Pelvic Abdominal Scarring & Full Body Integration – three Day CPD Course
Light-touch, fascia-based, CPD-accredited training by Body in Harmony.
Go deeper with your ScarWork and learn how to reintegrate the body once the scars have been satisfactorily worked on.
They should have learned whole body fascial connection in their initial training however Sharon and Emma don’t teach this. My students will have learned it.
This three -day in-person course focuses on understanding and treating the pelvic and abdominal region — one of the most emotionally and structurally significant areas of the body. You’ll explore how surgical and injury-based scars can influence breathing, posture, and integration across the fascial network.
Led by Jan Trewartha, a pioneer in fascia and trauma-informed therapy, this course builds on ScarWork principles with new techniques, theory, and practice.
Next Course (London)
Date: Friday 28 – Sunday 30 November 2025
Location: Miller’s Way Project, Miller's Way, Shepherds Bush
London, W6 7NH
Times: 10:00 – 18:00 daily
Cost: £555 (instalment plan incurs a £20 admin fee, total £575)
CPD Hours: 21
Includes: Printed course manual and refreshments
Spaces are limited to ensure individual attention and mentoring.
What Is This Course About?
ScarWork can be transformative, especially when applied to the pelvic region. Scars from C-sections, laparoscopies, hernia repairs, mesh insertions, and more can cause major sensations of poor physical connection and integrative movement, postural shifts, emotional holding, and compensation patterns throughout the body.
This course teaches how to:
- Support the physical and emotional integration after pelvic and abdominal scarring
- Work with sensitivity around areas that may hold deep trauma
- Re-establish fascial balance through intelligent touch, improving mobility, functionality and posture.
- Address full-body compensation patterns stemming from pelvic scars
All Jan’s courses are founded on biotensegrity, so you will be introduced to tension/compression and full body continuity and how scarring can affect these. You will also learn how to safely facilitate deep release and reintegration.
Entry Requirements
This advanced course is to qualified Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork therapists only. Take your scar work to the next level and develop your confidence working with challenging scars.
To attend, you must:
- Have a working understanding of the first nine ScarWork techniques
- Be confident and experienced in applying ScarWork in clinical settings
If you have been qualified for less than five years, you should have at least one years of regular clinical ScarWork experience, including:
- Regular, hands-on work with scar tissue
- Confidence using ScarWork techniques with awareness
- A clear understanding of how clients’ bodies respond to this approach
This is essential because the course includes techniques that work structurally and deeply with fascial distortion, torsion, and tissue displacement. These require intelligent touch and responsive handling of the body.
What You’ll Learn
This CPD course blends technique and theory in a supportive learning space. You’ll gain insight and confidence in working with:
- The fascial impact of pelvic/abdominal scars
- Whole-body integration principles
- Clearing compensation patterns
- Adhesions, mesh, and complex surgical histories
- Emotional holding and breathing issues
- Specialist ScarWork techniques for pelvic and abdominal tissue
- Postural distortion, torsion, and fascial rebalancing
- Contraindications and intelligent practitioner response
You’ll leave with techniques you can apply immediately and a deeper understanding of how to work with this vital area of the body painlessly and effectively.
What You’ll Leave With
- A more nuanced understanding of the need for full body integration
- Specialist ScarWork techniques for pelvic work
- Confidence in handling post-surgical complexity
- A printed course manual
- Certificate of Attendance (21 hours CPD)
About Your Instructor
Jan Trewartha has been working with clients and students since the early 1990s and has trained therapists in the UK, Ireland, and Asia. She is the founder of Body in Harmony Training, the British Fascia Symposium and The Fascia Hub and brings presence, depth, and humour to her teaching.
Recommended Reading
“Scars, Adhesions and the Biotesegral Body” is co-edited by Jan Trewartha & Sharon Wheeler. Lead author Jan Trewartha, with contributions from experts in the field of biotensegrity and other aspects of scarring.
A valuable companion to the course.
What To Bring
- Clean linens or towels for when you are receiving treatment to your scars
- Comfortable clothes – tidy and practical during Clinical Practice sessions
- A notebook and pen
- Your curiosity!
Lunch is not provided — please bring your own. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available.
Yes — you will receive 21 hours of CPD upon completion.
Yes — you must be confident with the first 9 ScarWork techniques. If you have been qualified for less than five years, you should have at least one years of regular clinical ScarWork experience If unsure, email Jan to discuss your experience.
Yes, there is a strong practical component. Please advise us of any health concerns or sensitivities in advance.
Ready to train in this specialist course?
Working with the pelvis and abdomen can transform your understanding of the effect of scars on body and mind. If you’re ready to take your ScarWork practice further and support clients at a deeper level, this course is for you.
Questions? Contact us here.
Insurance: This course is insurable through Balens, Holistic Insurance, BABTAC, IPTI, Graybrook Insurance Brokers, and the FHT subject to your qualifications.
Cancellation policy: Your deposit is your commitment to the course and is non-refundable. If you have paid in full but are unable to attend the course due to exceptional circumstances, you are welcome to transfer your place to someone else as long as they are suitably qualified at a fee of £40. If this is not possible the Principal will look to resolve the situation in a way that is fair to the student and to the school and will if possible transfer you to another course but charge a one-off £40 administration fee. This can only be done up to four weeks before the start of the course. Please note that a minimum of eight students are required for this course to run and if your late withdrawal means the course cannot run, you will be unable to do so out of fairness to the other students. On our side, if for any reason we are forced to cancel, we will offer you a place on another course or refund 100% of all monies paid.
Covid policy: Please note – if required by government or common-sense guidelines, we will instigate precautions as needed to deal with any current virus situations. These may include masks, extra sanitising, and changes in how we run the class to reduce the number of people you are in personal contact with. If you have concerns about any of these precautions, please contact the tutor immediately so that we can discuss how best to accommodate you. Thank you for your cooperation.
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