What it's about
Shock and Trauma (Choc et trauma) is a Shen Touch Academy training that treats trauma not as an illness but as a human experience linked to the survival instinct. What matters is not the force of an event but a person's capacity to react to it: trauma is held in the body, in the inability to discharge survival energy that remains blocked.
The training asks what happens in nervous physiology during an intense, dangerous or unexpected event, and how fascia record the imprint of a violent, rapid impact. Practitioners learn to see how a physical or emotional shock has been imprinted and to act on both nervous system regulation and the body parts that hold the response. Contents include fight, flight and freeze, dissociation and re-association through felt sense and orientation, muscle energy technique, visceral palpation of heart, kidneys and liver, scar work and diaphragm mobilisation.
The training is for practitioners and has two three-day modules: 30 April–2 May 2027 with Muriel Rochat at Espace Solâme, Lausanne, and 20–22 August 2027 with Jörg Schürpf at the Swiss Dojo, Saillon, 42 hours in total. The fee is CHF 1,100 (CHF 550 per module) until 31 December 2026, then CHF 1,210 (CHF 605 per module).