Chi for Two Trauma Healing, 6570 James B Rivers Memorial Drive, Stone Mountain, GA (2026)

04/22/2026

Embodiment Coach Training- Fall 2026!

Chi for Two® - a mindful embodiment method - announces our next cohort beginning September 2026.

Two-year training:

Tuesdays 9am-10:30am ET
Starting September 8th, 2026

Chi for Two training will prepare practitioners to invite clients to more fully exist in their bodies by more fully existing in their relationships.

Coaches who become certified in our two-year training program gain a rich therapeutic framework and learn partner practices, which are attachment-based, trauma-sensitive & polyvagal-informed.

Chi For Two Embodiment Coach training brings awareness of the energetic dance of the therapeutic relationship to all somatic therapy modalities. Chi for Two draws from dance/movement therapy’s understanding of kinesthetic empathy and the Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) awareness of child/parent interaction, among many other modalities, to deepen mindfulness of two-person interactions in which there exists a built-in power differential—child/parent, student/teacher, client/coach, client/therapist, employee/boss. For this reason, the Chi for Two training program has been approved by ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association - ismeta.org).

Chi for Two training program graduates are eligible to become credentialed with ISMETA as Associate Somatic Movement Professionals (ASMP) with 250/hrs of training, or Registered Somatic Movement Educators or Therapists (RSMEs or RSMTs) with 500/hrs of training.

Trainers include:

🌟 Dee Wagner
Originator of Chi for Two; Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist; Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist; Licensed Professional Counselor

🌟 Mary Lou Davidson
Co-developer of Chi for TwoRegistered Somatic Movement Educator/Trainer Certified Embodiment Coach; Licensed Bodyworker, Esthetician and Performing Artist.

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04/21/2026

Episode 3 is out! What do Chi For Two coaches have to say about the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives & The Bachelorette? Find out on this week’s episode streaming now on YouTube and Spotify!

04/12/2026

Chi for Two®, a mindful embodiment method, weaves together important elements from the following healing modalities: psychology, somatic movement, meditative practices, attachment theory and trauma healing.

Chi for Two (Chi meaning energy, Two meaning relational) offers a comprehensive, multi-year training and is an Approved Training Program with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association), reflecting their worldwide standards and requirements for depth, scope, competencies and ethics.

Our practitioners offer somatic movement healing practices that are relational and developmental, which supports healing in a way that “dances with” clients instead of “doing something to” a client.

Trained Chi for Two coaches help to re-pattern nervous system functioning by:

*using an invitational approach
*offering relational somatic support
*celebrating new movement expressions over time that provide a robust quality of embodiment and healing.

Learn more at:

ChiforTwo.com

04/10/2026

Episode 2 is out! In this episode we talk about SINNERS. Available on YouTube & Spotify. Link in bio.

Trauma-informed Chi For Two® embodiment coaches explore film, music, and television through a therapeutic lens.

Hosted by Fred, Shelton, Carly Sackellares, Cass Pryor, and Chelsea Szegidewicz.

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Each coach is open and available for sessions in person and online.

Fred Shelton - https://www.chifortwo.com/fred

Carly Sackellares — https://www.carlysackellares.com/

Cass Pryor - https://www.chifortwo.com/cassandra

Chelsea Szegidewicz - https://www.harborofdreamsart.com/sound-therapy

Have questions? Email ChiForTwoPodcast@gmail.com

04/08/2026

It’s official!

The Chi For Two Podcast is now streaming on YouTube & Spotify! Trauma-informed Chi For Two® embodiment coaches explore film, music, and television through a therapeutic lens. Hosted by Fred, Shelton, Carly Sackellares, Cass Pryor, and Chelsea Szegidewicz.

Stay tuned for the next episode this Friday!

Questions comments? Email chifortwopodcast@gmail.com

02/23/2026

Hello, Dee Wagner here, the originator of Chi for Two. Chi (energy) for Two (relational). A mindful embodiment method, which I have been formally developing since 2017. I’m writing today because I wish for a world-healing resolution to an intensifying scientific debate. This debate is brewing over polyvagal theory. And I can explain why this resolution will likely not come from everyone being “calm.”

A recent article by Grossman et al. calls polyvagal theory “untenable.” Then, in one of his responses, Porges—creator of polyvagal theory—suggests a critique could be “untenable.”

Could the awakening of what seemed settled, create useful forward movement for our world? Yes.

The debate is creating space for the voices of helping professionals who have been itching to challenge ideas that celebrate “calm.” Voices are rising to say, “Hey, there has been a polyvagal celebration of calm without adequate anatomical understanding of the activation, which makes it possible to feel calm!”

The most important part of polyvagal theory is the identification of the active state that is not Fight/Flight. Sports professionals are stepping forward to demonstrate big, fast movements can be mobilized with Play/Dance, not Fight/Flight.

Chi for Two invites awareness of how polyvagal theory can help us see two continuums of active and calm created by two types of mobilization. If we can mobilize with Play/Dance, our bodies will naturally Rest and Digest.

Chi for Two invites awareness of key preverbal percussive rhythms and oppositional movements, which help us find our authentic movement within group movement. Being our unique authentic selves requires percussive rhythm and oppositional movement.

To dig deeper into vagal anatomical functioning and see how this knowledge could help move the scientific debate forward in a world-healing way, you can check out my latest blog post: https://www.chifortwo.com/blog/deewagner-addresses-polyvagal-grossman-porges

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02/18/2026

💡 Chi for Two® offers a version of finding yourself or self-realization that does not involve a master teacher or leaving behind the mundane to go into the wild, but rather invites self-discovery within the dance of relationship.

