200-Hour Somatic Yoga Teacher Training & Certification
Foundational Level Embodied Flow Track
For anyone longing to embark on the journey back to their essential Self.
A 200 Hour Yoga & Somatics Teacher Training is an immersive entry point into the landscape of yoga, and for those who endeavor to facilitate yoga, it is a necessary threshold to enter the seat of the teacher.
Not all trainings are equal, just as not all schools are the same. Embodied Flow™ was created as an innovative response to traditional hatha yoga. Embodied Flow was the first school to bring the Somatic landscape of Body-Mind Centering ®, the non-dual technology and wisdom of Tantra, and the discovery of free movement into the container of yoga. Since then the system has blossomed as a movement that has inspired change in the methodology of yoga in over 40 countries. Using yoga as a springboard, the Embodied Flow™ Certification practice incorporates more interoception, curiosity, and self-autonomy in order to facilitate more safety, creativity, freedom, and fluidity in practitioners. Need financial support? View our Scholarship Program.
The Embodied Flow 200 is designed as an entry point to the Embodied Flow yoga and Somatics system.
The 200-hour training immerses students into the deepest teachings of yoga from the foundation of tantric philosophy and somatic movement. The real intention of yoga is to unite one’s individual essence with the universal field. In Embodied Flow, we use embodied anatomy inspired by Body Mind Centering as an avenue to the deepest states of flow. Shifting the conversation of yoga beyond asana, we have created a yogic method that aims to facilitate laboratories that use curiosity as a pathway to self-knowing.
We believe that to facilitate yoga or to facilitate others in human-facing roles, ranging from psychologists, coaches, dancers, to social workers, demands we have increasing knowledge and awareness of becoming an embodied human.
Thousands of students have graduated through our 200 our Embodied Flow trainings and have gone on to help students embody in over 40 countries through classes in yoga, Somatic Dance, Meditation, Coaching programs, and Somatic Movement Therapy.
Our first 100 hours are called the Somatic Body. It introduces students to the methodology of Embodied Flow, Body systems, Embodied Anatomy, and the foundational tantric methodology. Our second 100-hour is the Art of Embodied Facilitation. In the second 100 hours, we work on creating classroom journeys, holding space, music selection, voice, and expression.
With over 30 years of research and extensive field experience, we have poured into this offering the rivers of teachings, techquest, and tools that are the guidelines for an awakened Self. Whether you want to teach yoga, develop your skills as a facilitator of others, or simply deepen your own personal practice, this path offers a reset designed to reconnect to the felt sense of our numinous human existence. You will hone your intuition, power, attunement, and creativity as you develop skill and comfort in your role as either a teacher or facilitator- for others and yourself.
The 200 hours Embodied Flow Yoga & Somatics Teacher Training is build of two modules and a pre recorded introduction to BMC™ that can be taken all at once or piece by piece:
SOMATIC BODY MODULE (in person)
This foundational immersion is the entry point to the advanced practice of the methodology and Principles of Embodied Flow™. Discovering the inner landscape of the body-mind through somatic journeys into systems of the body: Bones, muscles, organs, endocrine, and cellular consciousness.
- Explore the five foundational Principles of Embodied Flow™
- Introduction of experiential philosophy (the practice of weaving non-dual tantric philosophy into an embodied journey)
- Somatization – Discover various systems of the body from a Body-Mind Centering® perspective
- Learn functional biomechanics that allow your students to align from the inside out, and the outside in
- Explore moving from different points of initiation that allow greater ease and effortlessness in asana and movement
- Examine ways of working with students in their wholeness so as to support their process in an inclusive and empowered way
- Introduction to the Embodied Flow™ method of sequencing classes
- Pranayama and meditation practices
- Expressing unconscious and conscious aspects of self through movement meditations
- Foundational components of manual therapy and bodywork
- Tantric philosophy and its relationship to Embodied Flow™
The second part of the Somatic Body Immersion continues the methodology of Embodied Flow™ and pulls into the foreground the pulsatory world of our fluid body. Fluid systems offer balance, transport communication as well as emotional and nervous system regulation. As we submerge into the mind of the fluids, we will follow spiralic pathways, rivering networks, and vortices of energy into the expansive easeful world of the inner sea.
