Transformative tools your clients will love
26 powerful embodiment poses to support your clients
Full certification
for safe, confident facilitation
training coaches
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26 poses
to change states & traits
26 embodied poses
to change states & traits
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26 embodied poses
to change states & traits
training coaches
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+ years
You know the body matters, but where to start?
Most trainers, coaches, therapists and facilitators know that including the body is vital.
It’s a key part of who people are, and often how the quickest, most powerful transformations happen.
The body gives insight, gets clients unstuck, and is crucial for lasting change.
But WHERE to start? It can be confusing to know HOW exactly to work with the body.
Frankly, there’s a lot of BS out there. Even well-meaning embodiment teachers don’t always offer understandable, practical tools.
The body is vital for quick, lasting change
We are a body, not just a mind. That’s why working with the body is one of the quickest and most effective ways to facilitate change.
But it’s easy to feel a bit lost with specifically HOW to work with the body.
Perhaps you know the power of embodiment techniques, but would like a simple, effective system that gets concrete results with all kinds of clients?
Or maybe you want specific tools for common problems, like low confidence, poor self-care or poor boundaries?
Something that can deliver deep insights and immediate shifts?
That’s why we developed a practical set of techniques that just work.
A powerful, practical system
The Embodied Toolkit is a system of 26 archetypal, non-athletic postures for facilitators.
It’s a practical set of techniques matched to common client challenges.
The poses quickly shift states, open up new possibilities, and can be given as concise “homework” for lasting change.
Toolkit was developed by an international team over a decade, with postures for every situation along the broad range of human experience.
You don’t need to be a ninja master, Olympic athlete, or special tantric unicorn to use them.
Embodied Toolkit is a straightforward system that works. Simple.
Presents...
Embodied Toolkit
A system of 26 archetypal poses that makes embodiment simple for coaches and trainers.
Toolkit poses…
- Offer a clear, practical system
- Are non-athletic and non-esoteric
- Have a simple, clear methodology
- Are safe to use and trauma-informed
- Provide practical solutions to specific problems
- Are accessible for a range of clients with different needs
With beautifully prerecorded experiential and technical videos along with 12 live support sessions, you can’t actually “fall behind” on this course.
The live sessions encourage you, deepen your learning, and make things more enjoyable, but when you certify is up to you.
This provides a nice balance between flexibility and accountability.
Beautiful videos
Live support
Personal practice
Coaches, facilitators or those seeking deep personal growth learn all 26 poses, along with how to teach them to others.
If you’re not a coach or facilitator, you may like the self-care package, which includes the first four live support sessions and emphasises personal practice. The 12 Embodied Toolkit poses taught over these weeks will deepen your self-care.
The certification
You will receive a certificate if you choose to go through the certification process.
This certification track will allow you to use Toolkit…
1-to-1 (coaches, therapists, bodyworkers) as:
- A coaching tool to bring awareness
- An adjunct to therapy and bodywork
- A way to powerfully shift clients' states
With groups (movement & meditation teachers) to:
- Practise states between classes
- Stand out in a crowded marketplace
- Bring insights from the studio into daily life
The certification may be for you if you are a...
Coach or facilitator
who wants powerful insights and breakthroughs with your clients
Movement or meditation teacher
who wants to deepen their classes and stand out in a crowded market
Therapist or bodyworker
who wants to offer clients practices they can take into daily life
… Or you’re looking for a deep, insightful personal growth journey.
You'll learn...
- The psychology behind the poses
- Important trauma-sensitive safety guidelines
- How to adapt poses for different situations (e.g. while seated)
- How to use for common problems (e.g. confidence, boundaries, anxiety)
- How to embody each pose personally to manage your own state like a master
Whilst those on the certification will also learn...
- Common mistakes facilitators make and how to avoid them
- How to use poses creatively and to personalise for each client
- Micro-poses to help clients integrate insights into their daily lives
- How and when to use them in your facilitation to produce better results
- Technical breakdowns of each pose so you can use them with clients effectively
All 26 Embodied Toolkit poses
Entering pose
For clients who need to move forward courageously.
Giving pose
For both being more generous and setting healthy boundaries around giving.
Enthusiasm pose
Help clients leap into life with confidence and passion.
Inspiration pose
A pose to uplift people and inspire creativity.
Self-care pose
For people who need to be kinder towards themselves.
Evaluation pose
A pose to develop discernment and thoughtful decision-making.
