Series 2 - Class #01 with Lisa: Sideways with Somatic Yoga

Side bends inhabit a liminal space of possibility. We are neither moving forwards or backwards but in the fertile soil of ‘in-between asana’. This class will focus on developing a conscious conversation between our right and left sides, and investigates how our sides talk to our midline. We will investigate how to grow yoga asana from simple somatic exercises. You are invited to....

• Learn how to use somatic exercises as an exquisitely intelligent preparation for yoga asana.
• Investigate how to align bones and free myofascial knots and tensions.
• Discover how to lay down inner movement pathways for seamless flow.
• Experience the ease, freedom and strength that comes from being aligned from the inside out.

This class includes yoga, somatics, embodied anatomy, breathwork, movement inquiry, developmental movement and bio-tensegrity. It is suitable for students from all streams of yoga.  Bring a curious mind, a willingness to explore, and a love of movement.

Series 2 - Class #05 with Lisa: Forward Bending with Grace and Gratitude

‘…with an eye made quiet by the power

Of harmony and the deep power of joy,

We see into the life of things.’

William Wordsworth

This class is an opportunity to explore how we move inwards before we can move outwards. We are born curled into flexion. It is the first movement motif that we experience outside the womb. Flexion is associated with the grace of bowing to the earth. It is the precursor of opening ourselves to the sky and the world. This class explores the moment-to-moment transitions into forward bends and how to find your right way.

You are invited to…

•Find your fluid centre and allow movement to emerge from there.

•Learn how to create a springy recoil that emerges from the ballast of your centre.

•Explore the feeling of being safe with yourself and what that means to you. •Experience the joy of having a moving, breathing body.

•Bow with grace and gratitude.

This is an opportunity to play with the boundaries between inner and outer resources. The class will include yoga, somatics, embodied anatomy, breathwork, movement inquiry, developmental movement, bio-tensegrity, and the childlike wonder of a somanaut. Suitable for students from all traditions of yoga.

Series 2 - Class #09 with Lisa: Twisting from Our Inner Spirals

The world is available to us.

Can we be available to the world?’

~ Thich Nhat Hahn

This class explores our inner spirals through twisting asana. It’s an opportunity to discover a new sensory gorgeousness within your old best friend called yoga. How we create ourselves is one of the wondrous secrets of the universe. At fifteen days old you are a three-layered disk with a top layer, a bottom layer and a filling in the sandwich of you. Over the next five weeks the disk that is you will fold, unfold, twist, turn, and shapeshift creating tubes, pouches, pockets and bags within bags. There are no straight lines in your body. There never were. It is a world of spirals within spirals. This is the embodied reality of yoga asana and all movement.

You are invited to…

•Investigate the natural elasticity of your tissues without stretching.

•Play with embodying the natural resilience of your fascia.

•Feel qualities of strength, elegance and glide in movement.

•Experience yourself as a multi-dimensional being and investigate what that offers to your movement and your life.

This class will include yoga, somatics, embodied anatomy, breathwork, movement inquiry, developmental movement, bio-tensegrity, and a deep respect for our embryological origins. Suitable for students from all streams of yoga.