school of somatic wizardry
advanced somatic and energetic intelligence for the Visionaries, Revolutionaries, and Knowledge Seekers
One-year slow study: February 2025 – February 2026
Reclaiming Your Ancestral Instinctual Body
Are you ready to step into a deeper relationship with your body’s wisdom, one that honors both your ancestral heritage and your wild, untamed nature? And help your clients do the same?
You feel it in your bones – that yearning for something more. Not just another certification or modality, not another set of techniques to master, but a profound metamorphosis that touches every aspect of your being.
You’re seeking a way to heal that doesn’t feel like warfare against yourself, a path that embraces all of who you are, including the parts that don’t fit neatly into conventional healing paradigms.
And you want to give your clients the same.
A Different Kind of (UN)learning Journey & Professional Training.
This isn’t just another course. It’s a year-long immersion into what healing truly means when we step outside the confined spaces of conventional (westernized colonial) therapeutic approaches.
Here, health isn’t merely the absence of illness – it’s the restoration of proper relationship between you, your ancestors, the spirits of the land, and the natural world that has always held us.
Through a slow spiral of embodied (un)learning, we move away from the rushed, linear paths of conventional education.
Instead, we enter a sacred cauldron that honors the circular nature of growth, where every twist in the spiral brings us closer to our innate wisdom and further into the mystery of being alive as a human on this planet.
A Revolutionary Approach to Transformation
What if the very things you’ve been trying to fix – your sensitivity, your trauma responses, your unique way of moving through the world – were actually Doorways to your greatest gifts?
This cauldron is comprised of the following core philosophies and practices:
꩜ Adding layers of goodness and resource, not fixing or getting rid of “problems”
꩜ Contextual understanding, not isolation, diagnosis, or extraction
꩜ Creating conditions for natural melting and blooming, not forcing linear change
꩜ Presence and resonance, not endless strategies and tools
꩜ Embracing the full tidal cycle of life, not just chasing the light
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What Becomes Possible When You Step Into This Field
- Galvanizing personal and collective pain, grief, and trauma into greater connection with Self, other humans, and more-than-human beings
- Weaving wild, feral webs of belonging to the kin of your Soul – human, ancestral, and otherwise.
- Come to know your body’s extra-sensory capacity and the wild, magical, liberating things it can do when you trust its instincts and impulses
- Walk through your days feeling like life is an enchanted forest full of magical fairies and oracular blessings (side note – my clients have coined me “The Fairy Godmother” because I literally invoke predictable miracles… get ready!)
- Experience true healing and support by the magnetic fields of resonance greater and stronger than any human difficulty without going on trauma digging expeditions
- Stop leaking into other people’s fields and energies, without having to “cut cords” every day or become hyper-boundaried
- Open up pathways of emotional and somatic possibility where you were once stuck inside dead end patterns and dysregulation
- Become super clear about your gifts and medicine, and feeling empowered – at a body level – to put your gifts in motion, instead of stalling out in shame or freeze
- Experience ancient aches and pains, griefs and fears, literally melt out of your body
- Receive greater access to the wisdom of Life itself – nature, tides, seasons, embodied rhythms of fast & slow – and channel truth from this place, rather than from a disembodied mental state
- Know how to stay in your own energy in group dynamics and bring up the vibe without self-extracting
Five profound modules weave together the latest somatic science, energetic practices, and nature-based wisdom:
– The Shapeshifter Within
- The Labyrinths of the Bodyverse
– Soul in Motion
– Genius of Deformity
– Fields of Resonance
Supported by:
– Weekly practice sessions
– Peer practicum calls
– Mentorship calls
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“To me this is just beyond any coaching/mentoring/teaching, to me it really is Hogwarts.” – Kim, space holder
Experience as a client.
Practice as a practitioner.
This is not another certification track rushing you from A to B. Instead, it’s a potent paradigm shift from destination-centric learning to a model of wholeness, aliveness, animacy, and deep embodied participatory knowledge. We honor the slow, spiral nature of true transformation, where each turn brings new insight and deeper integration.
