Somatic Yoga | Intuitive You Teacher Training | IN STUDIO
Charli Van Ness | 10am–6pm 31 Jan - 1 Feb 2026 | 15 hours
Are you wishing to move towards a more intuitive Somatic Yoga practice to create balanced, flowing sequences that foster deeper connection and feel less formulaic? Would you like to rediscover your confidence and creativity as a yoga teacher while also cultivating a greater awareness of how your body feels in movement?
This immersive two-day Somatic Yoga CPD course allows you to move and teach from embodied awareness. You’ll learn how to reframe sequencing as an expressive, responsive art through somatic yoga exercises and mindful movements designed to release tension and awaken sensitivity throughout both the body and mind. You’ll leave with practical tools to design classes that are not only unique but deeply supportive for your students’ nervous systems, muscles, and emotional wellbeing.
This course can be taken as a stand-alone CPD module or allocated as a 15-hour elective within our 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training programme, ideal for yoga instructors seeking to integrate Somatic Yoga principles into their teaching practice.
Why Somatic Yoga Learning Matters for Yoga Teachers
Somatic learning invites us to shift from “performing” yoga to feeling, sensing, and discovering Somatic Yoga from within. It’s a mindful movement practice that enhances body awareness and encourages a deeper connection between mind and body. For yoga teachers and yoga instructors, this approach offers:
- Embodied confidence – teaching grounded in your own inner awareness rather than memorised scripts, allowing your Somatic Yoga practice to arise naturally
- Sustainable practice – understanding how somatic movement supports injury prevention, relieves muscular tension, and promotes longevity in traditional yoga practices.
- Nervous system attunement – learning how to regulate and guide students toward safety, ease, and resilience through gentle movement and conscious breathing.
- Intuitive freedom – unlocking spontaneous somatic yoga exercises that flow intuitively and help to release tension.
- Deeper student connection – empowering students to trust their bodies, cultivate internal awareness, and discover yoga as a living, evolving somatic yoga practice.
Somatic learning transforms yoga into an exploration of being rather than a fixed performance of poses, helping teachers rediscover the joy of moving with presence, curiosity, and self-compassion.
Somatic Yoga Teacher Training Course Content
Day 1 | Somatic Foundations & Embodied Awareness
Day 1 = focuses on embodiment, body awareness, and foundational Somatic Yoga tools that reconnect both the body and mind through intuitive exploration.
- Welcome Circle & Somatic Arrival – grounding through breath, sensing, and a nervous system check-in that encourages mindful movement and a few slow, gentle movements to settle into your Somatic Yoga practice.
- Unleash Your Intuition – an embodied contact class exploring flow, rhythm, and presence through somatic movement and mindful practice.
- What is Somatic Learning? – understand the principles and neuroscience of body awareness, somatic therapy, and why they matter for yoga teachers and yoga instructors developing their Somatic Yoga Teacher Training skills.
- Embodied Listening – movement practices to awaken internal awareness, proprioception, and interoception, helping you release tension and connect with subtle physical sensations.
- Somatic Themes in Teaching – learn to build classes around inquiry, felt-sense, and embodied curiosity using somatic yoga exercises to cultivate a deeper connection with your students.
- Rest as Teacher – experience the role of stillness, subtle somatic movement, and a nervous system reset in creative yoga practice, incorporating restorative poses to foster relaxation and self-care.
- Somatic Journaling & Reflection – capture insights from your somatic yoga
Day 2 | Creative Application, Sequencing & Teaching Practice
Day 2 = focuses on the creative integration of Somatic Yoga principles into sequencing, transitions, music, mudras, and practical teaching, deepening your experience as a Somatic Yoga teacher.
- Morning Somatic Flow – an experiential Somatic Yoga practice integrating Day 1 learnings through mindful movement, gentle stretching, and breathing awareness.
- Transitions in Yoga – discovering the creative potential of “in-between” spaces and micro-movements that release tension and support the nervous system.
- Choreography & Flow – intuitive sequencing informed by somatic movement and body awareness, rather than external form, helping you design unique and responsive yoga practices.
- Music, Rhythm & Embodiment – exploring how sound and rhythm influence pacing, transitions, and nervous system states, while deepening the mind-body connection.
- Mudras & Somatic Symbolism – weaving subtle gestures and somatic exercises into your teaching to encourage internal sensations and self-compassion.
- Practicum – in pairs and small groups, design and deliver somatically inspired yoga sequences that demonstrate creative application and confidence.
- Class Planning with Somatic Principles – blending structure and freedom in your teaching using somatic yoga exercises and self-enquiry to build balanced, embodied classes.
- Closing Rose Ceremony & Reflection – integrating insights and celebrating growth through self-care and reflective movement practice.
What You’ll Gain from Somatic Yoga Teacher Training
By the end of this two-day Somatic Yoga Teacher Training, you will:
- Understand the principles and Somatic Yoga benefits for both personal practice and teaching.
