Somatic Yoga Advanced Training – Depth // Somatic Yoga & Continuum

Curriculum In the Somatic Yoga advanced training, modules 7-12 take place while working, each Friday to Sunday from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Each module deepens one method in relation to yoga and complements the deepened experience through reflection and understanding of the didactic principles. Module 12 concludes the training with a final week. Modules 7-10 can also be booked individually. Module 7 29.-31.08.2025 | Elasticity | with Katja Münker Method focus: Yoga & Feldenkrais Method Principles: Dynamics / Force / Dosage / Direction Experiential Anatomy: Fascia Module 8 10.-12.10.2025 | Depth | with Jo Koppe Method focus: Yoga & Continuum Principles: Deep tissue networking / Spatial & temporal experience Philosophy Module 9 12.-14.12.2025 | Trust | with Marion Evers Method focus: Yoga & Experiential Breath Principles: Breath spaces / Breath rhythm / Breath power / Constriction and expansion / Multidimensionality / Pranayama Breath & Meditation Experiential Anatomy: Breathing Module 10 16.-18.01.2025 | Resonance | with Marion Evers Method focus: Yoga & Sound Principles: Nada Yoga / Listening / Silence / Sound meditation / Sound improvisation Psychology Experiential Anatomy: Heart / Larynx / Ear Module 11 13.-15.02.2026 | Composition | with Marion Evers and Katja Münker Method focus: Yoga & Sequencing Principles: Choreography / Improvisation strategies Didactics – Principles of somatic pedagogy Module 12 March 20-27, 2026 | Integration - Final Week | with Marion Evers and Katja Münker Method Focus: Yoga & Hands-on Principles of Somatic Alignment / Professional Studies Final Examinations Introduction Weekends in April/May 2026 What certification does the Yoga Advanced Training offer? Completion of the Somatic Yoga Advanced Training provides general knowledge corresponding to BDY Yoga Basic Standards combined with a strong somatic focus. The advanced training is certified by the Somatic Academy and qualifies participants to teach Somatic Yoga. Membership in the BDY Professional Association of Yoga Teachers is possible. With the completion of the Somatic Yoga basic & advanced training (500 teaching units) and an additional qualification (+140 teaching units), the graduate is entitled to be certified for health insurance approval by the Central Testing Office for Prevention. The modules required for this are currently being planned directly afterwards for 2024.

What does the Somatic Yoga advanced training focus on? The somatic deepening in yoga focuses on the differentiation and development of body perception. A conscious addressing of the skin and touch senses as well as the kinesthetic-proprioceptive dimensions of our body experience enables long-term refinement of bodily, spatial and temporal perception and leads to deep embodiment. On this path, orientation develops in yoga practice, as well as as an ethically-socially embedded human being. Refinement and depth emerge in dealing with oneself, with yoga as well as in its transmission. Awareness between design and self-organization Through somatic practices, we fundamentally train access to complex, inner processes and create trust in our own resources. Together we learn to integrate traditional yoga and breathing techniques through a high degree of embodied connection. We consider our individual circumstances and needs in order to find an individual approach to our own yoga practice and thus also to our own teaching style. In this way, all physical postures - asanas - are formed from the inside out. After conveying the basic principles in the first 280 teaching units, in the 2nd part of the Somatic Yoga training, the continued somatic methodological knowledge from Feldenkrais Method, breathwork according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf and Continuum is once again concretely and deeply related to the yoga repertoire in individual modules. This allows for the deepening of experiential anatomy and enables bodily connections to be embodied more plastically and pleasurably and to be understood as connected to sensing. The emerging deeper 'knowing one's way around' opens up greater freedom. The design and composition of yoga sequences in this further encounter with freedom is supported by the rhythms and decision criteria of the Somatic Methods and by improvisation strategies. What does the Somatic Yoga advanced training include? Teaching of traditional yoga practices Basic & fundamentals within the framework of BDY Basic 500 standards: Asanas (yoga postures) Kriyas (asana sequences & flows) Bandhas (locks) Mudras (hand gestures) Pranayama (directed breathing) Dharana (concentration) Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation) Nada Yoga (sound yoga) Dhyana (meditation) Principles of Somatic Methods Experiential Breath according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf Continuum Feldenkrais Pedagogy Experiential Anatomy All teachers are fully certified practitioners in the methods with many years of teaching experience as well as cross-methodological research practice Cross-methodological content Pedagogy, the further development of somatic teaching language, somatic-didactic principles of lesson design, structure & choreography Philosophy, individual as well as group-internal engagement with yoga Philosophy and Western phenomenological philosophical approaches History and traditions of yoga Psychology & Yoga Meditation, source texts Yoga & socio-political relevance Values & Ethics Professional studies Teaching practicum