THE SOMATIC ACADEMY™

The only certification of its kind.

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If you've ever felt like something is missing from your work, you're right.

Not because your skills aren't valuable, you don't care enough, or you aren't good at what you do. But because if the body and the nervous system aren't part of the conversation, you're only ever working at the surface, and you were made for so much more than that.

The nervous system is not a trendy topic, it's the foundation of every human experience. It's responsible for every emotion, every relationship, every pattern, and every ceiling that can't be broken through. When the nervous system is dysregulated, no coaching, no strategy, no mindset work can land the way it's meant to. But when it's understood, everything changes.

That's what The Somatic Academy™ was built for.

Whether you're a service provider hungry to create deeper impact, a coach who's hit a ceiling with your clients, or someone who feels unmistakably called to this work, this is exactly where you're supposed to be.

When you leave here, you won't just have three certifications as a Trauma Informed Nervous System Coach, Somatic Practitioner, and Breathwork Practitioner. You'll have an entirely new lens through which you see people. A depth of education and tools that will transform how you work, how you live, and how you move through the world. This work will change you as a human first, and that's exactly the point.

We don't do surface level here. We don't even do deep. We go further than that, into the places most certifications never touch.

 

MEET THE FOUNDERS

Becca Nicholls

 

Becca is a Master Nervous System Coach & Somatic Practitioner, host of the There She Glows Podcast, founder of Body Language™ and co-founder of The Somatic Academy™.

Becca's work blends nervous system science, somatic therapy, and subconscious work to help women stop outsourcing their health and healing, and start creating it from within themselves. 

What started as a healthy obsession with the nervous system quickly became an undeniable realization that educating on this work is exactly why her soul came to this earth. Understanding how our nervous systems actually work is education every human deserves, and Becca has made it her mission to make sure they get it.

Since expanding her practice into somatic and nervous system work in 2023, Becca has worked with hundreds of women, supporting healing across chronic illness, anxiety, PTSD, depression, hormonal imbalances, infertility, and burnout, while also helping women transform their relationships, scale their businesses, and step into a version of themselves they didn't know was available.

She has seen, time and time again, nervous system work unlock results that nothing else could.

Outside of her work, Becca practices what she preaches, living slowly, intentionally, and as close to nature as possible. You'll find her baking sourdough, cooking nourishing meals, keeping her home and body as non-toxic as possible, checking destinations off her ever growing bucket list, and showing pictures of her dog, Ruby, to anyone who will let her.

Cassie Kovacs

 

Cassie is a Master Trauma-Informed Somatic Breathwork Practitioner & Life Coach based in sunny South Florida. She is the founder of empowHER Breathwork & Coaching and the co-founder of The Somatic Academy™. 

She helps resilient women heal from cell to soul — releasing stored trauma, regulating the nervous system, and reconnecting with the woman God created them to be, without reliving pain from their past.

Her own healing began in 2020, when she chose to face and transform the impact of childhood sexual trauma. Cassie experienced firsthand how breathwork, somatic healing, subconscious reprogramming, and faith can transform not just the mind, body, and spirit, but a woman’s entire sense of identity and safety within herself. What began as personal healing became a divine calling to create spaces where women can soften, surrender, heal, and rise.

Through her signature blend of breath medicine, emotional release, subconscious transformation, nervous system work, and Christ-centered healing, Cassie guides women into deeper emotional freedom, embodied safety, authentic self-expression, and lasting inner transformation.

She is also the host of the Grow More Good podcast, where she shares conversations around healing, communication, mindset, relationships, femininity, faith, and wellness.

Outside of her work, you can find Cassie soaking up the South Florida sun, collecting seashells, or cuddling up with her fiancee John and their fur babies, Koda and Sunny.

WHAT CERTIFICATIONS YOU RECEIVE

 

SOMATIC PRACTITIONER 

The body keeps score, and as a Somatic Practitioner, you'll finally know how to read it. This certification trains you to work with the body as the primary vehicle for healing, helping your clients release what's been stored, process what's been suppressed, and access a depth of transformation that talk based work simply cannot reach. From felt sense awareness to trauma release and body based interventions, you'll have the tools to meet your clients where they actually are, in their bodies.

