12-Month Certification Program

Healing Embodied Practitioner Training

You’ve been doing embodiment work in your own life, and this body-based work has had a profound impact on you. So much so, that you are inspired to share this magic with others in an effective, structured, and meaningful way.

You want to professionally master embodiment work to confidently guide clients through this multi-faceted therapy while feeling equipped to handle whatever comes up in session.

You don’t feel aligned with the traditional educational system that gate-keeps Embodiment Training. You tense up at the thought of standardized tests, and empty writing assignments that don’t give you real-world knowledge about safely and effectively guiding someone into their body.

You also know that a weekend webinar in ‘trauma-informed’ care or a 3 month certification program isn’t enough.

You want in-depth training and hands-on experiential learning that trains you to be an expert, without spending $60k - $80k on a (potentially second) Master’s degree.

If you want a career in movement and expressive transformation, that seamlessly integrates somatic, parts, and trauma work, through a creative-focused lens, then the Healing Embodied Practitioner Training Program is for you.

What makes the
Healing Embodied Practitioner Program
one-of-a-kind?

Creative Expression

We teach you how to help your clients be aware of their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and somatically process emotions. But unlike many certification programs, we go beyond just somatic work by teaching you how to help your clients channel their somatic emotional experience into creativity, expression, and vitality. We are the only somatic certification program with a strong emphasis on creative expression, empowering you and your clients to transmute trauma.

Serve Without Self-Sacrifice

Most certification programs don’t address the very real experiences that most practitioners face when working with clients: burnout, people-pleasing, martyrdom, and co-dependent dynamics. In our program, you will learn how to serve your clients sustainably without asking you to abandon your needs and desires. You matter just as much as the clients you serve, and helping others doesn’t have to cost you your sanity, health, and financial well-being.

Personal Embodiment

We focus on your identity as a practitioner and how this impacts your work. You will learn the skills to guide others, and also learn how to be the most empowered version of yourself. This shift allows you to guide your clients from a lived experience of personal embodiment. You will become versed in the fundamental embodiment skills as well as be more of an effective practitioner because you did the work yourself. You simply cannot take your clients somewhere you are not willing to go yourself.

Authenticity

We don’t want you to become another copy-and-paste, cookie-cutter practitioner. We don’t want you to have to fit your unique magic into the rigid boxes that most professional certification programs require. We want you to learn how to practice the work in a way that honors your purpose, humanity, and unique self-expression. This isn’t a paint-by-numbers program, instead, through this program, you become an artist of healing.

Are you interested in learning more?

Schedule a free Career Vision call with one of our instructors.

Program Outcomes:

PROFESSIONAL

Your relationship with your career.

  • Create a career that is the antidote to burnout and compassion fatigue, a career that lights your soul on fire and utilizes all your gifts without having to sacrifice your sanity, income, or work/life balance.

  • Get clear on who you want to serve and the kind of transformation you want to facilitate with your dream clients. This makes your work enjoyable, deeply fulfilling, and much easier to sell. You’ll never be able to shut up about how much you love your job.

  • Uncap your income capacity as you own your expertise, call in your ideal clients who value your work, and unravel the guilt of desiring more financial abundance.

RELATIONAL

Your relationship with your client.

  • Learn how to hold transformative, empowering, and safe space for client’s experiences and emotions without absorbing their trauma or rescuing them.

  • Remain anchored to yourself and your body as you guide clients through difficult emotions. Be able to see and shift patterns with your clients that they’ve felt stuck in for years, quickly, and create the change that they’ve been seeking.

  • Help your clients shift their relationship with themselves and their emotions through a robust approach that includes: creativity, embodiment, and physical expression. This multi-faceted approach generates real results in your client’s life.

PERSONAL

Your relationship to yourself.

  • You can only take clients as far as you have gone yourself. Master your own mind-body connection so that you can offer embodied guidance with ease, and shift your client’s reality.

  • Break free from traditionally stiff clinical roles, and embody your unique voice as you learn to tune into your intuition in your work.

  • Bring your humanness and personality into your work. You don’t believe in being a “blank slate” for your clients, and this program encourages you to leverage your personality traits as a part of the process, humanizing the healing journey for your dream clients.

Curriculum:

  • Be able to understand, regulate, and shift your own nervous system responses to create a container of safety, co-regulation, and non-judgment with clients as you guide them into their bodies. Finely attune to your clients somatic experience of trauma and safety so you know exactly how to support them.

  • Be able to discern for yourself and your clients between what is happening in the body versus the mind, so that you can highlight for clients where the mind is distracting them from their somatic experience, and gently guide them back to the body. Feel safe and comfortable to be with clients in uncomfortable emotional experiences, and remain grounded in the midst of emotional processing to facilitate effective interventions.

  • Cultivate the ability to feel safe in the embodied expression of your own emotions so that you can confidently facilitate this with clients. Understand the importance of creative emotional expression as a way of helping your clients feel more empowered in relationship to their emotions.

  • Recognize how the patterns in your clients’ outer world are a mirror of their inner world, and reflect these to them with understanding, compassion, and non-judgment. Be able to recognize how the patterns that arise for your clients in session are reflective of the patterns they have in their lives outside of session.

  • Become skilled in utilizing Embodied Parts Work in your own life so that you can easily guide clients to be curious and compassionate toward the various Parts they encounter, and utilize the body for expression and processing of these Parts.

  • Feel comfortable in utilizing the body to access the stored experiences/memories of the Inner Child, guide your clients in identifying the unmet need of the Inner Child/Younger Self, and help them meet this need through “reparenting” practices. Access a sense of safety in your own body while supporting your clients in feeling and processing the pain and grief of the Inner Child.

  • Understand the role of shame in hiding/repressing various Parts of yourself and your clients.
    Be able to guide clients in recognizing the shame stories in their own lives, utilize embodiment to begin externalizing these stories and processing the emotions that live beneath the shame.

  • Understand the role of Sacred Anger in overcoming shame, setting boundaries, and accessing self worth. Be able to guide clients into a healthy relationship to their anger and how to use it as a mobilizing energy for action and empowerment.

  • When you can feel so safe to explore the Shadow Parts of yourself (the Parts that have been previously shamed and hidden), then you can begin to invite play and enhanced creativity into your relationship with these parts. Learn to utilize play, humor, and sensual expression in your own relationship to your Shadow, and then be able to safely guide clients in this process as well.

  • Become skilled in the therapeutic factors of group facilitation in order to effectively hold space for a group of individuals navigating deep emotions. Feel comfortable guiding both large and small groups, and be able to balance the unique needs of the individual with the needs of the group. This allows you to scale your practice beyond 1:1 work, without sacrificing quality of service.

  • Uncover your unique flavor and voice as a practitioner, rather than following societal and systematic expectations of how you should be. Break free from rigid roles of people-pleasing and martyrdom, so that you can honor your needs and lead your clients from a place of empowerment. Become a powerful practitioner who embodies self trust, rather than self doubt.

  • Hone the necessary skills of how to create your dream career, market yourself and your craft effectively, clearly articulate your expertise and skill set, and maintain healthy and sustainable work/life boundaries. This is absolutely essential, and yet it’s what most practitioner programs leave out.

Next round begins February 2025 through January 2026.

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Next round begins February 2025 through January 2026. 〰️

Structure:

  • 130-hour Certification Program conducted over 12 months

  • 3 live classes per month (classes are 2 hours each)

You must attend at least one live practice class per month. Classes are highly interactive so we can ensure you receive the highest quality training.

  • 4-5 hours of assigned practice per month

You will practice with peers outside of class, together investigating and experiencing the skills you’re learning.

  • 4 x 30-minute 1:1 evaluations with an instructor

    These quarterly evaluations support you by reinforcing and deepening what you’ve learned, highlighting your unique strengths, and identifying areas for growth and potential.

Tuition:

Year-long online training :

$18,000 USD

This fee includes everything as outlined above.

Year-long online training, plus Integration Immersion:

$20,000 USD

This option includes everything outlined above, plus a 4-day retreat with Chelsea and Sarah in the gorgeous mountain town of Crestline, CA. Food, activities, and accommodation included. *does not include travel to and from Crestline, CA.

For both options:

Payment plans and financing options are available.

Upon completion of the program, you will also receive international certification through the Complementary Therapists Accreditation Association.

EARLY ENROLLMENT RATE:

If you register before November 1st, 2024, tuition rates are as follows:

  • Online training: $15,000 if paid in full.

  • Online training, plus Immersion Integration: $18,000 if paid in full.

Payment plans and financing are also available.