Slot 1
Every Tuesday
08:00–09:15
UK time: Tuesday, 08:00–09:15
Embodiment Coaching Certification
Coach beyond just words by working with the body
A 6-month live online training for coaches, trainers and therapists to work with the body powerfully, safely and practically.
Learn real tools through live webinars, embodied practice and peer-groups. An established course with clear standards and accountability.
Starts September 15
Fabiana Legradic, Coach (Switzerland)
“CEC had a huge impact by giving me tools that made my coaching so much more powerful.”
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2000+ coaches trained
15+ years experience
37 CCE hours
Grads from 45+ countries
84% graduation rate
What coaching needs now
Coaching is not short of models, questions, scripts or advice.
AI can generate those in seconds. So can coaching books, LinkedIn posts and the like.
But what is harder to train is presence, attunement, trust and your own embodiment.
That’s what CEC focuses on, along with practical techniques.
Why embodiment changes coaching
Many clients can talk endlessly about their patterns.
They can explain their family dynamics, their leadership problem, their relationship issues, their productivity issue, their childhood wound, their attachment style… Frankly, the whole bloody TED Talk.
But under stress, the body does something else.
They freeze. Collapse. Mask. People-please. Overthink. Push through. Shut down. Say yes while something in them is clearly saying no. Their embodied pattern takes over.
They are not broken or “resistant”. They just have habits – of state, posture, breath, attention and nervous-system disposition.
Talking brings insight. The body makes change usable under stress.
CEC helps coaches work with that layer safely and practically – within coaching scope, without pretending to be therapists, and without making embodiment weird for the sake of it.
Embodiment changes what is possible
When clients are stressed, collapsed, frozen or over-activated, they do not have access to the same choices.
Coaching needs to include the state they are actually in.
Patterns live in the body
Habits show up in posture, breath, movement, attention, tone and relational response.
The story is only part of the pattern.
The body gives clients something to practise
Instead of only talking about confidence, boundaries or presence, clients can rehearse them through simple embodied exercises.
This has to be practised
You can read about embodiment and watch videos about centring.
“Shelf-help” is useful… sometimes.
But presence is trained live.
So is timing, consent and knowing what to do when something real happens in a session.
In CEC, you practise, get feedback, watch demos, work with peers and meet clear standards.
That is how the work gets into your body.
Is CEC right for you?
CEC is aimed at people who already work with people – coaches, facilitators, trainers, therapists who coach and body-based practitioners – and want to bring the body into that work safely.
It also suits people who want a clear path to becoming certified embodiment coaches.
You do not need to be bendy, mystical or enlightened.
You do need to practise, be seen, get feedback and take the work seriously.
Good fit if you…
- Know talking alone has limits
- Want practical body-based tools for client work
- Want more presence, state and boundary skill
- Care about consent, safety and coaching scope
- Are willing to practise with other people
- Can make room for live calls, peer practice and work between sessions
Probably not if you want…
- Passive content only
- Quick tricks
- Therapy training
- Personal healing as the main focus
- A certificate without practice
- Vague embodiment with no standards
- Constant affirmation instead of useful challenge
How we work here
CEC is not for everyone.
You will practise with other people. You will get feedback. You will be asked to notice your own state, your habits and the effect you have in the room.
Consent matters. So does kindness and being able to hear something useful without needing it wrapped in cotton wool.
Feedback is direct and specific, but it is given in service of your learning.
You may be challenged, but you will not be shamed.
You are responsible for your state, your learning and your behaviour.
If you want to be supported and challenged, you may love it.
If you want to be constantly affirmed, rescued, have your pain listened to endlessly, or be agreed with politically, you probably won’t. That’s not what we do.
We offer effective coach training for robust adults with a sense of humour.
What changes for graduates
CEC gives you tools you practise, not ideas you collect.
You work with real coaching situations, get feedback, and learn to bring the body into client work without losing your head or your professional scope.
The work shows up in your timing, your boundaries and the choices you make in real-time under pressure.
By the end, you should be able to use simple body-based tools in coaching sessions, stay inside scope, and meet clear assessment standards.
