Somatic Exercise Coach Training

Foundation Training in Somatic Movement Education with Lisa Petersen    

The Somatics Exercise Coach (SEC) training is a ten-day professional in person training consisting of four modules spread out over one year. This is the fourth UK training . For many movement teachers and students, somatics is quite simply love at first sight. Come and discover what somatics can do for you, your practice and your students. The exercises can can be seamlessly incorporated into any yoga practice as the perfect prep to release and realign the body, reduce injury and repattern the nervous system. The practice is accessible, practical and profound. 

Somatic Movement Education (SME) offers a safe, fast and profound way to release and recalibrate tight muscles by retraining the nervous system and repatterning the soma (body-mind). This training unites modern neuroscience and ancient yogic wisdom within the practice of somatics. Learn how to make the unconscious conscious and feel how everything becomes easier and pain free from your head to your toes. 

A qualified SEC is qualified to teach a wide range of somatic exercises confidently and professionally. SEC Training is suitable for students and teachers of yoga, pilates, physio and physical therapists, mindfulness teachers, GPs, and anyone interested in movement. 

• Module 1: Learn about the three basic stress responses, how they influence posture and movement patterns, and the somatic movement approach to re-patterning the bodymind. This module is a deep dive into embodying somatics and learning how to do thirty fundamental exercises yourself.
• Module 2: This module guides you towards deeper understanding, embodiment and refinement. Re-pattern and re-calibrate your learning from module 1. Learn thirty new exercises and discover profound ease in breathing.
• Module 3: Learn how to be a safe, competent and professional somatics coach. This module includes sequencing, class planning, instruction and modifications.
• Integration and Competency: a half day of group practice, small group teaching, and peer review. This is followed by indepth and personalised feedback from our faculty.

‘Somatics has completely transformed my approach to my personal yoga practice and to yoga teaching’. 
Colette Kealy, Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, Ireland  

‘I am not the same body, mind or spirit that came to the mat at the start of the training. The somatic teachings seem simple but are profound and have added so much to the way I practice, teach and perhaps most importantly live my life.’

Paul Oakley, Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, UK 

‘I have an awareness of my own body that I didn’t have previously, despite being a yoga teacher.  The immediate change felt, when doing Somatics, can be quite remarkable.’ 

Kelly Signorini, Yoga Teacher, Scotland 

‘The somatics training exceeded all my expectations and has been immensely supportive and nourishing. Lisa’s teaching is generous, deeply insightful, clear, and concise. She teaches with authenticity, integrity and huge compassion.’

Cheryl Jenkins, Yoga and Dance Teacher, UK

‘Every time I attend a workshop with Lisa I enter with one body and leave with quite another! I deepen my understanding of myself, my practice, the human body and walk away with practical tools, sequences and information that I can immediately apply to my own teaching and practice.’

 Claire Nettley, Yoga Teacher, Australia

‘After only one session of Somatics, it was like a reset button was pressed and old patterns of holding and tension were released and my pain was gone. It was truly remarkable and so simple to maintain myself " 

Cathy Enright, Yoga Teacher, Ireland 

‘Somatics is the subtlest, deepest, most integrated body therapy I have experienced.”

Peter Labanyi, Psychotherapist

'Lisa has a presence that brings light, energy and depth to her teaching. It gave me a safe space to explore the somatic experience on so many levels. This training is unique somehow. I think the strong focus on embodying the practice is a powerful element.’

Paul Oakley, Yoga Teacher