KISHAN
Instructor
coming soon.
February 6-8, 2026
Friday 6-9pm
Saturday 9-4:30pm
Sunday 9-4:30pm
Cost for individual module- $450
**Also a part of the shefayoga 300 hour teacher training program
While the word trauma has become a kind of shorthand for suffering, its deeper meaning points to the places where our nervous system has lost rhythm or resonance. Somatic practice invites us to listen to the body’s own intelligence and rediscover the innate movement toward coherence, connection, and creative flow.
This transformative weekend intensive invites teachers and somatic practitioners to explore the journey from trauma to transformation through the lens of the body, the nervous system, and creative process.
Drawing from polyvagal theory, somatic psychology, embodiment practices, and creative leadership, this module bridges science, spirit, and art, offering teachers a powerful framework for cultivating safety, connection, and presence within their teaching and their lives.
Through somatic-based asana practice, hands-on adjustment laboratories, partner work, sound therapy, and creative non-contact assignment, participants will experience how difficult emotions can be metabolized through somatic awareness, co-regulation, and embodied expression — transforming limitation into relational intelligence and radiant aliveness.
Curriculum Highlights
● Vagal Nerve Theory & the Art of Connection
Learn to understand and regulate the nervous system through breath, sound,
and movement. Discover how to teach from a state of grounded connection that
transmits safety and trust.
● Somatic Approach to Asana Practice & Teaching
Move beyond alignment toward attunement, empathy, felt presence and creative
flow.
● Adjustments & Somatic Touch
Learn safe principles of physical and energetic touch. Refine your tactile
intelligence to offer touch as dialogue rather than correction.
● Yin Yoga & Somatic Restoration
Explore yin and restorative as practices of deep listening. Experience how
stillness recalibrates the nervous system and supports self- and co-regulation.
● Creative Process & Non-Contact Work (4 hrs)
Engage in a personal practice that awakens radical imagination and presence.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this weekend you will be able to:
● Design restorative sequences that support nervous-system regulation.
● Apply somatic principles to enhance your teaching presence and communication.
● Integrate sensitive hands-on somatic adjustments
Format & Structure
● Weekend Intensive (contact hours applicable toward 300-hour certification)
● Combination experiential hands-on adjustment and somatic touch labs,
asana/movement practice, and creative process integration
● Includes live music, guided somatic sādhanas, and reflective journaling
● Certificate of completion issued for module hours
Who It’s For
This training is open to:
● Yoga teachers pursuing 300 certification
● Practitioners seeking somatic depth and nervous-system literacy
● Leaders, coaches, and creatives wishing to embody compassionate presence
About Micheline Pierrette Berry
Micheline is an Artist, Filmmaker, and Embodiment Mentor whose work integrates somatic yoga practice, immersive travel, art, and deep encounters in nature to awaken
the body’s innate intelligence as a wellspring for creative renewal. She has guided thousands—rock stars and artists, impact leaders and cultural change-makers, somatic practitioners and dancers—through journeys that restore presence, ignite creativity, and foster embodied connection.
Micheline holds a B.A. in Film Production and advanced to candidacy for both a M.F.A. in Film Direction and a M.A. in Dance as Healing and Therapy at UCLA, where her early
research explored the relationship between performance, narrative, and embodied healing. Her methodology is shaped by decades of study in yoga, postmodern dance,
Buddhist meditation, and Afro-diasporic movement, ritual and rhythm, and is deeply informed by the work of Victor Turner, Simone Forti, Laurie Anderson, and other artists
and thinkers whose work helped shape her understanding of movement, story, and embodied expression.
She is the founder of Liquid Asana Vinyasa, a teacher training and somatic leadership program based in Brazil. She has led over 100 immersive retreats and somatic trainings across the globe, including the Atlantic rainforests of Bahia, the Tuscia hills of Italy, the cliffs of Esalen in Big Sur, and the highlands of a New Mexican Zen center—each
landscape shaping the rhythm and language of her work. Each experience she curates invites participants into deeper intimacy with their bodies, the land, and one another—honoring our interdependence as a source of belonging.
Her recent creative collaborations include producing and directing For Freedoms’ 2024 campaign film Where Do We Go From Here, co-producing SOLEFUL, a somatic
storytelling podcast for The School of Lived Experience, and designing embodiment pedagogies for the Guild of Future Architects. She is also a partner and producer at
Stellar Visioning, a high-level aerial cinematography company founded by her husband, Joey Lugassy.
A polyglot (English, French, Portuguese), Micheline’s work is based between Los Angeles, Brazil, and Italy. She continues to create immersive environments—where practice becomes a threshold into embodied presence, deep connection, and creative renewal.
