Connecting With Your Somatic Being: The Integration of Somatic Principles Into Your Yogic Practice

Mondays, December 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2025
1 pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific
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Somatic yoga emphasizes your internal experience of movement rather than external form, helping you develop a more intimate and trustworthy relationship with your body’s innate intelligence.

This 4-part practice series with James Knight represents a synthesis of traditional yogic approaches with contemporary somatic methodologies.

Join us for practices that honors both ancient wisdom and contemporary somatic methodologies. Unlike traditional stretching or strengthening exercises, somatic practices work through your nervous system to create lasting changes in how your muscles function and how you experience your body.

Cultivating Your Interoceptive Awareness

The somatic approach to yoga practice emphasizes the development of interoception—your ability to sense internal bodily signals including hunger, thirst, heart rate, muscle tension, and emotional states. This capacity for internal sensing provides crucial information for making choices that support your overall well-being.

Bottom-Up Movement for Healing and Integration

Somatic practices emphasize “bottom-up movement.” Rather than using your mind to control or direct bodily experience, you learn to allow your physical sensations and movement patterns to guide your movement.

This approach is particularly valuable for addressing stress, trauma, and chronic tension patterns that may not respond well to purely cognitive or top-down interventions. By working through your body’s own healing mechanisms, you can access deeper layers of integration and release.

Mindful Movement as Your Transformation

The practices in this series emphasize slow, exploratory movements that prioritize your internal sensing over external achievement. Learn to move in ways that feel supportive and nourishing rather than forcing your body into predetermined positions or pushing through discomfort.

This approach cultivates a different relationship with challenge and growth, one that honors your body’s natural wisdom about timing, intensity, and direction. Rather than imposing external standards or goals, you learn to trust your internal guidance system and to find strength and flexibility through cooperation with your body’s natural tendencies rather than opposition to them.

Mondays, December 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2025
1 pm Eastern / 10 am Pacific
Join Us Live or View the Recordings!

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James Knight, E-RYT has been an Integrative Therapist and Yoga Instructor for over 25 years. He one of the pioneers in the field of Somatics and is certified as a Hanna Somatic Educator.

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