6-week Online Course, taught weekly on Wednesdays
In this lesson series you will be guided through Living Somatics movement lessons to deepen your understanding of the somatic principles and learning strategies. Through this awareness practice, you will learn to access freedom of movement and embody your best self. You will see how slow, conscious movement, while focusing on the internal experience, can help you draw on your body’s innate self-regulating and self-healing power to find balance, inner peace, and wellbeing.
Living Somatics is a system of neuromuscular education and a movement awareness practice. This work teaches us to recognise and release holding patterns and chronic pain resulting from injury, stress, repetitive strain, and habituated posture. In this course, you will increase your sensory abilities, improve your posture and self-use, address tension and pain, and support overall health. The lessons are designed to improve the way you move and feel. The movements are slow, mindful and mostly done lying on the floor. The primary focus is on finding ease and comfort. The quality of movement takes priority over its form and this is achieved by a focus on how we use ourselves during the lesson. This process enables an improvement of the function of our nervous system.
Free Online Community Conversation
In this community conversation, Maya will share insights from her lifelong study of the natural world, animal and plant communication, as well as her extensive training in Native American Tracking. As part of the gathering you will be guided through a Somatic inquiry in relation to the elements followed by a group conversation about how we can resource awareness of the elements in our movement practice, as well as in daily life.
We may also share how attuning to the elements surrounding us, as well as in our body, can help us draw on the body’s innate self-regulating and self-healing powers to find balance, health, and resilience.
In this event, we will learn:
● Practices to come into deeper relationship with the natural elements
● How to embody the elements in our somatic movement explorations
● Ways to deepen communication with the natural world of plants, trees and animals. This event is free for students and clients of Living Somatics.
7-Week Online Course, starting Wednesday
In this course you will discover how the body’s inherent restorative forces are expressed, and be guided through embodied osteopathic and somatic practices that work with your entire being to awakening a felt sense of balance, peace, and coherence. During this 7-week embodied health journey, you will:
● Explore the osteopathic understanding of the root causes of disease, including the concept of the key lesion as the organising center of dysfunction
● Apply osteopathic principles of self-healing, learning how the body reveals and resolves its own patterns through awareness, insight, and alignment with nature’s laws
● Explore the fluidic and electrical nature of fascia as a conductor of bioenergy and resonance throughout the system
● Develop a deeper awareness of your spine and pelvis and its role in support, movement, balance, and nervous system regulation
● Discover the psychosomatic dimensions of low-back pain, recognising how emotion, thought, and conflict patterns manifest as physical pain in the body
● Study the anatomy, physiology, and spirit of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) — the living medium of the breath of life
● Activate your inherent blueprint of health and wholeness.
Live Online Workshops & Class Series
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