The 200-hour Somatic Mentoring Program is the last training component of the 800-hour Somatic Yoga Therapist Training. This is a curated container designed to support you in actualizing your personal goals as a Somatic Yoga Therapist. As a participant, you will be mentored personally by Stefani while collaborating with your peers in an intimate, small group setting.
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The only way that we can provide this work effectively for others is by doing the work for ourselves, going into the difficult spaces where we still hold limiting beliefs, unraveling our old patterns, and activating those dormant parts of ourselves that want to be expressed.
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This journey is an opportunity to do deeper self-work while you put the sharing of Somatic Yoga Therapy into action. This allows you to move through those first steps that establish your practice as a Somatic Yoga Therapist, while having the support of your mentor as you go through the challenges of networking, program creation, booking clients, and marketing your work.
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"A mentor is a person who can support, advise, and guide you. They typically take the time to get to know you and the challenges you’re facing and then use their understanding and personal experience to help you improve."
Focused on the facilitation of Somatic Yoga Therapy for Individuals and Groups, the Mentorship Practicum is completed in your home community during the Fall and Spring semesters through a series of 10 mentoring modules that guide you through navigating the ins and outs of practice, ethical business and marketing, planning and facilitating group and 1:1 work, and networking. In addition to completing your practicum hours, you will meet online or in person with your mentoring cohort as you are walked through researching, creating, and facilitating your case studies in Somatic Yoga Therapy offered for groups or individuals.
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As part of this journey, you will receive structured suggestions to help you actualize your practice. These suggestions are there to support you, but they do not override your vision and voice. You are encouraged to bring your dreams forward, and the program is adapted to support you.
This is a mentored soul journey done with small groups of students only once yearly. (These modules can be completed while you are enrolled in your 300-hour training programs or may be completed the following year.)
The 200-hour Mentoring Program is the remaining requirement in the 800-hour Somatic Yoga Therapist Certification Program. To enroll in the Mentorship Practicum, one must actively be enrolled or have completed the 300-hour Advanced YTT in Somatic-Energetic Yoga Therapy or the 300-hour Advanced YTT in Somatic-Emotional Yoga Therapy.
The Somatic Mentoring Program provides...
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Small Group Mentoring that leads you through experiencing, observing, and facilitating the practice of Somatic Yoga Therapy for Individuals and Groups
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Intimate and relational support through the creation of Somatic Yoga Therapy case studies that help you to define your specialty and connect with your dharma and sense of purpose
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Opportunity to define how you want to share this work with others with the direct support of a mentor who walks alongside you
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Opportunity to put your training into purposeful applications and to connect with allied professionals who may support your work
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Opportunity to establish your somatic yoga therapy practice and work through the difficult phases of beginning something new while having support in all aspects of both business and facilitation
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This is the final requirement in the 800-hour Yoga Therapist Training. Upon completing the mentoring program and practicum, you will earn the designation of 1,000-hour Somatic Yoga Therapist.
Program Structure
​Mentoring sessions occur online or in person, and the practicum is completed in your home community during the Fall and Winter semesters. The mentoring program is facilitated over ten mentoring blocks that are offered during the months of September through June. Each mentoring block is comprised of the following:
- a 3-hour mentoring session, where you will observe, receive, or facilitate a Somatic Yoga Therapy session with feedback, Q&A, and mentoring support
- 15 practicum hours in either individual or group practice in your home community with feedback*
- 2 case study hours, where you compile a written reflection of your sessions
*It is strongly suggested that you collaborate with a mental health professional for the practicum requirements of your coursework
Accreditation for Graduates
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Graduates of our professional programs are provided with T2202a form for educational tax reimbursement and RESP/RRSP eligibility.
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Graduates may register with the Canadian Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Therapist at the 1,000-hour level upon completion of both modules.
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Graduates may receive continuing education credits for use with the following professional regulatory bodies: National Health Practitioners of Canada, and Yoga Alliance.
See our Graduates page to hear from our graduates and how this training supported their personal and professional growth.
Tuition: $390 (+ GST) per module or $3900 (+ GST) for the full program
This 200-hour mentoring program is provided over the course of 10 modules. Students may pay for their mentoring modules as they go or pay in full at the time of acceptance into the program.
Prerequisite: Must be currently enrolled in the 800-Hour Somatic Yoga Therapist Training