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250 Hour Embodied Yoga Training

The Alchemy Of Embodied Philosophy

Become a cutting edge embodiment facilitator 

An extraordinary 15 month online journey into somatics, yoga, non-dual philosophy, asana, meditation, Tantric practice and the art of facilitating powerful classes.

Our Embodied Yoga Facilitator Training is created and curated for yoginis, dancers, creatives, witches and mystics who long to delve deeper into the rich world of somatics, connect to their essence nature and live as an embodied, liberated being. 

Through sādhanā, mantra, satsang, contemplative study and somatic practices, you will come to intimately know the wisdom and magic of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra. Above all, this is a voyage of awakening, held by a loving and tender faculty of embodiment guides and by the Goddess herself. Embark on a journey of self-discovery and embodied belonging, become intimate with your unique gifts and learn how to weave these into exquisite offerings that facilitate freedom and encapsulate the heart of the Recognition teachings.

This is a radical call to get out of your own way and step into your dharma.

£1888 EARLY BIRD | £2222 FULL PRICE

What is an Embodied Yoga Facilitator Training?

Welcome to this extraordinary 15 month online journey into somatics, non-dual philosophy, āsana, meditation, Tantric practice and the art of facilitating powerful classes. Above all, this is an immersive process where you come to embody the teachings of Shaiva Tantra through Tantric practice and somatic approaches, to safely hold and guide others into a felt sense of wholeness, relationship and ease.

Who is our Embodied Yoga Facilitator Training for?

The immersion (first 6 months) is for anyone interested in exploring the wisdom of the body and non-dual philosophy. The full training is for students who are wanting to teach yoga, somatics and embodied philosophy, or existing teachers who are wanting more depth and fresh inspiration.

What Will You Learn?

The first 6 months is a long, sweet soak into ancient teachings, powerful practices and and the tender holding of community. The curriculum is abundant and inspiring while being carefully curated so you have moments of pause, integration and rest.

We begin with a six week introduction to Ayurvedic principles and yogic lifestyle to bring your system into balance so you are ready to establish a consistent daily meditation practice. From there you will receive the foundational teachings of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra, along with potent practices (mantra, meditation, visualisation, ritual, Goddess yoga) that offer a direct experience of the teachings. You will enter the imaginal, awaken your creative power and learn how to truly rest.

This is all in preparation for the second and third semester where you cross the threshold into the realm of facilitation. Here you will deepen into dharma, widen into somatics and learn how to instruct āsana, lead meditation, hold space, curate compelling classes, weave philosophy, paint poetic landscapes and conduct your own embodied research. You will also receive a 30hr Trauma Informed Yoga Foundations certificate from Yoga for Humankind (this is a separate training with a separate fee).

Tantra, Somatics and Embodied Yoga Facilitator Training

This transformative embodied yoga training supports you to:

Commit to a regular, integrated and explorative daily sādhanā, and come into communion with the Goddess.

Cultivate an intimate relationship with your inner landscape to access embodied terrains, which are a source of endless inspiration, vitality and connection.

Unravel inside the teachings and traditions of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and enter into lineage.

Learn how to craft and curate embodied yoga and somatic journeys that are healing, meaningful and supportive to your communities.

Embodied Yoga training sits in reverance.

Tantra, Somatics and Embodied Yoga Facilitator Training

Training Modules

  • Āgni is often translated as fire but its truer meaning is transformation. It’s the alchemical power of your cells to transform energy. Bringing your Āgni into balance through diet, Ayurvedic principles and yogic lifestyle (Dinacharya) will create harmony in your system. This makes it’s easier to wake up, be still and establish a daily meditation practice, or sādhanā.

    This six week program starts with a ten day cleanse to honour the equinox. You’ll learn how to follow a circadian rhythm of eating, moving and sleeping that aims to restore your physical and emotional digestion to its optimum levels. Towards the end of the program we will deepen into a Durga sādhanā to honor the 9 nights of the Goddess, Navaratri.

    You will also have time to start reading the set texts so you have a basic understanding of non-duality when you come to the next module.

  • Sadhana, safe space and core concepts

    This four week prayer will establish a supportive container of daily meditation, mantra and pranayama, as you explore the revelatory and life affirming technologies of radical non-dual Tantra.

    Each session will open with a kirtan and sadhana of mantra, meditation, pranayama, deity yoga and transmission. After a break, we’ll sink into an inspiring lecture on the core teachings of the Tradition, including the 5 Acts, the 5 Powers, the 4 Levels, and the 3 Impurities. Together we will study the tantras and sutras, connect as a community, guide each other into practice and steep ourselves inside the philosophy.

