Our Shaking Medicine Teacher Training is an empowering journey for you to embark on.

You'll go deeper into your personal embodiment of Shaking Medicine.

You'll learn logical information, knowledge, and wisdom about Shaking Medicine so you can understand it well and talk about it comfortably with others.

You'll learn how to safely and effectively teach Shaking Medicine with a primary focus on people who are beginners to Shaking Medicine.

You'll also gain tools for creating progressive Shaking Medicine programs/courses so that you can bring your students from complete beginners to an intermediate level where they are solidly embodied with Shaking Medicine for life.

Facilitating Shaking Medicine is all about sharing with people how to use the innate wisdom of their bodies to heal, empower themselves, and cultivate life-force energy so they can potently do what they love in life.

Shaking Medicine empowers you to be creative in your teaching style. We believe that each Shaking Medicine journey should be just as unique as the tremoring process is each and every time we tune in to it.

We aim to suit all learning styles with a balance of visual, aural, verbal, logical, and kinesthetic learning styles. 

We are using the skills, insights, and knowledge we have obtained through a combination of embodying this medicine, studying the most advanced cultures of shaking from around the world, teaching Shaking Medicine to thousands of people, and training teachers all over the world.

This is a powerful somatic modality to add to your repertoire and complements everything in life!

There are many niches that Shaking Medicine can greatly support. Some of these are the health & well-being industry, fitness, Yoga, Qi Gong, dance, singing, music, mental health, recovery, therapy, trauma, addiction, schools, children, athletics, sports, corporate, business, prisons, etc.

With this training, you will be able to teach Shaking Medicine to friends, loved ones, students and clients through one-on-one sessions, small and large classes, workshops, immersions, retreats, various trainings, festivals and more. You can also share this online or in person with all of the above-listed niches.

During the training, there will be embodiment, theory, discussions, assessments, practice teaching, and some homework.

In any of the group options for this teacher training, such as the 6-week live-online version, you will also connect with other like-hearted shaking enthusiasts.

Having previous teaching experience is not necessary, though can be helpful. We are a standalone teacher training so you do not need any other qualifications to do this training or share Shaking Medicine.

A prerequisite to join is that you should have embodied an Intermediate level of Shaking Medicine. We recommend having completed at least the Shaking Medicine Beginners Course and the Shaking Medicine Intermediate Course or a similar equivalent course of Shaking Medicine that gets you to these levels. Some other options are to do Private Sessions to cover this content, live courses, or courses with other Shaking Medicine Teachers. You should feel passionate about how Shaking Medicine has helped you and feel passionate about wanting to share this with others.

The free Discovery Call is also required before you book in so that we can meet and be sure that this is a great fit for you. Please go through all of the information on this page before booking the Discovery Call.

If you are unsure about anything, please don't hesitate to ask.

One of the most important aspects of being an effective teacher is to have your own deeply embodied practice of Shaking Medicine.

During this training, you will have a regular practice program to keep deepening in the benefits that Shaking Medicine offers and add new wisdom, shapes, and movements to weave into your practice and teachings.

You will experience cutting-edge ways for tuning into therapeutic tremoring from the basics to more advanced ones.

You will no doubt experience greater physical, energetic, mental, and emotional benefits while becoming more centered, grounded, clear, and relaxed in your mind, body, and spirit.

Here is some of the key information that you will learn about organized via particular topics:

Shaking Medicine

What is Shaking Medicine (SM)?

What is the purpose of the SM Foundation?

What sort of therapy is SM?

What are the two main goals of embodying SM?

What are the benefits of SM?

What are different names or phrases that also describe ‘therapeutic tremoring?’

What is voluntary vs. involuntary shaking?

What is therapeutic vs. non-therapeutic shaking?

What resources do we offer on our homepage: www.shakingmedicine.com?

History

Where does SM originate?

What indigenous cultures use SM?

Who are the Kalahari Bushman in regards to SM?

How did SM get suppressed in the West?

