Practitioner training in trauma-aware de‑armouring and somatic bodyworkThe Embodied Awakening Method
Become the practitioner who changes lives, starting with your own.
- Deep personal transformation
- Practical skills for safe, ethical bodywork
- Build a sustainable practice with ongoing support
You're here to do more than scratch the surface.
You're here to make real change, real impact, and a real income from work that matters.
Perhaps you have received or given somatic healing sessions such as breathwork, Reiki or sound healing, and felt a taste of something deeper at play in the emotional and energy body, in layers of experience that reach well beyond the physical.
These practices can offer something real, and you know that, and there is a resonance in you that knows there are deeper levels still, where relational trauma, self-worth, love, and the patterns we carry through our relationships begin to reveal themselves.
Working with the body at this depth can help people develop a different relationship with their body sensation, their energy, and their own sense of self. It requires sensitivity, presence and a willingness to meet what arises with care. The experiences people have can be deeply meaningful, and the changes they describe afterwards can stay with them long after a session has ended.
You may be experienced in the healing field, or you may be new to it; and you are on a path of deepening your own journey, and you want to be of service. You do not have to be a finished article, and this is what the training covers.
Become the healer that changes lives, starting with your own.
This is where the Embodied Awakening Method can turn that calling into the work you dream of.
Mission
This training exists to develop practitioners who can hold potent healing sessions through de-armouring bodywork, meeting trauma, intimacy, and relational wounding with real skill, depth, and capacity.
It includes your own transformation, because your ability to hold space for another person is deeply connected to your capacity to meet yourself. You learn to work with your own body, your own nervous system, your own patterns, and your own edges, so that you can be more present and resourced when someone else brings theirs.
Alongside that, you develop the skills, standards, confidence, and business foundations to make this work sustainable and build a practice that genuinely supports you.
The man behind the method
I'm Ben North
I came into this work through physiotherapy, so my understanding of the body started clinically, with anatomy, structure, movement, and how tissue actually behaves. I spent years working with people in a clinical setting, and that foundation still shapes the way I understand the body today.
Alongside that, I was always drawn to the parts of human experience that don't fit neatly into a clinical model. I kept training in different approaches to bodywork and energy work, alongside trauma training for tantra professionals, six years of qigong and Taoist energy alchemy, and six years of practising de-armouring and bodywork full time.
Running alongside all of this has been decades of meditation, non-duality philosophy, shamanism, esoteric study, and a long-standing interest in the energy body and Kundalini awakening processes.
What I have come to understand across all of it is that we are physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual beings at the same time. None of those parts exists in isolation, and meaningful work with one will often bring us into contact with the others.
My own training has developed in much the same way. One strand at a time, each informing the next, until they began to hold together as one integrated way of working. That is what I teach.
I also know what it feels like to be underprepared, unsupported, and overwhelmed when you're starting out in this field, because I lived it. I built this training to give you the depth of training, support, standards, and practical guidance I wish I'd had when I began.
I'd love to help you build a practice that allows you to do this work with depth, integrity, and confidence, and to create something that genuinely supports you too.
- IIOHT Approved
- 6 years full-time practice
Approved By IIOHT
This training is approved by the International Institute of Holistic Therapists, an independent certification body for holistic therapists and training providers. Their approval means the course has been reviewed by someone other than me, covering the depth of what is taught, the experience behind it, and how students are assessed, so the certification you leave with carries recognition beyond my own school.
Trauma Informed Practice Runs Through Everything I Teach
I completed Trauma Training for Tantra Professionals with LiveTantra, a three month online training covering consent, boundaries, power dynamics, crisis response and repair, and the ways trauma shows up in the nervous system and in relationship, including transference, projection and the patterns that surface between teacher and student.
That awareness shapes the pace and rhythm of the whole training. Each day begins with grounding and resourcing, and I titrate the day so that activating processes have as much space as co-regulation and group sharing. Over the weeks the group grows into a supportive, integrated system, and that cohesion informs how the training itself evolves...
The Method
The Embodied Awakening Method
The structured process at the heart of this training. It prepares the client before bodywork begins, guides them through the bodywork itself, and supports what comes after, so the change a client experiences delivers lasting results.
Preparation
Clients build emotional resilience, nervous system capacity, and self-awareness before going deep into bodywork, creating the safety that allows for profound breakthroughs.
Transformation
A guided, progressive bodywork journey through de-armouring, awakening life-force energy, opening the body physically, emotionally and energetically, and activating vitality and kundalini.
Integration
Coaching and support that helps clients ground the change and carry it into everyday life.
The Journey
Your Development Journey
The online months build the foundations. The seven-day immersion in Manchester is where you bring everything together through direct experience and practice.
