Embodiment Festival 2026 – Free Online Training by Embodiment Unlimited & Mark Walsh

Why Attend “The Embodiment Festival 2026”

Because change that lasts is felt in the body first. Over four days of live, online workshops you’ll explore approachable, evidence-aware practices to regulate stress, deepen presence, and build resilience. Sessions are designed to help you move from overwhelm to choice — and from “in your head” to fully here. You’ll be guided through practical exercises you can repeat at home, so the impact continues after the festival ends.

This festival isn’t another “talk about embodiment” conference — you’ll actually practice. Expect sessions on trauma, boundaries, relationships, leadership, creativity, and spirituality… all from the body up. The approach is trauma-aware (no spiritual bypass), with consent and pacing built in. You’ll find depth and play: rigorous learning with warmth, humor, and humanity.

There are tracks for both personal growth and professional application. If you work with people — as a coach, therapist, or facilitator — you’ll gain tools you can bring to sessions immediately. If you’re here for your own wellbeing, you’ll learn simple, repeatable techniques to calm and energize your nervous system. Everything is crafted to be useful, grounded, and doable in everyday life. Come to reconnect with what matters, and leave with practices that help you live it.

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Who Should Attend The Embodiment Festival 2026

This festival is for people who sense that “something’s off” — in themselves, in their relationships, or in the world — and want grounded, embodied ways to respond. It’s ideal if you’re ready to move, breathe, feel, and practice (not just listen), and you appreciate a learning space that is both brave and kind. You’ll experience short, focused sessions that respect consent and pacing while inviting real transformation.

It’s also a match for practitioners who support others. If you’re a coach, facilitator, therapist, educator, community leader, or caregiver, you’ll discover trauma-aware methods you can integrate into your work right away. Tools have been tried in tough places and with diverse groups, and they translate effectively to everyday sessions, classrooms, and teams.

• Individuals seeking practical tools to steady the nervous system and reduce stress.
• Helpers and healers who want concrete, body-based methods for client work.
• Leaders and facilitators aiming to cultivate presence, boundaries, and clear communication.
• People exploring relationships, creativity, spirituality, and purpose through the body.
• Those who value trauma-aware learning with consent, pacing, and no spiritual bypass.
• Anyone craving a supportive community that balances depth with humor and heart.
• Beginners and experienced practitioners who want short, experiential workshops.
• Global participants who appreciate live options across time zones and access to replays.

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What You’ll Learn During The Embodiment Festival 2026

Clear, repeatable practices to calm, center, and energize your nervous system — so you can meet daily life with choice instead of reactivity.

Embodied skills for trauma-aware boundaries, relationship repair, leadership presence, creativity, and spiritual connection — approached from the body up.

Professional tools you can bring to coaching or facilitation sessions right away, alongside personal techniques for your own wellbeing. Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

• How to center under pressure and return to choice in difficult moments.
• Simple body-based practices to regulate stress and restore energy.
• Embodied boundaries that feel firm, kind, and clear.
• Relational skills that deepen connection without bypassing hard truths.
• Everyday rituals that support creativity and purpose.
• Leadership presence that’s grounded, humane, and effective.
• Trauma-aware pacing and consent you can trust.
• Practical moves and micro-practices you can use anywhere.
• Ways to integrate learning into sessions with clients or teams.
• How to carry embodiment forward after the festival with simple daily habits.

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Event Schedule: The Embodiment Festival 2026

Live sessions run around the clock so you can join from anywhere. You’ll find two types of workshops throughout each day: Tools For You (personal embodiment & wellbeing) and Tools For Your Clients (professional track). Each live session runs for 30 minutes, with an optional 15-minute window to stay for questions or breakout rooms.

