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APRIL 2021

Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery

Moving beyond stress, trauma, burnout, anxiety, fatigue and post-illness through embodied awareness

Tuesdays 2pm UK time 2021 – April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 8, 15, 22, July 6.

Online

  • £540 if paid in installments or £480 if paid in full before course date

This course has been designed as an explorative journey for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and others to delve into how a compassionate and subtly attentive relationship with their bodies, practice and teaching can help address these commonly seen dis-ease states. This may be as a route to unravelling their own states and/or supporting those in students. There will be inclusion of Somatics practices – from the work of Thomas Hanna that emphasises internal physical perception and experience – and sits well within yoga to support modern body needs.

More info here

Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery

Moving beyond stress, trauma, burnout, anxiety, fatigue and post-illness through embodied awareness

Thursdays 7.30pm UK time 2021 – April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 10, 17, 24, July 8.

Online

  • £540 if paid in installments or £480 if paid in full before course date 

This course has been designed as an explorative journey for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and others to delve into how a compassionate and subtly attentive relationship with their bodies, practice and teaching can help address these commonly seen dis-ease states. This may be as a route to unravelling their own states and/or supporting those in students. There will be inclusion of Somatics practices – from the work of Thomas Hanna that emphasises internal physical perception and experience – and sits well within yoga to support modern body needs.

More info here

Teaching Yoga for Digestive Health

Gain an understanding of digestive system health, as the heart of our whole being. 

Thursdays 6pm UK time 2021 – April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20 & 27.

Online

  • £195 (optional certification additional £30)

This training will explore how yoga – with its focus on stilling the mind – can have profound effects through the gut-brain axis on conditions such as IBS, IBD, acid reflux, colitis, diverticulitis and more. The course will cover the fascial, stress, trauma and sensory connections with digestive issues that are so relevant within yoga philosophy and practice.

More info here

MAY 2021

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Observing & Responding to Needs

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th May 

UMEUS Therapeutics, Brighton & Hove – new venue to be announced soon

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day (10am-5pm or 6-9pm and 1-4pm) and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will bring to life how we recognise signs of need through body signs and responses. This can highlight our habits of pushing into our bodies and letting the head run the show. This is where imposing our will towards goal-orientation or fixing can run roughshod over deeper body feelings and needs. Stepping back to feel – rather than thinking – our way through a physical practice can bring us back to the healing of whole.

Friday 7th & Saturday 8th May* 

Saturday 22nd May 10am UK time

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • 10-5pm
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

*combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will experientially explore different ways we can access and bring to practice, these key foundational guides into presence and safety. This is particularly important for those with chronic stress, trauma, anxiety and pain. We will cover how to guide these skills of drawing people kindly back to their present moment experience and needs.

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Observing and Responding to Needs 

Sunday 23rd May 10am UK time

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • 10-5pm
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will bring to life how we recognise signs of need through body signs and responses. This can highlight our habits of pushing into our bodies and letting the head run the show. This is where imposing our will towards goal-orientation or fixing can run roughshod over deeper body feelings and needs. Stepping back to feel – rather than thinking – our way through a physical practice can bring us back to the healing of whole.

JUNE 2021

Teaching Yoga for Immune and Respiratory Health

LIVE Weekly Discussion: Mondays 7-8pm, from Monday June 7th to July 19th

Online

  • £195 (optional certification additional £30)

Learn the nature of breath in relation to our natural defences and how it contributes to the health of our immune and respiratory systems. This course takes you through the functions of the immune and respiratory systems and how they orchestrate with each other in the body (and other body systems). Understand how to design practices to support their optimal function.

More info here

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: The Language of Embodied Awareness

Friday 18th June & Saturday 19th June 

UMEUS Therapeutics, Brighton & Hove – new venue to be announced soon

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we experience the real reception of our internal and external languaging on all aspects of our being. When many messages in the modern world are of a critical, punishing and judgmental nature, there is ever more need for our yoga teaching language to be invitational, compassionate and easeful. We will feel out our responses to instructions that are insistent and willful, countering these to find our own authentic voices of speaking to bodies and minds with kindness.

