Come to the Heart of the World and learn to create safety in the body.
Deepen your own healing. Expand your capacity to serve. Become a confident TVM practitioner through an intimate, embodied training held between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Caribbean Sea.
Begin the Conversation on WhatsAppYou may feel called to help others, but the deepest healing work cannot be held through knowledge alone. It must be known by the body.
This immersion is an invitation to slow down, receive, soften and learn inside a living environment of sisterhood, nature and nervous-system safety.
You are not coming only to learn a method. You are coming to be changed by it.
Many practitioners are trained to give, guide and hold space while their own bodies remain braced, overextended or disconnected from receiving.
TVM invites a different foundation. You will experience the work in your own body, cultivate the conditions that support safety and connection, and learn to offer the modality from embodied understanding rather than theory alone.
- Receive sessions as part of your own healing process
- Learn to support regulation, connection and embodied safety
- Develop confidence through guided, hands-on practice
- Expand your capacity to serve without abandoning yourself
- Add a powerful modality to your healing practice
Healing happens when the body no longer feels it must protect itself.
TVM is an embodied, relational modality designed to support the body's experience of safety, connection and receiving. The work emphasizes the conditions associated with oxytocin, the hormone and neurochemical connected with bonding, trust and social safety.
Rather than forcing change, TVM works with the body's own intelligence. As protection softens, there can be greater space for connection, repair and integration.
Safety before strategy
Learn why safety is not an extra. It is the ground that allows deeper healing work to become possible.
Receiving before giving
Your eight personal sessions allow you to know the work from within before learning to offer it to others.
Relationship as medicine
Practice presence, attunement and connection inside a carefully held community of women.
Because the container is part of the medicine.
Women have always gathered to tend, witness, teach, grieve, celebrate and restore one another. This training honors that ancient intelligence while offering a modern, embodied practice of connection.
In a women-only space, we can explore the tend-and-befriend response, the relational ways women often seek safety through connection, care and cooperation. Here, sisterhood is not a side benefit. It is part of the learning environment.
You will be invited to let yourself be supported, not just to become better at supporting everyone else.
Between mountain, jungle, river and sea.
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is known by its Indigenous peoples as the Heart of the World. Here, snow-fed mountains descend toward the Caribbean, rivers move through lush forest, and the natural world reminds the body how to breathe again.
Your training takes place near Palomino, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, with space to learn deeply and moments to swim, rest, play, connect and integrate.
This is not a conference room experience. The land, the warmth, the water and the living rhythm of the Sierra become part of your return to yourself.
Let yourself imagine being here.
Wake with the sounds of nature. Learn in open, living spaces. Rest between sessions, connect over meals and let the Caribbean landscape hold your integration.
The experience begins before you arrive.
Your tuition includes eight personal TVM sessions to be completed before the in-person training. These sessions help you experience the modality directly, deepen your own process and arrive with a stronger foundation for practice.
This work can blossom into a meaningful and transformative career.
You are not coming to Colombia simply to collect another healing technique. You are developing the presence, confidence and practical tools to help people experience transformation at a deep, embodied level.
TVM can become the foundation of a prosperous practice built around work you genuinely love. A practice where your livelihood grows alongside your contribution, and where helping others heal becomes both meaningful service and a sustainable career.
Work that reaches beyond the surface
TVM Seattle describes the work as supporting clients in the following areas:
- Decreasing anxiety
- Decreasing distraction and increasing mental clarity
- Alleviating chronic pain
- Rewiring unhealthy mental patterns
- Supporting healing related to depression and suicidal thoughts
- Releasing physical and emotional trauma
- Transforming addictions and addictive patterns
- Healing excessive anger
- Attuning the nervous system to relaxation and safety
- Decreasing PTSD and ADHD symptoms
- Working without reactivating past trauma
Imagine leaving Colombia with the ability to create meaningful change in people's lives and a clear path toward building a prosperous business through work you love.
The training does not end at graduation.
You will receive three months of post-training mentorship for certification support and practitioner questions, along with business-development guidance drawn from Crystal's experience building her own successful practice.
