SODA Training Program Announcement

The curriculum covers the foundation of somatics, including movement principles, movement processes, somatic awareness, movement repatterning, somatic organization, verbal and non-verbal communication and movement analysis.

The program brings materials from Body-Mind Centering®, Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis®, Skinner Releasing Technique®, Contact Improvisation, and focuses on the additional information, resources that might emerge from this „dialogue”

The SODA (Somatic Dialogues Academy) team is a partnership of somatic professionals who work together for many years and share a history in the dialogue of different body awareness and somatic schools they represent. The training prepares students to register as Somatic Movement Educators at ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association) and enables them to meet its professional standards.

The program consists of two consecutive phases. The first phase consists of 300 hours and runs from June 2023 until June 2024. This phase will focus on the mastery of body and movement awareness. The competencies gained by the end of this phase are: primary movement principles, observations of movement processes, supporting somatic awareness, practicing movement repatterning, articulating observation of posture and somatic organization, skillful use of verbal and non-verbal communication, movement analysis.

The second phase consists of 200 hours and runs from August 2024 to July 2025. The competencies and skills to gain by the end of the second phase are: designing and facilitating movement activities, developing lesson plans, fostering movement repatterning; leading experiential explorations. The program is suitable for professionals from different backgrounds, including the fields of therapy, care, arts, movement. By the end of the program, students will be enabled to integrate, use and apply their knowledge and skills in Somatics according to their field of interest.

The maximum absence is 10% of the total number of lessons.