Embodied Listening & Somatic Practice training
If you’re here, it’s because something in you already knows:
🪶There’s more to an individual than a brain on legs!
🪶You want to work in a nervous-system-aware approach
🪶 You’re ready to bring embodied listening into your practice
A Transformational Training for Those Striving for real Mind-Body Integration
Welcome to the Embodied Listening & Somatic Practice Training—a life-changing, live learning experience for those who feel called to create deeper attunement and transformation.
This is far more than a practical skills course.
This is a calling to work truly holistically.
A path to resource yourself as well as the people you hold space for.
Who This Training Is For
This training is for anyone who:
Facilitates groups, circles, workshops, or trainings
Works as a therapist, coach, educator, organiser, or community leader
Is drawn to somatic, relational, or trauma-aware approaches
Wants to work / facilitate with more confidence, depth, and ease
No prior somatic experience required.
What Makes This Training Different
Whether you want to work with individuals or groups (or both), it’s important to have experience of the somatic practices yourself and know how they land in other people’s nervous systems.
Together, across 7 live sessions, we will explore:
✓ Somatic Practices for calming and activating the nervous system
Understand polyvagal theory and how to explain key concepts like the window of tolerance to clients
Experience a range of movement, breathwork, somatic practices such as havening and techniques such as bilateral stimulation to discover which work well for you (for your own resourcing) and how to discern which to use for different nervous system states
✓ Embodied Listening
Practice interoception in your own body and hear others’ diverse experiences, neurodiversity considerations
Learn how to teach interoception to others and experience reflecting back rather feedback or questioning
✓ Embodied relational attunement
Discern when to name your own embodied experience and when to name somatic markers you observe in others
✓ Physical Holding of Space
Consider the impact of your environment on their nervous system; how to enhance agency and minimise power imbalances
✓ Embodied Group Facilitation
Learn the art of facilitating a talking/listening circle in a nervous-system-aware, trauma-informed approach
Explore techniques for managing group dynamics and emotions that arise that are conducive to appropriate sharing and vulnerability.
Experience a circle every session with different opening and closing techniques
How the Training Works
This is a live, immersive experience designed to grow both your confidence and your capacity.
7 Live Group Sessions with the Founder
This online training will focus on Body / Interoception and Nervous System components of The Somatic Circle Methodᵀᴹ.
Mondays on 13, 27 April, 11 May, 1, 15, 29 June, 13 July (Please note, only one date in May due to Bank Holidays and half term holiday)
Two time options: Afternoon 1-3.30pm or Evening 7-8.30pm
Expectation is that your video will be on and you attend live. 80% live attendance is required for the certificate.
Training Plan of Practices
Week 1 - Introduction to Embodied Listening and Interoception
Week 2 - Breathwork
Week 3 - Posture and Movement
Week 4 - Bilateral Stimulation
Week 5 - Relaxation and Yoga Nidra
Week 6 - Deepening Embodied Listening Skills
Week 7 - Embodied Group Facilitation
A combination of group and pair work in breakout rooms. Attendees can choose to practice in pairs between sessions using listening partnerships or practice individually.
For those wanting to lead groups, having Tessa’s book Circle Holding: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Talking Circles is recommended but not essential.
Investment
Early bird £240 for 7 live sessions AND includes a bonus 45-minute 121 with Tessa to ask questions specific to implementing the practices into your work. (Full cost is £340 from 1st March 2026)
Pay in full or in 4 monthly instalments of £63. Scroll to the end of the page to pay.
One time offer - Tessa’s previous training courses of the same length have cost £550. She is offering this at an amazing price because it is the first time it has run under The Somatic Circle Methodᵀᴹ brand.
Terms & Conditions can be found here for all trainings. My Ethics and Values can be found here.
Tanya Buck, Health & Wellness Coach, talking about the 2025 training:
“I’ve surprised myself with how much this training has meant to me. I have felt very aligned with it and can see how it can be used in its entirety but also how many elements can be inserted into various other parts of my work. I’ve found it very nourishing.
I’ve enjoyed seeing the options for each section of a circle modelled to us and participating in them so that I can get a feel for how they might work and which skills I might want to investigate further and perfect.
I particularly loved the listening partnerships and have talked to lots of people about them as well as introducing them to my circle to great success.
A deep, nourishing and supportive training and a very accessible, highly experienced leader.” Circle Facilitation Training 2025
Hi, I’m Tessa!
I bring over 20 years of experience in embodiment and somatic practice, rooted in my long-standing career as a yoga teacher. My work is grounded, intuitive, trauma-aware, and deeply informed by the wisdom of the body. I am a teacher of somatic practice at the Counselling Training School Holistically Human.
For the past 10 years, I’ve has been devoted to rites-of-passage and circle facilitation, guiding individuals and groups through meaningful thresholds with presence, compassion, and skill.
My talking/ listening circles are known for their depth, safety, and ability to reconnect people to themselves and to community. I collaborate with local organisations to host groups, such as a mindfulness and craft circle.
My PhD in Medical Sociology was multidisciplinary with Clinical, Sociology and Health Psychology supervisors. My focus was on wellbeing and normalisation in long term conditions. I authored 28 academic articles and have written eight books for women and children about their bodies with the aim of empowering them.
Meet Your Course Leader
This book is essential reading… Julia and Tessa are wise and encouraging guides
~ Juno Magazine, Autumn 2024
It’s beautiful, powerful and pretty essential if you want to either start your journey creating circles or want to hone your craft.
~ Jenny Burrell, Founder of Burrell Education
Tessa is the co-host of the Circle Holding podcast. Follow and listen for lots of discussion on listening, boundaries, inclusion, circle facilitation and more. Series 4 starts end of February.
Reserve your place now
Centre a true Mind-Body integrated approach in your work / facilitation.
Develop embodied listening skills, nervous system to nervous system. Feel confident with your own toolbox of somatic practices.
Change lives—including your own.
Are you ready?
Investment
Pay in Full
£240. One payment. (£340 from 1st March)
4 Instalments
£63 of 4 payments over 4 months. (£90 from 1st March)
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