  • Samskaras, Upayas, Active Imagination + Jung

    In each 2.5 hour session, we will explore the Unconscious through the fascinating lens of Carl Jung and the View of Kashmir Shaivism. Collette will guide you into a deeper understanding of Tantric Psychology and how to release Samskaras through the skilful means of the Upayas. We will look at the mystical, the imaginal and the dreamworld as realms of Soul, making contact with the underworld of the unconscious to touch into our totality and wholeness.

    An astrologer and psychotherapist, Chris will introduce us to psyche through the doorway of soul, exploring Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious and how we can meet the parts of ourselves from an astrological perspective. We will also explore the Jungian technique of Active Imagination and how this weaves into yogic philosophy, embodiment and practice

  • Vak, Alchemy and the Moving Imagination

    A deepening from the first module, we will introduce the inspired and extraordinary work of the Embodied Flow™ school of yoga to access a felt sense of the Tantric teachings. This will be a shared movement laboratory, recognizing the body as a vehicle for awakening, through embodied anatomy and experiential philosophy.

    The session will include a lecture on Vak (mystic linguistics), from Leela Dasi, a generous break and a 90 minute movement practice from Collette. There will be time to share our embodied research, to journal, process and integrate our learning. You will also be introduced the the class planning pillars.

  • Madhya, Visioning and Dreams

    The liminal space pulses at the heart of the Samāveśa process and we are finding portals to abide in the place where everything waits. The home of potentiality and deepest knowing. This module opens the door to profound practices of creative flow that show us how to live in alignment and rhythm with life.

    You will turn rest into ritual, attune to your own poetic heart, know your yes and your no and understand your boundaries. This module is a sweet holding and refuge where we view awakening from the perspective of wholeness. Where honoring your bodymind is honoring the organism of the whole. And where tending to your own needs will allow you to build your resilience and increase your capacity to hold stronger, safer and clearer space. At work, at home and in your community. For the benefit of all beings.

  • Experiment, Embodiment and the Imaginal

    Embodiment is a homecoming into the natural, indigenous terrain and topography of who we really are. It is an ineffable language, one that allows us to uncover, unbridle and undomesticate the bodymind. One that allows us to remember, reinvigorate and re-articulate ourselves in an ever-renewing and ever-unfolding process of discovery, recognition and re-attunement.

    Alexandra will guide us through poetic landscapes and movement explorations, through different gateways and systems of our intelligent body-mind. Inspired by her life’s work as a dancer, somatic facilitator, BMC™ and Embodied Flow™ practitioner, researcher and explorer. Alexandra is a poet and exquisite steward of the thresholds.

  • Experiential, somatic education

    Join this 4 week experiential programme that artfully blends weekly self-paced recorded content with live community circles. Explore anatomy from an embodied perspective, through the lens of movement-based methodology, including Body-Mind Centering, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Laban Movement Analysis.

    We will go into the musculoskeletal system, including the role of bones, joints, muscles and connective tissue, the tensegrity and role of fascia as a web of support and our intuitive sixth sense. As well as the anatomy of breath and core with key considerations for pre and post natal. Learn about the importance of somatic movement education, what it means to be a healthy mover and discover a new paradigm for ‘flexibility’.

  • Wholeness, mythology, feeding your demons

    The term ‘shadow’ comes from the inspired teachings of Carl Jung and to honour the dark is a deeply Tantric view. In order to melt away our conditioning and become truly whole, we must welcome all the parts of ourselves and this is a crucial step on the spiritual path, and essential if we are to hold space for others.

    We will study shadow and myth through the lens of Jung and astrology with Chris while Leela will take us into the powerful Tibetan practice of feeding your demons. By turning towards our dark and illuminating what remains unconscious we can release stuckness, liberate that energy and become more alive, more whole, more authentic.

  • The Samāveśa community is organised around The Circle Way. The main principle is that there is a leader in every chair. It challenges oppressive hierarchal structures, allows for co-creation and means that students get to lead.

    There are three 2 hour community calls where we get to sit in circle and share on what is coming up. We will then have a break before exploring the topic of decolonisation, led by Leela Dasi.

    Alongside our friend and graduate, Juliana, we will also have the privilege of learning from South American indigenous elders who will share their wisdom through ritual and voice.

  • As facilitators, how we hold space is everything. If we feel safe to explore then we can meet more of ourselves. We can widen our window of tolerance, become more adaptable and build our capacity to meet life with greater compassion and ease.

    There is an ever-increasing need for trauma-informed and inclusive spaces where all bodies and beings can feel seen, heard and held.

    To certify as a Samāveśa Facilitator, you must complete the 30 hour Trauma Informed Yoga Foundations with Yoga for Humankind. We have been offered the Tier 3 pricing and Scholarships are available. Please visit the website to find out more.