In you
- Stay steadier when a session gets real
- Trust your body as part of your coaching instrument
- Notice your own state before it runs the room
- Hide less behind clever questions
In your client work
- Stay in coaching scope while bringing the body in safely
- Help clients shift state (not only analyse patterns)
- Support clients to use embodied practice to change over the long term
- Use breath, posture, attention and movement to support growth
- Work with overthinking, freezing, collapsing, self-care, leadership, boundaries and people-pleasing
Trea Pluister-van Til
“I have used the tools and techniques with clients to enable a deeper awareness and different choices.”
Steve Litchfield
"A total game-changer for my coaching practice. It’s by far the most valuable training investment I’ve made."
Marie Antonette Valderrama
“CEC has given me the power and authority to transform the lives of many Filipinos for the better!”
How the training works
Unfortunately, you do not learn embodiment by thinking harder about embodiment.
CEC is live and practical. You are taught the tools, shown them in action, then asked to practise.
You get feedback. You try again.
This is how skill develops.
You try the tools in your own body first. Then you practise bringing them into coaching, facilitation and client work.
The point is skill, not information-hoarding.
Teaching and demos
You learn the models and tools, then watch how they are used with real coaching situations.
Practice
You try the work in your own body and practise with other students.
Feedback
You get seen, supported and corrected so the work becomes cleaner.
Standards
You are expected to show up, practise and meet the completion requirements.
How the six months unfold
Six months gives the work time to move from interesting ideas to something you can actually do.
The detailed curriculum is below. This is the broad arc.
Phase 1:
Build your embodied foundation
You start with your own embodiment.
Presence, state, centring, awareness and range. How your embodiment impacts… everyone.
Before you use this work with clients, you learn to notice what is happening in yourself, build trauma awareness and more.
Phase 2:
Bring the body into coaching
You learn six core ways to work with breath, posture, movement, attention, boundaries and state.
You practise using embodiment practically in coaching without becoming “woo-woo” or vague.
You also learn the principles behind the tools, so you can adapt and create more.
Phase 3:
Integrate the work
You practise with more real coaching situations, including client work as the course progresses.
You get feedback, refine your timing, clarify your scope and prepare for the exam.
You’ll also learn group work to complement the one-to-one tools, cultural adaptations, and some marketing to help you sell the work.
Designed so you finish
CEC is not built as a content library you slowly avoid.
It has a weekly rhythm, peer groups, live attendance, feedback, a course manager and clear assessment standards.
That matters.
Busy adults do not usually finish training because they are magically disciplined. They finish because the structure keeps them engaged.
What keeps you engaged
- Live, enjoyable practice - we are known for this
- Three Tuesday time options
- Optional Thursday classes, with two time options
- Recordings when life happens - 80% live attendance is required to graduate
- Feedback
- A weekly peer group - we’ll help you find people who fit your schedule (people LOVE these)
- Clear standards and assessment criteria
- A dedicated course manager and support
Clear standards, clear reassessment
If you show up and do the work – attend, practise and submit the required assessments – and your coaching is not yet at certification standard, we will give you clear feedback and a straightforward route to re-assess.
You do not just get waved through.
You also do not get left guessing.
That is the point of having standards, and we have spent 20 years developing ours.
What embodiment leaders say
Gabor Maté, MD
“Embodiment is an essential component of healing, and Embodiment Unlimited does valuable work bringing its importance to the public.”
Jamie Catto
“The embodied work Mark and the team do is both creative and practical.”
Stephen Porges, PhD
“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’.”
Embodiment does not mean anything goes
Working with the body is powerful.
That is why CEC takes consent, scope and ethics seriously.
You learn to bring the body into coaching cleanly: with permission, clear boundaries, attention to capacity, and respect for what is yours to work with.
CEC trains coaches.
You learn when to work, when to slow down, when to stop, and when to refer.
The body is part of the work. It needs care.
Consent
Ask. Explain. Offer choice. Respect a no.
Scope
Work as a coach. Know what belongs in coaching and what does not.
Capacity
Notice when something is too much, too fast or not appropriate.
Referral
Know when the best coaching move is to send someone to the right professional.
You do not learn this alone in your head
Embodiment is relational.
In CEC, you practise with other students, work in smaller groups, bring the tools into client practice as the training progresses, get feedback, and notice what happens in your own body when you coach, listen, lead, freeze, rush or try to be impressive.
The community is not there for vibes.
It is there because this work needs other humans.
Learn from people who actually do the work
You see the work taught, demonstrated and picked apart.
