NAIO Holistic Awareness and Somatic  Education Process
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Welcome to NAIO™ Holistic Awareness and Somatic Education Process

DWELL IN THE FLOW OF LIFE

NAIO™ holistic life awareness process uses somatic education principles to support a greater sense of well-being and connection with life. 

Cultivate a deeper relationship with your body & life.

NAIO™ holistic awareness process supports the embodied awareness of the life process. It is a holistic awareness approach to well-being based on the practitioner’s soft, listening, attuned gentle touch and awareness that support the client to experience themselves in new, non-habitual and creative ways.

NAIO™ holistic awareness process can induce deep relaxation and settle the nervous system, a by-product can be the resolution of imbalances. Over time a deepening ability can emerge for better self-regulation and resilience for life’s challenges. Through experiential awareness it introduces new ways of sensing, feeling, and relating.

The experiential learning process transforms our relationship and understanding of the body, movement, life and perception in a gentle manner.

As a somatic movement practice it offers a pathway for individuals to cultivate a deep and intimate relationship with their bodies, fostering self-awareness, healing, and personal growth.

Supporting the practice of NAIO™ holistic awareness process

NAIO International certifies NAIO Practitioners, and keeps a professional membership register of NAIO Practitioners.  

Image of NAIO™ Practitioner  facilitating a session.

NAIO PRACTITIONER TRAINING INTAKE

The NAIO Practitioner Training Certification Track can be undertaken throughout the year, beginning with Introductory Workshops for Practitioners that serve as both a prerequisite and an introduction to NAIO principles. Once an Introductory Workshop and the required prerequisites have been completed, prospective students are eligible to enroll in training modules toward the 900-hour certification, as modules become available. The training is an ISMETA Approved Training Program.

Introductory Workshops for Practitioner Training (2026):

  • Dates: June-July; November-December (in-person)
  • Location(s): California, Europe, Oceania
  • Tuition: $875

NAIO™ Self-Care & Touch Class Series

Simple practices for presence, inner movement, touch, and deep rest.

The NAIO™ Self-Care & Touch Series is open to everyone, who is looking for a self-care practice and form of support that they can do themselves. It introduces gentle, accessible ways to reconnect with your body and restore balance. Each session begins with open awareness practices, attunement to inner movements, followed by self-touch approaches and guided meditation that invite deep relaxation and inner calm.

Classes are taught in a 6-week series by Prue Jeffries, MSME/T, NAIO™ Founder online and in workshop structure in-person. While they are designed to make NAIO and self -care available to everyone, they also serve as part of the pre-requisites for the NAIO Practitioner Training.

Classes & Courses

Classes & Workshops in NAIO™ the holistic life awareness process for people interested in enhancing their experiential and sensory awareness for well-being.

Practitioner Training

The NAIO™ Practitioner Training Program is a path that consists of in-person seminars, online learning, personal and group sessions that can be completed in 18 months or longer.

Practitioner Registration

The completion of the NAIO™ Practitioner Training Program qualifies for registration as a NAIO Practitioner and membership in the NAIO Practitioner Guild.

NAIO holistic awareness process

Dwell in the flow of life.

NAIO™ holistic awareness process acknowledges life as a flowing evolutionary, emergent, and generative process. A dynamic moving expression of indivisible wholeness. We have enfolded within our biology, our bodies, the very wisdom, that creates, nurtures, and is life. Using somatic education principles NAIO holistic awareness process enhances bodily-being and engagement in the process of becoming.

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International

Supports the development of NAIO™ holistic awareness process worldwide with training programs, public information about NAIO holistic awareness process, and keeps a professional register of NAIO Practitioners.

What to expect

from a session?

Sessions in NAIO™ holistic awareness process are received fully clothed. Practitioners In gentle meditative open awareness apply compassionate listening touch that supports sensory development, movement and self-awareness.

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Practitioner Register

NAIO™ Practitioners once graduated from the 900-hour training program are eligible to be listed on the register as certified NAIO Practitioner's. This supports the public in verification.

PANTA CHOREI - EVERYTHING MOVES - EVERYTHING FLOWS

Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow.” ~ Heraclitus

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