Mark Tanaka is a teacher and coach. He specializes in helping people do inner child repair work to heal developmental trauma, utilizing nervous system regulation and somatic attachment therapies. His unique background includes 25 years spent studying Eastern self-healing and self-regulation practices such as yoga, qigong, meditation, and Buddhist practice, as well as training in progressive Western body-based psychology approaches. After 20 years of teaching people self-regulation skills through Eastern practices, Mark has transitioned his current work to focus more specifically on coaching people to address cumulative traumas from early childhood. He has found ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) to be central to most people’s challenges in health, self-esteem, relationships, and career.

Mark integrates his understanding and wisdom from Eastern traditional practices with a strong body-based approach to address nervous system dysregulation and childhood trauma. Most chronic trauma (like ACEs) requires a body-based approach that helps to shift the pattern inside the felt experience of the body and nervous system. Mark helps people become empowered in managing their nervous system stress as well as their inner child wounding so they can become the best, mature, alive version of themselves.