Therapists and Embodiment Training: Why Avoiding the Body Isn’t Sustainable

Some of the most powerful graduates we’ve ever had began this training carrying one quiet fear:

"What if I can’t handle what I’ll feel when I actually slow down?

Many of our grads have built entire careers—sometimes entire lives—around being functional while disconnected.

And for a while, it worked.

They could show up. Stay on task. Stay regulated enough. Help others move forward. But as you are now aware, the body keeps score, whether or not you read the book. And eventually, the strategies stop working.

This training doesn’t require you to be fearless.

But it does require honesty.

If you're a therapist, a social worker, a licensed healer of any kind, there's a good chance you’ve been taught how to stay calm and collected while others fall apart. You’ve learned how to be strong, how to stay professional, how to keep your own reactions in check.

But what many of our students have realized is this:

You can’t fully help others come home to their bodies if you’ve quietly left your own.

And to be clear—this isn’t judgment. It’s the pattern most of us were taught. In school. In systems. In trauma.

Embodiment often wasn’t modeled. It was skipped, bypassed, or treated as an afterthought. Meanwhile, therapists were expected to do high-stakes work with only cognitive tools.

We see the cost of that now.

Sessions plateau. Clients don’t shift. Therapists burn out. And deep down, many practitioners know—talk alone isn’t enough anymore.

Comfort isn’t always kind.

It can feel easier to keep offering the type of therapy you’re used to. The approaches you were trained in. The frameworks that feel safe, clinical, respected.

But easier doesn’t always mean better. Sometimes the familiar is just what we know how to control. And sometimes what we know how to control… is actually what’s making things harder.

It can take more energy to stay in the head all day than it does to begin building real nervous system fluency.

It can feel more “professional” to keep emotions at arm’s length, but that arm’s length eventually becomes a wall. And it can feel like you’re the problem when clients stop progressing—when really, the method needs to evolve.

The truth is, many practitioners are doing deep, meaningful work—while carrying the silent belief that they’re not doing enough. That their results don’t reflect their effort. That their presence doesn’t match their potential. We’ve watched that belief change inside this training. Not because someone gave them more techniques.

But because they finally had a chance to work through their own system in real time.

Here’s the part most people don’t see from the outside:

The people who arrive afraid of embodiment often become the strongest facilitators of it.

Not because they were naturally gifted at it, but because they worked through it—step by step, sensation by sensation—with sensitivity.

And in doing so, they gained something more valuable than any yoga pose or technique:

They earned the trust of their own nervous system. And their clients feel that.

Enrollment is open now for the October cohort of RYT 200 / CYP 500.

This will be the last full training of 2025. If part of you is still weighing the decision—still tempted to go back to what’s familiar take the leap—

You don't need to feel prepared, but you must feel compelled.

Use code 500 at checkout for $500 off your registration.

The code is valid for just 10 more days. (until 8/1/2025)