Level 1 …
gives you access to deep states of relaxation where you learn to work with the stretch reflex effectively, elongating muscle fibres and increasing mobility to allow vital nutrients to flow freely to all of your cells, while you gain a powerful understanding of how the exercises rejuvenate your body and how to teach them to others.

Level 2 …
takes you deeper into the stretching exercises and begins strengthening the internal “core” muscles that establish good posture and that support body weight against the constant pull of gravity. Strengthening these supporting muscles not only gives tone to your body, but also alleviates the aching and stiffness that happen when the more internal, skeletal muscles are neither stretched nor strengthened, but left to atrophy.

There are 21 Exercises in Level One and 23 Exercises in Level Two, giving you a broad range of knowledge to bring to your own body, or your classes.

Our Home Study Course is complete with:

• A detailed explanation of each exercise with founder, Lilian Jarvis, and two one-hour class videos of all exercises for Level One and Level Two training
• Extensive written manuals with detailed graphics, teaching guidelines, and class development sequences
• optional live workshops
• Personalised calls scheduled at your own pace to address your specific needs.

You can:

• work with this material at home as it fits your schedule
• come to retreats and deepen the dive in like-minded community
• become certified in your own time, if the call of teaching is calling you!
• Increase your creativity, wellbeing, and vitality!

This program is tailored to specifically cater to your needs and to coach you along every step of the way. In keeping our program affordable, we have divided the Somatic Stretch® training into two levels and the most affordable way to enroll is to purchase both the Level One and Level Two programs for a savings of $190.

Whether you plan to teach, are thinking about sharing this work with others, or just want to improve your own health in a paced and supportive environment, this program guides you at the level and pace your body – and life commitments – require.

Each level is $1695 US dollars, or both levels can be bought together at $3200, offering you a $190 savings.

Upon acceptance to the program, you will be immediately registered into the online membership portal, allowing you to study on the road, in the office, or at home. We have a Facebook page for students to share insights and any personal workshops so that your active participation is supported and augmented by our international tribe. 

In order to ensure you are kept motivated along the path we suggest up to 6 personal, hour-long check-ins via skype/zoom to get your personal practice up and running. These optional calls help you ground your practice, cover things you may be experiencing as you ‘unwind’ and strengthen your body, and creates more focus. To support this level of personal coaching, there is an additional cost of $200 per call (regular cost of private sessions with Meredith $250)  and this keeps you motivated to dive into your body, keeping you working with the technique in the best way suited to your needs. 

It’s all entirely individual, and you can pace this in support of your financial parameters, and the level of involvement that works best for you and your body. 

After any calls you choose to do to get you well into your own practice, we evaluate your needs together to determine what path is most supportive for you. You will be involved in the program as much, or as little, as fits your lifestyle, and we are always here to coach and guide you through the somatic terrain as questions arise. 

We are interested in helping you find avenues to relieve aches and pains, prevent injury and help strengthen and align your postural muscles for a healthier body, inside and out.  Personalized support is what will get you started, and keep you going until you are satisfied with the results.

Online calls with your peers are offered for free and hosted by advanced students or certified teachers and run once or twice a year. This is a favorite addition among our students who gain a great deal of support from our community. 

If this is the time for you to improve your own health and vitality, please fill out our application form to get started or contact us here for further information. 

To teach Somatic Stretch® classes, certification by the Somatic Stretch® organization is required.

To become certified, you are required to:

1) Complete a short essay that will help you feel clear about the essential tenets of Somatic Stretch® and how these concepts can be expressed easily to students. This also can be written in an article format for your own local or online promotion as a teacher. 

2) Teach a Level 1 class and submit it for evaluation. This can be done via Skype/Zoom with you teaching a small group of friends or students, or you can record a video and send it to us for evaluation. Or, if we are in your locale or you come to us, we will attend your class in person.

After feedback and evaluation you may be certified to teach Level 1, or you may be asked to make changes to your class presentation and invited to resubmit another class for evaluation. The cost for evaluation to certify is $250 USD for a complete review of your class with notes from Meredith. The cost for re-evaluation, if and when required, is $200 USD.

Re-evaluation is rare due to the direct contact and support you receive during your training. That being said, there are specifics to certifying, the primary one being that we certify teachers when they are teaching from the inside out – this means you have embodied the work, at which time it becomes easy for you to teach. This is not a program to ‘pump out teachers.’ It is a program that can re-design many aspects your body and movement, and the ease of that and the thrill of it is what happens when a person is ready. So when you’re ready, you’ll know, and you’ll be really happy when it arrives!

After completion of Level One, you are certified to teach Somatic Stretch®. Contact Meredith for more information.