Somatic Yoga Teacher Training
280h | Unfolding resonances: Traditional yoga combined with modern somatic methods
What is Somatic Yoga?
Somatic Yoga is a synergy of traditional flowing yoga practices & the somatic core knowledge from Feldenkrais Method, Continuum & Breathwork according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf in connection with Experiential Anatomy & Embodied Mediation Strategies.
By transforming the strategies of physical-formal yoga into a bodily-sensing unfolding within the form, Somatic Yoga has a self-determining and boundary-expanding effect and thus becomes a self-responsible and joyful practice. A present, creative synthesis of gathering in the form emerges, which is deeply moving and intensifies the experience in yoga on all levels.
What does the Somatic Yoga Training focus on?
The Somatic Yoga Training is based on the form-expanding and -liquefying experience of the Somatic Yoga Training, in which the feeling body was able to unfold its individual relationship to the practice. This deepening approaches the refinement of the yogic forms (asanas/postures, asana series, pranayamas, bandhas, mudras) through a refinement of the bodily, spatial and temporal perception.
For whom is the Somatic Yoga Teacher Training recommended?
- Yoga teachers who are looking for inspiration and reflection for their own work
- Yoga practitioners who want to find a new, perceptive approach and deepen their practice
- Yoga beginners who want an open, school- and style-independent approach to yoga
- Researchers and people interested in all somatic methods who appreciate an interdisciplinary approach
- Pedagogues, therapists, doctors, etc., who are looking for a well-founded body and movement training
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Our training program is recognized as educational leave.
280 hours / 8 Modules / 4 Somatic Methods / 3 teachers & guests
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
What is Somatic Yoga?
Somatic Yoga is a synergy of traditional flowing yoga practices & the somatic core knowledge from Feldenkrais Method, Continuum & Breathwork according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf in connection with Experiential Anatomy & Embodied Mediation Strategies.
By transforming the strategies of physical-formal yoga into a bodily-sensing unfolding within the form, Somatic Yoga has a self-determining and boundary-expanding effect and thus becomes a self-responsible and joyful practice. A present, creative synthesis of gathering in the form emerges, which is deeply moving and intensifies the experience in yoga on all levels.
What does the Somatic Yoga Training focus on?
The somatic aspect of yoga focuses on differentiating and refining bodily awareness. Consciously engaging the senses of touch and skin, as well as the kinesthetic and proprioceptive dimensions of our bodily experience, enables a long-term refinement of physical, spatial, and temporal perception and leads to a deep embodiment. In this way, a sense of orientation develops both in the yoga practice and as a person embedded in an ethical and social context. This fosters subtlety and depth in how we relate to ourselves, to yoga, and in teaching it.
The entire faculty is present in all modules of the first year of training to achieve synergy among the methods in the specific approach to yoga practice.
For whom is the Somatic Yoga Teacher Training recommended?
- Yoga teachers who are looking for inspiration and reflection for their own work
- Yoga practitioners who want to find a new, perceptive approach and deepen their practice
- Yoga beginners who want an open, school- and style-independent approach to yoga
- Researchers and people interested in all somatic methods who appreciate an interdisciplinary approach
- Pedagogues, therapists, doctors, etc., who are looking for a well-founded body and movement training
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Our training program is recognized as educational leave in Berlin.
280 hours / 8 Modules / 4 Somatic Methods / 3 teachers & guests
Curriculum
In the Somatic Yoga Training, modules 1-5 teach fundamental yoga practices (asanas, flows, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana) and basic philosophical knowledge, combining these with the principles of Feldenkrais, breathing according to Prof. Ilse Middendorf (collection, sensation, breath) and Continuum. Through applied anatomy, the structure of yoga practice unfolds alongside the development of human movement. Module 6 & 7 are followed by a longer integrative final week, including audition sessions.
Somatic Yoga Teacher Training 2026/27 Training of 280UE
Module 1 | Nov 27 - Dec 01, 2026 | Ground - Beginning - Starting Point
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Module 2 + 3 | Jan 16 + 17, 2027 | ONLINE Module Feb 04 - 07, 2027| Off the ground - Transitions 1 - Between animal and human
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Module 4 + 5 | March 06 + 07, 2027 | ONLINE Module April 24 -27,2027 | To standing - Uprightness - Sincery
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Module 6 + 7 | May 26 - 30, 2027 | Connecting – Transition 2 – Room and Group
July 24 + 25, 2027 | ONLINE Module |
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Die Teile
Q&A Somatic Basic Year German / Training to become a Somatic Movement Educator (ISMETA certified)
Online Q&A with Marion Evers
This online Q&A session provides an opportunity to ask questions - both content-related and practical - about the upcoming Somatic Basisc Year in German (starting September...
