The Art of Self-Coaching
Transforming fitness and movement instruction
The Academy of Mindful Movement trains Instructors and Coaches from the athletic, performance, exercise, recreational, and therapeutic worlds to teach their disciplines ‘from the inside, out.’
Mindfulness is where it’s at today in the world of movement. In this CEU-certified Training you learn techniques to uplevel your coaching. Transform your instruction strategies within your movement discipline to help your movers make Body Discoveries.
Get your movers to Be Here Now! Once you’ve gotten your movers to attend to their body sensations, they’re instantly more mindful. Now they’re ready to move ‘from the inside, out’ - caring for their body safety along the way. The art of Self Coaching means teaching your movers to move with awareness even when you’re not there with them.
Level 1 teaches you to maintain Continuity of Consciousness from the beginning to the end of your movement lesson. You learn coaching techniques to optimize health and minimize bullying within your field of movement. Find ways to make room for Joy and innovation.
A mindfulness-based approach
Offerings
40-hour Mindful Movement Instructor level 1 Training
As a Mindful Movement Instructor, you can observe yourself in motion and Self Coach. Using your techniques from the Academy, train your movers to make more conscious movement choices!
Mindful Movement Instructor Level 1 is a 40-hour live online training course over a period of 10 weeks.
After successfully integrating Mindful Movement into your Final Demo, you earn a certificate as a Mindful Movement Instructor Level 1 and earn 1.9 NASM CEUs, 15 AFFA CEUs or 4.1 CEUs with IACET.
August 11 - October 19, 2025 | $1500.00 | SIGN UP
Mindful Movement Technique Workshops
Learn more about the Academy’s unique techniques to immediately make your movement sessions more Mindful in these short online workshops.
Next workshop: Attention to Body Sensations
In this workshop you learn methods to pay attention to body sensations, recognize your own Body Discoveries, then learn techniques to help your movers unlock these Body Discoveries.
90 mins | $29 | DATE COMING SOON
Workshops for Moving Mindfully in the Workplace
Live Online or in-person
The Academy provides industry-specific workshops to raise employees’ level of body awareness. We offer specific techniques to counter movement tendencies that lead to stress and injury. Improving their attention to body sensations, workers raise their chances of staying safe and well - at the office, hospital, restaurant, construction site, etc.
Our one-hour workshops for Office Workers focus on the body parts that receive the most complaints in office-related injuries: hands, wrists, and forearms; neck and shoulders; and lower back. These workshops can be taken together or separately in large groups.
60 mins | (Price depends on the number of participants) | Get started
Customized Mindful Movement Trainings
Would you like us to train your team in techniques of Mindful Movement? Choose from the variety of techniques below to create a specialized training that will meet your needs.
Contact us to find out more about these titles —
• Introduction to Mindful Movement
• Bringing Joy to Your Movement Sessions
• Creating the Optimal Learning Environment
• Body Discovery Coaching
• Getting Past “No Pain, No Gain”
• Threading in Continuity of Consciousness
• Eliminating the Bullying Style
• Two-way Dialoguing with the Body
• Adding Spontaneity to your Movement Sessions
• Helping our Movers to Find their Safe Edge
• Body Whisperers
• Being Here Now
• Observer Self & the Coaching Self
60 mins | (Price depends on the number of participants) | Get started
Train individually or as a group.
Contact us, we’d love to hear from you.