Heart of Touch Training
Heart of Touch
A Relational Presence Touch Training
Rest in the living stillness of your heart, feel your hands as an extension of your heart, and connect with a gentle, non-doing touch from a state of inner presence. This is the foundation of Presence Touch - a path of healing, awakening, and the remembrance of wholeness.
Heart of Touch - Level 1
A four-day training in Presence Touch and Relational Fielding. In the Heart of Touch training, participants learn to deepen body awareness and inner stillness through Inner Presence meditation, practice heart-centered, non-doing, healing touch with Presence Touch, and cultivate group field awareness and explore relational healing through Relational Fielding. These transformative practices create a foundation for self-development, trauma integration, and relational healing.
Designed for those committed to cultivating personal and communal health and harmony, this training welcomes caregivers, bodyworkers, healers, guides, and adults wishing to learn how to touch and relate from a grounded and embodied presence.
What will we explore in this training?
Cultivate Inner Presence through heart-centered meditation and interoception practices.
Learn the Presence Touch principles and skills of inner presence, neutral listening, non-doing touch, attunement, and resonance, allowing life force to realign us with our inherent fluid patterns of well-being and wholeness.
Practice these principles and skills through partnered touch sessions.
Explore relational attunement, witnessing, and group coherence practices.
Apply our learning and practice to energetic contact through the heart coherence field.
Experience how Relational Fielding can enhance the healing potency of life in the group body.
What are the practices?
Inner Presence: A practice of conscious devotion to be with the movements of life within. We rest inward, relaxing and softening the body and attention, opening awareness to notice, sense, and feel what arises. We allow what is present to be as it is, releasing into not knowing, deepening our roots into the Earth and remaining in steadfast awareness with what unfolds. This devotion supports the embodiment of inner union and wholeness as we expand our capacity to host, witness, digest, and integrate our inner experience. Inner presence is the foundation of relational presence, and the fundamental inner orientation we practice in preparation to offer Presence Touch, and for developing sensitivity, skill, and attunement in Relational Fielding.
Presence Touch: A gentle, non-doing, heart-centered touch that honors the body’s inherent health and intelligence. It is a holistic approach to healing, awakening, and remembered wholeness. We orient to inner presence, rest in the living stillness of the heart, and touch without agenda. We do not seek to fix or change, but to support the natural movements of healing and reorganization within the body. Presence Touch is informed by the wisdom of our bodies and ancestors as we’ve walked our paths of healing and wholeness, and is influenced by our training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Stillness Touch.
Relational Fielding: An emergent group process of tending the relational field with presence and loving awareness, cultivating the capacity to meet and integrate what arises. This framework supports embodiment, awakening, healing, and growth across personal, interpersonal, collective, and transpersonal dimensions. As the group co-digests what appears, coherence deepens and relational capacity expands, allowing more complex layers of individual, ancestral, and collective experience to be held. Relational Fielding provides the ground from which Presence Touch is offered and received, and within which the learning, integration, and insight of the Heart of Touch training unfold.
Who is this training for?
Adults who are inspired to actively participate in the transformation, healing, and wholeness of themselves, their partnerships, family systems, and communities.
Bodyworkers, therapists, midwives, doulas, death workers, guides, healers, and caregivers who want to learn new tools of non-doing touch and relational presence.
Activists and community leaders wishing to empower their communities with skills and tools in the relational and healing arts that will support a more sustainable approach to systemic change.
Those wishing to learn to touch and relate from an embodied and grounded presence.
This training will involve being seated at a massage table and making a variety of contacts for prolonged periods of time. It will also require laying on the back to receive sessions. This training requires some capacity for self-regulation as a baseline.
Personal and collective themes may arise that will invite us into co-regulation processes. Please consult with us if you’re unsure if the training is appropriate for you.
In these times of extreme polarization and collective unrest, stress, and activation, the medicine of grounded and embodied presence is exactly what is needed to meet each moment. This training invites us to slow down, tune in, and bring more compassion, awareness, and resilience to how we interact with ourselves, each other, and the wider collective.
We believe these practices are so potent and important that if they became a regular part of any society or culture, they would help bring about a more healed, whole, and harmonious world.
Why are we offering this training?
When we cultivate presence in our lives, growth, transformation, and healing happen, soul gifts are discovered, a deeper sense of purpose and service opens up, and we relax into our inherent belonging in (and as) the wider Earth community.
The practices of Inner Presence, Presence Touch, and Relational Fielding have radically transformed and improved our lives individually and as a couple. We believe they are the most potent practices and ways of being to support the healing and remembered wholeness of the individual and collective.
Upcoming Heart of Touch Events
Heart of Touch Workshop - Basel
A 4-hour introductory workshop to Presence Touch and Relational Fielding.
Dates: June 13, 2026, 13:00-17:00
Location: Praxisgemeinschaft, Grenzacherstrasse 10, 4058 Basel
Cost: 120 CHF
Heart of Touch Training - Basel
A 4-day training in Presence Touch and Relational Fielding.
Date: September 10-13, 2026, 9:00-17:00 daily
Location: aava Zentrum Basel, Leonhardsberg 14, 4051 Basel
Cost: Early Bird (Before July 1) - 780 CHF, Regular (After July 1) - 850 CHF
Heart of Touch Orientation Video
Presence Touch Sessions
Meet the Instructors
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Adam Sippola
Adam Sippola is a Presence Touch Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Professional Relateful Facilitator, Men's Group Leader, Singer, and Crossover Guide, accompanying people through processes of presencing, healing, transformation, and integration on the journey of remembered wholeness.
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Miriam Kislak
Miriam Kislak is a Presence Touch Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Professional Relateful Facilitator, Women’s Group Leader, and Artist. In her leadership she listens from her heart, bringing her attuned witnessing, embodied aliveness and expression from her depth.