Seven courses, all working with body, mind and spirit. The teaching reflects the work itself: without force, without urgency, and at a pace that lets the learning settle. Some people come here for themselves and their families and find that is enough. Others move through to qualification and beyond. There is a way in here that meets you where you are.
Self-paced, online, with lifetime access. No prior background needed.
Ten softly guided learning days, four calming meditations (ten to fifty-three minutes, from gentle resets to deeper relaxation), and a printable Body Map you can follow along with. A simple introduction for yourself, your family, or anyone you care for. Many take this course just for themselves; others take it before training as a practitioner.
Find out more →The first four points of the Gentle Release Vagus Nerve Protocol, taught self-paced. A simple, restorative way to support your own nervous system, and to share with children, partners, or loved ones at distance. Pairs naturally with the Introduction to Gentle Release Therapy.
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Two ways to bring Gentle Release into your practice. The Practitioner Training is the qualification course. The Spirit Points day is open to therapists from other backgrounds.
Three and a quarter days, online via Zoom or in person at Ashlin Farm Barns in Lincolnshire. The qualification course that allows you to give a full Gentle Release Therapy treatment. Foundational Traditional Chinese Medicine, energy work on the chest and abdomen, cranial release, endocrine and lymphatic release, emotional trauma clearing, and an introduction to the vagus nerve work.
Find out more →Lunches, evening meals, woodland walks, a swim spa, and your own en-suite room. The training is also a personal experience: practitioners receive what they need themselves, alongside the learning.
Accredited by the Federation of Holistic Therapists, the Association of Reflexologists, Thinktree, the Complementary Therapists Association, and the Complementary Medical Association. International students welcome.
The 12 Spirit Acupuncture Points sit at the older, quieter end of Chinese medicine, a small group of points held to work with the Shen, or spirit, the layer of a person that feels at depth and senses its own direction. Taught through a Traditional Chinese Medicine framework, the work is needle-free and uses intuitive touch. People often describe feeling lighter, clearer, and a little nearer to whatever they sense their own path to be. Open to therapists from any background, not only Gentle Release practitioners. Prerequisite is the Introduction to Gentle Release Therapy course or the Practitioner Training. Healthcare professionals and qualified therapists can practise the work with clients; others are welcome to take it for personal development.
Accredited by the Federation of Holistic Therapists and Thinktree.
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Advanced work for practitioners already trained in Gentle Release Therapy.
Three days, online or in person at Ashlin Farm Barns. The course for practitioners who have spent some time with the work and are ready to go deeper. Acu-Touch sits at the heart of it: over seventy-five acupuncture points and prescriptions for over forty conditions, woven into the Gentle Release framework. You'll spend time on the conditions that come up most often in practice, including migraines, period problems, perimenopause and menopause. There is a substantial section on fertility, worked from physical, emotional and spiritual angles, and a strand on preparing for birth. Intuitive release work for joints, injuries and held trauma; the pelvic bowl, which has its own kind of power and creativity once you know how to work with it; and the cranial lift.
Accredited by the Association of Reflexologists.
Find out more →Co-created and co-taught with Sara Agnew. The vagus nerve is the long, wandering tenth cranial nerve and the main pathway of the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of us that knows how to settle. When its tone is low, people can stay stuck in freeze or shutdown long after the original event has passed. The training takes you through the full four-protocol Gentle Release Vagus Nerve treatment, grounded in Polyvagal Theory: Ventral Release, Dorsal Release, the brain areas connected to vagal function, and the HPA Axis. Helen and Sara have been measuring the work using Oura Rings, Garmin watches and blood pressure data, and the treatments are equally effective in person or at distance.
Accredited by the Federation of Holistic Therapists and Thinktree.
Find out more →A 90-minute facial that brings together traditional Chinese facial techniques (gua sha, jade rolling, an acu-pressure dermal roller, facial cupping, hot towels) with the cranial release and abdominal organ release that already sit at the heart of your Gentle Release training. The work is intuitive rather than protocol-driven. There is no fixed sequence and no three strokes here, ten strokes there: you learn to read what each client's face and body is asking for on the day, and to pace the treatment accordingly. For many practitioners, EnerQi becomes the way in for clients who would not have come for body-led work alone, the facial as entry point, the deeper work following once trust has formed. Plus theory elements online and ten case study treatments.
Accredited by the Federation of Holistic Therapists, the Complementary Therapists Association, and Thinktree.
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A three-tier annual membership offering directory listing, monthly Guided Gentle Release sessions, monthly Build My Business workshops, co-working mornings, and more. For qualified practitioners and current students.
If you would love to train and the cost is the only thing standing in the way, please take a look at the Scholarship Programme. Rolling applications, places assigned by need and availability, and three of the courses are now available by scholarship. Instalment arrangements and partial contributions are also welcome where helpful.
Read more about Scholarship →If this resonates, the individual course pages hold the detail of what is covered, who it is for, and when the next cohort runs. If you would like to talk anything through before deciding, you can reach me through the contact page.
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