Move from within, and guide others to do the same
This module invites you to explore somatics as grounded complements to yoga, for your own body and in the way you guide others.
Instead of prioritising shapes or performance, this training encourages you to listen inward, sense patterns, and respond from the inside out. By softening structure and slowing the pace, movement can unfold with more ease, adaptability, and internal listening. You’ll discover how to feel a posture or a movement rather than perform it, and how that experience can shape your own practice and your teaching presence.
This approach supports teachers working with bodies that arrive tired, overwhelmed, or dysregulated, without defaulting to intensity or complete stillness, and offers tools for moving and guiding with sensitivity and care.
You’ll leave with:
💜 A somatic lens that informs how you design and guide movement
💜 Practical tools to support fluidity, adaptability, and nervous system regulation
💜 Clear principles for creating gentle, restorative flow
What You'll Learn
Foundations of Somatic Awareness & Movement
You’ll explore somatic movement as a way of softening habitual effort and refining internal listening. Drawing inspiration from established somatic approaches such as Laban Movement Analysis, Body–Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, and Bartenieff Fundamentals, this part of the module introduces principles that support sensing, adaptability, and presence in movement.
Rather than applying technique onto the body, somatic work invites movement to emerge from ongoing dialogue with breath, gravity, sensation, and intention. This supports clearer decisions around pacing, range of motion, and progression, offering a responsive, humane, and sustainable approach to practice.
Guiding Practices for Awareness, Regulation & Self-Trust
Restorative practices ask for a different way of guiding. In this module, you’ll explore how to hold space for slower movement, pauses, and internal listening without needing to over-direct or explain.
You’ll learn how to guide attention, pacing, and choice in ways that support nervous system regulation and self-trust, while reducing performance pressure. This includes working with moments of restlessness, uncertainty, or subtle sensation, and learning how to let these become part of the practice rather than something to manage or fix.
Creating Somatic-Inspired Flow Practices
You’ll learn clear principles for creating somatic-inspired movement practices that are both flowy and restorative, using slow, continuous movement rather than fully static shapes. The focus is on gentle flow as a regulating and nourishing experience, not as a simplified version of dynamic Vinyasa.
You’ll explore how to sequence slow flows close to the ground in creative and adaptive ways, and how to balance movement and stillness to support regulation and integration. These principles can be applied to fully restorative flow classes, Yin-inspired flow formats, or woven thoughtfully into broader Vinyasa practices.
Who You'll
Learn From
Willemieke Verweij brings a unique blend of dance, somatics, and yoga to her teaching. With Master’s degrees in Dance and Cultural Anthropology, her approach honours both personal expression and deep presence. She invites students to experience movement not as performance, but as a felt, living process, supporting authenticity, embodiment, and nervous system regulation through curiosity and awareness.
Fanny Alavoine brings an integrative, movement‑based approach rooted in Vinyasa yoga, somatics, and functional anatomy. Her work explores how the core principles of Vinyasa, continuity, interconnection, and cyclical change, can be expressed through slow, restorative, and deeply nourishing movement. With a strong focus on sequencing, she supports teachers in finding depth not only in strong or dynamic practices, but also in subtlety, slowness, and attentive listening.
Noeleen
It has been incredible to receive your kindness and wisdom, generosity and love. The course work you developed was astonishing in detail and knowledge. You held space for us while challenging us and enjoying our growth. Thank you will never be enough. 🙌🔥❤️
Carlijn
During this module, I rediscovered my passion for restorative flow. What I loved about this module is how you can connect asanas with themes and intentions. It brings your practice to a deeper level. I love connecting an asana with a concept as it gives my practice a deeper meaning.
Who It's For
- Certified yoga teachers (200h+)
- Passionate practitioners ready to deepen
- No need to be an expert, just curious and committed.
- Teachers working toward their 300h
Dates
Friday, Jan. 15, 2027:
10:30 - 18:30
Saturday, Jan. 16, 2027:
11:30 - 19:30
Sunday, Jan. 17, 2027:
10:30 - 18:30
Location
Tribes Studio 'The Flo'
Floris Versterlaan 61, Leiden
Just 15 minutes on foot from Leiden Central Station
For your meals: there are plenty of restaurants and shops near the station, or you’re welcome to bring your own, a fridge is available on site.
Price
€425
(no VAT charged, CRKBO-registered)
🐥 Early Bird: €50 off with code SOMA50 - Available until 3 months before the training begins.
⏰ Limited spots available.
Certificate
Upon completing the module, you will be eligible to receive a certificate for Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance, effective immediately.
Why this module matters
In modern yoga contexts, many students arrive overstimulated, fatigued, or disconnected from their internal signals. Somatics and restorative movement offer practical tools to meet these realities with intelligence and care.
This module supports you in expanding your teaching range, creating classes that restore energy rather than consume it, and developing a more sustainable relationship with movement: both for your students and for yourself.
Learning outcomes
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Understand core somatic principles and how they relate to yoga practice
• Cue movement in ways that support awareness, regulation, and self-trust
• Design and guide gentle, restorative flow classes with clarity and intention
• Integrate somatic principles into existing teaching styles with confidence