200-hour Somatic Embodiment Yoga Teacher Training

Somatic Embodiment Yoga Teacher Training is an accredited program providing tax receipts for our Canadian students. Register with Yoga Alliance and CYA for RYT200.

Comprised of 3 modules, Somatic Embodiment Yoga Training is a journey of self-healing through community and connection. Join us the week of March 31 - April 4, 2025 in Calgary, AB for the SEYT immersion. A 100% online option will be made available for those unable to attend in-person. Then immerse yourself in our thoughtful online program that guides you in cultivating your own practice with our tried and true curriculum that has been shared with the world since 2007. With direct access to Stefani Wilton, the creator of SEYT and our team of beautiful teachers, you are beautifully supported with real time answers to your questions, live online mentoring sessions and community classes and our online platform that includes thorough instructional videos, practices, demonstrations, and the Somatic Embodiment Yoga Manual, a 235 page resource that has been curated for your success as a teacher.

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Please choose this option if you are in need of reduced tuition. We are able to offer this to one student per cohort. Your tuition will be 2 Installments of $1111 + GST.

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Calgary, AB Mar 31-Apr 4, 2025

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Course curriculum

Prior yoga or somatic experience is not required for this trauma-informed training as the curriculum is designed to support you in experiencing your own embodied self-healing. We move gently with respect for your story and encourage choice, self-determination, and choice throughout the program. By establishing a connection with your body, you are supported in becoming more fluent in your body's language of emotion and sensation, and learn tools for how to respond to your body and regulate your nervous system. We believe it is essential that you acquire the skills for knowing how to bring yourself out of a heightened state before going into deeper somatic healing experiences. The intention of this program is to give you the time to tend to your trauma history so that you have the stability and confidence to then support others.. Somatic Embodiment Yoga is the foundational program for our Somatic Yoga Therapist Training Program. Graduates from this program are given the opportunity for direct entry into the Somatic Yoga Therapist Training.

