Welcome to Yoga Somatics

Alyson Wish | Yoga Somatics

Creator & Founder

Yoga Somatics Online weaves artistry, anatomy, and somatic movement education with ancient yoga wisdom. These interwoven disciplines create a tapestry that reflects, like the golden ratio, our capacity as living systems to self-organize and self-regulate reminding us of the bio-intelligence of the human body. The Soma, our self-sensing entity, is the golden thread that shapes personal and collective movements in all forms-- physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, social, and political.

Yoga Somatics Online provides self-care practices that support nervous system regulation, healthy musculoskeletal functioning, chronic pain relief, improved performance on and off the yoga mat, body agency, critical and compassionate thought and behaviour, in order to cultivate sustainable movement patterns leading to more conscious living. 

Niche Trainings

Carve a niche in your yoga community. Be the go-to somatic expert. Yoga Somatics Online offers specialized Yoga Alliance-Approved Continuing Education Trainings filled with vinyasa-based techniques, methodologies, yoga anatomy and philosophy. Trainings provide yoga teachers with essential Niche Tools to expand their Teacher’s Toolkit with somatic muscle science, neuromuscular education and pandiculation, creative sequencing methods, and vagus nerve and fascia-informed practices.

Somatic Repatterning

Somatic Repatterning is an embodied learning and wholistic process that works directly with the nervous system to gently shift long-held movement habits, muscle tone patterns, and reflexive responses. Rather than correcting the body from the outside, it supports change from within—using awareness, sensation, and choice to help the body reorganize itself in safer, more efficient, and more responsive ways. Thomas Hanna defined "Soma" as "the living body experienced from within.” Yoga Somatics online platform is grounded in this understanding and is based on somatic repatterning principles informed by somatic muscle science and dynamic pandiculation techniques that retrain neuromuscular patterns at their source in order to resolve the root cause of issues in your tissues. Within these trainings, somatic repatterning practices act as a compass, orienting practitioners and teachers toward new, more conscious ways of experiencing, sensing, and inhabiting their Soma—so movement becomes self-guided, intelligent, and sustainable.

Somatic Yoga & Movement Modalities

My work integrates somatic movement principles from multiple disciplines into yoga-inspired practices that are practical, adaptable, and immediately applicable. The Yoga Somatics approach emphasizes slow, rapid, and dynamic mindful transitions and spiral, wave-like undulations and movements to disrupt habitual patterns and create new neural pathways. Rather than striving for the perfect pose, practitioners focus on interoception—tuning into internal signals like muscle tension and heart rate—to release deep-seated emotional and physical blockages. Yoga Somatics online trainings offer yoga teachers invaluable somatic muscle science based tools to seamlessly integrate into any style they teach, without abandoning their existing methodology.

Bridging artistry, anatomy, and nervous system education 

Yoga Somatics bridges artistry, anatomy, and nervous system education weaving 25 years of experience in contemporary dance, choreography, performance, Butoh, and dance improvisation, fitness instructor, Yoga Alliance-Approved E-RYT 500 and YACEP, Master Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Trainer for Sadie Nardini, and Somatic Exercise Instructor in the lineage of Thomas Hanna.

Here’s The Thing...

Somatic movement isn’t just about unraveling trauma- it’s neuromuscular education.

Let’s talk about something that affects how you move every day—your muscles! At Yoga Somatics we focus not only on how flexible and strong your muscles are,  but how well they actually listen to your brain.

That’s what Somatic Muscle Science is about. It’s not about doing more—it’s about doing smarter, working with your somatic nervous system, not against it.

Yoga Somatics Trainings help you develop a relationship with your body-mind so you can move better, with more freedom, agility, creativity, and core resilience.

Dharma

We cannot deny reality but we CAN influence the present.

