Emotional Release Therapy

Practicioner Training

Emotional Release Therapy is a hands-on method that works directly with the body to release emotions stored in the tissues. Through acupressure, breathwork, and somatic awareness, it addresses what talking therapy cannot reach alone. The work is challenging, and the result is a profound sense of lightness, emotional spaciousness, and a return to your natural state of freedom.

This three-day training teaches you that process from the inside out. Each day you will receive the work yourself, practice it on others, and leave with enough understanding and skill to offer it with confidence.

The Training

Each day runs from 9am to 1pm with a short tea break. Every session moves through three parts: the theory to orient you, time receiving the work on the mat, and hands-on practice with other participants.

By the end of the three days you will have real, embodied knowledge and the ability to give a full Emotional Release Therapy session to others.

What You Will Learn

• How emotional history becomes chronic physical tension, and how to read it in the body

• A precise map of emotional trigger points and how to work with them using acupressure

• The psychosomatic understanding of trauma and its influence on muscular patterns and breathing

• The full session structure, practiced hands-on with other participants across all three days

Who This Is For

This training is designed for therapists, counselors, bodyworkers, yoga teachers, Reiki practitioners, coaches, and anyone who wants to add a somatic, body-based dimension to the healing work they already do

and anyone wanting to begin doing meaningful work in the world.

No prior certification is required. Just genuine interest and a willingness to show up fully.

Meet the Teachers

The course is led by Pankaj and Maté.

Pankaj has been practicing and teaching Emotional Release Therapy and pranayama in Rishikesh for years, and is one of the teachers who shaped Maté's own understanding of this method.

Maté is a somatic practitioner and trauma-informed therapist trained extensively in bioenergetic work, somatic experiencing, breathwork, and yoga.

Together they hold the meeting point of Eastern yogic science and Western psychosomatic understanding — two people who have lived and worked inside both traditions.

Investment: ₹30,000

A single Emotional Release Therapy session is valued at ₹5,000 in India and €200 in Europe. This training gives you the understanding and hands-on ability to offer this work yourself,

a meaningful investment in your practice and in the people you will go on to help.

The training is limited to 12 participants

3 day long journey in Tapovan, Rishikesh

29-31 of March, 9am-1pm