Chris West and Alex Watson present
Back to The Body ~ Using the Body to Heal the Mind
A 10-week program of embodiment, transformation and awakening for courageous beings who are deeply committed to making lasting positive change.
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A special invitation to those looking for deep healing and profound inner transformation in 2023.
Dear friends,
We invite you to join us on a 10-week journey into the depths of your body, heart, and Being—a journey back to yourself.
So often, we’ve been conditioned to believe that happiness, love, and peace are “out there,” waiting for us to earn or achieve. Yet the truth is simple: exactly as you are, in this moment, you already have access to these qualities. They are your birthright.
This program is about one thing: transformation on every level.
It’s a direct, compassionate, and radical journey into freeing yourself from overthinking and coming home to the innate joy, love, and peace that live within you.
Most of us don’t experience life this way because, over time, we’ve learned to contract—through emotional pain, conditioning, or trauma—cutting ourselves off from our natural capacity for joy and fulfillment.
When uncomfortable feelings arise, we often respond with contraction: holding our bodies tight, suppressing emotions, or telling ourselves we “shouldn’t” feel shame, anger, or anxiety. This keeps us trapped in the mind, disconnected from the richness of life.
Through this course, we will use bioenergetics—a radical, body-based approach—to bring these stored emotions to the surface. You’ll learn how to meet them with openness and love, allowing them to release naturally from your body and mind. The result? A direct, embodied experience of peace, joy, and presence.
This is a deeply experiential journey. It’s not just theory or reflection—it’s “hands-on,” practical work that leads to real change. Each week we will guide you through:
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Body-based therapy workshops
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Profound, guided meditations
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Deep embodiment awareness sessions
We spent years searching in our minds—reading, planning, thinking—but transformation only truly happened when we returned to the body. When we began to inhabit our bodies fully, our sense of fulfillment, contentment, and love expanded, and even our external world shifted in response.
If you feel called to this path, and resonate with a body-centered approach to transformation, we would love to welcome you.
Full information can be found on this page.
With love and embodiment,
Chris, Alex, and the Back to the Body team
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''I think joining their program is one of the best decisions I have made in a long time!''
Daniel, Liverpool.
Who is the ‘Back to The Body’ program for?
This program is for those who are sincerely seeking to awaken to a more fulfilling, peaceful and happy life, through the doorway of the body.
This program is intended for:
- those who are working with personal trauma
- those who are searching for their authentic, natural and spontaneous self
- those who want to discover who they truly are - beyond the level of thought.
- those looking for a greater sense of freedom in their life - regardless of external circumstance
- those who wish to truly experience thought-less presence
- those who have read the books but not seen the results they are longing for.
- those that are content with the life they have created but are ready to take it to the next level - into the deep and vast realms of the body and beyond.
'' My mind was out of control. But since taking this course my whole world is different. I've never been so relaxed, so happy... and for no reason.''
Lee, program participant.
Your Mentors
Chris West MA
Chris holds a Masters Degree in psychology with Mindfulness-based approaches, and has studied with some of the world's most well-renowned and gifted embodiment and spiritual teachers.
He combines both Western psychological understandings with Eastern practices of meditation and self enquiry to bring about lasting internal transformation.
Chris has been teaching online and in-person workshops and courses since 2017 and has helped hundreds of people both one-one and in group settings step into a much more peaceful, embodied and empowered way of being.
He is also qualified in BBTRS, a method of trauma therapy using the breath, movement, and conscious emotional expression to release trauma and old emotional tensions from the body and mind.
Chris is also a keen musician, and when he isn't meditating or working you will often find him singing and creating music with his guitar in hand. He also enjoys climbing, playing tennis, walking his dogs, dancing, watching movies and performing comedy.
Alex Watson
Alex is a body-based therapist, specialising in bioenergetics, Reichian breathwork and somatic meditation. He is one of the UK’s leading experts in this field and helps individuals heal trauma and past conditioning through the doorway of the body. Alex has been on an incredible and heartfelt journey of healing from PTSD, Anxiety, and Insomnia.
Having endured years of emotional struggle and hard times, he now believes and teaches that any pain or suffering he and others experience is ultimately an opportunity for transformation.
“No matter how challenging the situation may seem, a positive outcome is possible when approached from a body-based perspective.”
''In our willingness to come back down into our bodies, in our willingness to feel the feelings that we've spent our whole life running away from - we reconnect with the felt sense of our own Being! We return back Home.''
