Somatic Yoga Basic Training
Unfolding resonances: Traditional yoga united with modern somatic
methods
03. Sep 2025 - 07. Jun 2026
Unique Encounters
What is Somatic Yoga?
Somatic Yoga is a synergy of traditional flowing yoga practices & the somatic core knowledge from Feldenkrais Method, Continuum & breath work according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf in connection with Experiential Anatomy & Embodied Teaching Strategies.
By transforming the strategies of physical-formal yoga into an embodied-sensing unfolding within the form, Somatic Yoga works in a self-determined and boundary-expanding way and thereby becomes a self-responsible and joyful practice. A present, creative synthesis of concentration within the form emerges, which deeply moves and intensifies the experience in yoga on all levels.
What does the Somatic Yoga Basic 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.
In all modules of the first training year, the entire teaching team is present to achieve a synergy of methods in the specific approach to yoga practice.
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280 UE / 6 Modules / 4 Somatic Methods / 4 Teachers & Guest Teachers
What does the Somatic Yoga Teacher 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 access to our own yoga practice and thus also to our own teaching style. In this way, all physical postures – asanas – form from the inside out.
The teaching of basic principles is in the foreground throughout the 280 UE. In this process, somatic methodological knowledge is concretely and deeply related to the yoga repertoire.
What does the Somatic Yoga Basic Training include?
Teaching of traditional yoga practices Basic & Fundamentals:
- Asanas (yoga postures)
- Kriyas (asana sequences & flows)
- Bandhas (locks)
- Mudras (hand gestures)
- Pranayama (controlled 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 engagement with yoga philosophy and western body-phenomenological philosophical approaches
- Anatomy, as Experiential Anatomy, among other things, focus on the fundamental addressing of the fascial system
- History and traditions of yoga
- Psychology & Yoga
- Meditation & embodied connection, source texts
- Yoga & socio-political relevance
- Values & Ethics
- Professional Studies
Curriculum Somatic Yoga Teacher Training
In the Somatic Yoga Basic Training, modules 1-5 teach fundamental yoga practices (asanas, flows, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana) and basic philosophical knowledge, connecting these with principles from Feldenkrais, Breath according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf (collection, sensation, breath) and Continuum. Through Applied Anatomy, the structure of yoga practice unfolds along human movement development. Module 6 follows with a final and examination week.
Curriculum
| Module 1 | 03.- 07.09.2025 | Floor – Beginning – Starting Point | with Jo Koppe, Katja Münker & Marion EversBody focus: Cell / SpineYoga: Fundamentals of wave movement of the spine – Lying asanas / lying basic positions – Breath awareness – Breath and movementSomatics: Feldenkrais, Continuum, Experiential Anatomy, Experiential Breath |
| Module 2 | 01.- 05.11.2025 | Away from the Floor – Transitions 1 – Between Animal and Human | with Jo Koppe, Katja Münker & Marion EversBody focus: Skeleton / Muscle-Fascial Synergy 1Yoga: Pranayama – Quadruped / half-high asanas – Flowing and holding – Yoga NidraSomatics: Feldenkrais, Continuum, Experiential Anatomy, Experiential Breath |
| Module 3 | 06.- 10.12.2025 | To Standing – Uprightness – Honesty | with Kai Ehrhardt, Katja Münker & Marion EversBody focus: Diaphragm levels / Muscle-Fascial Synergy 2Yoga: Pranayama – Standing + standing posture series – Alignment – Balance posesSomatics: Feldenkrais, Continuum, Experiential Anatomy, Experiential Breath |
| Module 4 | 07.- 11.03.2026 | Networking – Transitions 2 – Space and Group | with Kai Ehrhardt, Katja Münker & Marion EversBody focus: Nervous system / Sense organsYoga: complex asana connections – movement transitions + connections of the sequences learned so far with each other – inversions – meditationNada YogaSomatics: Feldenkrais, Continuum, Experiential Anatomy, Experiential Breath |
| Module 5 | 06.05.2026 | Integration – Inside – Outside | with Kai Ehrhardt, Katja Münker & Marion EversBody focus: OrgansYoga: Pranayama – Philosophy – DidacticsSomatics: Feldenkrais, Continuum, Experiential Anatomy, Experiential Breath |
| Module 6 | 01.- 07.06.2026 | Final Week | with Kai Ehrhardt, Katja Münker & Marion Evers Method focus: Yoga & Hands onPrinciples of Somatic AlignmentFinal or intermediate examinationsplus 2 VSST weekends 2026 |
What certification does the Yoga Teacher Training offer?
The completion of the Somatic Yoga Basic Training offers knowledge corresponding to general BDY Yoga Standards Basic combined with a strong somatic focus. The basic training is certified by the Somatic Academy and qualifies for teaching Somatic Yoga. Membership in the professional association of yoga teachers BDY is possible.
The Somatic Yoga Basic Training (280 UE) forms the first part of the Somatic Yoga Training (500 UE) and can be completed subsequently with the advanced training.
With the completion of the Somatic Yoga Basic & Advanced Training (500 UE) and an additional qualification (+140 UE), the graduate is entitled to be certified for health insurance approval at the Central Testing Center for Prevention. The modules required for this are currently being planned.
For whom is the Somatic Yoga Basic Training recommended?
- Yoga teachers who are looking for inspiration and reflection for their own work
- Yoga practitioners who want to find a new, sensing-perceiving approach and deepen their practice
- Yoga beginners who want an open, school- and style-independent approach
- Researchers and those interested in all somatic methods who appreciate an interdisciplinary approach
- Educators, therapists, doctors, etc. who are looking for a solid body and movement training
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