Contact & FAQs

We are currently accepting applications for Level 1 Personal Embodiment for Leadership, starting May 2027. Level 2 Facilitator Training will begin in 2028.

Our next Level 1 training will begin in May 2027. Find out more here

• Send an expression of interest with any preliminary questions (optional)
• Make a list of your hours of experience in all forms to date, and consider how this meets the pre-requsite requirements. You’re welcome to send over any questions to us, along with the list.
• Fill out the application form and select your preferred payment plan.
• Once we’ve reviewed your application, we’ll send you a contract.
• A £250 application processing fee then confirms your place. Payment must be received by the earlybird deadline to qualify for the reduced rate.
• Your chosen payment plan will then apply:
  Pay in full: the remaining balance is due within 6 weeks of confirming your place.
  Installment plan: the remaining balance is spread across 7 monthly payments for applications confirmed by 31 January 2027, or 5 monthly payments for applications from 1 February 2027. (A £200 additional charge applies to installment options.)
• A reading list will be sent to you upon confirming your place, to take at your own pace. For some texts, audio options are available.
• You’ll have a 1-1 forty-five minutes preparatory session with Leela upon confirming your place – this contains starter enquiries to support you individually before attending the first module.
• Continue building any pre-requisite hours, and following your love of dance and movement as you prepare to start in May 2027.

It varies according to how much experience you have with us. Anyone who still needs to gain any remaining Foundation hours will need to achieve those alongside the training.

Foundations payments are made as you sign up to each group/class/workshop.

Levels 1 & 2 require an initial £250 application processing fee once you have signed your contract, and then you can either pay the remaining full fee upfront or pay by monthly installments.

Our main venue is LED The Space, historically known as Studio 6, at Dartington Trust. This is an internationally recognised studio with an under-heated and sprung floor. The programme will also include opportunities for outdoor movement and meetings along the South West coastline, and in our own smaller studio, Cotillion, Dartington. Venues may be adjusted to suit the size and needs of the group.

See our full calendar of all events that count for Level 1 training Soul Motion pre-requisite hours.

Only Level 1 graduates can continue on to Level 2. This includes graduates from any other Soul Motion training programme. 

Those in need can apply for up to €500 support from ICMTA’s Diversity & Accessibility Scholarship (deadline 30 April 2026)

We’re proud to be an organisational member of the ICMTA. They provide excellent CPD in the area of conscious dance and somatics. We recommend that our trainees join as student /full members. Read more here.

We further recommend our trainees to take membership and insurance with People Dancing, the foundation for community dance, which provides excellent UK-based CPD along with member insurance.

As a small business we do not offer refunds after 14 days. For Level 1, as per consumer rights, you have 14 days after entering into contract to change your mind, as our fee structure provides. At this stage your application processing fee only will be retained.

For Level 2, as a professional qualification, consumer rights do not apply but we will still honour 14 days to change your mind after entering into contract and within 14 days retain only any deposit paid.

In case of serious illness preventing continuing a course, we will explore possibilities of rolling payment forward to a later training.

As trainees of a movement form, it’s important that you get external support for the holistic balance of your body, to support correcting imbalances and to optimise physical health. 
Some local practitioners who we recommend:

Oliver Cowmeadow, shiatsu and macrobiotics founder of  International Macrobiotic School.

Samantha Roderick 
Acupuncture, founder of Totnes Community Acupuncture.

Yes! You can download the Devon School of Soul Motion Code of Ethics here.

This training is primarily centered on group process, and therefore one-to-one (1:1) emotional processing is not a standard part of our offering.

At the start of the training (pre-level 1), all trainees are required to confirm that they have access to a therapist for 1:1 emotional support if needed.

We would not be available to respond to everyone’s personal material outside of structured containers. That isn’t sustainable as leaders, nor does it serve the clarity of our roles for participants.

That’s why we have clear structures and available times:

~ Group discussions within sessions

~ trainers available answer questions at lunchtime.

~ 4 one-to-one mentor sessions during Level 2 and subsequent supervision sessions available relating to personal movement practice, facilitation, boundaries required but not focused on personal process of emotional content  – for that you would need to refer to professional therapy.

~ When needed, 1:1 feedback conversations in response to significant events – to ensure learning is sufficient to meet certification.

While we focus on movement facilitation, emotions are an inherent part of learning and process. The above are spaces for emotional process only in service of learning and leadership.

Embodied presence and effective facilitation require strong relational awareness and we will facilitate enquiry into this during the programme. How we navigate interpersonal challenges is an essential and fluid part of any leader’s learning journey.

If unresolved relational tensions arise during the training – particularly those affecting emotional safety or group dynamics – we may ask a trainee to engage in a 1:1 process with a trainer or an appropriate facilitator. This step is not disciplinary; rather, it is a supported opportunity to reflect, repair, and integrate. 

Engaging in this process may be necessary for certification, as we are committed to ensuring that those we certify demonstrate not only facilitation skills but also relational capacity, emotional literacy, and the ability to maintain respectful dialogue and resolution when challenges arise within the group for future service as leader. 

Please also refer to Leela Fisk’s Boundary & Support Policy