SELF PACED Somatic Movement Training for Yoga Teachers ONLINE Continuing Education

Somatic Movement Training for Yoga Teachers

Learn to teach somatics. Help your students relieve pain patterns in their bodies, calm deregulated nervous systems, build neuroplasticity, and increase their interoceptive awareness.

Start anytime. Learn at your own pace from the comfort of your own home.

Somatic movements are a neuromuscular reeducation inspired through the work of Thomas Hannah.

Re-wire Your Brain to Release Chronic Pain
Learn slow, accessible, and precise movement patterns that use your brain to gain conscious control of your muscles to relieve chronic pain, heal injuries, down-regulate the nervous system, increase range of motion, and foster internal awareness.

15 Hrs of Yoga Alliance CE
This course is for Yoga teachers (and ALL students of yoga) who wish to skillfully incorporate somatic movements into their classes/routines, teach or practice full-length somatic movement classes or use the somatics therapeutically in working with private clients.

Trauma Sensitive Approach
Somatic movements are a particularly helpful mind-body approach to healing from chronic stress and post-traumatic stress. You will learn tools to stimulate the vagus nerve and increase parasympathetic activity to counter the fight, flight, freeze response.

What’s Covered

• Health benefits and current scientific research
• Online practice library that includes full-length somatics classes and videos of each exercise individually with cue sheets for practice.
• Therapeutic adaptations and sequences to relieve specific musculoskeletal issues including back pain, shoulder issues, chronic neck tension, hip & knee issues, scoliosis and trauma.
• Neuroception, Interoception, Exteroception, and Proprioception
• Anatomy of trauma and how to unwind traumatic relfex patterns in the body.
• Sensory motor amnesia and technique of pandiculation
• Anatomy, biomechanics, & addressing common musculoskeletal issues
• Exploration of the somatics applications for unwinding imbalanced patterns along the myofascial lines of the body
• Skill development for teaching including; how to cue, voice tone, and rhythm for quality delivery
• Practice principles and guidelines
• Practice teach opportunities

Current scientific research is showing that increased ability to interocept correlates to decreased levels chronic pain, increased resilience, and lower stress levels. Somatics builds this body-mind sensory perception enabling us to become awake to the felt sense wisdom of the body so our innate learning & healing potential may be supported.

Interactive Online Learning & Lifetime Access
Join us for life-changing, exciting, and accessible content with affordable, flexible, and self-paced delivery.

Content will be delivered to you in clear, concise and practical lessons. The course will include video, slides, lectures, prerecorded practices, and homework actionable items for the direct application of the techniques into your classes.

While the course is designed as a four-week course with approximately 3-4 hours of content/practice each week, it is also self-paced so you can take as long as you like to view and practice the material.

You will have a lifetime of access to the material so you can re-learn and deepen your understanding and application of the principles again and again.

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$347 USD

15 Hours of Study & Practice

Study with Liz Heffernan C-IAYT Yoga Therapists, E-RYT 500 and Senior Teacher
Liz Heffernan, MA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is a gifted international yoga teacher, a certified Yoga Therapist and long-term practitioner. She combines her in-depth knowledge of anatomy and bio-mechanically safe alignment principles with insights and practical wisdom gained from over 24 years of yoga teaching & immersive study.

She is the Founder and Director of Soma Yoga Institute, a world-wide and ONLINE yoga teacher training school that embraces a therapeutically-oriented, heart-centered approach. These programs, heralded by many as truly inspirational, combine modern day biomechanics and research driven science with ancient teachings and serve to teach adaptive Yoga for all BODIES as a practice for vibrant health, self-transformation and personal empowerment.

In her work as a yoga therapist, Liz specializes in helping seniors age gracefully and is highly skilled in adapting practices to meet the complex health challenges associated with aging. In collaborative partnership with Yoga 4 Brain Health she has co-founded the Memory Maintenance Yoga Teacher Training program that certifies Yoga teachers to help their communities delay the onset of memory loss related diseases through Yoga. Liz also serves as a faculty-mentor for the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy supporting professionals on their journey to become yoga therapists.

Liz believes that the path of Yoga brings greater ease, not just to the individual, but to all beings everywhere, and ultimately uplifts planetary consciousness one conscious breath at a time.