BodyTalk Fundamentals September 2023 Crestone Colorado

Train in BodyTalk.

Deepen Your Craft. Bring Mind–Body Science Into Application.

3 Month Immersion November - January 2026

Crestone, Colorado

A 12-week in-person intensive for practitioners and leaders who want structured brain–body literacy.

10 seats · Application only

Immerse yourself one of North America's most activated natural landscapes at the base of the Sangre De Cristo Crestone mountain range under some of the darkest skies and quietest places on the planet. This full winter retreat course will transform how you use your clinical skills to support practical awareness and profound inner and outer healing for your self and your clients.

The BodyTalk Fundamentals course provides a comprehensive introduction to the BodyTalk System and presents many powerful consciousness-based healing techniques and principals that address a wide variety of symptoms on all levels of the body and mind.

Who This Course if For:

Healing arts professionals expanding into BodyTalk or mind–body practice

Community leaders, educators, and youth advocates who want science-grounded regulation tools

Practitioners ready for immersive training with clinic hours and personal sessions—not passive content

The program

12 weeks · November–January

3 hours per week live instruction and practice.

Weekly class 3 hours Intensive Immersion

Expect deep transformation.

A weekly three-hour classroom for practitioners and serious students. This is not a survey course. It is an immersion: one room, one cohort, three hours a week, long enough to change how you listen.

Learn to use structured intuition so you can meet the body’s inborn capacity to heal and balance. Deepen communication with body and mind. Follow the guidance of each client’s unique body story—not a script, and not your agenda.

Monthly Supervised Clinic Practicum — 3 Hours

Dynamic Systems: theory and practice.

A monthly three-hour clinic. You give and receive BodyTalk in a supervised container. The work is live. The learning is the session.

Expand whole healthcare beyond a single system. Hold the physical, environmental, emotional, and biological faces of how dis-ease shows up. Learn to reveal root causes across a wide range of conditions—not by guessing, but by following the body’s own sequence.

Come ready to treat and to be treated. Leave with Dynamic Systems in your hands, not only in your notes.

Priority based listening

Plus three private 1:1 sessions — included in tuition.

Learn muscle checking as a structured way to speak with the body. Discern which areas of body and mind are the priority to balance. Restore harmony there with a protocol you can repeat in clinic, not a pile of techniques.

Three private sessions
Three one-to-one BodyTalk sessions with an advanced practitioner of 25+ years. Focused work that sits beside the group training and gives you direct time with someone who has practiced and taught this work for decades.

You leave with practitioner skill and a lived sense of the work in your own system.

Read the full Course Curriculum

(Mod 1) BodyTalk: Fundamentals - Part 1

Course Title:
(Mod 1) BodyTalk: Fundamentals - Part 1

Course Overview:
Currently, the general approach to modern health care is undergoing a radical change. There is a paradigm shift afoot in our understanding of dis-ease and how and why it manifests in the human living system. The body has an innate ability to heal itself; however, this ability is hindered by many factors such as physical, emotional, mental, biochemical, and environmental stressors. The BodyTalk SystemTM operates out of this new scientific understanding; blending quantum physics with ancient philosophical knowledge to assist the body in remembering how to heal itself.

Course Description
The BodyTalk Fundamentals course provides a comprehensive introduction to the BodyTalk SystemTM and presents many powerful consciousness-based healing techniques that address a wide variety of symptoms on all levels of the body and mind. This course presents discussions on both scientific and philosophical aspects of health, as well as a hands-on practical application of the BodyTalk Fundamentals techniques.

BodyTalk Fundamentals introduces the key elements of dis-ease manifestation that are often not included in other health care practices. The innovative yet simple techniques taught in this Fundamentals course are designed to effectively reveal the “root causes” of a wide variety of health conditions.
Along with the BodyTalk Fundamentals text book, the course is comprised of classroom work that blends lectures, demonstrations, and hands on practical experience.