No pose
A pose that sets firm boundaries and teaches clients to say ‘no’.
Yes pose
A pose to learn deep acceptance and let beauty in.
Openness pose
Guide clients to be more accepting and open.
Inner pose
Support your clients to turn inward for guidance and support.
Receiving pose
Guide clients to feel worthy of receiving.
Rest pose
For people who need to learn that recovery is an important part of self-care.
Support pose
A pose to foster both giving and receiving support openly.
Stand pose
Empower clients to take a stand for what they believe in and who they are.
Warrior pose
Empower clients to summon strength in difficult situations.
Vulnerability pose
For people who struggle to be vulnerable and need to explore their innocence.
Joker pose
Help clients take themselves less seriously and be playful.
Taking space pose
Facilitate your clients’ journey to being more comfortable in the spotlight.
Care pose
For people who care too much or need to develop nurturing.
Authority pose
Help clients build confidence as leaders.
Letting go pose
For clients who need to accept the past and forgive in order to move forward.
Death pose
A pose to facilitate coming to terms with mortality.
Surrender pose
For people who need to let go of what they can’t control.
Pushing pose
Support clients to access the power they need to achieve their dreams and goals.
Sensuality pose
Coach clients to explore the world through their senses.
Transcendence pose
Help clients rise above any negativity.
Help clients make quick, deep change that lasts
Move past talk and into the body with clients to give them a lived experience of a different way of being in each session.
Change state on demand and embody new traits
Be more present with clients and have more choice in how you show up in the world
Learn embodied tools for any coaching situation
Never be at a loss in a coaching session again with 26 specific, practical tools to fit a wide range of client needs.
Schedule
The optional live webinars are on Tuesdays at 9am UK time (6pm AEST) and 6pm UK time (10am PT), starting September 24.
These end on October 15 (for the self-care package, 4 weeks total) or December 10 (for the certification package, 12 weeks total).
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You can choose to attend the time that’s most convenient for you (you’re welcome at both if that works).
Sessions will be recorded, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t make them live.
You will have lifetime access to the beautifully-filmed prerecorded content, but as for the live support sessions, there are two pathways:
FIRST 4 WEEKS:
Embodied Toolkit for Self-Care
- Everyone does this
- Personal practice focus
- Learn the 12 best poses for self-care
FINAL 8 WEEKS:
Embodied Toolkit Certification
- For those who’d like to certify
- Learn the remaining 14 poses
- Practise leading all 26 poses with others
- Learn to teach 1-to-1 and in groups
Course contributors
Mark Walsh
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited
Mark Walsh leads embodiment, coaching and trauma education trainings.
He is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation. Mark hosts The Embodiment Podcast (2 million+ downloads), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?
He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course, and the Certificate of Embodiment Coaching. Mark has certified over 2000 embodiment coaches, and taught workshops in over 40 countries.
He gained an honours degree in psychology (despite been an alcoholic at the time), and 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).
Mark has worked in war zones (including founding a trauma education charity in Ukraine), and entertained over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, lived with the circus and in slums, taught celebrities, and kissed a princess.
Mark is an aikido black belt, and also has 28 years of experience in other martial arts, 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. He dances like your dad at a wedding, impresses cats with his stroking, and offends pirates with his swearing.
Mark’s now tired of writing in the third person. It’s getting weird.
Karin van Maanen
Meditation & Yoga Trainer
Karin is a coach, yoga and meditation teacher with an MSc in Mindfulness Studies.
She has been teaching compassion-based mindfulness full-time since 2008.
Karin delivers yoga teacher training courses, is a certified Embodied Toolkit teacher trainer, and is Lead Trainer on the Certification of Embodied Meditation course and Assistant Trainer on the Certification of Embodiment Coaching course.
She is the co-author of Embodied Meditation and Embodied Yoga Principles.
Karin also has a background in community arts and works as a storyteller, often combining a range of embodied and creative approaches to support the personal and professional development of the people she works with.
Vidyadasa
Embodied Toolkit Lead Trainer
A web designer, father and author who shares Buddhist inspired embodiment-based practices and mindfulness-based hatha yoga with groups and individuals to facilitate body and mind transformation.
Emilie Joy Rowell
Coach & Yoga Teacher
Emilie’s a movement coach and facilitator with a background in Fine Art. Her specialisms are pelvic wellbeing and embodiment.
