A Bio-Intelligent Tool Kit For Coaches + Space Holders

Why This Work Now?

This work emerges out of frequent requests from clients over the years to offer the work I do in my 1:1 & group sessions in a teachable format. The curriculum is the product of several years dreaming, weaving, careful editing and forging.

It emerges from a weariness of the coaching world's obsession with chasing the approval of dominant culture whilst finding ways to smuggle in the Sacred through the crack in the door. What if we were to flip this script? And make Sacredness our priority?

What if we were to honour the Sacred longing that drew us to this work in the first place as primary and foundational? What if we were to anchor our practice in the Sacred explicitly? Because if we re honest, that's what brought us all here in the first place, isn't it? A Sacred quest. Why is it so radical to honour it as such? I don't believe we have time to waste.

Let's be bold and trust what draws us all here is longing to come into direct conversation? I am offering this training because I want to live in a world that works this way around and I want to support coaches and space holders to feel confident to offer it in this way too. Let's re-home the Sacred in the everyday and the ordinary where it belongs.

Learn More about the Context of this Work

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Is This Program For Me?

This program seeks to offer coaches and facilitators a training that respects the reality of having a nervous system whilst also honouring our more than human Kin. It orients via an animist world view and is anchored in the understanding that everything has an intelligence a personhood and a life force, that if we are open to asking the right questions, might be willing to communicate with us. You will learn to work in this way safely and effectively with your clients.

You might be attracted to this work if you are a coach or a space holder who feels they are coming to the limit of what traditional embodiment and coaching tools can offer your clients. Maybe you are longing to re-home the Sacred as a root of your practice, or are curious how you might support clients to work with the invisible realms while maintaining a grounded, practical connection with the here and now? Or maybe you have done the 'Cultivating Healthy Spirit Connection' course and simply want to learn how to hold a safe and nourishing ritual space for others.

This is a program built for folks who have had some experience and / or training as a coach, a facilitator or as space holder of some kind.

PRE-REQUISITES
To access this training you will need to have completed:

* At least 6 x 1:1 Sessions with Rachel
* Completed the Cultivating A Healthy Connection to Spirit Course
* Submitted an application form (linked below).
* Be invited for a short zoom interview with Rachel to check we are a good match (a year is a long time!)

If you feel the call, or feel curious, you can complete the application form HERE

Programme Specifics & How to Prepare

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Course curriculum

    1. Who's in the Room? Who are Your People? Tell us about the Land where your bones are from.

    2. Foundational Principles of ISF

    3. An Animist Perspective for Coaches & Facilitators

    4. Your Nervous System as a field of Resonance and Relationship

    5. Your Clients Nervous System as a field of Resonance & Relationship

    6. Welcoming Back All Healthy Beings Into The Coaching Conversation

    1. Being a Resourced Nervous system as a Space Holder Responsibilty

    2. Ongoing Personal Practice in Reciprocity & Aliveness Tending

    3. The Power of Orienting Via Resource

    4. Being a Human Shape and Receptive Nervous System as A Primary Priority

    5. Being A Part of The Generative, Experimental Principle of All Life -

    1. Your Clients Enquiries: Arriving and Creating a Somatic Anchor

    2. Working at the Cusp of Healing for Coaches

    3. Basic Ritual architecture and function

    4. The Neuroception of Safety & establishing an atmosphere of love

    5. Protocols for applying Ritual structures in the coaching relationship

    6. Being Sustainable: boundaries, limits, ease & agency.

    1. The Neuroplastic Imagination

    2. The Embodied Being as a Field of Experience & Knowing

    3. Gravity, Resistance & Release: The Coach's body as Feedback System

    4. The Affordances of Space, Architectures and Environments

    5. The Resonance of Objects

    6. Our Lived Experience As Sacred Web Being Woven Through Us

    1. Working with real life relationships

    2. Plants, Soil and the microbiome

    3. Elements, solar cycles & celestial bodies

    4. Mycelial Healing and other helper support networks

    5. Visiting the Microbiological Universe

    6. Working with Mythological Beings

    1. Relating with many different places with in the system of the client

    2. Calling in Guides and Spirit Helpers in a safe and targeted way - Introductory principles

    3. Nuances of working with Animal, Plant and other more than Human Beings.

    4. Working with Ancestry in the coaching context

    5. Anchoring Resources into Somatic Maps & Resonant Objects

About this course

  • 11 modules over 12 months
  • Integrated Practice Periods & Guided Experiments
  • A Practical Tool Kit to Weave the Sacred in With Your Existing Practice.

Program Flow

Time, Energy & Commitment

Once a month there is a 4 day module, running Tuesday - Friday, covering the topics and themes listed in the curriculum. A teaching day is 3 hours live teaching on zoom. Then after class an optional online cafe for social connection and integration. The cafe space can be used for what ever you need it for. As the program develops you may wish to use this cafe space for extra pairs practice.

The week after the module, there is space on the Tuesday for structured practice (peer led) & and you will be given one creative experiment related to the theme of the month for bringing the topic alive for yourself. This might look like a bit of research, or maybe like something you want to cultivate. You will be invited to share the results of your experiment with the group. Friday is supervised practice time. The Tuesday & Friday sessions go for 2 hours & 3 hours each. There are extra practice sessions built in to the Deeper Practice Month and longer sessions for the Final Weaving Week.

