The SOMA Method

18/08/2025

S O M A
somatic coaching accreditation

The SOMA Method is primarily a practice to access our innate vitality and aliveness.
It is a way of repatterining our nervous system to be more fully in our lives.
It is a way of meeting wounded parts of ourselves that had their life force stolen from them.
It is a way of connecting and communicating with our body, our hearts, our cells and our souls.

The SOMA Method is a practice that holds us every day, not just in a practice or in a session - but in our relationships, our families, our homes, our bodies, our communities and in how we want to live and be.

You are invited to come and train to become a somatic coach (and so so much more along the way)
Becoming something new, is actually a returning to something very old and already known within us.

Upcoming dates are :

ADVANCED training - 8-14th September 2025 (for anyone who has already completed a foundation training with us)
CYCLICAL training - 11-16th November 2025 - TWO SPACES LEFT
FOUNDATION training - 21-27th March 2026
FOUNDATION training - 13-19th June 2026
CYCLICAL training - 7-12th November 2026
ADVANCED training - 7-13th November 2026

Drop us a message to find out more and secure your space for £222 - after this we offer very spacious payment plans to suit your needs.

02/08/2025

We are one and we are everyone.
Our experience is totally our own and irrevocably shared with every being.
We are a whole human and a whole soul.
Life is a complete coincidence and simultaneously happening in perfect orchestration.

Your menstruation mirrors the moon.
Your evolution mirrors nature.
The seasons changing outside of you are changing inside of you.

So when we consider life and its cycles, including our menstrual cycle, we must consider so much more than this moment whist all at the same time maintaining presence and being totally here in this moment.

It seems contradictory and yet it’s not because this moment holds every moment that has ever mean and every moment that ever will be.

How do we expand our capacity to hold this paradox?

The beginning and the end is held right here in this breath. Breathe in. There is life. Breathe in. There is death. Breathe in. There is creation. Breathe out. There is destruction.

In November we journey into the cycles of menstruation and beyond. Into the cocoon of our womb, the womb that lives physically and energetically inside our body, and the womb of the world.

Become a cyclical somatic coach with The SOMA Method - join a community of awe inspiring women and create ripples of change in your world and the worlds around you 🩸 🐍 🌀 🐚

Download the prospectus or drop us a DM for more info 🙏🏼

27/07/2025

We’re all interconnected
Our brains
Our DNA
Our roots
Our soil

Believe me when I say if one person starves we all starve. I know you’re not actually starving but also you are, I know I am.
No single person on this planet will avoid the ripples of this level of devastation in our planetary ecosystem.
It is one system.
Every word you speak, every way you show up, every conversation you have, every thing.
Every. Thing.
Everything permeates that system.
You can help Gaza and the whole world in a way. You can start right in your own heart and right in your own home. Show up and pray at the altar of your body. Trust this ecosystem is connected. It’s time to pour in integrity, truth, love, connection, presence, peace.

If we want to see change in the external systems, it starts right here with our nervous system, our inner world, seasons and cycles.

You are invited to join our next foundation training to become a Cyclical Somatic Coach.
Fully accredited with AACPH.

November 11th - 16th 2025
Soul Bank, Manchester

Included in all our trainings:

online support
1-1 mentorship
group mentorship
AACPH accreditation in coaching
over 300 hours of supporting practices

26/06/2025

C R E A T I O N // day seven themes

- A curious exploration into the world as an interwoven quantum reality.
- Everything is energy and an energetic extension of the blueprint we hold in our nervous system.
- Understanding how the sacred work we do here is actively creating collective liberation
- Creating, facilitating and holding a client session from an intuitive, heart led, body based, being centred space using the somatic tools and techniques cultivated over the week long training.

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BECOME A SOMATIC COACH
with the soma method

Cyclical Somatic Coach

Six day foundation training at
Soul Bank, Manchester

11th-16th November

Included in all our trainings:

online support
1-1 mentorship
group mentorship
AACPH accreditation in coaching
over 300 hours of supporting practices

24/06/2025

23/06/2025

V O I C E // day five themes

- Exploring vocal-vaginal connection.
- Using sound, expression, vocalisations and renegotiating our relationship to play.
- Reclaiming the wisdom of the living voice as the muscle of the soul: a living being with its own wisdom.
- Working with voice and expression as conduit for the experience of the body.
- Exploring inner critic, concerns, fears, worries around space holding and facilitating.
- Somatic tools to expression.

