Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting

After working in the fitness industry for a few years, I realized that helping people lose weight often meant participating in a business model built on making people feel inadequate in their own skin. My aim is to deconstruct that and help people reunite with their own intuition. In addition, I recognize that what we hold emotionally and in our nervous systems is at the root of what manifests in our daily lives — from chronic symptoms to toxic relational dynamics to the injustices woven through our institutions.

So, if you're looking for transformation (aka healing) — internally, externally, and from the personal to the systemic — you already know the best place to start is with yourself. If this resonates, I welcome you to join me on this journey!

Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting isn't traditional personal training and it isn't therapy.

This is a powerful form of embodied movement that combines internal awareness with strength training, while honoring what feels safe to your unique and complex nervous system. Informed by Somatic Experiencing® principles, we bring nervous system awareness into the weight room alongside progressive overload — creating space for increased self-awareness, greater self-regulation, personal growth, and deep healing.

This space is an ongoing commitment to honoring every lived experience — with continued learning and growth into greater inclusivity and equity.

This is Trauma-informed Weight Lifting.

LEARN DETAILS ABOUT MY PILOT PROGRAM BELOW

Pilot Program

For people who…
Desire better boundaries and relief from losing themselves in the needs of others,
who desire to access a wider range of emotional responses or bring balance to extreme ones,
who seek to address health issues through a somatic approach —

I am offering a pilot program that combines Emotional Wellness Coaching and Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting.

In my work, achieving balance often means untangling beliefs from experiences that never belonged together — and metabolizing the emotions that surround them.

Through coaching, we bring what we hold emotionally into conscious awareness.

We use the physical challenge of lifting — bodyweight or actual weights — as a way to help emotions move.

This helps us release survival energy we may still be holding that never got a chance to settle.

About this pilot:

This is for those who desire to experience the combination of Emotional Wellness Coaching and Trauma-Informed Weightlifting. By participating, you are helping me and others by:

  • Providing valuable feedback that will inform how I structure the official program — an offering designed specifically for women navigating fawning responses — and how to best support different nervous systems

  • Providing me with learning opportunities to support my continued growth and improvement as a practitioner

The benefits you may experience from participating may include, but are not limited to:

  • Exploring the experiences and influences that have shaped your identity and applying what you learn to your personal growth journey

  • Learning to separate what is authentically you from those influences and using your values as a guide

  • Rediscovering your core truths and gaining the capacity to reintegrate them

  • Reclaiming choice and agency

  • Gaining the capacity to stay present through activation and deactivation

  • Learning to befriend your emotions

  • Learning how to bring a survival impulse to completion — with weightlifting as one of many resources

  • Learning how to heal personal, intergenerational, and collective trauma

  • And so much more

What’s included:

This program includes four 60-minute sessions per month, alternating between Emotional Wellness Coaching and Trauma-Informed Weightlifting, at half the cost of regularly priced sessions — a total of $200 per month for a duration of three months.

Since these sessions will be held in person, they are currently only available to residents of Tehaleh, Washington. Once the program becomes official, it will be available virtually for those outside the Tehaleh community or for those who simply prefer virtual sessions.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to reach out through email to melanie@rewoven-wellness.com or through text to 1-(253)-448-3532— I would love to hear from you!

If you'd like to learn more about my qualifications, they can be found under "My Training & Education." Just click here :

Rates for Standard TIWL Sessions

The world needs healing — and the barriers to accessing it are part of the problem. Cost should not be the thing that stands between you and support, which is why I offer sliding scale pricing.

Choosing your tier:
I trust you to choose the rate that honestly reflects your current financial capacity. There is no shame in selecting a lower tier — those options exist because they are meant to be used. If you are able to choose a higher tier, you are helping make space for someone else to access support at a lower one. This is community care in practice.

If none of the listed rates feel possible for you right now, please reach out. I would rather have a conversation than have cost be the reason you don't get support.

Sustaining / Standard / Community

Single or Drop-In: $120 / $100 / $85

Twice Monthly (2 sessions): $220 / $185 / $155

Monthly (4 sessions): $395 / $350 / $325

Scholarships & Pilot Programs:
From time to time I offer scholarship opportunities and pilot programs at reduced or no cost. These spots are limited, but they are real — and they are offered with intention. Follow me on social media to stay in the loop, or feel free to reach out directly through e-mail at melanie@rewoven-wellness.com or through text at 1 (253) 448-3532 if you'd like to know what might be coming up.