Regulate the Nervous System
Work with states, not just thoughts
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Professional Certification · Founding Cohort
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People
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Trust Deeply, Never Forget, and Seek Out
Help People Move Beyond Understanding—Into Direct, Embodied Transformation
A neuroscience-informed, trauma-aware approach that moves people from conceptual insight into embodied change. A certification for experienced practitioners ready to facilitate regulation, resilience, and compassionate self-leadership.
Applying is free. Early Bird pricing ends Nov 30.
Founding cohort · Begins January 13, 2027 · Six to 12 months · Application required
Facilitate Direct Experience
Guide people past conceptual insight
Hold Trauma-Aware Space
Recognize and respond to activation
Lead From Embodied Presence
Teach from what you've integrated
STARTSJanuary 13, 2027Founding cohort
LIVE TRAININGWednesdays · 1:00 pm ET60 minutes
PHASE ONE ENDSMarch 31, 2027Professional Formation
COMPLETE IN6 to 12 monthsPracticum completed at your pace
Is this for you?
You will need a recognized certification or professional background, plus NSM Foundations completed before the program begins.
Add a body-first, trauma-aware method to the work you already do
Give clients shifts they can feel, not only understand
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Stand apart with an advanced specialization few practitioners hold
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Strengthen your capacity as a meditation teacher through guided support
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Build client trust that tends to support retention and referrals
✷ The Professional Gap
Information vs. Experience
Information tells a client what is happening. It rarely holds when stress rises and the nervous system takes over. What changes people is an experience: feeling their body settle, their attention steady, and a new response become possible. Most trainings teach you to deliver information. NSM trains you to guide experience.
Why the gap persists
- 1Mindfulness is often taught as ideas, so it stays in the head instead of the body.
- 2When clients don't feel change early, motivation fades.
- 3Practitioners rarely get feedback on the subtle craft of pacing, language and presence.
- 4Even experienced teachers can end up teaching from knowledge rather than from their own embodied practice.
When clients feel change during your sessions, they are more likely to trust the work, remember it, and tell others.
What Is Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™?
A body-first path to transformation, rooted in classical mindfulness
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ (NSM) is an embodied approach to classical mindfulness practice developed by Fleet Maull, PhD. It trains interoception: your ability to feel what is happening inside your body. Instead of thinking about their experience, people learn to feel it directly and use those signals to settle and steady themselves. NSM stays fully rooted in mindfulness and meditation.
Interoception
Practitioners learn to enter the direct sensate reality of the body and breath.
Experiential rather than primarily explanatory
Attention becomes less conceptual and more experiential; the body becomes a living field of awareness, regulation, learning, and transformation.
Neuroscience-informed
Neuroscience-informed without reducing contemplative practice to neuroscience.
Trauma-aware
Trauma-aware, invitational, and respectful of individual nervous systems.
Developmental
Supporting practice from focused attention toward open awareness and nondual resting in being.
Professionally integrative
Designed to enhance the work you are already doing.
The rootMeditation and Neurobiology
The methodologyNeuro-Somatic Mindfulness™
The purposeHuman flourishing
✷ The NSM Advantage
Create the Kind of Change People Talk About
When clients can feel a meaningful shift—not months from now, but in the session itself—you become more than another qualified professional. You become the practitioner they remember, recommend, and seek out.
Mainstream mindfulness trainingThe NSM Advantage
Primary Engagement PathwayPrimarily top-down: attention, awareness, observation, and insightFull bottom-up + top-down integration—working directly with embodied experience, interoception, and the nervous system
When Change HappensOften develops gradually through sustained practiceDiscernible shifts can happen within the session itself
What Clients Experience“I understand what’s happening.”“Something just shifted.”
When Stress Takes OverInsight and awareness can become harder to access when activation is highEmbodied capacities designed to be available when clients need them most
The “Wow” FactorProgress can be subtle and cumulativeTangible change clients can feel, recognize, and remember
What Clients Tell Others“My coach/teacher/therapist is really good.”“You have to experience this.”