You leave with more than information. You leave with ongoing support, a practitioner community and a roadmap for turning your skill into service, contribution and sustainable prosperity.
Meet Crystal
Crystal brings the depth of TVM Seattle's practitioner work into a close, experiential training environment. Her approach centers safety, presence, skilled touch and the practitioner's own embodiment.
You will be guided through the principles and practice of TVM with opportunities to receive, observe, practice and integrate, not simply memorize information.
Explore the complete TVM training information →Before there was a training, there was sisterhood.
We met in 2022 in Mazunte, Mexico, where Crystal was working at a yoga center. From the beginning, there was an instant connection that felt like soul recognition. We did not yet know everything our meeting would set in motion. We simply knew that something meaningful had begun.
That recognition grew into a beautiful friendship rooted in shared values, healing and a devotion to living our work. Crystal became a catalyst in the journey that eventually led me to the Caribbean coast of Colombia, the very place where we are now being called to gather women and offer this training together.
What began as friendship has ripened into partnership. Not partnership created through force, strategy or convenience, but through listening, timing and alignment.
This is the way: aligned women recognizing one another, honoring each other's gifts and answering the call to co-create.
We believe the future is relational. It is built through sisterhood, reciprocity and collaborations that allow each woman to become more fully herself. This training is one expression of that vision and an invitation for you to experience what becomes possible when women gather in safety, purpose and shared devotion.
Shanika & Crystal
Hear the story and experience the vision.
Join Crystal and me for a deeper conversation about TVM, the power of safety and receiving, and the journey that brought us together to create this women-only training in Colombia.
Watch the ConversationThis immersion is for the woman who is already on the path.
This is not a beginner training. It is designed for women who are already engaged in healing, spiritual growth, somatic work or service and who are ready to deepen what they carry and how they carry it.
- You are already committed to a healing, spiritual or consciousness journey
- You already serve others, practice healing work or are actively expanding into service
- You want to understand safety and connection through direct experience
- You are ready to receive as deeply as you give
- You desire meaningful sisterhood rather than a transactional training
- You are ready to expand your practice, power, presence and prosperity
TVM Somatic Practitioner Training
The investment is all-inclusive except for airfare and transportation to and from the training location. Visit Crystal's training page for the complete curriculum, requirements and investment details.
Request the Full DetailsBefore you say yes
Is this training suitable for beginners?
No. This immersion is intended for women who are already actively engaged in healing, spiritual development, somatic work or service. You do not need to have mastered everything, but you should already be committed to your own growth and ready to expand your practice, power, presence and prosperity.
Why must I complete eight sessions first?
TVM is embodied work. Receiving eight sessions lets you experience the modality from within, supports your own healing and helps you enter practitioner training with a lived foundation, not only an intellectual one. The sessions are included in the training price.
When should I enroll?
As early as possible. You need enough time before January 16 to schedule and complete all eight sessions without compressing your experience.
What is included in the investment?
The experience is all-inclusive, including the training immersion, accommodations, meals, training manuals, eight prerequisite TVM sessions, business-development guidance and three months of post-training mentorship. Airfare and transportation to and from the training location are not included. Please review Crystal's training page or message Shanika for the complete current details.
How do I travel to Palomino?
The closest airport is Simón Bolívar International Airport in Santa Marta. Some travelers also fly into Barranquilla when those flights are more affordable, then continue to Palomino by ground transportation. Airfare and transportation to and from the training location are not included. We will share arrival guidance and local transport recommendations with registered participants.
Is this a retreat or a professional training?
It is an intensive practitioner training held in a retreat-like natural environment. There will be meaningful opportunities for receiving, connection and integration, but participants should arrive prepared for focused learning and practice.
Come deepen your healing.
Come expand your service.
Come to Colombia.
If something in your body is responding to this invitation, begin with a conversation. Ask your questions, learn the full details and discover whether this training is the right next step for you.
Message Shanika on WhatsAppJanuary 16–February 1, 2027 · Palomino, Colombia · Women only