Gentle Somatic Yoga®
Level 1 In-Person and Livestream Training Starts October 14th!
Your Healing Journey Begins with a Supportive Foundation...
As we all know, our biggest investment is our health. Gentle Somatic Yoga (GSY) is a science proven and heart based method to empower you with skills for self-care and self-healing.
This course is right for you if:
You’re living with chronic pain and other symptoms from an injury, disease or condition, including but not limited to:
You’ve experienced any stress based symptoms and want to relieve them, including but not limited to:
You want to develop a home movement practice for ongoing self-maintenance and wellbeing
You are a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, bodyworker or health care professional and want to acquire new skills that you can implement into your classes or private sessions. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available.
You would like to add-on our Certification Option to provide a credential, be promoted on the GSY Website, and expand your scope of practice (s). Learn more here.
What You Will Learn
25+ Therapeutic Somatic Movement Flows® for self-care, resiliency, health, and wellbeing
How and why Somatic Movements get to the root cause of persistent pain, stiffness, poor posture, anxiety and lack of energy. Most people experience immediate and long-lasting results.
Leading-edge neuroscience balanced with heart-based wisdom
How to replace static stretching with a innovative brain-to-muscle re-education technique called pandiculation
Discovering ways to practice that are suitable and effective for EVERY body. Emphasis will be on "finding your own inner YES" and relying less on “doing it right” according to instruction or demonstration
How to develop an increased embodied experience of internal awareness that will build confidence for continued self-healing, and also a skill set to share with others
How to practice mindful and compassionate movement in a way that inspires deeper connection with your body
Tips, modifications, and guidelines to support your own niche of adaptive and nourishing movement into your group classes and/or private customizable sessions
In-person sessions will take place at:
3rd Street Yoga, Edmond, Oklahoma
106 West 3rd Street, Edmond, OK 73003
For more yoga studio information, please visit: https://www.3rdstreetyogastudio.com/
This easily accessible course is designed as an ideal beginning to learn the method of
Gentle Somatic Yoga®
Hybrid Dates Below:
By Zoom: October 14, 15, 21, 22 from 1:00 - 3:15 PM (CDT)Scroll down to find more details about the schedule.
There will an additional day for the optional, add-on certification where a student can deliver there teachback in person. Additionally, a student may also submit a teachback video instead.
Learn more here.
CEU’s
Without certification, yoga teachers and yoga therapists may claim 30 CEU hours from this course.
With certification, yoga teachers and yoga therapists may claim 32 CEU hours for from this course.
TUITION:
PLEASE NOTE WE NEED A MINIMUM OF 6 STUDENTS TO RUN THIS TRAINING
GSY Course Tuition: $749- Early Bird Pricing Ends October 8th, 2023.
Certification Add-on $300 (Option to add at checkout)
GSY Course Tuition After September 15th: $880
Certification Add-on $300 (Option to add at checkout)
RECORDINGS:
The program sessions that are livestreaming on Zoom will be recorded and you'll have access to the replays 72 hours after your last Zoom session. Students also have lifetime access to all PDF Handouts that have illustrated step-by-step instructions and you can create a downloadable or printed teaching manual.
Those who purchase the add-on certification will get 6 months of access to the videos and those who do not choose to get certified will get 3 months access to the videos.
You will receive an email with your access to the recordings within 72 hours of each class.
Advantages of Live Virtual Training with Cheryl Mason
Personalized interaction with mindful energy and information exchange
Coming together as a collective Soma which allows Cheryl to tailor this training course for your specific group
Interact with your peers and other like-minded people. We learn and evolve together through compassion, empathy, respect, and love
Cheryl’s facilitation style (non-hierarchical) is heavily based on experiential interaction and hands on learning
Gentle Somatic Yoga® is constantly evolving as a method, therefore new enhancements have been added to the Somatic Movement Flows®. Often times these enhancements have not been published yet and you will be the first to learn them
Cheryl’s own testimonial about Gentle Somatic Yoga!
Although I have done yoga for many years there was one continual challenge that I had and that was problems with my neck and shoulders. Since I spent much time on the computer I experienced pain that would manifest in my shoulder that felt similar to being stabbed by a knife.
It was chronic.
When I went to get massages about my chronic neck and shoulder pain it was always interesting because they thought my muscles were in good shape but several therapists would say – “My goodness what have you done to your neck”. When I went to my physician in Kansas he recommended that I take a supplement to help.
Throughout the years this was never something I could resolve even though I did lots of yoga stretches and warm ups.
In 2004 when I trained with Integrative Yoga Therapy there were a few somatic poses shared and some very limited information on what somatics was.
Then later in 2015 when doing a training on Functional Yoga Therapy again somatics came up. When I returned from the training I ordered Thomas Hannah’s book Somatics – Reawakening the Mind’s Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health. I was fascinated and started working to understand the exercises in his book but wasn’t sure that I understood all of them completely.
