Theory into Practice:
Module 1 of Somatic Therapeutic Yoga Training
(formerly Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery)
This course has now become a part of a 12 month training. It can be taken separately but the option to take Module 2 is not available as a separate training. Please click the button below to learn more and apply for the next cohort.
LEARN MORE2027 COURSE DATES – online live discussions
Here are dates for the next available course intakes. The ten live discussion sessions for each theme (60 mins) will be during these time slots.
Scroll down the page for more information about the content with the course themes and each of the corresponding live sessions here.
For the online course and workshops in this module, you have a choice of two times in the same week. You sign up for one of the groups when joining the course, but are always free to join the other group if you have to miss a session or want to attend both.
Online course:
Live session dates: Mondays 6-7.30pm or Wednesdays 2-3.30pm or Wednesdays 7-8.30pm
Introduction to this module: Jan 11th or 13th
Live session dates: Mondays 6-7pm or Wednesdays 2-3pm or Wednesdays 7-8.30pm
Theme 1 Arriving: Jan 25th or 27th
Theme 2 Stress: Feb 8th or 10th
Theme 3 Trauma: Feb 22nd or 24th
Theme 4 Belly: Mar 22nd or 24th
Theme 5 Fascia: Apr 12th or 14th
Theme 6 Posture: April 26th or 28th
Theme 7 Body Psychotherapy: May 24th or 26th
Theme 8 Mindful Language: June 7th or 9th
Theme 9 Health as Whole: June 28th or June 30th
Theme 10 Bringing it all Together: July 12th or 14th
Workshops:
Online workshop dates: Wednesdays or Sundays 1-6.30pm
Workshop 1 - Grounding, Orientation and Agency: Mar 10th or Mar 14th
Workshop 2 - Observing and Responding to Needs: May 12 or May 16th
Workshop 3 - The Language of Embodied Awareness: June 16th or 20th
Workshop 4 - Resourcing Yourself to Support Others: July 21st or 25th
London Workshops (two full weekends):
Workshop 1: Grounding, Orientation and Agency – Saturday 29th May 11am-6pm
Workshop 2: Observing and Responding to Needs – Sunday 30th May 10am-5pm
Workshop 3: The Language of Embodied Awareness – Saturday 3rd July 11am-6pm
Workshop 4: Resourcing Yourself to Support Others – Sunday 4th July 10am-5pm
The workshops are held at the London School of Capoeira, Unit 1-2 Leeds Place, London N4 3RF - nearest tube Finsbury Park.
January 2027
Pricing options
You may choose to either pay in instalments or for less in full.
Please get in touch with Charlotte directly at [email protected] if you are low income or a concession to arrange further discount.
Click the box below to sign up for your pricing preference.
This course is a part of the 200-Hour Somatic Therapeutic Yoga Training further training for full certification. See more details here.
(please note: Module 2 of the training is not available as a separate course)
COURSE CONTENT
Includes 10 themes, explored in the format shared below.
1. Arriving – Setting our community healing space. Where we find ourselves in modern life and what it means to be a ‘modern yogi’ in a world of goal orientation, high expectation and physical ideals. How these considerations can be supported by the yoga model of healing and recovery, as distinct from the reductionist model of disease.
2: Context of the Modern World – The stress response and what it means for the modern yogi – the effects of modern life and psychosocial stress on the nervous system, noticing polarities, somatic practices, survival over growth. Bringing in the yamas and the gunas as guides for practice and life.
3: Vagal Connection – Trauma & polyvagal theory – the freeze response, grounding, orientation and what this means within practice on and off the mat. The importance of the vagus nerve and old/new vagal tones.
4: Belly Connection – The enteric nervous system aka ‘second brain’ and listening to ‘what is true right now’, as well as sense of safety, intuitively responding and embodied awareness. Observing separation of head and body in reductionist culture; coming back to ‘head, heart and hara’ as whole.
5: The Fascial Web – Fascia as a sensory organ and how everything is connected to everything else. Communication via the psoas and fascia for kinaesthesia; interoception and proprioception, and how tightness, lesions and distortions in this matrix can ripple through the nervous system and affect how we move and feel.
6: Posture & Self – Modern postural habits from stress, sitting on chairs and trauma patterns. Including exploration of the primary and secondary spinal curves, the ventral and dorsal aspects (front and back body) and expressions of these via breath tones, and the Deep Front Line (Anatomy Trains) and sense of self.
7: Body Psychotherapy – Modern chakra theory & developmental trauma models for body psychotherapy – relationships with survival, trust, attunement, attachment and autonomy and how they affect our expressions through responses, gestures and movement.
8: Mindful Language – Stress, trauma & hypervigilance language – the modern habits of goal-oriented and self-critical language; how this affects yoga practice and teaching. The language of modern mindfulness as a helpful guide; inviting movement rather than imposing our will and the support of sound during physical practice.
9: Health as Whole – The yoga model of wellness (as opposed to the medical model of disease) and approaching health as coming back to whole, the root of the word ‘healing’. Discussing the kleshas (hindrances) as obstacles to wellness and sources of dis-ease within yoga philosophy. Identification with illness as a state and finding our essence nature.
10: Bringing it all together – Bringing it all together – gathering together the threads of the course to review aspects of whole health covered – in the context of moving beyond stress, trauma, burnout, anxiety, fatigue and post-illness through embodied awareness.
Take a sneak peek of what's inside - examples of a presentation and practice video from the training.
If you can’t make one of those dates in your chosen group,
you can always attend that theme within a future intake to ensure you have covered the required hours for the course.
You can sign up to the online course any time before these dates. You will have access to the introduction and Module 1 immediately, to start the foundational somatic practice and laying out the ethos for the journey.
Pricing options
You may choose to either pay in instalments or for less in full.
Please get in touch with Charlotte directly at [email protected] if you are low income or a concession to arrange further discount.
Click the box below to sign up for your pricing preference.
This course is a part of the 200-Hour Somatic Therapeutic Yoga Training further training for full certification. See more details here.
(please note: Module 2 of the training is not available as a separate course)
Additional Live Workshops included with this training (in person or online)
Meet Charlotte
Charlotte's work as a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and nutritional therapist over the last few decades has had a focus on how we bring together our whole selves in movement, nourishment, expression and self-care. This includes a recognition of the psychosocial stresses so prevalent in our modern world and the traumas that we hold in our tissues, as well as our emotional states.
In her yoga and movement work, this has meant shifting towards a more somatic framework, with an emphasis on exploring boundaries and processing of the stories we hold in our bodies. Using yoga philosophy and psycho-neuro-endo-immunology as a framework to hold kind, curious exploration, trains, yoga, teaches and other health professionals, movement and subtle practices that support whole health.
For yoga teachers and other health professionals, she runs courses, training, teachers, in somatic, therapeutic and mindful ways of holding space for others so that they have the curiosity and agency to support themselves. Charlotte runs courses and teaches for Yogacampus, London, and is a guest lecturer for The Minded Institute.
She teaches how to use movement, not simply in the context of what we can do physically, but as a way to attune, listen and respond to our deeper, often unconscious needs. In her more specifically, health-focussed courses, (digestion, immune and respiratory health and books on these subjects), she weaves how the relationships between body, breath, fluids and our structure are part of one highly responsive organisation.
Charlotte is an author with many published books, including Yoga and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health (Singing Dragon 2022), Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health (Singing Dragon 2018), Good Mood Food (Nourish 2018) and The De-Stress Effect (2015).
