GET CERTIFIED IN OUR 150 HOUR TRAINING
Next SMGI® live online training in Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® led by Gina Vance: Meets weekly beginning March, 2025, ends September, 2025.
This immersive online training and professional certification program equips participants to safely and effectively guide others. The skills taught can be the foundation of a career as an SMGI® Guide, and a complement many other kinds of services.
All Live Sessions Recorded for Later Viewing!
Shine your light, share your gifts, help others.
Regardless of where you are in your process or on your life-path, you can help make this world a better place. You don’t need to be perfectly educated or perfectly healed to be able to shine your light and walk your path of destiny. You can offer service from the divine in you to the divine in others. Even if you feel like you or your life is a mess, your inner light is divine perfection.
Our trauma-informed certificate training gives you the methods and delivery support to create healing. The healing doesn’t come from you, but is a collaboration between your divine self and another’s divine self.
Our trauma-informed certificate training happens once a year, and unfolds over six months. With weekly live sessions, pre-recorded lectures, printable outlines, guidelines and how-to lists. This accessible, thorough training also provides business building support to help you in getting found by those seeking what you offer.
Move yourself and those you serve beyond current limits with trauma-informed, evidence-based mind-body tools, rooted in ancient practices, that empower radical transformation in gentle ways.
“Gina Vance is a brilliant teacher of her brilliant program of SMGI®. Much like her theory of how simple journey work can be, so is the organization of the program. Each week flowed, combining a group meeting, a video lecture, along with a practicum and various suggested readings. A cohesive and comprehensive program for all types of learners and healers. I highly recommend finding out more about SMGI®.”
— Elizabeth Darnell Traub, SMGI® Guide, MA Somatic Psychology and Master Yoga Instructor, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
A journey together.
We’ll journey together as a group over six months, with weekly live interactive sessions. All live sessions are recorded for later viewing if missed.
You’ll learn to guide others on inner-journeys of discovery, exploration and healing, and you’ll get to experience how easy this protocol makes it to get to deep places, great wisdom and phenomenal power - in yourself as a journeyer, and in those you guide into and through their inner world.
We’ll have rich experiences together in safe ways. Experiences you’ll find are changing you, and bringing confidence in the SMGI® protocol and its benefits for those in your life.
“This training has given me an amazing foundation to help shift my career into helping people subconsciously. I’ve been given and shown a tool that can better humanity. There’s a lot of somatic work available now, but this, this work is cutting-edge.”
— Mark Christian Bacigalupi, SMGI® Guide Trainee, NICASIO, CA
How is SOMATIC MINDFUL GUIDED IMAGERY® different than other popular healing methods?
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If you value the way Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, developed by Francine Shapiro, reduces the charge activation of traumatic episodes, you’ll love how SMGI® empowers the completion of incomplete rites of passage, leading to an experience of achievement, triumph and initiated wisdom.
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If you admire the “bottoms up” philosophy of Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easily, gently and quickly SMGI® gets you resourced so you can release the unexpressed survival responses held, stored and carried in the mind-body system.
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If you appreciate the Internal Family Systems model, developed by Richard Schwartz, you’ll love how SMGI® simplifies parts work, with some similar, yet different understandings and protocols that heal and integrate the various parts quickly and gently in simple ways.
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If you know of the benefits of releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma with the Trauma Releasing Exercises developed by David Berceli, you’ll appreciate the subtle and gentle ways SMGI® supports one’s own Natural Expulsive Reflex to release what’s no longer beneficial from the mind-body systems.
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If you’ve heard how psychotherapy has benefitted from incorporating Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, developed by Janina Fisher, into a less pathologizing way to increase motivation to overcome self-destructive impulses, you’ll be relieved to know that with the simple formula in SMGI®, you can support healing of complex trauma by allowing the client’s own inner wisdom to show the way.
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If you admire the way the psychotherapeutic method of Compassionate Inquiry, developed by Gabor Maté, explores the root cause of addictive behaviors along with the distorting impacts of traumas, while helping the therapist uncover what’s beneath the surface, so they can create recognition and liberation, then you’ll love the ease of the SMGI® steps that educe all this from the client’s own inner wisdom in a way that is ideally suited to support their desired outcomes.
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If you value focus on calming inner chaos while resolving the root cause of problems, and ending traumatic events without reliving them, as with the Instinctual Trauma Response model developed by Louis Tinnin and Linda Gantt, you’ll be surprised at how little mapping-out of the details of traumatic events is required with SMGI®, as your inner wisdom takes you to where you need to go to create the results you desire.
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If you’ve explored the benefits of bringing your attention into the present moment in a nonjudgemental way, you’ll find the SMGI® version of Mindfulness to be super simple to use, easy to incorporate on your feet, eyes-open, in up-tempo life situations, and a quick trick for calming, settling and stabilizing your nervous-system.
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While high quality Guided Imagery has been shown to support sometimes miraculous change, the invitational and interactive way it’s used in the SMGI® formula incorporates an elegant trifecta of receptive, directive and interactive forms that educe your own most beneficial images, according to your own inner wisdom. With this model, there’s no need for the facilitator-guide to come up with images for the client-journeyer to comply with.
