A practice by Beckett Roberton
Meet your nervous system.
A neuro-somatic practice — co-created by Chad Beckett and Kyra Roberton — delivered to your guests, and your team.
Applied Neuroscience · Vocal · Somatic Practice
For retreat centres, spas, integrative clinics & facilitators — brought to your guests and patients, and your team
Proudly integrated into medical retreats at The Health Lodge — Byron Bay's award-winning integrative medical centre and retreat, where doctors, naturopaths and allied-health practitioners work side by side under one roof.
Upcoming · Melbourne
A Neuro-Somatic Play community session with Chad Beckett and Kyra Roberton — breath, sound, movement and co-regulation, held in a small group of twenty.
Questions? hello@neurosomaticplay.com
For practitioners
Sunday 9 August — a practitioner gathering hosted at WARM Health Collective, Collingwood. By invitation.
Practitioners can enquire at hello@neurosomaticplay.com
A question to sit with
What if your drive, your follow-through, even what flows toward you, starts deeper than mindset — in the state of your nervous system?
The Framework
You don’t reason with a nervous system. You retrain it. That is the work.
Neuro-Somatic Play is a living framework built across four integrated layers: biology, neurology, identity, and essence. Where much therapeutic work meets the nervous system, this work builds it — laying down the scaffolding of the nervous system and, through essence, the architecture that bonds a person back to life.
It was designed by Chad Beckett — drawing on decades as a physical and vocal therapist, somatic practitioner and sound healer, with roots in acting, voice, theatre, rhythm, percussion, taiko drumming and Human Design — and co-created with Kyra Roberton, an integrative naturopath and clinical nutritionist whose grounding in psychoneuroimmunology gives it clinical rigour. Together they work with the body’s own systems — neurotransmitter function, breath, fascia, movement, sound and relational co-regulation — to create lasting shifts that talk alone cannot reach.
People arrive through many doors — cancer and survivorship, chronic illness, burnout, the depletion that doesn’t respond to rest — and so do the practitioners, doctors and retreat hosts who carry it to others. Beneath every door, the same thing holds true: a nervous system is never forced, only invited. It doesn’t yield to effort — it answers to desire: the turning of a guarded body back toward the light, through awareness, rest and play.
Chad Beckett is the designer of Neuro-Somatic Play — a physical and vocal therapist, somatic practitioner, and sound healer whose work spans acting, voice, theatre, rhythm, percussion, taiko drumming, and Human Design coaching. What looks like a diverse body of work is, in practice, a single investigation: what does it take for a human being to fully arrive in their body and express what is most true in them?
Chad works with singers, actors, athletes, and a wide range of people navigating anxiety, depression, neurological conditions, and serious illness — using movement, voice, and rhythm as a springboard for creative expression and embodiment. He holds a deep belief that human beings are living at a fraction of their potential, and that the body — when given the right conditions — already knows the way back.
Together with Kyra, he created something neither could have built alone — a practice that holds both the clinical and the creative, the biological and the essential.
"Emotions are not only essential information. When processed through the heart, they are a pathway to spirit — and that spirit can light up the soul."
— Chad Beckett
About
Integrative Practitioner at The Health Lodge & Antidote Medica · Co-Creator, Neuro-Somatic Play
With twenty years’ experience as an integrative practitioner, Kyra Roberton practises at the meeting point of science and intuitive care. Her gift is psychoneuroimmunology — reading the nervous system in relation to the immune and endocrine systems, the body as one connected whole rather than separate parts. Her approach to the mind is informed by parts-based psychological frameworks such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) — the whole person leading, rather than any one part carrying the load alone.
From her clinic within The Health Lodge — Byron Bay’s award-winning integrative medical centre — she works alongside medical doctors and allied-health practitioners, and with integrative physicians internationally. Her heart is in cancer care: walking with people through diagnosis, treatment and the long terrain of survivorship, in evidence-informed care that works alongside, and in full respect of, their oncology team. It is this depth she brings to Neuro-Somatic Play.
Beyond the clinic, she supports The Health Lodge’s retreat programmes — including cancer and survivorship retreats — where success is measured through quantified tools such as the Medical Symptoms Questionnaire (MSQ), sleep studies, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), heart-rate variability (HRV), and functional testing, used for personalisation and pattern-tracking, not diagnosis. This is shaped through regular team meetings and round-table conversations with the wider practitioner group.
Her work in this space spans over a decade, across Veya, Ananda, Soma, and The Health Lodge, Byron Bay — with further reach across Mexico, from India to Australia.
