Qualified Gentle Release practitioners
Ready to add a postgraduate layer to your work. Many have come through the Practitioner Training and already feel the pull towards the deeper, more spiritual end of the tradition.
Postgraduate Training · One Day · Online or In Person
Spirit Points
A softly powerful way to deepen your work, and your connection with Spirit.
A one-day live training
The 12/13 Spirit Points
Needle-free · intuitive touch
CPD certificate · FHT & ThinkTree
£145
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The highest level of healing comes on the path to fulfilment of destiny.
Dennis Willmont
An invitation to go deeper
Returning to the roots where body, heart and Shen meet
This one-day practitioner training is for those who feel the quiet pull to go deeper. Not by doing more, but by returning to the roots of energy medicine, where the body, heart and Shen (Spirit) meet.
You'll learn how to gently work with the 12/13 Spirit Points using intuitive touch and the framework of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this tradition, the points are held to support the Shen, the layer of a person that feels at depth and senses its own direction. People often describe feeling lighter, clearer, and a little nearer to whatever they sense their own path to be.
This is a course for those who already hold space, and are now ready to listen even more deeply.
Who this is for
Three kinds of people tend to come to Spirit Points
Complementary therapists from other backgrounds
Acupuncturists, reflexologists and energy workers who want to add Spirit Points to an existing practice. You'll need the prerequisite below: the Introduction to Gentle Release Therapy course or the Practitioner Training.
People taking it for their own development
You don't have to be a therapist to attend. You'll still learn how to give the treatment, and you'll receive it yourself on the day. The only difference is that you won't receive a certificate or be able to offer it to clients.
It may be for you if…
- You're a Gentle Release Therapist or experienced complementary therapist.
- You're curious about the spiritual roots of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
- You're drawn to the idea of gently guiding the Spirit (Shen) home.
- You're open to receiving, not just giving.
- You're ready to trust your intuitive senses more fully.
- You long to hold space that feels lighter, deeper and more meaningful.
You don't need to know everything. You just need to feel the nudge that this might be part of your path.
The older, quieter end of the tradition
What the Spirit Points are
The 12/13 Spirit Points belong to the older, more spiritual roots of Chinese medicine, the layer that predates its modern, clinical form. Much of that spiritual dimension was stripped back over time to fit a Western medical model, and this work is part of restoring what was lost. In this tradition the points are understood as energetic gateways, held to work with the Shen, the part of us that feels at depth and senses its own direction. Where much of Gentle Release works with the body and the emotions, the Spirit Points reach towards something quieter underneath: the sense of who we are beneath all we have been carrying.
The work is needle-free. Rather than stimulating the points with needles, you learn to hold them through awareness, intention and light touch, in four gentle stages: Inception, Installation, Establishment and Connection. People often describe it as a kind of coming home, a softening of the heaviness or disconnect that can settle when life has pulled us away from ourselves.
What the day includes
A full day, gently held
Everything you receive
- A live training day, in person or on Zoom.
- A full course handbook and Spirit Point practitioner notes.
- An online, open-book assessment you can take at your own pace.
- Access to our private practitioner community.
- A CPD certificate on completion.
No needles. No pressure. Just intuitive energy work, grounded in ancient wisdom and held with care.
In their own time
What people often notice
More a settling and a remembering than anything dramatic.
Many people notice subtle shifts during the training itself: a sense of calm returning, old patterns softening, and a quiet clarity about their own direction.
The change is often described as deep but gentle. Some find it stays with them quietly in the days that follow.
In their words
"I felt my head and spine being stretched and elongated. At some point I knew I was in my physical body but I couldn't feel it. I felt massive expansion, and saw myself in a galaxy and I became the galaxy.
At another point I felt my eyes move out of place, then to the sides of my head, and I suddenly saw myself as a frog. Every now and then my head would jerk and I would see myself as something else. From a frog I went to a dog, tree, lion, butterfly and lastly a downy woodpecker.
Looking up their meanings, they all resonated with qualities that would support me on my path. Frog: transformation, purity, potential. Lion: courage, strength, affection."
Shared with permission. This describes one person's experience of the treatment. Gentle Release is a complementary therapy that supports rest and regulation; nothing here is offered as a medical outcome.
