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Somatic
Practice Essentials
Certified
CORE CENTERING™

Practitioner

Teach the somatic practices that will have your clients feeling, looking, and performing better than ever before when they know how to regulate their nervous system and #GetCentered.
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This turn-key program will allow you to teach somatic practices to anyone and feel like a pro.

Learn the trauma-informed breathwork, gentle movement, self-massage and meditation techniques that everyone is talking about and be able to turn them into programs for individuals, groups, teams and organizations. Run private sessions, classes, workshops and retreats- we'll show you how!

Become a somatic practices practitioner and make a huge impact teaching clients how to regulate their nervous system. You'll love your job... and they will feel centered... Core Centered. 

 This is for you if you work with humans who want to feel centered. 
Health and Wellness Coaches
who want to give your clients the best methods to improve performance, reduce anxiety, worry, stress and burnout, with a trauma-informed body mind centering toolbox.
Physical/Occupational Therapists & Nurses
who want to serve your patients and clients with the best stress reduction strategies both privately and in group classes
Yoga or Tai Chi Teachers
who want to be able to teach the absolute best program for stress reduction and burn out to your students, enhance their classes with private session and/or who wants to land corporate deals.
Corporate Trainers
who want to improve their training sessions and performance ratings with the somatic tools that get your participants in flow states fast. 
Teachers
who want easy to use, simple strategies to help your kids (and yourself) settle, self-regulate and learn better.
Massage or Manual Therapists
who want easy ways to save your hands and still make a big difference while diversifying your practice, making more money and a bigger impact.
Leaders or Managers
who want a super simple, crazy effective strategy for performance and engagement to use with your teams on rinse and repeat.
Social Workers or Counselors
who want body-centered strategies that will add the "secret sauce" to your client outcomes. 
 Centeredness is the #1 attribute of an inspiring leader. 
No matter whether your clients want to lead their own lives better or they are leading a large organization, being centered is the key.
1 Lead Yourself
When making decisions in your daily life, you are either coming from a place of responsiveness or reaction. Empower your life and live with purpose when you are centered.
2 Lead Your Family
Raising a family is stressful. The only way to be the parent you really want to be in to learn how to masterfully regulate your nervous system so you can enjoy family connection.
3 Lead in Your Community
Whether it's the PTA, non-profit volunteering or simply enjoying community events with friends, everyone loves to be around people who are centered. Be the go-to resource for your community when people are magnetized to you naturally. 
4 Lead at Work
Tough days at work can be like herding sheep (or worse) when everyone is stressed. Be the hero of the day when you can help anyone destress in minutes when you know Core Centering.
5 Lead the Planet
How can you "Be the Change?" It all starts with being centered. No matter what change you want to see in the world and what movement you want to lead, everything wonderful grows when you start with being centered.
The somatic practices that make up your
Core-Centering Toolbox
Bioenergetics
  • Discover the foundation of bioenergetics science
  • Learn the truth about stress and perceptions
  • Understand how traumatic patterns are held in the body
  • Learn how beliefs are "woven" into the fabric of our physiology     
  • Reveal how the mind generates and protects limiting beliefs
  • Explore the Vagus Nerve's role in stress reduction.
Breathwork
  • Learn the physiology of breathwork including: energy production, immune, and neuroscience
  • Learn breath practices including: coordinated, rooted, lymph, and paced
  • Learn to leverage breathing as a gateway to balancing the autonomic nervous system
Mindfulness
  • Learn the physiology of meditation including: the stress response, neuroscience, and the ANS 
  • Learn meditation practices including: mindfulness, body scan, and wandering smile.
  • Dissolve confusion, negative, and ruminating  thoughts
Self-Massage
    • Learn the physiology of self-massage including: reflexology, acupressure, and the ANS
    • Learn self-massage practices including: the 8 primary techniques, acupressure, and primordial tapping    
    Core Centering
      • Learn the physiology of conscious movement practices 
      • Vent chronic tension, fatigue, and body pain    
      • Learn the ten Core Centering movements    
      • Learn to direct and guide energy in the body             
      • Teach people to become more energized,  focused, grounded, and aware
      Sales and Marketing
        • How to create free offers that lead to clients
        • How to market to and gain new clients
        • How to turn telehealth into a thriving private-pay practice
        • 1 months of follow up business support (in our Slack group) to help you get traction
         Your Instructors In This Course 
        Brian Trzaskos
          PT LMT CSCS CMP MI-C
          Director of Education Somatic Coaching Academy

