Somatic Basics Year

- Somatic Basics Year

Consciously experience the body

What is the Somatic Basics Year?

In the interplay of different methods such as Continuum, Feldenkrais Method, Middendorf's Breath Experience, Body-Mind Centering®, experiential anatomy, Authentic Movement and Somatic Yoga, experiences and cognitive processes arise that are of great value for one's own development.

On the basis of each content-related module focus, we research and experience the corresponding body systems, effective principles, movement patterns, biological and emotional stages of development as well as their personal and social relevance. We make use of the fact that our physical development is in direct connection and interaction with our development of consciousness. Experience and reflection give us access to this. We create a space of emotional security and integrate group dynamic processes as support in the individual learning process.


          


Structure of the Somatics Basics Training

The Somatic Basics Training is part of our Somatic Movement Educator Training. It forms Part 1 comprising 30 days (240 teaching units) over 6 five-day modules spread over one year. Part 1 is primarily for personal growth. Building on this part 2 or an Specialization can be chosen. They enable the student to teach and work with individuals and/or groups.

Subjects

The Somatic Basics Training combines knowledge from 8 different somatic approaches in the following subjects:

  • Body - practice & experience
  • Body - applied theory
  • Philosophy/ context/ orientation
  • Application/ research/ integration
  • Processing/ individual and social relevance
  • Contained open practice
  • Hands-on

Curriculum

Module 1

Sep 07 - Sep 11, 2026 | Ground

  • Contents: Beginning - being there - focusing sensory attention - the experience of the ground that supports from below - encounter with gravity and its counterforce
  • Principles: Arriving - Trust/ Surrender - Yielding - Tensegrity - Being carried by the ground/ the earth
  • Body Systems: Fascia-Skeleton-Musculature Synergy #1/ Cell & Cell Respiration/ Developmental Movements Overview

Module 2

Nov 02 - Nov 06, 2026 | Space

  • Contents: Distinction interior/ exterior space - spatial perception + spatial experience Alignment in space - recognition of possibilities, multidirectionality - silence - potency
  • Principles: directions/ orientation - kinaesthesia/ tensegrity - synaesthetic interaction of the senses in the perception of space - being carried by space
  • Body Systems: Fascia-skeletal-musculature synergy #2/ diaphragms - horizontal planes/ sensory motor loop/ organs/ front-middle-back body

Module 3

Dec 07 - Dec 11, 2026 | Individuation

  • Contents: I/ others/ experiencing uniqueness - being separated/ being connected - diversity/ integration part 1 - making decisions - balance
  • Principles: limits - wanting + choosing - yes/ no - center + periphery - balance
  • Body Systems: developmental movements/ proprioception/ skin - membranes / ear labyrinth

Module 4

Jan 18 - Jan 22, 2027 | Communication

  • Contents: Communication with oneself, with others, with the environment - perceiving, sensing, feeling, thinking, acting - regulation processes - conflict management
  • 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

Feb 15 - Feb 19, 2027 | Change

  • Contents: withstanding emptiness / creating space - being changed / changing - transitions / part 1
  • Principles: flexibility + hold - wish / desire / inspiration - confusion / irritation / disorientation - not knowing / carried in being
  • Body Systems: fluids - lymph / heart / lungs / rib cage

Module 6 

Apr 12 - Apr 16, 2027 | Initiation

  • Contents: birth + dying - transitions / part 2 - releasing attachments - celebrating change
  • Principles: death / birth - embeddedness - basic trust - transcendence - energy - activity / passivity - being - surrender - sexuality - love
  • Body Systems: uprightness, flexion, extension / embryology - sexual organs / birth
 

Ausführliche Seminarinformationen

Seminarleiter*innen

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Kai Ehrhardt

ehrhardt@somatische-akademie.de 
www.kaiehrhardt.com

Founder of the Somatic Academy Berlin, Breath Therapist/based on the work developed by Prof. Ilse Middendorf, Continuum Teacher and Heilpraktiker (Psychotherapy)

"I had the honor and privilege to learn from the two founders Prof. Ilse Middendorf (Perceptible Breath / Erfahrbarer Atem) and Emilie Conrad (Continuum) and I am pleased to be able to pass on this work." Since 2012, Kai has been developing professional trainings at the Somatic Academy as well as programs dedicated to the application of Somatics in everyday life. He has been a co-curator of the Body IQ festival since 2015. Since 2003, he has developed the approach "Authentic Eros", which integrates - as a somatic application - bodywork, relationship communication and group-dynamic processes in the area of personal and interpersonal development. He is a member of the professional associations Atem, Continuum and ISMETA.

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Marion Evers

evers@somatische-akademie.de 

Founder of the Somatic Academy Berlin, M.A. in Theatre, Linguistics & Political Science, Embodiment Research, Breath Therapist, Somatic Voice Work, Somatic Yoga

Founder of the Somatic Academy Berlin, studied Theatre, French Linguistics & Political Science Cologne, Berlin, Marseille, M.A. "From Actor to Performer "1998, studies in Performance Arts, work in the field of directing/dramaturgy, speaker, moderator. The interest in a stronger integration of theory and practice leads to the foundation of the Somatic Academy, Embodiment Research, Body Phenomenological Foundations, Critical Somatics, Social Body & Body Politics in relation to somatic practices in their social and political relevance of "somatics" today.

Somatic Movement Educator (RSME/ISMETA), Somatic Yoga & Somatic Voice Trainer, Breath Therapist according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf, Yoga Teacher (BDY/EYU)
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Heike Kuhlmann


www.heikekuhlmann.net

MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography 

Heike is interested in the unfolding process of human beings. It is more than the individual unfolding, but in how people can meet each other at eye level through personal development and inclusion of structural conditions in her somatic facilitations. Being a condition to become Critical Somatics. She accompanies somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops and trainings. Activism and somatics are interwoven in her artistic work. More information on: www.somatik-tanz-choreographie.dewww.heikekuhlmann.net

 

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Sophie Engel-Bansac

s.engel.bansac@gmail.com 
www.musikundfeldenkrais.net

Feldenkrais, Music, Performance, Art, Photography


Sophie Engel-Bansac is a certified violinist, Feldenkrais teacher, and artist. She works in her own practice, has been teaching music physiology/Feldenkrais at KSI and the UdK Berlin since 2020, and has given numerous workshops and continuing education courses, including at Bauhaus University Weimar, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Musikhochschule Zürich (ZHDK).


Sophie Engel-Bansac's bodywork is characterized by her versatile creative ideas, inspired by nature, photography, and music, which influence each other. She opens up space for a deeper understanding of the body through lightness, “awareness through movement,” joy in perception, and creativity.

Kosten

€3000

Monthly installment payments are possible for 12-24 months—please contact us by email if you would like to arrange this.

Participation in the current course program, consisting of 20 sessions (1-3 hours long), is also a compulsory part of the Somatic Basics Year. Participation fees are reduced by 50% for Basics Year participants and are to be paid directly to the instructor upon booking or on site. It is also possible to complete these courses in our somatic methods in other cities or online with us.

Anmeldeinformationen

Zeiten
each module Monday-Friday, daily from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Veranstaltungsort
Berlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
Preise
  • Full Price: 3000.00 EUR
Zahlung Banküberweisung, PayPal

Lehrer

Kai Ehrhardt
Marion Evers
Heike Kuhlmann
Sophie Engel-Bansac

Daten & Kosten

KursspracheDE
Kurskosten
  • Full Price 3000.00 EUR
ZahlungBanküberweisung, PayPal
VeranstaltungsortBerlin
Somatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor