Become a certified embodiment coach

Facilitate effectively in six months

Trained more embodiment coaches than anyone else
ICF-accredited certification program
15 years’ experience in over 40 countries
19,163 + students across our courses

Want to create a kinder world?

Do you long to make a difference transforming lives?

Would you like to use your existing coaching or embodied practice to help others?

And do you want a planet with more people really in touch with themselves and each other?

I certainly do. Many of us love embodiment and know that it’s incredibly powerful. The question is: how can we contribute to making the world a kinder, more connected place by supporting other people?

Becoming an embodiment coach is one answer. 

Simply put, coaching with the body is effective. It creates deep, experiential insights, and brings about real, lasting changes. It’s transformative. It works.

Learn to coach effectively with the body

Through the Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC), you’ll become a confident, deeply competent embodiment coach.

CEC starts with a deep dive into your own embodiment. You’ll experience a powerful personal growth journey as you learn techniques from multiple modalities to use in daily life. 

After this you’ll learn to facilitate real, lasting changes in others.

CEC includes weekly live webinars and peer groups, self-paced videos, practices for daily life integration, and importantly, work with real-life clients.

It’s not just another online course. It’s a growing, supportive global community, and a step towards a new career… if that’s what you want.

Embodiment coaching, your own way

With the support of our experienced, multicultural team, you’ll learn the principles underlying the techniques so you can combine what you learn with what you know. That way, you can create your own unique approach with a broad spectrum of individualised tools to use with your clients.

If you’re already an experienced coach or trainer, CEC allows you to add embodied work into what you do.

Talk alone isn’t always enough for real change, so learning how to use the body safely will take your work to the next level. With simple, powerful, non-athletic embodied tools you can go deeper quicker with your clients, and make changes stick.  

If you’re a group facilitator or teacher, CEC will give you the skills to coach your students 1-to-1 and lead mainstream groups.

You’ll be able to offer something new, and stand out in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

And if you simply love embodiment, CEC will be a hell of a personal growth journey. You’ll learn to teach what you already know, along with all the tools you’ll need to support others effectively.

Embodiment coaching is a great way to earn a living – it’s ethical, fun and deeply satisfying. Want to become certified in 2025?

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Certification of Embodiment Coaching

125-hour training to coach safely and confidently with the body from the world’s most experienced online embodiment trainers.

You’ll also get 37 International Coaching Federation credits

6-month LIVE
certification

Structured
curriculum

Techniques from
10+ modalities

Diverse global
community

Schedule

75-minute live webinars every Tuesday

Starting February 11 and ending August 12, 2025

You have the choice to attend one of the three different live time slots if you want to certify:

9am UK time (1am PST / 8pm AEDT)

6pm UK time (10am PST / 5am AEDT)*

2am UK time (6pm PST / 1pm AEDT)*

*This is Wednesday for Australians and those in similar timezones

You must attend 80% of the Tuesday webinars live to certify. See what you’ll learn during these Tuesday webinars below: 

Trimester 1

Foundations of Embodiment

Week 0: Preparation Week
February 4 (course platform opens)

Week 1: Opening Week
February 11 (mandatory 90-min session)

Week 2: Embodied Learning
February 18

Week 3: Embodied Awareness & Meditation
February 25

Week 4: Centring
March 4

Week 5: 4 Elements Model
March 11

Week 6: Embodied Toolkit
March 18

Week 7: Cycles and Change
March 25

Week 8: Embodied Relating
April 1

Week 9: Rest week
April 8

Trimester 2

Intro to Embodiment Coaching

Week 10: CEC Opening & Ethics
April 15 (mandatory 90-min session)

Week 11: Establishing relationship, goal setting & centring
April 22

Week 12: Listening skills
April 29

Week 13: Questioning skills
May 6

Week 14: Teaching Awareness Pointing Technique
May 13

Week 15: Practising Centring & Awareness Pointing Technique
May 20 (120-min session)

Week 16: Teaching 4 Elements Bodystorming
May 27

Week 17: Teaching Embodied Toolkit
June 3

Week 18: Practising 4 Elements Bodystorming & Embodied Toolkit
June 10 (120-min session)

