Exploring the Organ System, we find new internal pathways of movement, support, and connectivity. We learn to move more naturally, with greater technical skill and consciousness. Asana and sequencing become a balance of organic flow, form, activity, and rest.
Through this course you will gain an understanding of the organs and their relationship to movement, breath, and touch. We’ll experience how they contribute to alignment, and vitality, helping you experience a deeper sense of presence and flow.
In The Upper Body And Central Axis we will explore the formation of the front body; the respiratory structures, gut tube, lungs, heart, and upper abdominal organs. These structures internally support the thorax, head, neck, arms and spine. New embodied vocabulary and principles will be introduced.
Throughout the course, we will engage in somatic explorations that include anatomy, embryology, and developmental movement as a basis for opening greater awareness within ourselves
Classes will offer:
- New approaches to alignment and sequencing using Body-Mind Centering® principles .
- Greater depth of movement, ease, and flow in forming asanas.
- Discovering new sequential relationships between postures from a developmental and organ perspective.
- Learn to recognize compensatory patterns, and ways to alleviate them when they occur
THE UPPER BODY & CENTRAL AXIS
Dates: APRIL 27; MAY 4, MAY 25, 2025
Time: 9:00am – 10:30am; 11:00am – 12:30pm EST/ USA
SIX LIVESTREAM CLASSES
Livestream classes are presented online via zoom, with time for discussion and questions. They are an active combination of presentation, movement exploration, principles of embodiment, and ways to apply the material. Each live class is recorded and stored in your student account, with lifetime access. If you can’t make the live classes, you can follow the classes on your own timeline.
THREE RECORDED YOGA CLASSES
The recorded yoga classes support the material presented in the live classes and help to continue your embodied integration. They offer new ways to apply the material to yoga practice and teaching.
EACH DATE INCLUDES: Two 1.5 hours ( 3 hours ) of livestream class, plus an additional 75 minute recorded yoga class to help further your integration of the material presented.
THE UPPER BODY AND CENTRAL AXIS is composed of: six 1.5 hour livestream classes (9 hours), three 75 minute recorded yoga classes (4 hours). Together they provide a comprehensive 13 hours of embodied learning in an easy online library format, that you can watch anytime.