A Different Paradigm of Learning
Tangible Skills you'll learn and practice
You’ll learn and practice many trauma-informed skills in this training:
- Advanced somatic and energetic literacy and perception without overwhelm
- Capacity to work with personal and collective trauma patterns without freezing
- Deep connection to ancestral and natural wisdom without “bullshit spirituality”
- Enhanced ability to navigate complexity through embodied intelligence without overthinking
- Tools for personal and collective transformation without fixing, saving, or burning out
- Expanded capacity for sensing subtle energies and fields without crossing your boundaries
- Practical skills for working with the many dimensions of experience without loosing yourSelf
Skills include, but are not limited to:
- titration
- pendulation
- resourcing
- attunement
- synchronizing
- orienting
- authentic forever
- authentic return
- integrating triggers
- unwinding double binds
- boundary repair
- activating voice capacities
- tidal rhythms of healing
- working with joints and diaphragms of the body as portals
- awakening natural blueprints of health
- tools for hyper-arousal (Fight, Flight, Global High Intensity Activation)
- nurturing doable aliveness when a client is in hypo-arousal (Freeze)
- unconditional positive regard
- invitational language
- brief and frequent somatic attunement
- safe practitioner-client boundaries
- rupture and repair skills
- transference, countertransference, projection
- ethics of space holding and business building
- authentic movement and breath
- working with quantum fields
- working with ancestral fields
- constellation work
- biodynamics
These skills are applicable to ANY client work. If you work with humans, youu want to know this.
Module 1 (February): The Shapeshifter Within
In ancient tales, the shapeshifter holds the wisdom of fluid adaptation, of moving between forms with grace and power. Here, we unlock this same wisdom within your own body system through the marriage of cutting-edge somatic science and primal ancestral knowing.
This foundational module reveals how your body naturally possesses the shapeshifter’s gifts – the ability to meet any challenge without falling into habitual patterns of bracing and freezing. You’ll discover how modern science illuminates ancient truths about our capacity for fluid adaptation.
Within this module, you’ll:
- Master the fundamental principles that allow your nervous system to become exquisitely stable and responsive rather than reactive
- Develop subtle yet profound practices that expand your perceptual capacities beyond what you could ever have imagined
- Fill in the missing pieces of your embodied understanding, creating a complete codex of somatic wisdom living in your body
- Learn to create the precise conditions needed for natural transmutation to occur
- Effortlessly weave these leading-edge skills into the fabric of your daily life and client work
Like the shapeshifter of myth, you’ll learn to move between states with grace, finding stability without rigidity, sensitivity without overwhelm, slowness without lethargy.
This is how one becomes truly masterful in their human form – not by forcing change, but by awakening the body’s inherent intelligence for fluid adaptation.
After a month of learning and practicing these concepts on your own body, you’ll move into practicing the professional implementation of these skills, so that your clients can experience greater joy, inner-peace, and so much more ease when facing Life’s intensity.
Module 2 (April): The Labyrinths of the Bodyverse
Imagine walking through your world with an internal compass so finely tuned that you can navigate any emotional terrain with grace and wisdom. This is what becomes possible when you master the art of mapping your Bodyverse – your internal universe that holds mysteries as vast as any cosmic exploration.
In Module 2: The Labyrinths of the Bodyverse, you’ll discover how your body naturally creates intricate maps of experience, each sensation a signpost guiding you home to yourself. Through cutting-edge nervous system science merged with ancestral wisdom, you’ll learn to read these maps with extraordinary precision, transforming what once felt like overwhelming territory into familiar landscapes of healing.
Within this module, you’ll:
- Master the mapping of multiple nervous system states, transforming overwhelming sensations into clear navigation tools for yourself and your clients
- Develop boundary mastery that maintains itself effortlessly, without constant vigilance or energy-draining rigid protection practices
- Attune to your body’s natural tidal rhythms, from physical to cosmic embodiment, bringing profound ease to everything you do
- Learn to include and integrate shadow territories of your experience, discovering how your greatest challenges hold your deepest medicine
What emerges through this work is nothing short of revolutionary: a body that knows how to heal itself, boundaries that maintain themselves effortlessly, and an unshakeable connection to your own inner wisdom.
You’ll no longer need external validation or constant vigilance to feel safe and centered – your body becomes your most trusted guide, leading you naturally toward growth and healing.
Module 3 (June): Soul in Motion
In the ancient wisdom traditions, movement was never merely physical – it was a dialogue between body and soul, between matter and spirit. This module reawakens this profound understanding through a deep exploration of movement as medicine, as prayer, and as a bridge between worlds.
