Stronger Together Cape Town is a non-profit company nestled in the heart of Cape Town South Africa. Using resistance training as an adjunct therapy to healing trauma, we are engaged in community building, social upliftment and empowerment work within our post-apartheid city. Practically, that looks like applying the latest research in our sessions with regard to how trauma impacts the physical body and mind.

 

At Stronger Toegther, we use external forms of training that can facilitate healing and recovery through engagement of the proprioceptive and vestibular systems, while supporting individuals in developing greater interoceptive awareness, vagal tone and parasympathetic nervous system recruitment.

 

We stand firmly behind the idea that healing trauma isn’t just a mental process — it’s a physical one. And because trauma lives in the body, our healing has to live in the body too. In psychology, this is known as bottom-up therapy. Instead of starting with thoughts or emotional analysis, we start with the body, with sensation, with movement. And resistance training is one of the most powerful tools we have for that.

 

Our community programmes aim to combat the isolating and dividing nature of personal and historical collective traumas that are a lived reality for South Africans.