How did SM get suppressed in China?

What are some other cultures/practices/modalities that use SM?

Yoga

What is Yoga?

What is the purpose of Yoga?

What are the roots of Yoga?

What is the Yogic name for involuntary shaking?

What are the 4 main branches of Yoga?

How does SM relate to Kundalini?

What are the five Koshas?

What is the basic idea of opening the chakras?

How do SM and yoga complement each other?

Qi Gong

Who are the Taoists?

What is Qi Gong?

What is Neidan?

What are some of the purposes of Qi Gong?

What is the Taoist name for involuntary shaking?

What are the 3 Minds & why are they important to integrate?

What are the 3 treasures?

What are the 2 main Qi Vessels?

How do Qi Gong & Yoga align?

How does SM & Qi Gong complement each other?

Somatics

What is somatics?

What are some somatic modalities?

How is SM somatic?

What is pandiculation?

What are the benefits of making sounds in a SM class?

How can music be used in a class & why?

How can dance be an effective part of SM?

Why is the cyclical nature of SM important?

Science

What is the scientific name for involuntary shaking?

How does SM support neurogenesis?

What is the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)?

What are the two main ANS modes?

Why does one ANS mode encourage healing & the other doesn’t?

What is Polyvagal Theory (PT)?

What is the difference between the conscious & subconscious mind?

What is the basic relation between slow & fast brain wave frequencies in SM?

Describe SM in a scientific way.

Breath in SM

What is the most efficient way to breathe?

What are some various names for this efficient breathing?

What are the main qualities of parasympathetic & sympathetic breathing?

How can the breath be used for exploring therapeutic tremoring?

What does ‘Spontaneous Breath of Fire’ refer to?

Why is accessing the Bushman’s Pump a key milestone in SM?

Trauma & Mental Health

What is your take on what trauma is?

How does ‘trauma’ scale?

How does Western Medicine typically treat trauma?

How does SM help discharge trauma?

Explain the distinction between feelings & emotions.

What is the idea behind us having a set of core-base emotions?

How do ‘emotional cocktails’ contribute to our physical & mental health?

Why aim for post-traumatic growth PTG?

How does the ego play into resolving stuck energy?

Theory of a SM Class

What qualities should the environment of a SM class have?

What are the 4 main phases of a SM class?

About how much time would you dedicate to each phase?

Why is it important to soothe the logical thinking mind?

How can we facilitate an experiential journey that is smooth & flowing?

Which type of shaking do we often use during the warmup phase?

What are the top 3 strategies for newer people to tune into therapeutic tremors?

List five tips for when you are using the ‘relaxing strategy.’

What sort of language style should we use in SM?

Why set an intention/ceremony for your SM sharings?

What is the concept of a SM journey branching out like a tree?

Safety

Why make sure that your students are aware of the cautions?

What is self-regulation, why is it important, & when do you teach it in a class?

How long should someone involuntarily tremor for as a beginner?

How can we use our eyes to tune into tremoring & to help self-regulate?

Why offer modifications?

How do you spot someone who is not self-regulating & encourage them to do it?

What are some tools to stop the shaking if the shaking does not want to stop?

A key outcome is to become proficient at sharing a beginner's journey of Shaking Medicine by practice teaching.

Shaking Medicine is a beautiful somatic modality, rooted in a mission to positively touch the lives of many. Sharing the benefits you receive with others is profound and it is our goal to prepare you to do this safely, effectively, and in a fun way.

We will teach you the foundational framework of delivering a Shaking Medicine class, based on wisdom from indigenous cultures, Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, science, other somatic health and well-being modalities, and our own experience in sharing this with the world.

You will gain many useful tools and foundational movements to use during your sequencing of Shaking Medicine. Some of these include Yoga shapes and movements, Neidan (Taoist Yoga), supportive breath practices, Qigong energy and grounding practices, leading intuitive dance flows, guided voluntary shaking meditations, stillness meditations, and of course many shapes, ways, and potent cues to bring students into therapeutic tremoring, which is the focal point of this modality.

