Wednesdays, November 6, 13, 20, 27 December 4 & 11, 2024 4:00 pm Eastern / 1:00 pm Pacific Join Us Live or View the Recordings In this 6-part livestream course, you will have the opportunity to practice live online with James Knight, founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga®. Join us for six therapeutic and restorative workshops, … Continued
Wednesdays, November 6, 13, 20, 27 &
December 4 & 11, 2024 –
4 pm Eastern / 1 pm Pacific
Discover the power of interoception, the body’s innate ability to sense and respond to internal sensations, and how it contributes to our overall health and well-being. In this course, we delve into the fascinating world of fascia, the interconnected web of tissue that integrates every biological system in the body, including the nervous system. Fascia … Continued
Discover the power of interoception, the body’s innate ability to sense and respond to internal sensations, and how it contributes to our overall health and well-being. In this course, we delve into the fascinating world of fascia, the interconnected web of tissue that integrates every biological system in the body, including the nervous system. Fascia … Continued
Join James Knight through explorative somatic practices to help you unwind from stressful life experiences stored in our tissues (muscles and fascia). Fascia is the interconnected fabric of embodiment. It is a body-wide communication matrix, and it’s the largest sensing organ of your nervous system. When we’ve had accidents, injuries, or other stressful life experiences, … Continued
“Research suggests that unresolved PTSD can facilitate lasting physiological changes and that these modifications can be passed on to the next generation.” -Dr. Arielle Schwartz Does your family come with a secret story that is hard to tell? Indeed, most of us grow up in families which carry with us some history of past traumatic … Continued
At the heart of our yoga practice lies the deepening relationship between mind and body. Most of us are raised to spend most of our life in our heads, but yoga invites us to develop a much wider experience of our being, and opens us to the rich sensory experience of the somatic landscape. Increasingly, … Continued
We now know that muscles don’t work in isolation and instead form part of an intricate fascial web that connects and wraps around the body in lines of meridians that influence movement. Whole body movement practices like Feldenkrais, Yoga, Gyrotonics and Tai Chi already work with these lines. SomaSensing is a simple somatic movement practice … Continued
The pelvic floor is literally the foundation for our whole body: it sits at the bottom of our torso and forms the floor for all our organs. It serves as the base for our core musculature and plays a crucial role in our overall postural and functional health. Because of this, when the pelvic floor is … Continued
The growing understanding of fascia – the connective tissue of the body – is transforming the way we view the body and what it takes to stay healthy. We know now that fascia plays a key role for not just our structural health and well-being, but for numerous aspects of our health and our ability … Continued
The fascial matrix, a.k.a. the connective tissue of the body is a large part of who we are and how well our body functions. A healthy connective tissue is a fluid, three-dimensional elastic and supple matrix, which gives our body natural flexibility, strength and absorption of strain patterns in our body. When this fluid, three-dimensional matrix gets … Continued
We live in a time, when sadly, many people experience loss and grief. Can yoga offer help during these times of big transitions we are facing in life these days? Indeed, yoga can be a lifesaver during any challenging life transition, but particularly during grief and loss. Grief takes the wind out of our sails like … Continued