Students will first learn the consciousness-based scientific principles, along with the theory behind The BodyTalk SystemTM including: our innate wisdom and how to use it during the sessions, how to engage your intuition in a structured way, the importance of communication in the body, using muscle checking and a structured protocol to discern areas of the body and mind that are a priority to balance, and much more. This will then lead into learning all of the basic BodyTalk techniques and how to apply them in a BodyTalk session.

Course Outline
Introduction

- History of BodyTalk and the Founder, Dr. John Veltheim

Key Concepts:
- The Scientific Basis of BodyTalk
- Consciousness Based Health Care
- Consciousness Localized as Innate Wisdom
- The Zone
- Principles of Muscular Biofeedback
- Priority and the Sequence of Healing
- The Tapping Procedure
- Breathing Principles
- BodyTalk Procedures
- Developing the Concept of Session Readiness
- Development of Practitioner Technical Understanding & Skills:
- Balancing the body basics:
o Hydration, Scars, Cortices of the Brain, and more.
- Addressing environmental imbalances.
- Energy faults and communication blocks with in the brain.
- Balancing Techniques for the organs, endocrines and body parts.
- Addressing energy blockages within chakras and meridians.
- Balancing cellular damage from vaccinations, trauma, and hereditary influences.
- Clearing the body of viruses, infections, parasites, food intolerances, allergies and toxins.
- Clearing past and present emotional blockages, including active memories, phobias and fears.
- Addressing blockages within the lymphatic system.
- Balancing blockages in the circulation of lymph, blood and nerves.
- Balancing blockages in the bodies tissues using the reciprocals concepts.
- Emergency BodyTalk procedure; Fast Aid.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the participant will:
1. Learn the 3 key scientific models that lead to our current understanding of health
2. Learn the 5 different levels of the bodymind and Top/Down Causation
3. Understand how BodyTalk is a consciousness-based health care system
4. Learn how consciousness operates in the bodymind
5. Learn what is meant by the Innate wisdom of the practitioner and the client and its aspects and function
6. Learn what occurs when the synchronicity of the bodymind is disrupted
7. Understand the importance of left and right brain integration and the Zone
8. Understand the muscle checking technique as used during a BodyTalk session.
9. Understand the importance of the principles of BodyTalk which include:
The body has an innate ability to heal itself
Using our own innate wisdom and the art of muscle checking along with a
structured protocol and procedure to discern the areas of priority and the
sequence of balancing
10. Discuss how the “interference” of the following can limit results of BodyTalk;
Attention Vs. Intention
Priority Vs. problem
Agenda Vs. non-agenda
Attachment VS. non-attachment
Caring Vs. not caring
11. Understand the five functions of breathing and principles of tapping
12. Understand the concept of receiving permissions before and during a BodyTalk
session and how to ‘clear’ them for both practitioner and client
13. Through lecture, demonstration, and practice the participant will learn to use the
BodyTalk balancing techniques in Fundamentals and will experience the techniques
as the recipient.

(Mod 2) BodyTalk: Fundamentals - Part 2

This course builds on the knowledge gained in BodyTalk Fundamentals- Part 1 and expands the treatment techniques to include the entire basic BodyTalk system. Once again, both the theory and the practical aspects of the BodyTalk treatment techniques are covered. The elements of the BodyTalk protocol addressed in this course are as follows:

Extrinsic Reciprocals, Lymphatic System, Nervous/Circulatory Systems, Energy Systems (Meridians, Blood Sugar, Chakras), Environmental Systems.

Treating the 36 surface energy points that often impact a person's energy level, mood, overall structural integrity, muscle tension, and digestive system. Surface energy imbalances can also cause pain in specific parts of the body.

Cleansing the lymphatic system including all the body lymph glands and the
lymph ducts.

Treating energy blockages associated with the nervous and circulatory
systems.

Balancing the various energy systems within the body including the traditional
acupuncture meridians and the Chakras. Restoring energy imbalances between
the client and certain aspects of the environment.

Specific balancing of brain function and improvement of the circulation of nerves
and blood to, or within, specific areas of the body. Correction of hereditary and/or environmentally influenced cell disorders. Repairing damage from vaccines.

