Why you might like to take this training if…

YOu Have a Desire, a deep wish, a passion for embodied learning

or frustration even anger with the non-embodied world. 

You want to put movement, touch and learning into the center of your work and life, or give it more value in what you are doing now in your personal and business life. We offer tons of time to recommit yourself to embodied learning, time for your body to move, rest, engage, receive and express itself truthfully; this is a process - We guide you through it.

You are Ready for Commitment: 

 Most of our students have many different short or long trainings under their belt, but are looking for one that allows them to bring it all together! These students are willing to make space in their lives, the time and have the willingness to shift. They may not know HOW they can change, or WHO they are below the layers, but they are more willing to go on an unknown path, than stay in stagnancy. 

You are looking for Credibility: A quality degree, a title, a mentor.

You want Connection - a learning community, a tribe

You want the BODY, movement and touch, and find presence & clarity.

I want Completion

Somatic Body trains students to become professional facilitators of embodiment, movement, perceptual and relational development. After running three SomaticBODY programs, we are seeing that our students indeed have a solid background and tools: Indeed they start their own practice and gather clients & students. Once you complete the program, you are qualified to join the International Somatic Movement Association - ISMETA and be recognized as a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) and Therapist (RSMT).

SomaticBODY works as a 2+ year cohort. We believe that is how learning works: in discourse, in a group. You will engage with people in your field that will play, explore, learn with you, and support you through the ups and downs of the training - your transformation. They will give you straight talk, and challenge you on a basis of trust and within the framework of somatics. Our students meet and hone their touch skills throughout and after the program. This is where you can share new ideas for workshops, get feedback on what others value in your work, and develop your own flavor of your practice.

Well honestly, most of our time is in delicious learning of anatomy and developmental movement, in embryological origins of tissues,  in sourcing from moving authentically, and learning about being a good witness, being present. There is lots of time to dance, move, howl, sing, discuss, play and improvise. The systems approach and the developmental patterns provide a lens through which to assess groups and in private practice - You will leave with ample opportunities to APPLY these concepts - in fact the whole 2nd year shifts to be both experiential and professional application-oriented.

We have built this program to be able to reach a place of completion, where you have enough learning under you where the most important step is to go into the wild and APPLY your knowledge. We do not want to keep you hooked on our training forever, we want you to utilize your SomaticBODY skills in the way that is best for you!

This training has a few phases of learning: the first year is about setting up the ways to learn somatically ( which challenges some of your usual patterns, like the brain thinking it knows something before we do it), it is about the experience. As such, it can be exciting, challenging, and disorienting. In the second year suddenly the brain clears and students can start putting the body learning in a frame of understanding - this is very freeing and exciting. 

Our students create movement centers, teach dance, start a private practice, completely up their teaching game, add tools to their therapeutic practice, their personal life blossoms, and even into seemingly unrelated jobs, like architecture, wilderness training, or running businesses. Many students find that their PRESENCE draws people to them, they recognize coherence, aliveness and trust.