Harness the Power of Guided Meditations to Facilitate Healing & Transformation

Therapists, Coaches, Healers, and Teachers - Become a Trauma-Informed Guided Meditation Facilitator at our 4-day LIVE Online Intensive!

  • Are you ready to tap into the transformative power of guided meditation enabling you to lead others from from confusion to clarity, from blocked to open, and from fear to love?

  • Do you want to learn how to facilitate healing for clients through shamanic, somatic, chakra, and archetypal meditation styles?

  • Are you eager to leverage the 7-step guided meditation method to guide others through immersive journeys of deep relaxation and liberation?


Get certified as an Guided Meditation Facilitator through our online training program recognized by Yoga Alliance.

Questions? Contact mandy@behindthelids.com.


Enhance Your Therapeutic Effectiveness

  1. Expanded Therapeutic Toolkit: Learn a variety of immersive guided meditation styles, including shamanic, somatic, chakra, and archetypal, enhancing your ability to facilitate deep healing experiences for your clients across a range of modalities.

  2. Facilitate Deep Relaxation and Liberation: Master the art of visualization and beautiful imagery to guide clients into the wisdom of their sacred space, allowing them to experience profound relaxation and liberation from mental, emotional, and physical constraints.

  3. Support Clients in Transformation: Gain the skills to guide clients from confusion to clarity, from blocked to open, and from fear to love, facilitating deep transformation and personal growth through the power of guided meditation journeys.

  4. Harness Visionary Gifts: Learn how to harness your own visionary and insightful approach to guiding dynamic meditation experiences, enabling you to create personalized journeys tailored to the unique needs of each client.

  5. Build Confidence and Skill: Receive a framework of scripts and techniques to get you started in facilitating guided meditations, while also mastering advanced techniques of guided imagery and visualization, enhancing your confidence and skill as a meditation facilitator.

  6. Professional Recognition and Impact: Become certified in our powerful 7-step method, joining a community of skilled meditation facilitators equipped to support others in accessing their truth and creating profound change in their lives, ultimately expanding your professional impact and recognition in the field of therapy and healing arts.


Register now for our next Guided Meditation Facilitator Training through Behind the Lids.

September 5-8, 2024 - Online via Zoom

Thursday, September 5th, 2024 (6-8pm)
Friday, September 6th, 2024 (6-8pm)
Saturday, September 7th, 2024 (10am-4pm)
Sunday, September 8th, 2024 (10am-4pm)

Questions? Contact mandy@behindthelids.com.


Learn Our Powerful 7-Step Method to Deepen Your Healing Work

Learn how to facilitate a variety of immersive guided meditations that are incredibly effective in healing the mind, body, and soul – including shamanic, somatic, chakra, and archetypal meditation styles.

Using the art of visualization filled with beautiful imagery, you will be able to take people into the wisdom of their own sacred space where they will experience deep relaxation and liberation. You’ll understand how to use this invaluable skill to support your clients in accessing deep transformation by guiding them from confusion to clarity, from blocked to open, and from fear to love.

If you’ve ever experienced one of Nichole’s guided meditations then you know how potent and powerful these journeys are! They have supported people in accessing clarity, peace, a greater perspective on life, openness, radical love and so much more.

Nichole is sharing her powerful 7-step method so you can offer these transformational mediation journeys to your clients and loved ones.

1. Illuminate intention
2. Ground into the present
3. Enter into a new realm
4. Journey into Transformation
5. Create Space for Miraculous Moment
6. Re-enter and Integrate
7. Share your Story

* This training qualifies as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers within Yoga Alliance.


In Our Live Online Intensive, You Will Learn:

  • Understand the fundamentals and science of how to lead effective guided meditation journeys.

  • Understand the workings of the psyche and soma.

  • Learn a psychosomatic approach to facilitating powerful healing journeys that can be embodied into everyday life.

  • Learn about the archetypal characters that live within the human collective and individual consciousness, and how to use them to harness different aspects of our being.

  • Understand the subtle body through the chakras and how these energy portals affect our life experiences.

  • Learn about the three worlds in Shamanism and how to guide people into each world to receive insightful messages.

  • Learn how to take people into their body (soma) to gather their own personal somatic wisdom and deeper understanding of themselves.

  • Learn how to harness your own visionary and insightful approach to guiding a dynamic experience.

  • Receive a framework of scripts you can use to get you started in facilitating.

  • Build confidence in your voice by acquiring your own meditation delivery, vocal tone, and timing.

  • Master advanced techniques of guided imagery and visualization to craft your own journey meditations.

  • Master the ability to facilitate profound transformations through using various mediation journey techniques.


About Nichole Ferro

Nichole Anne Ferro is a Psycho-Somatic Trauma Recovery Coach, Somatic Educator, Breathwork Facilitator/Educator, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Educator, Womb Medicine Women, and Ceremonialist.

She has been in the Healing Arts industry for 15 years and is devoted to various practices of holistic healing. Nichole has over 3,000 training hours in trauma-informed; yoga, breathwork, somatic therapy, and nervous system recovery, and has over 10,000 teaching hours.

Nichole completed the year-long graduate-level program Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Mate, 3 months certification from the School for Shamanic Arts, year-long program with Melanie Swan to become a certified Womb Medicine Woman, 50hr Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator certification through the Embody Lab with teachers such as Dr, Richard Schwartz, Dr. Peter Levine and more, and a year-long Somatic Educator certification through the Somatic Institute for women with David Bedrick, Dr. Saida Desilets, and more.

Through years of study and practice, Nichole has learned firsthand that the healing process is not linear but more like a spiral that contracts and expands. She believes surrendering to the spiral process of birth, growth, death, and rebirth is crucial to deeply understanding Self. She firmly believes we hold ancient wisdom within that is designed to heal old wounds and broken patterns that are holding us back from reaching our fullest potential.

Nichole is the Founder of Somatic Arts Academy. The Somatic Arts Academy is a school that offers certifications in various holistic and trauma-informed healing modalities. It was founded on the belief in the transformative power of the body-mind connection while profoundly normalizing the human landscape. The academy is a sanctuary for those seeking to explore the rich terrain of somatic arts facilitation, where the body becomes a canvas for creative expression, self-discovery, and holistic well-being - and you become the guide to support people’s transformation.

Nichole has developed the Embodied Breathwork Certification, and Guided Visionary Meditation Certification, and co-created the Somatic Arts Facilitator Certification.

She is dedicated to helping others reclaim their body, mind, spirit, and lives and specializes in supporting others in reclaiming their authentic nature, reconnecting with themselves, and building a life they love living.

Training and Experience

  • 500hr+ Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with over 11 years of yoga, meditation, and breathwork training

  • Certified Somatic Educator and Facilitator Certified Breathwork Facilitator and Teacher

  • Graduate of The School For Shamanic Arts

  • Graduate-level program in Compassionate Inquiry for inner child healing, psychosomatic trauma, and trauma recovery (under the guidance of Dr. Gabor Mate)

  • Certified Shamanic Womb Medicine Woman (trademarked through The Sacred Womb)

  • Studied with ISTA – International School of Temple Arts

  • Certified Reiki Master passed down from the Usui Lineage

  • 12 years of training under various teachers for energy healing, shamanic healing, somatic healing, breathwork and yoga