BodyTalk Fundamentals- Part 1 is a pre-requisite for this course and this course
is a pre-requisite for any of the advanced BodyTalk modules.

BodyTalk Fundamentals- Part 1 & 2 are often combined into a complete evening
plus four days intensive so that the practitioner can learn the complete basic
BodyTalk System in one session and start using the modality immediately.

How transformation happens

The deep shift is in the training itself: weekly class, shared practice, and the supervised clinic practicums where you give and receive BodyTalk in community. That group container is where professional skill and personal healing weave together over the 12 weeks.

Winter is a profound time for inner work. Fundamentals here is professional development and a self-healing immersion. Through giving and receiving BodyTalk, students often meet deep self-improvement, honest reflection, and integrated learning that sticks because the body was in the room—not only the intellect.

Space is limited to 10 Participants

Sign up today and secure your space for this intimate and transformational learning experience.

250 page electronic textbook & Reference guides included, as well as online follow up learning post workshop.

$1500 Investment for new students ($300 off for *Early Bird pricing before October 30th)

*Healthy organic snacks and tea included daily in course fee.

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Professionals and individuals ready to take their practice and their life to the next level.

This immersion is for people who already work with bodies, minds, or communities, and for people who want a precise way to listen to their own. If you are willing to train weekly, sit in clinic, and let the work change how you practice, you belong on this list.

Doctors & ND's

Expand your clinical understanding of mind-body medicine and transform how you address the root causes of disease.

Acupuncturists

Improve clinical effectiveness and outcomes for your patients by prioritizing your treatment protocols

Massage Therapists

Enhance your services and scope of practice to include advanced speciality in consciousnesses based healthcare.

Health Advocates

Jumpstart a new career in energy medicine while supporting your family and communities access to holistic, competent healthcare.

Who this unique training is for

This intensive is built for two kinds of people: San Luis Valley residents who can drive in each week, and those who can leave home for three months, rent a small cozy Crestone room or house, and treat the course as a full retreat.

Immerse for three months

Live here. Train weekly. Sit clinic. Let the mountain do part of the teaching. Crestone has been a place of prayer and healing for hundreds of years. The landscape is not a backdrop. It is the room where energy medicine is learned and practiced.

Experience, refuel, revitalize

Give yourself to the land. Walk. Sit. Meet the elemental weather of this valley. Integrate the course through daily nature time, morning practices, and meditation—so the protocol is not only in your notebook. It is in your nervous system when you leave.

Want to learn more about if this is the right course for you?

Book a 20 minute call to discuss course overview, your background, goals, and answer any quesions you may have.

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Meet Your Instructor & Facilitator

Elzabieta Kosmicki has been studying and immersed in BodyTalk for 25 years and has been professionally practicing BodyTalk since 2006 she is an advanced certified practitioner; and is continually evolving her skills with professional development and adjunct training.

Elzabieta couples much of her knowledge and 2 decades of clinical practice in Classical Chinese Medicine, Structural Integration, joint mobilization, manual therapy, efficient movement, martial arts, herbalism and women's care into her BodyTalk sessions and teaching. She has extensive experience as a community health advocate and has worked thoroughly in health disparities and underserved populations.

Elzabieta is also a certified BodyTalk Instructor, and has been teaching BodyTalk courses since 2009, she has trained and certified hundreds of professionals and lay people in BodyTalk ACCESS and BodyTalk Fundamentals across the globe. Elzabieta's teaching experience started in 2002 as a community health educator, she began teaching BodyTalk as part of her work in public health focusing on professional development for therapists and counselors. In her years of teaching she has worked in community health outreach, education in jail and treatment facilities and public/private courses for individuals, professionals and organizations.

She enjoys daily Qi Gong and martial arts training and practice in nature, educating the public on lifestyle medicine and teaching in her martial arts school in Crestone Colorado at the base of the world renown Crestone Needle.

Refer a friend and save big!!

Refer a new student to join you in the class and you can take an additional $150 off your course fee! Refer up to 3 new students and save $450. Referral bonus can be used by new and returning students to save on your course fee and can be combined with the early bird discount.

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