The foundations that we share with you allow you to be creative in your teaching and develop your own unique style. Any unique skills you have are very welcome as we help you create your own unique style. This is very much in alignment with how the tremor mechanism wants to move uniquely through us every time we explore it. So too should each facilitator eventually develop a unique teaching style. We teach you a foundational Shaking Medicine flow for you to begin with. We ask that you start with the foundational flow and then branch out from there to create your unique style as you become more and more comfortable in sharing Shaking Medicine. 

When a Shaking Medicine Teacher is guiding a class well, everyone in the class may be moving very differently and learning to trust their intuition. This is quite different from most other types of modalities and provides you with a very liberating way to facilitate that also greatly complements other teaching styles. It's fun and empowering to share this style for both you and your students. 

The feedback we get from students and teachers is really profound as Shaking Medicine works on the deeper and more subtle layers of our being in a way we were designed by mother nature through millions of years of evolution. This is the simple reason why this modality is very powerful, why it is relatively so easy to embody, and why profound results are consistently achieved. It is natural and simply makes sense.

In short, you will:

• Obtain the ability to confidently articulate a Shaking Medicine class.

• Equip yourself with the ability to facilitate an amazing journey of Shaking Medicine that will positively transform people's lives.

• Learn the tools to guide an invitational, intuitive, and transformational journey.
• Learn 20+ postures and movements for tremoring in and teaching to others.
• Learn how to teach and sequence Shaking Medicine safely and effectively in a trauma-sensitive, compassionate, creative, and invitational style that also empowers people to trust and build their own intuitive, emotional, and instinctive intelligence.

You will receive personalized feedback from me on your practice teaching to be sure that you grasp the fundamentals so that you can share effectively, safely, and potently.

During this training, you will cultivate a deeper connection to yourself.

You will also connect personally with the facilitator of your teacher training as we are committed to making sure you become a potent and confident facilitator.

We take it as our deep responsibility for making sure of this as our mission is about sharing this somatic health and well-being modality with the world for empowering others. Our Shaking Medicine Teacher Training is one of the most important elements of that mission. 

If you are participating in group teacher training, you will connect with like-hearted people who are also fascinated by the medicine of shaking.

In the more private one-on-one versions you may not directly connect with a group during your training but you will certainly connect deeply with your facilitator.

We make up a connected group of facilitators sharing Shaking Medicine all over the world and often cultivate long-lasting friendships with each other.

We support our teachers in growing and developing in their teaching after graduation with ongoing connections and resources. We have Shaking Medicine Teacher meetings and special events for certified Shaking Medicine Teachers. We have a social group where we all stay connected to share what we are up to, to ask questions to our Shaking Medicine Teaching Community, and for ongoing support.

In the 'Teacher Training Options' section above, you will find the various teacher trainings we currently have available. These may vary throughout the year as we complete Teacher Trainings and plan our next ones. You can click on these for more details about a particular option and to book in.

You may find Shaking Medicine Teacher Trainings that we host. These may be in-person or online. These are group events at a set time and place. 

You'll also find the "Personalized Shaking Medicine Teacher Training" option. With this option, you can train one-on-one or you can 'create your own group. We can do this either completely online or in person if we are in the same area. We can do a combination if we are only in the same area for a short amount of time. See the event for group discount rates.

You may also see some of these options with different teacher training facilitators to choose from.

The total curriculum requirements are the same for all options although the method of delivery and how you complete the total hours may be slightly different.

In all types, you'll have your Teachers Portal and Teacher Training Archive to support you through your training which has easy-to-follow detailed guidance.

During each meeting together, we will have an embodiment class, share our experiences in embodiment & practice teaching, ask questions, discuss relevant theory, have some small breaks, and more.

