Become a certified embodiment coach
Facilitate effectively in six months
LIVE online training with 37 ICF CCE's
LIVE online training with 37 ICF CCE's
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Learn powerful embodiment tools
Learn powerful embodiment tools
Want to create a kinder world?
Like me, do you want a planet with more people really in touch with themselves and each other?
Do you long to make a difference transforming lives?
How about using what you already know from embodied practice to help others?
Many of us love embodiment and know it’s incredibly powerful. How then can we support other people, and make the world a kinder, more connected place?
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, competent embodiment coach.
CEC starts with a deep dive into your own embodiment, learning techniques from multiple modalities to use in daily life.
After your personal journey, you’ll move on to facilitating real, lasting changes in others.
Along with live online webinars, self-paced videos, and home learning, CEC includes weekly peer groups and practise with real-life clients, making it not just another online course. It’s a growing, supportive global community.
Our experienced, multicultural team will also support you to integrate your learning with what you already know. This principles-based approach gives you a broad spectrum of tools to use with your clients, in your own creative way.
Presents
Certification of Embodiment Coaching
125-hour training to coach safely and confidently with the body
from the world's most experienced online embodiment trainers.
6-month LIVE certification
Structured curriculum
Techniques from 10+ modalities
World-class teachers
Diverse global community
The 60-minute live weekly webinars start on February 6 and end on August 6.
You have the choice to attend one of the three different live timeslots on Tuesdays:
- 9am UK time (1am PST / 8pm AEDT)
- 6pm UK time (10am PST / 5am AEDT)
- 2am UK time (6pm PST / 1pm AEDT - this is the next day for Australians, Wednesday)
If you are...
Interested in embodiment coaching
An experienced coach or facilitator
A movement or meditation teacher
Or you 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.
What you'll come away with:
A certification to show you are a confident, capable embodiment coach, AND:
- Nine new coaching tools to use with future coaching clients
- A deeper understanding of your own embodiment
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A greater personal range as a facilitator
- A collection of group work tools to use in your coaching
- An understanding of how trauma and neuroscience relate to coaching
- Skills to use embodiment in mainstream environments
- Clear safety and ethical principles
- The ability to blend our techniques with embodiment skills you already have
CEC Lead Trainers Christina and Mark
Start dates and times...
CEC 2024 started on February 6 and will end on August 6.
The core part of CEC 2025 will start and end on similar dates, starting on the first or second Tuesday of February (4th or 11th) and ending on the final Tuesday of July or first Tuesday of August.
Live webinars are usually 60-minutes long and run on Tuesdays at 9am, 6pm UK time and 2am UK time.
If you’re in the Americas, that’s 1am, 10am and 6pm PST.
If you’re in Australasia, that’s 8pm, 5am and 1pm AEDT (the next day).
You must attend 80% of the webinars to graduate, and since there are 25 live Tuesday webinars, that means you must attend 20 of them. There are also two rest weeks.
However, you can pick the session time that suits you, which might be different on different weeks, and you’re allowed to join more than one in the same week (although joining multiple webinars in the same week won’t count towards the minimum of 20 to certify).
A typical week on the course...
We estimate that it’ll take 5-6 hours per week to do this course (it varies week-to-week).
Live webinar
1-hr, at 3 timeslots
Peer group
1-hr
Course videos
30-mins
Additional reading
30-mins
Personal and coaching practice
60-mins
Bonus webinars
Thursdays,
6pm UK time
Weekly schedule and topics
Note that during weeks daylight savings starts or ends around the world, the usual CEC start time may change in your location. Convert to your timezone here>>>
During weekly live webinars, you may have the option to get your questions answered in the following languages (timeslot dependent):
Bonus webinars include sessions with guest teachers, extra Q&A’s and social hangouts.
What past graduates say...
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 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 into 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.
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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The team
The team is extremely diverse, with each member bringing their own perspectives and insights. This means you’ll get the most practical techniques from a variety of different modalities and practices.
Course leaders
Mark Walsh
CEO & Founder, Embodiment Unlimited & The Embodiment Conference
“Mr Embodiment” is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation. He hosts The Embodiment Podcast (1 million+ downloads), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?
He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course in the UK and Russia, and has trained over 2000 embodiment coaches in over 40 other countries (some of which will even let him back in).
He gained an honours 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. Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal) whom he charged wayyyy too much as they made him wear a suit.
He has also upset… sorry, taught… many yogis, NGOs, police officers and several militaries.
He has worked in war zones, and entertained over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, taught at Moscow State University, lived with the circus in Ethiopia, taught celebrities and kissed a princess.
Mark is an aikido black belt, and also has 25 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. He dances like your dad at a wedding, overshares about his gorgeous Ukrainian wife, and offends pirates with his swearing.
He is now tired of writing in the third person.
Christina Dohr
Embodiment Coach & Somatic Educator
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.
Guest trainers, assistant trainers and team
Alina Brand
Course Manager, Coach
Flouer Evelyn
Coach, Dance Teacher
Ranko Ceric
Coach, Aikido Teacher
Anastasia Vysotskaya
Course Assistant, Support
Karin van Maanen
Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Karin is a yoga & meditation teacher with an MSc in Mindfulness Studies, and has been teaching compassion-based mindfulness full-time since 2008. She delivers yoga teacher training courses, is a certified Embodied Yoga Principles teacher trainer, and is an Assistant Trainer on The Embodied Facilitator Course. She 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.
Daniela Wetzel
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.
Adam Barley
Founder of ZeroOne & Dance Teacher
With nearly 40 years experience in meditation and embodiment practices, Adam focussed deeply upon the 5Rhythms from 1991-2019, training with Gabrielle Roth to teach her work and building a world-wide reputation for powerfully transformative workshops. Having understood the profound symbolism of Euler’s Identity —arguably the keystone of mathematics— his work is now coming of age, integrating its meaning into an understanding of human nature and thereby bridging the worlds of science and spirituality with personal and collective evolution.
Kandis Lock
Coach, Naturopathic Doctor
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 on it, did the conference, host the podcast… and 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-shagging 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, find a course in Portland or some s**t, 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
Bonus trauma education pack
(worth $448)
If you join CEC before early-bird ends on February 2, you’ll get the Introduction to Trauma course with Mark Walsh & Patricia Aguirre, along with the Giants of Trauma pack with the following trauma experts…
Gabor Maté
Irene lyon
Peter Levine
Stephen Porges
Alanis Morissette
Bessel van der Kolk
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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Become a certified embodiment coach
Join interest list for CEC 2025, which starts in February
Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC)
Live & online
6 months | February - August 2025 (TBA)
- 37 ICF CCE's
- Tools for daily life
- Embodiment coach certification
- Coach confidently in six months
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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.
FAQs
No – you can choose to attend only one of the three 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 you must be there live 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.
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. CEC requires a time commitment of 5-6 hours a week minimum. If you aren’t prepared to commit this time each week, this isn’t the course for you.
That being said, the majority of the course is flexible and can be done in your own time. So CEC is suitable to work around a busy diary.
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.
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, there is a minimum number of live calls you must attend in order to graduate.
Core content is being offered twice to serve different time zones.
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.
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.