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Resourcing Yourself to Support Others

Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June

UMEUS Therapeutics, Brighton & Hove – new venue to be announced soon

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we experience the real reception of our internal and external languaging on all aspects of our being. When many messages in the modern world are of a critical, punishing and judgmental nature, there is ever more need for our yoga teaching language to be invitational, compassionate and easeful. We will feel out our responses to instructions that are insistent and willful, countering these to find our own authentic voices of speaking to bodies and minds with kindness.

JULY 2021

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Grounding, Orientation & Agency

Saturday 10th July 10am UK time

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • 10-5pm
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will experientially explore different ways we can access and bring to practice, these key foundational guides into presence and safety. This is particularly important for those with chronic stress, trauma, anxiety and pain. We will cover how to guide these skills of drawing people kindly back to their present moment experience and needs.

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Observing & Responding to Needs

Sunday 11th July 10am UK time

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • 10-5pm
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will bring to life how we recognise signs of need through body signs and responses. This can highlight our habits of pushing into our bodies and letting the head run the show. This is where imposing our will towards goal-orientation or fixing can run roughshod over deeper body feelings and needs. Stepping back to feel – rather than thinking – our way through a physical practice can bring us back to the healing of whole.

AUGUST 2021

Somatics Training Retreat for Yoga Teachers

August 6th-8th

Gayles Retreat, East Sussex

This teacher training retreat is open to yoga teachers, yoga therapists and anyone else interested with at least a year’s yoga experience (although you will need to be a qualified teacher to continue the full module, see below). Whether you simply need the therapeutic effects of a weekend of deeply nourishing Somatic practice or want to take this into your teaching, this will be a retreat of deep connection, self-compassionate practices and embodied awareness.

More info here

SEPTEMBER 2021

Teaching Somatics

An experiential journey into Somatic practice

Wednesdays 7pm UK time 2021/22 – September 15, October 13, November 10, December 8, January 12

Thursdays 10am UK time 2021/22 – September 16, October 14, November 11, December 9, January 13

Online

  • 70 hours CPD / £789 – paid separately for the portions listed as you do them

The online course and in-person retreat in East Sussex combine for a full immersion around the body. In this way we differentiate to feel and explore deeply, in order to integrate back to the whole. This helps foster the embodied awareness and personal practice that helps you to teach others.

More info here

Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery

Moving beyond stress, trauma, burnout, anxiety, fatigue and post-illness through embodied awareness

Thursdays 2pm UK time 2021 –September 16, 23, 30, October 14, 21, November 4, 11, 25, December 9, 16.

Thursdays 6pm UK time 2021 – September 16, 23, 30, October 14, 21, November 4, 11, 25, December 9, 16

Online

  • £540 if paid in installments or £480 if paid in full before course date

This course has been designed as an explorative journey for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and others to delve into how a compassionate and subtly attentive relationship with their bodies, practice and teaching can help address these commonly seen dis-ease states. This may be as a route to unravelling their own states and/or supporting those in students. There will be inclusion of Somatics practices – from the work of Thomas Hanna that emphasises internal physical perception and experience – and sits well within yoga to support modern body needs.

More info here

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: The Language of Embodied Awareness

Saturday 25th September 10am UK time

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • 10-5pm
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we experience the real reception of our internal and external languaging on all aspects of our being. When many messages in the modern world are of a critical, punishing and judgmental nature, there is ever more need for our yoga teaching language to be invitational, compassionate and easeful. We will feel out our responses to instructions that are insistent and willful, countering these to find our own authentic voices of speaking to bodies and minds with kindness.

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Resourcing Yourself to Support Others

Sunday 26th September 10am UK time

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • 10-5pm
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we experience the real reception of our internal and external languaging on all aspects of our being. When many messages in the modern world are of a critical, punishing and judgmental nature, there is ever more need for our yoga teaching language to be invitational, compassionate and easeful. We will feel out our responses to instructions that are insistent and willful, countering these to find our own authentic voices of speaking to bodies and minds with kindness.

