What do you do? I teach movement and yoga. My focus is on therapeutic and restorative movement, helping people recover from injuries, address chronic pain or find greater ease and efficiency of movement. In order to do this, I use principles and practices from somatics, movement therapy, yoga, Laban/Bartenieff Movement and Body-Mind Centering. Who is … Continue reading FAQs
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Coming Into Embodiment
Yoga is an embodied practice. It sounds obvious when I put it like that, but many of us haven’t taken the time to consider what it truly means to work with the body. The body we are interested in as yogis is not so much the physical body as seen or imagined from the outside, … Continue reading Coming Into Embodiment
Dharana & Dhyana: A Somatic Perspective
by Vaishali Iyer The eight limbs of yoga described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are often taught as a step-by-step ascent, or a process of deepening interiorization which culminates with samadhi in formal sitting meditation. Many times we approach this framework sequentially, beginning with our action in the world, moving through asana and pranayama and only … Continue reading Dharana & Dhyana: A Somatic Perspective
The Still Space 