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Moving beyond words

The first ever integrated Body Therapy Training to bridge Yin & Psychotherapy

Embodied Trauma- Sensitive Yintegration 100h Training

Are you seeking to broaden and deepen your professional practice?

Are you healthcare professional, clinican, teacher, therapist or yoga teacher working in a trauma impacted community?

This is an invitation to jin our innovative trauma sensitive training to fully support clients confidently and holistically.

You will receieve a 200 hour SOMA TALK Practitioner Certification after completion of this Level 2 Training.

Jan 4-14, 2026 As I Am Resort, Ubud, Bali

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WHAT WE OFFER

True Embodiment

Drawing from therapeutic, behavioural psychodynamic and neuroscientific lenses, which can be utilised to relate to self and others.

Integrated Modality

An approach which includes Deep Brain Reorienting, embodied IFS, attachement theory and body armouring.

Methodology

A complete methodlogy with clear application of theory and concepts to the practice of Yin as thier embodiment.

Facilitation Skills

A thorough grounding in establishing a reliable feelable self plus the skills and knowledge to facilitate others to find their own

"It is vital to cultivate a felt sense of safety in your body in order for any healing or therapy to have impact."

Martine Coates
“Yin teaches you to hold more so you hold on to less”

Grace Tempany
“People can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves”

Matt Kahn
“Trauma is an injury to the capacity to feel”

Donald Kalsched

Yin as metabolising affect

Expertise in teaching Interoceptive awareness

Yin as agency

Expertise in using interoceptive capacity to inform choice making

Yin as container

Expertise building neural pathways to create new opportunities for living

Embodied practice facilitates awareness, presence and offers choice.

As therapists, we know that Trauma is not just something we talk about, it’s an experience deeply held in the body. Yin is the gateway into it.

The shift in orientation from the external to the internal is the key attribute in being trauma-sensitive. But ultimately, being trauma-sensitive is an approach, not a practice. Every approach needs a practice to ground it, and give it roots. This is what Yin does.

Yin provides containment for the ‘feeling’. Feeling at your edge is the premise for practice to be experienced.

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CURRICULUM

4 Modules of 20-25 hours

Jungian Somatics & Integrating the tension of opposites.
- If you have a body, you have a shadow.
- And if you practise Yin, you will encounter it.
- This module covers tools to work with the shadow in the body, taught through Jungian, Somatic Daoist and Psychodynamic lenses
Yin & Focusing-Oriented Therapy
- Focusing as a somatic self-inquiry practice has great application in trauma therapy
- Its reach is severely restricted in dissociated clients
- Can Yin be the bridge to the felt sense?
- Moving beyond Symptoms - Unburdening the role of symptoms supporting a “felt sense” of being ‘embodied”.
- Trauma and the Body -Broaden the awareness of Trauma Responses to include growth
- Integrating Trauma safely through a Somatic and Trauma sensitive Lens rather than a cognitive and behavioural approach.ption text goes here
- Letting Go of the energy stored in the Body and Unconscious patterns of behaviour. What if the anxiety has no current function? The interplay of being in an adaptive and fully present feelable body and acceptance -
- The role of the Mind and Body in maintaining Protectors and moving towards self leadership. Polyvagal informed IFS
- Body wisdom and Becoming ‘wise’ to the language and interoceptive cues of your Body. A Deep Brain Re-orienting approach to Trauma Release.

Transform knowledge into felt experience which you then guide from

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FACILITATORS

Both facilitators are yoga teachers, teacher trainers, and psychotherapists with extensive clinical experience.

Grace’s background in education brings robust pedagogical foundations to the content

Martine’s background in mental health and social work bring extensive richness of clinical examples to draw from.

Their approach stands apart because of their integration of somatic and psychological modalities; top-down and bottom-up healing lenses.

Martine Coates

Martine is a Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Psychedelic Assisted Integration Therapist, Senior Yoga Teacher and Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator & Trainer for the Center for Trauma & Embodiment the Originators and researchers of TCTSY.

Martine has 30 + years and continues to work in a variety of clinical mental health settings and in Private Practice. Martine has presented on Trauma and Embodiment at various conferences and events.

Martine is an licenced, practicing mental health clinician and is an experienced therapist in todays leading, empirically validated trauma therapies such as EMDR and Schema Therapy, Family Therapy, Level 2 IFS therapist and Level 3 Deep Brain Reorienting therapist.

Grace Tempany

Grace is a Senior Teacher and Trainer, and Founder of ISFYT School of Functional Yoga Teachers. Grace has completed over 3000hrs of yoga trainings, and has been training teachers since 2018.

Grace is currently completing a professional masters in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She holds a postgrad in Counselling and Psychotherapy, a diploma in Jungian Studies, and has extensive experience in the field of body psychotherapy.

Her current research is investigating Yin as a portal between pure somatic modalities and talk therapies. An advocate for the importance of critical thinking and discernment within all training spaces, Grace guides a community of depth-oriented yoga practitioners within her online membership, The Integration Space.