Your PositionOne of many qualified professionalsA practitioner with capabilities most professionals have never been taught
Your PracticeBuild reputation and referrals over timeRemarkable client experiences create word of mouth, referrals, and demand
NSM helps you become the practitioner clients trust and recommend.
Felt Experience→Trust→Engagement→Lasting Transformation→Referrals
Advanced Professional Specialization
This Is an Advanced Professional Specialization—and the Beginning of a New Field
This certification is not designed to teach beginners how to meditate, nor is it another broad survey of mindfulness concepts. It is designed for professionals who already bring an established practice, meaningful life experience, and a commitment to helping others. You will deepen your own embodiment while learning how to facilitate Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness skillfully, ethically, and confidently in your existing professional setting. NSM Foundations is required before beginning the certification.
✷ Why Most Approaches Fall Short
Top-down makes sense in theory. It loses power under stress.
Most coaching, mindfulness, therapy, and leadership programs work from the top down. That approach has real value—until cognition narrows and the nervous system takes the wheel.
Traditional Approaches
Focus on changing thoughts
Rely heavily on insight
Emphasize behavior modification
Often lose effectiveness under stress
May leave deeper patterns untouched
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™
Begins with nervous system safety
Develops interoceptive awareness
Works through embodied experience
Creates conditions for neuroplastic change
Supports deep integration
YOUR OWN JOURNEY
Your Transformation Comes First
Deepen your practice. Embody the work. Bring a different quality of presence to everyone you serve.
Your own NSM practice is the foundation of this certification. Through guided practice, sustained training, and personal support, you cultivate deeper embodied awareness, nervous system trust, and compassionate presence. These capacities become part of who you are—and how you meet your students and clients.
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Deepen Your Own Practice
Enter more deeply into the felt experience of your body and breath. Develop greater stability of attention and access to the quieter, more spacious dimensions of embodied awareness.
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Cultivate Embodied Presence
Learn to rest more fully in yourself—with greater steadiness, openness, and compassion. Strengthen your capacity to remain present with your own experience, including when difficulty arises.
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Bring Your Presence Into the Relationship
Bring what you have cultivated into how you listen, respond, and guide. Your pacing, language, and ability to stay connected become expressions of your own embodied practice.
The presence you cultivate becomes the presence you bring.
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You hold space for others all day. Here, you get to be the student again.
You experience the method in your own body first, then learn to guide it under supervision, with detailed feedback on your pacing, language, and presence.
✷ Who This Is For
Designed for Experienced Professionals Who Work with Human Growth and Transformation
NSM is a methodology you can integrate into the professional identity and scope you already hold. You do not need to become a different kind of professional. You will learn to bring a deeper embodied dimension to the work you are already doing.
Mindfulness and Meditation TeachersDeepen your own practice and expand your teaching beyond conceptual instruction into interoceptive, embodied, and progressively nondual approaches.
CoachesHelp clients regulate, access deeper self-awareness, interrupt habitual reactivity, and translate insight into felt, actionable change.
Therapists, Counselors, and PsychologistsAdd structured mindfulness and embodied awareness practices that can complement clinical work while respecting professional scope and the needs of each client.
Yoga and Somatic Movement TeachersConnect outer-body awareness with the internal sensate landscape, nervous system regulation, and contemplative practice.
Physicians, Nurses, and Healthcare ProfessionalsOffer accessible practices that support presence, stress regulation, resilience, and a more humane experience of care.
Wellness and Integrative Health ProfessionalsBring a rigorous embodied mindfulness methodology into programs focused on stress, vitality, behavior change, and whole-person wellbeing.
Educators and Academic LeadersSupport attention, emotional regulation, relational presence, and resilience in learning communities while deepening your own capacity to lead.