Here’s what you’ll receive in the ‘Back to. the Body’ program:
1.. 10 Weeks of Bioenergetics Practices with Alex Watson.
Over the course of 10 weeks, Alex will take you on a profound journey of transformation through the life changing practice of bioenergetics.
These practice sessions are pre-recorded with workouts to follow along with between sessions.
See below for full curriculum and info.
2. A Practical Guide to Embodied Spirituality with Chris West – a 10-Week Journey
Each week, you will have access to a specially designed embodiment lesson recorded by Chris, guiding you on a deep somatic journey of inquiry, healing, and awakening.
These lessons include guided meditations, reflective inquiries, and practical exercises to help you step out of the busy thinking mind and fully return to the peace, ease, and aliveness of your body and Being.
#BONUS 1
Somatic Meditations for Rewiring the Nervous System
Chris here!
Meditation saved my life. At 21, I fell into intense fear and anxiety after traumatic experiences. Years later, meditation helped me heal, giving me a peace I hadn’t known in years.
Over the last 10 years, I’ve developed Somatic Meditations to support a traumatised nervous system—and to transmit healing from my heart to yours.
Listen daily, immerse yourself, and allow them to rewire your brain, guiding you back to the peace, freedom, and fulfilment you’ve been longing for.
 #BONUS 2
A powerful Workshop with World Renowned Spiritual Teacher and Embodied Guide Ananta Kranti
Ananta Kranti is a world renowned spiritual teacher.
After being arrested in Japan in the early 1990's for possession of LSD, she was put in solitary confinement and sentenced to hard labour.
One day, whilst in the midst of excruciating suffering on all levels, physical, emotional and psychological, she experienced a deep and profound opening to the freedom and depths of Being.
For the last 25 years she has been guiding spiritual seekers to find this same place of freedom within themselves. Guiding them into how to embody and live this freedom, within the everyday challenges of Life.
She's a truly inspirational mentor and we feel this workshop will be of great value to you as part of your 10 week journey.
 #BONUS 3
Reichian Breathwork Masterclass With Alex Watson
Alex will guide you through a Reichian Breathwork class. Reichain Breathwork is a gentle yet powerful form of breathwork to help heal your body and mind, and easefully unwind tensions and past conditioning from your nervous system.
What's Inside the ‘Back to the Body’ curriculum
Here’s what we’ll be covering throughout our 10 weeks together:
Alex's Bioenergetics Weekly Classes
Week 1 - Grounding part 1.
Week 2 -Grounding part 2
Week 3 ~ Anxiety Recovery/Nervous System support
Week 4 - Depression & Low Mood
Week 5 ~ Deeper Feelings: shame and guilt
Week 6 ~ Sexual Repression
Week 7 ~ Empowerment
Week 8 ~ Success & Self-esteem
Week 9 ~ Embodied Spirituality
Week 10: The Journey of the Body Continues
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As a member, you’ll receive…
1) 10 Bioenergetics workshops with weekly practices and a recording to follow along each day.
2) 10 Awareness/Embodiment lessons with Chris (delivered weekly)
ÂŁ) A supportive Online Community
5) Email support from Chris and Alex throughout your journey
BONUS:Â 5 Nervous System Rewiring Meditations
BONUS: A powerful Masterclass with spiritual teacher with Ananta Kranti
BONUS: Breathwork Masterclass
''Chris is an incredible man accompanied by equally great teachers. His course has massively improved my life where mainstream methods either had no effect or exacerbated my sense of isolation and hopelessness.
Even if you feel fine or think you feel fine, watch one of his lessons. I guarantee if you listen, something will ring true.
I'm eternally grateful for the kindness he has shown me, and lucky to have come across his course. '
Calum, program participant.
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Lee, Chris and Alex's Course participant October 2021.
Wow. What a journey... This course and what it has taught me in the last three months has been one of the most important and rewarding things to ever happen to me. I've learnt how to be alone with my own thoughts, how to process and accept my emotions and how to live day to day without constant fear and anxiety. It's been a life changer. I was beginning to give up hope but somehow stumbled upon an advert for it last summer and after attending two of the free sessions, I knew they were onto something.
If you are thinking about taking this course, then I couldn't recommend it enough. This time last year I couldn't even sit in a room with my own mind because it was just too much. I was constantly stressed and anxious at work, even on holiday, for absolutely no reason. My mind was out of control. But since taking this course my whole world is different.