On Science & Spirituality
“The journey through science and the journey through spirituality often begin the same way — with questions. At first we doubt what we cannot explain. Then experience humbles us. The deeper we go, the less interested we become in certainty and the more open we are to wonder. The final stage of spirituality isn’t leaving this world behind. It’s falling so deeply in love with being alive that your very laughter becomes someone else’s awakening.”
— Kyra Roberton
Who This Is For
Neuro-Somatic Play is for everyone — for the people who come to it for themselves, and for the practitioners, doctors, and therapists who carry it to others. It works alongside conventional care, not in place of it. People arrive through many doors — but the work beneath them is the same. It is for men and women. A diagnosis is not required.
For the ones holding the space
Retreat owners, facilitators, practitioners — you carry more than most, and more than you let on. You pour out, and are rarely poured back into. This is for you first: to be resourced, met, and returned to your own body — so you can take your people somewhere you have already been.
“Sound will be the medicine of the future.”
— often attributed to Edgar Cayce
And the oldest instrument is the one you were born with. In this work, the voice is medicine — sound is how the body finally says what it has been carrying.
In Session
Meet your nervous system.
Kyra — somatic work, in session
For Retreat Centres & Facilitators
In one line: a clinically-grounded, trauma-informed somatic experience that takes a group from braced and guarded to regulated, expressed, and bonded — held by our practitioners, for your guests and patients, and your team.
We travel to retreat centres, spas and integrative health spaces to deliver Neuro-Somatic Play on-site — and to restore and resource the practitioners who hold everyone else. Three ways to work together:
A full Neuro-Somatic Play session woven into your retreat — neurologically sequenced, trauma-informed, and held end to end by our team.
Not a training day — a restorative space for the people who hold space for everyone else. Practitioner formation happens too, but the point is to leave your team resourced — as people first, professionals second — long after we have gone.
A returning collaboration — seasonal retreats, repeat sessions, and a shared approach your centre can carry as its own.
What your guests move through
Neurologically sequenced and titrated — nothing is asked of the body before it feels safe enough to offer it. Guests leave regulated, met, and bonded to the group; your team leaves resourced.
For Your Guests
In Their Words
The practitioners and hosts who carry this work to others — and the people who have moved through it.
Practitioners & Hosts
No words. Wonderful. Feeling so grateful — let’s do more of this. Thank you Kyra for holding Chad’s brilliance so beautifully.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for the beautiful session. I also realised that my grief is so light and manageable in a healthy way — which was a great perspective to be presented with. I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate you both.
Thank you Kyra and Chad for a stunning Neuro-Somatic Play practitioner workshop. I joined on a whim and it was such a gift — wowee, we have so much wisdom and medicine inside of ourselves. Highly recommend for all health professionals.
I loved the embodiment of all the things, with excellent facilitation. Super fun too! And especially amazing to be with all you powerful health professionals — to witness and to receive.
From People We’ve Worked With
I’m still reeling from the experience. My morning today on waking looked very different to most I have. Chad was amazing — so passionate and so powerful. You are both an amazing team.
I was initially quite nervous and excited at the same time. Kyra, your presence and guidance made it so much easier to relax into the practice — especially the touch of humour thrown in. I would love to continue this work within my healing journey.
Just thinking — the way you show kindness, your support, and being there for me is greatly appreciated. Thank you Kyra.
The Architecture
Gut microbiome, nutritional foundations, HPA axis patterns — the biological soil that determines whether change can be sustained.
Targeted neurotransmitter training across GABA, oxytocin, endorphin, dopamine, and adrenalin. Building the neurological scaffolding that holds new experience.
Human Design as a precision map of authentic essence. Understanding the patterns that were never yours to carry — and what remains when they are released.
Somatic breathwork, movement, sound, and group co-regulation. The work that arrives when biology, neurology, and identity have been prepared to receive it.
The Neuro-Profile
Four ways people tend to move through the world — a playful mirror, not a diagnosis. Each type carries a question through biology, nervous system, identity, and essence. These are the first cards from the deck.
Biology — runs hot; quick to act, slow to rest.
Nervous system — comes alive under momentum; stillness can feel like danger.
Identity — “What am I really moving toward?”
Essence — “What would I build if no one was watching?”
Biology — steady baseline; calm under pressure, drained by chaos.
Nervous system — regulates others before regulating itself.
Identity — “Whose safety am I carrying that isn’t mine to carry?”
Essence — “What do I need, to feel held myself?”
Biology — spikes and crashes; thrives on stakes.
Nervous system — activated by pressure, uneasy in ordinary moments.
Identity — “Who am I when no one is watching?”
Essence — “What is true, apart from what impresses?”
Biology — porous; absorbs others’ states easily.
Nervous system — quick to attune, slow to release what isn’t theirs.
