Introducing

Somatics & Embodied Awareness

A short online course for yoga teachers who want to expand their awareness and skills, for themselves and their students  – also an introduction for any wanting to attend Charlotte’s longer courses.

 

To support yoga teachers with continuing education, this course is being offered at a "Pay-What-You-Can" rate. 

Teachers who can pay at or above the programme price of ÂŁ24, will subsidise and support those teachers who are not financially able.

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Inside the course, you'll find:

  • Six 20-minute somatic yoga classes, with an emphasis on embodied awareness.
  • Six teacher's commentary videos, to accompany the lessons, one for each session.
  • Learn how to mix somatics with traditional asana.
  • An understanding of how to teach somatics for the modern human with a recognition of psycho-social stress.
  • An overview that the movement practices are coming from a "whole" aspect of our emotional, physical, mental states.

  • A focus on movement as gesture, expression and exploring our boundaries.

  • A mix of more rhythmic moving patterns, interspersed with more explorative and spontaneous motions”

Yes, it really is Pay-What-You-Can!

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NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Charlotte Watts

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 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 and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health (Singing Dragon 2022), 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.