Somatic Foundations Training

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

This course is designed for practitioners who work with people, including:

Yoga teachers who want to move beyond alignment and sequencing

Therapists who want to integrate body awareness into their sessions

Coaches who want to support deeper, more sustainable change

You don’t need prior somatic training, but you do need a willingness to slow down and pay attention.

Sofia Araujo