NERVOUS SYSTEM COACH

This is the education most people were never given, and you're about to become the one who gives it. As a certified Nervous System Coach, you'll deeply understand how the nervous system shapes every emotion, behaviour, pattern, and experience your clients bring to you. You'll be able to identify dysregulation, work with it in real time, and teach your clients how to understand and regulate their own systems. Not only is this a skill set, it's a lens that changes everything.

 BREATHWORK PRACTITIONER

Breath is one of the most powerful and direct access points to the nervous system, and most people have no idea what it's capable of. As a certified Breathwork Practitioner, you'll be trained to hold transformational breathwork experiences in both one on one and group settings, with the skill and awareness to do it safely. You'll know how to use the breath to move emotion, release trauma, regulate the nervous system, and create the kind of sessions your clients will never forget. Because the most powerful sessions are also the most responsible ones.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

Everything you need to become a fully certified, confident, and client ready practitioner, and nothing that wastes your time.

 

Three Certifications: Trauma Informed Nervous System Coach, Somatic Practitioner, and Breathwork Practitioner, all included in one program.

14 Live Educational Training Modules: Weekly live sessions covering the full curriculum across 5 phases.

Live Breathwork, Somatic Experiencing & Somatic Therapy Demos: Real time demonstrations and live experiential sessions so you don't just learn the work, you feel it.

Live Q&A Calls: Direct access to Becca and Cassie to ask questions, go deeper, and get support throughout the program.

5 Day In Person Immersion in Tulum, Mexico: Where you'll facilitate, be assessed, and cross the finish line surrounded by your sisters.

Telegram Community & Direct Access: A private community chat with direct access to Becca and Cassie, open from August through December.

Business & Integration Support: Guidance on how to integrate this work into your business, position your new certifications, and start working with clients.

Lifetime Access: All training materials and resources are yours to keep, forever.

Cohort Two kicks off in February 2027.
Five months to become the practitioner your clients deserve.

THE IMMERSION

 

November 5th to 9th, 2026 in Tulum, Mexico

Some things can only happen in person, and this is one of them.

For five days, you'll be fully immersed in the work and in each other. Mornings are intentional and grounding. Afternoons are where you put your skills into practice, facilitating for your peers and receiving direct feedback in real time. Evenings are for sisterhood, real conversation, and building the kind of bonds that don't break after the program ends.

Expect ceremony, shared sessions, and a celebration that marks exactly how far you've come.

Set in an exclusive design forward villa in the heart of Tulum, with tropical gardens, a private pool, and open air spaces built for exactly this kind of work.

This is not a retreat. This is where you stop being a student and start being a practitioner.

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THE CURRICULUM

 14 modules. 5 phases of deep learning. And then you prove it.

This isn't just a course you complete, it's a body of knowledge you absorb, apply, and carry with you forever. From nervous system science, somatic facilitation, trauma informed breathwork, and real world client application, The Somatic Academy™ was built to make you exceptional at this work.

Phase 1: Foundations
Where it all begins. Before we go deep, we build the ground beneath you.

  • Module 1: The Nervous System Foundations
  • Module 2: Understanding Nervous System States
  • Module 3: Somatic Awareness & Body Literacy

Phase 2: Trauma & Somatic Facilitation
The work most certifications skip. We go straight to the root.

  • Module 4: Trauma Foundations
  • Module 5: Working with Trauma
  • Module 6: Somatic Experiencing In Depth

Phase 3: Breathwork Facilitation
The science, safety, and art of holding transformational breath experiences.

  • Module 7: Breathwork Science & Safety
  • Module 8: Trauma Sensitive Breathwork Facilitation

Phase 4: Emotional Processing & Session Design
How to work with what comes up, and how to hold a session that actually transforms.

  • Module 9: Emotional Literacy & Biology
  • Module 10: Somatic Therapy Foundations & Session Facilitation
  • Module 11: Nervous System Regulation & Resilience Tools

Phase 5: Practitioner Identity & Business Integration
This is where you stop learning the work and start becoming someone who does it.

  • Module 12: Authentic Facilitation & Finding Your Own Voice
  • Module 13: Content Creation & Visibility
  • Module 14: Business Integration & Growth

Phase 6: Practicum & Certification
This is where you earn it.

