See the Patterns
A Clinical Somatics workshop for yoga teachers
Are you teaching in pain? And/or can you read the posture in front of you and what it's telling you? Every “body” carries a story in how it holds and moves and this is due to stress reflex patterns. See the Patterns is an online Clinical Somatics workshop for yoga teachers who are curious about what's really going on beneath the ache , behind the restricted mobility, so you see your students in a different way and you can teach from a new understanding and you too can move with more ease and flow.
What if the ache had a pattern?
Clinical Somatics looks at the stress reflex patterns most of us develop over a lifetime, habitual muscular holding patterns laid down by repeated stress, injury, or lifestyle and working habits, that quietly shape how we stand, move, and feel pain. Once you can see these patterns, you cannot, not see them and you start to understand why certain aches and restricted ways of moving show up again and again, in yourself and in the students you teach. This workshop combines a clear presentation of the patterns themselves with a guided movement practice, so you leave with both the knowledge and a felt sense of how it works in your own body. This two hour workshop will teach you how to read your students' posture with clarity, and gain a deeper understanding why pain and movement limitations occur.
Meet your teacher — Liz Underwood
Liz Underwood - Clinical Somatic Movement Educator, Yoga Teacher & Therapist
Hi, I'm Liz. I used to teach yoga through the pain too and whatever I did in my practice to help me, I just seemed to get worse, I was getting tighter and had to stop with some movements like downward dog, which was making me worse. I was also searching for more knowledge for my students, when even with props and modifications did they struggle? What was truly behind their restrictions? I was losing confidence in myself and teaching, so I stopped!
And then I found Clinical Somatics…. it wasn’t the yoga that was making me tighter or more painful, it was the stress reflexes I’d been unconsciously holding for years…
You can read more about my story in Omyoga magazine here
I trained in Clinical Somatics, and it changed how I move, and how I teach. Now I'm sharing what I learned with other yoga teachers, so you don't have to find your way to it the long way round, like I did.
What's included
This is a live, online, 2-hour introduction — your first step into this work, not a finished course. The session has two parts: a presentation introducing the stress reflex patterns behind pain and posture, and a guided movement practice so you can start to feel these patterns in your own body. You'll come away with a clearer way of seeing the postures you teach every day, and a practical starting point for exploring Clinical Somatics further.
Details
Tuesday 10 November 2026, 7:00 PM · Live online · Early bird offer until 31 October.
Book your place
Ready to see the patterns for yourself?
There will be time for Q&A.
Please note this event will be recorded and access to the recording will be shared within 24 hours of and be available for 7 days.
EARLY BIRD OFFER £20 UNTIL 31ST OCTOBER/ FULL PRICE £35
THERE ARE NO REFUNDS OR CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR THIS WORKSHOP
