BODY ALL MIND
Somatic Therapy Program
YEAR ONE -Somatic Yoga Teacher
YEAR TWO -Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator
The Body All Mind certificate training is designed for those who want to deepen their understanding of embodiment and develop practical skills for working with the body as a pathway to awareness, regulation, and behavioural change. The training is grounded in direct experience. Students learn through movement exploration, guided inquiry, partner practice, discussion, and reflective study.
Study with us for one year and become a Somatic Yoga Teacher registered with Yoga Pros UK and the Yoga Alliance - 300 hours.
Continue into year two and graduate as a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) ~ Global Certifications - 500 hours.
Why Somatics?
In many spiritual spaces, we’re told to let go of the past. But before anything can shift, we need the capacity to be with what’s here. Your past has nowhere to go. The stories you carry are part of your fabric, shaping how you move, relate, and respond.
Somatic therapy supports people in coming into relationship with their experience in a way that feels safe and workable. As a practitioner, you help others reconnect with their bodies so that what once felt overwhelming becomes tolerable, and over time, integrated.
This is the heart of clinical somatic work. Creating the conditions for the whole person to come forward. The parts that feel easeful and the parts that feel hidden or unresolved. Through this process, a sense of coherence begins to return.
Rather than working with thoughts alone, we include the full range of experience. Thought and dialogue are part of the process, alongside movement, breath, and body based mindfulness as pathways into deeper awareness and change. Through these approaches, we begin to access sensation more directly. Sensation is the language of the body. When we learn to stay with it, without overwhelm or disconnection, patterns begin to reorganize.
Somatic therapy helps restore a felt sense of safety. Not just as an idea, but as a lived experience.
Because we are not just thinking beings, we are sensing, adaptive systems. And when the body feels safe, everything begins to change.
Foundations of Body All Mind
Applied Neurology
This pillar explores how the brain and nervous system shape our experience of safety, perception, and response. We draw on applied neuroscience to understand how sensory input such as vision, vestibular awareness, proprioception, breath, and interoception influences regulation in real time.
Alongside this, we study the anatomy and physiology that make these changes possible. You will develop a clear and accessible understanding of the brain and body systems involved, and how they influence states of threat, ease, and connection.
Through simple and targeted practices, we learn how to offer the brain more accurate and supportive information, helping to reduce unnecessary protective responses and restore a felt sense of safety.
This work is not about fixing or overriding the system, but about refining it. Over time, it builds capacity, adaptability, and resilience, creating more choice in how we respond to ourselves and the world around us.
Somatics
This pillar explores contemporary somatic practice as a pathway to awareness, regulation, and integration. Drawing from a range of lineages, we work with approaches such as Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, trauma informed breath work, gesture based work, and guided somatic inquiry.
We learn to listen to the body as an intelligent system. Not only through thought and dialogue, but through sensation, movement, breath, and subtle expression. This includes developing the ability to track micro responses, support safety in relationship, and work skillfully with what is emerging moment to moment.
Alongside practice, we explore the anatomy of the psycho neuro immune endocrine system, understanding how experience is held and expressed across the whole body. We also work with practices such as somatic dreaming to influence regulation, perception, and internal organization.
This work supports a wide range of human experience, including anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and neurodivergence. Rather than trying to change the person, we create the conditions for the system to reorganize.
Over time, this restores connection, coherence, and a more integrated way of being.
Ancient Wisdom
This pillar honours the original intent of yoga as a path of inquiry, integration, and the reduction of suffering. Rooted in Yog Darshan, yoga offers a way of seeing that helps us understand how human experience is shaped, and how it can be gently transformed through awareness.
We explore somatic yoga as a non performance based practice. Rather than focusing on shape or outcome, the emphasis is on inner experience. Through careful and non judgemental cueing, students are guided inward, developing sensitivity to sensation, breath, and subtle shifts within their own system.
Alongside movement, we study breath, attention, and foundational philosophy as an integrated approach to wellbeing. Yog Darshan invites us to look directly at the nature of mind, identity, and perception, offering a framework for living with greater clarity and ease.
Ancient teachings are presented in a grounded and accessible way, with an emphasis on direct experience. Over time, this work restores a sense of connection to self, to practice, and to a deeper field of awareness that supports meaningful and lasting change.
MEET OUR FOUNDER and LEAD EDUCATOR
Angela is a somatic movement therapist and international yoga educator whose work integrates trauma-informed practice, somatic science, and contemplative traditions.
Teaching internationally since 2000, she is known for her warm, attuned presence and her ability to guide meaningful, lasting change. She supports students and professionals in developing embodied awareness and skillful, grounded ways of working with others.
Through Nousoma Life, she brings these disciplines together to support the next generation of teachers and practitioners.
INVESTMENT
A $1500 secures your place in this program
Price shown is the cost per year
3, 6, and 12 month payment plans available
Lock in the Early Bird price and it applies to the second year
Early Bird ends on June 27th, ‘26 ~ You save $2000
All prices are listed in Canadian dollars
Your Questions, Answered
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We understand that training is an investment, so we’ve created flexible payment options to support accessibility.
Once your deposit is received, a member of our team will connect with you to explore what works best for you. You can choose from a 3, 6, or 12 month payment plan for each year.
Together, we’ll find a structure that makes it easier for you to participate and move through the program with clarity and ease.
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Year One - Somatic Yoga Teacher Training is acreditted by Yoga Pros ~ UK ~ 300 hours
Year One and Two - Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator is accredited by the International Somatic Movement and Therapy Association ~ International ~ 500 hours
Should you require accreditation with the US Yoga Alliance please reach out and we’ll see what we can do.
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Regardless of your background and qualifications you are welcome in this program.
If you’re here for professional purposes or you’re here for personal interest, there is a place for you here at Nousoma Life.
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Life happens, and one of the benefits of studying online is that all sessions are recorded and available for you to revisit at any time.
We ask that you attend at least 50% of the live classes and join us for the in-person retreat at the end of the second year.
This structure offers flexibility for different time zones and leaves room for the natural unpredictability of life.
If you’d like to join us and your not sure if the 50% requirement is something you can commit to, please reach out and we’ll see if we can make it work for you
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Reflective assignments and group work are part of the curricullum.
Designing your practicum and delivering the service is a requirement for year one and two.
At the end of the second year there is an in-person component. A seven day retreat, most likely in Spain. The cost of the retreat is not included in the annual tuition.
Budget for around $3000 CAD for accommodations and food, plus travel (pending on where you are coming from).
The cost of the actual training received on retreat is included in the original price advertised.
