Somatic Trainings and Retreats

Somatic Trainings, Retreats & Intensives

in Ibiza & the UK

with Gemma Mallol

Trauma informed Eco Somatic CPD Trainings in the UK

Eco Somatic Movement Arts Retreats in Ibiza

Still Flowing is a Trauma informed Eco Somatic, Contemplative, Therapeutic Approach to Yoga, Movement, Arts and Dance. I offer a variety of intensives, trainings, and retreats that delve into the transformative potential of the moving, sensate body through diverse perspectives. Each program serves as a journey of transformation and creative expression. Rooted in a somatic and contemplative approach, this work supports nervous system regulation and aims to foster ease, pleasure, resilience, fluidity, creativity, capacity and balance. By cultivating an embodied reciprocity with the natural world, empathy and care are nurtured guiding us toward a deeper sense of interconnectedness within ourselves and fostering relationships, communities and networks through both human and non-human realms.

Gemma Mallol is Dance and Movement Researcher, currently undertaking a Research Master’s in Dance (Somatic and Butoh Dance focus) at Plymouth University. She is a teacher trainer and has been teaching Yoga, Mindfulness and Somatics in varying contexts for a period of 23 years. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Body Orientated Trauma Therapist) and uses her knowledge of the nervous system and trauma informed practice to create inclusive, safe spaces where participants can explore themselves authentically through embodiment, dance and movement as the ground for further creative processes to be unlocked.

Module 1: Foundations, Somatic CPD Training, The Knepp Estate, UK

  • Dates: 1st – 5th May 2025
  • Venue: The Yoga Garden, The Knepp Estate, West Sussex, UK
  • Teaching Faculty: Gemma Mallol
  • Cost: £575 / £450 (3 lower income spaces) / (non residential)
  • Small group: Inclusive Space, Max 12 participants
  • Bookings: Gemma Mallol on stillflowing@hotmail.co.uk for bookings or what’s app 00 44 7745300237

The Foundations Training module is broad and covers different aspects of Somatic Yoga, Somatic Movement with Nature and is underpinned by Buddhist Contemplative Meditation Practices and Creative Process.

Through the 5 days you will discover principles, techniques and understandings around somatic practice and how they interweave to bridge the worlds of yoga, meditation, and movement through therapeutic, creative and philosophical lenses.

This CPD creates a bridge for yoga and movement practitioners and teachers, dancers, creatives and therapists to enter the diverse field of somatics..

Module 2: Elemental Body, Somatic CPD Training, Dartmoor, UK

  • Dates: 25th – 29th September 2025
  • Venue: Leusdon Memorial Hall, Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
  • Teaching Faculty: Gemma Mallol
  • Cost: £550 / £450 (sliding scale)
  • Small group: Inclusive Space, Max 12 participants
  • Bookings: Gemma Mallol on stillflowing@hotmail.co.uk or what’s app 00 44 7745300237

This Elemental Body Somatic CPD is a multi-faceted CPD of embodied practices that foreground the connection to and the expression of the inner body in movement and its relation to nature and the elements.

This CPD is an empirically based somatic, therapeutic approach to movement that utilises a creative and expressive approach informed by nature to engage the body, mind, and spirit in order to transform stress and suffering and trauma.

The CPD develops the moving, sensate body as a regenerative field of contemplation, emotional intelligence and creative process that can connect us to empathy, compassion and inter-connectedness. A recognisable safe foundation of yoga and meditative practice allow for a more experimental exploration of the body in movement where its inner felt landscape can be expressed and flower into its own authentic dance and where its relationship to the elements provides a deepening well of resource, support and creativity.

‘Butoh Based Somatics; Confluences & Contradictions‘, Ibiza Intensive 2025

  • Dates: 10th – 17th October 2025
  • Venue: North of Ibiza
  • Teaching Faculty: Gemma Mallol
  • Cost: £375 / £475 (sliding scale)
  • Small group: Inclusive Space, Max 12 participants
  • Bookings: Gemma Mallol on stillflowing@hotmail.co.uk or what’s app 00 44 7745300237

This intensive aims to introduce, unpack and explore some of the methodology of my Dance Master’s research, expanding upon my existing work in the fields of yoga, somatics and contemplative movement with nature into the realm of Butoh dance.

Within this trajectory, I would like to share and articulate an introduction to the intersections of Butoh Dance and Somatics, where they converge and diverge within their movement principles, techniques, aesthetics and philosophies. The practices will take place outside with nature, and inside a movement space, they will be exploratory, contemplative, creative and playful with the aim of cultivating spaces of embodied creativity and expression.

Listen to Podcast with Gemma Mallol the Founder and Creator of Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training

Listen to Gemma’s practice history, her story and the underpinning and roots of her somatic mindful nature based approach to yoga, movement and mindfulness evolved over 20 years of embodied enquiry.

Discover how the body’s natural intelligence and healing power reveals itself through the somatic process aligning us to a huge well of creativity, empowerment, earth wisdom and community.

Click the link below to listen the podcast in Apple Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-body-knows-podcast/id1533874280?i=1000507242026

  • Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training was established in 2008, and has delivered 27 training programmes to date.
  • Gemma Mallol is a Registered Senior Yoga Teacher with the UK Yoga Alliance, A Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and Certified Mindfulness Teacher (Mindfulness Training Institute). She is currently in an ongoing period of exploration and practice incorporating non-stylised Amerta Movement and Butoh Dance in Nature.

Gemma Mallol
is a Registered Senior Yoga Teacher with the UK Yoga Alliance.

European Yoga Alliance

Still Flowing Yoga Teacher Training
is a Registered Yoga School with The European Yoga Alliance

Because we transmit the essence of embodiment in a soulful, creative, non dogmatic, humorous, down to earth way that will prepare the ground for you to share your experiences and teach with integrity when your time is right