Many practitioners sense that effective teaching is about more than delivering information, offering adjustments, or guiding people through a sequence. The most meaningful learning often happens when people feel safe enough to listen to themselves.
This training explores how somatic principles can enrich the way we teach, facilitate, and hold space. Drawing from contemporary somatic approaches, nervous system science, mindfulness, and embodied practice, the course offers practical tools for creating learning environments that support awareness, regulation, and authentic experience.
Rather than adding another layer of techniques to master, this training helps you refine the skills that matter most: presence, observation, responsiveness, and the ability to meet people where they are.
Teach with greater presence, sensitivity, and confidence.
Throughout the course, you will learn how to:
Integrate somatic principles into yoga classes, workshops, coaching sessions, and therapeutic settings
Recognise and respond to different nervous system states with greater confidence and sensitivity
Use language that supports exploration, choice, and embodied awareness
Develop a teaching style that encourages curiosity rather than performance
Create environments that foster safety, participation, and self-agency
Deepen your own capacity for regulation, attunement, and presence as a facilitator
Curriculum
MODULE 1
Core principles of Applied Somatics
The Science of Embodied Awareness
Mindfulness and the Brain
The Role of Pace and Rhythm
Choice, Agency, and Safety
Nervous System Capacity - Modulation I
Trauma-Sensitive Considerations
Self-Regulation in Practice
MODULE 2
Assessing nervous system Reactivity
The Body's Diaphragms: Patterns of Tension
Motor-sensor Coherence practices
Structuring Somatic Experiences
The Relational Field - Group Facilitation Skills
Nervous System Capacity - Modulation II
Integration Techniques
Co-Regulation in Practice
Schedule & Certification
Course Schedule
09.00 - 10.00 Somatic Practice
10.00 - 11.30 Lectures & Case Studies
11.30 - 12.00 pm Break
12.00 pm - 1 pm Exercises & Facilitation
1 pm - 2.00 pm Restorative & Meditation Practice
The 30 hours training comprehends contact and non-contact hours. Contact hours are all class times with the teacher (20) + non-contact hours 10 (final assignment + practice and study of online materials). If you are not interested in completing certification and just want to attend the course as a personal self-care retreat you don´t need non-contact hours module of the training and we will share the online library with you either way.
Schedule:
2 weekends
5 Hours/4 Days on Zoom
9AM Lisbon / London
10AM Paris / Copenhagen
8PM Melbourne
Note: As this training draws on Yoga Therapy, somatic approaches, and body-oriented psychotherapy, it is not offered as a Yoga Alliance-certified programme. Participants who successfully complete the training will receive a certificate from Swara Yoga School for either 20 or 30 hours of continuing education, depending on the hours attended and requirements completed.
Course Includes
Somatic Foundations Training Manual
E-Book- Applied Somatics - A Guide for Teachers & Practitioners
Studio recorded meditations & yoga nidra for personal regulation
Somatic Exercises Chart
Links to Scientific Studies on somatics, neuroscience, trauma resolution & integration, meditation, neuro-degeneration and neuro-protection.
Certificate of Completion
Integration workshop 1 month post training - online
Why learn Somatics?
As teachers, coaches, trainers and facilitators, we are increasingly working with people experiencing stress, overwhelm, disconnection, and nervous system dysregulation. Somatic approaches offer practical ways to support awareness, self-regulation, and resilience without turning yoga classes or coaching sessions into therapy. They help us teach in a way that is responsive to the person in front of us, rather than relying solely on protocols, techniques, or fixed outcomes.
The Teacher
Reserve Your Place
450€
Early Bird Price €325 till July 1st 2026
Includes all tuitions zoom live
Course Manual, Playlists and Worksheets
Studio quality recordings of Meditations + Exercises
Integration Workshop 1 month post training
LIFETIME ACCESS
*All live Zoom classes are recorded in case you cannot attend a class
Replays available for 1 Year
Questions?
Please contact us with any questions, concerns, or other inquiry you may have. We want to hear from you!