- Cellular Consciousness
- Embryological Pathways
- Fluid systems: intercellular fluid, blood, lymph, fascia, fat and cerebrospinal fluid
- Fascial lines
- Developmental Pathways
- Kinespheres
- Dimensionality planes of motion
- Tantric philosophy, meditation, pranayama
BODY-MIND CENTERING® WITH NINA WEHNERT (PRE-RECORDED)
A further dive into the dimensionality and subtlety of a Body-Mind Centering® based approach to research. Through 6 hours of pre-recorded content and 1-day online workshop, we will further dive into the landscape of bones, muscles, fascia, connective tissue, lungs, and diaphragms with Nina Wehnert (core staff of Moveus, the BMC® Certification Training Program)
THE ART OF EMBODIED FACILITATION (in person)
The Art of Embodied Facilitation Module is designed to enhance your individual authentic expression, confidence, and communication skills as a facilitator. We will explore strategies and tools for teaching Embodied Flow™ in a skillful and artful way. You will expand and refine your art of composing and guiding a depthful experience, take the seat of the teacher, and learn to attune your instrument to see, hear and respond to the subtle energetic, physical, and psychic layers emerging in your classroom.
In this art of teaching laboratory, you will learn to lay the foundation, carve the path, and offer touchstones that guide attention and sensation while inviting your students to step into the slipstream of being.
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An Embodied Flow Training Will Develop Your Unique Strength
- Find your authentic expression as a human and as a teacher
- Create inspiring and meaningful classes from your own embodied experience
- Cultivate the skills to see yourself and others in wholeness
- The ability to clearly articulate and relay philosophy of yoga
- Guide in-depth meditations
- Lead students and clients on a meaningful journey of self-discovery through embodiment and movement
- Provide comfort, support, and a safe space
- Identify and assist alignment challenges
- Create an open and inviting environment for reflection and healing
Certification & Yoga Alliance (RYT 200)
This training provides the hours required for registration with Yoga Alliance for the RYT 200® as well as certification with the Embodied Flow School of Yoga 200-hour Foundations.Certification & Yoga Alliance (RYT 200)
The Embodied Flow Course Curriculum: The 200-Hour Syllabus
- Embodied Anatomy
- Presence practices
- Instruction, language, and cueing
- Asana and creative sequencing
- Meaningful and inspiring theming
- Teaching methodology and skillful language to safely guide students
- Introduction to free movement and authentic movement
- Awakening your authentic voice as a teacher and facilitator
- Observing, demonstrating, and assisting
- The business of Yoga
- Yoga Asana foundations and safe alignment
- History and Philosophy of Yoga, including foundational non-dual tantric philosophy and classical texts such as the Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita.
- Pranayama and Meditation to support our embodiment practices
- Embodiment Practices inspired by Body Mind Centering® – tapping into the felt sense of different systems of the body: skeletal, organ, endocrine, muscular, developmental, nervous system in order to gain awareness, registry, and resonance of these systems.
- Body Mind Psychology
- Embodiment labs
Who is this Somatic Training For?
- yoga facilitator who wants to learn a new methodology for experiencing Yoga using somatics as an entry point
- practitioner who wishes to dive into the Meta of your own yoga journey and journey of Self
- facilitator, coach, or counselor who wants to add embodiment practices into your repertoire
- artist, writer or creative who wants to unlock your creativity and find more flow in your work.
In This Training…
We will immerse together into the landscape of yoga, physically, philosophically, and energetically. You will dive into the systems of the body: bones, muscles, fluids, organs, endocrine, and fascia You will play with the range of movement and movement possibilities from traditional asana to the intuitive flow of free movement and experiment with expanding your own range. We will work with finding and getting to know your boundaries. We will unlock your embodied voice. Together we will cultivate the skills of teaching and facilitating others, and learn to communicate and transmit the depth of information and experience acquired in a contained and safe space. You will hone your intuition, power, attunement, and creativity as you develop skill and comfort in your role as a teacher or facilitator – for others and yourself.
Even if you do not plan to teach yoga, mastering the practice of communicating the material offers the opportunity to expand your own knowledge, enhancing the use of your presence and language. And, in order to teach yoga of any kind, one must have studied themselves and developed a deeply attuned understanding of their own embodied experience. The central goal of this training is to anchor you in the vastness of potentialities housed in the gift of your human experience. Also available are online training options.
Be forewarned: things in your life will change.
