Mar 19 “Bringing kind regard to somatic practice” brings mental state, imagination, into somatic practice to connect us with our deep authentic somatic selves and each other. This class will invite your somatic practice towards loving self care, to nourish all levels of self, as you calm your nervous system, and take away pain.

Mar 26 “Connecting Extremities to Center in both directions” will explore how changing the contractive patterns in your central body can effect your stride, reach, and weight into your feet. we will explore how initiating movement from the extremities can change the center as well.

Apr 2 “Exploring Strength from a somatic perspective” brings strengthening options into your somatic practice, and considers how your mental focus and attitude affect strength as well. This class will include some elements of martial arts and somatic sequences to organize the soma towards centeredness and strength.

Apr 9 “Somatic Moves for increasing Lymphatic Health” focusses on the areas rich with lymph nodes, like groin, neck, and underarm, front of shoulder, chest, and re-patterns the muscles to optimum resting length to increase lymphatic flow. Lymph health is about immune health, and also about breast health, important for both men and women.

4 class bundle or single classes, 2 time options. See * DST note below.

Class A: 8am Nashville, 9am NYC, 10am Halifax, 2pm London, 3pm Paris, 4pm Helsinki (appears as 2pm UK time)

Class B: 9am Seattle, 10am Denver, 11am Nashville, 12pm NYC, 1pm Halifax, 5pm London, 6pm Paris, 7pm Helsinki. (appears as 5pm UK time)

*US and Canadian students: please note that your class will meet one hour later than the time listed above on Mar 19 and 26 only, due to DST shift.

Online somatic movement classes: Learn these gentle but powerful self-care techniques to bring new mobility, intelligence, sensation, control to the muscles, and teach the brain to bring muscles to their optimum resting length. We will avoid stretch and pain, and approach the nervous system in an entirely different way. This movement technique, based on the work of the late neuromuscular pioneer, Thomas Hanna PhD, reverses and releases the contractive patterns present in your nervous system, the imprint of your history, both emotional and physical trauma. You can teach your nervous system a calmer setting, excellent for stress reduction. If your nervous system is more calm, your intelligence is more available to you, perfect for what we need right now, which is to be more resilient, adaptable, and better creative problem solvers!

Wear comfortable, flexible clothing, and have a chair, mat or padded firm surface, and several folded towels and/or 3 yoga blankets ready as elevation, props.

Location: Online Zoom platform. (if you are new to zoom, you must download the app at zoom.us prior to class. It takes about 10 min to do so, and is free, but don’t leave it to the last minute.)

Policy for Late Arrivals: Kindly arrive no later than 5 min prior to the start of class. The zoom is open 15 min early. Late arrivals after the start of class may not be admitted. It is distracting to the class, teacher, and recording process. If you are late and not admitted, you will have access to the recording the next day. Thanks for your support and understanding with this issue!