SomaYoga Foundations – 20 Hour Live Immersive Experience

Beyond Pain Relief – Into Nervous System Mastery A science-backed somatic method for healing pain and building nervous-system resilience.
This is an amazing experience to train with us live in-person.
This is a deeply transformative experience that will challenge
your current way of thinking about movement and pain.
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This is for you if you are:

A Yoga or Movement Teacher, Yoga Therapist, or Allied Health Professional who wants to bring the brilliance of Somatics & SomaYoga into your practice.
An individual who is tired of being in pain, feels stuck, and is ready for change.

And you or your clients are navigating…

Persistent tension or pain — back, hip, neck, jaw, pelvic, or widespread.
Stress is overshadowing your life and leaving you drained.
Pain keeps you awake at night or stops you from doing the activities you love.
Your mind feels busy, restless, and hard to quiet.
Anxiety shows up more often than calm.
Have nervous-system imbalance or chronic dysregulation.
Want to improve your overall health and vitality.
Want to feel safe and comfortable in your own body again.
Are tired of what isn’t working and ready to explore self-healing through a somatic lens.
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What’s Inside the SomaYoga Foundations Training

Through simple SomaYoga practices you will learn to retrain your body’s reflexes from the inside out.
What SomaYoga is and why it is so powerful.
The missing piece in how the brain controls movement and learning.
Understand how the brain habituates stress, trauma, and repetitive movement patterns in the body, and how this shows up in 3 main Reflex Patterns.
The link between habituated movement, functional wear and tear, and pain.
The basics of the neuroscience of Somatics.
SomaYoga concepts and terms: Sensory Motor Amnesia and Pandiculation.
The relationship between mobility, strength, and stability to support your favourite activities.
Somatic movements that address each Reflex (Red, Green, and Trauma Reflex).
The importance of functional stability and how to safely add load.
Elements of a SomaYoga class: Theme, Breathing Practices, Somatic Movements, Grounding, Stabilizing, and Mantra.
How to sequence a SomaYoga class
How to sequence a SomaYoga class

Who We Help

Our courses, trainings and video on demand channel are for people navigating:
  • Back & Hip Pain
  • Chronic or Persistent Pain
  • Nervous System overdrive
  • Anxiety, Depression
  • Trauma
  • Pelvic Floor Issues, Incontinence
  • Poor breathing
  • Neck, shoulder tension,
  • Jaw Tensions, TMJ
  • Poor Digestion
  • Frozen Shoulder
  • Whiplash
  • Poor posture
  • Headaches
  • Hip and Knee replacements
  • Inflammation​
  • Circling the drain on an issue
  • Sciatica
  • Piriformis Syndrome
  • Shoulder or Hip Pain

5 Reasons You Should Attend Our SomaYoga Foundations – 20 Hour Live Immersive Experience

We will teach you that the solution to healing is an inward journey — and get you darn empowered to shift your thinking and put what we teach into practice.
Get a chance to experience first-hand how quickly your pain patterns can shift when you use interoception and the somatic technique of pandiculation to calm your nervous system and retrain your muscles.
You are fatigued, tired of circling the drain, and ready to step outside the cycle of “quick fix” to “quick fix”.
You are curious to know deeply the mind-body connection and the power that lies in using bottom-up “somatic” approaches to heal.
You are a lover of yoga, pilates, cycling, dance, hiking, biking, and life — and want to keep enjoying your passions and age well.

SomaYoga Foundations

SomaYoga Foundations is a gentle introduction to applying the SomaYoga methodology for deep healing from the inside out. It will introduce you to brain retraining and regulating the nervous system to release energetic blocks and pain for yourself or your clients.
SomaYoga is a synergy of somatics and therapeutic yoga that helps us work towards smarter muscles, more functional movement, and lasting pain resolution. This approach blends neuroscience, philosophy, and core practices of Somatics to revolutionize your approach to physical practice and teaching.
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Essential Pre-requisites to Attend:

4 hours of specific pre-requisite learning & practices on our Video OnDemand Channel to be completed before the in-person weekend immersion.
Reading of the manual (2 hours).
Complete a pre-experience Body Diagram before arriving on Saturday.
14 hours of in-class time (Saturday and Sunday).
1 hour post-requisite follow-up call with us in order to receive your certificate of completion and continuing education credits if that is your focus.

Training Details

Ottawa Schedule: Saturday 1–9 pm, Sunday 9–5 pm
Get 20 CE Credits with Yoga Alliance and a reference manual outlining everything you learned over the weekend.
Location of Training: Mountain Goat Yoga, 3350 Fallowfield Road, Nepean, Ontario.
Investment: $768.40 ($680 + HST) + $24.86 ($22 + HST) for one month of OnDemand Channel Membership.
No refunds after July 15, 2026, at 5:00 pm EDT (Ottawa).
Add a $100 admin fee for refunds & transfers.
Got questions? Email painfree@resolvepainguru.com.