Therapeutic Bodywork Practitioner Training

Our program includes:
Over 100 Hours Of Supervised Clinic Practice
Neuromuscular + Fascia Therapy Approaches
The Somatic Coaching Model: Feel and Follow
Group Facilitation Skills + Structures
The Business of Being Practitioner

Enrolment Open Now

Therapeutic Bodywork Practitioner Training

Our program includes:
Over 100 Hours Of Supervised Clinic Practice
Neuromuscular + Fascia Therapy Approaches
The Somatic Coaching Model: Feel and Follow
Group Facilitation Skills + Structures
The Business of Being Practitioner

Enrolment Open Now

Feel truly helpful to others, learn highly effective person-centred approaches

Support a growing empowerment within your clients and a reignited agency to move towards their body and health goals from a sense of felt-clarity. This three year program will give you the skills and approaches to be of true service and benefit with touch and somatic coaching tools that help people embody a healthier, happier and more fulfilled life.


Previous students regularly report our trainings and mentoring helped them to discover a deep and resounding sense of purpose and skills to

facilitate positive change with group and

individual client work.

Therapeutic Bodywork
Practitioner Training
2024-2025

Starting October 7th 2024
Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, Portugal
1 Year Training: £4,800
(Payment plans available)
Resilience - Embodiment - Creativity - Service

If you are looking at deepen your existing skills or becoming a massage, somatic coach or touch professional then our practitioner level Therapeutic Bodywork Certification training will give you the skills, community and clinical practice experience to grow your core competencies, person-centred body based communication fluency, business practice management and confidence to establish a truly successful and satisfying practice and livelihood in service of healthy embodiment, resilience and sense of wholeness.


Feel and Follow approaches connect us back to our inner blueprint of wellness and resource and provide a pathway that naturally leads each one of us to awaken our awareness, clarity and choice making into more ease, flow and joyful living. Our Therapeutic Bodywork practitioner training is a powerful restorative bodywork approach which supports the client as the expert of their lived experience and celebrates them as the ultimate choice maker of the unfolding session plan. This is held with clean language, embodied ethics and consent to ensure they know exactly the what and why of any part of the session is in service to their goals, needs and priorities.


This program will ground you in many interlinked layers of the art of skilful, no-agenda touch, the transformative power of presence and solid agreement making. We demonstrate all of our approaches through clinical supervision and client interactions during the teaching observation and clinical practice components of the training. In person as a co-caring practitioner team we work directly with volunteers and the paying public.


You will be guided to find your own inner resource of stillness and trust in the innate unfolding session plan as a truly person-centred way to serve others. This work invariably brings deep satisfaction as a practitioner and lends itself to an empowering path towards wholistic wellness for self and those we work with.


Julian studied Therapeutic Bodywork BSc (Hons) over 20 years ago and has continued to teach and practice these approaches ever since, he has rolled the most recent 8 years of Body poem, consent, somatics, sexology and communication teachings and continuing practitioner self development into a revised and updated version of this work. The degree he took sadly no longer exists but the opportunity to gain a unique grounding and clinical competency in this powerful person-centred work in a quality longer form thorough professional training now does exist. Let your bodywork journey continue here.

Therapeutic Bodywork Level 1- 2024
Embodiment Week 1
Monday, October 7th - Friday 11th
Monday
Monday
  • Opening The Group Container with Agreements
  • landing as "One Body" with Community Body Poem
  • Identifying individual learning goals and edges
  • Foundations of Feel and Follow
Tuesday
Tuesday
  • Our Session Structure Overview
  • Embodied Consent for Session Safety and Clarity
  • Opening to receive more deeply
  • Listening with your hands
Wednesday
Wednesday
  • Somatic Client Intake
  • Body Poem "I want list"
  • Consent Practices for Assessment, promoting choice and strengthening the relational field
  • Feel and Follow active receiving practice
Thursday
Thursday
  • Putting It All Into Practice
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
  • Group, triad and one to one practice containers
Friday
Friday
  • Putting It All Into Practice
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
  • Group & Individual Integration
  • Learning Edge + Practice Plan
This first in-person week of the training, outlined above, serves to ground some of the core competencies and start weaving the elements together in a practical form so that by the end of the week you have a functioning framework to practice with clients, other learners and the public if you are already in practice.

The training is designed to get you up and running with the core approaches so that you can witness real live sessions with the public and be witnessed yourself in order to more deeply embody these new skills and the spectrum between talk and touch and treatment and coaching modalities. Get ready for fun and profound shared insights through this rich community learning experience.