This final phase is not about learning, It's about doing. You'll facilitate live sessions, receive real time feedback, complete your certification assessment, and cross the finish line surrounded by the women who walked this journey with you. 


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I have spent years investing in my personal growth with reading, therapy, 100s of hours doing the inner work. Almost all of it had benefited me, but nothing has moved the needle the way somatic and nervous system work has. The frustrating truth is that it’s almost impossible to put into words what this work actually does. It lives in the body and because of that it’s hard to put it into language. What I can tell you is this: you experience one session and something in you just knows your body has been waiting for this. The progress I’ve made since beginning this work with Becca has sped up time. I felt a shift after my very first session. A real, felt, undeniable shift. And with every session since, I’ve gone deeper and closer to the version of myself I’ve always known was in there. Some of that is the work itself. The way it bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the nervous system, healing in ways that talking alone never could, but a significant part of it is Becca herself. There is a rare quality to the way she holds space. She creates an environment where you feel safe enough to be vulnerable, to be raw, to let your guard fully down. That isn’t a skill everyone has and in work this intimate, it truly makes all the difference. The trust I have in Becca isn’t something I often give easily but that trust is what has allowed me to go to the places I needed to go to actually heal. If you’re considering this path, as a coach or as a student of this work, know that what you’re stepping into has the power to change people in a way very little else can. Regardless of how you work with Becca, you are going to get over delivery every time. 

TAYLOR

Cassie was born to do this. She's a nurturing, powerful, instinctive guide. I feel like I released all the pain in my heart, pain I didn't even consciously know was there, and replaced it with love. My breathwork journey was intense and cathartic without ever being overwhelming. Cassie created a safe container and that made it comfortable to be vulnerable in an intense state. Anyone ready to open up and be receptive to this kind of inner work needs to get in the room with Cassie!

MARC

Before working with Becca and doing any work on my nervous system, I lived almost entirely in my head. I was chaotic, constantly busy, and so locked into productivity that I couldn't actually enjoy my own life. Doing somatic work has drastically changed my life. We've moved deeply through intense past experiences in a safe way. I truly had no idea my body was still holding onto those heavy emotions. My day to day baseline has changed completely. I can slow down now, I can be in the small moments instead of just getting through them. I'm more productive because I'm intentional with my time. l've done a lot of inner work over the years, but the nervous system and somatic piece is what finally made it all stick in my body, not just my mind. I can't recommend her and her work enough.

ASHLEY

My favourite part of working with Cassie was learning another way to pour into myself. Another tool I can use to bring calm, peace, and love into my life. Adding more ways to connect with myself and love myself. I stepped further into a better understanding of myself, a better understanding of some of the situations that have occurred in my life, and with that, being able to look at myself with more love. With more truth of who I am and how truly beautiful I am inside and out. Also, allowing myself to acknowledge past situations that were hard and letting these situations go. After breathwork, I now can see the beautiful things that came out of these situations. I just think overall it was a great experience. I would recommend Cassie to anyone who is trying to grow in any area of their life. She is a breath of fresh air who truly cares about her job. She is helpful and guides with true love. For anyone who is trying to change their life for the better I would recommend working with Cass.

TAYLOR

There have been many tools and approaches that have supported my healing to a certain degree, but none have reached the depth or core transformation that Becca's work has given me across all her offers. It has opened a path toward a new version of myself, one that no longer chooses chaos, chases the next high, or lives in constant anxiety. Money can provide many things, but nothing compares to learning how to bring safety into your body and regulate yourself from within. Speaking of money, I now earn significantly more because of the time I have spent with Becca expanding my capacity. It has transformed my relationship with myself, my business, and my partner, who also came to understand the importance of nervous system regulation. Even months after the program ended, we still talk about the lessons and actively apply the methods we learned. Our relationship has become much stronger because of it. Learning about the nervous system through Becca has been incredibly contagious, as it inspired me to become certified in breathwork myself. She has created a ripple effect across every area of my life, and that ripple now continues through the work I do with my clients. Thank you does not come close to expressing how I feel about what she has given me.

LISA

I loved my experience and the state that I was able to get into during my breathwork session. It is hard for me to get out of my mind and into my body and I really was able to feel myself in my body during this session. Cass is so good at holding space for people and the playlist she made me was incredible. The songs she chose really spoke to me which made the session even more powerful. I think anyone who has done talk therapy for a while and wants to really surpass the mind and go straight into the body would really benefit from breathwork.

