Why certify
What certification gives you
- ✦Credibility your clients can verify — board certification through NTCB
- ✦Recognition for your work — eligibility to become a Licensed Spiritual Healer through the FSHLB
- ✦Credentials to display, plus a listing in our practitioner directory
- ✦A real practice — charge professionally for sessions, sound circles, and workshops
- ✦A path that runs all the way to teaching — should you wish.
The Path
Step by step, in order
Stage 1
Practitioner
- 1Get your forks + Phase 1 training — start with the Phase One Training Set, or get everything with the Ultimate Bundle.
- 2Take Phase 1 - Energy Vitality Technique (live or self-study)
- 3Pass the Phase 1 test
- 4Practice - First 10 Sessions - Family, friends or existing clientsStart practicing!
- 5Take Phase 2 - Body Tuners & energy scanning
- 6Pass the Phase 2 test
- 7Practice - 10 more sessions
- 8Complete Professional Practices, Ethics and Informed Consent Forms (self-paced)
- 9Apply to NTCBCertified Practitioner (CVSP)
We suggest you join a professional association of your choice for liability insurance.
Stage 2
Coach
Recommended within one year of becoming a CVSP.
- 10Spiritual Coaching Skills — 4 weekly sessions with an instructor, 3 webinars, homework and practice
- 11Take Phase 3 + test
- 12Practice - 10 sessions incorporating Phase 3 techniques into your Phase 1 session.
- 13Anatomy & Physiology — 2-hour webinar with online exam, take anytime during your training
- 14Log 300 practice and research hours — Soma trainings count 10x
- 15Apply for CoachCertified Sound Coach (CVSC)
Additional opportunities
Licensed Spiritual Healer (FSHLB)
Good news first: using tuning forks on yourself, with family and friends, or off the body is straightforward for most people. For paid, hands-on sessions, the rules vary by state. Our Touch Laws by State guide is a starting point for checking yours (it’s not legal advice). SomaEnergetics provides sound healing tools and training, and offers access to independent boards: the Natural Therapies Certification Board (NTCB) and the Federation of Spiritual Healer Licensing Boards (FSHLB). Our pathway includes training in scope of practice, ethics, and informed consent, and some practitioners also become Licensed Spiritual Healers through the FSHLB (www.fshlb.net), a credential that recognizes their work as spiritual healing, distinct from medical or massage practice. Whether certification is important for you is your decision, based on your practice, your clientele, and your local laws. We’ll support you on your journey either way.
Become a Teacher
Join our teacher program and host your own Soma Phase 1-3 trainings.
↓ Download the full certification blueprint (PDF)
Every course, requirement and cost, course by course.
Life as a Certified Sound Coach
There's a moment in almost every session: the client's breathing slows, their shoulders drop, and something they've been carrying lets go. As a Certified Vibrational Sound Coach, you create that moment for people — with a complete toolkit for the energy field, the physical body, and the deeper patterns underneath.
Certified coaches lead powerful sessions, get listed in our practitioner directory, and carry credentials that let them practice with confidence. Many go on to become teachers and train the next wave of practitioners. This work changes your clients' lives — and most of our coaches will tell you it changed theirs first.
What it costs
Phases 1–3 and ToolsSomaEnergetics courses + tools$2000 APPROX
Additional educationProfessional Practices, Ethics & Informed Consent Forms$195 SHPLI
Additional educationSpiritual Coaching Skills$225 SHPLI
Additional educationAnatomy & Physiology$99 SHPLI
CertificationNTCB application / annual renewal$65
Live or self-study
Learn the way you learn
Both paths earn full CE credit toward certification — join a live class or learn at your own pace from home. Our best students often do both: self-study first, then a live class to polish technique with an instructor. Either one alone fully qualifies you.
From our teachers
“As a SomaEnergetics practitioner and teacher, I love that the method is a framework that allows us to weave in our own unique gifts and healing modalities.”
“Witnessing the transformations in my clients has been profound. I’ve seen energy shifts, involuntary twitching, sensations of warmth and cold, visions of colors, and emotional releases that continue for days after a session.”
“What I didn't expect was the community. Coby and Chyla have created something really special. They're incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and genuinely invested in helping their students grow. It never felt like I was just taking a class. It feels like a community.”
Questions
The details
All training is step by step through SomaEnergetics and our partner institute SHPLI — the NTCB and FSHLB boards only appear at the very end, when you apply for certification.
Who does what? How the organizations fit+
Three organizations, each with one job. SomaEnergetics is where you learn — we teach the sound techniques (Phases 1–3) and award your certificates of completion. The Spiritual Healer Professional Learning Institute (SHPLI) provides the professional courses that round out your education — ethics, coaching skills, and basic anatomy. The Natural Therapies Certification Board (NTCB) is the independent board that reviews everything and issues your official certification at each level. And once you're certified at the Coach level, a fourth door opens if you want it: the Federation of Spiritual Healer Licensing Boards (FSHLB) can license you as a Spiritual Healer. You'll never have to figure out where to go next — every step happens through SomaEnergetics and our partners, in order, and we point the way.
What is SHPLI?+
The Spiritual Healer Professional Learning Institute (SHPLI) provides the professional courses that round out your education — ethics, coaching skills, and basic anatomy. Take these alongside or after your Soma Phase 1-3 training.
shpli.com · SHPLI.org@gmail.com
shpli.com · SHPLI.org@gmail.com
How do I apply to NTCB?+
The Natural Therapies Certification Board (NTCB) is the independent board that reviews everything and issues your official certifications - Certified Vibrational Sound Practitioner (CVSP) and Certified Vibrational Sound Coach (CVSC). Instructions for submission are on their website. Reach out to their email address for any additional questions.
ntcbcertifications.org · ntcb.info@gmail.com
ntcbcertifications.org · ntcb.info@gmail.com
What is Spiritual Healer licensing?+
Once you reach the Coach level, you're eligible to apply to become a Licensed Spiritual Healer through the FSHLB, a credential that recognizes your work as spiritual healing, distinct from medical or massage practice. Visit fshlb.net for details.fshlb.net · info.healers@gmail.com
How to become a Soma Teacher+
Soma currently has a semi-formal program for becoming a Soma Teacher and hosting your own Soma Phase 1-3 trainings. If this is something of interest to you, please reach out to us for more information.
How do renewals and CE work?+
$65/year + 20 CE hours. Continuing Education hours are made easy via the many trainings Soma offers throughout the year or through our previously recorded trainings and events like Self-Tuning Training and SomaShare. Visit our Training Academy to explore.
I'm a massage therapist — do these count for my CE hours?+
Yes, and no — Soma is an NCBTMB approved provider, however our only officially recognized class is an in-person, hands-on OttoGlider class taught by the wonderful and masterful massage therapist and teacher Patricia Krause at Universal Energy Massage in Cocoa, FL. View her calendar for upcoming dates and contact her directly to discuss one-on-one classes.
*Note if you are in the State of Florida the massage board is more lenient and we do offer sound-based classes accepted by the board as well. Please reach out to us via our Contact Us page for the most up-to-date Florida information.
*Note if you are in the State of Florida the massage board is more lenient and we do offer sound-based classes accepted by the board as well. Please reach out to us via our Contact Us page for the most up-to-date Florida information.
Live vs. self-study details+
Most of our classes are offered as Virtual Live or Self-Study classes, or recordings of live events. Soma and its network of amazing teachers do offer trainings in locations worldwide, but these pop-up at various times throughout the year. We are working on a calendar page to see this at a glance, thank you for your patience and stay tuned!