Organizational Leaders and FacilitatorsStrengthen self-regulation, co-regulation, compassionate leadership, and the capacity to remain present under pressure.
Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and Contemplative ProfessionalsIntegrate a secular, embodied practice language that can support people across diverse beliefs and backgrounds.
Experienced Helping Professionals in TransitionDevelop a distinctive specialization that can renew your professional identity, deepen your confidence, and expand how you serve.
This program is not intended to qualify participants to diagnose or treat conditions outside their existing professional license, training, or scope of practice.
In Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness we do not pursue perfection.
We cultivate an unending capacity to learn, deepen, and refine.
✷ Program Overview
Learn it in your own body. Then learn to guide it.
A six-to-twelve-month certification in two phases. Your own practice comes first; supervised teaching, precise feedback and a final demonstration follow.
StartsWednesday, January 13, 2027
Live trainingWednesdays, 1:00 pm ET60 minutes, Eastern Time
Phase One endsMarch 31, 2027
Complete in6 to 12 months
Phase One: Professional FormationJanuary 13 to March 31. The method in your own body first.
Phase Two: Supervised PracticumApril 7 to June 23, with faculty support.
Your own paceCertify by January 2028.
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Each dot is a live training with NSM Coaches. Fleet Maull, PhD leads three of the twelve.
Each week
Live training
Wednesdays at 1:00 pm ET, 60 minutes, with NSM Coaches
A teaching from Fleet
A new contextual teaching for each week's module
Guided study
The week's certification lessons
Daily practice
30 minutes a day, five days a week, logged weekly
Reflection
Applying the week's work to your own clients or classes
Phase One
Twelve modules in six core areas, one module a week
Weeks 1 and 2
The NSM Framework
The Neuro-Somatic Path
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What you'll explore
The developmental aims of HeartMind; basic goodness as experiential ground; human flourishing as embodied, developmental, relational, and ethical.
What you'll practice
Arriving in the body and recognizing present-moment okayness, without denying difficulty.
How you'll apply it
Explaining basic goodness in secular, experiential language that fits your professional setting.
Establishing the Ground for NSM Meditation
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What you'll explore
The movement from top-down effort toward direct sensate experience; state-to-trait development and the progressive stabilization of embodied awareness.
What you'll practice
A layered practice that moves from thinking about the body to sensing it directly, then letting the system settle without forcing an outcome.
How you'll apply it
Writing and rehearsing a five-minute micro-practice using concrete, invitational interoceptive cues.
Weeks 3 and 4
Beyond the Conceptual Body
Deepening Embodied Awareness and Nervous System Trust
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What you'll explore
The progressive 21-Day NSM practice journey; stable embodied presence; interoceptive precision and curiosity; self-regulation through direct internal experience.
What you'll practice
A progressive daily sequence of contact points, breath, whole-body sensing, orienting and choice, returning without self-judgment.
How you'll apply it
Rewriting directive mindfulness cues as invitations, and signaling choice and safety without making promises.
The Body Learns
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What you'll explore
Open awareness and nondual resting in being; a lifelong orientation toward practice, learning, and mastery.
What you'll practice
A three-part practice: focused attention in sensation, widening to whole-body and field awareness, then releasing unnecessary effort.
How you'll apply it
Designing a ten-minute practice that moves from an anchor toward broader awareness, with the option to stay with the anchor.
Weeks 5 and 6
Healing and Professional Development
From Doing to Being
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What you'll explore
Unconditional okayness as safe, resourced, and connected states; internal co-regulation; regenerative self-parenting.
What you'll practice
Contacting a resourced place in the body, approaching manageable difficulty in small doses, and returning to resource.
How you'll apply it
Designing a short resourcing practice that stays within scope and doesn't invite trauma disclosure.
Becoming an Embodied Secure Base
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What you'll explore
Radical responsibility; embodied self-leadership; how personal development shapes professional effectiveness.