  • Stillness and silence are the birthplace of form. It is where our words and actions emerge from and becoming intimate with space is how we learn the language of transmission. Space is the fabric of relationship - everything is held inside of it and is moving through it - so once you understand how to tune into the space, you can tune into what is moving through. Learn to attune to space, leave space, lean into space, resource from the space and read the space.

    We will explore what it means to ‘hold space’ through the lens of Authentic Relating and Non-Violent Communication. You will learn about ritual, sacred space, how to resource yourself as a facilitator and create energetic containers that support the work and the individuals you are guiding.

  • Your words are powerful. They are vibrations that ripple through our bodies and stream through our sensitive nervous systems. Their shape, potency, texture, rhythm, cadence and resonance travels through the field of the classroom and how you paint the poetic landscape of a room is central to skillful facilitation.

    This module will be curated through the gateway of the central channel to help us find clarity, intentionality and presence.

    We will explore active language, felt sense articulation, directional cueing, the three pillars of curation and how to expand your vocabulary through word banks, journaling and creative writing exercises.

  • Free movement, self discovery and independent exploration are keystones of how we offer somatic inquiry but āsana is still a core component of our facilitation toolkit. It is the doorway for many beginners and, certainly in the West, it is often all that people understand yoga to be.

    Āsana opens the body, moves stuck energy and helps formlessness find form, teaching us how to channel expression inside containment and how to align through our own felt sense and intuition. It can be a safe way for some to enter into a conversation with their body and creates structure when that is what is needed.

  • Embodied Flow™ is the backdrop for our work together. It guides how we practice, plan and share the teachings of yoga from a non-dual and Tantric perspective. In this module, you will discover a creative process that transforms class planning into a laboratory of discovery and inquiry. Where the teachings are brought into a felt and lived experience through the mind of your body.

    You will learn how to structure your classes through chapters and portals, allowing the class to emerge from your own authentic experience. You’ll be introduced to basic, foundational and embodied anatomy and you’ll receive short guided embodiment prompts and practices. Our live sessions together will be a mix of guided practice, embodied class planning and teaching.

  • What is your root intention as a teacher? Taking your sankalpa, we will explore your vision and your values so you can get clear on what is most important to you, who you want to offer the teachings to and how you might go about that. This three hour workshop is crammed with exercises and tools to help you get to the heart of your ‘brand’, your mission and your purpose. You will walk away with greater clarity on your dharma and how you can bring your work to the world with integrity and authenticity.

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Tantra, Somatics and Embodied Yoga Facilitator Training

SCHEDULE

SEPTEMBER 2024 - DECEMBER 2025

Live calls run on Sunday evenings for 2-3 hours from 6pm UK time. We have 2 four week breaks in January and June and calls suit UK, Europe, US, Canada, Latin America and New Zealand timezones. The immersion also works for Australia.

Semester One: September 22nd 2024 - December 22nd 2024

Semester Two: February 2nd 2025 - June 1st 2025

Semester Three: July 6 2025 - December 6 2025

Heather Potter, School Teacher, Artist, Embodied Yoga Facilitator and Graduate

“The Samavesa Embodied Yoga facilitator training and community became my refuge and inspiration through what was one of the most challenging years for me so far. I signed up for the 5 month immersion and couldn’t leave before the year was up, despite many attempts from the voice of ‘not good enough’. The resources and course content are so well organised and Collette has such a dedicated and attentive approach. She leads by example and has been a saviour to me since signing up in May 2022. The content opened my mind to the miracle and beauty that is life and has enabled me to begin to dismantle the belief that I am not worthy.”

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Sara Podetti, Activist, Anthropologist, Artist, Doula, Embodied Yoga Facilitator and Graduate

“Samavesa school of Embodied Yoga has been a real blessing. The training is beautifully designed so that philosophy, practices, reflections and much more are weaved together by Collette and a council of amazing teachers. I felt held and supported all the way through, from building my own sadhana to becoming an embodied facilitator. I learned the importance of a supportive community, of holding space and meeting the other with an open heart. I feel changed deep within, yes. So much love.”

The Application Process

This is a full life upgrade and requires your absolute devotion and commitment. If your body has already said yes then please apply. You don’t need to have an existing teacher training certificate but you do need some form of spiritual or meditation practice.

We welcome students from all movement backgrounds and this training favours somatics, philosophy, lineage, mantra, meditation and voice. You will learn how to teach yoga āsana and instruct yoga classes but this is more about how to share embodied philosophy, hold sacred space and weave potent themes rooted in lineage teachings.

Once you have filled in the application form and we have received your £300 deposit, you’ll receive your welcome pack, schedule links and manual. To support your application we might invite you to an informal 30 minute call.