You learn what the trainer noticed, why they chose a move, what they ignored, and how to keep the work clean.
This is one of the reasons CEC is live. Embodiment is easier to talk about than to do well.
Mark Walsh
Founder of Embodiment Unlimited
See bio
Mark Walsh is the founder of Embodiment Unlimited and has spent more than 15 years training coaches, facilitators, leaders and practitioners in practical embodiment.
He is known for making embodiment useful, clear and occasionally inconvenient for people who like their personal development heavily perfumed.
His work brings together coaching, martial arts, trauma awareness, leadership training, meditation, movement and a long-running suspicion of vague spiritual waffle.
Christina Dohr
Embodiment Coach & Somatic Educator
Carolina Padilla
Leadership & Wellbeing Coaching
Dr. Kandis Lock, ND
Health & Trauma-Aware Coach
Flouer Evelyn
Embodiment Facilitator & Dance Teacher
Ranko Čerić
Aikido 4th-Dan, Trauma-Aware Coach
Vanessa Schulz
Burnout Prevention Coach
Alina Brand
Intuition Coach
Dr. Helen Machen-Pearce
Nervous System Educator
Why we run CEC...
“I keep running CEC because this is the work I care about most: training coaches who can actually use embodiment with people, not just talk about it.
CEC is for people who want to take this seriously – not post about embodiment, perform it, or use it as spiritual affectation.
The world needs more sane, kind, embodied people. Coaches can help with that, if they have the skills.
The training is practical, playful and sometimes challenging. We’ve done this for a while and know what works.
On CEC you will practise.
You will get feedback.
You will be asked to look at your own patterns.
Many people laugh a lot too… some don’t… but hey, what am I gonna do?
If you want something ultra-spiritual, endlessly abstract or ideologically sanitised, you may hate it.
If you want useful body-based coaching skills and can make room for the work, I hope to see you in CEC.”
Mark Walsh, CEC Founder & Lead Trainer
What’s included
Here is the practical structure that keeps you learning, practising and on track:
Live training
- 6-month live online training
- Weekly Tuesday live training calls
- Weekly recommended Thursday deeper-dive calls
- Live teaching and demonstrations
- Recordings access while we host the training platform
Practice and support
- Weekly peer group practice
- Guided embodied practice
- Practice between sessions
- Feedback from trainers and assistants
- Course manager and training support
Certification and tools
- 37 ICF CCE hours
- Body-based coaching tools and practice materials
- Assessment and completion standards
- Certification of Embodiment Coaching
Week-by-week outline
The full curriculum is here for people who want the detail.
Most people do not need to memorise the weeks. The point is the arc: build your own embodiment, then bring the work into coaching and facilitation.
Exact details may shift slightly. The arc stays the same.
Personal skills
Week 0: Pre-course work
Orientation, preparation and first practice.
Week 1: Opening
Set up the training, meet the group and begin the practice.
Week 2: Embodied learning
How adults learn embodiment, and why practice beats theory.
Week 3: Embodied awareness
Attention, sensation, body awareness and noticing what is already happening.
Week 4: Nervous system regulation
Working with centring, state, activation, settling and capacity.
Week 5: 4 Elements Model
A practical map for range, state and embodied choice.
Week 6: Embodied Toolkit
Simple body-based poses for state and practice.
Week 7: Cycles and change
Exploring individual cycles and rhythms, how change happens, and what helps shift them.
Week 8: Embodied relating
Working with connection, distance, boundaries and relationship.
Week 9: Centring challenge
Practice, repetition and making centring usable under pressure.
Professional skills
Week 10: Opening and ethics
Starting the professional skills phase, with scope, consent and clean practice.
Week 11: The coaching relationship
Presence, trust, listening and what happens between coach and client.
Week 12: Essential tools for coaches
Core tools for bringing the body into coaching conversations.
Week 13: Frameworks and goal setting
Useful structure without turning coaching into a form-filling exercise.
Week 14: Awareness & Choice Technique
Helping clients notice what is happening in the body, and extend that into choice over their state.
Week 15: Embodied beliefs
Working with beliefs as lived patterns, not just nice sentences in the head.
Week 16: Practice
Coached practice, feedback and cleaning up the basics.
Week 17: 4 Elements Bodystorming
Using the 4 Elements model creatively with client situations.
