Neuro-Somatic Play — Meet Your Nervous System

For retreat centres & integrative clinics

A clinically grounded somatic experience — breath, voice, movement and play.

Designed to help your guests leave calmer, more expressive and more connected, and to restore the team who hold them. Brought to your venue by its two founders.

The Health LodgeByron Bay

WARM Health CollectiveMelbourne

Banyan Tree VeyaValle de Guadalupe

Ananda Rainforest RetreatAsia Pacific

Blue Green SanctuaryByron Bay

Practitioner Training

One afternoon. Twenty nervous systems.

Chad Beckett guiding a participant with a hand at the chest

A participant lying on a mat, hands reaching upward

Kyra Roberton lying on a mat beside a plant, eyes closed

The Guest Experience

What your guests leave with.

Play is one of the most natural ways a nervous system learns it is safe. In a small group, guests move from braced and guarded into breath, voice and movement, and leave lighter, more expressive and more connected than they arrived.

NNervous systems that know, at last, that they are safe.
EEmotion free to move, and to be met through the heart.
UUnguarded bodies that feel like home again.
RRemembered voices, and an essence never lost.
OOpen hearts, and the felt safety of belonging.

“I’m still reeling from the experience. My morning today on waking looked very different to most I have.”Ken · Retreat guest, the morning after his session

Who It Is For

For anyone whose body is carrying more than it can express.

It works alongside conventional care, never in place of it.

Those who hold others

Practitioners, medical doctors, and retreat hosts who want to carry this work to the people they serve
Psychiatrists and psychologists seeking an evidence-informed, adjunctive nervous-system framework to complement care
Carers and loved ones who have carried others through illness, and are ready to be held in return

Those running on empty

Anyone navigating burnout, hormonal transition or illness — a nervous system on high alert, or shut down
High-performing people who look successful on the outside and are running on empty underneath
Those moving through major life transitions — grief, identity shifts, relationship change, career rupture

Those who have done the work

Those who have done years of talk therapy, and are ready to let the body speak where words end
Those who have done years of bodywork, breathwork or movement, and are searching for essence beyond release
Those who know their story by heart, and are ready to feel it rather than retell it

Those ready for more

The well and the thriving, who sense there is more
Those whose body knows something the mind hasn’t yet caught up with
Anyone who wants to feel more grounded, more creative in how they express what they feel, with a sense of spirit consistently lighting them up

“Highly recommend for all health professionals.”Emily Mules · Somatic Therapist

Formats

Three ways to bring it in.

Each arrives complete, from intake to aftercare, and settles gracefully into the rhythm of your programme.

Guests lying on mats, arms reaching upward

For your guests

Signature Session

A single, complete experience woven into your guest programme — arrival, voice, movement, release and closing as a group.

3–4 hours · 6–12 guests · On request

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Kyra Roberton in hands-on somatic work with a participant

At The Health Lodge

Retreat Programme

Woven through our 5- and 10-day medical retreats in Byron Bay: an opening session, daily practice and a closing integration, with personalised follow-up recommendations.

5 or 10 days · 6–12 guests · On request

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Practitioners together after a Neuro-Somatic Play training in Melbourne

For your people

Team Restoration

For the practitioners and wellness staff who hold everyone else. A restorative day first, with the framework available for those who want to go deeper.

Half or full day · Up to 20 staff · On request

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On site: a quiet room that comfortably holds twenty · mats, bolsters & blankets from the venue · a space where sound is welcome.

Clinical Governance

Clinically grounded. Carefully held.

Neuro-Somatic Play was shaped inside The Health Lodge, Byron Bay — an integrative medical centre and retreat where doctors, naturopaths and allied-health practitioners work under one roof. That is the standard of care your guests are held to.

Screened before arrival

Every participant completes an intake covering health history, current nervous-system state and informed consent. Contraindications are reviewed before anyone steps into the room.

Refined in a medical setting

Refined within a medical retreat setting at The Health Lodge, alongside integrative GPs, complementary and allied health professionals. We liaise with your on-site wellness or clinical lead.

Led by experienced practitioners

Co-led by Chad Beckett, designer of Neuro-Somatic Play and certified Gyrotonic® practitioner, and Kyra Roberton, Clinical Nutritionist and Integrative Naturopath.

Titrated, never forced

Sessions are sequenced so nothing is asked of the body before it feels safe enough to offer it. Guests can pause, rest or step out at any point.

Complementary to care

Offered alongside medical and psychological care, never in place of it. No diagnosis is made and no treatment claims are made for the session itself.

Insured & certified

Professional indemnity and public liability insurance in place. Certificates of currency and qualifications are available to partner venues on request.

In Practice · The Health Lodge, Byron Bay

“No words. Wonderful. Feeling so grateful — let’s do more of this. Thank you Kyra for holding Chad’s brilliance so beautifully.”

Reine Dubois · Clinical Director & Integrative Naturopath, The Health Lodge

Setting: Award-winning integrative medical centre & retreat
Format: Team Restoration · A practitioner training session
Who: The Health Lodge’s medical practitioners

In Their Words

“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.”

BonnieNaturopath & Bio Resonance Practitioner

“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.”

AngelaOccupational Therapist

“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.”

JoanneRetreat guest

The Founders

Two practitioners. One practice.

The Designer

Chad Beckett

Designer of Neuro-Somatic Play · Acting coach · Certified Gyrotonic® practitioner

For more than twenty years Chad has been sought after by leading actors and performers, coaching them to let real emotion move through the body and reach the room. Trained in theatre, he brings a multidimensional skillset — acting coaching, voice, breath and movement, and certified Gyrotonic® practice — to a single question: what is this person’s essence asking to express? He has led retreats across Europe, the Middle East, Japan and New Zealand, and has held a private practice between Sydney and Byron Bay for over a decade. In Neuro-Somatic Play, breath, voice and movement become a way back to essence. Emotion, met through the heart, opens a pathway to spirit — and spirit is what he is here to awaken.

The Co-Creator

Kyra Roberton

Clinical Nutritionist & Integrative Naturopath · Lead Practitioner, The Health Lodge Cancer Care Retreats

For more than fifteen years Kyra has worked where clinical science and intuitive care meet, through the lens of psychoneuroimmunology. She runs The Cancer Clinic within The Health Lodge, an award-winning integrative medical centre in Byron Bay, and is Lead Practitioner for its cancer care retreats, working alongside doctors and allied-health practitioners and in step with each person’s oncology team. She also holds an educational collaboration with international medical doctors at Hope4Cancer. In Neuro-Somatic Play she brings that clinical ground into the room: careful screening, a steady presence, and care that continues after the session. Privately, she practises through Antidote Medica.

A Note From the Founders

To the people holding the space.

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 — and how rarely the practitioners themselves are the ones being held.

We would love to come to you: to bring Neuro-Somatic Play to your guests, and to restore and resource your team, leaving your centre with something it can carry long after we have gone.

With warmth, Chad & Kyra

Explore the work in full

In Development

Two new ways to carry the work.

Card Deck

The Neuro-Somatic Play Deck

Prompts for breath, voice, movement and play, so the practice can continue at home, in clinic and between sessions.

Endorsed by Emily Hodges, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

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LOVED

Your life, held like a locket: stories, voice and memories, gathered with love for those you love.

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