If you have any questions before applying please feel free to email Collette on immerse@samavesa.yoga

Scholarships

We have always offered scholarships and some of our brightest students have benefited along the way. More often than not, they bring a level of devotion and commitment that shines through and we welcome your application if money is truly an obstacle to sharing your gifts. If you are a devoted practitioner from a non-western, low economy country, from a financially marginalised community or on a low income then please go ahead and apply for a scholarship. There are 3 paid scholarships and 1 full scholarship. A paid scholarship is a 50% reduction of the full price of a module, making the fee £1111, which can be paid over 3, 10 or 18 months. Spaces are limited so only apply if you are fully committed and the training would be otherwise financially impossible for you. We offer generous payment plans to make things accessible for everyone and you can find details of payment plans in the FAQs below.

Faq’s

  • Live calls, for the 250hr Embodied Yoga training and immersion, run on Sunday evenings (BST) for 2-3 hours. We have 2 x four week breaks over the 13 months. You can find the full schedule by clicking the link below.

    Full Schedule

  • Once you have been accepted onto the 250hr Embodied Yoga training you’ll need to pay a £300 deposit to secure your place. You can then choose one of the following plans:

    Early Bird £1888 (£300 deposit + balance of £1588 within 30 days)

    Payment Plan A: £300 deposit + 3 payments of £555

    Payment Plan B: £300 deposit + 10 payments of £165

    Payment Plan C: £300 deposit + 18 payments of £93

    Full Price £2222 (£300 deposit + balance of £1922 within 30 days)

    Payment Plan A: £300 deposit + 3 payments of £670

    Payment Plan B: £300 deposit + 10 payments of £200

    Payment Plan C: £300 deposit + 18 payments of £112

  • Yes, we offer 3 paid and 1 full scholarship. Paid scholarships are 50% of the full price so you would pay £1111 and can spread the payments over 3, 10 or 18 months.

    If you are from a non-western, low economy country, from a financially marginalised community or on a low income then please go ahead and apply for a scholarship.

    Spaces are limited so please only apply if you are fully committed and the training would be financially impossible. We offer generous payment plans and early birds to make the program accessible for everyone.

    Scholarship Application

  • You don’t need to have done a yoga teacher training or have an existing yoga Teacher Training Certificate but you will need to have a strong pull towards the material and have some kind of daily spiritual, movement or creative practice.

  • Life is busy and we know you won’t be able to make all the sessions. If you wish to certify you are required to attend 70% of the live sessions. Of course, the more you show up, the better the outcome.

  • Yes, the online Trauma Informed Yoga Foundations course is a prerequisite for certification. This is the final piece of the training and a prerequisite to completion. Yoga for Humankind are friends of the Embodied Flow™ community and the training is truly world class. The fee is separate and we are kindly given Tier 3 pricing. Please check the details on their website for times and costs.

    Yoga for Humankind

  • Yes you are very welcome to step in to both the immersion or the 250hr embodied yoga training with no intention to teach and to be in the community for your own practice and process.

  • You have lifetime access to the material - as long as we have the thinkific platform you will have the content. It is all downloadable so you are able to keep the content if we remove ourselves from the platform.

  • The embodied yoga training is structured over two semesters. The first 6 months is an immersion and you will be given little assignments, quizzes and group exercises to integrate the material. The second term will be assessed by a live zoom offering and filmed classes so we get to see you teaching people in person.

CANCELLATION POLICY

There are limited spaces on the training so if you take a space you must pay for it. If something comes up and you need to defer then you are welcome to join us for the next training but payments must be honoured. If you’re not sure, we recommend signing up to the immersion, which includes the first 6 months of the training. You can then choose if you want to continue.

  • An Endless Becoming

NOVEMBER 2025 - SEPTEMBER 2026

ONLINE AND HYBRID

EARLY BIRD ENDS MARCH 2025

The beauty of a spiritual life is that it only goes deeper. We continue to spiral into bigger versions of ourselves and more profound experiences of reality, as we become a clearer channel. More awake, more sensitised, more connected, more transparent.

The 300hr Advanced Facilitator Training is for yoga and movement teachers who want to instruct less and facilitate more. Who want to create space and freedom in their classes. Who want to refine their embodiment of philosophy, knowledge of somatics and experiential anatomy. Who want get out of their own way, find their voice and build their confidence. The program is open to Samāveśa graduates, Embodied Flow™ students, teachers with a 200hr TTC or students wanting to immerse in the rich world of somatics, psychology, Tantric philosophy, ritual, practice, mantra and voice.

All applications will be considered, scholarships are available and pricing is accessible with 3, 10 & 18 month plans.

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