Name: Yoga as a Somatic Practice Expanded Workshop with Susanne Lahusen
Start: 2026-01-31T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-31T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Orangeyoga Studio

Yoga as a Somatic Practice Expanded Workshop with Susanne Lahusen

Get curious about your own movement patterns and find new ways of being in your practice and your teaching.
Grounded in the latest research on how bodies and brains actually work.
For teachers (and interested students).
Sat 31st Jan 2026 ~ 1:30pm to 4:30pm (3hrs)
Sun 1st Feb 2026 ~ 1:30pm to 4:30pm (3hrs)
- £55 -
A somatic approach to yoga can help us to embrace our practice in a way that is unique to us, so we become more aware of what we need in the present moment.
Sometimes somatics is about being minimal and slow in how we move, at other times we need encouragement to expand our comfort zone differently; this might mean lively, varied and strong movement.
Somatic Yoga is subtle, yet powerful in that it draws our attention to how we habitually move, and then offers us choices to explore new pathways. It can encourage us to be more playful and tap into our creative potential, and it can equally help us to become physically and mentally stronger, more adaptable and more resilient.
Attention will also be given to somatic touch, to how can we give and receive whilst respecting individual choices and continuously expand our movement patterns.
The workshop has a strong practical base, much of which can be integrated into your yoga practice and teaching. The work is supported by reference to recent research in neuroscience and myofascial approaches.
You will receive detailed hand-outs and links to research, further viewing, listening and reading.
Suitable for all, teachers, trainees and interested practitioners.
About Susanne:
Susanne has been teaching yoga since the early 1990’s. Her own practice started with Ashtanga, Iyengar and Scaravelli yoga. She gradually began to evolve her unique style of teaching vinyasa flow classes based on somatic principles, creative practice as well as addressing current research in anatomy and biomechanics. Susanne holds a Yogacampus level 2 teaching qualification accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga. She also has a BSc in Movement Studies and Sports Science, an MA in Dance, and advanced certification in Pilates, fitness, gyrotonic, and the Alexander Technique.
She is qualified to teach Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra and restorative yoga.
In addition, she has attended many courses on somatic movement practices, especially Feldenkrais, breath work and myofascial techniques.
Susanne previously ran a Pilates Foundation teacher training course, and, for many years, taught at London Contemporary Dance School, at the Circus Space, and on graduate, postgraduate and dance movement therapy courses at Trinity Laban.
From 2012 until 2024 she taught somatics, experiential anatomy, yoga therapy and sequencing on the Yogacampus Teacher Training and Yogacampus Therapy Diploma course as well as vinyasa classes at The Life Centre. Susanne now runs vinyasa flow classes at OrangeYoga in Cheltenham, she also teaches Sequencing on the OrangeYoga teacher training course, and holds regular workshops at the studio.
Since September 2024, she has been teaching experiential anatomy, somatics and yoga therapy on the new OrangeYoga Therapy Diploma course.