28.
Learn more via the link in our bio.

12/19/2025

Primitive reflexes and cellular tone form the earliest architecture for how we relate—to our bodies, to caregivers, and to the world. When these foundational patterns are unintegrated, they can disrupt regulation, interoception, and capacity to eat.

In our Tier 2 training, Growing Seeds of Attachment, you’ll learn how to:

✔ Define, demonstrate, and facilitate key cellular patterns & primitive reflexes
✔ Identify somatic indicators of unintegrated reflexes inhibiting recovery
✔ Provide psycho-physical education to clients & teams
✔ Integrate reflex-based work into interdisciplinary treatment

Across four days, we explore reflexes such as:
• Tonic Labyrinthine
• Moro
• Landau
• Babkin
• Traction
• Oral Rooting
…and more.

This training is ideal for:
Mental health clinicians, dietitians, OTs, nurses, psychiatrists, medical providers, yoga therapists, and all members of multidisciplinary ED treatment teams.

Prerequisite: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment or Clinical Applications of ERED: Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment.

A strongly experiential training—expect movement, floor work, and touch-based exploration. Participate at your comfort level.

📍 Growing Seeds of Attachment: A 4-day experiential training
May 28-31, 2026 | Chapel Hill, NC
🔗 Registration in bio

12/16/2025

If you’ve been considering joining us for in-person trainings, next year could be your year.

Begin your ERED journey with this 3-day introductory Tier 1 training, March 6–8, 2026 in Silver Spring, MD.

This training invites you to see and feel more possibilities as we expand the paradigm of eating disorder recovery treatment.

Through a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and neurobiologically grounded lens, you’ll learn why the body is not the obstacle to recovery, but a key to relational, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

This foundational course introduces the maps, concepts, and embodiment practices that form the heart of the ERED approach.

This is the first step on the ERED learning path. Whether you’re new to somatic work or already weaving body-based approaches into your practice, this course offers both depth and accessibility.

You’ll leave with:
- The 4 Foundational Principles of ERED
- Developmental maps and neurological models that reframe disordered eating through a bottom-up lens
- Scientific grounding in nervous system regulation, interoception, and embodiment as support for normative eating
- Experiential activities that illuminate how sensory and somatic experiences shape behaviors and relational dynamics
- The provider’s own embodiment as a vital therapeutic resource
- Connection with like-minded community of professionals committed to embodied recovery

Join us March 6–8, 2026 in Silver Spring.
Registration now open. Link in bio to learn more.
💟 Early Bird discount until Jan 2, 2026 💟

12/12/2025

Eating disorder symptoms are not failures—they are expressions of attempts at establishing safety and protection.

Moving Through Barriers to Embodiment is our Tier 2 training that explores the felt-sense experience of these barriers, why these protective adaptations exist, and how to support clients transform them through bottom-up resourcing.

Through participatory embodiment work, participants learn how to:

• Recognize survival-driven patterns in clients
• Support congruency of regulation and actions of eating
• Build the relational container for deeper embodiment
• Work skillfully with resistance and shutdown

If you’re ready to learn more advanced somatic maps and models for working with eating disorders, bring theory into felt understanding, step into deeper personal embodiment work that enhances effective clinical presence, and join a supportive, relational learning environment in which to explore the edges of your comfort zone, our Tier 2 training could be for you!

New York
April 23–27, 2026 & September 24–28, 2026.
Link in bio to register.
🦋 Early Bird discount until Jan 23, 2026 🦋
Open to those who’ve completed the Intro to ERED (online or in-person).

12/10/2025

Embodied Recovery Institute is expanding—and we’re thrilled to make our foundational training accessible to practitioners around the world 💻

If you’ve been wanting to train with us but travel wasn’t possible, this is your opportunity.

The updated online format includes:
7 live virtual sessions
Pre-recorded modules
Downloadable handouts
Experiential learning
A global professional community

Designed for 👉 Therapists, Dietitians, Body-based practitioners, and and medical or mental health providers working with feeding and eating struggles

Whether you’re new to somatic ED work or expanding your current skill set, this training offers the maps, models, and frameworks that shape the Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders approach, including:
💟 The 4 foundational principles of trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatically integrative eating disorder treatment
💟 Developmental and neurologically-based models that explain how embodiment and nervous system regulation support “normative eating”
💟 Experiential exploration of attachment patterns and how they influence regulation, feeding dynamics, and recovery
💟 Evidence-based rationale for expanding the ED treatment team to include specialists in trauma, sensory processing, embodied movement, and CAM
💟 Opportunities for self-reflection to help providers better understand their own embodied patterns and capacity for co-regulation

Registration is open until February 28.
Link in bio to learn more. Hope to see you online!

12/08/2025

The Introduction to Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders is now online! 📌 Join us in March 2026 from anywhere in the world to learn about the ERED approach 💟

Embodiment isn’t an “add-on” to eating disorder work—it is the foundation.

Clients who struggle with feeding, fullness, digestion, hunger, and eating behaviors are often navigating overwhelm in their nervous systems, early attachment imprints, or sensory challenges that go unseen in traditional ED treatment.

The Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders model helps clinicians understand these missing layers 🧅

If you’re ready to integrate a deeper, more compassionate, and neurobiologically informed approach into your practice, this training, blending theory and experiential practice, is for you 😇

Now fully online and open to practitioners worldwide.
March 13 – July 27, 2026
More info via the link in bio.

Address

18 S Circle Drive
Chapel Hill, NC
27516

Telephone

+19199728381

Website

http://www.embodiedrecovery.org/

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Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis-Marlow bring together over four decades of experience in the areas of clinical psychotherapy, bodywork, movement education, and dance. Their combined wisdom and creativity has evolved from a shared vision that emerged during their parallel career paths. Paula, had been working at Duke University while also offering mindful movement classes at Carolina House Treatment Center for years before she began her training in Somatic Experiencing in 2013. While Rachel, a dually-licensed psychotherapist and bodyworker, completed her training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy while working at Carolina House around the same time. Together, Rachel and Paula began to collaborate on an innovative treatment model for eating disorders that brings the body, the very stage where the war is being waged, back into the treatment setting. Drawing from the work of pioneers such as Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, and Allan Schore, the Embodied Recovery model weaves together a tapestry of interpersonal neurobiology, traumatology, child development, and sensory processing to explore the connection between eating/digestion and our basic human need for attachment and defense.