A unique 6 month healing journey
You’re here to hold powerful, healing spaces.
Facilitators in our healing and caring industry are burnt out — trying to serve from an empty cup.
↘ Modalities that keep us confined in techniques instead of embodiment, joy and attunement.
↘ Businesses or work that keep us in survival, conflict and struggle.
Without a foundation of embodiment and regulation, even the best techniques can keep our healing at bay.
🌱It’s time to re-build nervous system, work and leadership from the inside out with a FUNCTIONAL approach.
Create spaces where transformation is effortless
Picture yourself stepping into every room, every conversation, anchored in your body’s wisdom.
True leadership isn’t about controlling outcomes — it’s about embodying safety, attunement, and resilience.
Introducing the
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
The Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training (TEFT) is a 6-month journey of healing, integration, psycho-education and leadership.
It’s more than a training — it’s a transformation in how you heal, serve, and lead.
Therapeutic Embodiment is a functional framework that helps you integrate somatic healing, nervous system regulation, and spiritual inquiry into any modality.
It can stand alone as a powerful method for one-on-one or group facilitation — or it can be woven through your existing practice, allowing you to hold safer, more transformational spaces with greater confidence and ease.
This is not about collecting tools.
It’s about becoming the work — embodying the clarity, attunement, and presence that real healing demands.
Scroll down to discover how this life-changing journey unfolds.
Your Journey Each Month
Every month, you’ll enjoy a rhythm of learning, embodiment, and integration — building your capacity, nourishing your nervous system, and expand your leadership from within.
The journey is meant to be spacious.
(Consider dedicating 1 hr per week for yourself outside of live trainings)
Each month you will receive:
🌿 One (1) 3-hour Live Weekend Training
🌿 One (1) 1-hour Live Embodiment Journey
🌿 A Self-Paced Module inside your online portal
🌿 1:1 or Small Pod Coaching with Ava
Is this journey right for you?
Applications are obligation-free and include a 1:1 call with Ava to help you reflect and determine next steps.
What’s Inside the Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
You will receive:
🌿 A monthly 3-Hour Live Weekend Training
🌿 A monthly 1-Hour Therapeutic Embodiment Group Journey
🌿 A Self-paced Study Module with breakthrough practices and insights
🌿 A monthly 1:1 or Small Pod Coaching Session with Ava
🌿 3-Year Access to All Training Recordings
🌿 A Bonus Library of Yoga and Embodiment Classes
🌿 Private Small-Pod WhatsApp Community for integration between sessions
Month by Month
Become a connected, healing presence for yourself and others.
Hold effortless healing spaces - turning your life into a masterpiece.
OUR MONTHLY MODULES
From July - December you will experience:
🌱 Six (6) 3 hour training and journeys with Ava
🌱 A monthly Live Therapeutic Embodiment experience with Ava
🌱 Self-paced study and reflection prompts
🌱 1:1 or small pod coaching and healing sessions with Ava
July: Module 1
SEPTEMBER: Module 3
August: Module 2
Functionality, Fundamental
balance & the New Paradigm of healing
Appying our breakthrough framework to reorganise your lifestyle
Somatics & Therapeutic Embodiment for Healing
Somatic psychology and the 2 key ingredients to bring us back to wholeness.
Psychoeducation &
The Biology of Healing
A deep dive into developmental trauma, the nervous system, suffering and repair.
October: Module 4
November: Module 5
DECEMBER: Module 6
A Functional Approach to Traditional Trauma-Informed Practices
The missing ingredient that will create sustainability, effectiveness and protect against burn out.
Alignment, attunement, boundaries and communication
Cultivating new strategies to support a sustainable shift from survival to thriving embodied confidence.
Transcendence,
non-duality and spirituality
How "Being" and our stillness essence contribute topresence, love and embodiment to healing spaces.
The facilitator course also includes three (3) additional Business and professional development modules
September
NOVEMBER
October
7 Steps to TE + Practice Manual
7 elements of the TE practice.
The foundations of therapeutic movement and embodiment.
Trauma informed Facilitator skills
Refining your offering of a TE session for online and in person, group and 1:1 spaces.
A new kind of business plan
A Functional Spirituality approach to business planning, networking, offering creation and strategy.
Email us at:
Functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com
For a full orientation pack.
Your 75-Hour Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Certificate
Over 1000 students have passed through our certificate trainings, courses and retreats.
Upon completing the program, you will earn your 75-Hour Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Certificate — honoring your commitment to embodied leadership, healing spaces and a sustainable, heart-centered service.
REQUIREMENTS:
✔ View all pre-recorded modules and live training sessions
✔ Facilitate three (3) 45-minute Therapeutic Embodiment sessions
✔ Submit one (1) recorded facilitation call for review and feedback
✔ Complete two (2) written submissions (500–1000 words each)
✔ Complete two (2) written reflections (500 words each)
This is more than a certificate — it’s an invitation to step fully into the healing work you are here to offer the world.
Learn to facilitate Therapeutic Embodiment
This page is for TEFT: A course for therapists, healers, coaches, yoga instructors and facilitators of group and 1:1 spaces.
You will learn how to hold healing spaces, as well as how to facilitate the TE modality in sessions.
For the full orientation pack, contact us here.
Are you looking for our entry level Therapeutic embodiment
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY?
ava irani
Lead teacher
Ava is the director of Functional Spirituality and the popular yoga and meditation centre Spanda School in Fremantle, W.A. She is a philosopher with a degree from the University of Sydney, retreat leader, business owner and somatic therapist. Her deepest passions are non-dual philosophy, community healing and looking at the impacts of spirituality. Her business has been offering meditation training and silent retreat to thousands of students over the past 10+ years.
Ava's path started with a fervor for awakening, yoga and non-duality. However over the years her path has matured with a more functional approach to spirituality, healing and life optimisation. Her work now considers the wide-spread complex trauma that lies at the heart of almost every obstacle to happy, healthy and connected living, and marries profound mystical approaches with nervous system regulation.
She has trained with Paul Muller-Ortega (Blue throat yoga), NARM (complex trauma), Cecily Milne (yoga detour), the Centre for Healing to name a few.
Ava is predominantly known for her thriving yoga studio, silent retreats in nature and the phenomenal teachers that emerge from her yoga and trauma-informed certifications. She lives in beautiful, rural Western Australia with her family and animals.
FAQ
Interested in the Therapeutic Embodiment facilitator training?
This short reflection form is designed to help you get clear on where you are, what’s no longer working, and what’s truly aligned for your next chapter — whether it’s growing your business, refining your facilitation, or creating deeper, more sustainable transformation in the lives of others.