Tutor Emily Katsuno
Emily’s life has been guided by her love of movement, originally training as a professional contemporary dancer. Alongside this, during many soul searching trips to India, Emily discovered yoga and has been teaching yoga since 2011. Emily has also been a practicing yoga therapist since 2015 and runs her own center The Soma Shala in South Devon which focuses on hosting work from therapeutic embodiment traditions and fostering a connection to the land and nature. Being a Mum to three small children has led Emily towards exploring somatic movement practices that regulate the nervous system and create resource and she is also a trained trauma informed yoga teacher. Emily is interested in how the field of somatics and yoga compliment each other to facilitate therapeutic, fulfilling, nourishing, self-regulating connections with ourselves and the world around. Emily is also on the teaching faculty for the Devon School of Yoga.
Qualifications & Training
1st Class BA Hons Degree London Contemporary Dance School ~ 2004 – 2007
Post-Graduate Performance Diploma Transitions Dance Company LABAN ~ 2007 – 2008
Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga Life in Dharamshala India (Accredited by Yoga Alliance) ~ 2011
Two Year Post-graduate Holistic Yoga Therapy Training and Pregnancy Yoga with the Devon School of Yoga (Accredited by the Independent Yoga Network) ~ 2013 – 2015
Yin Yoga with Norman Blair ~ 2015 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education
Well Woman yoga therapy teacher training with Uma Dinsmore Tuli (Accredited by the Independent Yoga Network) 2017
Accredited Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training – with Susi Wrenshaw, Trauma Therapy Manchester – 2021
- Foundations of Embodiment (Somatics, somatic experiencing principles, buddhist mindfulness, embodiment, trauma informed) – with Gemma Malloll and Marcela Wakeham 2022