Transform Movement, Empower Lives
The Art of Teaching Somatics
At Radiant Star Yoga, we invite you to explore the expansive potential of Somatics. This unique teacher training offers a harmonious path to enrich your existing practice and deepen the experience you share with your students. Whether you’re seeking to evolve your current movement teachings or embrace a more intuitive, somatic approach, this training will equip you with everything needed to amplify your impact.
From over a decade of teaching Somatics, we’ve witnessed how this approach often completes what has been a missing piece for many movement teachers. Somatic principles offer more than just a set of practices – they weave seamlessly into your current classes, offering fresh perspectives that allow students to engage with their bodies in new ways.
Somatics invites your students to move from a place of deeper awareness and ease, and it opens the door to answering those subtle questions that arise when students encounter resistance or struggle in specific postures and exercises.
what you will explore
Developmental Movement
In this foundational module, you’ll deepen your understanding of early movement patterns and their role in shaping both physical and emotional well-being. This journey back to the roots of human movement allows you to guide students into a space where they can reawaken and reconnect their body and mind.
Somatic Movement Sequences
Learn to embody and facilitate fluid movement sequences inspired by traditions like the Feldenkrais Method and Hanna Somatics. These somatic practices promote ease, vitality, and profound self-awareness, allowing you to create deeply engaging movement experiences.
Somatic Breathing
Breath is an essential gateway to presence and vitality. Through Somatic Breathing, you will explore intentional breathing practices that engage different parts of the body and strengthen the connection between breath and movement, empowering both you and your students to access new levels of awareness.
Centring and Somatic Meditation
Learn how to cultivate a grounded, present-centred state through somatic meditation practices. These practices will help you embody clarity and balance, creating a solid foundation from which to guide your students through their own transformative experiences.
SomaDance
SomaDance is an invitation to explore the spontaneous, expressive nature of movement through music and mindful presence. Rooted in somatic principles, this practice fosters liberation and joy, helping both you and your students connect to the body’s natural rhythms and creative flow.
Neuroscience of Somatics
Gain a deeper understanding of how the brain and nervous system influence movement. This knowledge will allow you to refine your own practice and adapt your teaching methods to better support your students’ learning and movement potential.
why choose Radiant Star Yoga?
With decades of combined experience, David and Amanda offer a deep well of knowledge, guiding you through this transformative process with wisdom and care.
⭐️ A Balanced, Flexible Curriculum:
Our programme is designed to integrate theory, hands-on learning, and self-paced exploration, so you can learn in a way that aligns with your personal goals. The curriculum is student led: as well as group sessions, our course integrates personal mentoring sessions, ensuring that participants are well-equipped to lead somatic movement sessions with confidence and proficiency. We also have many hours of pre-recorded tutorials and classes covering the 5 modalities, so that students can extend learning at their own pace.
⭐️ A Supportive Community:
Be part of a like-minded group of teachers who are passionate about somatic movement and embodiment. Share experiences, deepen your understanding, and build lasting connections with fellow practitioners..
⭐️ Ongoing Support:
Your learning journey continues even after the course ends. Access ongoing resources and mentorship to refine your skills, deepen your practice, and stay connected with the wider somatic movement community.
who is this training for?
This course is ideal for existing movement teachers – whether you teach Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, or other disciplines – who feel called to explore the transformative potential of Somatics in their teaching.
Prerequisite: A foundational experience with Somatic Movement (through personal exploration, workshops, or classes) is recommended before enrolling. We have video tutorials and classes that can assist you with this (click here to access our FREE 5 Day Taster Course)
how the course is delivered
⭐️ 6 x 90 minute 1:1 sessions with each participant during the course (and up to one month after)
⭐️ Private Facebook Group and/or WhatsApp group, for ongoing support and connection as well as course related Q&As
⭐️ Pre-recorded classes and training sessions taught by Radiant Star Yoga, and pre-recorded sessions covering the 5 modalities. Extra material is created and added in response to students needs.
meet your trainers
As well as having a background of various somatic practices (Nia, Aerial Yoga, Gentle Somatic Yoga, Developmental Movement, Pranayama, Meditation), they have both studied and trained in Somatics originally from the lineage of Thomas Hanna (David as a Clinical Somatic Educatior, Amanda as a Somatic Movement Coach). Somatics has been the major focus of their work for the past 12+ years.
They are currently living a semi-nomadic lifestyle, sharing their wisdom as they travel.
I knew that I wanted to expand & deepen my previous yoga teacher trainings, but from a more detailed somatically experiential sense. The detail of the training that Amanda & David offer gives exactly that, & delivered with a lightness of touch that gives so much space for enquiry within the learning. Plus a lot of fun, absolutely essential I feel! My practice & teaching have been inspired, refreshed & deepened just as I had hoped. Thank you!
upcoming training dates
2025
Start Date: end of 2025 / beginning of 2026 – TBC
Investment
Your investment is £1750 (£1500 earlybird available when paid in full before 31/01/2025)
This includes all live meetings, personal mentoring sessions, and all pre-recorded material
(Monthly payment plans are also available on request – including the earlybird)
Fill in the contact form below to apply
(Include details of your existing Teaching Qualification and Teaching Experience)
We will then invite you to have an online ‘coffee meeting’ so you can ask us questions and find out if this is the right course for you.