What you'll practice
An embodied pause: sensing activation, widening the field, naming your choices, and responding in line with your values and scope.
How you'll apply it
Rehearsing three common facilitation challenges: resistance, distress, and not knowing what to do.
Weeks 7 and 8
Compassion and Relational Presence
The Embodied Path of Healing and Transformation
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What you'll explore
Self-compassion without self-indulgence; loving-kindness as systematic practice.
What you'll practice
Self-compassion through sensation, gesture, and optional phrases or imagery, resting in the felt sense of care without demanding a particular emotion.
How you'll apply it
Creating a brief secular compassion practice with several options, and explaining self-compassion to a skeptical client.
Living the Neuro-Somatic Path
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What you'll explore
Working with relational contraction and reactivity; compassion for difficult people; relational presence in professional settings; the movement from personal practice toward social concern and contribution.
What you'll practice
A staged relational practice, from people who support you through neutral and, optionally, difficult people to the wider human community.
How you'll apply it
Staying compassionate in a difficult professional exchange while naming your limits clearly.
Weeks 9 and 10
Science and Contemporary Understanding
Awakening the Embodied Heart
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What you'll explore
Mindfulness as a trainable capacity; attention networks and neuroplasticity; thoughts, emotions, and reactivity; stress physiology and resilience.
What you'll practice
A practice-observation lab: describing an NSM practice first as direct experience, and only then through cautious scientific hypotheses.
How you'll apply it
Answering common questions such as "Is this scientifically proven?" and "How is this different from relaxation?"
From Embodied Presence to Relational Presence
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What you'll explore
Self-compassion and prosocial capacities; relationships, meaning, and wisdom; how to speak about science accurately without overstating claims.
What you'll practice
A "trait bridge" practice that links a state cultivated in meditation to a small daily cue and action in relationship or work.
How you'll apply it
Writing an outcome statement for your own work that is meaningful and free of inflated claims.
Weeks 11 and 12
Professional Integration and Lifelong Mastery
Facilitating Transformative NSM Meditation
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What you'll explore
Teaching presence, language, pacing, and silence; invitational and trauma-aware facilitation; guiding direct sensate experience; working with questions, resistance, activation, and uncertainty.
What you'll practice
A complete 15-minute NSM practice, from grounded entry through deepening, integration and close.
How you'll apply it
Recording a 10–15 minute practice teaching and reviewing it against the NSM Facilitation Competency Rubric.
Bringing NSM into Professional Practice
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What you'll explore
Professional scope and ethical boundaries; introducing NSM to clients and groups; preparing for supervised teaching and certification assessment.
What you'll practice
A closing integration practice that revisits embodied ground, choice, compassion and professional intention.
How you'll apply it
Preparing how you will introduce NSM, obtain consent and explain its limits in your setting, then completing a 15–20 minute recorded capstone.
Apply for the founding cohort ↳Talk With an Advisor
Applying is free. Early Bird pricing ends November 30.
Phase Two
Phase Two: Supervised Practicum
Weekly drop-in support, optional
Demonstrated
competenceTeaching practiceRecorded submissionsPersonalized feedbackCoaching supportFinal demonstration
competenceTeaching practiceRecorded submissionsPersonalized feedbackCoaching supportFinal demonstration
What it involves
- Teach NSM in classes or in NSM-informed sessions with clients, and log your teaching-practice hours. The final required total will be confirmed before enrollment.
- Submit audio recordings of your teaching regularly, about weekly, plus at least one final video.
- Receive rubric-based feedback on your pacing, language and presence.
- Use optional weekly drop-in support and peer learning with your cohort.
How it ends
Complete a final certification demonstration any time from month six and within twelve months of starting. Extensions are considered case by case.
You become a Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator.✷ About Fleet Maull
Created and Led by Fleet Maull, PhD
Fleet Maull, PhD is a meditation teacher, author, executive coach, and founder of HeartMind Institute. His work draws on more than five decades of contemplative practice and teaching across Buddhist and secular mindfulness traditions.
He developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ as a body-first approach to classical mindfulness practice. It helps practitioners move from thinking about experience to sensing it directly, building steadier presence, self-regulation, and professional facilitation skill.
In this certification, Fleet provides the methodology, contextual teaching, three live Phase One sessions, and the standards that guide competency-based certification.
Fleet's Role in the Program
- Overall methodology and certification standards
- Contextual teaching across the Phase One modules
- 3 live sessions in Phase One
- Final certification review
Founder
HeartMind Institute
Creator
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™
50+
years meditation practice and teaching
2M+
people reached across six continents
PhD
Contemplative & Integral Medicine
Author
Radical Responsibility
✷ Leading Voices
See What Leading Mindfulness Teachers Say About Dr. Fleet Maull’s Book and Teaching
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Tara Brach, PhD
Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“The path of Radical Responsibility evolves our capacity to respond—with wisdom, courage, and love—to the suffering of our world. Author Fleet Maull guides us masterfully in awakening from our separateness and inspires a profound dedication to caring for ourselves and each other.”
Jack Kornfield, PhD
Author of A Path with Heart
“Radical Responsibility is an empowering and heartfelt guidebook to living more fully, a systematic training for practical liberation in your life.”
Sharon Salzberg
Author of Real Happiness and Real Love
“Following the path Radical Responsibility—a gift to us from author Fleet Maull's amazing real-life backstory—we learn to own our choices and create the freedom to craft our lives to be truly happy, reach our highest potential, and be a force for good that can change the world.”
Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD
Abbot of Upaya Zen Center and author of Standing at the Edge
“This important work by Fleet Maull is full of practical wisdom and written from his deep experience as a teacher, practitioner, and guide of corporate executives, chaplains, and those serving others. It is a rare treasure and a book for today and for all time.”
Daniel Goleman
Author of Emotional Intelligence
“Fleet Maull draws on his unique life journey and remarkable expertise, sharing with us how we can find equanimity and compassion in the maelstrom of our days. Radical Responsibility offers a sound and original blueprint for a life well lived.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
Author of Full Catastrophe Living and Mindfulness for All
“Fleet Maull’s creative and time-tested framework for reining in your own mind’s inflammatory, self-destructive, imprisoning tendencies can be powerfully freeing―and healing. All you need to do is put it into practice. He guides you in exactly how to do that and sustain it for life. You couldn’t be in better hands or have a more capable and authentic guide.”
Richard J. Davidson, PhD
Founder and Director, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“A practical, direct, and accessible guide to human flourishing from someone who faced tremendous adversity and emerged from this challenge with vigor, equanimity, and the deepest passion to share his wisdom for the benefit of others. This book is a gift for anyone facing adversity, which is all of us!”
Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD
Assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems
“At once inspiring and practical, this book masterfully shows us how to thrive in the face of adversity. Based on insights from ancient wisdom traditions, modern neuroscience, contemporary psychology, and his own remarkable journey from maximum-security prison inmate to transformative teacher, Fleet Maull provides a wealth of accessible tools anyone can use to discover their own basic goodness and engage more fruitfully in the world. With warmth, skill, and humility, he provides step-by-step instructions to help us courageously face reality, heal our wounds, and live richer, happier, more fulfilled, and effective lives.”
Joseph Goldstein
Author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
“It's a rare privilege to read the work of someone who walks the talk as fully as Fleet Maull. The transforming wisdom of his extraordinary life experience—from dharma practitioner to prison inmate to spiritual mentor—suffuses every page of this wonderful book. Engaging, pragmatic, and deeply insightful, Radical Responsibility shows us all how to take responsibility for the habit patterns of our lives. With personal stories, psychological research, and a range of meditative exercises, Fleet illuminates the possibilities of living a freer and more joyful life. Highly recommended.”