I've never been so relaxed, so happy... and for no reason. Chris and the guys are so friendly and welcoming yet professional at the same time and I honestly can't thank them enough. If anyone is thinking about attending one of their courses, honestly, you can't afford not to. It may just change your life.
Robert, past course participant.
Alright, Chris mate I just wanted to say thank you so much for the time and effort you have given to us over the past 12 weeks from all the videos you shared to all the sharing circles and all the live videosđź‘Ś
I didn’t know what to expect from the course and was a little unsure at first but I counted myself lucky that I joined and tried my best to make every session and most of all be present and listen.
Every week I learned something new about myself.
But what really helped me, guided me, made me love myself again, showed me I wasn’t alone, that there is light at the end of the tunnel no matter how long the tunnel may be was you, Chris.
If you weren’t making me cry with the heartfelt songs you sang for us or the letters and story’s about you and your dad, you were making me laugh with the story’s of your angry moments (I mean laugh in a happy way, I just I could never picture you getting angry with anybody).
The passion, love and care you showed to me and all the lads though out the course really showed and I will forever be grateful.
You aren’t just an inspirational mentor to me but a brother too.
So thank you brother from the bottom of my heart.
Calum, past course participant.
Laura, past course participant with Alex.
Poppy, past participant with Alex.
‘Alex's workshops have had a profound impact on me both physically and emotionally, and his online teaching has really helped me to release some long-standing neck and shoulder pain. Highly recommend.'
Joe, past participant with Alex.
"This was an amazing and eye opening experience into how much I've neglected my body and how good it can feel to tap back into it. Alex is a kind, clear and knowledgeable instructor. I really got a lot out of it!"
Rob, past participant.
I just wanted to say thanks to Chris, Alex and all the guys, the past 12 weeks have helped me grow so much, I’ve learned so many different things, and feel I’ve become a stronger person for it.
Each week we had so much content from videos to 1 on 1 coaching, sharing circles, Yoga , meditation, we couldn’t have asked for much more, the teachers showed so much passion in every session, the course is one of the best things I’ve done.
Jack, past program participant.
''When I found Chris's course through an Instagram post, I thought to me myself, this sounds like something that could help me, why not give it a try? What an understatement. After the introductory sessions, I was very keen to continue.
Jack, 26''
Rob F, course participant October 2021.
Sonia, course participant with Alex
Henry, Course participant May 2021. (an email he said we could share)
Hi Chris,
Things are going really well since the course. I got some really good results back and passed with a 2:1 for my second year. I’ve had my last session for now with my therapist too and all my trauma is clear for the first time and life’s going to be really good for me.
I’m hopeful now and just feel a lot more at ease with the world, and though there may still be worries at times, I’m able to see myself as separate from them and don’t see them as me anymore and identify them with the self - I just see them as parts now that may be worried or scared at times and that’s okay too as I know it’s just a part of me.
I’m also able to tell people how I feel more in situations that would worry me previously, such as when I would be worried about mini confrontations type scenarios that aren’t confrontations as such but that I would previously shy away from out of fear and worry. And it’s okay and I’ve realised that I can have these conversations with neutral emotions and in a way that I don’t need to worry about them.
I’m also getting on really well with my Dad now which is amazing and feel really comfortable around him for the first time maybe ever (or at least it feels this way).
I’m just full of love again and excited for this next and probably last year of my life as a student.
I don’t have any shame anymore either and I know I’m a really good person and that I’m really intelligent too which is a really nice place to be. I’m also happy that I’m unique and I truly love myself now too.
Starting this process in May with you was one of the best things I’ve ever done and definitely, one of the most impactful, and I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you again as I truly appreciate all your help and guidance.''
Alan, Course participant October 2021.
Calum, course participant October 2021.
And a few more testimonials:
''I think joining their program is one of the best decisions I have made in a long time!''
- Daniel, Liverpool.
'Truly transformative, yes am feeling it becoming easier to drop into awareness and get out of my head'
- JOE, UK
'I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Chris, although initially anxious after taking the first step to sign up I was so glad I did! Chris is so calm and relaxed, he's a fantastic teacher. I will continue to take everything I learned and grow as a person finding peace calmness and love for myself and others. I highly recommend it. Be brave it’s so worth it. Thank you Chris'
- Anne, Liverpool.
''The program was fantastic. I have been able to incorporate the techniques learnt, my confidence has increased. Highly recommend this course.''
-Sharon, Manchester.
'Thank you for such a wonderful and inspiring course Chris, you are a great teacher'
- MN, Liverpool
