SOMATIC MOVEMENT TEACHER TRAINING (50 Hours)
Journey with the Elementals
Movement · Sound · Breath · Touch
A Professional Certificate Training · 50 Hours
What if movement could be the gateway to everything you're seeking - aliveness, peace & freedom?
Learn to facilitate transformative somatic movement experiences for women, through the ancient wisdom of the elements.
You feel the call. This training gives you the map to answer it.
Something in you already knows that movement is medicine. That the body holds wisdom the mind can't reach. That when women are given real permission to move, from the inside out, without structure, without performance, something ancient and powerful wakes up.
You've felt it yourself. And now you want to know how to hold that space for others.
This 50-hour professional training gives you a complete framework: the elemental map and the practical skills to facilitate somatic movement experiences that change women's lives. In yoga studios, wellness centers, schools, businesses, retreats, and online.
After this training you will:
Leave with a complete elemental facilitation map you can use immediately
Know how to build playlists that guide a nervous system through a full arc
Hold nurturing, contained space for women with confidence and skill
Receive a Certificate of Completion
Receive lifetime access to all future trainings
Join a 30-day online somatic movement series to practice and embody the teachings after your training.
Your body already knew. Now the research is catching up.
"Studies show movement therapy helps women process and release trauma stored in the body. Dance Movement Therapy can reduce PTSD symptoms and help rebuild a sense of safety in one's body."
— American Dance Therapy Association
Somatic movement which is conscious breath and movement combined teaches the nervous system that the body is a safe place to inhabit. It rebuilds the capacity for presence, pleasure, and connection that stored trauma and chronic stress erode over time.
The ancient goddesses knew this long before the studies existed. Sacred dance was a spiritual technology: rhythmic, intentional movement that activated healing, awakened intuition, and connected women to the divine within themselves. This is ancient wisdom. And your body remembers it.
Everything you need to hold this work.
Certificate of Completion
A professional certificate acknowledging your 50 hours of training in somatic movement facilitation, breathwork, sound, and the elemental map.
The Elemental Map
A complete facilitation framework across Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether yours to use to design and lead your own embodied movement experiences.
Playlist Framework
A practical guide to creating playlists that move a group through the arc of a class, grounding to activation to integration. Music as medicine.
Lifetime Access
Complete this training once and it's yours forever. All recordings, all materials, and any future trainings in this format are included. One investment, always.
Practice Buddy (Online)
Online participants are paired weekly with a practice buddy, holding space for each other and integrating the learning between sessions.
A Lineage You
become part of a community of women carrying this work into the world: into studios, circles, schools, and healing spaces everywhere.
Five days.
Five elements.
One complete map.
Each day we journey with an element: moving, breathing, sounding, and learning to facilitate from within that element's wisdom.
Day One
Laying the Foundations & Earth Element
We begin in the ground with Earth. Arriving fully, into yourself, into the group, into this work. You learn:
- Setting up the Space
- Grounding & Orientating
- Lead a Somatic Drop In
- Nervous System Basics for Facilitators
- Earth Breath, Sound & Music
- Embodied Movement for Earth Dance
- Somatic Inquiry questions for Earth
- Earth Journey & Dance
Day Two
Sound, Music & Water
The music you choose is not background, it is medicine. The art of playlist creation and sound as a facilitation tool. Then we journey with Water: spiraling, undulating, learning to flow. You learn:
- Music to Guide Nervous System States
- How to create Playlists
- Sound as Medicine
- Somatic Sensualness
- Embodied Movement for Water Dance
- Somatic Inquiry questions for Water
- Water Journey & Dance
Day Three
Breath & Fire
Fire burns through what we've been carrying. Where breath becomes a force and where you'll learn to guide women through activation without losing the container. You learn:
- Building a container for Fire Dance
- Creating boundaries in your body & movement
- Using your voice
- Clearing Energies in the space
- Facilitating Fire Breath for different nervous system states
- Fire Dance, Breath & Sound Journey
- Somatic Inquiry Questions for Fire
Day Four
Facilitation Skills & Air
Air lives in the heart and throat, in what we say, how we say it, and what we leave unsaid. In this day, you learn:
- Working with Emotion
- Using Trauma-Informed Language
- Somatic Touch
- Scope of Practice
- Partner movement and bringing the group together.
- Heart Chakra Dance, Sound & Breath
- Throat Chakra Dance, Sound & Breath
- Somatic Inquiry questions for Heart & Throat
Day Five
Integration & Space
Space is where we get to surrender & allow our highest guidance in.
- Crown Chakra Sound & Music
- Leading closing Meditations
- Practice Teaching
- Feedback & Refinement
- Marketing Your Offers
- Building Sustainable Practice
- Closing Ceremony & Certification
There's more.
