Become a certified embodied meditation coach
Facilitate effectively in four months
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Practical techniques
with a small learning community to embed learning
Add depth to your meditation practice
As you probably know, the body is a huge part of meditation. And using embodied techniques can help add depth to almost any practice.
Being able to coach an embodied approach (to individuals or groups) can dramatically enhance your facilitation. That’s why we created our LIVE 20-week Embodied Meditation Facilitation Training.
Learn how to coach embodied meditation clearly & confidently
This is a real course, with real people (and limited group size). Not only will this training transform your own practice, but you’ll learn how to coach embodied meditation to students and clients, confidently and safely.
Whether you’re a meditation teacher looking to bring something new to your classes, a coach looking to broaden your offering or a movement teacher looking for an approach more tailored to your work – this certification will transform the way you support your clients forever.
Presents
Certification of Embodied Meditation
Learn to teach meditation safely and confidently with the body
from the world's most experienced online embodiment trainers
Practical techniques
Experiential learning
Supportive community
World-class teachers
If you're...
A meditation teacher
looking for an new approach that integrates with what you already do
A coach or movement teacher
Looking to add meditation to what you already do
Looking to facilitate meditation
and want to learn a framework that's clear, safe and effective
Then this may be a great fit.
It’s for anyone who wants powerful meditation techniques to confidently teach with the body.
How it works...
This course is split into two parts, with a rest week in-between.
Part 1 is available to everyone, whether you use meditation in your work or not. Part 2 is for teachers, coaches and facilitators (or those who want to be).
To do part 2, you must first do part 1.
Foundations of
Embodied Meditation
Personal practice
Learn the foundations of Embodied Meditation through your own practice.
During part 1 of the training, you’ll learn and practice Embodied Meditation techniques to benefit all aspects of your life. From your relationships to work, focus and purpose and the way you deal with difficult situations.
Certificate of
Embodied Meditation
Professional application
Learn how to teach Embodied Meditation techniques to others.
Part 2 is all about sharing these techniques with others. You’ll learn practical ways to use simple yet profoundly helpful practices with your students or clients to help enhance their practice and the way they approach life.
What you'll come away with...
On the Certification of Embodied Meditation (part 2), you’ll get…
- An understanding of the five most common problems students face (and how to overcome them)
- Practical embodied techniques to use with students / clients
- Ways to integrate embodied awareness into group work
- The confidence to teach safely & effectively
- Practise using embodied meditation in social interactions and online work
- Tools to help students get meditation "off the cushion" and into daily life
- Tips to help students establish a regular practice
- Insights into student-teacher relationships
Which will build on what you’ll get from the Foundations of Embodied Meditation (part 1)…
- A fresh new approach to meditation
- An understanding of embodied meditation, and how it differs from traditional approaches
- Practical techniques to deepen personal practice
- Ways to integrate body awareness into your life
- Deep, personal insights
Intimate group
learning
This training is limited to just 75 students, giving you plenty of time to get your personal questions answered, along with close peers to learn and grow with.
High quality
structured training
We take we’ve learnt from over a dozen years running similar trainings to give you everything you need to confidently teach embodied meditation.
Supervised by
experienced facilitators
Our teachers have over 124 years of combined experience in the field. They'll be by your side, teaching and supporting you from day one until graduation.
The schedule
Live webinars are usually 60-minutes long and run at two timeslots:
- Tuesdays at 7pm UK time (2pm EST / 6am AEDT)
- Wednesdays at 9am UK time (4am EST / 8pm AEDT)
(subject to change for 2024 schedule)
You must attend 80% of the webinars live to graduate, but you can pick the time that suits you.
What a typical week looks like...
We estimate that it’ll take 3-5 hours per week to do this course (it varies week-to-week).
60-minute live webinar
Tuesdays 7pm UK time
(12pm PDT)
Wednesdays 9am UK time
(8pm AEDT)
Daily meditation and journaling
(in your own time)
60-minute peer group meeting
(varied dates/times)
Monthly Q&A sessions
(monthly)
Optional bonus webinars
(varied dates/times)
Foundations of
Embodied Meditation
Week 0 (March 7)
Course platform opens
Review pre-course materials
Week 1 (March 14 or 15)
Welcome to the course
Overview / basics to get started
Week 2 (March 21 or 22)
Coming home to the body
Intro embodied presence
Week 3 (March 28 or 29)
Embodied awareness
Body scanning methods
Week 4 (April 4 or 5)
Distraction and response
Working with hindrances
Week 5 (April 11 or 12)
Changing habits and patterns
Neural plasticity, negativity bias
Week 6 (April 18 or 19)
Compassion practices
What is embodied compassion?
Week 7 (April 25 or 26)
Self-compassion
Embodied relating to self
Week 8 (May 2 or 3)
Relational mindfulness
Bringing the practice to relationships
Week 9 (May 9 or 10)
Living an embodied life
Mindful embodied living
Week 10 (May 16 or 17)
Closing of Foundations of Meditation
Final reflections / gratitude / ritual for FEM students
Rest week for CEM students
*There will also be two Q&A sessions, along with two bonus sessions (one on neuroscience, and another introducing Buddhist psychology), during part one.
