Join Jean for a Somatic Yoga Flow Immersion Weekend - a series of four interconnected workshops. You are welcome to attend the full journey or join individual sessions.
Each workshop offers a space to explore the rich terrain of embodied experience through somatic yoga and movement flow. This is a practice of sensing and noticing, rather than forcing and achieving.
It is for anyone who feels drawn to move with greater awareness. To listen more closely. To experience the body not as something to control, but as something to relate to.
Through guided exploration, we begin to attune to the subtle yet powerful details within the body and mind and in doing so, deepen our relationship with ourselves and the world around us.
Here, learning does not take place in the mind alone. It happens through the body and felt experience.
As movement becomes more embodied, postures are no longer shapes to achieve, but expressions of our current state of being and ways of processing experience. The practice begins to arise from within, rather than being imposed from the outside.
Who This Is For
Anyone who enjoys yoga and movement wants to expand their understanding of both
Those curious about somatic movement and embodied awareness
Practitioners looking to move with more ease, intelligence and connection
Teachers wishing to enrich their understanding of the body in motion
No advanced flexibility or yoga practice is required, just a willingness to move and to listen.
What You Will Experience
Breath-led, embodied movement practices
A deeper understanding of how your body moves and organises itself
Greater ease and efficiency in movement
A clearer connection between physical movement and mental wellbeing
You will leave with tools you can return to in your yoga practice and in daily life.
PROGRAM
21 November 10.00-12.30pm - Essence : Breath & Somatic Awareness
Everything begins with the breath.
Before movement becomes visible, it is felt as an internal vibration: a subtle pulse of expansion that gathers, and a softening that releases. Breath is the underlying pattern that informs all movement in life. Every function of the body depends on it.
It connects and organises our being. When the breath changes, everything changes.
When we bring attention to the breath, we begin to sense its role as both teacher and bridge - between body and mind, between unconscious and conscious experience.
In this workshop, we explore breath not as a technique to control, but as a process to listen to and be guided by. Through breath-led movement, we reconnect with the natural rhythms of movement and stillness, expansion and condensing, momentum and flow.
A somatic approach invites direct experience. It creates space for the body’s own intelligence to emerge - shaped by lived experience and supported by a felt understanding of anatomy and physiology.
21 November 2.00-4.30pm - Rhythm & Flow : Spinal Movement and Evolution
The spine is the earliest structure to develop, forming a central axis from which the rest of the body grows and differentiates. It is where movement begins to organise. It is both support and pathway.
In yoga, the spine reflects the central channel - Suṣumnā Nāḍī - a conduit for communication, sensation and integration. From a somatic perspective, it is also a dynamic, fluid structure capable of subtle, complex and robust movement.
This workshop explores the living quality of the spine - not as a rigid column, but as a responsive, adaptable system.
Through movements such as curling, arching, side bending and spiralling, we can begin to restore mobility and hydration to the vertebrae and surrounding tissues. Breath supports this process, creating space and continuity throughout the body.
As the spine regains its capacity to move freely, the rest of the body follows. The limbs organise around it, coordination improves, and effort distributes more evenly.
We begin to feel how movement radiates from the centre and returns to it, supporting not only spinal health and posture, but a deeper sense of fluidity and ease throughout the whole body.
22 November 10.00-12.30pm - Embodied Presence : Emerging Movement Patterns
Movement develops in stages.
From our earliest months, patterns emerge gradually - pushing, reaching, pulling, rolling, crawling. Each arises from the last, creating an unfolding sequence that shapes how we move.
These patterns are not linear; they overlap and evolve. They are the building blocks of motion and coordination, supporting us from childhood into adulthood.
In this workshop, by revisiting these developmental movement patterns, we begin to sense how they underpin, and sometimes limit, our ability to move well. Through retracing and refining these movement patterns allows us to reintegrate them into more complex actions, restoring more efficient pathways of movement.
Strength, flexibility, balance and coordination begin to reorganise around a more integrated whole. From here, movement becomes more skilful, responsive and easeful.
22 November 2.00-4.30pm - Awakening to Wholeness : Body, Breath & Being
This final session brings everything together, returning to the understanding that the whole is made of many. Billions of individual cells form an organism. Individual bones and joints form a skeleton. Waves form an ocean and trees a forest. In the same way, individual actions shape a balanced and integrated āsana practice and life !
Breath, movement and awareness come together into a cohesive, whole-body experience. Movement arises from within, guided by sensation rather than external form.
The practice becomes something to inhabit - not something to perform.
And this sense of integration extends beyond the practice itself, into how we move through life.
Location - Espace Beguinettes - rue des Béguinettes 26 - Boitsfort
Price : 55 euros / session - 185 euros / weekend
Information & Bookings - ncouloubaritsis@gmail.com / +32 485 69 53 05
Jean Hall is an author, yoga teacher, and somatic movement educator with a curiosity for exploring how movement and consciousness meet, and how fluidity fosters resilience, and embodiment nurtures well-being. Jean discovered yoga whilst training as a dancer, and what started as a sideline soon became a devotional lifelong practice. Over the years, yoga, movement, meditation and mindfulness have supported her through life’s ups and downs, guiding her growth both personally and professionally.
At the heart her teaching is an invitation to listen to the body’s inner wisdom, to feel its innate strength, resilience, and intelligence, whilst connecting to the breath as the source of movement and the earth as a place of support.
Jean’s classes weave together asana (postures) with somatic movement principles, to create space for embodied presence. Through this practice, we may explore what lies beyond perceived limitations and discover a fuller relationship with our unique, authentic, and courageous self.
“There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.” - Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī