SOMATIC MOVEMENT TEACHER TRAINING (50 Hours)

Journey with the Elementals

A professional training for women who want to confidently facilitate somatic & embodied movement experiences for others.

By the end of this training, you can confidently run your own somatic embodied movement classes, workshops, circles or private sessions: using a complete framework rather than piecing it together yourself.

Movement · Sound · Breath · Touch

A Professional Certificate Training · 50 Hours   
 
Learn to facilitate transformative somatic movement experiences for women, through the ancient wisdom of the elements:
Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Space.

You feel the call. This training gives you the map to answer it.


Something in you already knows that movement is medicine. That the body holds wisdom the mind can't reach. That when women are given real permission to move, from the inside out, without structure, without performance, something ancient and powerful wakes up.
You've felt it yourself. And now you want to know how to hold that space for others.

This 50-hour professional training gives you a complete framework: the elemental map and the practical skills to facilitate somatic movement experiences that change women's lives. In yoga studios, wellness centers, schools, businesses, retreats, and online.

After this training you will:

Leave with a complete elemental facilitation map (earth, water, fire, air and space) you can use immediately

Know how to build playlists that guide a nervous system through a full arc (grounding to activation to integration)

Offer group movement classes and private Somatic Movement sessions. Hold nurturing, contained space for women with confidence and skill.

Receive a Certificate of Completion

Join this training once and you're a founding member for life. Return for any future online round free of charge. Join future in-person rounds for hard costs only (lunch, materials etc. Never pay for the training again.

Join a 30-day online somatic movement series to practice and embody the teachings after your training.

This training is for you if…

  • You're a yoga teacher, movement facilitator, breathwork guide, or somatic practitioner who wants to weave the elementals & embodied movement into your work.
  • You're a coach, therapist, or women's circle holder who feels the call to bring more body-based practices to the women you serve in groups or private sessions.
  • You work in schools, studios, wellness centers, or businesses and want to bring somatic movement through the door.
  • You have no titles: just a deep feeling in your body that you're meant to hold this kind of space.
Open to all women. No prior teaching experience required.
Click here to apply now for this Training

Your body already knew. Now the research is catching up.

 

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask: When did you stop dancing?”

— Gabrielle Roth, founder of the 5Rhythms

 

The ancient goddesses knew this long before the studies existed. Sacred dance was a spiritual technology: rhythmic, intentional movement that activated healing, awakened intuition, and connected women to the divine within themselves. This is ancient wisdom. And your body remembers it.

Traditional Movement Training
vs Somatic Movement Teacher Training

 

Traditional Movement Training

Somatic Movement Teacher Training

Structured, choreographed, form-based

Intuitive, elemental, body-led

Teaches technique and alignment

Teaches nervous system awareness and facilitation

Movement as exercise or performance

Movement as medicine and prayer

One modality

Movement + sound + breath + touch integrated

Fixed curriculum, fixed approach

A map you make your own

No playlist or music facilitation training

Training dedicated to sound and music as medicine

Five days.

Five elements.

One complete map.

 

Each day we journey with an element: moving, breathing, sounding, and learning to facilitate from within that element's wisdom.

Day One 

Laying the Foundations & Earth Element

We begin in the ground with Earth. Arriving fully, into yourself, into the group, into this work. You learn:

  • Setting up the Space
  • Grounding & Orientating
  • Lead a Somatic Drop In
  • Nervous System Basics for Facilitators
  • Earth Breath, Sound & Music
  • Embodied Movement for Earth Dance
  • Somatic Inquiry questions for Earth
  • Earth Journey & Dance
Day Two

Sound, Music & Water

The music you choose is not background, it is medicine. The art of playlist creation and sound as a facilitation tool. Then we journey with Water: spiraling, undulating, learning to flow. You learn:

  • Music to Guide Nervous System States 
  • How to create Playlists 
  • Sound as Medicine
  • Somatic Sensualness
  • Embodied Movement for Water Dance
  • Somatic Inquiry questions for Water
  • Water Journey & Dance

 

 

Day Three

Breath & Fire

Fire burns through what we've been carrying. Where breath becomes a force and where you'll learn to guide women through activation without losing the container. You learn:

  • Building a container for Fire Dance 
  • Creating boundaries in your body & movement
  • Using your voice
  • Clearing Energies in the space
  • Facilitating Fire Breath for different nervous system states
  • Fire Dance, Breath & Sound Journey
  • Somatic Inquiry Questions for Fire
Day Four

Facilitation Skills & Air

Air lives in the heart and throat, in what we say, how we say it, and what we leave unsaid. In this day, you learn:

  • Working with Emotion 
  • Using Trauma-Informed Language 
  • Somatic Touch 
  • Scope of Practice 
  • Partner movement and bringing the group together. 
  • Heart Chakra Dance, Sound & Breath 
  • Throat Chakra Dance, Sound & Breath
  • Somatic Inquiry questions for Heart & Throat
Day Five

Integration & Space

Space is where we get to surrender & allow our highest guidance in. 

  • Crown Chakra Sound & Music 
  • Leading closing Meditations
  • Practice Teaching 
  • Feedback & Refinement 
  • Marketing Your Offers 
  • Building Sustainable Practice 
  • Closing Ceremony & Certification

There's more.

BONUS 01 

7 Days of Clearing & Grounding Energy

A 7-day energy clearing and grounding practice to prepare your body and field before the training begins and support you when you are creating your classes. Given to all participants upon registration after payment.

BONUS 02

30 Days of Somatic Movement Online Series

In January, all October and November training graduates are invited into a 30-day online somatic movement series: 20 minutes a day, guided by Amy Online. This is where the teachings land in the body. Where practice becomes embodied knowledge. An additional 10 hours of immersive practice, included as part of your training.

Total training hours with bonuses: 50 hours.

Two ways to journey.

Both formats carry the full training. Choose what calls to you.

Online Intensive

Six Weekends

Live on Zoom · November 7th - December 13th 2026
  • Six consecutive weekends, Saturday & Sunday
  • Three hours each day: six hours per weekend
  • Founding member for life you get to join any future online or in person trainings (minus hard costs for in person)
  • Full recordings of every session with replays and lifetime access.
  • Open to women worldwide
  • Complete before Christmas

Investment: $800

Payment plans available ( 4 x $200 monthly payments)

In-Person Intensive

Five Days in Ireland

Dates for Summer 2027 coming soon...
  • Five immersive days in a beautiful country house overlooking nature
  • Accommodation available on site for those traveling.
  • Small group: maximum intimacy and depth
  • Founding member for life you get to join any future trainings in person(minus hard costs) or online
  • Lunch every day (Soup, Sandwich, Tea & Coffee included)
  • Cacao Ceremony on final day included

Price & Date coming soon...

 

Apply to be part of this Somatic Movement Teacher Training

Click HERE to fill out application

Your deposit holds your place.

A deposit secures your spot in either format after we approve your application. The full investment is due before the training begins. You can pay in one payment or in monthly installments before we begin the training. If you have questions about payment or need something different, reach out, we'll find a way together.

 

If you have questions about the training, we can set up a consultation call, please email info@amyshine.net to set up a call.

Your body already knows the answer.

JOIN ONLINE: 6 WEEKENDS
JOIN IN-PERSON: IRELAND

Questions? Reach out directly. This work is too important to let logistics get in the way. Email Amy @  info@amyshine.net

Your questions, answered.

This is a facilitation training, not a therapy certification. Graduates are qualified to facilitate embodied movement classes, workshops, women's circles, and somatic movement sessions. This training does not qualify graduates to provide somatic therapy, diagnose, or treat clinical conditions. Clear, ethical boundaries are taught throughout.

Hi, I’m Amy

Embodied Movement practices saved my life in my early 20s. It showed me a way back to experiencing ecstatic bliss in my body and empowered me to know that all the joy and pleasure I was searching for lived within me. Movement became the way I awakened that joy. It still is.

I’ve spent 15+ years facilitating this work for women: in circles, ceremonies, online, in nature, across different countries, at yoga and dance studios, festivals and retreats.

Over 4,000 women have taken movement classes with me. I’ve built a thriving movement membership, run sold-out series, and created a sustainable income doing what I love most. Movement isn’t just my medicine: it’s my livelihood.

Everything I teach, I practice and live.

  • BA Honours in Social Care. Thesis: Dance as Therapy for Women in Recovery
  • Kundalini Ecstatic Dance Facilitation Training
  • 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher
  • Nervous System Soma School 
  • Somatic Educator Certification (Internationally Certified)
  • 60-Hour Somatics with EMDR with Embody Lab
  • Yin Yoga & Restorative Yoga Training
  • Boss Chick Dance Workout Certificate
  • 15+ Years Facilitating Embodied Movement for Women
Somatic Movement Teacher Training · Journey with the Elementals
A Professional Certificate Training · Shine Movements LLC

   Online · November-December 2026 | Ireland In-Person · Summer 2027