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BECOME A SOMATIC COACH
with the soma method

Cyclical Somatic Coach

Six day foundation training at
Soul Bank, Manchester

11th-16th November

Included in all our trainings:

online support
1-1 mentorship
group mentorship
AACPH accreditation in coaching
over 300 hours of supporting practices

18/06/2025

L O V E // Day four themes

- What is love
- What is grief
- Group exploration of cultural and individual perspectives on grief and the emotions and experience surrounding grief
- Becoming the embodiment of love
- Anchoring into Love and heart-led movement.
- Moving as Love, as the truth of who you are.
- Compassionately confronting all the parts that have been made to feel unloveable and unworthy.
- Grief literacy, exploring the gates of grief (Francis Weller), not just from what we have lost but from the love, acceptance and belonging we didn’t receive.
- Holding space for the younger parts of us and unmet needs.
- Exploring the somatic channels of expression using SIBAM.

17/06/2025

P O W E R // Day three themes -

- Moving from a place of ‘power with’
- Righteous rage ritual // somatically connecting to healthy anger
- Sympathetic stigma - where we have been led to believe that sympathetic (fight/flight) is bad
- Activation of our fierce inner witness // unhooking from toxic shame
- How our deepest power lies in our deepest presence (being with what is here now)
- “I can move” moving from fixity to flow, from freeze to aliveness

15/06/2025

S E N S A T I O N // day two themes

- When we come back to nature our innate worthiness is welcome and we let the soft animal of the body be where it needs to be
- Connecting to the inner seasons
- Reclaiming the wisdom and meeting the wisdom keeper of each phase of the cycle
- Honouring our cyclical nature in the linear world
- Meeting the Empress that lives within and learning what she needs and wants
- Deepening into tools of presenting using resourcing
- Oxytocin as a need for our nervous system regulate in a world that is fed by dopamine (dopamine is needed by male nervous systems and squashes oxytocin)

14/06/2025

C O N N E C T I O N // day one themes

- How to activate the mother within?
- Can the mother within meet the child within?
- What are the resources inner and outer than we lean into?
- Locating safety through understanding the polyvagal ladder
- Allowing the earth of our body to bloom
- Coming home to self
- Connecting to all parts of us - including the parts that are disconnected
- Understanding there is *no one place* we need to be or feel, instead that our only job is to feel
- Tapping into the wider web of the earth beneath us that holds us

The SOMA Method is a practice of coaching, embodiment and movement that activates aliveness
Aliveness is feeling, opening and being present to the fullness of life
By reclaiming all of our parts, we open to a vitality that allows us to really be in our lives and create a life we want to be a part of

Join us for our next foundation somatic coaching training in June 2025 in manchester, all details below

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BECOME A SOMATIC COACH
with the soma method

Cyclical Somatic Coach

Six day foundation training at
Soul Bank, Manchester

11th-16th November

Included in all our trainings:

online support
1-1 mentorship
group mentorship
AACPH accreditation in coaching
over 300 hours of supporting practices

02/06/2025

At the core of a connected way of being and living is our menstrual cycle.

We live in a world that asks us to adhere to strict linear ways of existing and this ends up disconnecting us from our true power and strength as women.

In November, Rachel Cruickshank and Natalie Shilton bring you a Cyclical Somatic Coaching Accreditation to support women in their menstrual cycles. And more than this, this training will give you the tools to mindfully and somatically disrupt the systems of disconnection and distraction that keep you separate from your innate gifts and wisdom.

There has long been a natural intelligence of the female body and womb that has been dismembered and severed. We invite you to remember your wisdom, and reconnect with your cycles to bring your life into a more alive and whole way of being.

Join us for our newest
Cyclical Somatic Coaching Accreditation

11th - 16th November2025
Soul Bank, Manchester

Included in all our trainings:

online support
1-1 mentorship
group mentorship
AACPH accreditation in coaching
over 300 hours of supporting practices

22/05/2025

your energy is the entire exploration

We can get so caught up in this spiritual work and truth be told *industry* because ultimately what many of us are seeking is to come home but what many are selling is more and more complex ways to *do* that

I want to offer something profoundly simple. The art of simply stilling and being with yourself - it doesn’t mean action doesn’t follow but when it does it is embodied action from a connected deep truth of your body and heart.

As women, our menstrual cycle is a foundational blueprint we must understand to move coherently in this world. All the tools won’t matter if we don’t understand the wisdom fo day 3 or the chaos of fay 23.

The most healing practice is the quiet conversation with the parts that feel ignored.
The most loving practice is the unconditional meeting of the parts that feel unworthy.
The most transformational practice is the one that transcends the mat into life.

And the bridge for all of these spaces, well the conduit is the body; and somatics allows us to learn the language the body speaks.

Join us ⬇️

100 Hour Cyclical-Somatic Facilitator Accreditation
train to become a somatic facilitator with
Rachel Cruickshank and Natalie Shilton
this practice supports and guides beings
in a multi-dimensional discovery of self and
returning to the cyclicality of innate aliveness & vitality
Dates:
11th-16th November, 9am-5pm
Location:
Soul Bank, Manchester

Let us know if you’re interested and we’ll be so happy to send over the prospectus ♥️🩸🐍