Somatic ecological practice for embodied awareness,
health, and wonder.
Body of Wonder is a somatic ecological practice project exploring nature, embodied awareness, health, and wonder. Through practitioner training, workshops, retreats, private sessions, mentoring, writing, and nature-based practice, Body of Wonder invites a deeper relationship with the living world — not as scenery or resource, but as the larger field of life in which we sense, move, heal, and become. The practices and trainings that inform this work include Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Continuum, Somatic Movement Education, NAIO™ Holistic Awareness Process, and Cosmocean™.
The living body as nature
Body of Wonder explores how we may deeply embrace ourselves as a dynamic, emerging process. How can we live as an open experience — an infinitely creative continuum? Can we find ways to acknowledge and be with challenging situations by embodying the everyday sublime of our existence?
We are not separate from nature. We are nature itself: sensing, breathing, moving, forming, adapting, and becoming. We can live as expressions of the interdependence and wholeness of the living world. Body of Wonder explores our intrinsic bio-intelligence — the orchestration and flow of life moving through biology, perception, relationship, and ecological belonging.
This flow is present in the movements that conceived us, conducted our embryological organisation and development, and continue to create and sustain us into the beings we are in this very moment.
These movements of nature are universal motifs: creative potency swirling to form galaxies and planets, oceans and mountains, birds and flowers — and us. Body of Wonder explores bringing greater awareness to the natural creative genius that is orchestrating within and around us, embodying the flow of nature as a unique expression of health, life, and wonder.
A wonder that is sacred.
When we live as flowing expressions of our essential nature, we feel nourished to meet life’s vicissitudes ~ because we are the embrace.
The unfolding of life is expressed through our biology, perception, movement, breath, relationship, and ecological belonging. We are not separate from the living world, but continually formed within it — in a dancing relationship of interdependence, wholeness, place, and change.
Physical, emotional, psychological, social, spiritual, and ecological conditioning can interrupt our sense of connection, health, and belonging. Body of Wonder offerings support the recovery of embodied awareness, regulation, vitality, ecological relationship, and participation in the living flow of life.
About Prue Jeffries
Prue Jeffries is a former professional surfer and somatic educator with over 40 years of experience in elite water sports, embodied practice, teaching, and therapeutic work. She is the founder of the NAIO™ Holistic Awareness Process, a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST) and Teacher, Continuum Guide, and Master Somatic Movement Educator (MSME).
For many years, Prue worked as part of teaching teams and faculty for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy trainings and related certification programs. She has also led complete multi-year craniosacral practitioner training programs herself. She now leads NAIO™ Practitioner Training programs, mentoring, intensives, and occasional classes and workshops in somatic practice, movement, embodied awareness, and craniosacral-informed approaches.
Her work brings together a lifelong relationship with water, movement, and embodied awareness with decades of clinical, teaching, and retreat experience. Her approach supports a deep understanding of the body as a living, intelligent process, offering refined pathways for regulation, integration, self-awareness, vitality, and relationship with the living world.
Training Programs
Training and continuing education are offered through Body of Wonder in NAIO™ Holistic Awareness Process, somatic practice, embodied awareness, and craniosacral-informed approaches.
The NAIO™ Practitioner Training is a comprehensive 900-hour certification program designed to support participants in becoming finely attuned, sensitive, and grounded somatic practitioners. The program emphasises working with the integrated whole person — body, nervous system, awareness, relationship, and lived experience.
Craniosacral education is currently offered through introductory, advanced, mentoring, and continuing education pathways. Future craniosacral-informed programs may draw from Prue’s long experience as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and teacher, while developing as a distinct somatic approach to touch, perception, regulation, health, and embodied awareness.
Personal Sessions, Mentoring & Intensives
Personal sessions, mentoring, and intensives are available by arrangement in:
San Diego, California, USA
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Shoalhaven / South Coast NSW, Australia
Online mentoring is also available.
This work supports regulation, integration, vitality, self-awareness, and a deeper relationship with the body as a living, intelligent process. Sessions may draw on NAIO™ Holistic Awareness Process, somatic awareness, craniosacral-informed touch, Continuum, Cosmocean™ practices, movement, perception, embodied inquiry, and nature-based practice.
Mentoring and intensives are available for students and practitioners wishing to deepen their work in NAIO™ Holistic Awareness Process, Somatic Movement Education, Continuum, Craniosacral Therapy, Cosmocean™ practices, therapeutic presence, touch, movement, and perceptual development.
Retreats
Body of Wonder retreats weave somatic education with nature-inspired embodiment practices and the unique heritage of each place, honoring the living presence of the land and its rhythms. Each retreat is shaped by its environment and invites participants into a felt relationship with body, awareness, and place through gentle movement, perceptual inquiry, and time in nature.
Alongside curated wellness experiences, the retreats create spacious cycles of rest and renewal that support regulation, integration, and connection. Participants are invited into an attentive way of being that nurtures connection with self, community, and the earth. Retreats are offered in select locations, including Malta, Greece, Big Sur, New Zealand, and Australia.
Current Offerings
Current Pathways
NAIO™ Holistic Awareness & Somatic Education Practitioner Training
A comprehensive practitioner training in embodied awareness, therapeutic presence, touch, movement, perception, and the living intelligence of the body. Next introductory courses begin January 2027.
Retreats & Immersive Practice
Somatic ecological retreats and intensives exploring body, nature, movement, water, awareness, and wonder in carefully held environments.
Craniosacral Education & Mentoring
Introductory, advanced, mentoring, and continuing education pathways informed by Prue’s long experience as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and teacher.
Body of Wonder: A Somatic Ecology Practice
The Body of Wonder Practice Pathway is being developed as a series of guided practices, classes, mentoring pathways, retreats, writings, and self-access resources. Launching in 2027.
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