Sat Series 9  Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 2021

Jan 9: “Melting Winter Body Stiffness” is about noticing the body’s response to cold, a drawing in, constricting muscularly, that leaves us feeling less mobile, spacious than we’d like to be. We will use these gentle, powerful neuromuscular movement techniques to bring light and space to the inside and mobilize our joints and muscles. 

Jan 16: “If you can sense it, you can change it” invites your talented brain to go from subtle “motor planning” all the way to fuller somatic movement, and back again. This class will take basic somatic movements and break them down, and use our brain’s natural ability to create change, ease, intelligence in the body. This is an especially gentle class, with the goal of sensing deeper and more subtle layers of muscular action. 

Jan 23 “Somatic solutions for Neck Issues” begins in the center, and shines the light of the “new learning” part of our brain on improving comfort to shoulders, neck, head, decompressing vertebrae, restoring mobility. We will explore many vectors of head, neck, shoulder movement.

Jan 30: “From the Ground up” begins on the floor using pandiculation to prepare our bodies for larger, creative movement sitting or standing. We will address relationship to the space around us and inside our bodies. Let’s invite ourselves towards playfulness and celebrate our spectacular body/brain/nervous system and its neuroplasticity, the potential for new learning at every age and phase.

Two time options:

Class A: 8am Nashville CST, 9am NYC EST, 10am Halifax, 2pm London, 3pm Paris, 4pm Helsinki (please note Class A will appear as 2pm UK on registration page)

Class B: 9am Seattle, 10am Denver, 11am Nashville, 12pm NYC, 1pm Halifax, 5pm London, 6pm Paris, 7pm Helsinki (please note that Class B will appear as 5pm UK time on the registration page)

Wear comfortable, flexible clothing, and have a chair, mat 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 10-15 min to do so, and is free) Your link will be sent the day prior to the class. Please register 24 hrs in advance of your class choice if possible. If you are signing up last minute, you run the risk of me not seeing your registration and not receiving your link in time.

Policy for Late Arrivals: Kindly arrive no later than 5 min prior to the start of class. 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, but have paid for the class, you will have access to the recording. Thanks for your support and understanding with this issue!

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!