Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training

The Somatic Yoga training program is a one-year specialty program designed to complement the participant's approach to yoga or yoga therapy. It is comprised of two 6-day (40 hour) modules, totaling 80 hours. The course is open to people who have completed their 200-hour yoga teacher's training or its equivalent, yoga therapists, and other allied professionals.

Somatic Yoga, developed by Eleanor Criswell, is a unique approach to yoga that blends somatics (mind-body integration), Hatha yoga, and Raja yoga (Patanjali's yoga). It is based on the principles of somatics, yoga, neuroscience (especially the somatic nervous system), applied psychophysiology, and psychology. The two modules (Psyche and Soma) may be taken in any order.