with Charlotte Watts
Sat 24 Jun 2023
Studio
10:00am
7hrs
For those students who have already taken (or currently taking) the online Somatics for Yoga Teachers course.
For teachers and trainees.
- £80 -
In this day we will experientially explore different ways we can focusing on skills of guiding compassionate, fluid practices of curiosity, exploration and allowing.
This workshop will bring together key threads of the online course to bring Somatics into yoga classes or as separate practices. They will include practice, discussion and workgroups, and can be attended after or during taking the online course.
These will be £80 per day workshop and booked separately to the online course - discounts for booking both course related workshops at the same time
They will comprise practice, discussion and group/diad exercises – you will be directed to relevant material from the online course to reflect on before each
Within the whole course requirement, these can be taken at any time available and in any order
The full certification is awarded on successful completion of the online course, the two workshops and other requirements listed in the course page here
Meet Charlotte
Charlotte attended her first yoga class in 1996 and immediately knew that it would be a large part of the route to overcoming her stress-related, digestive, mood and energy issues. She trained at the Vajrasati Yoga School in Brighton (500 hour Yoga Alliance training) founded by Jim Tarran who is influenced by Buddhism and brought a natural mindfulness aspect to practising yoga. This was the beginning of a relationship with yoga focusing on taking time and finding space to feel subtleties of the experience, energetics and responses within the practice and create full body awareness within postures.
Charlotte then went on to train in teaching yoga for old_people with ME and Chronic Fatigue with Fiona Agombar and teaching for chronic pain with Heather Mason, continuing her interest in yoga as therapy for anxiety, depression and stress states. She deepened her mindfulness practice as a result of a specific mindfulness course for yoga teachers with Cathy-Mae Karelse. She continues to study with teachers Tias Little and Joanne Avison as they combine her love of mindful, somatic practice, yoga as meditation, the contemporary anatomy of biotensegrity and an explorative and compassionate attitude – alongside attention to alignment with respect to the individual needs of students.
Charlotte is an author with many published books, including Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health (Singing Dragon 2018), Good Mood Food (Nourish 2018) and The De-Stress Effect (2015). She is also an award-winning nutritionist, practising since 2000 and specialising in stress-related and fatigue conditions and burnout, and digestive issues.
Charlotte teaches classes in Brighton and London, workshops, UK yoga weekends and retreats abroad. She also runs courses and retreats specifically for yoga teachers to attend to their own self-care so they have the resources to support others.
** PRACTICAL BITS **
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Please note workshops will be refunded only if we can find someone to take your place. Obviously, we will take account of exceptional circumstances. If you have chosen to pay in instalments, payments to completion will still be due.
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