SMGI® - SOMATIC MINDFUL GUIDED IMAGERY
Gentle. Simple. Powerful. Effective.
A comprehensive professional certification program with Gina Vance
Move yourself and those you serve beyond current limits with trauma-informed, evidence-based mind-body tools, rooted in ancient practices that gently empower radical transformation. |
SMGI® mind-body methods will easily open up new possibilities for your healing work.
Next SMGI® training starts March 16th
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Accessible, supportive and thorough:
18 Modules include live online sessions, SMGI® Training Videos, and Business Building.
The weekly live online sessions, where you receive richly informative and fun interactive sessions, are approx 2 hours each.
SMGI® Training videos are 1 to 3 hours each.
And there's much more, like printable outlines and guidelines and how-to lists!
Includes business building support designed to help you get found by those seeking what you offer.
18 Modules include live online sessions, SMGI® Training Videos, and Business Building.
The weekly live online sessions, where you receive richly informative and fun interactive sessions, are approx 2 hours each.
SMGI® Training videos are 1 to 3 hours each.
And there's much more, like printable outlines and guidelines and how-to lists!
Includes business building support designed to help you get found by those seeking what you offer.
The SMGI® method helps resolve trauma-related activations in the mind/body systems - without harsh catharsis.SMGI® uses the power of the old ways in new ways. It’s informed by a curated combination of shamanism, hypnotherapy, 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.
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More about SMGI® Professional Certification Program
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Business: Richly Rewarding
The SMGI® course is designed to help healers of all kinds experience the business growth they so well deserve.
Healing: Easily Learned
The training program itself combines live sessions with extensive video and written instruction.
Growth: Deeply Insightful and Experiential
The deepest learning happens as you experience the techniques working on you. And the work hardly feels like work!
It’s easy, often fun, always enlivening.
The SMGI® course is designed to help healers of all kinds experience the business growth they so well deserve.
Healing: Easily Learned
The training program itself combines live sessions with extensive video and written instruction.
Growth: Deeply Insightful and Experiential
The deepest learning happens as you experience the techniques working on you. And the work hardly feels like work!
It’s easy, often fun, always enlivening.

Boosting and elevating your skills above and beyond other therapies, here's some of what SMGI® includes:
- Eyes-open hypnotic interviewing and coaching that catalyzes instant change.
- Beyond trauma-informed psycho-education. Beyond fight, flight and freeze, there are six additional survival response programs that become trauma-related reactions. These are important to understand to more easily heal. We teach our clients what they are and how to work with them.
- We support receptivity by including validating information found in Karla McLaren’s model of 17 emotions, where even the so-called “negative” emotions have gifts to help us heal.
- We teach mind/body tricks, and at-home exercises to regulate the nervous system quickly and easily, to gently establish receptivity without engendering resistance. Tricks that create a felt sense of support and safety.
- We use an “instant” form of induction, that super-charges connection to what’s needed for the wanted transformation. This special mini-induction calms, settles and stabilizes the nervous system for greater receptivity.
- It works in cycles of three. Clients work in series of three or six session packages at a time. Many make it a central part of their life support, continuing to purchase three packs or six packs in ongoing work. (The more they do, the more they get, and it’s a very sustaining business model).
- We teach our clients a special Subconscious-Seeding method to manifest abundance and prosperity in career, health and relationships. As Guides, we use it too, with astounding results!
- The specially designed prompts make it easy for non-believers and those afraid of getting too deep, to easily access profound states of connection to inner resources and power to create change.
- How to quickly and easily strengthen and stabilize the mind-body systems and work with "triggers" or activations of discomfort to follow the trouble to where it's coming from and what needs to happen to clear, change or resolve it.
Here's Who This is For:
SMGI® mind-body skills are for professionals and for lay persons.
- Interns won't want to miss the opportunity to learn an intervention that can be used with any population.
- Experts will benefit from an evidence-based way to empower their work.
- Education savvy trauma survivors will get practical applications of popular protocols and theories.
- Hypnotherapists, you'll appreciate some of the ways SMGI® is informed by hypnotherapy, and some of the ways it’s different. If you've been trained in David Quigley’s genius Alchemical model of hypnotherapy, congratulations! You've been trained in the most brilliant, inspired model of hypnotherapy I know of. (click here to read more)
At completion you'll receive your SMGI® / Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® Guide certificate, and you’ll qualify for a professional listing on the SMGI® Practitioner Directory.