Here, we recognize that every gesture carries meaning, every breath holds potential for transformation, and every movement can become a conversation with the infinite.
Through carefully crafted practices that blend somatic awareness with energetic sensitivity, you learn to dissolve the artificial boundary between physical and spiritual movement.
Within this module, you’ll:
- Discover authentic movement practices that bypass the thinking mind to access deeper bodily wisdom
- Learn relational breathwork that creates bridges between personal and collective fields
- Develop your capacity to sense and work with subtle energies through movement
- Reconnect with your animal body’s inherent knowing and instinctual movement patterns
- Master practices for tracking somatic responses during movement exploration
- Explore movement and breath as a form of ritual and ceremonial expression
Like water finding its natural course, your body holds ancient memories of how to move in harmony with life’s currents. This module helps you shed layers of conditioned movement patterns to reveal the natural, fluid grace that lies beneath.
Through careful attention to the body’s subtle cues and impulses, you might experience spontaneous releases of long-held trauma patterns, discovering that movement itself can be a form of emotional alchemy.
We work with:
- The language of (archetypal) gestures and how trauma speaks through movement patterns
- The integration of breath, movement, and awareness in healing rituals
- The relationship between physical movement and energetic fields
- The awakening of cellular memory of belonging through conscious movement exploration
- The restoration of natural movement patterns interrupted by trauma
This is not about learning new techniques or perfecting forms – it’s about remembering what your body already knows. Through carefully guided experiences, you’ll learn to trust your body’s inherent wisdom and allow movement to emerge from a place of deep listening rather than external direction.
As you develop these capacities, you may find yourself moving with greater ease not just physically, but through all of life’s challenges. The wisdom of the animal body becomes a constant companion, offering guidance through instinct and intuition rather than thought and analysis.
Module 4 (August): Genius of Deformity
In this profound module, we challenge the conventional narrative that pathologizes how bodies adapt to overwhelming circumstances. Instead, we recognize that what appears as deformity often holds a hidden genius – the intelligence of survival and the seeds of medicine.
This module guides you through:
- Meet your existential conditions and the completion of existential threat responses (offering support to your existential core wounds)
- Metabolize somatically-held states of deadness, freeze and seemingly inescapable conditions
- Discover how “deformity” often holds the exact shape of the doorway through which healing emerges
- Transform the double-bind states into gateways of possibility
As frozen states thaw and rigid patterns soften, youu might experience spontaneous repair of sensory awareness, inner awakening, and the return of disappeared parts of Self.
This is not about fixing what’s “wrong” but about recognizing the profound intelligence in how your body has shaped itself in response to life.
Module 5 (October): Fields of Resonance
Like ripples expanding through water, our experience exists within ever-widening circles of relationship – from personal to ancestral, from material to cosmic. This final module opens into these vast fields of connection and possibility.
In this expansive space we:
- Discover the multidimensional possibilities of Self through the Body
- Understand and work with quantum fields and altered states
- Receive ancestral blessings and support
- Learn to work with the Blueprints of Health that exist within and beyond individual experience
Here, you might discover connection with the Higher Self, experiencing enhanced spiritual awareness, compassion, and clarity.
The Fields of Resonance module reveals how personal healing ripples out into collective transformation, and how collective wisdom flows back to support individual emergence.
Logistics for all module classes
All classes happen on Zoom on Fridays at 1 pm CET.
All classes take 3 hours, with regular breaks.
All mentorship calls are 2 hours long and happen on the second Friday of the month.
All peer practicum calls are 2 hours long and happen on the fourth Friday of the month.
All sessions are recorded and uploaded to the program portal withing 48 hours.
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2-hour Group Mentorship Call
During the months WITHOUT module classes we have Group Mentorship calls.
There calls are the time and space to integrate, bring any case studies, receive support around your personal and professiona process, business building, ask for solidarity and celebration.
These calls usually happen on the second Friday of the month at 1 pm CET.
These calls are recorded and uploaded to the program portal within 24 hours.
2-hour Peer Practicum
During the months WITHOUT module classes we have Peer Practicum calls.
During these sessions we work in pairs (and sometimes in triads) with a certain skill. In the beginning of the call an “exercise” is introduced, then we work in the break out rooms (on Zoom) and after that we come together for a debrief.