BONUS 01
7 Days of Clearing & Grounding Energy
A 7-day energy clearing and grounding practice to prepare your body and field before the training begins and support you when you are creating your classes. Given to all participants upon registration after payment.
BONUS 02
30 Days of Somatic Movement Online Series
In December, all October and November training graduates are invited into a 30-day online somatic movement series: 20 minutes a day, guided by Amy Online. This is where the teachings land in the body. Where practice becomes embodied knowledge. An additional 10 hours of immersive practice, included as part of your training.
Total training hours with bonuses: 50 hours.
Two ways to journey.
Both formats carry the full training. Choose what calls to you.
In-Person Intensive
Five Days in Ireland
Springfort Hall, Mallow, Co. Cork · October 15th-19th 2026
~ Five immersive days in a beautiful country house overlooking nature
~ Accommodation available on site for those travelling
~ Small group: maximum intimacy and depth
~ Lifetime access to all future trainings
~ Lunch every day (Soup, Sandwich, Tea & Coffee included)
~ Cacao Ceremony on final day included
Investment: EURO 790
A deposit secures your place. Balance due before training begins.
Online Intensive
Six Weekends
Live on Zoom · November 7th - December 13th 2026
~ Six consecutive weekends, Saturday & Sunday
~ Three hours each day: six hours per weekend
~ Weekly practice buddy sessions between calls
~ Full recordings of every session
~ Open to women worldwide
~ Complete before Christmas
Investment: $800
A deposit secures your place. Balance due before training begins.
Apply to be part of this Somatic Movement Teacher Training
Click HERE to fill out applicationYour deposit holds your place.
A non-refundable deposit secures your spot in either format after we approve your application. The full investment is due before the training begins. You can pay in one payment or in monthly installments before we begin the training. If you have questions about payment or need something different, reach out, we'll find a way together.
Your body already knows the answer.
Questions? Reach out directly. This work is too important to let logistics get in the way.
Your questions, answered.
Do I need prior teaching or movement experience?
What can I do with the certificate after completing the training?
What does lifetime access mean exactly?
Can I get insurance with this certificate?
Is the online format as good as in-person?
What if I miss a session?
What is the 30-day Somatic Movement Series?
STILL ON THE FENCE? LET'S ADDRESS THE DOUBTS.
Let's look at them honestly.
"I'm not sure I'm qualified enough to facilitate this kind of work."
This is the training that qualifies you. You don't arrive already knowing: you arrive willing. The facilitation skills, the nervous system education, the elemental map: you learn all of it here. The only thing you need to bring is the call.
"I'm not sure the investment is right for me right now."
This is a 50-hour professional training with lifetime access. Every time this training is updated, you receive it. You're not just paying for five days or six weekends: you're investing in a framework and skills you'll use for the rest of your career. And if the timing or payment needs adjusting, reach out.
"I love this work personally but I'm not sure I want to teach it."
Then come for yourself. Many women join this training purely as an investment in their own embodied practice: with no intention to teach. That is not just welcome, it's encouraged. You cannot pour from an empty vessel.
"What if I start and it's not what I expected?"
Reach out. Directly. This is a small, intimate training and Amy is accessible. Every concern can be addressed.
"Is this training accredited?"
This is a professional Certificate of Completion training not externally accredited at this time. It is led by an internationally certified Somatic Educator with 18+ years of experience. The certificate is recognized by insurance providers and is sufficient for graduates to obtain professional liability insurance. Accreditation pathways are being explored for future cohorts.
This is a facilitation training, not a therapy certification. Graduates are qualified to facilitate embodied movement classes, workshops, women's circles, and somatic movement sessions. This training does not qualify graduates to provide somatic therapy, diagnose, or treat clinical conditions. Clear, ethical boundaries are taught throughout.
Hi, I’m Amy
Movement as a therapy saved my life in my early 20's, it showed me a way back to experiencing ecstatic bliss in my body and empowered me to know all the joy and pleasure lived within my body. Movement became a way for me to awaken that joy. It still is.
I’ve spent 18+ years facilitating this work for women in circles, cacao ceremonies, online, in nature, in different countries, at yoga & dance studios, festivals & retreats. Everything I teach, I practice and live.
- Somatic Educator Certification (Internationally Certified)
- 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher
- BA Honours in Social Care. Thesis: Dance as Therapy for Women in Recovery
- Kundalini Ecstatic Dance Facilitation Training
- Nervous System Soma School
- 60-Hour Somatics with EMDR with Embody Lab
- 18+ Years Facilitating Embodied Movement for Women
- Currently pursuing Somatic Experiencing (SE) Professional Training
Somatic Movement Teacher Training · Journey with the Elementals
A Professional Certificate Training · Shine Movements LLC
Ireland In-Person · October 2026 | Online · November–December 2026
