yoga and self-study
I am delighted to share the fruits of my studies in yoga with you. This can happen as a part of our bodywork sessions or as a therapeutic support system and scaffolding for you to take your practice home. With a holistic view of the body as a being in relationship to gravity (SI), as well as a force distributor (physics and kinesiology), yoga is one of many ways to be in deeper relationship with yourself, and to embody playful curiosity as you move into greater health. Some of the things we might work on together in a yoga session include: avoiding injury in yoga asana, breathwork, meditation, sequencing and actually committing to a home practice, help with chronic pain, amending yoga asanas for your body through a functional anatomy lens.
My studies in yoga began as a child, though it wasn’t serious until I was an adolescent. I dove into ashtanga and vinyasa yoga and those practices carried me safely through young adulthood. My first 200 hour training in the Anusara method opened my eyes to tantric philosophy and anatomy and kinesiology in asana. Several years of study in Anusara led me deeper down those paths as well as into studies in functional anatomy, yin yoga, meditation, and what I now call my practice - feel better yoga. Feel better yoga is a non-denominational, earth-based celebration of our bodies as part of the wild matrix that is life on this planet and beyond. It’s well informed by science and alignment, but never (if I am able to avoid it) strict about what I think is best; you are the master of you. I can be a partner on your journey. Yoga sessions can be a wonderful adjunct to manual therapy and are a beautiful compliment to a ten series!