What it's about
Choc et trauma (shock and trauma) is a training of the Shen Touch Academy in two three-day modules. This first module is taught by Muriel Rochat in Lausanne; the second follows in August 2027 with Jörg Schürpf in Saillon. The course regards trauma not as an illness but as a human experience linked to the survival instinct, held in the body when the energy of survival cannot be discharged.
Participants study how the nervous system responds to danger (fight, flight, freeze), dissociation and re-association through the felt sense and orientation, and how fascia can hold the imprint of a sudden impact. Practical work includes muscle energy technique and neuromuscular re-patterning of sympathetic response movements, visceral palpation of the heart, kidneys and liver, scar work, diaphragm mobilisation and the influence of the breath.
The training is aimed at practitioners who want to support clients in leaving a state of survival. Module 1 runs from 30 April to 2 May 2027 at Espace Solâme in Lausanne; the whole training comprises 42 hours. The fee is CHF 1,100 for both modules (payable as CHF 550 per module) until 31 December 2026, then CHF 1,210 (CHF 605 per module). An online introduction webinar is held on 8 December.