Somatic Yoga
Asana is a practice of meditation in motion.
What is Somatic Yoga?
What do you need for a new journey? You need a good road map. Imagine that road map is accompanied by an inner GPS that is constantly being updated. That is you and your exquisite body intelligence. In this practice, we use our bodies, minds and spirits as living laboratories. Like somatic scientists, we investigate our direct, bodyful experience within asana, vinyasa, breathwork, restorative yoga and somatic inquiry. Along the way, we hone our ability to self-reflect (‘meta-cognition’ in neuroscience) and to change our patterns.
Asana is a practice of meditation in motion.
We don’t have a body: we are a body, one that is bodyful and breathful and heartful and mindful. From a scientific perspective, we are a bio-psycho-social-spiritual process. In other words, we are somas: a moving symphony of breathing, digesting, metabolising, expressing, thinking, feeling, acting and experiencing.
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What can Somatic Yoga do for me?
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As Thomas Hanna says, if you can sense it and feel it you can change it.
Why should i study Somatic Yoga?
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