You will need to plan to be available for all the online face to face teaching sessions during the year (about 132 hours) and practice sessions (55 hours). This is 17 face to face teaching hours per month including practice, plus what ever time you invest in extra practice, creative experiments, time with your peer group and ISF cafe. You will also need to allow for the 30 hours of client sessions you will need to do if you wish to receive the certification.

Timings are still getting finalised, but we are looking at 3pm - 6pm UK time for the modules.

TRAINING PERIOD

Orientation and Welcome
Friday October 2nd 2026

Module 1: October 6 - 9
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 12 October

Module 2: November 3 - 6
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 9 November

Module 3: December 8 - 11
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 14 December

Module 4: January 12 - 15
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 18 January.

Module 5: February 9 - 12
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 15 Feb

Module 6: March 16 - 19
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 22nd March

Module 7: April 20 - 23
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 19 April.

Module 8: May 18 - 21
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 24 May

Module 9: June 15 - 18
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 21 June

Module 10: July 20 - 23
Practice & Creative Experiment w/b 26 July.

August - Deeper Practice Month / Revision / Supervision / Pairs Practice

Module 11: September 7 - 10
Deeper Practice & Final Weaving Week w/b 13 September 2026

CERTIFICATION PERIOD

Certification is the time it takes for you to complete 30 client test hours and have two of your test sessions supervised live. You will have graduated when you have demonstrated the skills well in service of your client's needs and logged 30 hours.

You are welcome to begin logging your certification hours from the completion of Module 9 at the end of June. This is when you will be welcome to begin offering this work to the public as part of your practice.

You will be a Student Practitioner of the method until the Certification Period is complete.

There is no time limit on certification and you can choose to do it at your own pace. If you'd like to complete Certification by the time the programme ends, you will need to aim for scheduling roughly 3 sessions per week.

Financial Investment

payment options & application process

A place on this program is £4,750. This fee entitles you to all tuition, supported practice time and feedback, recordings of all the materials for life, permission to use the materials in your professional practice and make them your own, ongoing access to an off facebook community page, a community of kindred souls who know this work.

Monthly payment plans are available where needed and negotiated on an individual basis. Payments must be completed by the time the course wraps up in September 2027, but can begin as early as helpful to reduce cost. If payment is made in full prior to the 1 June 2026 you will receive a £500 discount.

You must have completed the prerequisites prior to the first day of the training. These are:
~ Completing the Cultivating A Healthy Connection to Spirit Course
~ 6 x 1:1 sessions with Rachel
~ A completed application form, which if successful you will be invited to a short zoom interview with Rachel

Applications are open now and close on the 1st September 2026 or when the program is full.

The CHSC course and individual sessions requirements will need to be wrapped up before the program starts on the 5 October. The last chance to join the CHSC program before this years intake starts in June 2026.

If reading this is lighting you up, but money makes it impossible, please get in touch. We are happy to be flexible for the right student if there is sufficient wiggle room while still accommodating our running costs. If this is you, there will be an opportunity to tell us about your situation and why you need this support in the application form.

This is a small group program with our ideal number being 12-16 participants. There may be some wiggle room around this, but we will never fill the space more than one zoom room including trainers, students and support team.
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Attend a FREE Taster Session to Find Out More

Click below to register. These will be held live on:

  • Wednesday, 20th May, 5pm to 6pm UK time
  • Wednesday, 17th June, 9am to 10am UK time
  • Wednesday, 22nd July, 9am to 10am UK time
  • Wednesday, 19th August, 5pm to 6pm UK time

FAQs

  • I live in a time zone / have work commitments which makes the attending the live training challenging. Is it possible to participate via the recordings?

    Where ever possible we encourage live participation. If that is not possible, you can catch up via the recordings which will usually be available within 48 hours of the live call. You will be required to keep on top of the recordings and drop a note into the community space to give us a sense of your response to the work as it unfolds. You will have to be present for supervised practice sessions. If your time zone makes this tricky there may be some additional sessions added.

  • I am a coach / or space holder, but have not been working as a coach (or space holder) recently. Can I still apply?

    Sure. The main thing is the coaching structure and relational framework of the coaching agreement is still relatively fresh for you. We will be spending a little time re-visiting these basics, but some knowledge of how to facilitate and hold a coaching conversation (either 1:1 or group) with confidence will be assumed. If your background is space holding, it will be assumed you have facilitated group spaces to a high level, fairly regularly and recently, and have a high degree of confidence as a space holder.

  • I am not a coach or an experienced space holder. Can I still apply?

    Sadly not at this time. In the future we may open the remit more broadly to include folks with other professional backgrounds and areas of experience and interest. If you are unsure whether this includes you or not, feel free to get in touch or drop your question into one of the free taster sessions.

  • I have no experience in Somatics and or Ritual (or am new to the healing arts), but I am a confident coach / facilitator in my own field. Is this program still suitable for me?

