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

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

You'll learn how to teach Shaking Medicine to beginners.

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 gain all the tools you'll need to safely and effectively teach Shaking Medicine to others with a focus on teaching it to people who are beginners to Shaking Medicine.

You'll also gain tools for progressively designing your Shaking Medicine classes with fresh material so that you can bring your students from complete beginners to an intermediate level where they are solidly embodied with Shaking Medicine.

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.

You are welcome to do this training for your own personal growth, even if you don't want to teach it or you aren't sure yet if you want to teach it.

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

We are currently limiting the 6-week live-online Shaking Medicine Teacher Training to 6 students as we have found that with a smaller group the potency is much greater.

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.

To join, you should have embodied a basic level of Shaking Medicine and be comfortable with the process of regulating and integrating your practice. We recommend having completed the Shaking Medicine Beginners Course or an equivalent level of Shaking Medicine embodiment.

The Discovery Call is 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 personally obtain the fantastic benefits that Shaking Medicine can offer.

You will advance your own Shaking Medicine practice with 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 and body.

Here are some of the key topics of Shaking Medicine that you will learn about:

• Fundamentals
• History
• Science
• Indigenous, Yogic, Taoist, Shamanistic, and modern modality styles and perspectives
• How to design and guide a safe and effective Shaking Medicine class
• Sequencing
• Bring people into their tremor response safely and effectively
• Regulating the practice and how to support your students
• Invitational and trauma-sensitive language
• Types of shaking and various ways to tune into shaking
• Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and Suppressed Emotions and how Shaking Medicine is designed by nature to help relieve these
• Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) vs PTSD
• Somatic Practices that support Shaking Medicine and vice versa
• Instinctive and Intuitive intelligence
• Anatomy of the physical, energetic, and emotional body
• How shaking aids in regulating fascia
• How shaking can bring about greater resilience, health, strength, flexibility, vitality and more
• Accessing more love, pleasure and life force in your life
• Ego and how Shaking Medicine dissolves the parts of this that hold us back
• Accessing 'Spontaneous Breath of Fire' aka 'The Bushman's Pump'
• Developing your own unique and creative style of sharing Shaking Medicine
• Using descriptive analogies
• Integrating, processing, and grounding
• How to make a living shaking
• and much more as so many unique topics arise in each training

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.

I 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 by utilizing the skills you already have as well if you'd like. This is very much in alignment with how the tremor mechanism wants to move uniquely through us every time we explore it. 

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 simply works very well, why it is relatively so easy to implement, 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 to be sure 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.

You'll notice that in the 'Upcoming Teacher Trainings' section there are various types of teacher trainings to choose from. These may vary throughout the year as we complete Teacher Trainings and plan our next ones.

Namely, there are 'In-Person' options, 'Live-Online' options, and 'One-On-One Learn At Your Own Pace' options.

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 to support you through the required hours which has easy-to-follow detailed guidance.

In the live-online option, we will meet as a group for 4 hours a week for 6 weeks. During each meeting, we will have approximately a 1.5-hour embodiment class, a 2.25-hour discussion and a 0.25-hour break. Your Teachers Portal supports you in the additional hours.

In the 'One-On-One Learn At Your Own Pace' option we will have 6 meetings for 1.5 hours each meeting to discuss the progress of your training and keep your training flowing. There will be the possibility for more meetings if needed. We will discuss scheduling these meetings upon booking and plan for them to be evenly distributed throughout your training period. During each meeting, we will discuss all things related to your training. Your embodiment for this option can be done with the recorded embodiment videos in the Teachers Portal Resources that you'll gain access to upon joining or by organizing Private sessions with me (packages available). Your Teachers Portal supports you in the additional hours.

'In-Person' Teacher Trainings will depend upon the specifics such as how long it is and so more details will be in the relevant event description.

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

You will need to do at least 20 hours of embodiment practice during this training.

The embodiment hours we do live together do count towards these hours.

You will also be given access to the Members Portal and Teacher Training Archive to assist you with many additional full-length embodiment classes.

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.

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.

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. Members Portal. This has 50+ classes to support your embodiment. Your access will last for 6 months from your sign-up.
3. 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 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. You can find our listing here on their website. 

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 obtain your Shaking Medicine certification.

To get your Shaking Medicine certification you must complete all requirements as per the Shaking Medicine curriculum above and submit your teacher's profile to us for the Teachers Page.

Once your certificate is obtained, you may purchase insurance and be fully insured as a Shaking Medicine Facilitator.

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.

To obtain insurance, you first become a member with IICT and then can purchase insurance through them. With IICT you will pay a yearly membership cost (from ~$179 per year) as well as a yearly insurance cost (from ~$77 per year), which is discounted once you are a member.

Steps to get insurance:

1. Receive your Shaking Medicine Certificate from us.
2. Become an IICT member. Our collaboration with IICT provides you with 20% off of membership for the first year using the discount code (ATP20%OFF).
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 an affiliate program whereby you can get paid by us for your efforts in sharing and acknowledging Shaking Medicine.

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 reference our home page https://www.shakingmedicine.com/ and use our logo art where applicable 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. 

Guidelines for acknowledging are:

• 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.
• Use our logo in promotional materials to build visual affiliation. Various logos are provided to you in your Teacher Training Portal or you can easily access them right here.
• 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.

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 instead of offering a refund. 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 refining our work here at Shaking Medicine including our teaching ethos in a positive way so feel free to open a discussion about it if you feel you have something 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 constantly 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).