Somatic Flexibility Method: Fascia, Emotions & Embodied Flexibility.

30-Hour Continuing Education Certification - Registered Yoga Alliance YACEP Program.( 8-19th November), Live on Zoom.

This highly comprehensive training invites yoga teachers and movement facilitators to explore flexibility as a truly multidimensional practice - and to experience the human body as both anatomy and energy, structure and soul, physical and energetic. We study flexibility through the lenses of Somatic Psychology, Biomechanics, Nervous System science, and Tantric embodiment.

You will learn how fascia is directly connected with the nervous system and emotions, and how to guide practices that are both deeply embodied and trauma-aware.

Through Somatic Yoga, Fascia Release, Breath, Sound, Nervous System Awareness, and Tantric embodiment tools, you will gain the skills to guide safe, trauma-informed flexibility practices rooted in strength, softness, and somatic awareness.

Whether your intension is to expand and deepen your teaching repertoire, support students in moving more freely, help release emotional holding patterns, or cultivate a deeper connection to life force, this work offers an opportunity to re-pattern the relationship with the body - both yours and those you teach.

Course Description

Learning Objectives

• Understand fascia as emotional tissue and its relationship to the nervous system
• Learn to recognize somatic holding patterns and trauma imprints
• Practice interoceptive and proprioceptive awareness to foster deep embodied flexibility
• Teach from a trauma-aware, energetically attuned, and permission-based approach
• Incorporate breath, voice, rhythm, and intuitive movement into yoga classes
• Explore pelvis as a seat of emotional energy, creativity, safety, and grounded power

20 Contact Hours Breakdown

WEEK 1 – Somatic Foundations: Fascia, Pelvis & Awakening the Pelvic Bowl

IMMERSION 1 – Fascia, Emotions & the Nervous System

(4 hours – Saturday)

Theme Overview

This immersion lays the foundation for understanding flexibility as a whole-body, whole-being experience. We explore fascia as living, sensory tissue — an emotional and structural network interwoven with the nervous system. Through somatic breathwork, felt sense awareness, and guided movement, students begin mapping how patterns of tension, restriction, and fluidity are connected to both physical posture and emotional history. The focus is on cultivating a safe, embodied presence as the ground for deeper flexibility work.

IMMERSION 2 – The Pelvis as a Seat of Emotions, Grounding & Nervous System Holding

(4 hours – Sunday)

Theme Overview

In this immersion, we turn our attention to the pelvis as both a structural center and an energetic seat of safety, creativity, and power. We explore how unresolved stress or trauma can create protective “armoring” and holding patterns in the hips and lower body. Through polyvagal-informed practices, strength-integrated mobility, and grounding meditations, students learn to restore stability while gently releasing deep-seated tension. The emphasis is on balancing openness with support so that expansion feels sustainable and safe.

EMBODIMENT LAB 1 – Breath of Shakti: Awakening the Pelvic Bowl

(2 hours – Wednesday)

Theme Overview

This embodiment lab is an invitation to move beyond structured asana into the realm of breath-led, intuitive expression. Using practices like the Breath of Shakti, spinal waves, and pelvic sound, students learn to translate internal sensation into movement that feels organic and alive. Journaling and reflection deepen the integration, allowing each participant to map their own body’s language and begin weaving somatic expression into their teaching and personal practice.

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WEEK 2 – Somatic Release, Embodied Teaching & Integration

IMMERSION 3 – Release, Ritual & Rhythm

( 4 hours - Saturday)

Theme Overview

This immersion invites students into the intuitive intelligence of movement. Through rhythmic flow, micro-movements, and somatic listening, we explore how the body naturally releases emotional holding and reclaims fluidity and vitality. The emphasis is not on perfecting form, but on cultivating a felt connection to the body’s inner rhythms — especially along the spine and pelvis.

IMMERSION 4 – Teaching from the Body & Holding Space

(4 hours – Sunday)

Theme Overview

This closing immersion focuses on embodied leadership — teaching from lived somatic experience, not just theory or memorized sequences. Students learn to hold space that is trauma-aware, choice-centered, and deeply safe.

We end with a ritual of integration, honoring personal transformation and preparing students to carry this work forward into their own teaching.

EMBODIMENT LAB 2 – Somatic Expression & Teaching from the Body

(2 hours - Wednesday )

Theme Overview

This final lab refines teaching flow and deepens integration. It bridges personal embodiment with professional facilitation skills, ensuring that participants can confidently weave somatic and Shakti principles into their classes.

10 Hours – Non-Contact / Self-Study

• Assigned readings: The Body Keeps the Score, Wild Feminine (4 hrs)
• Guided journaling: emotional mapping, pelvic narratives, teaching reflections (2 hrs)
• Design and submission of a trauma-aware embodied yoga class (2 hrs)
• Peer review + reflection journal (1 hr)
• Optional podcast/listening + discussion thread (1 hr)

Additional Schedule Details

WEEK 1 IMMERSION 1 (4 hrs – Saturday, 8th November )

IMMERSION 2 ( 4 hrs - Sunday, 9th November )

EMBODIMENT LAB 1 (2 hrs – Wednesday, 12th November)

WEEK 2 IMMERSION 3 (4 hrs – Saturday, 15th November )

IMMERSION 4 (4 hrs – Sunday, 16th November )

EMBODIMENT LAB 2 (2 hrs – Wednesday, 19th November)

Graduates of this training will receive a Certificate of Completion registered with Yoga Alliance, contributing 30 Continuing Education hours towards your professional development as a yoga teacher or movement facilitator.