Centre for the Wild Soma
Guide people through life’s thresholds working with our wild intelligence:
Body as Truth - Land as Mirror - Soul as Guide
Professional training in embodied, nature-based threshold facilitation.
The body remembers how to belong.
The wild remembers how to listen.
And somewhere at the meeting place between the two, another way of guiding people through change becomes possible.
The Centre for the Wild Soma® is a professional training school for practitioners and facilitators who want to create transformational experiences through embodiment, nature, circle, rhythm, wilderness and threshold work.
Some come here because they want to deepen the work they already do.
Some want to take their practice beyond the room and into the wild.
Some want to learn how to facilitate a particular kind of experience.
And some know they are ready for something deeper:
To become a practitioner capable of accompanying people through the profound thresholds of a human life.
There are several ways to train with us:
The Wild Soma® Professional Pathway:
For practitioners ready to go beyond adding another technique to their toolkit, the Wild Soma® Practitioner & Advanced Wild Soma® Guide Training is the signature professional pathway of the Centre.
Both levels are accredited by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM) and together offer a journey from learning the complete Wild Soma® Method to guiding deeper transformational experiences with individuals, groups and on the Land.
At the heart of the Method are three relationships:
BODY AS TRUTH
Learning to listen beneath story and recognise the body as a source of information, experience and embodied knowing.
LAND AS MIRROR
Working with the natural world as a place of encounter, reflection and relationship — without interpreting another person's experience for them.
SOUL AS GUIDE
Learning to accompany the deeper questions of identity, meaning, purpose and becoming that emerge at the thresholds of a human life.
The pathway begins with the Wild Soma® Practitioner Training, where you learn to work professionally with the Method through somatic listening, embodied practice, nature-based inquiry, threshold awareness, Council, witnessing and ethical facilitation.
For those called deeper, the Advanced Wild Soma® Guide Training takes the work further into group facilitation, wilderness, ritual, movement, rhythm and an immersive five-day journey on the Land.
Successful completion leads to professional certification as a:
Wild Soma® Practitioner
and, through the advanced pathway:
Advanced Wild Soma® Guide
Practitioner. Guide. Two depths of one professional pathway.
Next training opportunities: 2027
Specialist Facilitator Trainings:
Alongside our signature professional pathway, the Centre offers standalone Specialist Facilitator Trainings for practitioners who want to develop practical skills in particular forms of embodied and nature-based facilitation.
Each training gives you the knowledge, structure and professional foundations to begin creating experiences of your own.
These trainings are separate from our accredited Wild Soma® Practitioner pathway and do not qualify you as a Wild Soma® Practitioner or Advanced Guide.
Wild Soma® Drum & Dance Circle Facilitator Training:
Find the rhythm. Hold the circle. Let the body lead.
An immersive three-day, in-person training in the art of bringing drumming, rhythm, somatic movement, ecstatic dance, circle and nature together within powerful embodied group experiences.
Learn how to hold the circle, work with rhythm and movement, facilitate embodied experiences and create your own Drum & Dance gatherings, while also birthing your own circle drum to take home.
16–18 April 2027 | In person in North Warwickshire
DISCOVER DRUM & DANCE CIRCLE FACILITATION
Wild Soma® Forest Bathing Facilitation Training
Slow down to awaken the senses and deepen your relationship with the natural world.
A practical professional training in designing and facilitating intentional Forest Bathing experiences through sensory awareness, nature connection, skilful invitations and the art of slowing down.
Online | Self-paced | Launching soon
DISCOVER FOREST BATHING FACILITATION
Wild Soma® Woodland Circle Facilitation Training
Gather to listen, speak your truth and belong.
Learn the art of creating and holding meaningful circles in woodland and natural settings — spaces where people can speak, listen, reflect and be witnessed without being fixed.
Online | Self-paced | Launching soon
Not sure where to begin?
Step through The Wild Soma Threshold.
If you're a yoga teacher, somatic practitioner, coach, bodyworker, therapeutic practitioner, nature-based facilitator or space holder, you may already have encountered moments where your existing training reaches its edge.
Moments where regulation isn't the whole answer.
Where insight has arrived but integration hasn't.
Where someone is standing between the person they have been & who they are becoming.
Where there isn't a problem to solve but a threshold to cross.
The Wild Soma Threshold is our free introductory guide exploring the space between Body, Land and Soul, with five reflective prompts to help you consider where your own work may be evolving.
The Method Behind the Centre
Wild Soma® is grounded in a simple understanding:
Human beings do not exist separately from the living world.
Our bodies are continually responding to relationship, place, rhythm, season, belonging, loss and change.
The Wild Soma® Method brings the wild within — the sensing, moving, feeling body — into relationship with the wild beyond — the living world of which we are already part.
From this meeting place comes a distinctive approach to transformational facilitation grounded in:
Body as Truth.
Land as Mirror.
Soul as Guide.
We don't position the practitioner as the authority on another person's experience.
We create the conditions for people to encounter themselves more deeply through embodiment, nature, inquiry and threshold practice.
Guide the experience.
Accompany the person.
Never dictate the meaning.
Wild Soma® was developed by Faye Smith, founder of the Centre for the Wild Soma®, whose work spans wilderness-based practice, somatic and nature-based facilitation, Soul work and the professional development of practitioners.
The Method emerged through years of working at the meeting place between body, Land and human transformation, particularly those periods when an old way of being is falling away and something new has not yet fully emerged.
Today, the Centre exists to train practitioners and facilitators in this work with depth, integrity and professional rigour.
The wild within is already speaking... The wild beyond is already responding.
Perhaps the next step is learning how to listen.