Certificate of
Embodied Meditation
Week 11 (May 23 or 24)
Introduction to facilitating meditation
Overview / basics to get started
Week 12 (May 30 or 31)
Foundations of coaching meditation
Trolls vs. being in service, teaching from own experience, ethics
Week 13 (June 6 or 7)
Embodied coaching tools
Centring, (self-)compassion, open awareness
Week 14 (June 13 or 14)
Body scans and breath awareness
How to teach body-scans and breath-awareness
Week 15 (June 20 or 21)
Facilitating safely & effectively
Mental health & trauma awareness
Week 16 (June 27 or 28)
Compassion practices
How to embody and teach compassion practices
Week 17 (July 4 or 5)
Essential skills review
Recap - essential teaching points
Week 18 (July 11 or 12)
Assessment week
Submit video 12th July
Week 19 (July 18 or 19)
Rest week
Feedback sent to students
Week 20 (July 25 or 26)
Graduation week
Final reflections / gratitude / ritual
*There will also be three Q&A sessions, along with two bonus sessions (one on trauma, and another on how to ethically market as a meditation teacher), during part two.
Why we're doing this now...
“Facilitating embodied meditation has dramatically changed my inner and outer world.
I’ve meditated for years, but only when I shifted to an embodied approach did I realise how much deeper I could go.
Embodied presence is actually a radical doorway to listening, loving and expressing our feelings in a compassionate way. Radical, because most of us are so distracted by modern life that we’re not really ‘here’ a lot of the time.
This may well be one of the greatest gifts we can offer to anyone, and it’s an essential aspect of teaching and facilitation.
Throughout this training, we’ll focus a lot on embodied presence. We’ll also introduce an embodied approach to meditation that will transform your personal practice and help your students/clients in almost all areas of their lives. The tools are practical, easy to do and designed to benefit your whole life, not just the time you spend meditating.
This approach has had a serious impact on my life personally and that of my students. I’m positive it will for you, too.”
Karin van Maanen
Course Leader & Embodied Meditation Teacher
Embodiment Unlimited
What some of our 10,237+ students say...
I already had a strong meditation practice, but it feels so much more enriched. My students have already noticed a shift, which they love. There are a range of meditations and the way they are broken down is excellent. A wonderful course!
The course was well-structured with wonderful teachers. What really sets this course apart from others is the off-the-cushion practices and the emphasis on the transfer of skills developed in meditation to daily life.
The main takeaway for me was an attitude of kindness towards myself and my practice. The self-compassion and "yes meditation" resonated a lot with me. Great content overall.
It’s been transformational, empowering. I’m already seeing positive impacts on my classes.
My experience of studying with Karin has enabled me to establish a personal meditation practice and has enriched my own teaching of yoga and meditation.
Wow, I learned so much! The structure was really nice and fluid, and organization over-the-top awesome. Great longer meditations, too.
Karin’s meditation work has helped me to identify a central anchor in times of turmoil, as well as an enhanced sense of peace when things are generally going well.
The course helped me to create the space for a daily morning practice again, and for the first time in my meditation experience – be fully committed to it.
I thought that ‘coming home to your body’ was just a nice metaphor until I really felt it in one of the meditations!
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The team
Course leaders
Karin van Maanen
Meditation & Yoga Teacher-Trainer
Daniela Welzel
Mindfulness Facilitator & Women's Coach
Guest teachers
David Treleaven
Author, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Educator
Martin Aylward
Author, Meditation Teacher-Trainer
Mark Walsh
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited
Pre-recorded bonus sessions from...
Patricia Aguirre
Therapist, Family Constellations
Miles Kessler
Meditation Teacher-Trainer
Gail Aylward
Meditation Teacher-Trainer
Jamie McHugh
Somatic Movement Therapist
Christina Dohr
Somatic Coach, Embodiment Trainer
Teach-With-Confidence Guarantee
No, you won't be able to levitate after graduating from this course. But you will be able to facilitate confidently!
If you attend all the live sessions, try all the practices and still don’t feel like you can coach others in embodied meditation, we’ll give you your money back.
Full certification programme only.
Immediate-access bonuses
(worth $572)
Available for…
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Hrs
Mins
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Pre-recorded videos
With these bonus videos, you’ll learn how to introduce embodied meditation to students/clients, get a resource library to find many of the world’s best-known teachers, and get help with your marketing.
An introductory journey into embodied meditation
All the recordings from Embodied Meditation Week, including Christopher Titmuss, Wendy Palmer, Philip Shepherd and more...
(normally $199)
The complete meditation & breathwork library
From 100+ speakers at The Embodiment Conference, including Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Shinzen Young and more...
(normally $199)
Make a decent living from teaching meditation
All the recordings from Learn to Love Marketing, which'll help you to start enjoying marketing so you actually do it!
(normally $149)
Downloadable e-books...