From those who've attended the course
More reflections
The feedback after the treatments has been truly remarkable. A few of the comments shared so far.
Before the Spirit Points course I was a complete novice. I'm not a therapist and I've no background in Chinese medicine or acupuncture. I did the Introduction to Gentle Release Therapy course with Helen about four years ago and loved it. I really wanted to do the practitioner course, but with a full-time job and three children I just couldn't make it work, so when I saw the Spirit Points day I was really excited.
I did get a little intimidated by the descriptions of the philosophy and the anatomy. However, I needn't have been. Talking it through in person on the day, it was clear there was nothing complicated about it. It's very intuitive and I found it easy to follow, and no harder than the other students despite their prior experience.
Receiving the treatment was lovely, calmer and more introspective than standard Gentle Release. The two hours flew by, and I had colours and visuals and a calm clarity about my way forward. I'd recommend this course to anyone with an interest, and I'm more determined than ever to do the full practitioner course.
A Spirit Points student
Giving the treatment was a beautiful experience. Initially I thought two hours was a long time, however it flew by. Images, colours and emotions passed through me fleetingly as I felt them being released. It felt like unconditional love was at work.
During my own treatment I felt very much at peace with everything that happened. I felt part of the whole, free of bonds, with a deep knowing that all is as it should be, and that I am loved and supported. I felt like dancing and singing and celebrating. I feel very blessed.
A Spirit Points student
Many thanks to Helen and her lovely team for the Spirit Points workshop. It's been several weeks now and I'm still noticing changes in how I feel and in my relationships with my family. It's difficult to explain, as it's a deep but subtle change.
The treatment itself is beautiful and relaxing. It's allowed me to see what I need to do much more clearly, and I just feel remarkably clear and calm. An experience I'd not hesitate to recommend.
A Spirit Points student
Following the first treatment I had a week of deep soul searching, and now have a realistic sense of direction (for once!) and a bit of purpose. I hadn't been happy with my job, and it just happened overnight. I now make the job work for me rather than the reverse. I am living more intuitively and feel I am picking up more from people.
The second treatment was not what I expected. The simplest way to explain it is like having a personal reset button pressed, but without losing memory or life experience. I am getting more organised, with more of a sense of direction and purpose. It's so like I was in my twenties!
A Spirit Points student
Investment & accreditation
You're very welcome to begin
The Spirit Points course is accredited by ThinkTree and the FHT. Before attending, you'll need to have completed the Introduction to Gentle Release Therapy course or the Gentle Release Therapy Practitioner Training.
To use the Spirit Point treatment with clients, you must be a healthcare professional or qualified therapist. To receive your CPD certificate, you attend the course and achieve at least 70% in an online, open-book exam. If you're joining for personal development rather than as a therapist, you're still very welcome, you simply won't receive a certificate or be able to offer it as a treatment.
The course covers the 12/13 Spirit Acupuncture Points, written to be understandable and relevant to life now, not overly theoretical. In ancient Chinese medicine it was believed that we arrive in our lives with a seed of destiny, and the Spirit Points are traditionally associated with that layer of a person.
£145
A one-day practitioner training in the 12/13 Spirit Points, needle-free, intuitive, and grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Online or in person.
Inside the day
- A live training day, in person or on Zoom.
- A full course handbook and Spirit Point practitioner notes.
- An online, open-book assessment you can take at your own pace.
- Access to our private practitioner community.
- A CPD certificate on completion, with a 70% exam pass.
Accredited by
Prerequisite: the Introduction to Gentle Release Therapy course or the Practitioner Training.
Upcoming courses
Find a date
Monday 28 September 2026
If you can't make this date but would still like to do the course, in any time zone, let me know and I'll be in touch when there's a group ready. And if there are a few of you who'd like an in-person course in your area, these work best with six to eight people. Do get in touch and we'll see what we can do.
What comes next
When you're ready to go further
Spirit Points sits at the postgraduate end of the work. When you're ready to go further, Advanced Training is the natural next step, deepening the work you've begun here.
A quiet close
You don't need to arrive sure of anything
If something in you has quietly recognised this work, that's enough to begin.
You're so welcome to join us.
