Gentle Somatic Yoga®
Level 1 In-Person Training
Your Healing Journey Begins with a Supportive Foundation...
Like every great house with a solid foundation, the body thrives with reliable skills and methods for health & wellness.
And, as we all know, our biggest investment is our health. Gentle Somatic Yoga® (GSY) is a science-proven and heart-based method to empower you with skills for self-care and self-healing.
This course is right for you if:
You’re living with chronic pain and other symptoms from an injury, disease or condition, including but not limited to:
You’ve experienced any stress based symptoms and want to relieve them, including but not limited to:
You want to develop a home movement practice for ongoing self-maintenance and wellbeing
You are a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, bodyworker or health care professional and want to acquire new skills that you can implement into your classes or private sessions. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available.
You would like to add-on our Certification Option to provide a credential, be promoted on the GSY Website, and expand your scope of practice(s). Learn more here.
What You Will Learn
25+ Therapeutic Somatic Movement Flows® for self-care, resiliency, health, and wellbeing
How and why Somatic Movements get to the root cause of persistent pain, stiffness, poor posture, anxiety and lack of energy. Most people experience immediate and long-lasting results.
Leading-edge neuroscience balanced with heart-based wisdom
How to replace static stretching with a innovative brain-to-muscle re-education technique called pandiculation
Discovering ways to practice that are suitable and effective for EVERY body. Emphasis will be on "finding your own inner YES" and relying less on “doing it right” according to instruction or demonstration
How to develop an increased embodied experience of internal awareness that will build confidence for continued self-healing, and also a skill set to share with others
How to practice mindful and compassionate movement in a way that inspires deeper connection with your body
Tips, modifications, and guidelines to support your own niche of adaptive and nourishing movement into your group classes and/or private customizable sessions
This easily accessible course is designed as an ideal beginning to learn the method of
Gentle Somatic Yoga®
Dates:
April 30, May 1-4, 2022
The last day, May 4th, will be devoted for those that would like to practice a mini GSY class. This is supportive for anyone, and specifically for those wanting certification.
Those wanting certification will be submitting their final teachback in a video format.
Learn more here.
CEU’s
Without certification, yoga teachers and yoga therapists may claim 30 CEU hours from this course.
With certification, yoga teachers and yoga therapists may claim 32 CEU hours for from this course.
TUITION*:
Includes training, lunch, and coffee/tea and biscuit afternoon service
£1700 with certification
£1400 for non-certification
*Fee does not include accommodation or transportation
Advantages of Live In-Person Training with Tara Sellars
Personalized interaction with mindful energy and information exchange
Coming together as a collective Soma which allows Tara to tailor this training course for your specific group
Interact with your peers and other like-minded people. We learn and evolve together through compassion, empathy, respect, and love
Tara’s facilitation style (non-hierarchical) is heavily based on experiential interaction and hands on learning
Gentle Somatic Yoga® is constantly evolving as a method, therefore new enhancements have been added to the Somatic Movement Flows®. Often times these enhancements have not been published yet and you will be the first to learn them
Tara Sellars shares her journey of how she started her path with Gentle Somatic Yoga...
"Gentle Somatic Yoga change my life, body and how I show up in the world!
A number of years ago while practicing Martial Arts I sustained a debilitating shoulder injury and did what many people do I sought out help externally in the way of massage, physiotherapy all of which didn’t really fix the problem.
Fast forward to my Yoga teacher training days and the shoulder injury would show up again and downward facing dog was one of my least favorite asana’s! During my Yoga training I came across Somatics and after my own research I discovered Gentle Somatic Yoga and I simply fell in love with it and how it made my shoulder feel.
From the onlooker GSY can seem rather simplistic however for me it takes my practice to another level, it's as if I am looking through a looking glass, my lens is clearer both internally and externally.
I find it fascinating how one can positively change the connection between the brain and muscles and I also identify this practice as one which promotes longevity and sustainability for the human body. It would be my absolute privilege to share with you GSY’S tool box of Somatic movement flows and much more so you can fix yourself and pass it on to others.
How amazing would it be for your clients, friends and family to move through life with a sense of ease and grace and become the master of their own anatomy and nervous system, I hope to see you on Level one".