I was fortunate enough to find James Knight’s Gentle Somatic Yoga and not only get help but understand the reflex patterns I had developed while working long hours, many times in front of the computer.
I have also been blessed to be able trained to be a Gentle Somatic Yoga Faculty Teacher with James so that I can better share and help students who attend my events.
I personally practice Gentle Somatic Yoga several times per week and continue to reap the benefits!
This Course Includes
30- to 32-Hours of easy-to-follow instructions with Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) depending on the add-on certification being purchased or not
Earn Yoga Alliance approved CEU hours for this Training course. We are in the application process for IAYT, acupuncture, and massage CEU’s.
User-friendly technology offered in a format of personalized videos facilitated by James Knight, Founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga & Somatic Wellness®
Downloadable step-by-step instruction handouts. These handouts can be used to create a manual for future reference.
Modifications and Props ~ Learn how to modify the GSY Practice so that if feels good in your body. After you embody the GSY practice you will, in turn, continue to learn how to modify the GSY practice to fit your niche. For example: Beginner yoga students, active seniors, desk workers, chair yoga, athletes who want to enhance their performance, individuals recovering from injury - pre and post-surgery, pregnancy, and much more...
Highlighting the neuroscience behind this revolutionary approach to self-healing and inspire you how to recognize and reprogram habitual patterns of holding stress deep within the body
Philosophy ~ Discover the value of “Finding Your Inner Yes”
Tips for building your business ~ For seasoned yoga teachers, near to retirees, and the budding entrepreneur wanting to inspire people. Learning GSY will give you strategies for marketing and client development for classes, workshops, and programs.
Recordings of all sessions ~ Those who purchase the add-on certification will get 6 months of access to the videos and those who do not choose to get certified will get 3 months access to the livestream videos from this course.
Access to our Online Level 1 Course ~ Upon registration, you'll be granted access to our online course so you can print out and/or make a digital manual of all course PDF Handouts. You will also be able to start the first few chapters and watch the prerecorded Somatic Movement Flow videos to get a better understanding of the method and the neuroscience.
What you will need for the training?
An electronic device that has access to the Zoom app
Reliable wifi
Props: cushions, blanket, and a chair if you’d like extra support
Notebook and Pen/pencil
Add-On Certification Option
Interested in Becoming Certified?
For those of you who are yoga teachers, yoga therapists, body workers, or healthcare practitioners, once certified, you are endorsed as a GSY Practitioner.
You will be promoted as a GSY teacher and join the global trend of Somatic Movement Educators, acknowledged for your competency and skill level.
You will be able to incorporate Gentle Somatic Yoga in either one-on-one customized sessions or in group movement classes, as part of your professional instruction service(s).
Level 1 Program Schedule
Live on Zoom: On the following dates from 1:00 - 3:15 pm (CDT)
Saturday, October 14th
Sunday, October 15th
Saturday October 21st
Sunday October 22nd
In-person at 3rd Street Yoga, Edmond, Oklahoma
106 West 3rd Street, Edmond, OK 73003
For more studio information, please visit: 3rdstreetyogastudio.com
Friday, October 27th 11 am - 7 pm CDT
Saturday, October 28th 9 am - 6 pm CDT
Sunday, October 29th 9:30 am - 3:30 pm CDT
A more detailed agenda will be emailed to you closer to the event
Testimonials
I have taken yoga classes and worked out to videos for 10-12 years but have never found a class that has helped me so much as Cheryl’s. I suffer with a lot of back pain from a fall over 30 years ago and, as my body ages, find I have more and more neck and lower back pain. Cheryl’s easy-on-the joints moves have taught me how to find a lot of relief into the painful areas. Since I try to stay active, I also enjoy her classes that involve more traditional yoga poses which give me more energy, and of course, the meditative exercises she incorporates to send us out in a relaxed state to face the world. Her classes are never boring and she works with each person according to his or her ability.
MOre about Cheryl Mason
Cheryl began practicing yoga in community learning classes in Salina, Kansas in early 2000 and loved it so much that she decided to study with Joseph and Lillian Le Page from Integrated Yoga Therapy for a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher designation in 2004.
She completed level 2 training with the Shambhava School of Yoga at Shoshoni Yoga Retreat Center. As well as teaching yoga she eventually co-owned Prairie Lotus Yoga Studio in Salina, Kansas with her friend, Kate Williams.
From there, Cheryl’s yoga journey took her from Kansas to South Carolina where she continued her yoga training with the Inner Peace Yoga Therapy program, completing a 300-hour certificate in April 2016.
Cheryl was brought to Gentle Somatic Yoga (GSY) after becoming interested in the work of Thomas Hanna on reawakening the mind’s control of movement, flexibility and healing capabilities of Somatics and this led her to study with James Knight, Founder of GSY.
Cheryl is certified in all three levels of the GSY 100-hr Program and is on our Faculty team. She is currently teaching national and internatial events and training certification programs.
Cheryl lives in the Oklahoma City metro area near Edmond and Guthrie, OK.