Week 19: Rest week
June 17

Trimester 3

Advanced Embodiment Coaching

Week 20: Teaching Leader-Follower in Coaching
June 24

Week 21: Teaching Distinction Coaching
July 1

Week 22: Practising Leader-Follower & Distinction Coaching
July 8 (120-min session)

Week 23: Cycles and Design + Clients’ Accountability
July 15

Week 24: Group Coaching Applications
July 22

Week 25: Advanced – Embodiment Principles
July 29

Week 26: Trauma & Self-Care for Coaches
August 5

Week 27: Graduation
August 12 (mandatory 90-min session)

There may still be some small changes to come in the weekly schedule.

Along with these weekly Tuesday webinars, there will also be Thursday webinars covering topics like trauma, marketing and group work. Attendance on these Thursday webinars is not mandatory, but we recommend watching them. They’ll present extra coach-specific learning along with giving you extra time to practise.

For those who speak German, you’ll have the opportunity to have questions answered in German during most live calls. 

Who is this program for?

If you are…

An experienced coach, therapist or facilitator

A movement or meditation teacher

Interested in embodiment coaching

Or you just want an intensive personal growth journey, then CEC may be a great fit.

CEC is for anyone who wants more confidence, clarity and safety facilitating with the body.

Mark Walsh

CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited

A course you’ll actually complete!

“It’s easy to buy a course online and then not actually do it, eh?!

That doesn’t happen with CEC. 84% of people who start the course finish it.

CEC has live calls (with three timezone options), a clear structure that busy people can follow, peer group accountability (people LOVE these little groups), a discussion platform away from social media, and great support from our (über-German) dedicated course manager Alina. 

Every live call has ‘tech hosts’ and learning assistants offering support in multiple languages, too. 

CEC’s simply a great experience. We’ve been doing this stuff online for quite a while, and regularly we’re told our online sessions, ‘aren’t like usual boring Zoom calls’. CEC sets the standard other online courses aspire to. It’s also not a learning journey to be taken lightly, as we only want students who will put the work in to make the most of it. 

I don’t much like cheesy offers, but I will refund you personally if you fully engage with this course and don’t learn how to coach with the body competently and safely on it. CEC works. I love it.”

Mark Walsh

CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited

What our students say

What you’ll come away with

12 new coaching tools to use with clients
A profound understanding of your own embodiment
Greater personal range as a facilitator
A set of group facilitation tools to help you stand out
An understanding of how trauma and neuroscience relate to coaching
Skills to use embodiment in mainstream environments
Clear ethical principles
The ability to blend our techniques with skills you already have

Our 5 learning pillars

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Practise & integration

You can’t just read your way into embodiment, so the majority of the learning is practice-based, both solo and with others.

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A sense of humour

While we take what we do very seriously, we like to have fun while we do it. Having a sense of humour is important if you’re going to do any of our courses.

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No BS

We teach tools that work. We deliver the exact learning you need to get the outcomes you want without any of the wishy-washy new-age or “woke” nonsense around today.

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Multiple perspectives

We bring together diverse points of view on embodiment and never tell you there’s only one way of doing things. You can decide for yourself what you want to believe or use.

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Culture- & trauma-aware

We’re a culturally diverse team, doing everything from a cross-cultural, trauma-informed point-of-view. Consent and care are at the heart of our approach.

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The Team

The team is extremely diverse, with each member bringing their own perspectives and insights. This means you’ll get the most effective techniques from a variety of different modalities and practices.

Course leaders

Bio

Mark Walsh teaches embodiment, trauma education and resilience.

He is the author of Embodiment, The Body in Training and Coaching, Embodied Meditation and People Un-Pleasing.

He hosts The Embodiment Coaching Podcast (2 million+ downloads), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?

He co-founded the Embodied Facilitator Course, and the online Certificate of Embodiment Coaching Course. He has certified over 2000 embodiment coaches, and taught workshops in over 40 countries.

