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SOMATIC ENERGY THERAPY

The new frontier of healing: integrating body, mind, and energy through the power of somatics.

Somatic Energy Therapy is a body-based, integrative approach that works with the whole person - body, mind, heart, and soul.

 

The body is not just a vessel but a living archive, holding memories all the way from birth and early life through to later years and even across lifetimes. By listening through gentle touch, presence, and attunement, we meet what has been hidden or held, and create the conditions for deep healing and transformation.

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If you’ve ever felt that your current modality touches the surface but doesn’t reach the root, Somatic Energy Therapy shows you how to work where true transformation begins, in the body itself.​​

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WHY SOMATICS?

Working somatically allows us to go beyond talking about the problem and instead meet the imprints where they live - in the nervous system, in the tissues, in the unspoken story of the body.

This opens a pathway for lasting change, bringing resolution to old patterns of pain, fear, or disconnection, and restoring a felt sense of safety, freedom, and connection. Somatic Energy Therapy doesn’t separate the physical from the emotional or spiritual - it weaves them together, allowing wholeness to emerge.

Many practitioners are realising that talk therapy, energy work, or mindfulness alone can only go so far. The somatic approach unites these worlds, giving you the missing piece to help your clients shift from insight to embodiment, and from understanding to lasting change.

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WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?

This work is designed for practitioners who already walk the path of healing and wish to go deeper. If you are a therapist, bodyworker, coach, or energy practitioner who senses that the body holds the missing piece, Somatic Energy Therapy offers a framework and practice to bring it into your work.
It is for those ready to sit with depth, to listen with presence, and to guide others through profound transformation by honouring the body as the doorway to healing.

 

Join a growing community of practitioners around the world who are stepping into the new era of somatic practice, where healing becomes embodied, intuitive, and profoundly alive.
 

In this training, you will learn how to work somatically with clients on the table, listening to the body, the nervous system, and the deeper story beneath. You’ll discover how to support clients in resolving chronic pain, emotional overwhelm, trauma, and long-held mental health challenges. This way of working opens the door to profound transformation, helping your clients return to a state of freedom, clarity, and connection in their lives.
 

Through this training, you’ll not only learn transformative skills - you’ll embody them. You’ll become the kind of practitioner whose very presence invites healing.

A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING COMPRISING OF 5 MODULES & 4 PRACTITIONER DAYS SPREAD OVER 7 MONTHS

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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MODULE ONE

CONNECTION 

In our first module, we form a connection as a group by learning what it takes to create a connection that is safe and secure.
 
Taking time, we discover our own ways of attachment through experiential and thought-provoking practices. Connection to our future clients will therefore always have this level of safety.

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MODULE TWO

BODY

Rudolf Steiner once said, "What the therapist can perceive nature can relieve." In our body module, we will learn how to listen to the body by learning anatomy in a fun and experiential way.

 

Being with the organicity and wisdom of the body, supporting it in its natural journey towards health..

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MODULE THREE

MIND

In this module, we learn what makes us tick, what makes us react, and how our early life has created patterns of behaviour called archetypes.
Archetypes such as the perfectionist, the rescuer, and the addict used to control life, now become the controllers of our life. We learn how to listen to and clear the archetypes' limiting beliefs. To bring the unconscious into the light.
 
We explore working with the inner child/teen, and how to heal trauma and stress.

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MODULE FOUR

SPIRIT

In our journey through the whole of the being, we finish by exploring the greater self. Quantum physics agrees there is only one energy. It creates form through varying frequencies. In this module explore the dimensions of this one-ness. Experience the witness self, between lives, past lives, ancestors, guides, soul contracts, timelines and future selves.

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MODULE FIVE

THE THERAPIST & GRADUATION

In this module we get down to practicalities, learning what it means to be a therapist, and how to keep yourself and others safe. Exploring projection, transference, and countertransference. Finding out who you are as a therapist and who your divine right clients are. Creating your vision and mission. How to market yourself and how to run your business. 

Finally we make the journey towards graduation, is a journey that deserves honoring. Throughout all of our training, deep practices and rituals will regularly be experienced. Taking our steps from student to therapist is honoured with a beautiful day of integrating all that you have worked towards through the training.

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STUDENT PRACTITIONER DAYS

Between each module, our Student Practitioner Days offer hands-on application of new skills.

 

These days provide a chance to practice as a practitioner with invited student clients.

 

Each day concludes with a group sharing session to maximize the learning experience.

WHAT OUR PAST STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT SOMATIC ENERGY THERAPY

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

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SARAH

 I had a real calling to help humanity, but I was disconnected from myself and my abilities. Kate's training helped me in every way. I work deeply with my clients and have been able to clear so many issues to update.

Kate, working with you has opened me up delightfully, and I now live deeply in my truth.

TRACY

This course has been hugely impactful on my life. At the beginning of the training I had very little confidence, and thought I would never treat clients. Now I work as an Somatic Energy Therapist & Reiki Master and absolutely love it! Kate’s knowledge is far reaching and she has a wonderful teaching style. I would highly recommend this training to anyone who wants to find their true power & expand their knowledge in this area. 

MIRIAM

My training with Kate has impacted me in so many positive ways. I can recognize what I’m feeling emotionally, and physically and know deeply what my needs are. I speak up more and can communicate clearly with my loved ones, and clients. Working with Kate has helped me grow confidence and I can attentively listen and understand my clients with empathy, love, and compassion.

2026 TRAINING

Certificate in
Somatic Energy Therapy

Applications are now open for our 2026
New Plymouth training
!

 

You can request an info pack and application form or join the waitlist to be the first to hear about our Auckland training.

 

Just enter your details and select your preferred location to register your interest.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

It is not a requirement that you are already a therapist before you start this course, though in our experience many will have already done some form of wellness training. It is however a requirement that that is where you want to end up. 

 

This is professional training with time spent guiding you to become an extraordinary therapist.

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NEW PLYMOUTH

2026 INTAKE DATES

MODULE ONE

CONNECTION

20th -23rd Febuary 2026

MODULE FOUR

SPIRIT

22nd - 25th May 2026

MODULE TWO

BODY

20th -23rd March 2026

MODULE FIVE

THE THERAPIST 

19th - 22nd June 2025

MODULE THREE

MIND

24th - 27th April 2026

Module 6

GRADUATION

25th - 26th July 2026

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR OUR UPCOMING TRAINING IN:

AUCKLAND

Begins 31st July 2026

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CONTACT

The Contemporary Healing Institute 

37a Donnelly Street

Oakura

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kate@contemporaryhealinginstitute.co.nz

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A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING COMPRISING OF 5 MODULES & 4 PRACTITIONER DAYS SPREAD OVER 7 MONTHS

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