Bonus replays are available for a limited time so you can catch what you missed. Sessions are offered in various time zones to make live participation easier worldwide.
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Day 1 – January 12 (Monday)

• What the hell is embodiment? — Mark Walsh
  9am UK (4am ET / 1am PT / 8pm AEDT)
• Outer chaos, inner calm — Anthony Abbagnano
  12pm UK (7am ET / 4am PT / 11pm AEDT)
• Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM) — Fleet Maull
  2pm UK (9am ET / 6am PT / 1am Wed AEDT)
• Understanding your embodied intelligence — Philip Shepherd
  4pm UK (11am ET / 8am PT / 3am Tue AEDT)
• The foundations of embodiment coaching — Mark Walsh
  6pm UK (1pm ET / 10am PT / 5am Tue AEDT)
• Meaning, burnout & life’s cycles — Kandis Lock
  7pm ET (4pm PT) (12am UK / 10am AEDT Tuesday)

Day 2 – January 13 (Tuesday)

• How to confidently “be seen” — Vanessa Schulz
  9am UK (4am ET / 1am PT / 8pm AEDT)
• Face & finger movements to reset your nervous system — Simon Borg-Olivier
  10am UK (5am ET / 2am PT / 9pm AEDT)
• Receive free coaching (or just watch) — Mark Walsh
  2pm UK (9am ET / 6am PT / 1am Wed AEDT)
• Dissociation, differentiation & embodiment — Miles Kessler
  4pm UK (11am ET / 8am PT / 3am Tue AEDT)
• Discove your type: why you think differently — Flouer Evelyn
  6pm UK (1pm ET / 10am PT / 5am Tue AEDT)

Day 3 – January 14 (Wednesday)

• How to stop doomscrolling (centring for digital detox) — Ranko Čerić
  9am UK (4am ET / 1am PT / 8pm AEDT)
• It’s not you, it’s your nervous system (stop fighting!) — Helen Machen-Pearce
  12pm UK (7am ET / 4am PT / 11pm AEDT)
• How to survive the psychological apocalypse — Mark Walsh
  2pm UK (9am ET / 6am PT / 1am Wed AEDT)
• How to find joy & enthusiasm in 2026 — Vidyadasa
  4pm UK (11am ET / 8am PT / 3am Tue AEDT)
• The elements of embodied leadership — Carolina Padilla
  6pm UK (1pm ET / 10am PT / 5am Tue AEDT)
• Embodied mindfulness exercises — Sean Fargo
  7pm ET (4pm PT) (12am UK / 10am AEDT Thursday)

Day 4 – January 15 (Thursday)

• When sh*t hits the fan: technique #3 — Mark Walsh
  9am UK (4am ET / 1am PT / 8pm AEDT)
• When one-size-fits-all doesn’t work: technique #2 — Christina Dohr
  10am UK (5am ET / 2am PT / 9pm AEDT)
• TBA
  2pm UK (9am ET / 6am PT / 1am Wed AEDT)
• Neurodynamic Breathwork — Michael Stone
  4pm UK (11am ET / 8am PT / 3am Tue AEDT)
• What all effective coaching starts with: technique #1 — Mark Walsh
  6pm UK (1pm ET / 10am PT / 5am Tue AEDT)
• Embodiment Coaching Fundamentals — Christina Dohr
  7pm ET (4pm PT) (12am UK / 10am AEDT Friday)

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How to Register

Claim your free ticket in seconds. Click the button below, enter your best email, and you’ll receive a confirmation with access details for the live sessions and the limited-time replays.

After registering, you’ll also unlock immediate-access bonuses to help you start practicing right away.

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How to Apply What You Learn

Transformation sticks when it becomes part of daily life. Right after the festival, choose one practice that felt effective in your body — not the most impressive, the most reliable. Commit to a “tiny dose” you can’t fail at (for example, 60 seconds of centering before opening your laptop). Consistency matters more than intensity. Give your nervous system the gift of repetition and it will start doing the practice for you when it counts.

Build simple cues so application becomes automatic. Pair a grounding breath with everyday transitions: before a call, after sending an email, when you step through a doorway, or each time you sit down to eat. Tie boundary practices to common moments too — one hand on your belly before saying yes or no; feeling your feet when you need to speak up. These micro-rituals integrate the learning without extra willpower.

