The Slow Steep Teacher Training with Anja Bergh and Sarah Zandbeek

Join Sarah Zandbeek and Anja Bergh for a 300 hour, online Yoga and Somatics Training.

Bridging the world of Yoga and Somatics

The Slow Steep is 300 hours of online marination with Anja Bergh & Sarah Zandbeek. Over the period of a year and a half we will explore bridging the worlds of Yoga and Somatics.

Somatics comes from the Greek word “soma” which translates to “body” and “ics” which is an “organized body of knowledge.” In Yoga and Tantra, Soma represents the elixir of life, a subtle essence that is believed to flow through the body, promoting longevity and spiritual awakening. Symbolically, Soma embodies the principle of rejuvenation and renewal, akin to the cyclical nature of the moon. It signifies the potential for transformation and the cultivation of inner tranquility and vitality. Whether through ritual, meditation, or physical practice, Soma invites a deeper exploration of one's inner landscape which is the essence of this training.

It is through the wisdom of the body that we will come to understand the capacity of our full spectrum, the elation and the rage, the grief and the resilience. We will utilize the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine to remind us of how all things are energy in motion and we too are a cycling part of Nature; we will invite a new way of learning from cerebral to body and from senses to mind, making way for us to inform ourselves through felt sense, landing and locating just as much as we know how to inform ourselves from theory or thought. We will look at the ways we hold ourselves back through conditioning and offer ourselves the chance to mobilize the things that never got to complete their cycle and remember the importance of integration, pausing, and stabilization in both the process, as well as the practice itself.

There are so many ways to approach wellness and it is here that we will sink into honesty, spectrum and constitution to invite ourselves to descend into the body and support ourselves to really be here. It is in the here that we have the opportunity to gain clarity on our surroundings through our senses, come into our instinctual, primal self, learn discernment, and regain our vision to forage a path forward that we feel stoked about.

MEET YOUR TEACHERS

Anja Bergh

Anja is a movement educator, yoga teacher, mother, business owner and nervous system regulation nerd. She has been teaching movement for 20 years. Her passion is teaching slow transformative embodiment processes and practices for the wise, ordinary human being.

The processes are of the kind that work immediately but take time to weave into the fabric of our being. After a few decades of being in the yoga world, her nervous system work has opened up a wider view of the world, revealing clarity in many areas of life, body and society that was very unclear and confusing before. It is all movement—the body, time, thoughts, emotion, vibration, so let’s spend some time together and trust where the body takes us.

Sarah Zandbeek

Sarah has facilitated yoga asana classes and teacher trainings for over 16 years; as well as, graduating from the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) program where her passion for energetic healing, herbs and natures wisdom truly started to flourish.

Her path of physical movement has transformed over the years and has lead her to her now teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen; a very wise, beautiful teacher and creator of Body-Mind Centring—essentially a somatic embodiment school. She has studied Embodied Flow with Tara Judelle and Scott Lyons in Bali (where she met Anja) and her mind was absolutely blown with how little she knew about her body and the places and ways one can initiate movement.

In her becoming a Mother every single teaching she has ever received has continued to enrich the way she approaches life, study, her children, and facilitation.

It has been through these teachings, experiences and guidance that this program was born.