"Teaching from the Inside Out" A Somatic Yoga Continuing Education Guide for Teachers (5 YACEP CE Hours)

"Teaching from the Inside Out"

Alignment cues tell a student what a pose should look like. They don't tell you what it feels like from the inside — and for a lot of students, that's the piece that's missing.

That's what somatic movement is actually about. Not a vibe, not a buzzword — a real lineage going back over a century (Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Body-Mind Centering) built on one idea: a student's internal, felt experience is real information, not something to correct into shape.

I built a 22-page continuing education guide for teachers who want to bring this into their classes without needing a separate certification to start.

Inside:

🌙 The actual history of somatics — where it came from, and what makes a movement "somatic" versus just slow

🌙 Seven core somatic awareness practices: body scanning, micro-movements, orienting, grounding, self-touch, pendulation, and more

🌙 A working, teaching-level map of the nervous system — how somatic tools help students move between activated, shut-down, and settled states

🌙 Trauma-informed teaching principles, and the real, firm line between that and therapy

🌙 The five basic developmental movement patterns (yield, push, reach, pull, grasp) applied directly to asana cueing

🌙 Grounding techniques you can use in class today

🌙 A full practical toolkit: cue reference table, decision framework, sample class flow

This one's registered through Chandra Karuna Yoga (YACEP), so it carries 5 Yoga Alliance Non-Contact CE Hours — with a guided reflection and certificate built in to log toward your renewal.

Because the shape of the pose isn't the practice. What's actually true for the person inside it — that's the practice.