At the center of this 200-hour training is somatic awareness: the ability to sense, understand, and respond to the body from within.

Instead of organizing movement around external shapes, participants are invited to refine internal perception and notice subtle qualities such as pressure, tension, elasticity, and fluidity. This creates a practice built on listening, adaptability, and intelligent response.

Fascia is presented as a key part of this process. More than connective tissue, it is explored as a continuous, responsive network that helps organize the body as a whole. It supports force transmission, elasticity, and communication across structures, shaping how movement is coordinated and how the body adapts over time.

Through direct experience, participants come to recognize fascia as a vital bridge between structure and function, influencing mobility, resilience, and embodied presence.

Rooted in a soma-first, fascia-led approach, this program moves beyond standardized frameworks to explore the body as a living, sensing, self-organizing system.

This foundational training offers a new way to understand, practice, and embody yoga.

By weaving together traditional yogic practices, contemporary somatic understanding, and fascia intelligence, the program creates a distinct methodology. Movement is no longer treated as the pursuit of ideal forms, but as an exploration of relationships within the body—between stability and mobility, effort and ease, structure and fluidity. In this way, the body can reorganize from within, supporting movement patterns that are more sustainable, efficient, and responsive.

Why This Training Is Different

This training shifts the foundation of yoga from externally guided form to internally informed perception, while remaining deeply connected to the essential wisdom of yoga.

Rather than focusing only on fixed sequences and ideal shapes, it brings together somatic awareness, fascia intelligence, meditation, breath, philosophy, and embodied movement into one integrated methodology.

The structure reflects this integration through two complementary pillars: Somatic Yin (Module 1) and Somatic Flow (Module 2). Together, they invite participants to explore stillness and movement as interconnected expressions of the same system, deepening awareness while developing fluid, coordinated, and responsive movement patterns.

In this training, fascia, somatic perception, and embodied intelligence are not secondary elements. They are the foundation from which the entire practice emerges.

Traditional yoga is not replaced.
It is understood more deeply.

Movement is not imposed.
It emerges.

Through this approach, practitioners learn to sense, adapt, move, and teach with greater intelligence, precision, and authenticity.

What You Will Learn

Develop Somatic Awareness
Cultivate the ability to sense, interpret, and respond to the body from within.
• Refine interoceptive, proprioceptive, and exteroceptive awareness
• Deepen your relationship with sensation, breath, rhythm, and internal feedback
• Learn to move from perception rather than external imitation
• Develop greater presence, self-regulation, and embodied responsiveness

Understand Fascia as a Living System
Explore fascia as a continuous, responsive network that shapes movement, resilience, and embodied presence.
• Understand fascia's role in force transmission, elasticity, hydration, and adaptability
• Explore the principles of biotensegrity and whole-body connectivity
• Recognize how fascia influences mobility, coordination, recovery, and longevity
• Experience fascia as a bridge between structure, sensation, and conscious movement

Build a Fascia-Led Approach to Movement
Learn how movement can emerge from elasticity, continuity, and integrated force distribution.
• Explore yielding, rebounding, spiraling, gliding, oscillation, undulation, and expansion
• Understand the relationship between stability and mobility
• Develop movement that is efficient, fluid, and sustainable
• Learn how the body organizes itself through intelligent force distribution

Module 1: Master the Foundations of Somatic Yin
Discover stillness as a pathway into deeper layers of awareness, release, and reorganization.
• Understand the target areas and essential principles of Yin Yoga
• Explore meridian pathways and foundational principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Integrate fascia intelligence and somatic awareness into long-held postures and subtle movement
• Cultivate deep listening, patience, and the art of internal sensing

Module 2: Embody the Principles of Somatic Flow
Transform awareness into dynamic, intelligent movement through the foundational principles of Hatha and Vinyasa, reinterpreted through a soma-first and fascia-led approach.
• Explore the essential principles of Hatha Yoga, including grounding, structural integrity, breath, and conscious presence
• Study Vinyasa as the art of intelligent transition, continuity, rhythm, and energetic flow
• Understand how fascia organizes force, elasticity, rebound, and whole-body coordination within movement
• Explore non-linear movement, spirals, waves, multidirectional pathways, and fluid transitions
• Move beyond mechanical sequencing into movement that is adaptive, efficient, responsive, and deeply embodied