    If it draws you, yes of course! The program takes time to teach this material carefully and thoroughly, so by the time you graduate you will be able to deploy these materials with confidence, no matter what your coaching or facilitating background. The pre-requisite course Cultivating A Healthy Connection to Spirit prepares you well to be anchored in your own practice and reference points to begin this training. The main thing to consider is whether you are genuinely open and curious.

  • Are there any subsidised places for folks on low incomes or from places in the world where the economy is struggling?

    Great question. Hopefully yes! For the 'western world', the price for this training is low and very affordable compared to most kindred trainings. This is on purpose. Partly due to it being new and also partly to allow for maximum accessibility. The down side of making it affordable is that it leaves very little wiggle room for subsidised places. To cover our costs we need a minimum of 7 folks paying full price. So if you are from the global north, we are going to recommend that you extend your payment plan to stretch out the full cost rather than request a subsidy. We are happy to chat with you about how to make this possible within your means.

    If you are from a part of the world where the British Pound is just completely inaccessible or if you are down-stream of oppressive social systems and would dearly love to join, we'd love to talk to you about a subsidised place once the minimum requirement has been reached.

  • I'm doing OK financially and would love to support this work and make it possible for someone less financially able than me to join this training

    Wow. Thankyou. You rock. For a donation of £1400 (in addition to your training fee) we will make one subsidised place available to someone who would not be otherwise able to afford it, assuming we have covered our costs. Benefactor donations can be completely anonymous, or we can express our gratitude to you publicly. Up to you.

Hello! I am Rachel

I am your facilitator. Here's a little bit about my journey with this work.

I am a daughter, sister, wife, aunty and proud bonus mum. I am descended from - way back Scottish, Scandinavian with some more recent English ancestry. Most of my living people inhabit Australia: some were fairly recent migrants by choice, others had migration forced upon them as convicts.

I am a Somatic Coach, Trainer of coaches, Theatre Maker, Somatic Educator and Feldenkrais Practitioner. I have been teaching coaches to work with embodied intelligence at The Somatic School and other places for over 15 years. I have been supporting clients to work with Spirit as a resource in my 1:1 sessions and group somatic coaching workshops for about a decade.

I've been slowly gathering this material into a teachable format over several years in response to nudges from students and Spirit teachers.

It has taken a while to feel like I am ready, to offer this work to coaches and space holders, but I am being shown that it is now time.

My connection to the metaphysical has always come naturally from very young. But my personal entry into working with Guides specifically, began with the sudden appearance of one, when I was 30. It was vivid and significant, but, having no clue how to work with him I kind of ignored him and hoped for the best.

He hung around :-)

Always standing guard to my left. Always a very powerful, benevolent, sub-bass presence. Over the years, he began to show me how to work with him via my body work practice - I would often let him guide my hands. Show me what was needed with clients. He also helped me with boundaries and discernment.

I began exploring how I could nurture this connection via pagan ritual practices and hands on healing trainings. I thought I was getting the hang of it.

Then, about fifteen years ago, I experienced a kind of cataclysmic deluge of Spirit information coming through me in a way that was quite overwhelming and very difficult to ground. (I wrote a blog about it a few years back, if you're curious to read more). It lasted for three days and was so strong it became immediately apparent I needed a much more robust tool kit! I urgently sought out teachers, ritualist, healers, practices and lineages that prioritised healthy ethical and spiritual boundaries.

Parallel to this and for many years prior to it, I was doing a lot of somatic trainings, trainings in performance and improvisation and also nervous system healing. I begin to notice a connection. At first, I noticed how well it supported me in this kind of work, then eventually how absolutely foundational it is to it.

When journeying, or working with Plant medicine, or doing intensive awareness practices, I 'knew' ways of working choice-fully and safely, because of my somatic trainings and creative practice. Some pieces began to re-connect. This course is a weaving together of some of these knowledges for the curious student.

My work is not rooted in any one tradition, but is supported by many and is a synthesis of many teachings, trainings and experience. Some of it has emerged spontaneously through my private practice. Please take a look at the 'honourings' section below for more detailed lineage acknowledgements and gratitudes.

I stand downstream of giants and am forever a daughter and a student.

Gratitudes & Honourings

I honour the original stewards of the unceded territories of my birth & childhood - The Muwinina, Bungalung & Eora Nations. I express deep gratitude for the ancestral and spiritual lineages and trainings I am blessed to carry forward with this work.

I'd like to honour the following wisdom holders and teachers, who have helped me to earth this material and work with it in more choice-ful, healthy ways.

My maternal Grandmother, Joyce Voysey, and the wider council of Ancient Grandmothers and Grandfathers, Sankan Usna at Onyana Joni Shipibo, Comprehensive Resource Model, Dr. Amber McZeal at De-Colonising The Psyche, Dr.Daniel Foor at Ancestral Medicine, Francis Briers, Uwe Hirschberg, Moshe Feldenkrais and Gabrielle Roth. The many teachers of Theatre and Ritual Technologies. The generative environment at The Somatic School. Also the Medicines of Crow, Stone, Olive Tree, Big Waters and Song.

And to Shad and Akash and the beloved chosen family that holds me so well here by the sea on Albion Isle.