Continuing Education Units are available for Hypnotherapists.
More of what this training Includes:
- Weekly live sessions online - Mar 16th through to Sep 14th
- Lifetime access to self-study online program
- Written explanations of how and when to use the mind-body tools
- Downloadable outlines to remind you of the steps to walk yourself through and that other helping professionals in your life can use to verbally walk you through the steps with
- Videos guiding you through the steps of the self-regulating and healing processes
- Downloadable guided meditations to further strengthen and stabilize your mind-body and nervous systems and help others do the same
- Downloadable E-Book
- Guided imagery CD or download of restorative imagery
- Email and text access to Gina for brief check-ins
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Graduates celebrate their results!
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Here's a quick sampling of feedback from participants before you who were drawn to this program, from various walks of life and professional backgrounds including: Marriage and Family Therapy, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Reiki Practitioner, Inner Journey Guide, MA Somatic Psychology, Master Yoga Instructor, Licensed Massage Therapy, Certified Access Bars Facilitator, Intuitive Healer, Shamanic Practitioner, Hypnotherapist:
"Working with Gina has allowed me to add a whole new skillset to my professional repertoire while increasing my ability to address and resolve personal challenges."
"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."
"I’ve done so many modalities to release trauma locked in my body. SMGI® has changed the trajectory of my life and career. For those who want a new way to heal and experience more ease, joy and expansiveness, I highly recommend the SMGI® training."
"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."
"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."
"I have spent years studying 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."
Click here to see the full testimonials, and more.
"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."
"I’ve done so many modalities to release trauma locked in my body. SMGI® has changed the trajectory of my life and career. For those who want a new way to heal and experience more ease, joy and expansiveness, I highly recommend the SMGI® training."
"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."
"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."
"I have spent years studying 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."
Click here to see the full testimonials, and more.
Gina Vance
Creator of Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®

Hi, I'm Gina Vance, a mind-body coach who helps professionals connect to the power in their subconscious to relieve pain, get calm, and accomplish their dreams.
I teach mind-body healing skills that are deeply simple and easy to use, with a special kind of hypnotherapy called Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® or SMGI®. This method gives you a direct experience of your inner spirit, so that you can release old traumas and stuck energy, and embody more of your best self.
Over the past 20 years, my work with clients and students has brought me to believe that human beings have a phenomenal untapped capacity to heal, love and contribute.
After a career in engineering, excruciating pain put me on a path of research and training that introduced me to the mind-body methods that helped me to heal the post-traumatic stress at the root of my physical pain.
I've trained with Medical Doctors, with Shamans, and many healers; some grounded in scientific research, others wildly instinctual.
I'm a graduate of the Academy for Guided Imagery and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, I'm a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Inner Guidance Life Coach and a Mind-Body Skills Advanced Professional.
I created SMGI®, Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, out of all these protocols, practices, and modalities along with many of my own inspired discoveries. This work resolves root causes and resolves lifelong patterns through mind-body exploration, discovery and healing.
As the founder and director of a sumptuous holistic integrative wellness center, I brought my broad holistic and integrative therapeutic knowledge to my community, while supporting high-level wellness professionals in growing profitable businesses under my mentorship.
With great faith in your soul, Gina
I teach mind-body healing skills that are deeply simple and easy to use, with a special kind of hypnotherapy called Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® or SMGI®. This method gives you a direct experience of your inner spirit, so that you can release old traumas and stuck energy, and embody more of your best self.
Over the past 20 years, my work with clients and students has brought me to believe that human beings have a phenomenal untapped capacity to heal, love and contribute.
After a career in engineering, excruciating pain put me on a path of research and training that introduced me to the mind-body methods that helped me to heal the post-traumatic stress at the root of my physical pain.
I've trained with Medical Doctors, with Shamans, and many healers; some grounded in scientific research, others wildly instinctual.
I'm a graduate of the Academy for Guided Imagery and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, I'm a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Inner Guidance Life Coach and a Mind-Body Skills Advanced Professional.
I created SMGI®, Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, out of all these protocols, practices, and modalities along with many of my own inspired discoveries. This work resolves root causes and resolves lifelong patterns through mind-body exploration, discovery and healing.
As the founder and director of a sumptuous holistic integrative wellness center, I brought my broad holistic and integrative therapeutic knowledge to my community, while supporting high-level wellness professionals in growing profitable businesses under my mentorship.
With great faith in your soul, Gina