Somatic Movement Educator Training 2025 – Somatic Movement Educator Training

Part 1: Somatic Foundation Year in German or English The Somatic Foundation Year places emphasis on the individual process and the development of experiential knowledge // 1 year, 6 modules, 5 days per module. Perception-oriented learning in somatic methods enables a conscious engagement with one's own body and the resulting relatedness with others. This part is dedicated to immediate experience, freed from the pressure of having to apply already, and forms an important foundation for one's own, especially physical integration of somatic content. The Somatic Foundation Year can also be booked individually. Detailed information is here. Curriculum Module 1 Ground Content: Beginning and Being-There - Meditation and collection - The experience of the ground that supports and acts as a mirror - Encounter with gravity and counter-force Principles: Arriving - Trust/surrender - Yielding - Tensegrity - Supported by the ground/by the earth Body systems: Fascia-skeleton-muscle synergy # 1 / Cell & cellular breathing / Developmental Movements overview Module 2 Space Content: Distinction inner space / outer space - Spatial perception + spatial experience - Orienting oneself in space - Recognizing possibilities / Multidirectionality - Silence - Potency Principles: Directions / Orientation - Kinesthesia / Tensegrity - Synesthetic interaction of the senses in spatial perception - Supported by space Body systems: Fascia-skeleton-muscle synergy # 2 / Diaphragm levels - horizontal floors / Sensory Motor loop / Organs / front-middle-back body Module 3 Individuation Content: Self/Others / Experiencing uniqueness - Being separate / Being connected - Diversity / Integration part 1 - Making decisions - Balance Principles: Boundaries - Wanting + choosing - Yes / No - Center + periphery - Equilibrium Body systems: Developmental Movements / Proprioception / Skin - membranes / Labyrinth Module 4 Communication Content: Communication with oneself, with others, with the environment - Perceiving, sensing, feeling, thinking, acting - Regulation processes - Conflict resolution 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 Content: Enduring emptiness / Creating space - Being transformed / transforming oneself - Transitions / part 1 Principles: Flexibility + support - Wishing / Desiring / Inspiration - Confusion / Irritation / Disorientation - Not-knowing / Supported in being Body systems: Fluids - lymph / Heart / Lungs / Chest Module 6 Initiation Content: Birth + dying - Transitions / part 2 - Release from attachments - Celebrating change Principles: Death / Birth - Embedding - Primal trust Change - Transcendence Energy Activity / Passivity Being Surrender - Sexuality - Love Body systems: Uprighting, flexion, extension / Embryology - sexual organs / Birth Part 2: Somatic Pedagogy Training >> further information The Somatic Pedagogy Training takes place - like Part 1 - in a fixed group. It consists of 10 modules (each Mon-Fri), which are distributed over a period of 1.5 years. In the modules, the somatic methods from Part 1 are deepened through didactic knowledge and philosophical theory embedding. In going through the developmental process again, this is analyzed through the perspective of various somatic methods and made comprehensible and actionable through the ongoing process of one's own embodiment. Part 2 ends with a final examination that includes practical and theoretical components. Completing Part 2 certifies for teaching application. Prerequisite for participation in Part 2 is Part 1.
Certified Somatic Movement Educator after Part 1 & Part 2 (500 hours) Curriculum & Subjects The Somatic Pedagogy Training combines knowledge from 8 different somatic approaches in the following subjects: Somatic Practice & Reflection Somatic Pedagogy Experiential Anatomy History & Philosophy of Somatics Embodied Teaching Teaching Practice Hands-On Processing & Documentation Research & Integration Module 1 Foundations of Somatic Pedagogy Part 1 Reflective somatic practice in individual methods and in synergy experiences pedagogical approach & analysis of individual methods pedagogical approach & analysis of synergistically interacting methods Pedagogy of relatedness (theoretical foundations) Principles of embodied teaching Somatics and language Selected history & philosophy of somatics Research and documentation Module 2 Grundlagen der somatischen Pädagogik Teil 2 Reflective somatic practice in individual methods and in synergy experiences pedagogical approach & analysis of individual methods pedagogical approach & analysis of synergistically interacting methods Pedagogy of relatedness (theoretical foundations) Principles of embodied teaching Somatics and language Selected history & philosophy of somatics Research and documentation Module 3 Resilience The somatic practice is based on the contents of the Ground module of the Somatic Foundation Year. Deepening Reflection of content Reflection of methodology Teaching experience, design and composition Early childhood movement development and personality development in relation to trust, support and backing Body systems: Cell - Fascia / Skeleton / Muscles / Synergy Part 1 - inner floors / Diaphragms Part 1 - Organs Module 4 Dimensionality