💛 Working with a Chi for Two coach playing The Mother, “Ideal Parent,” provides the space to explore and heal your multi-generational trauma patterning and discover authentic Being. Every person can practice the symbolic redos offered in the Chi for Two practices.

🧠 The Chi for Two practices—with the coach playing The Mother—give us the redo of developmental dances that enables us to alter our nervous system patterning, so we are armed to gracefully Handle whatever comes from within or without, allowing our light to shine. 🌟

Chi for Two®, a polyvagal-informed, multi-generational trauma healing method, offers somatic healing practices that are relational and developmental. 🌀

Chi for Two is an ISMETA Approved Training Program (www.ISMETA.org, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), meaning Chi for Two qualifies within ISMETA’s worldwide standards for scopes, ethics, competencies and practices in training Somatic Movement Therapists and Educators.

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01/24/2026

Dee Wagner, LPC, BC-DMT, MSME/T, explains the mindful embodiment method she originated called Chi for Two®.

🌟 Chi = energy
🌟 Two = relational

Did you know❓
Chi for Two partner practices for clients to do with a coach/therapist are relational and developmental. 🌀👣

They were developed through a synthesis of:

💮 Polyvagal nervous system science

💮 Levine, van der Kolk and Menakem’s understanding of multi-generational trauma patterning

💮 Bainbridge Cohen’s understanding of infant development from Body-Mind Centering

💮 Infant rhythms identified in the work of Kestenberg and colleagues

💮 Authentic Movement

💮 Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor

In their choice of the word “chi” (which can also be written “qi”), the originator and developers of Chi for Two honor the ancient people who created the practices that are currently associated with the word “mindfulness.”

✨ Developer Stephen Wagner was a long-time student of martial arts, tea ceremony and shamanism.

✨ Developer Mary Lou Davidson offered shiatsu, a Japanese massage practice based on the Chinese understanding of energy as part of her many years of professional bodywork.

✨ Developer Caroline Gebhardt, who has a yoga certification, began her integration of somatic therapies and counseling in work with disordered eating—the sucking and biting that polyvagal theory so deeply informs.

✨ Originator Dee Wagner has spent over 30 years weaving all these therapeutic modalities together from her perspective as a Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, Dance/Movement Therapist, and Counselor.

⭐️ We invite you to learn more at www.ChiforTwo.com.

01/24/2026

Save the date!

🌟 May 1, 2026 🌟

Somatic therapists Dee Wagner, LPC, BC-DMT, MSME/T & Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, RSME/T are excited to offer a deeper understanding of the science of the vagus nerve and how relational somatic practices can affect bodily functioning, providing an ethical approach to integrating somatic therapy into Intuitive Eating.

5hrs Ethics CEs for Counselors
(LPCAGA Approved)

Ethics of Integrating Somatic Therapy into Intuitive Eating for Relational Nourishment

Date: Friday, May 1, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 3:30pm
Location: Harbor of Dreams Art, Stone Mountain Georgia
Address: 6570 James B Rivers Memorial Dr, Stone Mountain, GA 30083

Objectives:

1) Identify and describe the ethical guidelines that are followed when somatic practices are invitational and relational.

2) Increase ethical competency by gaining scientific understanding of deprivation/restriction as dorsal vagal Shutdown and invitational and relational somatic practices as the pathway to the biological functioning called our Social Engagement system.

3) Ethically offer clients somatic practices that are invitational and developmental, creating consciousness of multi-generational trauma patterns that have caused harm, and providing the co-regulation that supports the digestive functioning that heals systemic harm.

Registration coming soon!
Questions? Email Caroline@MBodiedTherapy.com

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01/19/2026

Chi for Two®, a mindful embodiment method, otters somatic movement healing practices that are relational and developmental.

Certified Chi for Two embodiment coach Fred Shelton is offering a six session package for those interested in learning tools for better nervous system regulation and overall better health.

Chi for Two (Chi meaning energy, Two meaning relational) is a synthesis of many trauma healing methods and is an Approved Training Program with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association).

Trained Chi for Two coaches help to re-pattern nervous system functioning by:
* using an invitational approach
* offering relational somatic support
* celebrating new movement expressions over time that provide a robust quality of embodiment and healing.

Learn more at:

Contact Fred at atlbodymovementcoach@gmail.com

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01/11/2026

Chi for Two® deepens the world's understanding of the body's anatomy, which makes mobilization in the Play Zone possible because there is appreciation of percussive rhythms and oppositional movement as the pathway to Individuation within two-person relational dances.

Chi for Two, a mindful embodiment method, offers somatic movement healing practices that are relational and developmental.

Chi for Two (Chi meaning energy, Two meaning relational) is a synthesis of many trauma healing methods and is an Approved Training Program with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association).

Chi for Two practitioners offer somatic healing in a way that “dances with” clients instead of “doing something to” a client.

Trained Chi for Two coaches help to re-pattern nervous system functioning by:

*using an invitational approach
*offering relational somatic support
*celebrating new movement expressions over time that provide a robust quality of embodiment and healing.

Learn more at:

ChiforTwo.com

01/11/2026

Chi for Two® is a polyvagal-informed, multi-generational trauma healing method that offers somatic practices as a path toward mindful embodiment.

Chi for Two names Four Emanations of Embodiment:

🌟Navel Radiation: Star-like energy from the core, down the legs, up the spine, out the arms

🌟Contralateral Movement: Helps to unblock Star energy

🌟Gesture: Movements that call for a response, movements that try to change the dance

🌟Handling: When movement is responded to over and over by an elder, in a celebratory, sensitive way, we are eventually better able to “handle” our own big feelings

With interest in both matching and mismatching dances within relationships, along with understanding of polyvagal theory, Chi for Two’s relational and developmental practices serve as symbolic redos that help to develop Social Engagement system functioning.

Learn more at www.chifortwo.com

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