Over the years, Emilie has taught thousands of women to reconnect with their bodies to find play and passion. She’s a yoga teacher with over 17 years of practice experience, a doula (non-medical birth supporter), and has been working with Embodied Toolkit as a facilitator for the past six years.
Emilie’s also a coach who’s a Franklin Method Pelvic Fascia trainer and pro hula hooper.
Mayan Patel
Embodied Toolkit Trainer
Mayan is a yoga teacher and community organiser who focuses on increasing wellbeing and social-emotional intelligence for entrepreneurs and freelancers.
Jane Dancey
Women's Coach & Yoga Teacher
Jane specialises in supporting and accompanying women through transitional stages of life, from menarche to menopause
She’s the creator of The Embodied Female Pelvis online course.
You'll find other certified practitioners in...
Australia
Bosnia
Canada
Croatia
Czech Republic
Egypt
France
Germany
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Kuwait
Mexico
New Zealand
Philippines
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tunisia
UAE
UK
USA
What past students say about our courses
Stellar content and 100% applicable to real life. The course gave me solid preparation for how to actually teach the postures – not just practise them myself.
As an ontological coach, I like to work somatically whenever it serves. The Embodied Toolkit makes this easy for me, providing a comprehensive and handy kit I can use to bring instant embodiment to the inquiry, with minimum fuss. The postures may appear straightforward, but are actually sophisticated tools!
Embodiment postures have lifted my coaching to the next level. They bring my clients into
their bodies and feelings. It’s an amazing gift.
Embodied Toolkit taught me to produce (actual) profound state changes in clients, even when coaching online. Talk about a game-changer.
A refreshing method of self-inquiry and transformation.
Highly effective for changing behavioural patterns.
There wasn't anything in the yoga world that met my needs until Toolkit. I love the non-guru approach and found it very different from my usual training.
I already had an embodied practice, but it feels so much more enriched. My students have already noticed a shift, which they love. There are a range of tools and the way they are broken down is excellent. A wonderful course!
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.
Wow, I learned so much! The structure was really nice and fluid, and organisation over-the-top awesome. Great longer meditations, too.
This work has been 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!
I can honestly say this course was a total game-changer for me personally and in my coaching practice. By far the most valuable training investment I’ve ever made.
Using CEC's learning and teaching has given me the power and authority to help transform the lives of many Filipinos for the better.
I never had so many 'aha moments' during a course as in this one. As a coach, I use the practices every day which helps my clients gain a deeper awareness of their state of being, and more possibilities and choices.
Embodiment allows me to coach from wholeness. This leads to much better results, much quicker.
I’m already easily blending the tools learned with my own coaching style. It is an upgrade for my set of skills and resources as a coach.
CEC had a huge impact for me by giving me some essential tools that make coaching so much more powerful. I also gained awareness around my own patterns, which means better presence for my clients.
My coaching is more precise and effective now. My clients now achieve their goals in a shorter time and fewer sessions.
CEC gave me confidence in my niche and underlined the importance of my own practice and well-being, it confirmed my core interest in trauma.
It has made me want to set up a business offering coaching. I feel so grateful for all I have learned with you, with the course opening into so many fascinating paths.
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Why coaches & teachers love Embodied Toolkit
“It’s nice to be offering a course that I know is extremely effective, as we’ve been doing it around the world for many years now.
Embodied Toolkit gives coaches a very practical set of tools. It’s an immediate ‘go-to’ for almost any problem that a client encounters. Toolkit encourages a level of deep insight that you just don’t see when asking questions verbally.
For mainstream coaches, it offers a practical approach to the body that doesn’t require jumping around or doing anything too “alternative”. And it simply works. Often the joke is that it’s TOO effective, because people experience such deep insights so fast.
Coaches also appreciate that Toolkit can be used to give short but powerful pieces of ‘homework’ for clients to take away, without requiring them to do anything too athletic or esoteric.
Many yoga teachers also use the Toolkit system (in fact, we used to call it Embodied Yoga Principles, which is why you’ll hear it referred to as EYP).
It adds a layer of psychological depth to postural yoga classes and allows students to take yoga “off of the mat” and into life.
Embodied Toolkit has been part of my personal practice for years. Often, it’s the thing I do just before I teach, as it allows for powerful state changes. Whenever I’m working with clients, it’s one of my main tools.