Practice in progressively “spicier” contexts. Start in low-stress situations (alone, or with a supportive friend), then bring the same tool into work meetings, family conversations, and public settings. Track how your body signals capacity or overwhelm — breath, jaw, shoulders, belly, hands — and adjust the intensity rather than forcing yourself through. If it helps, rate your activation on a 1–10 scale and aim to practice at a 4–6 where learning is alive but not overloaded.

Translate insights into clear behaviors. If you learned an embodied boundary, define what it looks like in action: “I’ll pause, breathe, and ask for time when I’m unsure,” or “I’ll state my limit in one sentence without justification.” If you’re focusing on relational skills, schedule a 10-minute daily “presence rep” with a partner or colleague where you track sensations, feelings, and impulses while they speak. Keep it light, curious, and specific.

Create a feedback loop you trust. Journal briefly after key moments: What did I notice? What helped? What would I try differently next time? Share wins and stuck points with an accountability buddy or small group from the festival. Celebrate micro-shifts — a softer jaw during a hard email, a kinder tone with yourself, one honest boundary. Small evidence builds identity: “I’m someone who returns to the body.”

Support your practice with the basics: sleep, hydration, movement, and sunlight. Treat them as part of embodiment, not separate from it. If you work with clients or teams, open sessions with a short settling and name consent and pacing out loud. Offer choices, normalize taking breaks, and model your own self-regulation in real time. You’ll find application becomes culture when people feel it, not just hear about it.

Finally, expect ebb and flow. You’ll miss a day or get hooked in an argument — that’s human. Come back kindly, choose the smallest next action, and resume. Over weeks, these ordinary moments add up to durable change: more choice, clearer boundaries, steadier presence. That’s the heart of embodiment — not perfection, but practice that keeps meeting life as it is.

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About Your Hosts

About Mark Walsh

Mark Walsh is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation. He hosts The Embodiment Podcast (1 million+ downloads), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates).

He has a BSc (Hons) in psychology and has taught embodied work in 30+ countries, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal), with NGOs in war zones and with 50,000 kids.

He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course 9 years ago, and led The Embodiment Conference (500,000 people).

He also completed a 10-year apprenticeship with Being-In-Movement founder Paul Linden and trained with various other embodiment masters. He is an aikido black belt, has done yoga for 25 years, 5Rhythms dance and meditation for 15, dances like your dad and swears like a pirate.

About Christina Dohr

Christina is co-lead trainer on the Certification of Embodiment Coaching course.

She is a certified teacher of Feminine Yoga for women and uses dance and embodiment to teach workshops on boundaries and self-expression in women-only spaces.

Christina has an aikido black belt and is a master of integrated mixed modalities.

She guides groups and individuals through embodied exercises while targeting greater self-awareness and personal growth.

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Testimonials

“Mark brings embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit. It makes a body want to celebrate!” — Ginny Whitelaw Roshi, CEO, Institute for Zen Leadership

“The embodied work that Mark and the team does is both creative and pragmatic. I’ve collaborated alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.” — Jamie Catto, Author & Facilitator

“Embodiment is an essential component of healing and Embodiment Unlimited brings this to the public. I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation.” — Gabor Maté, M.D., Author & Trauma Educator

“Embodiment Unlimited is THE place for YOU to learn, heal, rest, be seen & heard.” — Kathleen Booker, Breathwork teacher

“Challenges to our safety make us strangers in our own body. Embodiment offers an effective ‘re-embodiment’ that enhances mental and physical health.” — Stephen Porges, PhD, Professor, Author, Scientist

“Mark has a special ability to make embodiment work relevant and accessible.“ — Arawana Hayashi, Co-founder of Social Presencing Theater, Presencing Institute

“The Embodiment Unlimited team provide a learning experience which integrates practice in a way that forms a more whole process for growth.” — Paul Linden, PhD, Aikido Teacher & Trauma Educator

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Free Gifts for Attendees

Centring: why mindfulness isn’t enough

• Updated and expanded version of a bestselling eBook on centering.
• Explains self-regulation, co-regulation, eco-regulation, and theo-regulation in clear, practical terms.
• Offers simple practices you can start using immediately.