In between the focused in-person modules you will continue with the support of regular weekly group supervision on practice with volunteers and are welcome to attend the supervision clinic to gain further opportunity to watch the work in action with the public.
Embodiment Week 2
Monday, January 13th - Friday 17th
Monday
Monday
  • Opening The Group Container
  • landing as "One Body" with Community Body Poem
  • Identifying individual learning goals and edges
  • Connecting with the priority + making session agreements
Tuesday
Tuesday
  • Moving From Talk to Touch
  • Embodied Consent for Clear Client Choice
  • Bringing Treatment Skills within Coaching Model
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
Wednesday
Wednesday
  • Supervision / Clinical Observation
  • Q & A Focus Groups
  • Learning Edge Mapping
Thursday
Thursday
  • Soft Tissue Fascia Approaches
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
Friday
Friday
  • Putting It All Into Practice
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
  • Group & Individual Integration
  • Learning Edge + Practice Plan
This second in-person week of the training, outlined above, serves to deepen your confidence of the core competencies and start exploring and expanding their application together in a practical format. The idea is that you start to expand the scope and application of these approaches to confidently address a broader range of client presentations, goals and needs.
Embodiment Week 3
Monday, April 7th - Friday 11th
Monday
Monday
  • Opening The Group Container
  • landing as "One Body" with Community Body Poem
  • Identifying individual learning goals and edges
  • Dealing with Practice Challenges
Tuesday
Tuesday
  • The Business of Being In Service
  • Communication, Branding & Marketing
  • Defining Your Ideal Client & Offers
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
  • Q & A + Peer Supervision
Wednesday
Wednesday
  • Supervision / Clinical Observation
  • Q & A Focus Groups
  • Learning Edge Mapping
Thursday
Thursday
  • Working with Scars
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
Friday
Friday
  • Putting It All Into Practice
  • Partnered Practice Sessions
  • Group & Individual Integration
  • Learning Edge + Practice Plan
Relational Bodywork Students: Annelle & Emma speak about their experiences
What our students say about our trainings...
Feel and Follow Approaches + Relational Bodywork Student Feedback
Our next trainings for 2024 will take place in our new dedicated training centre with observation clinic in Vila Nova de Gaia, close to Porto, Portugal. We have two teaching spaces and 6 treatments rooms where practitioner learners can learn hands on with the public how to support their treatment and session goals.

Our Training Venue + Supervision Clinic
Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, Portugal
We feel we have found the perfect, purpose built practice clinic and teaching space" for the School of Relational Bodywork and 2024 Therapeutic Bodywork Practitioner Training.

Our newly updated beautiful practice home in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, Portugal could not be better connected, is right opposite to a train station, has a bus stop right outside and is 30 mins from Porto Airport with lots of accommodation near by. On top of this it is close to the ocean and nature spots.
How Enrolment Works
1
Register your interest
+ video call with Julian
Fill out our initial enrolment form and we will get in contact with you to arrange a one to one video call with course director Julian Marcus
2
Acceptance + Deposit
After we both decide the course is a good fit for you at this time and made agreements about the financial and other terms we ask for a £1250 deposit to secure your place on the 2024/2025 training in Portugal.
3
Induction +
Orientation Webinar Program
In the run up to the first in person module, we will meet together online for a series of preparatory video calls as a group. The focus will be to set the scene and start to lay the group for this work in order to get the most out of the first and subsequent embodiment weeks in Portugal.
Register Interest & Book A Video Call
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Who is our Therapeutic Bodywork Training for?

Are you a massage or bodywork professional or thinking to work with people and the body in some way? We can support you in deepening your person-centred conversational skills, to work with embodied consent for a felt sense of safety and agency, clear and intake approaches intake approaches and session planning.

We teach you tried and tested body-based coaching skills to guide the client to trust and communicate their needs and desires for increased satisfaction and noticeably improved session outcomes.



For existing practitioners of those starting out, we teach a range of skills and practices to expand or deepen your repertoire of touch skills and techniques that includes amongst others; clean language, body poem, neuromuscular techniques, mapping and soft tissue massage.

Are you a coach or talk therapists who is looking to gain experience with touch, or if not planning to work with touch exactly, then to perhaps utilise the sense of safety created with the latest somatic and embodiment practices to support your client in their needs and goals? The Feel and Follow toolkit for resilience and embodiment is immediately applicable for living in more embodied alignment to the personal updates and breakthroughs gained from the therapeutic work you already do.

We also very much welcome movement teachers working in areas such as dance, yoga, Pilates, fitness or care work who wish to enhance their touch or therapeutic relating skills while deepening their understanding of the working with embodied consent to be more person centred.
Feedback From Jo: Relational Bodywork Mentee
Hear what a graduate practitioner says about our one to one supervision and practice mentoring support
Julian has been involved in practitioner trainings for over 20 years, continuing practitioner development for the past 10 years and for the past 4 years has enjoyed a progression into clinical supervision and one to one practitioner mentoring for mixed variety of bodywork modalities, coaches and body focused practitioners and creative artists.

If you are looking for ongoing support with your practice we invite you to get in contact to see if what we offer fits.

OUR PRACTITIONER COMMUNITY...
...EXPLORE YOUR NEXT LEARNING EDGE


  • Take part in our in-person teaching clinics Northern Portugal
  • Peer supervision and ongoing learning via monthly community zoom calls
  • One to one practice Mentoring + Supervision online and in person
Contact Us
For more information or questions please get in touch here:
julian @ feelandfollow.com
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Villa Nova Da Gaia, Portugal