1. Welcome and Course Overview
2. How We Invite These Practices
3. SOMATIC EMBODIMENT YOGA TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL (Permission to Print)
4. Embodied Anatomy Handout (Permission to Print)
5. Required and Suggested Readings
6. Syllabus for In-Person Training
7. Syllabus and Study Guide with Tracking Sheets for ONLINE Learning & Completion of Program
1. Sanskrit Pronunciation
2. English and Sanskrit List
3. Sanskrit to English List
4. Sanskrit Pronunciation
5. Sanskrit Pronunciation
1. Practice of Somatic Embodiment Yoga Hours
2. Somatic Embodiment Yoga Practice Template
3. Somatic Meditation
4. Inviting Stillness
5. Dancing between Movement and Stillness
6. Inviting Movement
7. Body Experiencing - What is needed physically and emotionally?
8. Somatic Embodiment Yoga Practice One with Livi De Rooy
9. Somatic Embodiment Yoga Practice Two with Livi De Rooy
10. Somatic Embodiment Yoga Practice Three with Livi De Rooy
11. Somatic Embodiment Yoga Practice Four with Livi De Rooy
12. Slowing Down
13. Earth and Water Flow
14. Water Flow
15. Flowing with the Breath
16. Inviting Sensation
17. Dancing with Movement and Sensation
18. Emotional Support
19. Tending the Fire
20. Inviting the Air Element
21. Practice for the Upper Back
22. Practice for Insomnia
23. Unraveling
24. Connecting with your Body
25. Unwinding your Hips and Back
26. Connecting with Joy
27. Finding Comfort Within Your Body
28. Opening to Ease
29. Holding Space for Grief
30. Moving Through Your Emotions
31. Yoga for Pain Relief
32. Mind Unwind
33. Nervous System Reset
34. Inviting the Ether Element, a practice to Release and Let Go
35. Where do you need to change?
36. Exploring Resistance
37. Inviting Contentment
38. Somatic Rest Practice for Reflection and Digestion
39. Somatic Rest Practice for the Low Back and Hips
40. Somatic Rest Practice
41. Somatic Movement Practice
42. Exploring Movement
43. Windshield Wipers
44. Arm Clocks
1. Supported and Reclined Bound Angle
2. Supported Wide Legged Forward Fold
3. Supported Head to Knee
4. Supported Child's Pose
5. Supported Standing Forward Fold
6. Supported Seated Forward Fold
7. Supported Seated Forward Fold, Variation Two
8. Inverted Staff Pose and Supported Bridge
9. Babbling Brook
10. Skinny Bolster Work
11. Legs up the Wall
12. Legs up the Wall without the wall
13. Supported Shoulderstand
14. Sleeping Child
15. Savasana
16. Reclined Hero and Adapting to Protect the Knees
17. Reclined Big Toe Pose
18. Seated Twist
19. Supported Child's Pose with a Twist
1. Session #1 - Welcome, Review Online Platform & Tracking Sheet, Embodied Practice
2. Session # 2 - Embodied Teaching, Embodied Breath, Cues and Language
3. Session # 3 - Embodied Sequencing, Group Practice
4. Session # 7 - Embodied Anatomy & Alignment - Mid Body
1. 1) Embodied Teaching Demonstration
2. 2) Embodied Teaching - Connecting with the Breath in Prithivi Namaskar
3. 3) Embodied Teaching - Prithivi Namaskar Adaptations
4. 4) Embodied Teaching - How to Teach Prithivi Namaskar - Applying the Loops and Spirals for Alignment
5. 5) Embodied Teaching - How to Teach Prithivi Namaskar - Incorporating Virabhadrasana II
6. 6) Embodied Teaching - How to Teach Prithivi Namaskar - Verbal Cuing
7. 7) Embodied Teaching - Cuing Embodied Movement
8. 8) Embodied Teaching - Cuing Somatic Movement
9. 9) Embodied Teaching - the Art of Listening and Adaptation
10. 10) Embodied Teaching - Supporting with Props
11. 11) Embodied Teaching - Language and Breath
12. 12) Embodied Teaching - Samskara Resource and Bhavana
13. 13) Embodied Teaching - Tools for Dissociation
14. 14) Embodied Teaching - Attunement, Co-regulation and the Nervous System
15. 15) Embodied Teaching - Observing and Responding to the Body
16. 16) Embodied Teaching - Responding to the Body's Shape and Rhythm
17. 17) Embodied Sequencing
18. 18) Embodied Sequencing - How we Curate the Practice
19. 19) Embodied Sequencing - Somatic Movement and Restorative Yoga
20. 20) Embodied Sequencing - Ayurveda
1. Overview
2. Class One: How the Body Moves
3. Class One: See How the Body Moves
4. Class One: Where the Body Moves
5. Class One: Where the Body Doesn't Move
6. Class One: Landmarks of the Human Body
7. Class One: Observing and Responding to Alignment
8. Class One: Alignment Principles via the Loops and Spirals
9. Class One: Foot and Shin Loops
10. Class One: Bony Landmarks
11. Class One: Embodied Anatomy Foundations
12. Class One: Functional Anatomy of the Foot Loop
13. Class One: Functional Anatomy of the Foot Loop - Key Muscle Exploration
14. Class Two: Thigh Loop
15. Class Two: Inner and Outer Spiral of the Thighs
16. Class Two: Pelvic Loop
17. Class Two: Kidney Loop
18. Class Two: Functional Anatomy of the Thigh Loop
19. Class Two: Thigh and Pelvic Loop Exploration
20. Class Two: Thigh Loop and Pelvic Loop Integration
21. Class Two: Functional Anatomy of the Kidney Loop
22. Class Three: Shoulder Loop
23. Class Three: Neck Loop
24. Class Three: Arms
25. Class Three: Functional Anatomy of the Shoulder Loop
26. Class Three: Functional Anatomy of the Neck Loop
27. Class Three: Adaptive Yoga for the Arms and Wrists
28. Class Three: Neck Release
29. Class Three: Functional Anatomy of the Arms
30. Class Three: Chaturanga Modified with Blocks
31. Class Three: Shoulder Release Twist
32. Class Three: Shoulder Release with Strap
33. Class Three: Functional Anatomy of the Forearms and Wrists
34. Class Three: Wrists & Hands
35. Class Four: Acute, Subacute, Chronic
36. Class Four: Contraindications: When Not to do Yoga
37. Class Four: Where Yoga Teacher's Need to be Sensitive
38. Class Four: Pregnancy*
39. Class Four: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Feet and Ankles
40. Class Four: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Knees and Thighs
41. Class Four: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Hips
42. Class Four: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Back
43. Class Five: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Shoulders
44. Class Five: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Neck and Head
45. Class Five: Injury, Health Condition, and Adaptation: Arms and Wrists
46. Class Five: Need to Know Health Conditions
1. Submit your Completed Tracking Sheets from the Study Guide

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