Somatic Basics Year

Somatic Basics Year

Consciously experience the body

Get in touch with yourself in a deep and subtle way - Enabling unfolding and development

We believe that people strive to develop and grow. The aim of our Somatic Basics Training is to provide the conditions that support this development through an integrative connection to the body, to make it tangible and to apply it to areas of life such as work, partnership, expression, creativity, and health. This somatic training uses body-oriented learning approaches that become useful for and within the student and take on meaning. The conscious exploration of movement development enables the recognition of personal patterns, the integration of body, psyche, thinking, and acting as well as the engagement of untapped potential.

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200 hours / 6 Modules / 5 Somatic Methods / 4 Teachers

The somatic basic year training takes place annually and is part of the professional training as Somatic Movement Educator >> more info

The 6 modules can only be booked as a complete package and not separately. This training will be in english, the Somatic Basics Training in German starts on Mar 31, 2025 >> more info

Participation in the current course program is part of the mandatory part of the Somatic Basic Year with 20 class dates. These must be signed off by facilitator and include at least 4 different somatic approaches for at least 4 class dates each. The cost for this is 50% of the regular course cost.

Ausführliche Seminarinformationen

What is the Somatics Basics Training?

In the interplay of different methods such as Continuum, Feldenkrais Method, Middendorf's Breath Experience, Body-Mind Centering®, experiential anatomy, Authentic Movement and Somatic Yoga, experiences and cognitive processes arise that are of great value for one's own development.

On the basis of each content-related module focus, we research and experience the corresponding body systems, effective principles, movement patterns, biological and emotional stages of development as well as their personal and social relevance. We make use of the fact that our physical development is in direct connection and interaction with our development of consciousness. Experience and reflection give us access to this. We create a space of emotional security and integrate group dynamic processes as support in the individual learning process.

Structure of the Somatics Basics Training

The Somatic Basics Training is part of our Somatic Movement Educator Training. It forms Part 1 comprising 30 days (240 teaching units) over 6 five-day modules spread over one year. Part 1 is primarily for personal growth. Building on this part 2 or an Specialization can be chosen. They enable the student to teach and work with individuals and/or groups.

Subjects

The Somatic Basics Training combines knowledge from 8 different somatic approaches in the following subjects:

  • Body - practice & experience
  • Body - applied theory
  • Philosophy/ context/ orientation
  • Application/ research/ integration
  • Processing/ individual and social relevance
  • Contained open practice
  • Hands-on

Curriculum

Module 1

Ground

  • Contents: Beginning - being there - focusing sensory attention - the experience of the ground that supports from below - encounter with gravity and its counterforce
  • Principles: Arriving - Trust/ Surrender - Yielding - Tensegrity - Being carried by the ground/ the earth
  • Body Systems: Fascia-Skeleton-Musculature Synergy #1/ Cell & Cell Respiration/ Developmental Movements Overview

Module 2

Space

  • Contents: Distinction interior/ exterior space - spatial perception + spatial experience Alignment in space - recognition of possibilities, multidirectionality - silence - potency
  • Principles: directions/ orientation - kinaesthesia/ tensegrity - synaesthetic interaction of the senses in the perception of space - being carried by space
  • Body Systems: Fascia-skeletal-musculature synergy #2/ diaphragms - horizontal planes/ sensory motor loop/ organs/ front-middle-back body

Module 3

Individuation

  • Contents: I/ others/ experiencing uniqueness - being separated/ being connected - diversity/ integration part 1 - making decisions - balance
  • Principles: limits - wanting + choosing - yes/ no - center + periphery - balance
  • Body Systems: developmental movements/ proprioception/ skin - membranes / ear labyrinth

Module 4

Communication

  • Contents: Communication with oneself, with others, with the environment - perceiving, sensing, feeling, thinking, acting - regulation processes - conflict management
  • Principles: closeness/ distance - diversity/ integration part 2 - flexibility + assertion - fear + solution - empathy - logic - improvisation
  • Body Systems: nervous system/ polyvagal theory/ head, larynx, mouth, hands/ fluids/ blood

Module 5

Change

  • Contents: withstanding emptiness / creating space - being changed / changing - transitions / part 1
  • Principles: flexibility + hold - wish / desire / inspiration - confusion / irritation / disorientation - not knowing / carried in being
  • Body Systems: fluids - lymph / heart / lungs / rib cage