          Brian is a somatic intelligence expert with a mission to teach professionals how to embody and transfer the wisdom of Natural Laws into their clients lives. Brian is a licensed physical and manual therapist, as well as holding certifications as a qigong/tai chi trainer, motivational maps practitioner, trauma-informed care and more. Brian speaks nationally on topics such as somatic intelligence and trauma-informed practices
          Amber Blake
            ICF ACC, ELI, SBMC
            Somatic Practice Essentials Lead Instructor
            With 20 years of experience in government and entrepreneurial enterprises, Amber has extensive expertise in management and leadership development.
            A graduate of Villanova University, the University of Montana, the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching, and the Somatic Coaching Academy. She is the Owner and CEO of Amber Blake Consulting.

            Shawna Pelton
              HHP, SBMC
              Somatic Practice Essentials Instructor In-Training

              Shawna Pelton has over 20 years of experience in the field of transformational healing and growth, empowering everyday leaders. She has advanced certifications in Bioenergetic Healing, Mysticism, Conversational Intelligence and Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Therapy.  

              100% of our graduates rate our instructor's teaching ability and effectiveness as a 5/5

               What Graduates Say About Us 
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              Somatic Practice Essentials
              At-a-Glance

              Schedule: Next live cohort starts February 21st, 2025.

              Location: On-line, live virtual format

              Following this program you will be able to:
              • Explain the science that connects the body, mind, and human behavior
              • Demonstrate shifting your client’s physiology into a balanced autonomic nervous system state, releasing chronic tension, anxiety, frustration, and negative thinking
              • Apply the 4 primary elements of Core Centering practice in order to enhance maintaining presence, embodying a flexible, open, and curious mindset, and evoking self and client awareness.
              • Effectively plan and deliver successful Core Centering classes, workshops, and private programs

              In this program you will learn:
              • The interplay of thoughts, emotions, physiology, and disease
              • The tell tale sign of limiting beliefs
              • How bioenergetic patterns are created and manifested in the body
              • The ten Core Centering movements
              • The physiology and application of Core Centering: Movements, Breath practices, Acupressure points, and Meditations
              • Exactly how to teach Core Centering to your clients
              • The high integrity system for marketing and enrolling in person and virtual engagements
              • The necessary business skills to launch and run your in-person and virtual practice
              • Learn the links between trauma and the vagus nerve 
              • Practice research supported techniques for strengthening vagus nerve function 

              Program Features: (Value, $3,597)
              • 16 Hours of Live, Virtual Training
              • Instruction in breathwork, meditation, self-massage, and gentle movement practices
              • Lifetime access to robust student learning vault
              • Peer sharing and structured integration 
              • Recorded and live demonstrations
              • Supportive research articles
              • Core Centering Practitioner Certification upon graduation
              • Virtual community of our students and graduates
              • Turn-Key presentation and workshop materials
              • 2 hour live business building bonus

              Program Bonuses: (Value, $6,382)
              • Reduced price on insurance 
              • Client resources for you to distribute 
              • Listing on our graduate page
              • Website badge upon graduation
              • Graduation amplification kit for your marketing and promotion. 
              • Sample Core Centering workshop and class templates
              • Free Copy: The Science of Rehabilitative Qigong & Tai Chi
              • Registered course with the America Association of Drugless Practioners.
              • Sample talk with demo and slides for you to use
              • License to use the Perceived Stress Scale validated assessment
              • Spotify playlist
              • Supportive business documents including liability waiver
              • LIFETIME access to your instructors and cohort community!

              Tuition:
              Program Value: $3,597
              Bonus Value: $6,382
              Total Program: $9,979
              You Pay: $1797 or 4 payments of $449!
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              Our Memberships and Accreditations