The Top 12 Embodiment Coaching Techniques

• Concise overview of effective coaching techniques used in embodiment work.
• Practical guidance aligned with the Certification of Embodiment Coaching (CEC) approach.
• Designed to help you bring body-based tools into client sessions.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who should attend this event?

This event is ideal for those seeking grounded, body-based tools for personal wellbeing or exploring embodied approaches to relationships, leadership, and creativity. Whether you’re new or experienced, it offers practical skills and inspiration. Coaches, facilitators, and spiritual seekers are especially welcome.

When and where does this event take place?

This is a live online festival you can join from anywhere. After you register, you’ll receive your personal access link and a schedule overview. Check your confirmation email and Event Schedule for times in your timezone.

Is this really free?

Yes. You can attend the live sessions for free and watch limited-time replays at no cost during the replay window. Optional paid upgrades may be available.

Will sessions be recorded?

Yes. Most sessions are recorded and made available as replays for a limited time so you can catch what you miss.

Can I get lifetime access to the replays?

There is typically an option to purchase ongoing replay access if you wish to keep the content after the free replay window.

How long are the sessions?

Sessions are designed to be short and practical. Expect approximately 30 minutes for core content, with optional time for Q&A or brief breakout practice.

What topics are covered?

You’ll explore embodied approaches to stress regulation, boundaries, relationships, communication, leadership presence, creativity, and spiritual connection — all practical and applied.

Is this appropriate for coaches, therapists, and facilitators?

Yes. There is a professional track with concrete tools, language, and frameworks you can bring directly into client sessions, groups, and teams.

Is it beginner-friendly?

Absolutely. You’ll receive clear guidance, trauma-aware pacing, and options to go at your own speed. No prior experience is required.

I have a trauma history — can I still attend?

Yes. The festival is trauma-aware and encourages consent, choice, and pacing. Please listen to your body, take breaks, and seek qualified therapeutic support if needed. This event is educational and not a substitute for therapy.

Are the sessions interactive?

Yes. Sessions include guided practices and may offer Q&A or brief breakout rooms so you can try techniques in real time.

Do you offer content across time zones?

Yes. Sessions run across multiple time zones and replays are provided for a limited time, making it easy to participate from anywhere.

How do I access the bonuses?

Register for your free ticket. Your confirmation email and festival portal will provide links to any included gifts and resources.

Why is this event free?

The aim is to make embodied learning widely accessible while introducing you to this teaching approach. Optional paid offers (like replay upgrades) help support the work.

Who is hosting the festival?

The event is hosted by Embodiment Unlimited, with sessions led by experienced facilitators known for practical, down-to-earth teaching.

How do I register?

Click any “Register Here For Free” button on this page, enter your best email, and you’ll receive access instructions and reminders.

Can I share this with friends?

Absolutely! Feel free to share this page with others.

Will there be both personal and professional tracks?

Yes. You can choose from “Tools For You” (personal wellbeing) and “Tools For Your Clients” (professional skills), or sample both.

What if I can’t attend every session?

Attend what you can live and use the limited-time replays to catch up. You may also have the option to purchase extended replay access.

What are the tech requirements?

A stable internet connection and a device that can stream video via a modern browser are sufficient. Headphones and a quiet space are recommended for practice segments.

Do I need to be on camera?

Being on camera is optional unless a facilitator requests it for specific small-group exercises. You can still participate fully with your camera off.

Is there accessibility support (captions, transcripts)?

Where possible, live auto-captions or recorded captions are provided. Availability may vary by session.

Do you offer continuing education (CE) credits?

CE credits are not offered unless explicitly stated. If CE becomes available, details will be posted on the registration page and emailed to participants.

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