These calls usually happen on the fourth Friday of the month at 1 pm CET.
These calls are recorded and uploaded to the program portal within 24 hours.
1x week 45-min practice session
We meet each Monday at 8 am CET for practitioner alignment, deep listening, practicing different principles we discuss at School.
Invaluable resource for your Body and your work.
All sessions are recorded and uploaded to the program portal within 24 hours.
Access to all materials and recordings | APP & web-based
All recordings will be uploaded to our platform in video and audio format per segment/topic, which makes it very easily accessible at any time.
You have access to all recordings for one year.
PRICE
The price for the full one-year slow study is just €6.000,-
Scholarships and luscious shame-free payment plans available. Let’s talk!
Application process:
1. Fill out the application form.
2. We will reach out to you within 24 hours to figure our the details.
3. You will receive the invoice, the onboarding information, and access to the online platform.
4. If you’re interested in the program and have questions before applying, you can schedule a 20 minute call with Katja below.
the pillars:
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Body | Somatics
The training grounds itself in the latest nuanced somatic science, offering foundational advanced tools for mapping and understanding the “Bodyverse” – our internal somatic architecture.
Learn to develop receptive sensing and perceptual capacity, working with the body as an intelligent system that contains multitudes and galaxies.
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Ritual | Energy
Through regular engagement with ritual practices, you learn to work with subtle energies and fields.
This dimension addresses how bodies become vivified and enlivened through intentional practice, developing the capacity to sense and interact with the more subtle dimensions of experience.
Because at its core it’s all about how human bodies transfer energies.
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Animacy | Nature
The training reawakens our fundamental connection with the living world, recognizing that our bodies carry the wisdom of our human and more-than-human ancestors.
You learn to dissolve the artificial boundary between human and non-human, developing the capacity to “feel through” the natural world and access deeper layers of instinctual knowing.
The Bodyverse approach is informed by (but not limited to)…
Alchemical Alignment (Bodywork, massage and manual therapy, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Osteopathic Neural and Visceral work, Polarity- and PPN-based Body into Being, Somatic Experiencing, Family Constellations).
Regenerative Alchemy (Integrative Somatic Therapy, Somatic Parts work).
The Mythic Body studies with Josh Schrei.
Neuroscience with Z-Health Performance (R-, I-, T-Phases).
Years of different studies and certifications (yoga, somatic movement, breathwork, anatomy, psychology, physiology)
Years of corporate work on a C-level.
Thousands of hours of working with clients (1-on-1 and groups), teaching, and personal inquiry.
“Katja has helped me to have an embodied understanding of the ‘freeze lands’. Her presence, voice, and guidance invite my body to show me, little by little, the individual, collective, and ancestral parts that have been frozen. There’s so much frozenness around us!!! It feels as if we are like ice blocks with heads. With the help of Katja, I’ve discovered that there’s Life within that frozenness, and when we tap it, we start thawing. Thank you Katja! What you share with us is invaluable.” – Norma, art therapist
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Meet Katja, your guide into the bodyverse
As an intuitive channel, professional witch, and highly-educated trauma specialist, I walk between worlds with ease, weaving together ancient wisdom and modern understanding.
My students have lovingly nicknamed me their “Fairy Godmother” for my ability to invoke predictable miracles and guide transformations that feel like pure magic.
I come from a long line of medicine women and healers, carrying their wisdom in my bones while bringing my own unique medicine to these modern times.
My approach bridges multiple worlds: I am both a threshold keeper who communes with the unseen realms and a pragmatic practitioner grounded in scientific understanding.
I continuously study neuroscience, physiology, and anatomy, allowing me to translate between the language of the body and the whispers of spirit. This combination allows me to meet you wherever you are on your journey, whether you’re seeking deep somatic unwinding or mystical revelation.
I mentor and educate seasoned practitioners of healing arts in refining their experience, creating, deepening, and practicing the most potent version of their medicine so they can facilitate change in the World from this place of foundation and rooted embodied capacity without over-holding, overriding, saving, or burning out.
– Katja, your guide into the Bodyverse
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Ready to Begin?
Your Body is always a “Good Body” and always on your side.
Your Body always holds the antidote, the medicine, even in states we typically call “dysregulation.”
All it takes is learning to listen in a new way.
Are you ready to step through the Doorway that is your Body?