NOT READY TO COMMIT?
This module invites you to explore somatics as a grounded complement 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 THEY ARE SAYING
Hear it from them
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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 practise.
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Guiding 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.
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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.
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THE PROGRAMME
Program overview
HANDS-ON TRAINING
A DAY AT THE TRAINING
WHY THIS TRAINING 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.
YOU'LL 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
THE RETREAT
Laurettehoeve, Tiengemeten
Laurettehoeve, Tiengemeten 1, 3267 LE Goudswaard (island of Tiengemeten, Zuid-Holland)
Getting there
The ferry leaves from Nieuwendijk 1, 3284 BE Zuid-Beijerland (parking at the ferry) and the crossing takes about 10 minutes. On arrival day the crossing for up to 3 cars to the house is included until 19:00, so we'll arrange carpooling within the group. By public transport: bus stop 'Veerdienst Zuid-Beijerland', then follow the road to the harbour.
Where you sleep
6 bedrooms with double beds (sleeps 12), 2 bathrooms with bathtubs and 5 toilets. Two living rooms and a large dining conservatory. No WiFi: a real chance to unplug.
Food & Nourishment
At this retreat, meals are part of the practice: warm, nourishing food that supports clarity, rest and integration through the weekend.
A DAY AT THE RETREAT
7:00–8:00 Breakfast available
8:00–9:30 Embodied morning practice / meditation
9:30–10:30 Break
10:30–12:30 Somatic methodology
12:30–14:00 Lunch and rest
14:00–16:30 Teaching tools & practice
16:30–17:00 Reflection
Sunday: integration and closing reflection
Your trainers
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.
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.
Carlijn
My creativity as a teacher has been unlocked. I'd been getting a little too comfortable doing the same old thing, now the possibilities feel endless.
Layla
WHO IT'S FOR
Certified yoga teachers (200h+)
Teachers working toward their 300h
Passionate practitioners ready to deepen
No need to be an expert, just curious and committed
Pilates, dance and movement teachers who want to bring somatics into their classes
CERTIFICATE
Yoga Alliance Continuing Education
Upon completing the module, you will be eligible to receive a certificate for Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance, effective immediately. And if you go further, this immersive counts toward the full 300h Modern Vinyasa training.
PRACTICAL INFO
DATES
Friday 15 – Sunday 17 January 2027
Arrival Friday between 16:00 and 18:00 · Departure Sunday from 20:00
LOCATION
Laurettehoeve, Tiengemeten 1, 3267 LE Goudswaard
The ferry leaves from Nieuwendijk 1, 3284 BE Zuid-Beijerland (parking at the ferry) and the crossing takes about 10 minutes. On arrival day the crossing for up to 3 cars to the house is included until 19:00, so we'll arrange carpooling within the group. By public transport: bus stop 'Veerdienst Zuid-Beijerland', then follow the road to the harbour.
Laurettehoeve, Tiengemeten 1, 3267 LE Goudswaard (island of Tiengemeten, Zuid-Holland)
PRICE
€550
No VAT · CRKBO-registered
INCLUDED
Accommodation: 2 nights at Laurettehoeve
All meals
Manual and course material
Certificate of completion
Not included: travel to the ferry at Zuid-Beijerland.
EARLY BIRD
€50 off with code SOMA50 until 15 October 2026
PAYMENT
Paid in full when you book.
GROUP
Limited places
YOUR QUESTIONS
Good to know
Do I need a Vinyasa background for the weekend trainings and immersives?
No. Our weekend trainings and immersives are open to teachers of any style: yoga, Pilates, barre or dance. Being familiar with flow-style classes helps, but you don't need a Vinyasa background or a 200h Vinyasa training.
Are the manuals included?
No, the manuals are given to you as part of the training.
Do I need to be enrolled in the 300h Modern Vinyasa training to join this module?
No, you’re welcome to join this module as a standalone training. If you decide later to enrol in the full 300h programme, this module will count toward your certification.
How good does my English need to be?
Our trainee & trainer(s) community is international and multilingual: you’ll hear many accents and cultural backgrounds in the room. You do need a good understanding of English and the ability to communicate in it, but your English doesn’t have to be perfect. You’re always welcome to ask for clarification or repetition during the training.