Being Mindful with Movement & Yoga

Yoga, as perhaps the best overall system of stress reduction ever invented, can help with chronically tight or painful muscles. But when even simple movement causes severe discomfort, how can we better understand the mechanism for relieving stress or tension in these areas? For those experiencing chronic pain issues or for yoga teachers who would like to work with students overcoming pain or injury, this workshop will introduce you to the basic concepts of yoga therapy and the practice of Somatics. Developed by Thomas Hanna as a movement re-education technique, Somatics goes directly to the root cause of most chronic muscular pain: the brain. By learning to regain awareness, sensation, and motor control of muscles, the brain can remember how to relax and move the muscles properly. 
 
In Being Mindful with Yoga & Movement, you will learn to:
  • Notice that stretching or lengthening a muscle is actually controlled by the brain
  • Use a faster, more natural way to gain length in the muscles called pandiculation
  • Identify three of the body's major muscle holding patterns
  • Recognize sensory motor amnesia (SMA) as an inhibitor of movement
  • Understand the three unconscious stress reflexes that cause SMA
  • Practice 8 sequences of subtle movements that can reveal and correct maladaptive postures
  • Incorporate mind-body techniques to restore flexibility in yoga postures for you or your students


We will also explore breathing as a powerful way to quickly relax the nervous system, shifting the balance from the fight-or-flight sympathetic side to the more restorative parasympathetic division.  Such practices as simply slowing the breath, equalizing the length of the inhale and exhale, and pausing briefly after the exhalation, all tend to shift the balance of the nervous system to the parasympathetic.


Saturday September 26, 2015
3:00-5:30 PM
One World Wellness & Yoga,
967 N. High Street, East Haven CT
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This 2.5 hour workshop  is limited to 10 spaces so book early to avoid disappointment!
Registration for this workshop includes optional complimentary classes on Tuesday nights for
Tao Yoga Basics... a wonderful practice that
is both gentle and mindful for beginners.

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"Somatic Excercises can change how we live our lives, how we believe that oue minds and bodies interrelate, how powerful we think we are in controlling our lives, and how esponsible we should be in taking care of our total being"

-Thomas Hanna

One World Wellness & Yoga welcomes Somatics Educator, Andrew Schaefer, Ph.D, CSE., of Farmington Valley Physical Therapy. Please see the workshop flyer below. Or for more about FVTP and Hanna Somatics, please visit www.fvpt.com/SomaticMovementClass.html.

​One World Wellness & Yoga Collective   |  967 N. High Street, East Haven CT 06512  |  203.998.5688