In the 'Personalized Shaking Medicine Teacher Training' option the number of live meetings and the number of hours per live meeting is detailed in the option with the particular facilitator. You can easily schedule your meetings with us within your Teacher Training Portal after you book in or we can manually schedule them as well. If you create your own group then participants of a group are to attend the same meetings together.

Embodying Shaking Medicine is one of the most important aspects of being a fantastic Shaking Medicine facilitator. This will allow you to share from a space of practical understanding instead of merely an intellectualized perspective.

You must do at least 20 hours of embodiment practice during this teacher training.

Most of your hours will be done via pre-recorded videos and/or any embodiment hours that we do live together during your training.

Your access to the Teacher Training Archive has many pre-recorded embodiment classes designed for teachers in training.

The Shaking Medicine Skool Community is another resource that you can use to complete your embodiment hours.

For about 2-4 of your embodiment hours, we will ask that you do them in your own intuitive way. This means that you will guide yourself. You can certainly use anything you learned to inspire your self-guided journeys.

The follow-along classes will ensure that you get a deep feel and understanding of the flow of a Shaking Medicine class while the self-guided practices will ensure that you are also growing your empowered-creative self which has infinite potential.

We share with you information about the background, history, science and philosophy of Shaking Medicine.

Through this, you will learn fundamental theory about Shaking Medicine and dive into the intricacies of teaching a Shaking Medicine journey with us.

Please see 'What Theory You Will Learn' tab above for content details.

This part constitutes 16 hours.

This will involve answering questions to show that you have a sufficient understanding of the basic important principles of Shaking Medicine.

This is an amazing reference for you as you go through your training, as well as after you complete your training.

I will provide you with personalized feedback on your assessment to make sure you grasp all important concepts.

Your Teachers Portal has a section of recorded videos where Dr Keith Motes takes you through all of the theory in the order of the assessment.

We will also go through much of the theory in our meetings together. Often questions are asked that take the discussions of the theory to deeper and even more refined places. This is one of the reasons why each Shaking Medicine Teacher Training is unique as well as the fact that this modality is constantly growing, refining, and evolving. Certified Shaking Medicine Teachers often come back to do this training and say that get a lot out of doing it multiple times. A big discount is currently offered to certified teachers to join again.  

This will constitute 4 hours of your training.

You will practice teaching seven full classes of Shaking Medicine to your friends, family, students, clients, etc., with the aim of:

• Building your confidence as a teacher.
• Becoming proficient at getting new people to therapeutically tremor.
• Getting yourself comfortable with the flow and unique language style of a Shaking Medicine class.
• Overcoming the main obstacles in sharing Shaking Medicine with others.
• Discussing your experience with your facilitator/group for feedback, growth, and learning.

As part of this, we will provide you with a Shaking Medicine Practice Teaching Log Book to answer a few short questions after each of your practice classes. You'll send us your logbook when all seven logs are completed.

You will record your last class and send it to us, which we will provide personalized feedback on to make sure you grasp the fundamentals.

This will comprise 10 hours of your training.

Total: 50 hours

The total training time is 50 hours on average.

Some people may finish a little bit quicker or may take a little bit longer.

Once you complete all these components, pay your contribution in full, and send us your profile for the Teachers Page, we will send you your Shaking Medicine Certificate whereby you will be fully qualified as a Shaking Medicine Facilitator and can then get your insurance.

By teaching Shaking Medicine you acknowledge that you are in alignment with and will uphold our teaching ethos:

"We are facilitators of Shaking Medicine who make up a united tribe sharing this medicine with the world for empowering others. We are passionate about learning, embodying, sharing, growing, refining, and evolving the art and science of Shaking Medicine. As we awaken the shake in others by sharing Shaking Medicine with them, we do so with tremendous care and will follow up and support them as needed. We will support each other as facilitators of Shaking Medicine through ongoing collaboration, communication, discussions, and constructive feedback. We are welcome to bring our unique authentic self, skill set, and creativity into our teachings, given that they are aligned with and incorporate the Shaking Medicine Foundation's fundamentals to keep our teachings safe, fun, and effective. We support the Shaking Medicine Foundation with adequate acknowledgment of the Shaking Medicine Foundation in our sharing and teaching of it namely by referencing our home page at https://www.shakingmedicine.com/ and by using the imagery of our logo art, which cultivates a visual unification of this movement. Shaking Medicine teachers have one of the most important roles in achieving The Foundation's primary mission of sharing this with the world and so Shaking Medicine teachers are greatly supported by the Shaking Medicine Foundation via ongoing care, connection, discussions, and support."