Mark gained an honours in psychology (despite been an alcoholic at the time), he has taught widely in the corporate world where he pretended to be a grown up for years, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Google, Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal).

He has worked in war zones (including founding a trauma education charity in Ukraine), and entertained over 50,000 children.

Mark has headlined International Coach Federation events, lived with the circus and in slums, taught celebrities, and kissed a princess.

He's an aikido black belt, and also has 28 years of experience of other martial arts, with yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, conscious dance and meditation.

Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else.

Mark dances like your dad at a wedding, impresses cats with his stroking, and offends pirates with his swearing.

He is now tired of writing in the third person. It’s getting weird.

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CEO & Founder,
Embodiment Unlimited

Bio

Christina is a co-lead trainer on the Certification of Embodiment Coaching course, a passionate dancer and improviser who holds an MSc in Social Sciences. 

She has an aikido black belt and is a master of integrated mixed modalities from many worlds. Her work has taken her all around the world, from London, Berlin and Switzerland, to South-East Asia and back. 

Christina guides groups and individuals through embodied enquiry exercises presented in a playful package while targeting greater self-awareness and personal growth.

Christina Dohr

Embodiment Coach & Somatic Educator

Assistant trainers & team

Alina Brand

Course Manager, Coach

Flouer Evelyn

Coach, Dance Teacher

Ranko Ceric

Coach, Aikido Teacher

Anastasia Vysotskaya

Course Assistant, Support

Kandis Lock

Coach, Naturopathic Doctor

Daniela Welzel

Coach & Mindfulness Facilitator

Daniela organised the Embodiment Conference in 2018 and has been involved in a number of online conferences, summits and online courses in the organisational team. She was the conference manager for TEC2020 and course manager of the Embodied Facilitator Course. Daniela has a university diploma in administration and police leadership science, and has worked for the German Police Forces for over ten years. She also served in her function in a bilateral training mission in Afghanistan, teaching Afghan police officers in methods and didactics, psychology and code of conduct. She holds a black belt in aikido, is a certified MBCT trainer and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She regularly teaches workshops and courses on embodied self-defense, mindfulness and offers individual coaching.

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Kandis Lock

Coach, Naturopathic Doctor

Daniela Welzel

Coach & Mindfulness Facilitator

Daniela organised the Embodiment Conference in 2018 and has been involved in a number of online conferences, summits and online courses in the organisational team. She was the conference manager for TEC2020 and course manager of the Embodied Facilitator Course. Daniela has a university diploma in administration and police leadership science, and has worked for the German Police Forces for over ten years. She also served in her function in a bilateral training mission in Afghanistan, teaching Afghan police officers in methods and didactics, psychology and code of conduct. She holds a black belt in aikido, is a certified MBCT trainer and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She regularly teaches workshops and courses on embodied self-defense, mindfulness and offers individual coaching.

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With pre-recorded videos from…

Amanda Blake

Neuroscience for Coaches

David Treleaven

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness in Coaching

Emory M. Moore, Jr.

Applications for Coaches Masterclass

Ginny Whitelaw

Resonance in embodiment coaching

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Wendy Palmer

Embodiment & Self-Development

Aboodi Shabi

Somatic Coaching demonstrations

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation for Real Change

David Berceli

Working with Clients' Trauma

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

The Depth of Somatics

Dylan Newcomb

Coaching Demonstrations

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Kathleen Booker

Breath as a resource for coaches

Bebe Hansen

Presence-based Coaching

Miles Kessler

The developmental zone between challenge & support

Ilan Stephani

Working with Trauma & Intimacy

Dr Ela Manga

Neuroscience in Coaching

Martin Aylward

Impersonal Meditation (it's not about you)

Patricia Aguirre

Trauma Basics & Self-Awareness

Cheryl Whitelaw

Diversity with coaching

Karin van Maanen

Embodied Meditation

Adam Barley

Cycles through conscious dance

Why I love this course… and a warning

“Training people to be better embodied facilitators is my life’s work. 