Identity — “Whose feelings am I carrying as my own?”
Essence — “What do I feel, underneath what everyone else feels?”
Part of The Deck — a game we bring to the session.
More info to come.
Neurotransmitter Training
Each session works across all eight major systems — not sequentially, but as an integrated whole, building the neurological scaffolding that can hold new experience. The work moves through the body’s yin and yang — its natural ascending and descending pathways — so the system learns both to rise and to settle. Once that scaffolding holds, it is tested — the system met with different emotional energies, learning to stay present and regulated while it fully feels.
The foundation. Calming the threat-detection system so that the deeper work can begin without the nervous system reading it as danger.
The gut-brain axis brought into awareness. Rhythmic movement, stillness, and presence that allow the body to arrive at a felt sense of meaning, contentment, and enough.
Activated through touch, eye contact, and group witnessing. The neurochemical of belonging — essential for trust and co-regulation.
Released through breathwork and laughter. Creating the natural conditions for joy, relief, and full-body release.
Stimulated through noticing what is not activated — scanning for ease rather than tension. Restoring the capacity to feel rewarded by being alive.
The biological fear cycle, completed. Movement, sound, and deliberate gesture that allows the body to finish what it started — and return to rest.
The morning rise that readies us to meet the day. Restored to its natural rhythm — ascending cleanly, then descending into rest — so the body can mobilise when it must and genuinely recover when it need not.
The current of vitality, drive, and the will to act. Restored through grounded strength and embodied movement — the felt right to take up space, to assert, and to meet life with one’s whole force.
Go Deeper
The eight systems, the four resources, the seven phases — the science and the soul of the work, laid out to read in your own time.
Explore the Work →What to Expect
Before your session
You will complete one intake form before the session. It covers your personal details, Human Design profile, what brings you, your current nervous system pattern, neurotransmitter tendencies, relevant health history, and informed consent. Your Human Design birth chart is required and can be generated free at jovianarchive.com. There is nothing to prepare, practise, or perform. You only need to arrive.
During the session
Sessions run 3–4 hours in groups of 6–12. You will move through nervous-system training exercises, somatic breathwork, identity and essence work, and group co-regulation. Humour is part of the practice. Nervousness is welcome. You are guided every step of the way — nothing is asked of your body before it feels safe enough to offer it.
After your session
The session ignites. The follow-up sustains. You will receive a personalised naturopathic plan — neurotransmitter support, gut recommendations, nervous system home practice, and a Human Design Sun gate embodiment practice. Many participants report that the most significant shifts arrive the morning after — the nervous system integrating overnight what the session put in motion.
A Note From the Founders
To the spa managers, clinical directors, and retreat hosts —
We built this work inside a working clinic, beside practitioners giving everything they have to the people in their care. We know what it takes to hold that space, day after day — and how rarely the practitioners themselves are the ones being held.
That is the work we most want to do now: to come to you — to bring Neuro-Somatic Play to your guests, and to restore and resource your team, as clinicians and as people, leaving your centre with something it can carry long after we have gone.
Our hope is to travel to retreat centres and integrative health spaces around the world, supporting the practitioners who support everyone else. If that is something you have been looking for, we would love to begin a conversation.
With warmth,
Chad & Kyra
Partner With UsThe Arc of the Work
“The body is not broken. It is compressed.”
— Chad Beckett
“The body already knows. The work is to make it safe enough to remember.”
— Kyra Roberton
How to Work Together
One for retreat brands, one for practitioners, one for individuals — the work beneath all three is the same.
We travel to retreat centres and integrative spaces — across Australia and worldwide — to deliver Neuro-Somatic Play as an embedded session or a full experience within your programme. The depth your guests came for, without rebuilding your container from scratch.
For clinics, teams and individual practitioners who need to be held, not trained — a restorative group experience using breath, voice, movement and play. For those who want it, the nervous-system framework and its clinical application go deeper too.
For individuals coming to us at The Health Lodge in Byron Bay — survivorship and integrative medical retreats, community workshops, and private one-to-one sessions in somatic breathwork with Kyra and nervous-system training with Chad. A diagnosis is not required.
View Medical Retreats →Whichever path you walk, the same instrument carries it — the voice. Sound, we believe, is the medicine of the future.
Work With Us
We partner with retreat centres and integrative clinics to restore and resource their teams in Neuro-Somatic Play. If you hold space for others, let's begin a conversation — individual sessions remain available too.
Work With Us
We bring Neuro-Somatic Play to retreat centres, spas and integrative clinics — delivering it to your guests and patients, and resourcing your team. Share a little about your space and what you're imagining, and we'll be in touch to begin the conversation.
