Meet The Team

Damian Kai Norman

Somatic Therapist

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC)

ICF-Accredited Coach

Lead Breathwork Facilitator and Somatic Educator

As a registered counsellor specializing in trauma and somatic therapy, a certified breathwork facilitator, craniosacral therapist, bodyworker, psychedelic integration counsellor, ex-professional dancer, and ICF-accredited coach, Damian Kai Norman values community, integrity, and congruence between heart, body, and mind. He loves facilitating group work and retreats, holding safe containers for authentic, vulnerable conversation, befriending the nervous system, and cultivating our capacity to feel fearlessly.

Norman has over a decade of experience facilitating and teaching internationally across Canada, Europe, and South America. He is co-founder of the Somatic Embodiment Academy, which certifies somatic coaches and breathwork facilitators in the pursuit of therapeutic excellence, and serves on faculty at Rhodes Wellness College, teaching in the two-year Professional Counselling Program.

A student at heart, Norman has completed the three-year Somatic Experiencing International Trauma Therapy program and the Embody Lab's Somatic Attachment Therapy program. His breathwork training includes Levels 1, 2a, 2b, and 3 of Robin Clement's Breathwave Facilitator program, co-facilitating multiple Levels 1 and 2 alongside Robin, and co-facilitating North America's first Clinical Breathwork program with Braedy Mac. He is a certified Level 1 Craniosacral Therapist through Healing Hands, a 200-hour certified yoga instructor through the Himalayan Valley Yoga Center, a certified ZenThai Massage and Shiatsu practitioner, and a Level 3 graduate of the Movement Flow program. His four years of professional dance training at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and York University launched a career in dance performance and embodiment workshop teaching.

Norman brings breathwork, psychoeducation, and embodiment workshops to TheraPsil, Qi Integrated Health, corporate and wellness companies, retreats, festivals, and trainings. A leader in conscious men's work, he spent four years with the Arka Brotherhood — including leading his own Squad — and now leads immersives and retreats with Expansive Man. He has completed Levels 1 and 2 of Conscious Relationship Training (CRT), The Power of Awareness meditation training, and was among the first graduates of Toad School's psychedelic training. Finally, he is a graduate of Rhodes College Professional Counselling Program.

Norman holds an intimate relationship with trauma, and continues learning, through lived experience, how to compassionately relate to his own chronic pain through working with the nervous system. He's here to do the work with you, attuning to your personal journey. With a calm, grounded presence and an uplifting, encouraging spirit, Norman invites you to connect with your body and build a relationship of trust, curiosity, and compassion... creating a loving partnership with yourself.