For our group training options, the timeline for completion of your teacher training is 6 weeks from the day after our last meeting.

For the 'One-On-One' option, the timeline for completion is 3 months from your sign-up date.

We have these time frames to inspire commitment and timeliness.

Our late policy is $100 USD per month that you go into that you are late (e.g. 1 day late equals $100, going into the 2nd month after that equals $200, etc.).

We are happy to offer extensions for critical life circumstances. Reach out and let us know as soon as you can during your training so we can discuss this. If you are in an extension we request regular updates from you so we know that you are making the effort and have the intention of completing your teacher training.

Once you are signed up for our Shaking Medicine Teacher Training, you will be granted access to three main resources:

1. Teacher Training Portal. This is your go-to resource for completing your teacher training.
2. Teacher Training Archive. This has many videos from our past teacher trainings to support you with supplementary material and embodiment classes designed for teachers.

If you have successfully completed your Shaking Medicine Teacher Training by obtaining a certificate, then you will have access to the Teacher Training Portal and Teacher Training Archive for as long as you are actively sharing and participating in Shaking Medicine. If you haven't completed the training, this access will last for the allotted time frame.

Shaking Medicine is an internationally recognized modality by the International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT) in 39 countries and you will be fully insurable when you complete this Teacher Training. Learn more with this PDF here. 

IICT has the most comprehensive list of modalities all in one inclusive place, so insurance with IICT will most likely include all of the modalities you are certified to share instead of relying on various insurance companies. Check out their list of approved modalities here. They even have a "get all your modalities covered or triple your money back!" guarantee.

Our certificate currently supports the following countries for professional insurance:

IICT offers membership and access to insurance in 39 countries worldwide: UK and Europe: United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Latvia, Sweden, Channel Islands, Norway, Estonia, Austria, Malta, Isle of Man, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Finland; Oceania: Australia, New Zealand; North America: United States, Canada; Africa: South Africa.

To get insured, you must first obtain your Shaking Medicine Teacher Training Certification.

The benefit of getting insurance is that you are protected against potential claims. You are completely responsible legally for your sharing of Shaking Medicine and so we strongly advise having insurance. We are here to support you at all times with any questions as they arise.

Steps to get insurance:

1. Receive your Shaking Medicine Certificate from us by completing all of the Shaking Medicine Teacher Training requirements.
2. Become an IICT member. Our collaboration with IICT provides you with 20$ off of the membership using the discount code (1SHAKINGMED14).
3. Get insurance through IICT. Click here to become an IICT member and to get IICT insurance.

By getting insurance with IICT, you will be able to utilise IICT’s membership seals to denote your professional affiliation and add greater credibility by using these seals on your promotional materials online and offline.

You will receive a certificate showing that you have shown the necessary requirements to successfully, safely, effectively, and efficiently bring people through a journey of Shaking Medicine.

With this certificate, you can obtain insurance so that you can share Shaking Medicine professionally and be protected.

In your Teacher Training Portal and Teacher Training Archive, you have a plethora of ongoing resources to support you in your sharing of Shaking Medicine once you are graduated.

Your profile on our Shaking Medicine Teachers Page will grow your credibility and your affiliation with the Shaking Medicine Foundation. It will also allow people to find and connect with you that may end up becoming your client and/or friend.

When you make Shaking Medicine events, we are happy to help you promote them in various ways that we can.

