The Linguistics of Somatic Education & Experience
Human beings are linguistic beings. We need langauge to survive. We use verbal language to communicate with remarkable precision. Everyday language is rich in abstraction, metaphor and imagery. Its symbolic nature stimulates the mind, easily disembodying it. While this may be sometimes beneficial it inhibits somatic experience and intimacy. Somatic education and therapy depend for their effectiveness on an embodiment within which the intelligence of the body is prioritised over that of mind. This shift in emphasis from mind to body requires a somatic, experiential vocabulary, based on direct experience of the body and the sensations it generates. It must be concrete rather than symbolic, tangible rather than abstract.
Is this training for you?
This workshop is for somatic practitioners of all kinds: bodyworkers, yoga teachers, somatic psychotherapists, mindfulness coaches, or anyone working through or with the body. It will show you how to refine and develop your professional vocabulary to maximise its effectiveness. This rests on selecting words that directly engage mind into the body. This can only be done within a clear understanding of the functional
relationships between body, mind and awareness.
relationships between body, mind and awareness.
What this training will give you:
The workshop will provide you with the understanding and keys to guide people into their body effectively and simply. It will be structured around breath work and other, simple somatic practices. These practices will be used to clarify and refine an experiential, somatic vocabulary applicable to any somatic modality.
Whether you teach yoga, tai-chi, chi-kung, or meditation, or engage with your clients by way of your body this course is for you. You will learn the most effective way to use words to put your clients deeply in touch with their bodies.
Whether you teach yoga, tai-chi, chi-kung, or meditation, or engage with your clients by way of your body this course is for you. You will learn the most effective way to use words to put your clients deeply in touch with their bodies.
You will learn how to:
- develop and refine an experiential vocabulary
- use rhythms between words and silence to invite deep somatic intimacy
- learn how to empower your verbal expressions with tone, cadence, rhythm and projection
Dates & content:
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APRIL 2025
Saturday 5th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times We will explore:
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Sunday 13th
10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Central European Times We will explore:
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Live & recorded:
All the sessions on every module will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days.
Notes:
You will have notes that accompany each module and they will be provided at the end of the course. For genuine understanding follows direct experience.
Payment options:
You are welcome to pay in instalments for this Heart of Yoga Personal Training. If you would like that option contact us directly.
Further questions:
Taught by Godfrey Devereux
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Godfrey is one of the initiators of the Yoga Renaissance that began in the 1990s. The yoga program he created at the Life Centre in London, and his ground breaking book ‘Dynamic Yoga’ steered yoga from the cultural margins towards the irresistible phenomenon it is today. Author of many more books, not only on yoga, his influence within and beyond the world of yoga is incalculable.
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His potent and accessible methodologies of somatic transformation, including 'The Dynamic Yoga Training Method', ’Slow Tantra’, ’Somatic Meditation’, and 'Somatic Resilience Training', have enriched the lives of thousands of practitioners and hundreds of teachers. As a master teacher his effectiveness depends directly on his ability to share his embodied experience of body, mind and Consciousness.