Get the essential and core course reading books with the bonuses now, so you don’t need to purchase them separately at a later date.
The Embodied Meditation book
Essential reading for those certifying
(normally $8)
Centring: why mindfulness isn't enough
Mark's most downloaded e-book
(normally $7)
The Embodiment book
Practical tips, poems and stories
(normally $10)
What embodiment leaders say...
"Embodiment is an essential component of healing and Embodiment Unlimited does valuable work bringing its importance to the public. I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation."
Gabor Maté, M.D.Author & Trauma Educator 
"Embodiment Unlimited is THE place for YOU to learn, heal, rest, be seen & heard."
Kathleen BookerBreathwork teacher 
"Challenges to our safety make us strangers in our own body. Embodiment Unlimited provides important resources informing individuals about practices leading to an effective ‘re-embodiment’ that enhances mental and physical health."
Stephen Porges, PhDProfessor, Author, Scientist 
“Mark has a special ability to make embodiment work relevant and accessible.“
Arawana HayashiCo-founder of social presencing theater, Presencing Institute 
"The Embodiment Unlimited team provide a learning experience which draws on many forms of embodiment, then integrates it in a way that forms a more whole process for growth."
Paul Linden, PhDAikido Teacher, Trauma Educator 
"Mark brings embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit. It makes a body want to celebrate!"
Ginny Whitelaw RoshiCEO, Institute for Zen Leadership 
"The embodied work that Mark and the team does is both creative and practical. As a facilitator I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism."
Jamie CattoAuthor & Facilitator 
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Foundations of Embodied Meditation
Learn for yourself
LIVE | Online | 9 weeks
March 14 - May 10
- 11+ live webinars (recorded)
- Pre-recorded course videos
- App & website to connect with peers
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Bonuses (normally $25) -
E-books on meditation, embodiment, centring (normally $25)
Regular price
$999
Launch special
$599
For the next 3 people to use the discount code FEM2023SAVE at checkout
Certification of Embodied Meditation
Facilitate others
LIVE | Online | 20 weeks
March 14 - July 26
- 27+ live webinars (recorded)
- Pre-recorded course videos
- Certification support & feedback
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App & website to connect with peers
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Bonuses (normally $572) - Videos on meditation & marketing (normally $547)
- E-books on meditation, embodiment, centring (normally $25)
Regular price
$1,899
Launch special
$999
For the next 3 people to use the discount code CEM2023SAVE at checkout
Certification of Embodied Meditation
Facilitate others
LIVE | Online | 20 weeks
March 14 - July 26
- 27+ live webinars (recorded)
- Pre-recorded course videos
- Certification support & feedback
-
App & website to connect with peers
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Bonuses (normally $572) - Videos on meditation & marketing (normally $547)
- E-books on meditation, embodiment, centring (normally $25)
Instalments
$499 x 4
Launch special
$275 x 4
For the next 3 people to join
Email support@embodimentunlimited.com if you want a custom instalments option
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Certification of Embodied Meditation
Facilitate others
LIVE | Online | 20 weeks
March 14 - July 26
- 27+ live webinars (recorded)
- Pre-recorded course videos
- Certification support & feedback
-
App & website to connect with peers
-
Bonuses (normally $572) - Videos on meditation & marketing (normally $547)
- E-books on meditation, embodiment, centring (normally $25)
Regular price
$1,899
FEM upgrade
$499
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Got a question about the course or not sure which package is for you?
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FAQs
This is a live course but you will receive recordings of all the sessions in the course after they occur.
March 14th (evening session at 7pm UK time) or March 15th (morning session at 9am UK time) are the induction dates.
The course finishes on August 1st (evening) or 2nd (morning).
That’s 19 weeks in total of learning and practice.
No. But this course is focused on people who are experienced meditators that use (or want to use) an embodied approach to meditation in their own practice or with their clients/students.
To get your certification you must:
Attend at least 80% of the weekly 1 hour webinars.
Do 10 – 30 mins of practice at least 5 days a week and write in your practice journal at least 5 times a week
Attend the 30-60 minute weekly peer group meeting.
Attend at least one extended practice session in each part of the course (these are 2 – 3 hours long).
Submit a 10 minute recording of you guiding a meditation.
Attend a meditation retreat of your choice (could be online if necessary) of at least 2 days.
Approximately 3 – 4 hours a week. Including:
Weekly 1 hour webinar (must attend 80% live to get certification)
10-30 minutes practice at least 5 days a week
Journal after practice at least 5 days a week
30-60 minute weekly peer group meeting
OPTIONAL EXTRAS:
Bonus webinars
Practice sessions with lead and guest teachers
Q&A sessions
To get the certification you must attend at least 80% of the live calls but we’ll upload recordings of each session to the course platform a few days after it goes live.
However, we highly recommend making sure you have enough time to take on this course before enrolling.
Our guarantee states:
If you attend all the live sessions, try all the practices and don’t feel like you can teach Embodied Meditation to others – we’ll give you your money back.