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In 1800s Paris, France, Dr. Pierre Janet primarily used hypnosis with hospitalized trauma patients to help them heal, with astounding results. Though it went out of fashion for a while due to politics in conventional therapy at the time, its power and popularity have remained in the background, until its recent resurgence in popularity, as it has continued to resolve trauma in the hands of skilled practitioners - even before conventional psychotherapy came round to naming PTSD and later rediscovering that trauma is healable. SMGI® incorporates and demystifies some of the most beneficial elements of Hypnotherapy in easy, simple, clear ways, and shows how our most ancient ancestors used it to heal with the power within.
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Really a category of a style of journeying within, Shamanism has been something all peoples have practiced to communicate with multiple levels of existence, experience, and life-forms to access information, personal power and healing. SMGI® goes beyond conventionally taught shamanism with simple steps that connect you to your power and resources, so you can clear your inner clutter, and retrieve your soul fragments so you can be whole, integrated and free.
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The best Life Coaching draws your own best ideas and solutions out of you and helps you realize your strengths. SMGI® incorporates powerful subconscious blocks clearing methods along with specific coaching components that help you access the power of your deepest desires, so that you will be easily propelled into and beyond the dreams in your soul.
“This course is filled with a treasure trove of insight, information and clear guidelines. The methods and techniques are conveyed easily and concisely. This is an easy, effective and powerful protocol to resolve issues of trauma more quickly.”
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— Jean-Pierre Weingarten, SMGI® Guide & Sacred Energy Optimizer, MILL VALLEY, CA
Curriculum
Weekly Live Sessions Online
We meet every week online for six months of fun, inspiring, and impactful sessions that demonstrate the exercises. Our group trainings provide ample interaction with Gina, your instructor, as well as with each other, so you’ll get the greatest benefit in our time together. Depending on your class size, our sessions are a little over two hours.
Downloads of Guidelines
You’ll be supported every step of the way with weekly downloads to walk you through the steps of the protocol. You’ll get diagrams and other helpful information you can organize in your own manual, to refresh your memory of a step, and share helpful information with your clients. Most of the video lecture-tutorials are downloadable as well.
Practical Experience
The evidence-based skills that you will learn have been documented to help lower levels of stress, improve mood, enhance resiliency and optimism, and help prevent chronic health conditions. We’ll move through them together in our weekly Live Sessions, and you will practice giving and receiving many sessions with your classmates.
Pre-recorded Video Tutorials
Our video lectures are amusing as well as richly informative, and range from under one hour, to a bit over two hours each week.
Business Building Support
Every. Step. Of. The. Way. Our business building support sections nudge you along each week, so you can easily market and prosper.
Community
The richly sweet bonds we develop over our six months together provide a lasting community of professional and personal resources.
Enrollment is $6,700
“Gina’s SMGI® training is a fantastic value. Gina has put tremendous thought into constructing the training. I was amazed by the depth and breadth of the content as well as how Gina has managed to integrate many different healing traditions and her own lived experience into the training. The live sessions and the trades ensured that the content did not remain theoretical but was grounded in practice. I grew personally and professionally in taking the training.”
Sanjeev Balarajan, Coach, Somatic Journey Guide (Certified SMGI® Guide), Brainspotting Practitioner, Graduate Student in Psychology, PALO ALTO, CA
“SMGI®, or Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, is a process that produces profound effects. This course teaches one to be a guide and it is rich with information and the Zoom classes are very engaging. Not only did I learn to be a confident guide, but also got so much more out of it. I highly recommend the class.”
Kirsten Kuhlmann, Inner Journey Guide POINT REYES STATION, CA
“After working through my personal trauma healing with Gina Vance, what a gift I have been given in learning how to serve others who seek a unique and effective path to healing. Thank you Gina for sharing this amazing program with us and for training us to Guide others the way you have Guided us.”
Nica Shaw, SMGI® Guide, BUCKEYE, AZ
“When I signed up for the SMGI® training course I thought it would be like any other class. I was wrong. There was no wasted time or lessons in this course, yet it was gentle and life-paced learning. The most beneficial part to me was the hands on practice. I loved it. By the second month of the course people were noticing a happy, more confident change in me. Indeed, as I was learning to help others I was getting helped myself. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to make a difference in the lives of others”
AmyAnna Soto, SMGI® Guide MODESTO, CA
“I have spent years studying healing modalities like Past Life Regression, hypnosis and shamanic practices. I believe that SMGI® is the best modality for its effectiveness in getting to the heart of the matter in a quicker and more efficient manner. I would recommend SMGI® sessions to anyone wanting to improve themselves. It is especially transformational for someone who has experienced any form of trauma. Also for anyone who is a healer, the SMGI® course is a must.”
Mark McAdams SMGI® Guide NEWPORT BEACH, CA
What can I say about this class, except sign up for it the next time it's available! I'm so glad I did! This training is a wonderful opportunity for those who truly want to better their lives and the lives of others. I've known Gina Vance for several years and I still continue to be amazed by her. She is an extremely gifted mind, body, spirit guide/coach. She has developed this comprehensive course which is perfectly suited for both experienced healers and practitioners, as well as for those from other walks of life. If you have the desire to help others tap into their inner resources, so they can gently heal from past trauma and feel happier within themselves, then take this class! You may be surprised by all that can be accomplished through SMGI®.”
Sue Westgate, SMGI® Guide Inner Allies & Alliances Coach, SOULSBYVILLE, CA
“This training was not only on how to become a better healer but was a training on how to have a better life. Be a better human/friend/parent. This was the best part of my week and unlike anything I could possibly have expected or imagined”.
Michelle McKayla SMGI® Guide, Psychic Medium, SAUSALITO, CA