ONLINE COURSE ON TEACHING SOMATICS
FEBRUARY - MARCH 2022
THIS NEW ONLINE SERIES offers 50 hours of EMBODIED LEARNING. The series is designed for you to attend the live sessions and/or enjoy the recorded classes on your own time schedule.
SCHOOL FOR BODY-MIND CENTERING® YOGA IMMERSION SERIES:
2021 Weekend Dates
Live Virtual Classes:
January 22-23
January 29-30
February 12-13
February 19-20
February 26-27
Saturdays: 9:00-10:30; 11:00-1:00
Sundays: 9:00-11:00; 11:30-1:30
All live classes presented in EST/NYC/USA Time Zone
THIS NEW ONLINE MODULE is a combination of 38 hours of live virtual class, plus 12 hours of pre-recorded yoga classes, a total of 50 hours of embodied learning.
Classes are presented live and are interactive. They are an active combination of presentation, somatization and movement exploration, principles of embodiment and application, with time for discussion and questions.
Classes are presented online via Zoom.
Each Live Class will be recorded and stored in your student account with lifetime access.
If you can’t make the live classes, you can follow the weekends on your own time schedule.
THE BASIC NEUROCELLULAR PATTERNS
In The Practice Of Yoga
The Basic Neurocellular Patterns establish a foundation on which we build our movement, physical, perceptual, emotional and cognitive process. They guide our interaction with gravity and space, our sense of self, our relationship with others and the environment.
Each movement pattern is a reference point to experientially explore and gain insights into your practice. They provide a valuable insight into gaps in integration and alignment, and new perspectives on sequencing and asana choice. Once fully embodied they allow us to enter with more ease into the fullness of our being, and to live our lives with greater confidence, flexibility and presence.
This module explores the bridge between the Later Prevertebrate and Spinal Vertebrate Patterns. We will explore the transition from radial symmetry organized around the navel, to the formation of our central vertical core around the longitudinal axis. The vertical axis is composed of three tubular structures: gut tube, notochord, and neural tube. These patterns manifest as softness, flexibility, and strength in our bodies, flowing easily yet turgidly strong. They provide us with a sense of inner calm and effortlessness, and create the foundation for the later development of our arms and le
Creating a Student Journey
Create an arc through the workshop or class series, where you lead the student down a path of embodiment and discovery.
Planning & Creating Workshops
FInding a theme
Whats in a title
Self Development as a teacher/ preparation
Where do you shine?
What are you avoiding?
What do you wish for your students?
Where is your support?
Honest assessment of your ability to move and be present
Teaching Foundations
How to start a class
How to set up the space
Somatiization tools
Pre-Recorded Yoga Classes:
Ten 75-Minute Classes / 12 Hours
These classes are designed to support your continued integration of the Body-Mind Centering® & Yoga material presented each weekend. Classes are embodied explorations of yoga with application of principles to asana, breath, meditation, and philosophy. Classes are taught by course faculty, and uploaded to your student account following each weekend, with lifetime access.
Basic Neurocellular Patterns, Exploring Developmental Movement
To support your learning we suggest Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s book Basic Neurocellular Patterns, Exploring Developmental Movement. Available in print and e-book formats, it can be purchased here:
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR?
The principles and techniques learned in this course can be used for personal development and for professional enhancement. We recommended it for anyone interested in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, somatic studies, education, meditation, and other body-mind disciplines.
No previous experience with Body-Mind Centering® or Yoga is necessary for this course.
FACULTY
Our faculty are professional practitioners and teachers of Body-Mind Centering® with decades of dedication and experience integrating Yoga & Body-Mind Centering®. They bring to their classes rich diverse backgrounds in the fields of yoga, therapy, somatics, movement, and meditation.
The faculty for the Later Prevertebrate and Spinal Vertebrate Patterns: The Central Axis, Moving Into Form and the Development of Self are Lisa Clark, Roxlyn Moret, Patty Townsend, Michal Yarkoni, Bob Lehnberg, and Gale Turner.
Join Us For the Full Immersion Series
Exploring The Basic Neurocellular Patterns & Embryology in the Practice of Yoga
I am confident that WE can lead you from where you are at to a state of Inspired Confidence in your embodied leadership!
Our Graduates have started new private practices, expanded theirs, opened Embodied Spaces, shifted their yoga community, travel and teach, etc
This Somatic BODY process, honed over decades by Christine Cole, UNLOCKS your deepest most reverent, and wildest most unexpected possibilities in embodiment, motion, and research. It makes your mind facile with this intelligence garnered in co-creative learning with the group, nature, and space.
You will be supported by our team and the inherent process, to re-emerge with the riches of well-earned skillsets, clear SomaticBODY systems, a body rich in knowledge; You will be released ready to ignite your practice with integrity and into a body rich in process, for your new life to unfold.
The SomaticBODY Team
This is where you get to lay it all down, fully focus on your own embodiment with all of the support of the team and Christine Cole’s teaching within the framework of Somatic BODY. Put Covid, put your own insecurities behind you and just immerse yourself, build or rebuild your inner intelligence, wild intuition and keen focus on learning. We will MOVE, meditate and study. This is the beginning of creating a cohort of committed somatic explorers.
Here you get to look above the fray and learn SBT client assessment, teaching structures to organize the rhythm, weaving and learning process for students in your courses, and ways to set up improvisational research for artists of all kinds to ignite your art. In this phase you will also have some opportunities for breakdown, transformation, and growth, which Christine will use to model the process and you to receive support and guidance in your unfolding. The kettle is thick with experiences that now question the old, and require change. Observing and supporting you will learn.
Now that you are getting clearer and inspired , you can invest in research that propels your vision, your projects, your practice.
TAKE A LEAP!
We have one week off, an opportunity to tune into your true inner knowing and passion! The last 2 weeks continue our embodied rituals, inject this research into the group and we get on with the business chores of an embodied business: writing up workshops, applying to conferences, writing blogs, creating systems, laying the bones of performance projects. The last week is celebration, and we close for your PLAN to begin!
We are allowing only up to 24 students & 2 workstudy
We have found that for people who have a base in movement, it is actually a surprisingly great way to study. Christine has been teaching online since June for approx 30 days of content - there will be more emphasis on movement, teaching and professiona session tools versus touch and bodywork. We have expanded our online manuals, video series, and video documentation.
The live classes & meetings will be recorded and posted for you to catch up - You must participate in 80% of certain classes in person.
You will receive an invite to a ZOOM
YES! SPECIAL OFFER! You may join Christine in Gomarduli Zen Retreat, In the mountains of Georgia for the training. We are able to get students a special VISA. You will isolate for 8 days, then join us. If you arrive late - You just start online. special price for the INTENSIVE: $1000 for 10 weeks!
Yes, due to teaching online we are looking for folks who have some experience in embodiment and have a professional practice, be it in therapy,dance, art, teaching or coaching.
Yes! It is best is if you know your learning style: Some may want to learn lots of the anatomy or manuals ahead of classes,and can absorb this information, others willglance at the material, the list of anatomical names, watch some videos, draw or dance BEFORE and really research later, when thier body is awakenened with curiostymeeting
Read through all the online info, go through the application (which will also clarify, and we will call you to discuss if this is right for your path. Otherwise email info@somaticbody.com
