Practitioner Training
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Kurt Iwanina
Amber Hawken
A year-long apprenticeship in embodied facilitation, somatic fluency, and deep relational capacity.
Over twelve months, you’ll walk an immersive initiation into the spiritual, energetic, and structural intelligence of facilitation. Grounded in non-interference, elemental rhythm, relational repair, and right timing — the work translates into precise, transferable skills in field awareness, emotional threshold holding, somatic presence, and ethical facilitation.
Applications now open for Spring 2025
55 places • Online + Optional in-Person Gatherings
Kabi Kabi Country, QLD
Practice, integrate and walk with the ways of earth based wisdom.
What’s iSoma
in a nutshell?
This is a long-form, immersive, apprenticeship-style training in embodied facilitation — rooted in universal principles shared across ancestral ritual traditions — which means all of us.
It is not a modality. But it holds the roots that many modalities were born from — movement, ritual, animism, right relationship, story and community as the original technologies of healing.
The iSōma Practitioner Path integrates elemental, cyclical, archetypal and somatic frameworks — not as metaphor or aesthetic, but as a way to return to what is already known in the body. The four directions are not decorative. They are gateways. The seasonal flow is not a theme. It's a way to reconnect with the deeper rhythms that have always sustained life.
A key part of this path is coming into direct relationship with the elements — not as abstract ideas, but as teachers. Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Vibration, Void, and Light each hold distinct expressions. Through the year, we study how they show up in the body, shape our relational style, and influence how we guide others. These elemental forces aren’t taught as a framework to memorise — they’re lived. Practised. Embodied.
Each one becomes a lens to reflect your own archetypal strengths and shadow patterns. You’ll learn how to recognise them in the room, track them in your own system, and work with their qualities in real-time. This becomes the backbone of your facilitation — not a script, but a set of internal reference points you can rely on.
Somatic Healing
Meditation Training
Who is iSoma?
iSōma is built on community. Not just as support — but as the field through which we repair, remember, and grow. It’s also deeply body-based: you’ll move, sense, notice, and build real somatic fluency. You’ll work with the elements in your body, track the distortion patterns in real time, and practise meeting others with clarity and care.
This is not a spiritual brand. We are not offering a role to step into, or a status to acquire. This is a path for those called to guide others with more truth, more skill, and more humility.
Not everyone is meant for this depth of work.
But for those who are — this will show you.
Modernity rushed us. It taught us to be ready before we were steady.
To perform instead of practise.
To lead before we knew how to listen.
This program exists to interrupt that.
It’s a return to the good old long way round, as opposed to the modern praise of short-cuts and fast tracks.
This practice is about becoming something other than yourself.
Why
We’re Different
The somatic, seasonal, and elemental frameworks used in this path are not soft concepts — they are precise, grounded, and deeply effective ways of building trust, resilience, and clarity.
We honour the body as the vessel, the land as a teacher, and the nervous system as a doorway — not a barrier.
We are not transmitting a single lineage. We are integrating the shared threads that run through ancestral traditions across the globe — the patterns that made communities vital, connected, and whole.
This is about returning to a higher standard of integrity — not as a performance, but as a way of being in service.
- You won’t be certified in a modality. You’ll be anchored in yourself.
- This isn’t about authority. It’s about integrity.
- We don’t train you to sound good. We help you become someone trustworthy.
- This is not a download of content. It’s a lived process of embodiment, descent, and emergence.
- Over twelve months, you’ll walk an immersive initiation into the spiritual, energetic, and structural intelligence of facilitation — where the practice isn’t content to consume, but a way of seeing, tracking, and transforming in real time.
- Grounded in non-interference, elemental rhythm, relational repair, and right timing — the work translates into precise, transferable skills in field awareness, emotional threshold holding, somatic presence, and ethical facilitation.
Program Overview
This is a rhythm-based, community-anchored path — not a linear curriculum.
Duration: 12-month online + in-person journey
Begins: Spring 2025 (September)
Structure: Fortnightly live calls 2-2.5 hours (Study Group + Practice Group)
Areas: Guest teachers across body, psyche, story, gestalt, ceremony and clinical practice
Platform: Global online community space — not a chat group, but a vital part of the training itself — for integration, reflection, and connection…
Our group chat will be a live space for practice, peer support, and shared insight. We’re exploring a platform that prioritises presence, privacy, and clarity (not just convenience).
Optional: 2 x optional seasonal in-person immersions (Kabi Kabi Country, QLD) …
No additional cost to attend
BYO camping + communal meals (we cook, prepare, and gather together)
Deeply encouraged but not required — a space to come together in person as a community, for those who are able
ONLINE
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EXPERIENTIAL
Curriculum snapshot
The iSōma curriculum weaves two frameworks:
The 7 Layers of the Embodied Practitioner — the foundational capacities that begin to activate, deepen, and integrate over time. These layers build upon one another, from Earth to Quintessence, each representing a core aspect of what makes someone trustworthy, perceptive, and clear in how they serve.
The Four Directions & Seasons — the rhythm and structure through which the layers are lived, practised, and refined. These are not content themes, but embodied gateways rooted in time, nature, and the intelligence of rhythm.
SPRING
East / Water / Whale
Animacy, Listening, Somatic Intelligence, Water & Fasting, Breath, Cycles
SUMMER
North / Fire / Spider
Devotion, Axis, Spirit, Purpose, Interconnection, Creation, Fire
AUTUMN
West / Air / Owl
Mind, The Void, Listening, Air, Grief, Rebirth, Time
WINTER
South / Earth / Snake
Right Relationship, Ancestors, Ground, Body, Death, Descent, Vessel
The Directions are a living lens — not a framework, but a rhythm.
The curriculum is not modular — it’s immersive, catalytic, and lived.
This is not a content course — it’s a 365-day practice field
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Who this is for
This path is open by application. It’s for…
- Practitioners, creatives, facilitators, and those being shaped by the work — not just those guiding it.
- You might be a bodyworker, a therapist, an artist, or someone who’s carried the weight of care in your community for years. You might be coming out of a decade in the wellness world, or waking up to the limits of what you’ve learned so far in corporate.
- This is for people who’ve seen the gaps — in their training, in their field, in themselves — and are no longer willing to ignore them.
- For practitioners who’ve been leading, facilitating, or serving for years… and still feel something is missing.
- For those who know the difference between sounding good and being present.
- It’s for coaches, facilitators, therapists, allied health professionals, artists, educators, and leaders — who want to build something real. In themselves. And with others.
- This isn’t for beginners or experts. It’s for people who want to become honest, capable, and trustworthy in how they hold others.
If that’s you — you’re in the right place.
“PARTICIPATING INTHE SHIFTING OF GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT LIGHT WORK. IT’S NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED. AND… IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE HEAVY EITHER.”
Still Reading?
This probably isn’t the first training you’ve looked at.
It might be the last one you need.
You already know if this is for you.
If you're unsure, reach out. We listen.
This isn’t about more. It’s about deeper.
