The Intermediate Year of the 3 year Edinburgh SE™ training will be taught by Lael Keen, a senior SE trainer and faculty member from Brazil. 

Lael is an Advanced Level Teacher for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, a direct student of Dr. Peter Levine and is a founding member of the Brazilian Trauma Association (ABT). She has been teaching Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil, the USA and all around the world, since 1998.

In addition to teaching for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, Lael has been a teacher of Rolfing® Structural Integration since 1995. She teaches Rolfing® at the basic and Advanced levels and is also an instructor of the Rolf Movement Program. She has studied since 2001 with Hubert Godard, French Movement Educator and Researcher, Founder of the Department of Dance Movement Analysis at the University of Paris and Professor Emeritus of Rolfing® and Rolf Movement. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Rolfing® Association (ABR)

Lael holds a 5th degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and has studied many different disciplines that focus on the body-mind connection. She is a Trainer of Matrixworks Living Systems, an approach to working with groups. She uses both her Ki-Aikido training and the study of Matrixworks in all the groups that she leads.

She lives in the south of Brazil where she and her husband (also a Somatic Experiencing® teacher) own and operate a training center in the Atlantic Rain Forest on the Island of Santa Catarina.

She continues to study and learn about what it is to be a human being and how we can heal at all levels, body, mind, soul and spirit. She holds certification as an Anthroposophic Art Therapist and an Educator in the Bates Method of Vision.

Pedro Prado, 66, born in Brazil, graduated in clinical psychology in 1971 and worked and taught body oriented psychotherapy, in a neo-reichian somatic approach. In 1981 he got trained as a Rolfer and added the Structural Integration perspective into his practice. He was the first Rolfer in Brazil and dedicated himself to making Rolfing available in his country. Founded the Brazilian Association of Rolfers, and became an Advanced Rolfing and Rolf Movement Instructor for the Rolf Institute, in Boulder Colorado, where he has been teaching since 1991.

In 2000 the Brazilian Association of Rolfers brought Peter Levine in and he followed his inquires into the somatic dimension of the psyche and incorporated SE® into his practice and eventually became an Instructor for The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, where he has taught all levels of SE Training since 2005. He developed a methodology named "Structural Stretches" that integrates the Structural work and the S E®. approach. Currently, besides carrying his private practice and teaching for both Institutions, In 2006 he got a PhD in Psychosomatics.

Pedro’s special contributions to teaching have centred on awareness of the psychobiological perspectives of therapy, and the movement and behavioural dimensions of the work. He is actually the coordinator of the post-graduation program in Somatic Studies at Uniitalo, Sao Paulo, SP.

Pedro Prado, 66, born in Brazil, graduated in clinical psychology in 1971 and worked and taught body oriented psychotherapy, in a neo-reichian somatic approach. In 1981 he got trained as a Rolfer and added the Structural Integration perspective into his practice. He was the first Rolfer in Brazil and dedicated himself to making Rolfing available in his country. Founded the Brazilian Association of Rolfers, and became an Advanced Rolfing and Rolf Movement Instructor for the Rolf Institute, in Boulder Colorado, where he has been teaching since 1991.

In 2000 the Brazilian Association of Rolfers brought Peter Levine in and he followed his inquires into the somatic dimension of the psyche and incorporated SE® into his practice and eventually became an Instructor for The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, where he has taught all levels of SE Training since 2005. He developed a methodology named "Structural Stretches" that integrates the Structural work and the S E®. approach. Currently, besides carrying his private practice and teaching for both Institutions, In 2006 he got a PhD in Psychosomatics.

Pedro’s special contributions to teaching have centred on awareness of the psychobiological perspectives of therapy, and the movement and behavioural dimensions of the work. He is actually the coordinator of the post-graduation program in Somatic Studies at Uniitalo, Sao Paulo, SP.

The Intermediate Year of the 3 year Edinburgh SE training will be taught by Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D, an SE trainer and faculty member of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and Foundation for Human Enrichment. 

Abi integrates Somatic Experiencing with clinical research, the psychobiological principals of attachment, psychodynamic therapy, and somatic bodywork in her practice and teaching. She has conducted original research on the role of implicit memory in Somatic Experiencing with a committee that included Dr. Daniel Siegel.

Dr. Blakeslee holds a Masters of Arts in Counseling and Depth Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. She is interested in the intersection between neuroscience, current trauma research, and the psychobiological principals of Somatic Experiencing.

She works with individuals, couples, children, and families and treats a broad base of issues.

Dr. Blakeslee currently resides in Bozeman, MT with her husband, two young boys and young daughter. She focuses on providing faculty-level individual and group consultations to all levels of Somatic Experiencing students, teaching SE trainings and somatic workshops, and presenting at professional conferences.