NSM Coaches
Supported by Experienced NSM Practitioners
Your practicum support comes from experienced NSM practitioners who help you integrate the method, refine your facilitation, and work toward the same competency standards used for certification.
Angie Hight
NSM Coach + Yoga / QiGong Teacher
Jil Amadio
NSM Coach
Megan Sax
NSM Coach + Yoga Teacher
Suzanne Clayton
NSM Coach + Yoga / Pilates Teacher
✷ Prerequisites
Applicants Should Have
01Practice
Consistent mindfulness or meditation practice
At least three years of consistent mindfulness or meditation practice, including completion of at least one teacher-led, in-person, week-long silent meditation retreat.
02Professional
Recognized certification or professional background
- ↳Mindfulness teacher or trainer
- ↳Yoga teacher
- ↳Psychotherapist or psychologist
- ↳Coach
- ↳Another professional with comparable training and experience
Need professional prerequisite training?
If you don't have previous professional training, use this pathway to complete the professional prerequisite above.
Engaged Mindfulness Institute teacher training ↗03Foundation
NSM
Completion of the NSM Foundations course by January 13, 2027
Haven't taken this course yet? Start NSM Foundations before the certification begins.
Purchase NSM Foundations ↗✷ Live Learning & Community
You Will Not Be Doing This Alone.
Phase One includes one live 60-minute session every week. There are 12 total: 9 led by NSM Coaches and 3 led by Fleet Maull, PhD.
Phase One · 12 weekly live sessions
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9 sessions led by NSM Coaches3 sessions led by Fleet Maull, PhDFrom Week 13: optional weekly drop-in supportThroughout: practice partners and peer learning
✷ Comprehensive Feedback
The Kind of Feedback Most Facilitators Never Receive.
Many training programs teach a method, ask students to practice it, and provide only limited guidance on the subtle qualities that make facilitation effective. NSM takes a more rigorous approach. Your recorded teaching will be evaluated using a comprehensive Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness facilitation rubric, with detailed reports identifying demonstrated strengths, priority areas for development, and practical strategies for improvement.
The goal is developmental precision.
NSM FACILITATION COMPETENCY REPORTSUBMISSION 03 · FACULTY REVIEWED
Embodied Presence4.1
Vocal Steadiness & Pacing3.7
Direct-Sensate Guidance3.5
Invitational Language4.3
Trauma-Aware Facilitation3.9
Alignment with NSM Principles4.0
FACULTY OBSERVATION · 02:14
Your resourcing invitation lands with steadiness; consider allowing an additional 8–10 seconds of silence before your next verbal cue so the interoceptive orientation can settle. Growth from Submission 02 is clearly visible in pacing.
CLEAR, ACTIONABLE GUIDANCEREVIEWED BY NSM FACULTY
✷ NSM Case Studies
See the Impact of NSM in Their Own Words →
✷Immediate Impact & Enduring Relationships
Help Clients Experience Why the Work Matters
People are more likely to stay engaged in a meaningful process when they can sense that something real is happening. NSM is designed to help you facilitate direct experiences of regulation, presence, inner connection, and possibility—often early in the relationship. The aim is not to manufacture dramatic experiences or promise instant transformation.
Direct experience
Trust
Motivation
Shared language
Recognized progress
Deeper engagement
Referrals
These authentic early experiences can build trust in you and in the process, increase motivation to continue practicing, create a shared experiential language for future work, help clients recognize progress, support deeper engagement and more enduring professional relationships, and increase the likelihood that satisfied clients speak meaningfully about their experience to others. Professional growth can emerge naturally when your work becomes more experiential, more effective, and more clearly differentiated.
✷ Certification Competencies
What You Will Be Developing Throughout the Certification
Eight facilitator competencies form the foundation of your development and final assessment.
