Nina Nagy

Nina Nagy is a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She successfully completed a three-year training program in Somatic Experiencing and Trauma Healing from the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute.  She has a post-graduate  full year long certification in Integral Somatic Psychotherapy from  Integral Somatic Psychology, LLC. She is presently also getting a  Certificate of a yearlong study  (2018-2019) Trauma Studies at The Trauma Center and PESI.

She was trained at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California (2010-12), founded by Jack Kornfield, to serve as a community teacher.

The birth of a son with autism changed the trajectory of Nina’s life from working at the United Nations to having to stay at home for her son as no help would stay long enough to allow this professional life to continue. A search for an inner refuge from suffering lead to insight meditation. In, then,  teaching meditation, it became clear that many could not access being in the body due to trauma and various blockages.

This lead to the Somatic Trauma Healing certifications  that can serve both for practitioners of Insight as well as be a stand alone therapeutic work for those who simply wish for Somatic trauma healing.  The work at the United Nations and the experience in living in seven countries allows to work with diverse populations including people of color.

For the last 19 years, she has studied and continues to work with a number of well-respected teachers, who include Gina Sharpe, Mathew Flickstein, and Bhikku Bodhi. She actively participates on silent retreats at Insight Meditation Society (IMS) retreats and other retreat centers around the country. She formally served as a teacher at New York Insight Meditation Center in New York City and at present,  weekly, at Weschester Insight in Bedford Hills, New York and at the Unitarian Universalist Association, Westport, CT.

She earned a Master of Public and International Affairs (MPIA) and certificates in Asian Political Economic Affairs, Political Economy, and Western European Development at the University of Pittsburgh, and she went on to work at the United Nations, focusing on development and political issues. She then, founded SafetyNet Fund, an NGO that provides education and medical help to underprivileged children and their families living in the developing world.