This Course Includes
30- to 32-Hours of easy-to-follow instructions with Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) depending on the add-on certification being purchased or not
Earn Yoga Alliance approved CEU hours for this Training course. We are in the application process for IAYT (we have the codes to give you so you can apply yourself as well), acupuncture, and massage CEU’s.
User-friendly technology offered in a format of personalized videos facilitated by James Knight, Founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga & Somatic Wellness®
Downloadable step-by-step instruction handouts. These handouts can be used to create a manual for future reference
Modifications and Props ~ Learn how to modify the GSY Practice so that if feels good in your body. After you embody the GSY practice you will, in turn, continue to learn how to modify the GSY practice to fit your niche. For example: Beginner yoga students, active seniors, desk workers, chair yoga, athletes who want to enhance their performance, individuals recovering from injury - pre and post-surgery, pregnancy, and much more...
Highlighting the neuroscience behind this revolutionary approach to self-healing and inspire you how to recognize and reprogram habitual patterns of holding stress deep within the body
Philosophy ~ Discover the value of “Finding Your Inner Yes”
Tips for building your business ~ For seasoned yoga teachers, near to retirees, and the budding entrepreneur wanting to inspire people. Learning GSY will give you strategies for marketing and client development for classes, workshops, and programs.
Recordings of all sessions ~ Those who purchase the add-on certification will get 6 months of access to the videos and those who do not choose to get certified will get 3 months access
Access to our Online Level 1 Course ~ Upon registration, you'll be granted access to our online course so you can print out and/or make a digital manual of all course PDF Handouts. You will also be able to start the first few chapters and watch the prerecorded Somatic Movement Flow videos to get a better understanding of the method and the neuroscience.
Add-On Certification Option
Interested in Becoming Certified?
For those of you who are yoga teachers, yoga therapists, body workers, or healthcare practitioners, once certified, you are endorsed as a GSY Practitioner.
You will be promoted as a GSY teacher and join the global trend of Somatic Movement Educators, acknowledged for your competency and skill level.
You will be able to incorporate Gentle Somatic Yoga in either one-on-one customized sessions or in group movement classes, as part of your professional instruction service(s).
Level 1 Program Schedule - (to be posted soon)
In Person at Jasmine Trust, Babworth Court, Babworth, Retford, Notts, DN22 8EW
Saturday, April 30th- Wednesday, May 4th from 9am-5pm GMT
A more detailed agenda will be emailed to you closer to the event. Times are subject to change.
Testimonials
I could not recommend this training course more highly. Learning to unlock the overactive reflex muscle patterns and how to teach the somatic movement flows with confidence has enabled me to share these movements in a class of my own. I would encourage anyone with an interest in yoga or moving for health and well-being to attend
More About Tara
My personal mission is to dispel people's misconception that you have to be flexible to start Yoga… I wasn’t!
I come from a competitive running background (urhh tight hamstrings) and in my 30’s moved to martial arts, somewhat of a Yin & Yang story for me. Through injuries and stressful life events I was lead to Yoga, initially for its renowned physical healing qualities. As my journey progressed I soon realized there were so many additional benefits that drew me deeper into my Yoga practice.
My experience and training with The British Wheel Of Yoga & Gentle Somatic Yoga Founder, James Knight, has provided me with tools to support and guide my clients to live a more pain-free, stress-free life on and off the mat.
My classes offer an all-round practice uniting the mind, body, and breath giving you the chance to enrich your life physically, mentally and spiritually. My inspiration and intention for you is to offer opportunities to re-connect with yourself so that when you leave class (the sanctuary) and go back to the outside world, you greet it with an inner YES! feeling refreshed, balanced, calm, stronger physically and mentally.
I often get asked “what’s the style of Yoga you teach”? My style has evolved and will continue to evolve alongside my knowledge of Hatha Yoga & Somatic Education. My priority is to offer a sustainable Yoga practice, in essence a practice thats accessible to everyone and everyBODY.
As we age we develop habits physically and emotionally, some of them good and others that literally distress us and have a negative impact on how we live our lives. I will encourage you to counteract the above through explorative movement to develop your self-awareness of what feels good for your body working from the inside to the periphery.
My aim for you is to provide guidance in preventing and reversing muscular pain, tension and regain control of your own muscles. I will encourage you to unwind through an intertwined practice of movement, postures and also in a variety of other ways: visualizations, breathing techniques, meditations and affirmations.