Somatic Yoga for Healing and Spiritual Growth

Bertena has long been a source of wisdom teachings for Cosmic patrons. She is not only a college professor, a phenomenal tarot and tea leaf reader, Reiki Master Teacher, and all around source for spiritual knowledge. She is also a conduit for the Divine Feminine and has been a certified yoga teacher for several years. She is taking her own yoga practice to a new level with a new certification and with that is offering Somatic Yoga for deep healing and spiritual growth.

Each week, she will lead students via Zoom as they gather in a sacred, judgment-free space to explore:

• Gentle, floor-based movements guided by your body’s wisdom

• Breathwork and nervous system soothing

• Chakra-focused intentions and spiritual themes

• Inner child healing, body scans, and intuitive movement

• Integration through stillness and meditation

You don’t need to be flexible or experienced—this is for every body and every soul. Cameras can be off, modifications are encouraged, and every movement is led by you. 

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What Is Somatic Yoga?

The word somatic comes from the Greek soma, which means “the living body.” Somatic yoga, then, is not about achieving perfect poses or sculpting a flexible body. Instead, it’s about reconnecting with the felt experience of being alive in your body.

Somatic yoga is a practice of inner listening—a slowing down, a softening. It's about tuning into subtle sensations, breath patterns, and energetic flows. Every movement is led not from an external instruction, but from internal awareness.

This isn't about pushing or striving—it's about allowing, sensing, and being.

Instead of asking, “Am I doing this right?”
Somatic yoga asks: “What is my body saying right now? Where am I holding tension? What would feel nourishing in this moment?”

That shift—from performance to presence—is where the magic begins.

How Somatic Yoga Heals the Nervous System

Our bodies are brilliant at storing information—emotions, memories, even trauma. When we experience stress or overwhelm and don’t fully process it, that energy often gets lodged in the body. Over time, this can manifest as anxiety, chronic tension, fatigue, pain, or even spiritual numbness.

Somatic yoga gently supports nervous system regulation through slow movement, grounding breathwork, and safe self-awareness. It offers the body an opportunity to:

• Release trapped survival responses

• Move out of fight, flight, or freeze

• Come back into rest and digest, or parasympathetic mode

• Access the felt sense of safety and wholeness

These small movements are actually deeply profound. You might lie on the floor and explore rocking, spiraling, or stretching in a way that your inner body initiates. There’s no agenda—just compassionate inquiry.

Healing, in somatic yoga, is not about fixing what’s “wrong”—it’s about listening to what’s been silenced, and honoring it.

The Spiritual Dimension – Awakening the Sacred Body

So how does this connect to spiritual growth?

For so long, many of us were taught to seek spirituality “above”: in the heavens, in transcendence, in mental stillness. But the truth is, the body is sacred ground. The Divine lives here too.

Somatic yoga invites us to reclaim the body as a spiritual instrument—a place where insight, intuition, and divine connection reside.

When you begin to practice somatic yoga regularly, you may start to:

• Hear the voice of your inner child again

• Feel the presence of your guides more clearly

• Recognize where in your body your soul speaks most

• Move in rhythm with nature’s cycles and moon phases

• Remember ancestral memories stored in your bones

This work is spiritual remembering. It’s feminine, intuitive, and ancient.

Your body becomes your oracle.
Your breath becomes your prayer.
Your movement becomes your ritual.

What Happens in a Somatic Yoga Class?

Let me give you a peek into what you can expect during a somatic yoga session with me.

We begin by creating a safe, grounded space.
You may be seated or lying down. You might close your eyes or soften your gaze. We begin with a few minutes of centering—breathing, sensing, arriving.

Then we move.
But not in a forced way.

Instead of going into traditional yoga poses, we explore:

• Gentle floor-based sequences

• Spiraling movements of the hips and spine

• Breath-led gestures like reaching or rocking

• Intuitive micro-movements that emerge from within

Sometimes we move through themes—like grounding into the root chakra, opening the heart, or releasing grief from the hips. Sometimes we just listen. Every class ends with stillness or a guided meditation to help integrate the practice.

You are encouraged to move at your own pace.
You can keep your camera off.
You can lie down the whole time if that’s what your body needs.

This is your sacred space. No expectations. No pressure.

Who Is This For?

You don’t have to be a yogi.
You don’t need to be flexible.
You don’t need to be “spiritual enough.”

Somatic yoga is for anyone who:

• Feels disconnected from their body

• Wants to heal from trauma, stress, or burnout

• Longs for gentle spiritual reconnection

• Desires to feel more grounded, embodied, and alive

• Is simply curious about a more feminine, intuitive approach to healing

This is especially powerful for empaths, healers, mothers, creatives, and anyone in a life transition. It’s a healing balm for modern overwhelm.

From Bertena, "Let’s root into the Earth together and rise from a place of deep inner strength. "

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