- Gain practical tools to create classes that are intelligent, original, and embodied through somatic yoga practice.
- Learn to design and guide transitions, themes, and flows with confidence and intuitive freedom.
- Reignite your joy for teaching while supporting students to move with curiosity, internal awareness, and authentic connection.
Practical Information
- Please bring a notebook and pen.
- Wear comfortable clothes to practice yoga + your favourite blanket. Don’t worry if you forget as we have plenty of blankets and props here for you to use.
- Please make a note when booking of any ailments and injuries Charli should know about
- Though part of a series, these are offered as stand-alone CPD Teacher Training Days.
- You will receive a PDF Manual for this Module.
Benefits of Somatic Learning for Yoga Teachers
Embodied Confidence
Somatic awareness helps you teach from lived experience rather than rote memory. Through Somatic Yoga practice, you’ll feel more grounded, authentic, and adaptable in your classes. This embodied confidence supports a deeper connection with your students and encourages you to teach with greater ease and intuition.
Nervous System Regulation
Somatic Yoga exercises calm the nervous system, helping to balance both the body and mind. These gentle, mindful movements cultivate presence and self-compassion, supporting resilience and helping prevent burnout for yoga teachers and yoga instructors alike.
Creative Freedom
By tuning into internal sensations and body awareness, you open new pathways for sequencing and transitions. Somatic movement encourages curiosity and fluidity, replacing routine sequences with inspired, expressive flow that reflects the true art of Somatic Yoga.
Sustainable Practice
Somatic approaches reduce muscular tension and encourage responsive movement practice. This means less risk of injury for you and your students, a sustainable yoga journey, and greater self-care through mindful, adaptive practice.
Deeper Student Connection
When you teach somatically, you empower students to trust their own body awareness and inner wisdom. Each class becomes an exploration of being rather than performance, combining traditional yoga postures with principles of somatic movement, nervous system regulation, and mindful practice.
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Charli Van Ness Teacher Biography
Teacher Trainer, E-RYT-500 hours
Charli teaches Classes, Workshops, Teacher Trainings Retreats to the community of all ages, especially to those who are vulnerable or in recovery. She has been teaching since 2005 and is an E-RYT 500hrs Yoga Teacher. She has run her own RYS 200hrs Teacher Training School since 2007 and collaborates with the Shala School of Yoga on our 200-hour Teacher Training Course for those wishing to become teachers or for self development. Being a YACEP Provider, Charli also runs short CPD Courses – KulaKids Teacher Training, Padme Humm Sound Healing CPD Training + Women’s Wellbeing CPD Training. Charli is in absolute JOY when sharing her healing modality ‘Sound Energy Medicine’ (VibroAcoustic Therapy) + Womb Mandala Healing delivered in Groups, Privately + to accompany Art Therapy and Massage Therapists in Treatments.
Charli is a mamma to 4 children, 2 dogs + devoted to her life partner Matt. Off the mat her aim is to live a life full of heart, compassion, creativity, empathy with an ethical ethos in everything she does….whether its making a fire, getting messy in the kitchen, climbing the walls, walking in the forest, to dancing her heart out with family + friends. Living a simple but full life in East Sussex. Charli is in love with the ‘human body’ and since she was 2yrs old she has enjoyed the art of movement, this has included her teaching to the community Dance, Acrobatics, Yoga and her recent passion Climbing to help climbers improve their performance with Yoga.
Qualifications : 300hrs Yandara Advanced Yoga Training (Mexico & Hawaii), 200hrs Power Yoga Training (UK), CPD 6 Days Yoga Therapy Training, Yoga Nidra Training (UK), Sound Energy Medicine (VibroAcoustic Therapy Training) (UK), Meditation Training (UK), AcroYoga Dance Training (UK), NATD Acrobatics Teachers & NATD Tap, Ballet, Modern & Disco Teachers, Physical Education & Biology Advanced Level.
Highlights: Creator & Founder of Yoga Rhythm (est.2005) & Yoga Rhythm Teacher Training School of Excellence (est.2007), 1st British Advanced Training Scholarship Award Winner with Yoga Alliance International (2016), Produced Yoga Rhythm Foundation Series DVD voted one of the Top 10 Fitness DVDs by FitPro. Produced Natural Fertility Booster series 3xDVD Boxset recognised by the Western Medical Health Industry. Featured in Magazines, Tabloids & on the SKY Media Network.
Course Dates
This is a one-day course in the studio
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Saturday 31 January 2026 IN STUDIO
10am-6:00pm
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Sunday 1 February 2026 IN STUDIO
10am-6:00pm
Pricing
- The cost is £325 for the full day training
- A non-refundable deposit of £150 is required on booking.
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- If you prefer to pay by the credit card option then this incurs a 2.4% charge. Receipts will be sent to you when the payments are taken.
- *Due to external circumstances if the in-studio course can't go ahead then students will automatically be credited and can book another full day training with Charli or email to request a refund
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