I'll let you in on a secret: I never wanted to be a yoga teacher! But Life guides us toward our purpose—and yoga did that for me. A series of injuries sustained in my mid-thirties during other peoples' yoga teacher trainings redirected my heart’s passion as a contemporary dancer and chreographer. Now, I inspire others to move using their soma, intuition, and creativity with science-based somatic movement, to unravel physical and emotional tension in order to live with more personal freedom.

I live in Montréal, my hometown. I speak français, and I love nature, outer space, and the ocean, dance, impressionist paintings, and riding my bicycle, gardening, travel, a really good espresso daily, and walks by the river no matter the Canadian weather.

Move with Me

Dive into specialized somatic-inspired movement.

As a somatic guide, I work deeply with you to "Deconstruct and Reconstruct" physical and emotional muscle tension through my self-paced Yoga Somatics Teacher Trainings, 1:1 Teacher Mentorship Labs, and 1:1 Somatic Exercise Coaching.

Known as the "teacher who does things differently" my carefully crafted sequences leave students with more knowledge both physically and emotionally.

Get ready for nervous system hacks that fast-track strength and flexibility, vagal toning for nervous system regulation, myofascial self-care, and somatic release exercises to dissolve root causes of pain. Deemed a "vinyasa witch", my students look forward to strong, sweaty flows, with a creative flare.

Be A Leader in the Yoga Community

Join me at Yoga Somatics Online and learn how to integrate somatic nervous system anatomy into any yoga style you practice and teach.

With each completed Yoga Somatics Teacher Training you’ll acquire a valuable new skill set to add to your Teacher Toolkit to confidently introduce somatics-based movement modalities into your classes, workshops, retreats, and with private clients.

Make a difference in the yoga world.

Yoga Somatics Teacher Trainings

Somatic Mobility Drills (SMD) Immersion

Increase flexibility without traditional yoga-stretch techniques. Gain flexibility and strength Mobility Hacks designed specially for yoga poses.

Somatic Mobility Drills Sequencing Teacher Training Level 2 coming soon!

Bilateral Somatic Exercises for the Myofascial Meridians

Bid farewell to chronic pain and physical trauma, improve posture and your yoga performance with targeted neuroplasticity release exercises that target the fascia network.

Mapping the Myofascial Meridians Teacher Training coming soon!

Creative Somatic Sequencing: Movement Meditation Method

The only system that teaches you how to build yoga flows with a somatic approach. These mini-sequences add a ritualistic, spiritual element and promise you’ll never run out of sequencing ideas for classes again. 

Embody Your Core: Release Techniques

Reset the nervous system with exercises that regulate the: gut-brain axis reducing stress and improving breathing; psoas function, your body‘s emotional muscle; fascia network and vagus nerve to unlock physical tension. 

1:1 Teacher Mentorship Labs

Elevate Your Teaching

Let's transform your yoga journey with everything you need to feel confident about your somatic teaching skills. Together you will reclaim your Authentic Teacher's Path so that the students that need you can flock to you. 

1:1 Somatic Exercise Coach

Transform Pain, Posture, and Performance With Body-Based Neuromuscular Education 

Empowering people to develop a resilient, flexible nervous system with somatic movement education.

As a Somatic Movement Educator my 1:1 Coaching Sessions teach clients gentle, effective exercises and mind-body techniques to reset the nervous system and return the body to a neutral state of natural movement.

My clients are skillfully guided through a series of exercises that work deeply to highlight areas with muscle dysfunction otherwise known as Sensory Motor Amnesia. During the sessions, clients take an active versus passive role facilitating lasting change at the level of the motor cortex.

This somatic modality is called “Education” because the exercises teach clients how to harness the down-regulation skills that they already possess— so that they can use these tools in real life situations, on a day to day basis.

Clinical Somatic Education by Thomas Hanna is an innovative, groundbreaking method for dealing with chronic pain, common musculoskeletal conditions and movement issues.

Heal your body. Gain autonomy. Reclaim your life!

Much Love, Alyson

LEARN MORE

Message me connect@alysonwish.com

Xxx Alyson