01Embodied PresenceThe ability to guide from a grounded, regulated, authentic presence rather than relying only on scripts or conceptual knowledge.→
02NSM MethodologyA clear grasp of interoception, internal neuro-biofeedback, direct sensate experience, focused attention, open awareness, and the progressive arc of practice.→
03Guidance and PacingSkillful use of language, tone, silence, timing, and attention cues to support direct experience.→
04Trauma-Aware FacilitationAn invitational, resourcing-oriented approach that respects agency, nervous system variability, professional scope, and individual choice.→
05Relational PresenceThe capacity to remain connected, compassionate, and responsive without over-directing, fixing, or making ungrounded interpretations.→
06Professional IntegrationThe ability to adapt NSM appropriately within your established role, population, and setting.→
07Reflective PracticeThe capacity to receive feedback, examine your impact, and continue learning throughout your professional life.→
08Ethics and IntegrityA commitment to accurate claims, appropriate boundaries, informed consent, and responsible use of the methodology.→
✷Certification Standards
Certification Based on Demonstrated Competence.
Certification will recognize your ability to facilitate Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness with sufficient knowledge, embodiment, professional judgment, and practical skill. Completion of videos alone will not qualify a participant for certification. Participants who need additional development may be invited to complete targeted practice or resubmit specific elements before certification is awarded, protecting the integrity of the credential and supporting the success of every graduate.
Professional Formation
Practice & Integration
Supervised Teaching
Feedback & Development
Final Recorded Demonstration
Faculty Assessment
Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator
✷ Everything Included
Your 6 to 12 Month Certification Experience
6–12
MONTHS
of professional formation, supervised practice, feedback and certification
FORMATION
- Twelve newly contextualized professional formation modules
- A new 20–30 minute teaching from Fleet Maull, PhD for each week of Phase One
- A fully integrated certification curriculum drawn from HeartMind’s established NSM body of teaching
- The progressive 21-Day NSM practice journey
- Guided practices and structured personal-practice assignments
PRACTICE & SUPPORT
- Weekly faculty-led Community of Practice sessions during professional formation
- 3 live sessions with Fleet Maull, PhD in Phase One
- Twelve weeks of supervised professional practicum
- Progressive recorded teaching demonstrations
- Comprehensive personalized feedback reports
- Faculty coaching and developmental guidance
- Peer learning and practice opportunities
CERTIFICATION
- The NSM Facilitation Competency Rubric
- Final certification assessment
- Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator credential upon successful completion
- Membership in the founding graduate community and a pathway for continued learning
Formation. Practice. Certification — held as one continuous arc.
✷ Founding Cohort
Become part of the founding generation of NSM professionals.
The founding cohort will be more than the first group to complete the certification. It will become the founding generation of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness professionals—helping shape the culture, language, standards, and future community of this emerging field. Founding participants will enter a program built on a substantial body of established teaching while also contributing thoughtful feedback that helps refine the certification for future cohorts.
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✷ Investment
Founding cohort investment
This is a professional formation and supervised practicum, not a short online course. Founding cohort tuition steps up on November 30 and again after December 31. Your rate is set by when you pay in full or make your first payment.
FOUNDING COHORT PRICING
Payment in Full
Early BirdPay in full by November 30+ 12 months HeartMind Live
$3,250Save $1,000 vs. full price
Full PriceAfter December 31+ 6 months HeartMind Live
$4,250
Payment plan · 3 payments
Most flexibleEarly BirdMake first of 3 monthly payments by November 30+ 12 months HeartMind Live
$1,150/mo$3,450 total
Full PriceAfter December 31+ 6 months HeartMind Live
$1,500/mo$4,500 total
Begins January 13, 2027 · Weekly live sessions Wednesdays at 1:00 pm ET · 6 to 12 months
Tuition is non-refundable.
