Advanced Practitioner Training
Three days for practitioners who have trained in Gentle Release Therapy, ready to work more closely with the conditions that arrive in the treatment room. Online from your own quiet space, or in person at our Lincolnshire retreat.
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This is a course for people who have trained in Gentle Release Therapy. Some arrive a year or two into practice, once the foundation work has settled into the hands and the body, and once clients have started bringing the things that ask for a little more. Others come straight on from the Practitioner course, still working through their case studies, ready to keep the learning moving. Both are welcome.
By this point you know the shape of a treatment. You can hold the chest and abdomen, work the cranial system, and stay calmly with whatever surfaces. What often happens next is that someone arrives carrying something more specific, long-held migraines, the shifts of perimenopause, a fertility journey, a body still holding an old injury, and you find yourself wanting a more precise way to meet it.
That is what this training is for. It does not replace anything you already do. It gives you more points on the map, and more confidence to follow them.
Gentle Release Therapy rests on Traditional Chinese Medicine and on the body's own intelligence. The foundation training gives you enough of both to work safely and well, the organs and the emotions they hold, the cranial work, the endocrine and lymphatic release.
But TCM is deep, and there is far more in it than a foundation course can reach. The Advanced Training follows those threads further. At the heart of it is Acu-Touch, a way of holding acupuncture points across the meridians, woven into the Gentle Release framework you already know.
Acu-Touch teaches over seventy-five acupuncture points, alongside the conditions practitioners most often see in practice. The points are not a list to memorise and apply. They are a way of working with what arrives, so that when someone comes in with something particular, you have a considered way to respond, while still listening to what the body is ready to release at that moment in time.
It gives you more points on the map, and more confidence to follow them.
The training begins with Acu-Touch and builds from there, each piece taught alongside the points and the theory it needs. The treatments are always done fully clothed, with the lightest touch. There is no oil, no manipulation, and no force.
The foundation of the Advanced work. You learn how and why the points work, and how to hold acupuncture points across the twelve main meridians using energy and gentle touch rather than needles. You start with the nine points that come up most often, then work through the key points along each meridian, learning to read which ones a particular client might need.
Knowing the points is one thing. Choosing which to use, and in what order, is the skill that makes them yours. You learn to build a personal prescription for a client from what they bring, working in pairs to plan and then give a treatment, so the planning settles into something you can actually do in a session.
A considered look at the things that come up most often in practice. You learn how to work with clients carrying long-held migraines, period problems, and the changes of perimenopause and menopause, always as support held alongside whatever care they already have, never as a promise to fix or cure. The focus is on your skill as a practitioner, and on giving the body the conditions to settle and let go.
A substantial strand on supporting fertility, worked from physical, emotional and spiritual angles. You learn how the abdominal, cranial and endocrine work prepare the ground, where Acu-Touch fits alongside it, and how to be a steady, gentle presence for people, women and men, navigating a tender and often exhausting time. This is support offered alongside medical care, never instead of it, and never a promise of a particular outcome.
Following on from the fertility work, a gentle way of supporting people as they prepare for birth: easing fear that the body may be holding, and helping the system settle in the weeks beforehand.
An intuitive way of working with joints, old injuries, and trauma the body has kept hold of. You learn to follow what you notice, allowing areas that have been braced for a long time the space to soften.
The pelvic bowl has its own kind of power and creativity once you know how to work with it. You learn a gentle, respectful way of supporting this part of the body, often held tightly and rarely given attention. (This work is taught with the permission of Tami Lynn Kent, whose Holistic Pelvic Care informs it.)
The Cranial Lift is a specific, gentle technique at the head, used to ease tension held high in the body and to bring a sense of lightness and clarity. A quiet way to close much of the deeper work.
Alongside all of it, you keep practising the thing the foundation course began: trusting what you notice. By this stage, intuition is less a leap and more a quiet, reliable part of how you work.
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I loved every minute. The course has given me the ability to work at a deeper level with my current treatments, and the potential to expand into areas I had never previously considered. It's very special to spend time in such a nurturing and supportive space while gaining all the knowledge and practical experience the course has to offer.
Hannah · Lincolnshire retreat
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The advanced course has given me an infinite opportunity to really personalise my energy treatments for my clients, both those I meet in person and at a distance. It's been a pleasure to learn the techniques, and I'm not overstating it when I say it's been life changing.
Faye · Lincolnshire retreat
A pack of theory work to read and sit with beforehand, so that when the practical days begin, the points and the thinking are already starting to settle into place.
Three days of practical training. Each technique is demonstrated, then practised in treatment swaps, so you both give and receive every part of the work. There is time for questions, discussion and feedback throughout, and the pace is kept unhurried. Groups are small, so each person is properly seen and supported.
You are welcome to work the new techniques into your practice straight away. Case studies are encouraged as a way of letting the deeper work become your own, though for the Advanced course they are offered as support rather than required for assessment.
Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 April 2027
9.30am to 2.30pm each day
Three days of practical training, live on Zoom from a quiet, private space at home. The course pack is sent out beforehand, and the days follow the same shape as the in-person training: demonstration, treatment swaps, feedback, and time for the work to settle. Many practitioners find there is something very supportive about learning this work in their own space.
Maximum eight students per course.
Complete the booking form →Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 May 2027
Accommodation Mon 17th to Fri 21st May
Three days of practical training held at Ashlin Farm Barns, a peaceful retreat setting in rural Lincolnshire. Retreat accommodation is available so there is time to arrive gently and leave unhurried. Woodland walks, quiet evenings, and time away from the pace of everyday life become part of the experience.
Spaces are intentionally limited, so please get in touch before booking to check availability. Have a look at the barns here →
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The Gentle Release Therapy Advanced Practitioner Training is an accredited course with the Association of Reflexologists.
International students are very welcome. Insurance requirements can vary between countries and providers, so we always recommend checking with your insurer before booking.
The full curriculum, the shape of each day, and the route through to Advanced Practitioner qualification.
If you have been carrying the idea of going deeper for a while, or you would simply like to talk it through before deciding, please get in touch.
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