Stop guessing what a body needs.
Thirteen protective patterns, consent read through tissue, and a touch protocol.
The literacy underneath the technique, plus a $111 credit toward the in-person training in Mazunte.
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Technique without literacy is guesswork.
- You can feel something in the tissue and you can't name it.
- A client goes quiet and you don't know if that's release or shutdown.
- You get a yes with the words and a no with the breath.
- The session was technically good and nothing moved.
- You keep working harder to make something happen.
- You've been taught technique, never literacy.
You were taught what to do with your hands. Not what the body was saying.
Every body in front of you is already telling you what it needs. This teaches you to read it.
Thirteen patterns. One way of seeing.
Six nervous-system profiles and seven body patterns. Each one is a form of protection with its own logic: what it's holding, what it costs, and what it needs from you.
Once you can see them, sessions stop being improvisation. You know what you're meeting before you put your hands anywhere.
Read first. Then touch.
What are you running into?
How do I know what a body actually needs?+
By reading it before you touch it. Breath rate, tone, timing, where the weight sits, what happens when you slow down. Foundations gives you thirteen protective patterns so what you're seeing has a name and a response.
How do I read consent past the words?+
A verbal yes and a tissue no happen all the time, and they're not dishonesty — they're protection. There's an entire lesson on reading the body's sacred yes, sacred no, and the hesitation in between.
What do I do when a client freezes?+
Less. Freeze is not a signal to work deeper, it's a signal that the system left. The archetype library covers disconnection and collapse specifically: what they protect and how to invite the system back without chasing it.
How do I stay regulated while holding someone else?+
Your nervous system is part of the session whether you intend it or not. Mirror neurons, pacing, and the trauma-informed lessons are about the practitioner's state as much as the client's.
A look inside.
The orientation lesson, exactly as it appears in the training. Slow, precise, and practitioner-facing from the first minute.
What $111 includes.
Foundations of practice, the full archetype library, and the touch protocol.
Six nervous-system profiles and seven body patterns, each with what it needs.
Send the quizzes to clients; results land in your inbox before the session.
For your site and profiles on completion.
Applied to the in-person training, so the course pays for itself.
Know Your Pattern and The Somatic Reset in full.
Finish the course and the badge is yours to display. It says you've trained in the method; it is not a clinical license, and we're precise about that on purpose.
One payment. No subscription. Already own an earlier course? You only pay the difference at checkout.
Words from people we've trained.
These are from people who've trained with us in person and received this work directly. The self-paced courses are newer — we'd rather show you real words than invented ones.
Atabey holds a strong and powerful presence as a teacher who lives in integrity with his practice. I experienced the depth and wonder of his ancient transmissions which were varied and aligned with the source that brought them through.
René has a deep connection to health and well-being within herself and she shares her wisdom and knowledge so fluidly with the class. Her talent and skill with the human body/mind is extremely potent. I am forever grateful for attending this class. It was more than I could have imagined.
I've had several sessions with Atabey and they were all exceptional. He's more than a massage therapist, each treatment is a session where he worked with me to ease out years of tension through his unique deep massage technique and profound understanding of the body. Each session left me feeling like I had a new body, with an ability to heal myself through renewed flexibility and vibrating energy. This level of caring takes care of the body, mind, and soul.
The twenty-four lessons.
Start Here · Welcome to Foundations1 lesson+
An orientation to the course, the method, and how to move through the material with care.
01 · Foundations of Practice8 lessons+
How the body communicates through sensation, posture, breath, gesture, and tissue.
Distinguish the three streams of inner experience so you can meet each one correctly.
Separate what the body is feeling from the story the nervous system layers on top.
Recognize the body's clear yes, clear no, and the protective hesitation in between.
Read consent through breath, tone, timing, micro-movement, and tissue response.
Address the body as a living intelligence: language that invites rather than instructs.
The body as a site of awareness, and how that reshapes practice.
Foundational trauma-informed principles for working with another nervous system.
02 · Archetype Library14 lessons+
How to read quiz results, yours and your clients', and use the library as a working map.
An activated, action-ready system carrying charge.
A braced, controlled system holding itself together.
A scanning, sensitive system on guard.
A system swinging between activation and collapse.
An offline, distant system.
A settled, integrated baseline.
A body shaped by containment and control.
A body shaped by readiness and alertness.
A body folded inward, surviving through withdrawal.
A body shaped by being watched.
A body pouring energy outward at the cost of the self.
A body living from a distance.
A body integrated and at home in itself.
03 · Practitioner Techniques1 lesson+
An unhurried touch protocol: pressure, pacing, presence, and contact that helps a body feel met.
Who's teaching this.
Atabey
Atabey is a somatic practitioner and creator of Somatic Recoding. His work brings together bodywork, nervous system awareness, touch, breath, and embodied inquiry. He teaches touch as a language: precise, unhurried, and deeply human.
René Refi
René is a bodyworker and creator of Somatic Recoding. She brings a relational, trauma-aware lens to the work, with a gift for helping people feel the subtle ways the body protects, opens, and asks to be met.
Where this sits in the path.
Find out what your body is protecting.
Learn what to do when it's happening.
Learn to read and work with another body.
Seven days, hands-on, supervised.
Start at $11. If you continue, it's already included — you never pay for the same material twice.
Questions.
How does Foundations pay for itself?+
Every purchase includes a $111 credit toward the in-person Somatic Recoding training. If you go on to train in Mazunte, the course effectively costs nothing, and you arrive already fluent in the method.
Is this a certification?+
No. Foundations is a self-paced introductory training. It gives you the core maps, language, and tools of the method, but it does not certify you as a Somatic Recoding practitioner.
Do I need the $11 or $55 courses first?+
No, and you don't buy them separately: Foundations includes both in full.
Is this only for practitioners?+
It's built for bodyworkers, coaches, facilitators, therapists, yoga teachers, and breathwork guides. Serious students take it for their own understanding too.
Can I use this with clients?+
You can begin using the language, quizzes, and reflective tools within your existing scope of practice. It does not replace clinical training, licensure, or supervision.
How do the practitioner quiz links work?+
Inside the course you receive private links for the Nervous System Profile and Body Pattern quizzes. Share them with clients and their results arrive in your inbox.
What is the Informed Practitioner badge?+
Complete the course and receive the Somatic Recoding Informed Practitioner badge for your site and profiles. It signals training in the method; it is not a clinical license.
How long do I have access?+
You receive lifetime access.
Learn to read the body in front of you.
$111 once, lifetime access, both earlier courses included, and the whole amount credited against the in-person training.
Our promise · Lifetime access.