Somatic Movement Practitioner Programme
Learn To Unlock The Body’s Healing Potential
The Somatic Movement Practitioner Programme (SMPP) is a thoughtfully designed, science-informed learning experience that supports movement practitioners in incorporating nervous system awareness into their work. This programme invites you to expand beyond biomechanics and to cultivate skills that nurture safety, clarity, and attunement for both yourself and your clients.
Unleash The Body’s Power to Regulate and Resource
Our goal is not just to teach you new exercises, but to support a shift in how you assess and relate to the body. By the end of this certification, you will be supported to:
- Develop Nervous System Awareness
Build foundational skills to notice and reflect on nervous system states in real time—both in yourself and in your clients—so you can respond with greater sensitivity and care. - Understand Autonomic States
Gain practical literacy in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), including an understanding of different states (such as dorsal vagal and ventral vagal) and how movement, breath, and context may support shifts toward regulation. - Guide with Attunement
Learn to apply a range of somatic tools—from movement to self-regulating touch—with increased discernment, understanding when and why certain approaches may be supportive rather than relying on fixed techniques. - Establish Trauma-Aware Practice
Cultivate a trauma-aware approach that prioritises safety, neutrality, and clear boundaries, supporting environments where trust, agency, and co-regulation can emerge. - Support Inherent Healing Capacity
Learn ways to resource the body and nervous system, helping clients orient toward resilience as they navigate stress, emotional challenges, and longer-term health patterns.
A Science-Informed Curriculum to Support Movement and Self-Regulation
The SMPP is delivered across two highly experiential modules that blend contemporary neuroscience with practical, embodied learning. The programme includes a competency assessment, designed to support integration of learning and reflect readiness to apply these approaches with care, clarity, and appropriate professional boundaries.
| Core Module | Focus and Key Concepts | Somatic Toolbox & Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Module 1 – The Nervous System & Posture | The Nervous System & Posture You will be introduced to ways of observing posture and movement through a nervous system–informed lens, alongside biomechanical understanding. Using foundational anatomy, this module explores how stress, context, and nervous system states can influence posture, tone, and structural patterns—supporting a more holistic and responsive approach to assessment rather than relying on biomechanics alone. Interoception, Pain & Systems Awareness Deepen your understanding of somatic movement, self-sensing, and interoception (body mapping), with attention to how different body systems interact. You will revisit the science of pain and explore the relationship between fascia and the nervous system, supporting greater sensitivity to how lived experience, perception, and physiology shape movement and recovery. | Movement Lab Essentials Become familiar with a range of practical tools that can be used to support clients in-session. This includes movement and sensory-based exercises that may support emotional regulation, body mapping practices to gently explore patterns associated with freeze or holding, and foundational somatic touch approaches to support grounding and resourcing. |
| Module 2 – Interoception & Body Systems Integration | This module focuses on integration—how movement, breath, nervous system awareness, and relational context come together to support safer, more responsive practice. Boundaries & Relational Safety Develop the capacity to cultivate relational safety and maintain clear professional boundaries in movement and somatic work. This includes exploring how nervous system dynamics, consent, and pacing influence a client’s sense of safety, and how to work in ways that support agency, neutrality, and appropriate scope of practice. Psychosomatic Patterns & Symptom Context Deepen your understanding of how some symptoms may be influenced by psychosomatic patterns, stress physiology, and nervous system states, rather than acute injury alone. Emphasis is placed on observation, curiosity, and discernment—supporting practitioners to respond thoughtfully, avoid over-pathologising, and recognise when referral or additional support may be appropriate. | Advanced Movement Repertoire This module introduces a broader movement repertoire, including fascia-informed movement, breathwork, body mapping for post-injury or capacity-rebuilding contexts, and a range of movement patterns. Emphasis is placed on adapting these practices to the individual and context, rather than applying techniques prescriptively. |
Note: The programme will include materials on dissection, which some participants may find unsettling.
How this Programme is Different
Rather than offering a fixed method or formula, SMPP is designed to support how practitioners perceive, relate to, and respond to the body. Some key distinctions include:
- Attunement over Rigid Prescription
Precision in movement matters. What we emphasise alongside this is attunement—the ability to meet a client where they are, sense their readiness, and adapt how movement is offered. Rather than applying rigid, one-size-fits-all prescriptions, practitioners learn to work with both biomechanical clarity and nervous system responsiveness to support regulation and safety. - An Adaptable, Science-Informed Framework
SMPP offers a science-informed framework rooted in nervous system and movement education, rather than a branded or lineage-bound method. Through understanding why certain approaches support regulation—particularly through the lens of the Autonomic Nervous System—you develop the capacity to adapt, innovate, and creatively shape activities to suit different individuals, groups, environments, and existing methodologies. - Accessible and Integrative Practice
The somatic movements introduced are designed to be accessible and do not require prior expert-level training (such as a yoga or dance background). This allows practitioners to integrate what they learn into a wide range of movement, coaching, and therapeutic contexts with clarity and confidence.
Programme Details
Who is this for?
