A Path of Healing: The Wisdom of the Somatic and Subtle Body
Starts September 5th
Your Body Holds the Key to Deep Transformation
Discover how subtle awareness and somatic intelligence can gently unlock deep healing—from the inside out.
A Healing Path That Transforms You from Within
True healing doesn’t come from analyzing what’s wrong—it comes from learning to feel what’s already here. In this 5-session experiential course, somatic pioneer Jill Satterfield guides you into the quiet intelligence of the body, where deep change begins not through effort, but through awareness, compassion, and the courage to reconnect.
You’ll explore how breath can regulate the nervous system and restore balance. You’ll learn to listen to sensation as the first language of emotion and energy, tracing the roots of thought and habit to their earliest physical stirrings. You’ll discover how imagination and subtle awareness can soften long-held patterns, and how kindness—when embodied, not just understood—can open the heart and build trust from within.
As you integrate these teachings, the body becomes more than a container for pain—it becomes a partner in your healing. What once felt fragmented begins to weave back together. And whether you’re here to support your own transformation or that of others, this course offers a rare opportunity to develop a deeply intuitive and embodied path toward wholeness.
What is the Subtle Body—and Why It Matters for Healing
Beneath muscles, bones, and obvious sensations lies the subtle body—a quiet, energetic landscape where emotion, memory, and potential live. It speaks through the felt sense: the delicate sensations and vibrations that arise before words or stories take shape.
By attuning to both the somatic and subtle layers, we notice not only tension or restlessness, but also the quiet signals that shape how we feel, move, and connect. These unseen patterns influence posture, breath, relationships, and even worldview.
When we listen here, the body softens, the heart opens, and healing unfolds—not through force, but through allowing. This is the invitation: to sense more deeply, respond more kindly, and trust the wisdom beneath the noise.
What’s Unique About This Course
Not all healing is visible. This course guides you beyond techniques—into the energetic and intuitive layers where transformation begins.
Healing that includes the subtle body—not just the physical one.
In addition to somatic awareness, Jill introduces you to the subtle body: the energetic, intuitive realm that lives beneath your muscles, bones, and thoughts. It’s where vibration, memory, and emotion first arise—shaping how you feel, breathe, and connect.
You’ll learn to sense the story before it becomes a story.
Before anxiety is a thought, it’s a flutter. Before grief takes form, it’s a contraction. When you sense what’s arising early—in the body and energy field—you can choose how to respond. That is agency. That is freedom.
Kindness is not a mindset—it’s a somatic experience.
This course helps you feel kindness in your tissues. In your breath. In your stance. Kindness that softens tension, builds trust with the self, and creates room for compassion to enter—not just as a concept, but as a lived experience.
Course Syllabus
Sometimes, healing begins not with words—but with a breath. A flicker of sensation. A quiet awareness of what’s alive in the body right now. This course invites you into that subtle space where true transformation begins—not by fixing what’s broken, but by listening deeply to the intelligence of your own body. Through the integration of somatic awareness and subtle body practices, you’ll learn to recognize the early signals of emotion, loosen conditioned patterns, and return to a grounded, compassionate presence.
Guided by somatic pioneer Jill Satterfield, this five-session experiential journey blends Buddhist wisdom, interoceptive sensing, nervous system regulation, and energetic awareness. You’ll explore breath as medicine, sensation as a gateway to insight, imagination as a tool for inner re-patterning, and kindness as a felt experience. Whether you’re on your own path of healing or supporting others on theirs, you’ll leave with a deeply embodied understanding of how healing unfolds—not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
Course Structure
Each session includes guided practices, teachings, reflection prompts, and optional integration exercises.
Session 1: Regulating the Nervous System
The Ground of Spacious Awareness
Learn how to use breath as medicine, shift from reactivity to presence, and create the inner spaciousness that allows healing to begin.
Session 2: Mapping Sensation
Discover Your Somatic Language
Track body patterns, observe how thoughts show up physically, and reduce mental looping by returning to embodied presence.
Session 3: The Power of Imagination
Rewrite the Inner Script
Use guided imagery, breath, and awareness to recode emotional imprints and invite new patterns rooted in possibility and interconnection.