OCTOBER 2021

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Grounding, Orientation & Agency

Friday 15th & Saturday 16th May

Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, The Yoga Studio, 53-57 Rodney Road, Cheltenham GL50 1HX

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will experientially explore different ways we can access and bring to practice, these key foundational guides into presence and safety. This is particularly important for those with chronic stress, trauma, anxiety and pain. We will cover how to guide these skills of drawing people kindly back to their present moment experience and needs.

October 22nd – 24th 2021

Gayles Retreat, East Sussex

This teacher training retreat is open to yoga teachers, yoga therapists and anyone else interested with at least a year’s yoga experience (although you will need to be a qualified teacher to continue the full module, see below). Whether you simply need the therapeutic effects of a weekend of deeply nourishing Somatic practice or want to take this into your teaching, this will be a retreat of deep connection, self-compassionate practices and embodied awareness.

More info here

NOVEMBER 2021

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Observing & Responding to Needs

Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th November

UMEUS Therapeutics, Brighton & Hove – new venue to be announced soon

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day (10am-5pm or 6-9pm and 1-4pm) and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we will bring to life how we recognise signs of need through body signs and responses. This can highlight our habits of pushing into our bodies and letting the head run the show. This is where imposing our will towards goal-orientation or fixing can run roughshod over deeper body feelings and needs. Stepping back to feel – rather than thinking – our way through a physical practice can bring us back to the healing of whole.

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: The Language of Embodied Awareness

Friday 12th & Saturday 13th November

UMEUS Therapeutics, Brighton & Hove – new venue to be announced soon

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we experience the real reception of our internal and external languaging on all aspects of our being. When many messages in the modern world are of a critical, punishing and judgmental nature, there is ever more need for our yoga teaching language to be invitational, compassionate and easeful. We will feel out our responses to instructions that are insistent and willful, countering these to find our own authentic voices of speaking to bodies and minds with kindness.

DECEMBER 2021

Workshop – Yoga & Somatics for Healing & Recovery: Resourcing Yourself to Support Others

Friday 10th & Saturday 11th December

UMEUS Therapeutics, Brighton & Hove – new venue to be announced soon

  • Combination of Friday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm (cannot be booked separately)
  • These will be £80 per day and booked separately to the online course

This is in addition to the online course for the full 100 hours certification

In this day we experience the real reception of our internal and external languaging on all aspects of our being. When many messages in the modern world are of a critical, punishing and judgmental nature, there is ever more need for our yoga teaching language to be invitational, compassionate and easeful. We will feel out our responses to instructions that are insistent and willful, countering these to find our own authentic voices of speaking to bodies and minds with kindness.

JANUARY 2022

Teaching Somatics

An experiential journey into Somatic practice

Wednesdays 7pm UK time 2022 – January 19, February 23, March 16, April 27, May 25

Thursdays 10am UK time 2022 – January 20, February 24, March 17, April 28, May 26

Online

  • 70 hours CPD / £789 – paid separately for the portions listed as you do them

The online course and in-person retreat in East Sussex combine for a full immersion around the body. In this way we differentiate to feel and explore deeply, in order to integrate back to the whole. This helps foster the embodied awareness and personal practice that helps you to teach others.

More info here

MARCH 2022

Somatics Training Retreat for Yoga Teachers

March 11th – 13th 2022

Gayles Retreat, East Sussex

This teacher training retreat is open to yoga teachers, yoga therapists and anyone else interested with at least a year’s yoga experience (although you will need to be a qualified teacher to continue the full module, see below). Whether you simply need the therapeutic effects of a weekend of deeply nourishing Somatic practice or want to take this into your teaching, this will be a retreat of deep connection, self-compassionate practices and embodied awareness.

More info here

Teaching Somatics

An experiential journey into Somatic practice

Thursdays 10am UK time 2022 – March 24, April 21, May 19, June 16, July 14

Online

  • 70 hours CPD / £789 – paid separately for the portions listed as you do them

The online course and in-person retreat in East Sussex combine for a full immersion around the body. In this way we differentiate to feel and explore deeply, in order to integrate back to the whole. This helps foster the embodied awareness and personal practice that helps you to teach others.

More info here

DATES to be announced – email customers@charlottewattshealth.com to be informed once released