Module 1 — Overview of Somatic Methodology

You'll start with somatics itself: what the soma is, what shape means, and the elements of somatic transformation. You'll learn to distinguish somatic awareness, somatic practice, somatic opening, and embodied change, and to see how social context shapes all of it. Includes Nadine's account of her own somatic journey and other examples.

Module 2 — Introductory Overview of Forest Therapy

You'll learn what relational forest therapy is and what it isn't, how it differs from forest bathing and from meditation and mindfulness, and how the ANFT Relational Forest Therapy Standard Sequence works in a broad sense. Covers accessibility, reciprocity, and the particular language a guide uses. If you've already trained with ANFT, there's a note at the start on how to approach this module.

Module 3 — Nature Is and Nature Brings...

You'll look at nature as a supportive container for somatic work — an invitation to practice and to play. Covers nature's sentience and its capacity to hold what we bring to it.

Module 4 — Key Aspects of Somatic Work Naturally Present in Forest Therapy

You'll find the somatic elements already alive in forest therapy: bodily authority, generativity, awareness of social context, and the four dimensions of breath, movement and expression, sensing, and relating. Closes with the distinction between resilience and coping.

Module 5 — Aspects of Forest Therapy That Support Somatic Work

You'll learn what forest therapy specifically brings: the way it moves us out of the cognitive mind, the arc of invitations across a walk, how somatic opening occurs, and how partnership with the land supports work with shape and embodied transformation. Includes how forest therapy tends the universal human needs of safety, belonging, and dignity.

Module 6 — Practicing Somatics in Partnership with Nature

This is the practice module. You'll explore what you're drawn to, work with resilience, and meet how other beings support somatic connection — including one of Nadine's own partners, and metaphor in other living beings. Five invitations to practice: greeting the land, introducing yourself to a being, how landscape affects us, and moving or stretching.

Module 7 — Reflections for Specialized Areas: Grief, Trauma and More

Two recorded conversations: with Beck Beverage, artist, movement coach and embodiment guide, and with Susan Harrison, MDiv, ThM, RP, CTMH. Both explore where this work meets grief, trauma, and other specialized applications.

Each module closes with reflection prompts.