I do many things: trauma education in Ukraine, corporate work, embarrassing middle-aged dad-wedding-style disco dancing… but the only thing I do really well is this. I wrote the book, led the biggest conference and host the longest-running podcast on it. I love it. 

I want a saner, kinder, more embodied world. And those things go together. This is our mission. 

We also have our own unique style of doing this work. We’re practical – so if you want to be super-ultra-mega crystal-loving spiritual… maybe stay away. And if that didn’t make the point already, we have a good time and aren’t exactly politically correct.

If you’re easily offended, stay away, as we’ll be having fun learning. Frankly, we’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but you won’t find a better embodiment coaching course, so if the bad jokes don’t put you off, I hope to see you on CEC.”

Mark Walsh

What embodiment leaders say…

Early-bird bonuses

If you enrol in CEC now, you’ll get access to these bonuses worth $2057:

1-1 welcome call with Mark

(worth $500)

Only for the next few people who join.

I’d like to get to know as many of you personally before you start your journey. This is only possible before numbers get too high though. 30-minutes over the phone.

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Coaching Demonstrations Course

(worth $899)

Many coaches hesitate to work with embodiment because of worries about trauma or mainstream clients’ reactions.

You’ll overcome these barriers by witnessing real coaching with real clients, explained one step at a time.

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Trauma-Informed Coaching Library

(worth $448)

This includes the Introduction to Trauma course with Mark Walsh & Patricia Aguirre, along with the Giants of Trauma pack with the following trauma experts…

How to Sell Coaching Masterclasses

(worth $200)

Don’t know how to help the people who need you, find you?

These masterclasses will help with that.

There is a way to sell what you do ethically and effectively, without selling your soul.

Over the years we’ve learnt that despite being good at what they do, some CEC grads struggle with “putting themselves out there”. That’s understandable when most marketing that we see is fake, manipulative BS.

We’ll cover how to…

Hop on this bonus if you want to make a sustainable living doing what you love!

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Become a certified embodiment coach in 2025

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Embodiment Coaching Course (ECC)

Self-paced

Regular price

$2,000

Early-bird

$1,299

You can also pay in instalments>>>

Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC)

6 months: Feb 11 - Aug 12

Regular price

$2,500

Early-bird

$1,499

You can also pay in instalments>>>

Master of Embodiment Coaching (MEC)

2 years: 2025-2026

Regular price

$17,100

Early-bird

$7,999

Got a question about CEC that’s not answered in the FAQs below?

Please get in touch with Virginia on support@embodimentunlimited.com to make sure that CEC is a good fit you.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

CEC is for those who want to be certified graduates and get the associated 37 ICF CCE’s. CEC requires:

  • 80% live attendance at Tuesday calls
  • Attend opening and graduation calls (see the schedule)
  • Complete all coursework, including peer groups, practices and exam

If you don’t care about certifying or can’t make it live, then ECC may be a better choice. ECC has no live components so you can complete the learning in your own time.

NOTE: If you join CEC and special life situations arise, we can be flexible in making exceptions in individual cases, as long as you tell us ASAP (don’t wait several months and then come and ask).

MEC is a 2-year program designed for those who want everything they need to make a career out of embodiment coaching. 

CEC’s the foundation but it includes an extra live coaching and live marketing small-group call with myself (plus external experts) every week, along with:

  • Access to all the courses we’ve ever made (leadership, marketing, purpose, resilience, boundaries, etc.)
  • Tickets to all in-person events worldwide for two years
  • Access to all new courses we offer in the next two years
  • Twenty 1-to-1 coaching calls with me on topics of your choice
  • Private WhatsApp community with other “MECers”
  • Personal introductions to my extensive network, along with a mentor a mentor who cares
  • And some more bonus stuff I’ll throw in, which my accountant will likely give me grief about 😉 

Honestly, it’s not for everyone, or even for most people, as you’ll need some space.

We’ll also need to be a good fit for one another, as we’ll be spending plenty of time interacting, which is why you’ll need to apply.

You can learn more about MEC here>>>

We do CEC once per year, so if you can’t join in 2025, 2026 is the next training cycle.