The SMPP is the ideal professional development for certified practitioners who are serious about holistic client care:
- Certified Pilates and Yoga Instructors
- Personal Trainers and Movement Specialists
- Life and Wellness Coaches
- School PE Teachers and Facilitators
Dates and Times
Module 1
- 12 April 2026, 6pm – 8pm
- Online – Zoom (Charis)
- 23 April 2026, 9.30am – 6pm
- In-person – Hello Body @ Joo Chiat (Charis)*
- 24 April 2026, 9.30am – 6pm
- In-person – Hello Body @ Joo Chiat (Charis)*
Module 2
- 10 June 2026, 9.30am – 6pm
- In-person – Hello Body @ Joo Chiat (Charis)*
- 11 June 2026, 9.30am – 6pm
- In-person – Hello Body @ Joo Chiat (Charis)*
- 12 June 2026, 9.30am – 1.30pm
- Online – Zoom (Magna)
- 12 June 2026, 3pm – 6pm
- In-person – Hello Body @ Joo Chiat (Charis)*
Competency Assessment
- 26 July 2026, 9am – 1pm
- In-person – Hello Body @ Kampong Bahru (Charis)*
*Venue may be subject to change
Investment
Invest in a certification that will transform your practice and your clients’ outcomes.
Enrolment Fee: $2,400
Scholarship Programme
We are committed to keeping this programme accessible to those who need it. We offer trust-based tiered scholarship for conscious facilitators / coaches / educators. Reach out to us for a discount code if you need subsidies.
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About the Trainers
Charis Koh – Movement Educator & Mentor (Singapore)
Charis approaches movement as a dynamic journey—an ongoing conversation with the body that evolves through different seasons and changing needs.
With over 13 years of experience, she integrates her expertise in sports science and physiology with somatic psychology and embodiment to help individuals build strength, resilience, and a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them.
Her approach is grounded in the understanding that no single method holds all the answers. Instead, she explores the intersections between movement, nervous system health, and performance, bridging science and art to create adaptable, intuitive practices.
Through Hello Body, Charis supports individuals in discovering what works for their unique bodies. As the Educator and Mentor of the Practitioner Programme, she is dedicated to guiding movement and Pilates practitioners from diverse backgrounds—helping them refine their skills, develop confidence, and bring their own wisdom into this transformative work.
Tools and methods under her belt include but are not limited to:
- NCPT (Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher – NCCS accredited)
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology
- Somatic Experiencing ® Practitioner
- Diploma in Body-Oriented Coaching
- Franklin Method Educator
- FRC & FRA Mobility Specialist
- Kinstretch Certified
- Polestar Pilates Comprehensive Training (2013)
- Diploma in Sport and Exercise Science (2011)
- Gyrotonic
- CoreAlign L1 & 2
- Animal Flow L1 Certified
- Stick Mobility L1 Certified
- Explain Pain Clinician Course
- Scolio-Pilates L1
- Anatomy Trains In Motion & Slings Essential Fascia Movement Training
Magna (Su Chen) Tung – Guest Faculty – Somatic, Trauma & Nervous System Education (Taiwan)
Magna (Su-Chen) Tung is a Taiwan-based somatic psychotherapist and educator with many years of experience in body-oriented trauma work across Asia and Europe. She holds a Master’s degree in Counselling and is a Somatic Experiencing®️ Practitioner (SEP) since 2011, and a faculty member since 2021 teaching at the Beginning and Intermediate levels.
Her training background includes Somatic Experiencing®️, Breath Energy Work, Family Constellations, Relational Trauma Therapy, meditation, and inner-child work. She has been facilitating meditation since 1996 and currently runs a private practice in Taipei, where she offers therapy, supervision, and consultation.
As a guest trainer, Magna supports movement practitioners in developing practical somatic skills—such as sensing, pacing, and working with nervous system responses—helping teachers cultivate presence, clarity, and safer learning environments.
In this programme, Magna Tung contributes a complementary perspective by exploring syndromes and psychosomatic patterns—how nervous system dysregulation can express itself through physical symptoms. This segment helps practitioners better recognise when bodily symptoms may be linked to nervous system stress rather than purely biomechanical causes.
Magna will also cover relational boundary work, supporting practitioners in creating safer, more attuned environments for clients. This includes a practical review of Polyvagal principles as they show up in relational and therapeutic contexts, with an emphasis on clarity, boundaries, and nervous system safety.
Her background and credentials:
- Counselling in Master’s Degree from Curtin University in Australia
- Private practice in Australia
- Counsellor Group leader and Consultant at Live in Tao Taiwan since 1996
- Somatic Experiencing faculty for beginning and intermediate levels since 2021
- Somatic Experiencing Training certified SEP in 2011. Trained by Maggie Kline and Sonia Gomes
- Somatic Trauma Session and provide Case Consultations at all levels
- Breath Energy Work Psychology trained by Dwari Deutsch. Breath Energy Work trainer since 2015. Individual Sessions and supervisor of breath energy work since 2015
- Transcript Therapy Trained by James Coventry B.A, D.CP. Senior Assistant in Training
- Trained in Relational Trauma Therapy. Trained by Merete Holm Brantbjerg.
- Family Constellation Training Facilitator. Trained by Dwari Deutsch, Yashoda, and Bert Hellinger. (http://www.hknewage.hk and http://www.dwari-lifeskills.net)
- Meditation Facilitator since 1996. Trained at Osho Multiversity
- Somatic Trauma Therapy by Babette Rothschild. Trained and Assistant since 2016
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