“All the knowledge and repertoire that I learnt will 100% stay with me and I will pass this knowledge on through my work with clients. I will endeavour to utilise similar explanations when teaching clients how to use any for of Pilates equipment.”

Somatics and movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a tool, designed to improve emotional and physical integration.
Moving your body in creative and expressive ways, in a non-threatening environment, generates therapeutic healing and empowerment.
Somatics uses the mind-body connection to help identify areas of pain or imbalance. Movement therapy combines movement and dance, somatic exercises, tactile and verbal therapies.
This training program and our series of short courses have been developed to provide practitioners with a therapeutic tool capable of enhancing clients’ true potential and well-being. The movement work helps give language to the non-verbal elements that are communicated through movement but not yet consciously understood.
Our industry-leading nationally accredited courses are comprehensive and thorough, including:
Through guided movement explorations and somatic visualisations, you will learn:
In Developmental Movement Therapy you will:
In this course, you will be introduced to the role of the moving body in the healing arts. This introductory course covers historical and theoretical frameworks of Somatic Movement Therapy, which combines Dance-Movement Therapy with an understanding of the systems of the moving body through somatics.
Students will acquire skills to work with clients through movement interactions. Subject content follows a formerly designed framework teaching students how to work deeply using skills that integrate movement experiences and learned responses into daily life.
The workshop part of the course involves participating in expressive movement experientials and in order to complete all requirements of the course, students must complete additional assessment tasks and attend scheduled online learning tutorials.
In these courses, you will be introduced the world of Somatics and Dance-Movement Therapy. Upon completion of this course, you may continue into our full Advanced Clinical Training program. Students who have completed all introductory courses – Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis/Introduction to Developmental Movement and Introduction to Somatics and Dance-Movement Therapy have completed an equivalent to Module 1 of the Advanced Clinical Training program and may continue into subsequent units of study in the full training program.
The model presented in this workshop is based on a psychotherapeutic process for bringing body-movement data into the foreground and providing a tool for therapists to record their movement observations of clients.
Through dance and movement, students learn ways of observing, organising and intervening with clients, enabling them to work deeply and effectively based on the knowledge that the body and mind are inseparable.