Course description
This course is an experiential journey into Somatic practice, with about 10 hours of practice within 15 Somatics videos that make up the online part of a larger hybrid course. This online course can be taken on its own or you can also go on to do the in person content - retreat and workshops.
The rich online materials in this course create a full immersion as a journey around the body – to differentiate to feel and explore deeply, in order to integrate back to the whole.
The course is designed to help you foster the embodied awareness and personal practice that helps you to teach others. These mostly lying, held, fluid and responsive practices include rocking, rolling, twisting and pulsing, but also lead up through different levels up through gravity to experience the human evolution from the ground up to standing – with lying, seated, all-fours, lunging, uncurling and standing motions through many different primal movements.
The movements can be practised as moving meditation or fed into a stronger asana practice to support the body’s ease in supporting itself up from gravity. There are over 100 practices included, giving you full scope to intersperse into yoga teaching or base classes around a full Somatic practice.
What’s included?
1. Central axis and skull-sacrum polarity
2. Shoulders, neck and jaw
3. Hips, sacrum and belly
4. Diaphragm, ribs, lungs and heart
5. Arms, legs and eyes
Each of the above comprises of:
Pricing options
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see options to either pay in instalments or for less in full.
Please get in touch with Charlotte directly at info@charlottewattshealth.com if you are low income or a concession to arrange further discount.
Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at yoga teachers who want to free up a more rigid practice or are ready to slow down and truly feel a refined and subtle practice. Also for those who recognise that doing more – and doing that faster – can wear down tissues and keep us in stress patterns that ultimately damage the body and keep our mind attached to goals and ideals.
It is for those who want to feel joy in a more fluid, explorative and easeful practice; within a natural range of motion and primal, evolutionary patterns. It is also for those who recognise that movement is emotional expression and when we tune into our body as a guide, we can gain much insight into our needs in the moment, our boundaries and our relationship with the world and beings around us.
It is designed for those with a basic level understood for ‘holding space’, professionalism and a respect for others’ boundaries, differing needs, individualism and the right to move in ways that they need, when they need them. It is intended to bring Somatics practice within the yoga canon (philosophically) and within the context of a yoga teaching environment.
It is also appropriate for those who teach other forms of movement and bodywork, who have an established yoga practice.
The course is also designed for yoga and movement teachers who are fascinated by what is to move as a human being; what it is to occupy space and feel movement as an expression of embodiment – our sense of self. It is also for those who believe we have a right to move as we feel, to treat our bodies and whole self with compassion. It is for those who believe that we are only truly alive when we are able to be present with embodied awareness.
Five live discussion sessions, one for each theme (60 mins) per intake.
If you can’t make one of the dates in your chosen intake, you can always catch up 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 the intake dates to access the material.
Breakdown of the course CPD hours related to the online content, which you can do on its own or as part of a further teaching course:
4 hours supportive reading (home study) – specific excerpts from Charlotte’s book Yoga for Digestive Health – to cover basic anatomical, energetic and teaching considerations for optimal connection with the course content.
17 hours online course (pre-recorded and live online) – deeper learning into each of the practical sessions covered on the retreat; videos of the practices with commentary, short lectures; so you have all of the sequences from the retreat and the manual in another form, to practice, experience and teach over and again – £249 (or 2 x instalments of £140)
6 hours worksheets (home study) – included in the workbook and online course (to be submitted) – on understanding of the practices, teaching language and personal adaptation into individual teaching style and content.
Additional hours for the full course teaching certification of 70 hours:
15 hours practical over the retreat weekend (in person) – an immersion in Somatic practice, organised in different focal points for embodied awareness and understanding; see full details of retreat focus and content below.
6 hours (in person) – day workshop on teaching skills specific to Somatics – at separate dates (London, Brighton, Cheltenham).
6 hours (in person) – day workshop on sequencing classes to focus on or integrate Somatics into Yoga – at separate dates (London, Brighton, Cheltenham).
8 hours personal practice (not following the videos) – Somatic practices from the retreat/online course and manual – 6 hours practice, 2 hours written reflection after (considerations given to you in a guided sheet)
1 hour writing 90 minute class plan (home study) – submitted to then be taught and reflective practice written and submitted
2 hour teaching designed class (home study) – either in person or video submission – 90 mins teaching, 30 mins reflection (specific guided considerations)
5 hours class attendance (home study) – Charlotte’s classes or workshops (or other appropriate Somatics teacher, can be online), with reflective practice afterwards (to be submitted) – 3 hours for attendance, 2 hour for the write-up – usual class costs to be paid.
= 70 hours CPD* - see this page for full course details
*27 hours in person – the remainder part of online course and home study that can be done separately for 43 CPD hours
This course can be completed as part of Charlotte's 170 hour Therapeutic Somatics for Yoga Teachers further training for full certification. See more details here.
Additionally, you can add a spiral bound printed course manual for £15. Includes shipping in the UK.
Outside of the UK, please email me prior to purchasing the manual, to make arrangements and determine cost.
The manual can be purchased on the checkout page.
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