Week 18: Embodied Toolkit
How to use the Embodied Toolkit system with clients.
Week 19: Practice
More practice with live coaching situations and feedback.
Week 20: Leader-Follower in Coaching
Working with direction, following, influence and relational dynamics.
Week 21: Practice and Q&A
Questions, practice and fixing what is not yet working.
Week 22: Coaching Flow
A bigger map for the stages and development of coaching work.
Week 23: Group Coaching
Turning embodiment tools into useful group learning.
Week 24: Designing a Great Workshop
Using embodied methods in group coaching and facilitation.
Week 25: Creativity in Embodied Facilitation
Making the work alive, useful and your own by integrating your unique strengths.
Week 26: Self-Care for Coaches
Keeping yourself resourced, clear and useful as a practitioner.
Week 27: Graduation
Completion, certification and next steps.
Schedule and attendance
CEC runs from September 15 2026 to March 30 2027.
Attend one live core training call each week, choosing the slot that works for you. You can switch between core-call slots as needed – you don’t need to tell us.
To certify, you must attend at least 80% of the core training calls live.
Required
Core training
75 minutes - choose one weekly slot
Slot 2
Every Tuesday
16:00–17:15
UK time: Tuesday, 16:00–17:15
Slot 3
Every Wednesday
02:00–03:15
UK time: Wednesday, 02:00–03:15
This is around Tuesday evening in North America, or Wednesday morning in Australia.
Highly recommended
Thursday deeper dives
60 minutes - choose either slot
Slot 1
Every Thursday
08:00–09:00
UK time: Thursday, 08:00–09:00
Slot 2
Every Thursday
16:00–17:00
UK time: Thursday, 16:00–17:00
Extra practice, support, integration and Q&A. Recordings are available.
Weekly peer practice - required
- Meet with a smaller peer group each week
- We help form groups around compatible schedules and time zones
- Students regularly tell us this is one of the most valuable parts
Attendance and recordings
- Attend at least 80% of core calls live to certify
- Recordings help you review and keep up when life intervenes
- Recordings do not replace the live-attendance requirement
- Missed core calls require the stated catch-up work
Local times may shift briefly when countries change clocks on different dates. UK session times remain fixed.
Six months later…
Real graduates. Real certificates. Considerable relief.
Join by July 24 and get these extras
These are included if you enrol by July 24.
The training is the main thing. These extras help you start well, practise properly and apply the work in the real world.
1-to-1 welcome call with Mark
A private call to clarify your focus, discuss how you want to use CEC, and orient the training to your real-world context.
Printed practice journal
A physical journal delivered to your door, designed to support weekly practice, reflection and integration away from screens.
Coaching marketing masterclasses
Practical sessions on pricing, boundaries and finding clients without being pushy or salesy.
Especially useful if you are building a private practice.
$500 learning voucher
A $500 credit to personalise your learning after CEC.
Use it towards any course in our shop, including boundaries, purpose, relationships and other specialist areas that fit your coaching direction.
Tuition and enrolment
The next CEC starts September 15 2026:
- 37 ICF CCE hours
- Six-month live online training
- Choose from three weekly core-call times
- Attend at least 80% of core calls live to certify
- Around 4-5 hours per week
Normal tuition
$3,000
Super early-bird tuition
$1,490
Available until July 31
You’ll be taken to the secure payment page. After enrolling, you’ll receive your practical training details and an email to create your account.
Not sure whether CEC fits your work?
Talk it through with Virginia.
Questions people usually ask
About CEC
What is embodiment coaching?
Embodiment coaching works with the body as part of coaching: posture, breath, movement, attention, boundaries, state and presence.
The point is to help clients notice patterns and practise new choices they can actually use under pressure.
What is the Certification of Embodiment Coaching?
CEC is a 6-month live online training for coaches, facilitators, trainers, therapists who coach and body-based practitioners.
You learn body-based tools, practise with other students, get feedback, and learn how to work cleanly inside coaching scope.
Is this a somatic coaching certification?
CEC overlaps with what many people call somatic coaching because it works with the body, state, breath, posture, attention and nervous-system patterns.
We use the word embodiment because the training is practical, relational and coaching-focused.
Is CEC ICF accredited?
CEC provides 37 ICF CCE hours.
