4 Day intensive training

Somatic Movement Exercise Coach
Training Level 1

Weekend 1: June 6th & 7th

Weekend 2: July 11th & 12th

Weekend 1: September 26th & 27th

Weekend 2: October 24th & 25th 2015

9:00am – 6:00pm

Develop your mind, your body, and your career and discover your true movement potential. You are invited to experience the somatic movement coaching intensive. In this 3-day immersion training you will revolutionise the way you move and teach movement.

Why?
As a teacher of yoga over the past 14 years I have worked in various complementary therapies. To date nothing has equaled the ability to release tension and regain control of muscles on a daily basis quite like Somatic Movement does. One of the greatest features of Somatic movement is its’ so simple yet profoundly relaxing to practice. When this method is brought into a movement practice the outcome is effortless effort. This is my understanding of how of any movement practice should be preformed.

When our students, friends or colleagues tell us that they have pain, the usual reaction is for us to tell them of someone we know who can fix them. Imagine that you were that person, how would that make you feel? Imagine being able to give someone an answer that they were looking for but could not find. What would that mean to you?

Over the last four years I have seen hundreds of clients take back control of their bodies and live the lives they want to live and it’s for this reason I am so passionate about spreading this work to as many people as I can. But I can’t do it on my own. This is why I am holding the first Somatic Exercise Coach training in London on the 18^th-20^th October 2013.

“Somatic Exercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that our minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how responsible we should be in taking care of our total being”.
Thomas Hanna, PhD., author of the book:
“Somatics – Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health”

How can I be part of this?
Join a community of motivated movers for a 3-day immersion and learn:

How Somatic Movement Education can put you into the driving seat in your field in how to regain control & restore optimum function to muscles
Apply these techniques and you will immediately notice changes to your posture, how you move and most importantly how you can release the physical stress you accumulate daily
Learn the language and felt sense required to teach movement classes
Empower yourself and take back control of your body and insure yourself against injury and physical tension
Revolutionise the way you move and teach getting you more clients and greater client retention

What does the training involve?
Refining functional movement for personal and small group training.

How these innovative movement sequences are integrated into full body exercise classes.
Each class will teach you the skills you need to understand how to re-programme the neuro-muscular system for lasting change.
Each skill set is broken down into their anatomical components and how each of these groups move together to produce effective and smooth movement.
The classes are broken down in 3 groups: Back, Neck & Shoulders, and Hips & Legs
Learn a full movement class for each of these groups
Understand the basic Anatomy & Neurophysiology of each group
Overcome any fears about teaching somatics and gain confidence by workshopping how each movement occurs in the specific group
Understand how Sensory motor amnesia occurs and be able to confidently explain how it happens
Assess stress reflexes in your clients & help them to recognise them
How to work with panduiculation in your classes to effectively help your clients lengthen tight muscles

Learn and Apply Cutting Edge Marketing Skills
Turn the volume up on your current business

Identify 3 criteria for your niche selection which means you’ll select the perfect niche for you to fill your classes
Learn how to craft a specific somatic class for this niche
Apply a tried and tested marketing model for selling somatic movement
Learn how to effectively sell this amazing method for what it is worth and not feel guilty

The beauty of this model is that the movement sequences taught can be seamlessly woven into your current teaching programme as an excellent pre or post warm up/cool down. You will be able to give your students a safe, simple and sustainable programme of pain relief and muscular training found nowhere else.

The Somatic Movement Exercise Coach Training Level 1

What’s included:
1. A manual
2. 3 DVDS
3. Sample programmes to create a variety of programmes
4.The language & teaching notes of somatic movement within a class
5. Marketing & promotion assistance

Benefits to you:
Teaching somatic movement & applying the awareness it gives will set you apart from other teachers & have clients becoming your fan base. As a movement coach you will be able to give your clients real answers to the most common problem areas of pain & tension and have the confidence to teach them how to improve muscle function and control. Be able to assess basic imbalances in your clients in order to help them prevent compensation and incorrect recruitment of muscles. To have additional sound preparation moves for your clients before they work out. Most importantly the ability to teach your clients simple, lift long tools for dealing with daily stress.

This course is open to:
Medical professionals, movement teachers, (yoga, pilates, movement educators, fitness trainers, physical therapists, dancers) professional body workers

Prerequisites

Each student is require to have read the book, Somatics, Reawakening the Mind’s control of Movement, Flexibility and Health by Thomas Hanna, PhD.
Each student is to familiarise themselves with the movements from the daily cat stretch (contact Tanya for more details).
One movement class will be assessed in order to receive your certificate.

Instructor
Tanya Fitzpatrick is the programme director and developer of Align Somatics. Drawing on a varied background of bodywork, Tanya has been teaching movement since 1999. She is a certified advanced yoga teacher trainer, a Somatic Movement Educator and a Body-Mind Centering Professional.

She has trained hundreds of individuals and groups how to move without pain and is regarded as one of Ireland’s leading Movement Educators. Her experience in coaching cutting edge movement education has helped her clients to move in ways they never taught possible.

Tanya launched her successful business, Align and travels between her private clinics in the UK and Ireland where she coaches individuals and trains teachers in Somatic Movement, Embodied Anatomy and Yoga. As a teacher, Tanya stimulates and transforms her groups through her effective and powerful training, giving them the ability to reach their full movement potential. As a teacher, she always shares high quality content with a commitment to integrity and excellence; she does it with an approachable and compassionate manner with a contagious sense of fun.

In addition to running businesses, Tanya is a specialised educator in neuro- muscular release therapy, functional movement and re-patterning, biomechanics, muscular-skeletal conditions and embodied anatomy.

Tanya is certified as a Somatic Educator with the International Institute of Somatic Movement and will qualify this September as a Somatic Educator with the internationally acclaimed school of Body Mind Centering. As a yoga teacher by Yoga Therapy Ireland and as an advanced trainer with Donna Farhi, whom she assists internationally. She is also certified as a Thai masseuse with the Medicine School in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Indian Head Massage in Temple Bar Medical center.

Tuition
The course will be held at Clerkenwellbeing, 178 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DT. Class hours run from 9:00am – 6:00pm on Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
24 full hours of instruction and hands-on participation.

Fees
£590 for the 4-day training
Early bird £540: One month before:
Payment is accepted via credit card, PayPal, bank transfer or cheque.
An installment payment scheme is also available.
A deposit of €100 must be paid to secure your place. All fees must be paid in full 3 weeks before the course commences.

Contact Tanya Fitzpatrick:
www.alignsomatics.com
E: Tanya@alignsomatics.com
M: +44 (0) 7427-623-523

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