Session 4: The Medicine of Kindness
Soften, Open, Connect
Feel kindness in your body. Shift protective patterns. Reclaim your capacity for compassion, curiosity, and ease.
Session 5: Integration for Clinicians and Helpers
Bring It Into Practice and Life
For therapists, caregivers, and helping professionals—this session offers tools for safe client work, practitioner self-care, and somatic integration.
About Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield has been a quiet pioneer in the integration of embodied awareness practices and Buddhist teachings for over 30 years.
Her heart/mind and body approach developed from somatic and contemplative psychology, 35 years of Buddhist study, extensive meditation retreat time and decades of living with chronic pain.
At the invitation of her primary teacher, Ajahn Amaro, Jill was the first to offer mindful movement and somatic practices on silent retreats first at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and then the Insight Meditation Society 30 years ago. She has since developed teacher trainings and mentoring programs that integrate embodied awareness with Dharma ever since.
In addition to teaching embodiment and Dharma with Ajahn Amaro, she was also invited to teach on Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s retreats in the US and Nepal. It was at his urging that she teach subtle body practices to his students. She contributed movement practices to his brother Mingyur Rinpoche’s retreats and was a consultant for his 2 best-selling books.
Jill’s Applied Embodied Mindfulness Trainings were part of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She was on the faculty for Spirit Rock’s Mindful Yoga and Meditation Training, and she is currently a mentor for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Teacher Training. She was the scholar and teacher in residence at Kripalu Center in 2003 and is a graduate of the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training.
Her organization School for Compassionate Action was a training and service organization that taught mindfulness and somatic practices for chronic pain, illness and post 9/11 trauma in NYC hospitals and at-risk facilities for over ten years. She has been featured in and has written for numerous publications such as Tricycle, Lion’s Roar and the NY Times.
This Course Is Perfect For You If:
- You want to heal not just mentally, but physically and energetically
- You’re looking for embodied, trauma-informed practices that feel safe, gentle, and wise
- You’ve tried traditional mindfulness or therapy and want to go deeper—into the body’s intelligence
- You’re a therapist, Yoga or mindfulness teacher, coach, or healer who wants to bring somatic tools into your work
- You long to reconnect with your body as a friend, not a battleground
What You’ll Leave With
Register Now - Starts Sep 5th
Payment Plan
- Over 15 hours of LIVE Instruction
- Online learning community
- Lifetime access to the content
11 weekly payments of
$29
Full Payment
- Over 15 hours of LIVE Instruction
- Online learning community
- Lifetime access to the content
$299
Course Logistics
Online Only: We are offering this program online via Zoom.
Class dates are: September 5, 12, 19 , 26 and October 3.
all classes are held from 10:00am – 1:00pm US Pacific Time.
Daily Practice
- 10-20 mins of formal meditation (sitting or lying down) practice daily, drawn from any of the practices introduced in the course
- Brief self checks—informal practice—throughout the day: notice how the rubber is hitting the road, or how the practices are changing how you navigate daily life
- Pause and integrate: choose a practice you’ve learned and bring it in for short periods throughout the day, or focus on one practice for a few days
How to Get the Most Out of the Course
- Attend the weekly sessions either live or recorded
- Engage with the group discussions, bringing in reflections from your own practice>
- Journaling: support your embodiment of the course by writing reflections on the material and your experience practicing with it
- Send in questions as you experiment with the different practices, so that they are fresh in your mind and not forgotten
**Please Note for CEC participants: If you are interested in receiving continuing education credits (CECs), you must register and pay for CECs prior to the start of the program (no retroactive CECs will be given) and you must attend the live program. Please review the CEC information below.
We understand that plans can change, and we’re here to help.
- If you need to cancel before the course begins, we’ll provide a refund with just a $25 administrative fee deducted.
- For cancellations made by 5:00 PM PST on March 28th, we’ll happily refund your payment, keeping only a $49 course fee.
- To assist you with your cancellation, please reach out to us directly at courses@spiritrock.org. We’ll take care of the process for you.
- After April 4th, we won’t be able to issue refunds, so we appreciate your understanding.
- CEs are non-refundable.
If you have any questions, we’re here to support you.
Online Only: We are offering this program online via Zoom.