Module 6 

Initiation

  • Contents: birth + dying - transitions / part 2 - releasing attachments - celebrating change
  • Principles: death / birth - embeddedness - basic trust - transcendence - energy - activity / passivity - being - surrender - sexuality - love
  • Body Systems: uprightness, flexion, extension / embryology - sexual organs / birth

Seminarleiter*innen

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Kai Ehrhardt

ehrhardt@somatische-akademie.de 
www.kaiehrhardt.com

Founder of the Somatic Academy Berlin, Breath Therapist/based on the work developed by Prof. Ilse Middendorf, Continuum Teacher and Heilpraktiker (Psychotherapy)

"I had the honor and privilege to learn from the two founders Prof. Ilse Middendorf (Perceptible Breath / Erfahrbarer Atem) and Emilie Conrad (Continuum) and I am pleased to be able to pass on this work." Since 2012, Kai has been developing professional trainings at the Somatic Academy as well as programs dedicated to the application of Somatics in everyday life. He has been a co-curator of the Body IQ festival since 2015. Since 2003, he has developed the approach "Authentic Eros", which integrates - as a somatic application - bodywork, relationship communication and group-dynamic processes in the area of personal and interpersonal development. He is a member of the professional associations Atem, Continuum and ISMETA.

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Marion Evers

evers@somatische-akademie.de 

Founder of the Somatic Academy Berlin, M.A. in Theatre, Linguistics & Political Science, Embodiment Research, Breath Therapist, Somatic Voice Work, Somatic Yoga

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)
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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.

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Heike Kuhlmann


www.heikekuhlmann.net

MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography 

Heike is interested in the unfolding process of human beings. It is more than the individual unfolding, but in how people can meet each other at eye level through personal development and inclusion of structural conditions in her somatic facilitations. Being a condition to become Critical Somatics. She accompanies somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops and trainings. Activism and somatics are interwoven in her artistic work. More information on: www.somatik-tanz-choreographie.dewww.heikekuhlmann.net

 

Kosten

Costs

3400€

Monthly installments for 12-36 month are possible.

Participation in the current course program is part of the mandatory part of the Somatic Basic Year with 20 class dates. These must be signed off by facilitator and include at least 4 different somatic approaches for at least 4 class dates each. The cost for this is 50% of the regular course cost.

Dates

Sep 22, 2025 - Jun 26, 2026

Module 1

Sep 22 - 26, 2025 | Ground

Module 2

Nov 03 - 07, 2025 | Space

Module 3

Jan 19 - 23, 2026 | Individuation

Module 4

Mar 16 - 20, 2026 | Communication

Module 5

May 11 - 15, 2026 | Change

Module 6 

Jun 22 - 26, 2026 | Initiation

 

Sep 09, 2024 - May 02,2025

Module 1

Sep 09-13, 2024 | Ground

Module 2

Nov 04-08, 2024 | Space

Module 3

Dec 02-06, 2024 | Individuation

Module 4

Feb 17-21, 2025 | Communication

Module 5

Mar 10-14, 2025 | Change

Module 6 

Apr 28-May 02, 2025 | Initiation

Anmeldeinformationen

Zeiten
10am-5:30pm
Veranstaltungsort
Berlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
Preise
  • Full Price: 3400.00 EUR
Zahlung Banküberweisung, PayPal
Hinweise

This professional training contains 6 modules, which can not booked separately. All modules will take part:

Somatische Akademie, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30 | 10999 Berlin

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The somatic base year is also part 1 of our Somatic Movement Educator Training >> more info

This training will be in english, the Somatic Basics Training in German starts on Mar 31, 2025 >> more info

Participation in the current course program is part of the mandatory part of the Somatic Basic Year with 20 class dates. These must be signed off by facilitator and include at least 4 different somatic approaches for at least 4 class dates each. The cost for this is 50% of the regular course cost.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us info@somatische-akademie.de. The Somatic Basics Training is a certified training by the international professional somatic association ISMETA.

Lehrer

Kai Ehrhardt
Marion Evers
Katja Münker
Heike Kuhlmann

Daten & Kosten

Kurskosten
  • Full Price 3400.00 EUR
ZahlungBanküberweisung, PayPal
VeranstaltungsortBerlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor