- Confidence // Somatic Yoga & Breath
DE+EN | Workshop with Marion Evers
Allowing the breath to be
It approaches within the theme CONFIDENCE the fundamental structure of the breath: the possibility to direct the breath willingly, such as in the structures of Pranayama and the fascinating experience of allowing the breath and consciously experiencing this released 'ATEM'. The discovery and experience of our own breath, the individual triad of in-breath, out-breath and breath rest fills us intrinsically rhythmically, because up to the depth of the spatial expansions of our body and beyond, we are breath-moved and full of the potential of sensitive body sensations (4e cognition). The differentiated experience of the tension sensations happens through a collected sensing and the openness for bodily sensations in which the relation between inside and outside perception can regulate itself, for example, in the body tone
- Method focus: Yoga & Experiential Breath
- Principals: Breathing spaces / breathing rhythm / breathing power / constriction and expansion / multidimensionality / Pranayama / Breath & Meditation
- Experiential anatomy: Breathing
The workshop works with both approaches to the breath and asks for differences and similarities.
Feel free to bring your own questions and experiences about breath & yoga. Our body tone can slowly rebalance and offers a better foundation for deep relaxation and meditation.
For whom is this workshop recommended?
- Yoga teachers who have already enjoyed a basic yoga training and are looking for inspiration and reflection for their own work
- Yoga practitioners who want to find a new, sensory-perceptual approach and deepen their practice
- Researchers and people interested in all somatic methods who appreciate an interdisciplinary approach
- Pedagogues, therapists, doctors, etc., who are looking for impulses of a well-founded body and movement perception
The modules 6 - 12 of our Somatic Yoga training allow to deepen the knowledge about somatic methods from breath work according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf, Continuum, Somatic Voice and Feldenkrais Methode in relation to the yoga repertoire in individual modules/workshops. The expanding understanding of 'knowing oneself' opens up a new space of freedom. The design and composition of the yoga sequences in this further encounter with freedom is supported by the rhythms and decision criteria of the Somatic Methods and by improvisational strategies. Prior experience in somatics/bodywork/yoga is recommended for the workshop.
Which workshops can be booked as well for a process of deepening and reflection?
Module 7 | Aug 01-03, 2025 | Elasticity
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Module 8 | Aug 29-31, 2025 | Confidence
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Module 9 | Oct 10-12, 2025 | Depth
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Module 10 | Dec 12-14, 2025 | Resonance
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Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
6 Modules / 4 Somatic Methods / 3 Lecturers & Guest Lecturers
What does the Somatic Yoga Advanced Training focus on?
The somatic deepening in yoga focuses on the differentiation and shaping of body perception. Consciously addressing the senses of skin and touch as well as the kinesthetic-proprioceptive dimensions of our bodily experience enables a refinement of bodily, spatial and temporal perception in the long term and leads to deep embodiment. On this path, orientation develops in the yoga practice, as well as as an ethically-socially embedded human being. Fineness and depth in dealing with oneself, with yoga as well as in its mediation emerge.
Consciousness between shaping and self-organization
By means of somatic practices we fundamentally train the access to complex, inner processes and create trust in our own resources. Together we learn to integrate traditional yoga and breathing techniques through a high degree of body connection. We take into account our individual circumstances and needs in order to find an individual approach to our own yoga practice and thus to our own teaching style. In this way, all physical postures - asanas - are formed from the inside out.
After the basic principles have been taught in the first 280 training hours, in the second part of the Somatic Yoga training the somatic method knowledge from the Feldenkrais Method, breath work according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf and Continuum will be related to the yoga repertoire in a more concrete and in-depth way in individual modules. This allows a deepening of the experiential anatomy and makes it possible for bodily relations to be embodied in a more plastic and pleasurable way and to be understood in connection with feeling. The deeper 'knowing oneself' that emerges opens up greater freedom. The design and composition of the yoga sequences in this further encounter with freedom is supported by the rhythms and decision criteria of the Somatic Methods and by improvisational strategies.
What does the Somatic Yoga Training includes?
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
What certification does the Advanced Yoga Training offer?
The completion of the Somatic Yoga Advanced Training offers general BDY Yoga Standards Basic corresponding knowledge combined with a strong somatic focus. The advanced training is certified by the Somatic Academy and entitles to teach Somatic Yoga. A membership in the Professional Association of Yoga Teachers BDY is possible.
The completion of the Somatic Yoga Basic & Advanced Training (500 hours) and an additional qualification (+140 hours) entitle you 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 for 2024.
Curriculum
In the Somatic Yoga advanced training, the modules 7-12 take place on a part-time basis from Friday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:30. You will deepen one method per module in relation to yoga and complement the deepened experience through reflection and integration of the didactic principles. Module 12 integrates theoretical and practical knowledge and completes the whole Somatic Yoga Training.
2nd year of Somatic Yoga Training (Advanced Training 500h | Modules 7-10 are bookable individually)
Module 7 | Aug 01-03, 2025 | Elasticity
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Module 8 | Aug 29-31, 2025 | Confidence
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Module 9 | Oct 10-12, 2025 | Depth
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Module 10 | Dec 12-14, 2025 | Resonance
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Module 11 | Feb 13-15, 2026 | Compositions
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Module 12 | Mar 20-27, 2026 | Intensive week - Graduation
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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 & Daten
Costs
380€ for the single module3500€ for the whole Advanced Training in Somatic Yoga
Dates
Aug 29-31, 2025
Friday - Sunday | 10:00am - 5:30pmIf you are interested in participating in all the modules to deepen and expand the Somatic Yoga basic training, you are welcome to contact Marion Evers directly. The following gives an overview of all the main topics of the advanced yoga training.
Module 7 | Aug 01-03, 2025 | Elasticity
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Module 8 | Aug 29-31, 2025 | Confidence
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Module 9 | Oct 10-12, 2025 | Depth
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Module 10 | Dec 12-14, 2025 | Resonance
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Module 11 | Feb 13-15, 2026 | Compositions
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Module 12 | Mar 20-27, 2026 | Intensive week - Graduation
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Anmeldeinformationen
- Full Price: 380.00 EUR
This workshop is also part oft the advanced training in Somatic Yoga. Previous experience in somatics/bodywork/yoga is recommended.