Our first week together introduces the core principles of being Animano — entering the work not through theory alone, but through the body, the group, and the act of direct contact. We will begin to build a strong and trusting container for the group, one that allows for safe experimentation, laughter, intensity, and real embodied learning.

In this module, you’ll begin:

• Practicing relational touch and communication as tools of presence and co-regulation
• Expanding your energetic awareness and increasing your capacity to inhabit your own body with clarity and pleasure
• Perceiving your body as connected to the field of the client — developing the sensitivity to attune, resonate, and respond with confidence

We also begin working with the Fire quality in the body — the element of expression and directionality. Somatically, we explore this through the muscular system as a medium for action, expansion, and true control. You’ll develop an understanding of muscular tone not as tension or strength, but as the range of motion available when the body is responsive, available, and aligned with intention.

This week lays the foundation for the Animano practice: a shared field where bodies learn, heal, and remember — together.

In this second module, we deepen our discovery of the body — not only as a vehicle for presence and sensation, but as the place from which we hold space and facilitate learning.

You’ll begin to explore how to hold a learning process with your client — not by leading or solving, but by becoming a grounded, embodied reference point for exploration and growth.

We turn attention more deliberately toward our own body:

• Clarifying who we are in movement, sensation, and intention
• Gathering energy and alignment in order to communicate clearly through presence
• Continuing to unify perception within our body, increasing our ability to sense and feel the other

As your embodied presence grows, you’ll begin to open fields of trust, curiosity, and attuned humor — the relational qualities that allow your client to feel safe enough to change.

We continue to expand our repertoire of touch, movement, and perception practices, learning to extend our own systems to join with and act upon the physical, energetic, and expressive needs of the client — in the moment, as they arise.

This week, we deepen into the Fire element as expressed through the muscular system. You’ll refine your ability to work with muscular flow and somatic control — exploring how contraction, relaxation, and expression arise through touch and intentional movement.

We introduce techniques rooted in the qualities of Fire:

• Trigger point work
• Deep tissue release
• Heat, speed, circulation, activation, and containment

You will learn to use touch as a way to train control through sensation — helping your client experience the range, timing, and energy of their expression as something felt and consciously directed.

This week we explore the Water element — the fluid intelligence of the body that allows sensation, emotion, and movement to flow, connect, and transform.

We begin to investigate how the body uses the power of the mind to organize emotional states — how focus and perception can either open or shut down the flow of possibility.

We explore the relationship between emotional intensity and physical movement, and how energy becomes blocked or released through the joints, connective tissue, and inner rhythms of the body.

You will work with your own system and your clients' to:

• Sense emotional states as patterns of motion, not stories
• Facilitate flow through fascia, joints, and articulation
• Support movement that softens rigidity, rehydrates stuck tissue, and opens channels of expression

Through Water-based touch, movement, and breath, we begin to restore the natural relationship between emotion and motion — helping the body reorient to flow rather than fixate.

You’ll learn to:

• Guide emotional expression through movement, rhythm, and contact
• Identify patterns of emotional suppression or collapse
• Use the qualities of Water — fluidity, softness, adaptability — to reintroduce relational safety and connection

We’ll also explore:

• Your own relationship to emotional energy, touch, and vulnerability
• How fear, disconnection, and emotional overwhelm show up somatically
• How to use relaxation, presence, and curiosity to invite a return to flow

This module is about learning to facilitate emotion as energy-in-motion — through the body, in relationship, and always in service of reconnection.

This week is rooted in the Earth element — the foundation from which all expression, movement, and transformation arise.

In the Animano approach, we recognize that creative energy and emotional flow cannot fully emerge unless the system feels fundamentally safe. Safety is not an abstract concept — it is a felt state, one that is physically and somatically established through the body’s connection to ground, to containment, and to consistency.

To feel safe, we must be able to sense and express boundaries, and to care for our own basic biological and energetic needs. These are the qualities of Earth: stability, rhythm, containment, and support.

This week, you will learn to:

• Establish a sense of ground and containment within your own system
• Identify where your client’s sense of safety may be disrupted or unformed
• Facilitate through Earth-based touch: consistent, anchored, slow, and deeply present

We focus on touch through the bones — working with weight, density, and structure to offer the body a clear sense of orientation and regulation. You’ll learn how to:

• Touch through bone to access primal regulation
• Create presence and reliability through the quality of your contact
• Guide the nervous system toward deep down-regulation and trust

When Earth is present, the body relaxes. And when the body relaxes, energy becomes available for movement, expression, and joy.

This module teaches you how to work from the ground up — helping your client reestablish the physical and energetic foundations that support vitality, boundaries, and authentic action.

This week we rise into the Air element — the realm of mind, perception, self-image, and the stories we live inside of.

In Animano, we understand that what we focus on ultimately becomes what we feel, express, and embody. Focus is not just mental — it is a creative act, one that informs the body’s patterns, contractions, shapes, and postures. Our belief systems, judgments, and inherited narratives live not only in our thoughts, but in our structure and somatic expression.

Much of our chronic contraction — emotional, physical, or energetic — is maintained by a fixed focus in the mind. These old perceptual patterns continue to shape our present experience, even when they no longer serve our heart’s longing or life's creative flow.

This module explores:

• Somatic self-image — how we physically express who we believe we are
• The connection between thought, shape, and repetition
• How perception, memory, and belief keep the body in a past state

But Air is not only reflective — it is transformative. This week is also about learning how to create new states:

• To shift perception
• To open attention
• To reframe meaning
• And to consciously shape new expressions of thought, movement, and identity

We will work with the nervous system, skin, senses, and the subtle field of perception. The focus is on how we make meaning — or quite literally, how we “make matter.”

You’ll ask:

• What do I choose to give meaning to?
• What do I make matter through my attention, my voice, and my action?

Through this lens, we begin to reclaim mental focus as a creative somatic power — learning to shift from unconscious maintenance of the past, into conscious formation of the future through embodied attention.

In our final week together, we enter the realm of Ether — the spacious, relational element that surrounds, contains, and responds. Ether is the field in which all the other elements move. It is where we meet the world, and where the world touches us.

After journeying through Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, you now begin to explore what it means to be in relationship with life itself — to respond from presence, not reaction, and to recognize your place in the field of exchange.

In Ether, we experience that:

• Life acts upon us, just as we act upon it
• The client becomes ether for the practitioner, and the practitioner ether for the client
• The healing field is co-created through how we meet, perceive, and respond

This week is about respons-ability — the ability to respond to life with choice, clarity, and coherence. It’s about learning to stay open, present, and connected even as the field shifts. It’s also about recognizing the practitioner’s role as an anchor — someone who can sense, adapt, and support transformation within a dynamic, relational space.

We also turn our focus toward integration and refinement:

• Deepening and extending your touch vocabulary
• Refining process structure and session strategy
• Strengthening your ability to design and lead somatic learning
• Bringing complexity into focus: working with multi-layered symptoms, perception, and energetic fields

This final module supports you in stepping forward — not only as a practitioner of Animano, but as someone who can embody, teach, and transmit this work with confidence, creativity, and trust.

We close the training with a focus on continuity and real-world application — building a practice that is alive, relational, and rooted in the joy of connection and transformation, one body at a time.