The training moves through three stages. Each one changes your own life as well as the way you work with clients.
Stage 1 · Nervous system
Capacity
You build the ability to stay regulated, present and resourced. It changes how you handle stress, emotion and everyday life long before you work with a client.
Stage 2 · Energy
Charge
You learn energy anatomy and techniques alongside qigong, and your body learns to hold more charge. Your bodywork becomes more potent, you become more magnetic, and your life feels the difference.
Stage 3 · Patterns and boundaries
Relationship
You work with relational trauma, projection, boundaries and communication, so you can hold a client's patterns without taking them on. It improves your own relationships too.
The online months
Alongside the online teaching, you will have embodiment practices to work with regularly, giving you the opportunity to experience the material in your own body rather than simply understand it intellectually.
You will work with nervous system regulation, somatic experiencing, embodiment, energy cultivation, Taoist energy alchemy, and shadow work. Each area gives you another way to understand yourself, your body, and your relationship with other people.
Over time, the practices become less like things you are learning and more like ways of being that you can draw on naturally in your work.
This is personal development as well as learning a new skill. The more deeply you learn to stay present with yourself, your own sensations, emotions, boundaries, and responses, the more capacity you develop to stay present with another person through theirs.
The immersion
The seven-day immersion in Manchester is where the learning becomes embodied through direct practice.
You will work on each other, learning to give and receive the de-armouring process and experiencing the work from both sides. Giving builds your skill. Receiving clears your own emotional and energetic blockages, so you benefit from the work as you learn it.
You will feel what it is like to be supported, to be touched with intention, to meet your own responses, and to stay present with what arises.
The immersion is as much about your own transformation as it is about learning the techniques.
Everything is taught on an opt-in, trauma-informed basis. You choose how much you participate in, and you can change your mind at any point. There is no expectation that you push through something because it is part of the training.
Your ability to make an empowered choice about your own body is part of the training itself.
By the end of the training
You go through the work yourself as well as learning to deliver it. You experience it online, deepen it through the immersion, and then learn how to create that same depth of experience for someone else.
By the end of the twelve weeks and the immersion, you will have developed a much deeper capacity to stay present with yourself and with another person, work with what arises through a trauma-informed framework, and begin offering the work with real confidence.
You will also have the foundations of a sustainable practice, with the training, support, and business systems to help you attract clients, deliver your work professionally, and build a practice that can grow.
Curriculum
Ten pillars of training
Ten interconnected areas of knowledge, practice, and professional development that come together to form the practitioner you are becoming.
Nervous System Support
Develop practical tools for self-regulation and co-regulation, learning how to stay grounded in yourself while supporting another person through their own experience.
Embodiment & Integration
Learn practices that help you and your clients connect more deeply with the body, process what arises, and integrate new experiences into everyday life.
Anatomy & Physiology
Build a grounded understanding of the body's structure and systems, giving you a strong foundation for working with the body safely, confidently, and with precision.
Trauma Awareness & Integration
Develop a deeper understanding of trauma and the ways it can show up in the body, with practical approaches for creating safety, choice, and capacity within your sessions.
De-armouring & Conscious Touch
Learn a broad range of de-armouring and conscious touch techniques, working with the physical, emotional, and energetic dimensions of the body.
Taoist Energy Anatomy & Alchemy
Explore meridians, energy channels, the elements, and Taoist energy alchemy, developing your own relationship with life-force energy and learning how to work with it in practice.
Kundalini & Energy Flow
Explore practices for working with powerful energetic experiences, developing the awareness and grounding needed to stay present and embodied as energy moves through the body.
Business & Practitioner Development
Build the foundations of a sustainable practice, including your offer, pricing, client journey, positioning, marketing, and the practical systems that allow your work to grow.
Professional Conduct & Boundaries
Develop the clarity, integrity, and self-awareness needed to practise responsibly, with strong boundaries, informed consent, clear communication, and respect for the power dynamics within this work.
Polarity & Relational Embodiment
Explore relational polarity and energetic connection, and learn how to create the conditions for clients to reconnect with their bodies, their vitality, and their own sense of autonomy.
There is also optional, advanced practical training for those who want to take this work deeper, with the specifics covered during the application process so we can make sure it's the right fit.
Proof
Testimonials from students
Straight after the course, I was on some sort of a magic wave, being led by the universe, filled with an ambitious feeling, sparkles in my tummy. It made me realise different patterns in myself that I couldn't see before.
During the sessions, I'm learning how to stay in the observer role rather than fixing, how to give sessions without any goals, just following the client's nervous system capacity. These two things especially challenge my belief that if I'm not fixing, I'm not good enough; if I'm not reaching the goal of a big release or catharsis, the session wasn't successful enough, meaning I'm not good enough.