It is not ICF Level 1, Level 2 or ACTP/ACSTH training.
Check your own ICF requirements if you need the hours for credential renewal.
Fit
Who is CEC for?
CEC is for coaches, facilitators, trainers, therapists who coach and body-based practitioners who want to bring the body into client work safely and practically.
You do not need to be bendy, mystical or enlightened.
You do need to practise.
Do I need to be a coach already?
Not necessarily.
It helps if you already work with people in some way: coaching, facilitation, training, therapy, leadership, education, movement, meditation or similar.
CEC is professional training, not mainly personal healing or passive learning.
Is this suitable for therapists?
Yes, if you also coach or want embodiment tools that can sit clearly within coaching-style work.
CEC does not train therapy. It trains embodiment coaching.
Therapists are responsible for working within their own professional scope, ethics and regulations.
Is this suitable for yoga, movement or meditation teachers?
Yes, if you want to move beyond teaching practices and learn to use embodiment in coaching-style client work.
CEC can help body-based practitioners develop clearer coaching skills, consent, scope, timing and practical tools for working with people.
Safety and scope
Is this therapy?
No.
CEC trains coaches and practitioners to use embodiment within coaching scope.
You learn consent, boundaries, pacing, capacity and referral.
The body is part of the work. It needs care.
Is there touch?
CEC does not require touch. The training is online.
Touch may be discussed, but consent, scope and professional context come first.
For deeper work with touch and in-person practice, see the Embodiment Unlimited events calendar.
Is CEC trauma-aware?
Yes. CEC is trauma-aware, not trauma therapy.
You learn to work carefully with state, capacity, pacing, consent and referral.
You do not learn to treat trauma.
If your work involves trauma treatment, stay within your professional training and legal scope.
What will I be certified to do?
You will be certified in Embodiment Coaching through Embodiment Unlimited, subject to completing the training requirements.
This supports you to use embodiment coaching tools within your existing professional scope.
It does not make you a therapist, doctor, physiotherapist or trauma specialist.
Format and commitment
Will I practise with other people?
Yes.
Practice is central to CEC. You practise with other students, work in smaller groups and get feedback. This then expands to practising with clients.
This is not a watch-and-nod training.
Are sessions live?
Yes.
Tuesday training calls are live and 75 minutes, with three time options. Attending any one of them counts toward the 80% live attendance requirement.
Thursday calls are 60 minutes and highly recommended.
There is also a required weekly peer group.
What if I miss a session?
You’ll have recordings access while we host the training platform.
Live attendance still matters: you need 80% live attendance to certify, and the training is practice-based.
How much time does it take each week?
Plan for around 4-5 hours per week.
This includes live calls, pre-recorded content where relevant, practice requirements, client practice as the course progresses, and peer group work.
Are there extra fees, books, or classes I have to buy?
There are a few books we recommend (we’ll send a list). Some people source them second-hand or via a library.
Some practise experiments involve trying things in the real world. You can keep this low-cost, but you might choose to pay for an occasional class (for example, yoga or martial arts). Nothing expensive is designed into the programme.
Is there assessment?
Yes.
CEC includes assessment and clear completion standards.
The certificate is tied to completion standards, not just payment.
What if I do the work but am not ready to certify?
You get clear feedback and a route to re-assess.
You do not get waved through, and you do not get left guessing.
Pricing and enrolment
What is the price?
The super early-bird price is $1,490.
This is available until July 31.
Bonuses are included if you enrol by July 24.
Are payment plans available?
Not publicly at launch.
If instalments are the only thing stopping you, email us and we’ll tell you what is possible.
The lowest current price is the super early-bird option.
Can my employer pay?
Yes.
If you need an invoice or supporting details for professional development funding, email support@embodimentunlimited.com
What is the refund policy?
You are eligible for a refund up to 24 hours after purchase if the purchase was a mistake.
After that, refunds are limited. Please read the full terms before enrolling.
What happens after I enrol?
After purchase, you’ll get an email from Simplero to create your account.
You’ll also get a separate email from us with the practical training details.
What if I am not sure?
A human can help you think it through.
We really do not want people joining if it is wrong for them. That is miserable for everyone.
Ready to become a certified embodiment coach?
What Coaching Needs now gave you a taste.
CEC is where you practise, get feedback and build the skills over six months.
If this is your work, join the next training.