Expertise Matters

Learn the SKILLS – Experience the PRACTICE – INTEGRATION of the theory and Practice
- 2 world class faculty who are highly trained therapists and have qualifications in EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Deep Brain Re-orienting, Polyvagal Theory, Senior Yoga Teachers and who ACTUALLY practice what they preach personally and professionally
- 100 hours of guided and experiential learning in total
- 4 modules made up of hands on learning and workshps
- Practice Circles to support connection and integration of the material
- Daily Guided Somatic Movement to experience and embed the practices
- Ongoing mentoring and support post training optionsDescription text goes here
Healthcare professionals, clinicians, teachers, therapists, yoga teachers working in a trauma-impacted community.
100h Art of Yin training with Grace or 100h Yoga for Embodiment & Healing training with Martine.
This 100 hour training provides a comprehensive immersion into the worlds of embodiment and trauma-sensitive body therapy, with constant application of the theory to concrete practices.
The body is our largest data reservoir and the best tool we have as individual practitioners, teachers, psychotherapists, somatic coaches, wellbeing professionals and facilitators of all kinds. The body is also where so many individuals find they are stuck; stuck in trauma responses, stuck in habitual reaction patterns, stuck in a rut. Not only is the stuckness held in the body, but due to chronic dissociation in trauma-affected populations, it is largely unreachable.
The key tools that embodied, trauma-sensitive practitioners require must focus on making the body reachable. Practitioners must have the knowledge and skills to guide clients to find their own voice, and develop their own sense of having a reliable, feelable, and safe body.
You will receive a 200 hour SOMA TALK Practitioner Certification after completion of this Level 2 Training.
What is our UNIQUE point of difference in the trauma informed training space?
Firstly, research clearly indicates there is a significant drop out in Trauma Focused CBT, whereas the retention rate in Body led trauma therapies have a much higher retention rate.
Secondly, most therapists report feeling unsure how to APPLY and INTEGRATE body led therapies into the therapy space safely and effectively. Making training lack momentum.
In our 200 hour Practitioner course you will learn the WHY and the HOW to SAFELY integrate trauma from a BODY based perspective not a MIND based perspective.
Upon completion of module 2, graduates are welcome to apply for the final 100h module: culminating in a 300h Soma Talk Facilitator qualification.

Soma Talk is for you if…

You thrive in immersive learning environments in beautiful locations, surrounded by like-minded people, equally committed to their growth and professional development

Bali has been on your vision board forever, but you have been waiting for the right occasion with the right teachers
You are committed to creating body led safety as a precursor to talk therapy
You are a psychotherapist who wants to bring the body into the clinic and learn the step-by-step process of metabolising affect
You are a depth psychologist who wants to work with the body shadow
You are a coach, eager for a methodology that makes the body accessible to dissociated clients, disconnected from their body’s wisdom
You are a mental health worker who has to regularly navigate dysregulated nervous systems, and require practical and effective tools to enhance your students’ zone of resilience
You are a yoga, meditation, or spiritual teacher, curious about a somatic process of learning to bear more reality. Yin is embodied Buddhism, somatic Daoism.
You are a teacher working with children and students with additional needs/neurodiverse students
You are on the path to unveiling your ‘true self’, seeking to activate your own voice and return to a more embodied sense of self and your own inner wisdom and leadership.

DETAILS

Location: As I Am Resort, Ubud, Bali

Dates: January 4-14, 2026

A$3243.00 early bird pay in full (by 30th June)
A$3575.00 early bird payment plan (deposit of A$1072.50 paid by 30th June followed by 3 payments of A$834.16)
A$3992.00 later bird (from 1st July)
Jan 3rd: Travel/Arrivals
Jan 4th: Training begins 8am
Jan 9th: Day off
Jan 14th: Training concludes with traditional Balinese ritual at 5pm
Schedule for Jan 4th-8th & 10th-14th:
Morning Session 9-1
Afternoon Session 2:30-6
Lunch included every day of training (not the 9th) at As I Am
For breakfast and dinner, you are free to explore one of Ubud’s fabulous restaurants. Some of our faves are Earth Cafe, Atman, Elephant, and Clear Cafe. With 11 nights to choose from, you can do the rounds!
This training is non-residential. All teaching will take place at As I Am Ubud. You are welcome to stay on site (accommodation is available), or explore another option in Ubud.
Ubud has accommodation to suit every budget, from homestays to luxury hotels and air bnbs. To get you started, have a look at the following, but you might prefer to follow your own lead:
Abipraya Ubud: Jl. Bisma, Ubud, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Honeymoon Guesthouse: Jl. Bisma, Ubud, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Anumana Village Ubud: Jl. Raya Pejeng Kawan, Pejeng Kaja, Kec. Tampaksiring, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80552, Indonesia
Ubud Shanti Rice Field House: F7X5+G55, Jl. Subak Sok Wayah, Ubud, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Nur Guest House: F7W4+HPV, Jalan Abangan Sokwayah, Ubud, Gianyar Regency, Bali 80571, Indonesia
Narasoma Homestay & Retreat: Gg. Beji, Ubud, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571, Indonesia
To make sure we create a truly vibrant and connected experience, we need at least 10 guests to join us on this retreat!