Root Yourself in the Foundations of Yoga
Honor the depth, wisdom, and transformative roots of traditional yoga through practices and teachings that cultivate presence, self-inquiry, and conscious living.
• Develop a consistent meditation practice and understand its role in awareness, concentration, and inner stability
• Study foundational pranayama practices and explore breath as a bridge between body, mind, energy, and presence
• Learn essential yogic principles including the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Yamas, Niyamas, dharma, and the path of self-responsibility
• Explore classical yoga philosophy alongside non-dual teachings that support embodied awareness and conscious living
• Learn how to integrate these teachings as a lived practice, both on and off the mat

Study Functional Anatomy Through an Embodied Lens
Move beyond memorization into lived anatomical understanding.
• Learn foundational anatomy of bones, joints, muscles, fascia, breath, and movement mechanics
• Understand structural relationships through direct embodied experience
• Explore anatomy through movement, touch, observation, and felt perception
• Apply anatomy in a practical, accessible, and teachable way

Learn the Art of Teaching
Develop the capacity to guide others with clarity, precision, presence, and authenticity.
• Refine voice, language, cueing, presence, and energetic stewardship
• Learn intelligent sequencing through a soma-first and fascia-led lens
• Develop observational skills and the ability to adapt to individual needs
• Create safe, responsive, and transformational learning environments
• Teach from embodied understanding rather than memorized instruction

Live Embodied Living
Bridge practice with everyday life.
• Apply somatic principles to stress regulation, resilience, recovery, and emotional intelligence
• Develop tools for self-inquiry, self-leadership, and conscious decision-making
• Learn to bring awareness into relationships, creativity, work, and daily living
• Cultivate a way of living where practice becomes presence, and presence becomes the path

This Training Is For:

Practitioners seeking a deeper, more intelligent understanding of movement beyond form and repetition
Yoga teachers who feel limited by rigid sequencing and are ready to guide from perception rather than prescription
Movement professionals, bodyworkers, therapists, and facilitators looking to integrate fascia and somatic awareness into their work
Individuals on a path of self-inquiry who recognize the body as a gateway to awareness, regulation, and transformation

It is for those who are willing to listen, question, and refine how they move, sense, and teach.

This Training Is Not For

To maintain clarity and integrity, this container is not designed for:
• Those seeking a purely fitness-based or performance-oriented approach
• Those looking only to memorize sequences without understanding underlying principles
• Those unwilling to engage in self-inquiry and embodied exploration

This training calls forward individuals who are ready to take responsibility for how they inhabit their body and to guide others from that place of lived understanding.

Carlos Romero

Leading Program Instructor

Carlos is a surfer yogi and devoted yoga teacher, originally from Venezuela. Over the past 20 years, he has immersed himself in self-exploration through Hatha, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra Yoga, Anusara, Yin, and Embodied Flow. As an E-RYT 500 instructor, he leads ongoing classes, workshops, immersions, retreats, and trainings. He is known for curating each moment of the mind-body-spirit journey with care, leaving just enough space for silence.

He invites students into the sensations of their inner universe, guiding them toward stillness and awareness, where they can experience their own uninterrupted rhythm and frequency. His interest in the healing arts, connective tissue, fascia, and the cellular intelligence of the body inspired him to create a space where yogis can connect more meaningfully with life force, while opening the energetic lines of the body through conscious breath and movement.

Program Inclusions:

Daily Brunch
Develop deep somatic awareness and internal sensing
Understand fascia as a connected, living system
Explore Somatic Yin & Flow (stillness + movement)
Build fluid, embodied movement patterns
Study yoga philosophy, breathwork, and meditation
Learn functional anatomy through experience
Gain confidence to teach with clarity and presence
and so much more!

In-Person Training

Yoga Alliance Certified

Early Bird Rate $3,800.00 USD
Until June 30th, 2026

Limited Spots Available

SomaYoga 200
200HR In-Person
Yoga & Somatic
Teacher Training
Hatha, Vinyasa & Yin Yoga

August 1 - 29, 2026
The Yoga Barn
Ubud, Bali

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