Commencing summer 2023
Aims
This programme is for those who wish to walk the sacred path of working through Yoga, Ayurveda and Shamanic Medicine. This is a journey that cultivates an experience and understanding of your own sacredness and offers you profound personal development. It is a journey that helps you to access and develop your own intuitive wisdom.
This unusual development programme offers studies and practice in yoga, healing methodologies, models of consciousness and much more. With everything you need online, supported by attendance weekends, retreats and ongoing mentoring, students will follow a path towards a profound personal practice and becoming a unique teacher and healer.
This Therapist programme will deepen your practice and transform your teaching, giving you the tools to be both a healer and a space holder. The training draws upon ancient wisdoms and brings them right up to date; the whole is contextualised by the challenges of these times.
Essence of the Training
Woven through the programme, the emergent spiritual dimensions of yoga practice will awaken you to the symbolic nature of the cosmos, the patterns reflected in nature, and the essential unity of life. This is a way of prayer and sacred ceremony, of dreaming and connection.
This programme is a practical development course and participants will be working to become highly skilled teachers, healers and more. We believe that the application of knowledge is essential and that wisdom needs to be embodied.
Accreditation – Graduates will be eligible to continue along their path with Yoga Alliance Professionals at 300 Hours CPD. This training follows on from The Beauty Way Training. Certification through Soma Medicine Yoga School, gives you everything you need to teach yoga and work confidently as a therapeutic practitioner.
Is this for you?
Who we are: At Soma Medicine Yoga School we share the understanding and experience of Yoga in all its depth, beauty and diversity. We believe in leading from the heart. We balance the practical, the theoretical and the uniquely experiential aspects of yoga.
Integrative Ayurvedic Rituals & Routines
Course Curriculum
I. Introduction to Integrative Ayurveda
- What is Integrative Ayurveda?
- Principles of Integrative Practice
- Pancha Maya Kosha Model: The 5 Sheaths
- What is Trauma?
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Compassion-Based Approach Defined
- Ritual vs. Routine
- What is a Highly Sensitive Person?
- Empathy and Boundaries
- Mindful Listening
- What is Health?
- Loneliness Epidemic
II. Digestive Allies
- Enteric Nervous System: Gut-Brain Connection
- Trauma and Digestion
- Microbiome
- Diet and Doshas
- Food Activism
- Local, Organic, Heirloom Foods
- Honouring Indigenous Food Cultures
- Nourishment and Boundaries
- Herbal Allies for Digestion
III. Breath Allies
- Environmental Crisis and Air Pollution
- Lungs and Grief
- Breath Integral to All Life
- What is Prana?
- Introduction to Pranayama
- Herbal Allies for Breath
IV. Nervous System Allies
- What is the Nervous System? How Can We Broaden Our Understanding of it?
- Interconnection
- Stress Response, Window of Tolerance
- Trauma States
- Relax, Restore, Nourish
- Restorative Yoga
- Sensory Overload
- Herbal Allies for the Nervous System
V. Heart Allies
- Emotional Body
- Mental Health
- The Heart as the Seat of the Mind
- Compassion for Self, Others and World
- Herbal Allies for the Heart
VI. Female Health Allies
- Understanding Female Cycles
- Nourishing Herbs and Diet
- Supportive Lifestyle Practices
- Meditation for Vitality
VII. Recipe Books and Plant Ally Guides
- Spring
- Winter
- Fall
- Summer
FAQs
Where does the training take place?
Theory modules will be online, supported by handouts and a manual. There will be a retreat opportunity where we will work face to face and embody the learning.
Next steps
If this training calls to you and you would like the full brochure – email hummingbirdmaloca@gmail.com
Investment : £1200 – for the training, retreat costs will be extra