DANI

Before working more deeply with Becca, I was already incredibly self-aware as I had spent years doing personal development and healing work through therapy, coaching and leaning into my spirituality. I dove into several tools such as Human Design and Astrology to understand myself better... and I understood my patterns and could talk about them for hours. However, what I didn't fully understand was how much of what I was experiencing lived in my body, and how awareness alone doesn't always create change. Through Unmasked, the Hot & Healed Retreat, and our private 1:1 work together over the last several months, I learned how to slow down and actually listen to what my body was trying to tell me! This work helped me understand the difference between knowing something intellectually and truly embodying it. I became more aware of my capacity, my relationship with rest, my tendency to live in urgency and how often I was overriding myself without even realizing it. One of the greatest gifts, reminders and perspective shifts this work has given me is learning that healing isn't about fixing yourself... it's about creating enough safety within yourself to be present with what is already there. I feel more connected to myself, more grounded in my relationships, more intentional in my business, and more compassionate with myself than I have in a very long time. For me, the most powerful part of working with Becca is finally learning how to understand and trust the language of my own body, and that has changed EVERY area of my life.

EMMA

Cassie’s breathwork is easier than other classes I’ve experienced, and far more profound. My whole body was tingling and alive. I felt empowered and safe to freely vocalize, weep, laugh, and more. That in itself was an embodying experience because I was able to forget about my body and just be with it. Afterwards I felt like a different person, and received a lot of beautiful visions for my life including the strong message that I am meant to be seen, no longer stay small! And to step into my place as a spiritual woman.Breathwork with Cassie evoked a deeply emotional response and new level of trusting my subconscious. 

LORISSA

I don’t even have the words to fully explain the difference the knowledge, tools and resources this work with Becca has brought into my life. I once had MANY unexplained aches and pains I just accepted as my life. I also used to walk through my days feeling like my pants were on fire. Everything was urgent, everything had to be done NOW, and everything required a running pace. Literally, I use to speed walk/run around the work place and was out of breath when I entered the room. Learning about the nervous system and somatic tools to create safety in my body has truly changed my life. I no longer rush through life and as a result I sleep better, I’m more present in my personal life, and I’m actually able to leave work at work. On top of this, I no longer experience unexplained aches and pains in my body. My body feels close to brand new. I recommend this work to every person in my life! 

RILEY

Cassie’s confidence in herself and her confidence in me surprised me and shifted my entire experience during breathwork for the better. She has a divine wisdom that exceeds this earthly experience. I’m comfortable with my darkness. My shadow self has always been a bit scary, but I feel like I can deeply process my shadows and embrace myself fully. Also I feel way more comfortable recognizing and expressing my emotions. And I don’t feel the need to hold others' emotions for them anymore!

JENNY

Becca has genuinely changed my life. Part of what makes her work so powerful is simply her because there is truly no one like her, and she was made for this. In the three years since finding her I have not only started a business and a podcast, overcome fears and doubts I didn't even know were holding me back, but more importantly, l've become a calmer, happier, more regulated and joyful person. Through somatic work and nervous system regulation, I've learned to understand myself, give myself grace, and actually process hard emotions in a healthy way. Becca has a rare ability to hold space for the darkest, most uncomfortable parts of you while keeping things light, warm, and deeply connected. I've gone to some of my hardest places in our work together and always felt safe because she just truly gets it. I am not the same person who found her three years ago, and I mean that in the best possible way. I feel so lucky to have found her and to have her as both a mentor and a friend.

SARAH

I didn’t expect an entire shift in life trajectory and thought process while working with Cassie... I came into this work with my whole focus being on a dream career, that I wasn’t taking the steps to even move myself towards it and thinking being a mom and caregiver in the future was my end goal. Now, I am releasing a solo podcast next month, constantly envisioning and planning and working towards my own mentorship experience, and bringing it all to me with no plans of being anything close to a mom but a puppy mom for a few years. I have quite literally stepped into a completely new energy field.

