The Somatic Yoga Remedy - by Karen Roy

COURSE

The Somatic Yoga Remedy

With Karen Roy

This healing and embodied Yoga Journey is both an exploration into personal practice and how to take this embodied awareness into holding space for your emotional pain and trauma. Healing is available through understanding the feelings, expressions, and responses within the movement and holding space for the effects of stress, trauma, burnout, anxiety, fatigue, and post-illness; all through embodied awareness. We will work together on the mat, using breath, mindfulness, and compassion to dial into the emotional pain you may have been carrying for weeks, months, or even years.

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Meet your Teacher

Karen Roy
Toronto, ON, Canada

Karen is a Certified E-RYT 500 Yoga Teacher with specialties in Meditation, Yin, Sound healing, and Deep Tissue Release Yogic Movement. She is a Yoga Alliance Accredited Member recognized as a Lead Faculty Member qualified to teach Yoga Teacher Training and Continuing Education to teachers and students. With approximately 5,000 hours of teaching, she has gained considerable insight into the healing possibilities created within Yoga. Karen has trained extensively in anatomy and is considered a Master Teacher. She continues her specialties in pursuit of being able to provide more modalities to achieve better mental and physical health for her clients.

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7 Days

218 students

4.3 stars

15 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

What Lies Beneath

In the recording, What Lies Beneath, you will learn the definition of trauma and that we all hold emotional pain in our bodies. Not all emotional pain becomes trauma. You will explore through a gentle physical movement practice, that it is possible to access the places we store emotional pain within the body and in becoming mindful of its presence, have the opportunity to create a pathway of healing to process what lies beneath, and release it.

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Lesson 2

Dialing In to What's There

Somatic movement is not about attaining greater physical strength or endurance. Somatic movement is conscious repetitive movements practiced to dial into how you're feeling physically and mentally. Exercises rooted in somatic movement can take many forms including breathwork, yoga, and dance. Any mind-body movement with an emphasis on turning inward is a form of somatic movement

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Lesson 3

The Habits We Create

On Day 3, we learn some of the benefits of Somatic exercises or movements and the positive effects that can be realized. Caught amidst daily life, we develop habits like slouching or clenching muscles that create unnecessary tension. This stored, built-up tension and tightness can lead to pain. Somatic yoga uses slow, mindful movements to draw attention to those places in the body, that are struggling. Awareness is the first step to healing.

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Lesson 4

It's Real To You

In Day 4, we will learn that emotions can become trapped in the body tissue. The process by which emtions can present as physical symptoms is known as "somatization"; that is the coversion of emotions into physical symptoms. These symptoms are real but the cause of their presence is psychological.

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Lesson 5

Shake It Off

Unlike animals, humans have lost their ability to process our fear, our anger. In a way, you could say that we have forgot our nature. But that doesn't mean that we can't access pathways to healing. Using a series of Somatic Exercises, Yogic movements, let go anger and fear.

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Lesson 6

The Sound Of Healing

You might be surprised to learn that you have an effective healing tool in your personal tool kit. It's completely free and anyone can do it. Using breath and sound we can shift from the Sympathetic Nervous System to the ParaSympathetic System. Let's go and make some noise together while you learn about Polyvagal Theory.

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Lesson 7

Be The Witness To Your Feelings

The ultimate goal of somatic Yoga is really about reconnecting with yourself and fostering a deep awareness of your physical sensations as they correlate to your emotions and traumas. It's perfectly normal to experience a wide array of feelings during somatic exercises or practices, as it's a process of exploring your body's memory. As you practice, aim to pay attention to the subtlety of breath changes, the pulse of blood, and any other sensations you feel. it's a gentle and nourishing practice that brings us back to our softness and innocence. This can help you develop a more self-compassionate relationship with yourself and your body.

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Recent Reviews

Chris

Chris

March 6, 2025

Carefully designed calming 10-20 minute practices for a daily introduction to Soma Yoga. Thank you, Karen!

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