This course is beautifully filmed and edited (damn, we spent some cash!), so it’s a very high-quality recorded product. And the live sessions mean that the community of practitioners form real relationships along with actually doing the course.
I really like this combination of self-paced course, which allows people to fit it into their lives when it’s convenient, and the optional live sessions, which encourage people to not just leave the course unfinished in their email inbox somewhere.
This is one I’m proud of, so hope you can make it.”
Mark Walsh
Embodied Toolkit Co-Creator
Bonus
(worth $179)
Embodied Yoga Principles Masterclasses
This includes 26 hours of in-depth explorations of all Embodied Toolkit poses used in different facilitation contexts for both 1-to-1 and group work.
Toolkit was first developed as Embodied Yoga Principles (EYP) to bring a depth psychology aspect to movement classes. Here you’ll see practical, real-world uses for all kinds of situations.
Whether it’s struggling with confidence and leadership, needing to be more open and playful at home, or struggling with boundaries, you’ll learn fast and effective ways to manage your state and handle situations from a better place.
This stuff is seriously powerful for coaches and teachers, and adds a new layer of depth to your facilitation.
What leaders in the embodiment field 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.
I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation.
Embodiment Unlimited is THE place for YOU to learn, heal, rest, be seen & heard.
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.
Mark has a special ability to make embodiment work relevant and accessible.
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.
As a facilitator, I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.
Mark Walsh brings embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit.
It makes a body want to celebrate!
It makes a body want to celebrate!
Mark and his 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.
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Embodied Toolkit
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Live online | Sep 24-Oct 15
- 4 live support sessions
- 12 self-care poses
- BONUS
- 12 Self-Care EYP Masterclasses (normal: $99)
Normal price
$699
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CERTIFICATION
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Live online | Sep 24-Dec 10
- Certification for facilitators
- 12 live support sessions
- All 26 Toolkit poses
- BONUS
- All 26 EYP Masterclasses (normal: $179)
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$1399
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- Certification for facilitators
- 12 live support sessions
- All 26 Toolkit poses
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- The Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC)
- BONUS
- All 26 EYP Masterclasses (normal: $179)
Normal price
$3898
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$1999
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FAQs
The Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC) is our flagship course. It runs once per year for six months, and next starts in February 2025.
CEC and Toolkit complement one another very well. CEC teaches you a wide range of embodiment techniques along with the underlying principles so you can coach with the body creatively and effectively.
Toolkit gives you 26 out-of-the-box poses to bring immediately into your facilitation for any situation.
Dozens of our students do both every year, which is why they have different start times with a break between each (both a summer and winter break).
If you’d like to become certified in both CEC and Toolkit, this bundled option gives you a juicy extra saving.
It is a combination of live weekly webinars (available in two timezones – 9am and 6pm UK on Tuesdays), live peer group meetings (optional) and pre-recorded materials which you will be able to access on a bespoke learning platform.
It may be better conceived as a pre-recorded course with bonus live sessions (don’t let the live sessions be the determining factor in whether it is for you or not – they’re a bonus to help you with accountability).
The live sessions start on Tuesday 24th September and finish on Tuesday 10th December 2024 for the certification.
The self-care version runs for 4 weeks – September 24 until October 15.
For both, however, you can take as long as you need.
If you’ll be joining live and aiming to certify at the end of the live calls, we’d suggest spending around 3-5 hours per week (between live calls, peer groups, daily practice, and watching the online course).
You may instead choose to spread this out over time to make it more manageable.
We’d expect it to take at least fifty hours altogether (it may be more manageable to do an hour per week for a year, for example).
No worries. We offer these as extra support, but they aren’t necessary to certify. They will be recorded and available on the learning platform for you to catch up.
The course is designed for you to apply what you are learning with others, however if you are an aspiring coach or facilitator, it is also a good introduction to embodiment.
- Watch all the course videos
- Practice at least 10-minutes per day, 5-days per week, for 3 months (or the equivalent)
- Send through photos of yourself in all 26 poses
- For coaches, complete a minimum number of 8 hours of client coaching sessions integrating Embodied Toolkit (more explanation will be given during the course)
- For teachers, complete two 2-hour Embodied Toolkit workshops and four 1-hour classes that integrate Embodied Toolkit (more explanation will be given during the course)
- Reflect after each session you facilitate
- Have a video call with one of the senior teachers to check your grasp on the subtleties of the system and other relevant experience before your certification is awarded