Class Descriptions
Somatic Yoga with Emily
Somatic yoga weaves together elements of traditional hatha and vinyasa yoga, somatic movement principles and yoga therapy applications to cultivate a sense of balance, stability, support, fluidity and grounding from inside the body. From here we can explore opening into more expansive, strengthening and energised states that are supported from the ground up and our relationship to earth, self, gravity and space.
Within the framework of yoga, a somatic approach offers an invitation; to move from our own instinctual inner impulses allowing our natural body intelligence to come forwards. This offers our bodies a space to both be met as they are, as well as exploring new movement patterns that offer both deep rest and more movement potential.
This approach seeks to nurture inner body resource, aliveness, regeneration and inspiration through the whole body-mind system, is naturally inclusive and can be tapped into from any level of experience. Everyone and everybody is welcome!
“When we can dance between our “being” and “doing” selves and create a balance of harmonious interaction between the two, however, then each becomes a support for the other...if we go fully into the heart of one, the other will naturally follow”
“The body has an intuitive knowing capacity; the physiology has an innate intelligence that we have lost connection with, with mindfulness of the body we are reawakening this capacity”
