About Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery SMGI®
Feel better. Do better. Be happy.
Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® is a practical and accessible approach rooted in ancient wisdom and indigenous healing arts; validated by modern research and evidence-based healing methods.
A uniquely effective system, SMGI® is informed by a curated combination of shamanism, hypnosis, parts work, inner child work, guided imagery, meditation, and somatic, body-centered exploration and discovery, that is quickly, gently and profoundly healing. It results in freedom, ease and pleasure in the intensely exquisite human experience.
This method helps resolve trauma-related activations in the mind/body systems - without harsh catharsis or reliving of overwhelming events.
Our somatic guides each bring unique histories of triumph over adversity, specialized training, and rich gifts of their soul, to the collaborative therapeutic relationship. Get acquainted with them on our SMGI® Practitioners page.
About Gina Vance, the developer of SMGI®.
Gina Vance is a masterful inner-journey guide with a passion for teaching others how to guide with the protocol she developed: Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® or, SMGI®.
After a career in engineering, drawing up complex plans and helping contractors to build them, excruciating pain put Gina on a path of research and training that introduced her to the mind-body methods that helped her to heal the post-traumatic stress at the root of her physical pain.
Having triumphed over her own PTSD, and spent over two decades helping others to heal, Gina’s developed an inner-journeying process that is very simple, easy to use, and gets the most profound results.
She’s trained with Medical Doctors, with Shamans, and many healers; some grounded in scientific research, others profoundly intuitive.
Her work gets you very practical tools and skills to be able to easily access inner sources of support, power and love; clear away inner obstacles, and come home to your true essence.
She’s a graduate of the Academy for Guided Imagery and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Inner Guidance Life Coach, and Mind-Body Skills Advanced Professional.
With her annual 6 month training course, you can feel and experience the power of the work, and get ready to share it with others.
When you train with Gina, the time is spent giving you experience of the work rather than theories that you can find on the internet. With this training, you can benefit immediately, and be ready to begin delivering the work in the wider world right away.
Gina created SMGI® or, Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® out some of the most effective protocols, practices, and modalities, along with her own unique discoveries. Her work resolves root causes and lifelong patterns through mind-body exploration, discovery and healing.
A successful entrepreneur for more than 30 years, she founded and directed a sumptuous holistic integrative wellness center, bringing her broad holistic knowledge to her community. Supporting high-level wellness professionals in growing profitable businesses under her mentorship in this healing-hub is a cherished accomplishment.
Her training course is live via Zoom, with lots of support materials in an online library. Beginners are welcome, and advanced healing practitioners will be surprised at the ease with which these protocols bring results.
Learn about joining the training course here.
I adore the simple elegance and accessibility of this work. The protocol is so simple, yet so effective for so many. It's a joy to use it with my clients in their inspiring sessions; and such a delight hearing from them about the miraculous changes in their lives through this method. It's the best I've found yet!
Gina Vance
Origins
Developed by former engineer turned clinical hypnotherapist, coach and meditation teacher, Gina McCoy Vance, Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® is a timeless fusion inspired by the shamanic arts of geologist, psychotherapist, and shaman, John G. Livingston; the extraordinary Alchemical hypnotherapy model brought forth by Sue Marshall and David Quigley; the deeply grounded soul wisdom of integrative medical doctor, acupuncturist, and founder of The Academy for Guided Imagery, Marty Rossman, MD; as well as the ambitious, effective trauma healing model promulgated by Jim Gordon, MD, founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine. The work of Michael Meade, mythologist, scholar and storyteller, as well as Karla McLaren, M.Ed, the world’s foremost authority on emotions, have also informed this work in direct ways.