Somatic Yoga Teacher Training
280h | Unfolding resonances: Traditional yoga combined with modern somatic methods
What is Somatic Yoga? Somatic Yoga is a synergy of traditional flowing yoga practices & the somatic core knowledge from Feldenkrais Method, Continuum & Breathwork...
Seminarleiter*innen
Marion Evers
evers@somatische-akademie.de
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)
Katja Münker-Harder
www.movement-muenker.de/
Dance | Choreography | Performance | Somatics | Artistic Research | Walking Art | Mountain Hiking Guiding
Continuing education lecturer and director of Environmental Somatics and EMERGE/ Somatic in Dance at the Somatische Akademie Berlin. Member of the German Feldenkrais Association & ISMETA-registered RSME/RSMT/RSDE.
Trained as a physical therapist, Feldenkrais teacher, and mountain hiking guide, as well as in contemporary dance, (contact) improvisation, instant composition.
Conscious and embodied learning, the potential between individual freedom and collective inclusion in the environment, as well as joy, ease, and consciousness in the movement are the focus of her teaching. Her research-oriented practice is informed by deep-sensing investigation and reflecting evaluation. Beyond teaching her work includes performance projects, conference papers, and publications focusing on somatics and choreography, as well as on walking. Regular teaching at universities including FU Berlin, UdK Berlin, and HZT Berlin. Artistic research collaboration with AREAL_artistic research lab Berlin.
Jo Koppe
jo.koppe@gmx.de
jokoppe.mailchimpsites.com/
Continuum teacher | Somatic researcher | Sociolgist | Embodied Social Justice
Jo is on a continuous journey of weaving, integrating and sharing a variety of different experiences, practices and perspectives that help us to connect more deeply with ourselves, each other and the more-than-human world. He has studied dance as well as sociology and gender studies, and has worked as a performer and dramaturg, anti-bias trainer, personal assistant for people with disabilities and in end-of-life care, among other things. Since 2022 he has been teaching the somatic movement research method Continuum, in which we use breath, sound, movement, imagery and conscious awareness as portals to experience fundamental principles of our aliveness and use them as a source of renewal.
Photocredits: Björn Scheele
Tobias Scheucher
Alternative Practitioner in Psychotherapy · Body Psychotherapy and Trauma Work with a Focus on Pre- and Perinatal Issues · Systemic Therapist · Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner (in training) · Somatic Yoga Teacher
Many years of somatic exploration and wonder somewhere in the realm between embodiment, poetry, therapy, and encounters with nature. Hatha yoga as my initial entry point, which was—fortunately—infused early on by free movement practices (especially Amerta Movement and free dance improvisation).I am repeatedly and joyfully moved by those moments when we connect more deeply with ourselves, when something within us becomes more awake and alive, and when new possibilities for inner organization open up. Consequently, I am deeply engaged with the question of how to create spaces in which we are willing and able to open ourselves up to such experiences.
This question also guides my work as a psychotherapist in my own practice, as well as my role as a trainer and consultant in adult education.
In a previous chapter of my life, I was also a self-taught visual artist and musician, as well as a scholar with a doctorate in cultural studies and ancient Near Eastern studies (including a few semesters of Sanskrit).
Kosten
Costs
3550€
+2 audition sessions à 100€
Monthly installments are possible for 12 month à 310€ or 24 month à 155€. Please contact us by e-mail. >> send e-mail
Throughout the entire training period, all ongoing courses taught by the team of lecturers are reduced by 50%.
Dates
Somatic Yoga Teacher Training 2026/27
Module 1 | Nov 27 - Dec 01, 2026 | Ground - Beginning - Starting Point |
Module 2 + 3 | Jan 16 + 17, 2027 | ONLINE Module Feb 04 - 07, 2027 | Off the ground - Transitions 1 - Between animal and human |
Module 4 + 5 | March 6 + 7, 2027 | ONLINE Module |
| Module 6 + 7 | Mai 26 - 30, 2027 | Connecting – Transition 2 – Room and Group July 24 - 25, 2027 | ONLINE Module |
| Module 7 + 8 | August 30 - Sept 05, 2027 | Intensive week - Graduation |
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Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 3550.00 EUR
Somatic Yoga findet regelmäßig als Kurs mit Marion Evers und Katja Münker statt. Zudem gibt es Kurse von Katja Münker-Harder im Feldenkrais, Marion Evers im Atem nach Middendorf und Continnum-Kurse von Jo Koppe oder Kai Ehrhardt - siehe auch unseren Kurskalendar.