A gentle guide to your inner body.

Together we will explore a series of poses that are designed to deepen our relationship with our outer and inner body. Through a deeper listening to the organs we learn how the body can begin to heal itself. The focus will be placed on the breath, the organs and a change in your nervous system.

Think of it this way, your organs are the contents and your muscles and bones are the container . Your muscles take their shape from the organ body. Without their support we would be -- hollow. In fact, we age not in our muscles and bones but in our organs, this does not need to be the case if we have a practice that keeps this in mind. Mostly, we don't consider our organs in movement at all let alone think about moving from or with them. They get tossed around like seashells at the bottom of the ocean. We want to move from the organs as well as have our movements intentionally impact them. This movement practice not only considers them but makes them the focus of the practice, returning health and vitality back to the body.

Our autonomic nervous system has two channels: fight or flight (sympathetic nervous system and rest and digest (parasympathetic). If you are in fight or flight your muscles are getting a message to contract. If you force or push they will contract more. It's simply how the body works. That is why we spend time breathing in the beginning, slowing you down and inviting you to the rest and digest of your NS. Here your muscles naturally let go and your body begins to heal. When you feel safe, your heart rate slows and your muscles soften so you can rest. Many of us live in our SN and rarely if ever shift into the PSN making it not only hard for the body to heal, but by existing in this way for extended periods of time we begin to create many other disturbances in the body. We will learn how to move between the two and live in a state of rest and digest and only use our fight or flight in those times when we really need it !