BOTH PAYMENT OPTIONS INCLUDE
- Phase One: 12-week Professional Formation
- Phase Two: supervised practicum with recorded feedback
- 12 weekly live sessions in Phase One, 3 led by Fleet Maull, PhD
- HeartMind Live bonus based on your pricing tier
- Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator credential after successful completion
HeartMind Live access begins after Week 12. A card is required to activate it.
Application
A Selective Program for Committed Professionals
Enrollment is by application so the cohort can support experienced professionals who are ready for personal practice, supervised teaching, feedback and competency-based certification.
A conversation with an advisor is optional. You can apply without booking a call.
Review
Review the program details and eligibility requirements.
Apply
Submit a brief professional application describing your background, current work, mindfulness experience, and goals.
Foundations
Complete NSM Foundations before the certification begins, if you have not already done so.
Connect
Participate in an enrollment conversation if additional fit or scope questions need clarification.
Enroll
Upon acceptance, complete enrollment and prepare for the opening orientation.
FAQ
Questions You May Be Asking
Everything you need to weigh the decision. If something isn’t here, reach out any time.
Program & Schedule
The certification is designed to be completed in 6 to 12 months. Phase One runs for 12 weeks. Phase Two begins after that and lets you complete supervised practice, feedback and the final demonstration at your own pace within the 12-month window.
Phase One includes one 60-minute live session each week, 12 total, with three led by Fleet Maull, PhD. Phase Two weekly drop-in support is optional. The recordings and make-up policy is still being finalized and will be stated before enrollment.
Practicum & Certification
Teaching-practice hours can include NSM classes you teach and NSM-informed client sessions when you are already qualified to coach or provide therapy. The work must stay within your existing professional scope.
During Phase Two you will submit audio recordings of your teaching regularly, about weekly, plus at least one final video. The exact submission tool and workflow will be provided before the practicum begins.
No. Phase Two includes optional weekly drop-in support in an office-hours format, along with peer learning. Your supervised teaching, recordings, feedback and final demonstration are the core requirements.
You may be asked to complete additional targeted practice, coaching or a resubmission. The goal is to support genuine competence while protecting the integrity of the credential.
Eligibility & Scope
No. This is an advanced professional specialization for experienced practitioners who already have a meaningful mindfulness practice and professional experience working with others. See Prerequisites above for the complete requirements.
No. The program is relevant to coaches, mindfulness and meditation teachers, therapists, yoga teachers and other qualified helping professionals. You are expected to use NSM within the professional role and scope you already hold.
NSM teaches invitational, body-based mindfulness practices for awareness, regulation and direct experience. Coaches must stay within their existing training and scope, avoid diagnosing or treating conditions, and refer out when a client needs clinical care.
The credential does not expand your legal or professional scope. It does not qualify you to diagnose, provide psychotherapy, or treat trauma unless those activities are already within your professional license and training.
About NSM
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ is an embodied approach to classical mindfulness practice developed by Fleet Maull, PhD. It trains interoception, your ability to feel what is happening inside the body, so attention can move from thinking about experience to sensing it directly.
It is designed for experienced professionals who want a body-first mindfulness specialization, supervised teaching practice, detailed feedback and competency-based certification rather than an introductory meditation course.
Interoception means sensing the body from within. Internal neuro-biofeedback means using direct internal experience as feedback about your state. Direct sensate experience means attending to felt experience instead of only thinking about it. State-to-trait describes the gradual stabilization of capacities practiced in a temporary state so they become more available in daily life.
Transformation built for the moments when stress takes over.
They are ready to feel more present in their own lives, to discover that their internal state is not fixed, and to move from understanding what is happening to participating in real change. The Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Professional Certification is an invitation to deepen your own embodiment, refine your craft, and learn to facilitate experiences that people can feel—and carry forward into their lives. It is also an invitation to join the founding generation of a new professional field within mindfulness and help define what Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness can become.
Applying is free. Early Bird pricing ends Nov 30. Cohort begins January 13, 2027. Live sessions Wednesdays at 1:00 pm ET.