Class dates are: 5 Fridays, September 5, 12, 19 , 26 and October 3
Classes are held from 10 am – 2 pm PT
Daily Practice
- 10-20 mins of formal meditation (sitting or lying down) practice daily, drawn from any of the practices introduced in the course
- Brief self check-ins throughout the day: notice how the rubber is hitting the road, or how the practices are changing how you navigate daily life
- Pause and integrate: choose a practice you’ve learned and bring it in for short periods throughout the day, or focus on one practice for a few days
How to Get the Most Out of the Course
- Attend the weekly sessions either live or recorded. (Note: Attendance requirements only apply to CEC participants.)
- Engage with the group discussions, bringing in reflections from your own practice
- Journaling: support your embodiment of the course by writing reflections on the material and your experience practicing with it
- Send in questions as you experiment with the different practices, so that they are fresh in your mind and not forgotten
We understand that plans can change, and we’re here to help.
- If you need to cancel before the course begins, we’ll provide a refund with just a $25 administrative fee deducted.
- For cancellations made by 5:00 PM PST on September 12th, we’ll happily refund your payment, keeping only a $49 course fee.
- To assist you with your cancellation, please reach out to us directly at courses@spiritrock.org. We’ll take care of the process for you.
- After September 12th, we won’t be able to issue refunds, so we appreciate your understanding.
- If you have any questions, we’re here to support you.
Course FAQ
Although our Programs are available on any device, we suggest using a computer (if possible) and Chrome or Firefox browser to log in: https://courses.spiritrock.org
Note: The login for our Online Learning Platform differs from your Spirit Rock login.
Accessing Your Program Page:
Click on it from your Dashboard after you’ve logged in. Once there, navigate through the sections on “My Courses” on the dashboard.
Are you logged in? Use the “log in” button on the top right of the page. This will give you the access you need to see all the content.
Although the Online Learning Platform works on mobile and tablet devices, for the best experience, use a desktop or laptop. This might be an easier way to find all the areas of the site as you are learning how it works.
The course is delivered LIVE online over a six week period over Zoom.
If you notice a link, content, or anything that isn’t working properly, please email us at courses@spiritrock.org
Try refreshing your browser and check your internet connection. Check another website to see if it’s just our site or something in your system.
Yes, once you’ve completed the course, you will retain lifetime access to all course materials, allowing you to revisit lectures, exercises, and meditations whenever needed.
Only participants signed up to receive CECs are required to attend all sessions live. If you are not receiving CECs you are welcome to watch class recordings, though you will miss the participatory exercises.
We would love for you and your Sangha to join as a group. Please email us at courses@spiritrock.org with more details so we can help you.
If you have a question that isn’t answered here, email us at courses@spiritrock.org.
Although our Programs are available on any device, we suggest using a computer (if possible) and Chrome or Firefox browser to log in: https://courses.spiritrock.org
Note: The login for our Online Learning Platform differs from your Spirit Rock login.
Accessing Your Program Page:
Click on it from your Dashboard after you’ve logged in. Once there, navigate through the sections on “My Courses” on the dashboard.
Are you logged in? Use the “log in” button on the top right of the page. This will give you the access you need to see all the content.
Although the Online Learning Platform works on mobile and tablet devices, for the best experience, use a desktop or laptop. This might be an easier way to find all the areas of the site as you are learning how it works.
The course is delivered LIVE online over a six week period over Zoom.
If you notice a link, content, or anything that isn’t working properly, please email us at courses@spiritrock.org
Try refreshing your browser and check your internet connection. Check another website to see if it’s just our site or something in your system.
Yes, once you’ve completed the course, you will retain lifetime access to all course materials, allowing you to revisit lectures, exercises, and meditations whenever needed.
Only participants signed up to receive CECs are required to attend all sessions live. If you are not receiving CECs you are welcome to watch class recordings, though you will miss the participatory exercises.
We would love for you and your Sangha to join as a group. Please email us at courses@spiritrock.org with more details so we can help you.
If you have a question that isn’t answered here, email us at courses@spiritrock.org.
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Please read our detailed refund policy in the FAQ above. For any questions or to request a refund, please contact us at courses@spiritrock.org.
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