               "I am not intimidated by challenging patients any more. And I am ready to head into a new future."
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              -Anne Guist
               â€śI gained knowledge and activities that will bring a daily practice into my life and I look forward to passing on the benefits of this course to my clients. Also, the soul-centered business coaching is a bonus.”
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              -Terry Lynch
               â€śThe CCP training was epic! I am much more confident in my holistic approach to therapy. I have begun to see clients virtually as well, which so far has been the most enjoyable experience I have had in my career!”
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              -Maxine Roeig
               â€śThe instructors make difficult concepts very structured and easy to understand.”
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              -Christi Powers
               "Brian is a master at these skills and creates a safe and comprehensive learning environment."
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              -Christine Hazen Molina
               â€śIncredibly well presented, course materials are excellent and delivery designed to be assimilated very easily. You feel as though the company really wants you to succeed.”
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              -Claudia Persichini
               â€śThis course simplifies the often complicated topic of nervous system regulation. It provides a framework to meet a person where ever they are and bring them back to the present moment.”
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              -Courtney Doll
               â€śThe course material is very accessible to anyone, no need to have a physical therapist background to understand the concepts and learn the exercises. The course takes place in a very safe and inclusive environment.”
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              -Veronique
               "If you can only take one course, this is the one to choose. It is intense, short, very well prepared, packed with goodness at every turn."
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              -Amanda Sproles 
               â€śI continue to find simple instructions the most valuable when working with others, and this program scaffolds the learner in such a way that even challenging practices are well understood and able to be incorporated.”
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              -Bryan Tanner
               â€śThis is the course you’ve been looking for. Here is where you learn tools to change your and your clients lives.”
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              -Briana Leigh
               â€śI am blind and get migraines, and the SCA did everything they could to adapt the course to my needs. They gave me plenty of accommodation.”
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              -Austin Seraphin
               "The course is science-based and provides numerous concrete tools you can utilize immediately upon completion."
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              -Benjamin Swerdlow
               â€śThis is a deeply healing, connective, supportive practice within the frame of a gifted, experienced, open teacher and like minded community. It is such an opening and grounding experience to be witnessed and held by others who are walking a similar path with a guide who holds a safe and inspiring space.”
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              -Dawn Christensen
               â€śThat it is a jam packed and spacious learning opportunity to learn how to and be able to teach others a simple way to regenerate the energy in our bodies to a healthier and more desired state at the physical and mental level. Combined this learning with any of your purpose in life to support your growth or help others support their growth.”
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              -Carla Silva
               â€śThe course was so well ran. We stayed exactly on schedule, there was so much to go through but nothing really felt rushed. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for this type of program or continuing education.”
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              -Ashley Matthews
               "The course is well thought out with just the right mix of components: lecture, practice and student teaching. "
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              -Wendy Swanson
               â€śThis is the best training that I have ever participated in! Unlike other trainings/workshops, they give you ALL of the tools to be successful prior to, during and even after the program. Exceptional on all levels! â€ť
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              -Maria Richards
               â€śThe presentation of material was excellent, the neuro science was fascinating and easy to understand, the exercises flow well and are applicable/modifiable for all individuals.”
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              -Cristin Kargus
               â€śInstructors are super knowledgeable and excellent facilitators. (and fun!)”
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              -Skye McPherson

              Frequently Asked Questions

              Somatic Practice Essentials is live/virtual unless you're taking it with us live at Kripalu. It is NOT pre-recorded.

              No.

              ALL of our students love this course. Even students who are well educated in the above modalities love this course no matter what their background.

              Technically this course is a qigong based course. Shhhh... that's our little secret.

              The program is taught in 2 full day intensives. Students then have 30 days to practice with the group in our virtual community, demonstrate their competency, and participate in a business building bonus with their cohort.

              YES! We give you turn-key ways to monetize and expect our students to start making money using it right away.

              We've got this program dialed! We've spent our entire lives studying this stuff so you can get it all in 2 short days.

              No. Not for this program.

              In all settings. Our graduates use somatic practices with their private clients, in classes, group programs, as a part of trainings, workshops and retreats. Core Centering can be found in wellness centers, factories, prisons, schools, hospitals and office buildings. Anywhere you find people, you'll find the need to #GetCentered.

              REGISTRATION
              Get ready to be a go-to stress and performance expert!

              Which way do you want to pay?

              Monthly

              4 Monthly Payments of $449

              Upfront

              Just one charge of $1797


              What happens after I sign up?

              Step 1: Enroll

              Step 2: Receive a welcome email with details and your licensure agreement

              Step 3: Gain access to our virtual community and program vault

              Gain expertise, diversify your services, be the go-to somatic expert when you can masterfully de-stress anyone QUICK!

              Still Have Questions? Let’s Talk About It.

              Schedule a Call With Our Team

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