- Somatic Yoga Teacher Training
280h | Unfolding resonances: Traditional yoga combined with modern somatic methods
What does the Somatic Yoga Basic Training focus on?
The Somatic Yoga Advanced Training is based on the form-expanding and -liquefying experience of the Somatic Yoga Basic Training, in which the feeling body was able to unfold its individual relationship to the practice. This deepening approaches the refinement of the yogic forms (asanas/postures, asana series, pranayamas, bandhas, mudras) through a refinement of the bodily, spatial and temporal perception.
For whom is the Somatic Yoga Teacher Training recommended?
- Yoga teachers who are looking for inspiration and reflection for their own work
- Yoga practitioners who want to find a new, perceptive approach and deepen their practice
- Yoga beginners who want an open, school- and style-independent approach to yoga
- Researchers and people interested in all somatic methods who appreciate an interdisciplinary approach
- Pedagogues, therapists, doctors, etc., who are looking for a well-founded body and movement training
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280 hours / 6 Modules / 4 Somatic Methods / 3 teachers
Q&A Somatic Yoga
Please don´t hesitate in contacting us by e-mail info@somatische-akademie.de
What does the Somatic Yoga Teacher Training include?
traditional yoga practices basic & fundamentals within the framework of the BDY Standards
- Asanas (yoga postures)
- Kriyas (asana sequences & flows)
- Bandhas (Closures)
- Mudras (hand gestures)
- Pranayama (guided breathing)
- Dharana (concentration)
- Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation)
- Nada Yoga (sound yoga)
- Dhyana (Meditation)
Principles of the Somatic Methods
- Experiential Breath according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf
- Continuum
- Feldenkrais Pedagogy
- Experiential Anatomy
All teachers are fully certified practitioners in the methods with many years of teaching experience as well as cross-method research practice.
Cross-method content
- Pedagogy, the further development of somatic teaching language, somatic-didactic principles of lesson design, structure & choreography
- Philosophy, individual as well as group examination of yoga philosophy and western phenomenological philosophical approaches
- History and traditions of yoga
- Psychology & Yoga
- Meditation, source texts
- Yoga & socio-political relevance
- Values & ethics
- Professional Studies
- Teaching internship
Which certification does the Somatic Yoga Basic Training offer?
The completion of the Somatic Yoga Basic Training offers general BDY Yoga Standards Basic corresponding knowledge combined with a strong somatic focus. The basic training is certified by the Somatic Academy and entitles to teach Somatic Yoga. Membership in the Professional Association of Yoga Teachers BDY is possible.
The Basic Training forms the first part of the whole Somatic Yoga Training and can be completed by the second part, the Advanced Training.
With the completion of the Somatic Yoga Basic & Advanced Training (500 hours) and an additional qualification (+140 hours), the graduate is entitled to be certified for health insurance approval at the ZPP (Zentrale Prüfstelle für Prävention). The required modules for the additional +140 hours are currently being planned.
Curriculum
Somatic Yoga Teacher Training - Basic Training 280h
Mar 14, 2025 - Mar 13, 2026
Module 1 | Mar 14-18, 2025 | Ground - Beginning - Starting Point
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Module 2 | May 03-07, 2025 | Off the ground - Transitions 1 - Between animal and human
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Module 3 | Jul 05-09, 2025 | To standing - Uprightness - Sincery
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Module 4 | Sep 03-07, 2025 | Connecting – Transition 2 – Room and Group
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Module 5 | Dec 06-10, 2025 | Integration - Inside - Outside
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Module 6 | Mar 07-13, 2026 | Intensive week - Graduation
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Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
What does Somatic Yoga mean?
Somatic Yoga is an open yoga system which, in combination with the Feldenkrais Method, Continuum and the Experiential Breath according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf, strengthens and moves the aspects of embodiment in the yoga practice. In this way, an awareness between design and self-organization can develop in movement, asana, pranayama and bandhas.
What is Somatic Yoga based on?
The somatic methods each emphasize the potential of our physical and bodily perception in their own way and, together with the deepening of experiential anatomy in yoga training, form a beneficial basis in which our bodily references are embodied more vividly and enjoyably and are understood in connection with feeling. An essential change of perspective in which the overemphasis on the perfect pose dissolves pleasantly into a subtle feeling in slow movement. The body's own movement is requested and (finally) becomes visible. The whole organism breathes and flows. Aspects of the trauma-sensitive and low-injury space in Somatic Yoga and Embodiment Yoga are integrated into this type of approach.
How does the Somatic Yoga practice look like?
The traditional postures and forms of yoga - asanas - combine in evenly flowing sequences - flows.
A continuous change of becoming and passing away. We then slow down the smooth flow of movement more and more, gathering and unfolding into and out of each asana, holding, releasing and creating anew. In this way, we immerse ourselves more and more in the fluid and moving depth of the body that once created this asana form.
Through Somatic Yoga, traditional asana series of yoga are expanded through organic and fluid movement sequences, the invitation to feel the body deeply is conveyed through the conscious somatic address of the fascial structures of the body, among other things, and enables a joyful and relaxed approach to the form.
When and how is it possible to explore Somatic Yoga at the Somatic Academy Berlin?
Get to know Somatic Yoga in weekly Somatic Yoga classes or deepen your practice in the professional training Somatic Yoga (Basic & Advanced training).
Seminarleiter*innen
Marion Evers
evers@somatische-akademie.de
Founder of the Somatic Academy Berlin, studied Theatre, French Linguistics & Political Science Cologne, Berlin, Marseille, M.A. "From Actor to Performer "1998, studies in Performance Arts, work in the field of directing/dramaturgy, speaker, moderator. The interest in a stronger integration of theory and practice leads to the foundation of the Somatic Academy, Embodiment Research, Body Phenomenological Foundations, Critical Somatics, Social Body & Body Politics in relation to somatic practices in their social and political relevance of "somatics" today.
Somatic Movement Educator (RSME/ISMETA), Somatic Yoga & Somatic Voice Trainer, Breath Therapist according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf, Yoga Teacher (BDY/EYU)
Katja Münker
www.movement-muenker.de/
Dance | Choreography | Performance | Somatics | Artistic Research | Walking Art | Mountain Hiking Guiding
Continuing education lecturer and director of Environmental Somatics and EMERGE/ Somatic in Dance at the Somatische Akademie Berlin. Member of the German Feldenkrais Association & ISMETA-registered RSME/RSMT/RSDE.
Trained as a physical therapist, Feldenkrais teacher, and mountain hiking guide, as well as in contemporary dance, (contact) improvisation, instant composition.
Conscious and embodied learning, the potential between individual freedom and collective inclusion in the environment, as well as joy, ease, and consciousness in the movement are the focus of her teaching. Her research-oriented practice is informed by deep-sensing investigation and reflecting evaluation. Beyond teaching her work includes performance projects, conference papers, and publications focusing on somatics and choreography, as well as on walking. Regular teaching at universities including FU Berlin, UdK Berlin, and HZT Berlin. Artistic research collaboration with AREAL_artistic research lab Berlin.
Kosten
3900€
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 3900.00 EUR