Somatic Yoga an online IYT event with Debbie Farrar

Somatic Yoga supports individual agency by guiding us to a deepening awareness of our inner felt sense, thereby improving interoception.

Debbie's Yoga is a somatic exploration.  She provides a stable and supportive framework within, which each practitioner can access and reclaim their inner agency and inner peace. You will be invited to tune into your inner felt sense and let that guide you as to how you move your body.  Rather than trying to achieve a 'perfect' shape that is often less than perfect for our own unique anatomy; Somatic Yoga shifts the focus to calming the nervous system, improving movement and reducing pain.  The movement pathways we practice, strengthen weak muscles, allowing our more tense muscles to relax, so we gradually learn to move with ease.  In this session we will sensitively and systematically recalibrate our neuromuscular pathways by cultivating healthy movement patterns that care for our joints. 

Debbie Farrar
Debbie was introduced to yoga by her mother in the 1970s, and has enjoyed a daily practice ever since. She started teaching yoga in 1999, completed her 4 year yoga teacher training with the late Swami Satyapremananda of the British Wheel of Yoga in 2004, and left her career as a secondary school science teacher to teach yoga full time in 2009.

Debbie studied Pranayama with Philip Xerri from 2009-2010, Yoga Philosophy, Tantra, Vedanta, and Ayurveda with Dr David Frawley and Yogini Shambhavi Chopra from 2011-2013, and Dynamic Yoga with Godfrey Devereux from 2001-2022,

Debbie has been training yoga teachers since 2014. As well as delivering her own courses, she has taught the Anatomy & Professional Studies modules on the Mandala Yoga Ashram’s Teacher Training Course in Wales, Philosophy on Proper Northern Yoga’s Training in Kendal, and delivers regular CPD days and workshops around the UK.

Debbie is a Karma Yogi. She has been an active member of the UK yoga community for over 20 years, organising and speaking at yoga conferences, regularly teaching at the World Yoga Festival, and serving as BWY County Representative & Regional Training Officer, IYN Acting Chair & Events Coordinator, YTT Chair, and editor of the magazine Yoga The World Over from 2000-2014.

When Debbie is not teaching yoga, she is Education Co-ordinator for a charity helping Young Adults with learning difficulties and Autism, or quietly working on her translation of the Sutras in the Cumbrian North Pennines.

Debbie teaches 2 types of Somatic Yoga: Therapeutic & Dynamic, offering classes and private tuition online and in person in Cumbria. For more information visit: www.feelnowyoga.com