We have a very easy-to-use affiliate program whereby you can get paid by us for your efforts in sharing and acknowledging Shaking Medicine. We greatly value the efforts it takes to share and get this work out there and so we offer quite high commission rates to reflect this.

Once you are certified, we don't charge you in any way to teach Shaking Medicine. All we ask is that you follow our Teaching Ethos which includes proper acknowledgement of Shaking Medicine. A most basic level of acknowledgment is to: use our name Shaking Medicine, to reference our home page www.shakingmedicine.com, and to use our logo art to create a sense of visual unification of this movement.

Proper acknowledgement allows people to connect with resources they may need while learning Shaking Medicine. They can connect with us and other teachers and use our resources to help deepen their practice, make educated decisions, have further support, and be a part of the community. 

Tips for acknowledgement:

• Use the name Shaking Medicine when teaching Shaking Medicine or teaching aspects of Shaking Medicine. This may be done by acknowledging Shaking Medicine whenever appropriate in speaking, writing, descriptions, titling a class, and on promotional material, timetables, websites, using logos, linking our website, etc.
• Let people know about our home page https://www.shakingmedicine.com/ and give them a link to this wherever possible. The name Shaking Medicine is easy to remember, so a shout-out in your live classes is helpful as most people can remember this name. You may say something like, "You can check out Shaking Medicine dot com......etc."
• You may add to the previous note by saying something like "at Shaking Medicine dot com you can access lots of information about Shaking Medicine, join the newsletter to stay updated, access the Beginners Course as a next great step in your embodiment journey, find tons of online classes in the Members Portal, find a Trauma Masterclass, see upcoming events, find Teacher Training options, you can contact us, etc."
• Use our Shaking Medicine logos in places like your promotional efforts, on posters, on websites, on socials, within courses you build, etc. This is to build a visual affiliation between us so the world can see we are sharing this medicine in a unified way. Various logos are provided to you in your Teacher Training Portal or you can also access them right here to check them out now.
• Let people know we are a not-for-profit foundation called the Shaking Medicine Foundation that has the aim of helping people access vibrant health and well-being by empowering people to remember their innate therapeutic tremor mechanism and cultivate the life force energy they need to do the things they love to do in life.
• When sharing links you are very welcome to support yourself financially by using our Affiliate Program.

Sometimes our Teacher Training or parts of it are recorded for our online resources to serve as an ever-expanding resource. If you do have to miss a session from our live meetings together, we do record our live-online Zoom meetings. Each meeting is recorded and is available for a month after each meeting. Refunds aren't given in case we can't provide recordings for one of the sessions due to tech issues, Zoom issues or any other unfortunate problems that may arise. In that case, contact us on how to catch up on the missed material and we'll support you in that and develop a plan for you.

With that said full attendance for the group meetings is highly recommended. It also creates a much more potent experience when everyone is together.

In the case that there are tech issues and a live-online meeting can't be streamed for reasons such as power failure, the internet being down, weather events, computer or tech failure, or any other exceptional circumstance, we will reschedule the missed meeting. Luckily this hasn't happened and we will always do our best to keep it that way.

In the case that we have to cancel a teacher training, for a reason such as not enough students attending, major life circumstances, or anything else, we’ll provide you with the choice of either a full refund or a full credit to attend a future teacher training.

Certified teachers must follow the teaching ethos during the training and ongoing after the training as this is a pivotal piece for what we are cultivating as a movement. If you go out of alignment with the teaching ethos your certificate, insurance, and permission to share this modality may be revoked. We are always open to positively refining our work here at Shaking Medicine, so feel free to open a discussion with us about anything that you feel to add or refine.

Finally, we aim to be as comprehensive as possible in describing this teacher training and the process of completing it. We are continually refining this page, the training itself, and our whole Shaking Medicine ecosystem. If anything doesn't make sense, or you feel we've missed explaining something important, or you have any other questions please reach out and ask us either on our contact page or in your Teacher Training Discovery Call (link above on this page).