Somatic Mentorship Actualization Program (SOMAP)
Scheduled to begin March, 2025
The Somatic Mentorship Training Program is designed to guide you, like a North Star, to fully actualize yourself as a Somatic therapist.
Many of us have immersed ourselves in the landscape of embodiment and its accompanying somatic practices. We’ve derived personal benefits from our somatic work and now desire to share it with our clients and loved ones.
But it can be daunting to shift from our somatic training track to actually delivering somatic work to others with confidence and grace.
I’ve designed SOMAP to provide the guideposts to bridge this gap. SOMAP is a highly-personalized 3-month online mentorship training program to support a small group of emerging somatic practitioners and therapists to grow their skills and launch their potential to the next level.
Level up as a Somatic therapist
Who is SOMAP designed for?
- Emerging Somatic therapists who feel ready to empower and launch their somatic careers
- Bodyworkers and other healers who want to integrate somatic foundations into their existing bodywork practices
- Psychotherapists and coaches who would like to augment their current treatment modalities with embodied somatic sensibilities.
- Artists who wish to inform their creative process with somatically-inspired flow
Your Mentor ~ Michael Sternfeld
I’ve spent the last 33 years as a Somatic therapist, and now I’d like to share my gifts with you…
I began my career in this field as a professional modern dancer, grounding myself in full-body awareness and movement dynamics. I was also trained as a Trager Bodyworker, which expanded my understanding of the underlying rhythms and flow of the body. My clients were having great results releasing their limiting patterns, but we found that they often reemerged because we had not gone down to the roots. The “roots” here were the somato-emotional patterns that underlie our dysfunctional structural and functional programs.
Expanding my therapeutic container, I began to weave together these 3 strands to create my signature somatic modality–Body Presence. Over the last 30 years, I’ve led hundreds of somatic movement workshops, complemented by thousands of private sessions in body-centered therapy. My greatest passion now is training the next generation of therapists with programs such as my Body Presence Facilitator Training and my latest offering—a mentorship program to help practitioners with their transition to actualizing their full potential as therapists.
As a practical benefit, I have recently earned the Master Somatic Therapist credential from ISMETA, which enables all the training hours with me to apply to your somatic certification.
The SOMAP structure is designed to deepen your knowledge of diverse somatic modalities and also to give you virtual hands-on clinical practice.
Here are the specs of the program:
- Small Group Training ~ Open to Only 4-8 Participants
- 3 Training Sessions Per Month (75-90 min. each)
Deepen and expand your experiences in a wide spectrum of somatic modalities - One Practicum Session Per Month (90-120 min.)
Experience the nuanced process of live somatic therapy sessions with other training members - One Private Session Per Month
Refine your therapeutic skills with a one-on-one session with mentor Michael Sternfeld - Experiential Trading Sessions
Practice your skills with weekly supervised trading sessions with fellow participants - Receive 40 Hours of Credit Toward Somatic Certification
Due to my credentials as a Master Somatic practitioner, all your program training hours apply directly towards certification with ISMETA - Receive Coaching on Best Practices to Launch and Market Your Own Somatic Offerings
SOMAP Benefits and Outcomes
Potential benefits and outcomes from this 3-month training program:
- Expand your repertoire of somatic tools to better serve yourself and your clients
- Learn how to apply your skills with a nuanced client-centered approach
- Activate your capacity to read body signals and cues
- Access a deepened flow state so you don’t doubt your next therapeutic step.
- Learn in a synergistic small-group environment with lots of mutual support
- Refine your listening skills to pick up and respond to the subtle needs of your clients.
- Deepen your own embodiment process, expanding your own container for self-development
- Receive coaching on positioning, branding and marketing your somatic practice
- Gain 40 hours of credit towards certification as a Somatic therapist
Program Costs
Since this is a beta test for this new mentorship program, I’ve kept the cost as low as possible for this intimate small-group training. The fee structure will be adjusted based on the number of participants.
- $333 per month with 8 participants
10% discount if paid in full in advance ~ Save $100 - $367 per month with 6 participants
10% discount if paid in full in advance ~ Save $110 - $400 per month with 4 participants
10% discount if paid in full in advance ~ Save $120
Additional details:
All sessions will be recorded for playback and review and can be accessed if a session is missed.
Each session will be self-sufficient, but additional readings and/or videos will be suggested for those who wish to deepen their knowledge.
In between each session, there will be weekly assignments to practice & integrate the principles explored. Everyone will have the opportunity to work with a trading partner to deepen their clinical experience.
For additional information, email Michael at:
To Join In
Because of the personalized nature of this program, a short 20-30 minute intake interview would be helpful to assess if this training is right for you.