The somatic practice is based on the contents of the "Space" module of the Somatic Foundation Year. Deepening Reflection of content Reflection of methodology Teaching experience, design and composition Early childhood movement development and personality development in relation to perception and orientation ability Body systems: Fascia / Skeleton / Muscle synergy Part 2 - inner floors Part 2 - Breathing - Organs - Sensory organs Module 5 Design The somatic practice is based on the contents of the "Individuation" module of the Somatic Foundation Year. Deepening Reflection of content Reflection of methodology Teaching experience, design and composition Early childhood movement development and personality development in relation to the self/other relationship and one's own creative ability Body systems: Skin - membranes - labyrinth - sensory organs Module 6 Reflection Reflection of the training process: How can the body accompany our learning? How can we learn from it? Body and movement work in individual processes and in group processes - somatic practice Group dynamics Lesson composition Orientation based on methods or themes Decision criteria for method selection Experiential anatomy as a teaching tool Hands-On Pedagogy in groups Critical somatics Module 7 Resonance capacity The somatic practice is based on the contents of the Communication module of the Somatic Foundation Year. Reflection of the training process: Deepening Reflection of content Reflection of methodology Teaching experience, design and composition Early childhood language & movement development and personality development in relation to contextual resonance, regulation ability and conflict resolution Body systems: Fluids - hormonal system / glands - head - larynx - hands Module 8 Complexity The somatic practice is based on the contents of the "Change" module of the Somatic Foundation Year: Deepening Reflection of content Reflection of methodology Teaching experience, design and composition Early childhood movement development and personality development in relation to resistance and fear, disorientation, dissonance, availability and surrender Body systems: Nervous system / Autonomic nervous system / Brain - lungs - heart - circulation Module 9 Cycles The somatic practice is based on the contents of the Initiation module of the Somatic Foundation Year. Deepening Reflection of content Reflection of methodology Teaching experience, design and composition Early childhood movement development and personality development in relation to birth and death, primal trust, surrender, sexuality, love Body systems: Embryology - sexual organs Module 10 Embodiment This module serves to integrate all previous content and is devoted to the question of how the learned material wants to embody or take shape in one's further personal and/or professional path. Based on the individual process documentation of the previous 9 modules, this module provides a framework for individually sovereign continuation and authorship of the content in future professional practice. Constructive-critical self-reflection and self-assessment is strengthened. The most important aspects of responsibility and ethics of the somatics practitioner are touched upon. Upon fulfilling all admission requirements (attendance & teaching samples), the final module leads to certification of the ability to teach the training content to individuals and groups. We recommend an additional Somatic Specialization: The Somatic Specialization involves the individual specialization of the somatic practitioner. There are 4 different options to choose from: Participants can select a 200-hour, self-contained specialization from the program of the Somatic Academy Berlin (SAB). Participants can put together an individual program from various offerings of the SAB until 200 hours are reached. Participants can choose a specialization that is not directly carried out by the SAB but is in collaboration with it. In individual cases, existing training or specializations may possibly be recognized by us. Prerequisites for participation in Part 1: none Prerequisites for participation in Part 2: Part 1

500 Std. / 16 Module / 8 Somatische Methoden / 4 Dozent*innen The cross-methodological training to become a Somatic Movement Educator comprises more than 640 teaching units distributed over 2 parts to obtain ISMETA 500 certification. The ISMETA 500 certification "Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME)" qualifies for working with groups as a Somatic Movement Educator. The work as a somatic movement educator finds meaningful and supportive application in most professions, life and social areas such as art, education, medicine, social work, etc. Consciously integrated embodiment & sensitivity supports, promotes, stimulates among other things: Resilience self-regulatory physical processes empathy and relationship capacity self-perception ability as a concrete expansion of the sensing capacity agency & decision-making capacity adaptation and orientation capacity vitality and endurance autonomy and team ability reflection, process and contextualization capacity

8800€ Monthly installment payment is possible for 12 months at €750, 24 months at €385 or 36 months at €265. Please contact us by email for this >> Send email