It is definitely a life changing experience. I found a path I wasn't aware existed, created for me.
The way you communicate, stay calm, receive feedback, regulate yourself, and stay honest and soft, all of that and more, shows me what an amazing and knowledgeable facilitator you are, and I'm taking you as the role model for my own personal and professional path. I am honestly full of respect for you and your wisdom. You know how to communicate this knowledge to your students. You are such an amazing teacher.
This work is powerful; incorporated into the right doses, it's proving invaluable in my clients' healing journeys.
It changed my marriage, my relationship with my children, my work, and my intimate life. Phenomenal.
The Cohort
A Rare Opportunity, Deliberately Small
This cohort is limited to 8 spots, and every application is reviewed personally, because the depth of this work depends on the field we create together, and that field depends on each person in it having the compatibility and the capacity to go where the training goes.
Applying starts a conversation rather than a transaction, and it commits you to nothing while we both work out whether this is right.
Early-bird pricing held until 30 November 2026.
Your investment
The depth of what's included
This training brings together everything you need to become a confident, skilled and trauma-informed practitioner. If you were to train in each of these areas separately, the value would be £17,300.
- Conscious touch & de-armouring trainingTechniques, sequencing, presence and facilitation.£1,800
- Taoist emotional detox bodywork trainingTaoist bodywork for releasing stored emotion and tension from the body.£1,500
- Kundalini & energy bodywork trainingWorking with life-force energy, energetic anatomy and safety.£2,500
- Energy work trainingTraining for sensing, building and moving energy in the body.£900
- Nervous system regulation & trauma-informed practiceSomatics, co-regulation and working with trauma.£2,500
- Professional development & business trainingMarketing, pricing, client care and building a sustainable practice.£4,000
- Qi Gong & Taoist Energy Alchemy trainingEnergy cultivation, embodiment and Taoist alchemy.£2,500
- Chi Nei Tsang trainingAbdominal bodywork, organ health and emotional release.£800
- Embodiment practice trainingDaily practices, self-inquiry and embodied living.£800
All of this is included in your training, giving you a comprehensive and integrated education at a fraction of the cost of training in each area separately.
Included, unpriced but real
- 7-day in-person immersion in Manchester
- 12 weeks of live group calls and ongoing support
- Lifetime access to community and materials
- The Embodied Awakening Package, a signature offer and client process developed over years, handed over ready to use
- Post-training integration and coaching calls
Investment
Early bird, held until 30 November 2026
£3,200or 3 payments of £1,200
After that
£4,000or 3 payments of £1,500
- Cohort starts
- Tuesday 2 February 2027, running 12 weeks to Tuesday 27 April 2027.
- In-person immersion starts
- Monday 3 May 2027, to Sunday 9 May 2027, Manchester, UK.
Since places are reviewed personally, applying starts a conversation and does not commit you to anything.
IIOHT Approved
International Institute of Holistic Therapists
Your training has been independently reviewed.
This training is approved by the International Institute of Holistic Therapists, an organisation that reviews holistic therapy training and training providers.
The approval gives you an additional point of reference when choosing your training, alongside my own experience, teaching, and the structure of the programme.
What the work pays
A meaningful and sustainable career
Clients invest in this work because it creates real, lasting change. With sessions typically priced between £250 and £550, a small number of clients each week can provide the foundations for a fulfilling and financially sustainable practice.
Example practice income
These figures are illustrative gross revenue based on £300 per session. Actual income depends on demand, expenses, cancellations, working hours and other factors.
The skills to change lives. The knowledge to build a career around it.
FAQ
Questions
Do I need prior experience?
Massage, yoga, coaching, or healing backgrounds are helpful but not required. What matters more is openness, curiosity, and willingness.
Where is the in-person training?
Manchester, from Monday 3 May 2027 to Sunday 9 May 2027.
Is the immersion residential?
No. The immersion is 7 days of in-person training in Manchester, but it is not residential; accommodation and food are not included in the price, and attendees arrange their own for the week.
What if I only want the personal transformation, not a career?
You'll still receive immense value, because this journey transforms you as well as equipping you to transform others.
Are payment plans available?
Yes. Both the early-bird and standard prices can be paid in full or split into three instalments.
Applications are reviewed personally
Apply now, and I'll be in touch to set up a call so we can find out together whether this is the right fit.
Spaces are limited to 8 for the February 2027 cohort.
Not ready to apply yet?
Start with the free Beyond Bodywork workshop
Beyond Bodywork is a free workshop for therapists and practitioners who want to go deeper than technique and create more meaningful results for their clients. Watch the replay in your own time, get a real feel for how I teach, and see whether the full training is right for you. It costs nothing, and there is no obligation to apply.