An important discovery I'd been teaching for years before I stumbled across trauma-sensitive yoga. I'm not sure what inspired me to attend that first training, but it opened my eyes to exactly the kind of practice I need for myself and am drawn to offer others. I'll say more about that in a future post. […]
This week's Moved to Heal practice offers the same reclining and seated movements as last week in a slightly different order. Sometimes the sequence of movements changes the way we experience them. I hope you'll give either or both of these 10 movement practices a try, perhaps as a way to connect to your body […]
This week's Moved to Heal practice starts lying down and gradually moves up to seated. It could be useful as a gentle way to tune in to your body, or perhaps to take a break from a long period of sitting at a computer --something most of us can relate to these days! what's […]
Moved to Heal gets a format update Last week I introduced a "5 forms" format that I'll be trying out for the next six months. Each episode will include 5 forms or starting shapes, and in these I'll invite you to try 1, 2, or 3 different actions. I'm saying that form + action = […]
As we head into 2021, I'm trying a new normal for the Moved to Heal episodes. I'll offer episodes with 5 forms (seats, stances, shapes) each with an action choice (such as lifting the arms, rounding the spine, etc). You'll see the same forms and actions over and over, in different combinations and sequences each […]
Inhales, exhales -- is there more to our breathing than just these two sides of the breath? Yes! I like to notice the four "parts" of your breathing: inhale, transition, exhale, transition. What’s in this episode of moved to heal? I introduce the "four parts" of breathing in two ways. The first way is […]
Breathing happens with and without our conscious input. For example, most of the time we can consciously take a "deep" or "full" breath when we desire. This is just one way of engaging with our breathing. This practice is about tapping into that conscious engagement. What’s in this episode of moved to heal?/h6> In […]
Where breathing sometimes overwhelms my practice of Hum Sa kriya, I find the opposite to be true with Sat Yam kriya: breathing always leads me in to the kriya technique in an effortless way. But that's just me! Your experience may be different, similar, or not really even in the same ballpark! What’s in […]
When you're moving, there's lots to pay attention to -- what's going through your head, the moves you're doing, the sensations you feel -- which makes noticing your breathing just one of a long list of things you can that we can be aware of while moving. This week, I invite you to try choosing […]