It will likely increase in price by about 30% for 2026.

No – you can choose to attend only one of the three weekly timeslots offered, either 9am, 6pm or 2am UK time. 

It doesn’t need to be the same time every week, and you’re also allowed to attend more than one if you want.

But to graduate CEC you must come live at least 80% of the weeks. As there are live webinars on 25 weeks, that means you must attend 20 of the live Tuesday slots over the entirety of CEC.

If this isn’t possible, you may prefer to join ECC and complete the course in your own time, as there won’t be any live components.

Yes, you get a total of 37 hours (Core Competency hours and Resource Development hours) from the ICF for graduating from CEC, as long as you complete the certification requirements (minimal live attendance, completion of coursework, etc.). 

Not at all.

We don’t imagine you’re completely new to embodiment, otherwise you wouldn’t have found your way here anyway.

CEC has four main groups of students – existing coaches, those who would like to become coaches, group teachers or facilitators, and people who simply love embodiment or personal growth. 

All are welcome!

No. You’re very welcome to use all the tools in your coaching and teaching, but if you train others, we’d ask you to mention the original sources.

You’ll notice we do this with much of what we’ve learnt too, whether it’s peacemaking from Paul Linden, embodied leadership from Wendy Palmer, trauma work from the likes of David Berceli and David Treleaven, or whatever else.

It’s basic ethics and respect.

CEC likely isn’t for you, as it requires a time commitment of 5-6 hours a week minimum. 

That being said, the majority of the course is flexible and can be done in your own time, other than the live webinars, so it could work around a busy schedule.

If you don’t have 5-6 hours per week, you may prefer to join ECC, so you can complete it in your own time.

Yes. This course is designed to give you practical tools that you can actually apply to mainstream and business environments.

Many of the facilitators have worked extensively at a high level in corporate environments around the world and with other sceptical groups.

Well, different styles suit different people. But if you’re sick of the guru-led, new-age stuff that’s out there – this course will be a breath of fresh air.

We’re one of the best when it comes to clarity and practicality too, and like to have fun while we learn. We’re happy to recommend alternative courses if this doesn’t sound like you.

Besides all of that, we’ve trained more embodiment coaches than anyone else, so we know what we’re doing!

Yes. CEC gives you some great practical tools to coach with the body confidently and safely. We are world class in teaching this.

We also recommend complete beginners attend a standard coach training in addition if they are completely new to the career. In some countries this may also be necessary for insurance.

Hell no. The team who run the course have a sense of humour and like to have fun while they teach. If you’re easily offended, this isn’t the course for you. Please go back to the safe space that spawned you 🙂

Yes. Don’t worry if you miss a few live sessions here and there, you’ll be able to catch up in your own time.

However, do make sure you attend a minimum of 80% of live calls if you want to graduate.

For ECC, the recorded sessions are what you will have access to, so there actually isn’t a requirement for live attendance.

Please know in addition to the course, we ask you to read some books that may cause additional payments.

To certify, you’ll also need to try out a few different practices with other providers that can carry small fees, and commit to a new practice starting from April, which may also have fees (depending on the provider).

If you’re keen, you may also choose to join Mark for some live in-person workshops, but they’re not required to certify. If you choose to join these, we may be able to give you a CEC discount.

Yes. Although please be mindful that working with the body can be triggering.

This course is purely educational, so if you are in need of therapy, please seek help from qualified professionals.

This course not only contains live components in the form of webinars, but also incorporates peer group meetings in real time.

By tracking your process through our purpose-built learning platform and practice journals, we help you stay focused and ensure you see the course through.

We’re proud to say that 84% of students who join CEC graduate. The personalised support we offer is what sets us apart from many other courses.

Yes. Weekly handouts, homework and occasional assignments will be issued to help you properly digest the learning.

We have found that having a live element of the course increases accountability and completion rates (as can be seen from over 80% completion rate last year). If, for some reason, however, you do not manage to complete, you can do it again next year, for a small fee to cover admin costs.

If you know in advance that you won’t be able to meet the live requirements, you may prefer to join ECC.

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