Somatic Yoga & Nervous System Regulation
🌺 Awaken interoceptive healing.
🌺 Understand polyvagal responses.
🌺 Facilitate nervous system repair.
→ Transform dysregulation into safety and resilience—first in your own body, then in those you guide.
12 Hours Live on Zoom + Yoga Alliance CE
For yoga teachers, therapists, and embodied seekers who want to facilitate (and experience) nervous system healing—not just movement.
🌸 Course Format & Logistics
📅 Zoom Live Calls
4 Saturdays – January 3, 10, 17, 24 (2026)
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
🎥 Replays provided
12 CE hours (Yoga Alliance) | APD pending (C-IAYT)
Includes:
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Live guided somatic movement & breath sessions
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Practical regulation tools for teaching & therapeutic work
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Support from a community of like-hearted practitioners
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Question and Answer with Alison
Why Nervous System Regulation Matters
In the rush of modern life, many of us—and those we serve—show up still caught in survival mode. We arrive not just tense, but neurologically overwhelmed: breath shallow, muscles guarding, the body unsure if it’s safe to release.
You may notice:
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Breathing that won’t deepen, even with cueing
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Subtle bracing that persists, even in rest or guided relaxation
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Tension that returns despite stretching and effort
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Anxiety or freeze states quietly present beneath movement
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A sense of being “better, but not fully restored”
And perhaps you’ve asked yourself:
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Am I truly helping them regulate—or just guiding movement?
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How can I support deeper release without triggering overwhelm?
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Is there a way to lead movement that restores felt safety from within?
The answer is yes—and it begins with the nervous system.
From Teaching Poses to Facilitating Regulation
Many classes start with anatomy. This training starts with the nervous system.
When movement is paced gently, resourced with breath, and guided through interoception and choice, the brain receives a signal of safety—and muscles unwind naturally from protective holding.
Somatic Yoga for Nervous System Regulation teaches you to create physiological change through nervous-system-led sequencing, trauma-informed language, vagus-nerve-friendly breathwork, and neuro-somatic movement.
You don’t just guide movement—you support healing, trust, and internal coherence.
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🌸 What You’ll Gain
In this training you will:
Understand the nervous system + body’s deep architecture
✅ Understand how the vagus nerve mediates breath, emotion, and regulation
✅ Understand how somatic movement influences the deep front line, vagus nerve, and fascial tension patterns linked to anxiety, collapse, and survival responses
Experience and repattern protection in your own body
✅ Use neuromuscular repatterning (not force or stretch) to release chronic guarding
✅ Support interoceptive awareness as a pathway to resilience & self-agency
✅ Regulate your own system and guide from grounded presence
Facilitate nervous-system-informed movement for others
✅ Guide movement that shifts bodies from fight/flight/freeze into parasympathetic safety
✅ Incorporate pacing, pause, consent, agency, and trauma-sensitive cueing
✅ Confidently integrate somatic intelligence into classes, therapy, or personal practice
The Science of Why this Works
Modern research confirms that interoceptive awareness, vagus nerve tone, and neuroplastic rewiring are key factors in reducing chronic pain, lowering anxiety, and increasing emotional resilience.
Somatic movement stimulates:
💡 Polyvagal-informed safety responses
💡 Neuromuscular release through repatterning rather than stretching
💡 Interoception (the felt sense from within) linked to reduced anxiety & improved regulation
💡 Neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to form new, healing movement pathways
When movement begins with the nervous system rather than the outer form, the entire organism shifts from protection into possibility.
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🌸 This Training Is For You If You Are:
✅ A yoga teacher ready to move beyond alignment into nervous-system-informed facilitation
✅ A yoga therapist or mental health practitioner integrating somatic regulation into sessions
✅ A movement educator, embodiment coach, or wellness professional deepening trauma-aware skills
✅ A bodyworker noticing how nervous system tension blocks physical release
✅ A dedicated student or someone seeking safe, guided nervous system healing
Meet Your Guide – Alison Scola, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, LMT
Alison Scola is a certified yoga therapist, somatic movement educator, licensed massage therapist, and trauma-informed embodiment facilitator with over 20 years of experience teaching nervous system-based healing through movement.
Her work bridges neuroscience, therapeutic yoga, somatic psychotherapy, and fascia research to help people unwind stress-driven holding patterns and return to safety within their own bodies. She is known for her deeply attuned pacing, nurturing presence, and ability to translate complex nervous system concepts into accessible, embodied experience.
Alison has supported hundreds of students and clients in shifting out of chronic tension, anxiety, and dysregulation through compassionate, neuro-informed somatic practice. In this training, she offers both a grounded scientific foundation and a lived, heart-centered wisdom of what it means to move from regulation, not force.
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