LELANI

Becca’s work is truly profound and life changing. Before meeting Becca I spent most of my weeks very deregulated in fight/flight/fawn. I felt like consciously I had the knowledge and strategies to scale my business but was unable to truly integrate them due to how dysregulated I was and the patterns this was perpetuating. Finding Becca and her work was truly life changing. With her support I have been able to release years of suppressed and stored emotion and feel safe leading in my business. I also saw so much value and impact in her work I knew I had to get my partner to experience it as well! We both did Unmasked™: Couples Edition and also learnt so much together than has had such a deep positive impact.It is an absolute privilege to experience Becca’s approach. It would be a beautiful and insanely valuable opportunity for anyone who supports other people to learn from Becca in her new program. The depth of her work and ability to curate a safe and supportive space to access and heal from some really heavy or longstanding trauma is beautiful and a gift that anyone would benefit immensely from learning.

STEPH

The somatic work I have done with Becca has changed my life in truly profound ways. If I’m honest, I started my journey with Becca mainly seeking her business advice and when we began with the nervous system and somatic work, I was skeptical. But, thank goodness that is where we began because after four months of highly focused somatic work to help me heal depression, anxiety, imposter syndrome, and more the business I had spent 3 years starting and stopping FINALLY took off. It wasn’t all because of the strategy, in fact, I didn’t really do things very differently at all. The person who was now doing them (me lol) was fundamentally different. This work with Becca drastically shifted my capacity to be visible, to receive, to do what I needed to do in order to scale my business to consistent 12k months and quit my toxic 9-5 for good. My nervous system (and my bank account) hasn’t been the same because of Becca and the way he approaches somatic work. RUN, don’t walk to get in on what she’s doing because it is pure magic.

CAROLINE

WHY WE BUILT THIS


Becca and Cassie found each other in 2023 through a shared mentor, and it felt less like a coincidence and more like an inevitability. Two women doing deeply similar work in their own unique ways, with different skills, different gifts, and different flavours, that when combined, created something neither could have built alone.

In 2025, the nervous system became a buzzword, and somatics started appearing everywhere, in marketing, in methodologies, in the feeds of coaches and practitioners across every niche. Which sounds like a good thing, except that many of the people using these terms weren't actually trained in them.

This wasn't just frustrating to watch, it became genuinely worrying. This is the human nervous system we're talking about, and when it's worked with carelessly, people don't just stay stuck, they get hurt.

Becca and Cassie started seeing it firsthand, an influx of clients arriving having been retraumatized, further dysregulated, and let down by practitioners who simply weren't qualified to do what they were doing.

They say if you want to get the job done right, you have to do it yourself. So they did what needed to be done. 

From the beginning, the plan was always to bring The Somatic Academy™ to life together. As the conversations between them grew, something else started happening, their inboxes filled up. Message after message from people asking if they could be trained by them, certified by them, taught what they know. The universe, it seemed, had already decided.

The Somatic Academy™ was born from a calling, a friendship, and a responsibility, to make sure that every practitioner who touches someone's nervous system is equipped to do it well. The people whose lives you'll go on to touch deserve nothing less.

THIS ISN'T FOR EVERYONE

 

We mean that with full respect, and complete honesty.

The Somatic Academy™ is a professional certification program. It is deep, it is rigorous, and it will ask things of you that most programs never will. Before you apply, we want you to be sure this is the right fit.

This is not for you if:

→ You cannot commit to weekly live sessions, this is a live program and your presence matters.

→ You want a certificate to hang on a wall without doing the deep work to earn it. We have real assessments, real facilitation requirements, and real standards you will be held to.

→ You are not ready to be challenged, assessed, and pushed beyond what feels comfortable, because you will be.

→ You are not open to doing your own personal work alongside the professional training. This program will change you as a human first, and that is entirely the point.

→ You see the nervous system as a trend or a marketing tool rather than something you are genuinely called to. The women whose nervous systems you will go on to work with deserve better than that, and so does this work.

→ You want surface level education, we don't offer that here.

If you read that list and none of it applies to you, you're exactly who we built this for.

YOU'VE FELT CALLED TO THIS WORK FOR A REASON

 

The fact that you've read this far tells you everything you need to know. The Somatic Academy™ was built for the woman who refuses to do surface level, in her business, in her life, and in the impact she wants to make in the world.

Cohort Two kicks off in February 2027. This is your moment.

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