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Muscular Freedom Starts with the Joints — Feet, Knees, and Hips
with Doug Keller
Our nervous system regulates our flexibility according to the freedom it perceives in our joints. That means that the state of our feet and knees profoundly influences the flexibility of our hamstrings, hips, and low back. Our practical focus will be on the lower body: principles for working with the feet, knees, and hips, with new insights into the feet as the keys to these joints in all classes of poses.
Core Flow Vinyasa & Cueing Course for Teachers
with Marlene Henny
Learn to effortlessly integrate the deeper core aspects and practicalities into your vinyasa classes. Your students will love it! This module seamlessly integrates core anatomy knowledge with creative, intelligent, non-linear movements, intriguing transitions, and core principles, all leading to the art of teaching distinctive classes. This experience will elevate you into becoming a highly sought-after yoga instructor.
Hanna Somatics Teacher Training
with Lisa Petersen
You are a soma. Your soma is self-regulating, self-monitoring, self-assessing, self-correcting, self-renewing and ultimately self-healing. Join Lisa in this beautiful experience and teachter training in the Original Hanna Somatics Movement Education Approach starting in March 2025.
Somatic Strength Weekend
with Lizzie Lasater
Discover how to train with consistency over intensity. You’ll learn efficient methods that maximize your results with minimal time investment, making your practice both enjoyable and sustainable for the long term. Whether you’re looking to enhance your personal practice or deepen your teaching skills, this workshop will empower you to develop a strong and resilient body.
Somatic Yoga Weekend
with Lisa Petersen
What is your Yoga practice built on? One key foundation is your relationship to the ground, gravity, and space. This workshop explores how to combine spaciousness with strength, ease, poise and grace within asana and life. The breath will be our friend.
Sequencing & Cueing Course for Yoga Teachers
with Marlene Henny
Sequencing & Cueing is the most NEXT STEP Training for Yoga teachers or soon to be teachers or people who need a refresher about creative and grounded sequencing. Learn how to safely and fluently sequence your yoga class concepts so your class feels more integrated, beautiful, balanced and appropriate for everyone in the room.
Hatha Yoga & Somatic Training
with Liliana Nuño
This Somatic Yoga Training is designed to help you connect with yourself and the immense beauty of Yoga, its original ancient essence, and the traditional teachings taught with respect and love from a somatic perspective. A path based on mindfulness through physical enquiry, a training de-signed to initiate a path of transformation towards a state of deep serenity in your life and in your yoga teaching.
Free the Head, Neck and Shoulders with Somatics
with Lisa Petersen
This workshop focuses on the dynamic relationship between your head, neck, shoulders and spine. We will investigate how to get to the root of neck, shoulder and upper back pain. Learn how to combat computer shoulders, tech neck, and other repetitive strains; say goodbye to tension and hello to embodied ease and relaxation. The afternoon practice focuses on how somatics is such an exquisitely intelligent preparation for yoga asana.
Somatic Solutions for Stress
with Lisa Petersen
Investigate three unconscious responses to stress and examines how they affect your posture and movement. Learn to recognise your patterns and explore solutions for lasting change. The afternoon practice focuses on how somatics is such an exquisitely intelligent preparation for yoga asana.
XL: Yoga & Somatic | Discovering the Integrity of the Body & SPINE
with Liliana Nuño
Do you feel at odds with yourself? Do you feel a disconnection between body and mind?
Join Liliana in this workshop where you will explore tools for getting to know yourself, a process to help recalibrate your inner landscape in a conscious way.
XL: The Inner World: Philosophy & Yoga
with Daniela Gfeller
Yoga & Philosophy series of workshops will give you a fun and accessible view into the foundations of yoga philosophy as outlined by the ancient sage Patanjali. This workshop deals with The Inner World: These help us understand the part of life that we can direct towards ourselves – the inner observances. They are intended to help us build character and live in balance with ourselves and others and to a higher power.
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XL: You and the World: Philosophy & Yoga
with Daniela Gfeller
Yoga & Philosophy series of workshops will give you a fun and accessible view into the foundations of yoga philosophy as outlined by the ancient sage Patanjali. This workshop deals with YAMAS: These are concerned with the world around us and our interaction with it. Deep dive and learn how yoga can change more than you body!
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Deep Winter Retreat
with Liliana Nuño
The Deep Winter Retreat is a four-day invitation where you will be guided into somatic and meditative dimensions of yoga. Based on her personal journey of investigating the interconnection between body, mind and breath through somatic research with a focus on the study of gravity, Liliana offers an opportunity to better understand the holistic aspect of yoga through a focus on a physical practice.
Somatics and Yoga - The Missing Link
with Simon Low and Jane Stirzaker
Discover the rich and deep work of pioneer in body therapeutic movement work, Thomas Hanna-inspired Somatic approach to human health and healing. Explore how these deeply effective practices can work together with the practice and teaching of somatic inspired yoga.
Summer Asana Lab and Pranayama
with Liliana Nuño
A summer retreat integrating Asana, Pranayama, Kriyas and Bandhas, which will help us to investigate the power of the breath. In these summer days you will be able to engage with yoga in a dynamic and simultaneously reflective way: more challenging asanas will be explored combined with the practice of pranayama to discover the inner movement of body, mind, breath, and the interrelationship that binds them together.
XL: Crow Pose Groups of postures: Learn to Fly
with Caitlin Lindsey
Crow pose is the gateway pose for learning arm balancing. Learn the mechanics of crow pose & prepare for takeoff! We will break down bakansa and build understanding similar arm balances, piece by piece. Crow pose is a great pose for first-time arm balancers to learn to tackle more advanced arm balances in the future. Bring an adventurous spirit.
10-Day Challenge
Join the Annual 10-Day Yoga Moves Challenge! The challenge requires you to set an intention for yourself and commit to taking a yoga class at Yoga Moves for 10 consecutive days.
XL: Learn to Love Backbends - Urdhva Dhanurasana and Beyond
with Caitlin Lindsey
We see backbends appear in most active yoga classes, yet many of us struggle with low back pain or compression in these poses. Learn to stop forcing your backbends and to approach these poses with ease, proper support, and technique. Caitlin will help you build your backbends from the ground up and overcome fear and challenges of integrating these poses into your practice.
XL: Loops and Spirals in your Upper Body
with Léah Kline
Experienced Asana Teacher Léah Kline will introduce the concept of loops and spirals in your upper body and how they are part of your natural alignment. Exploring this will assist you in all parts of your practice. She plans to connect it to help you deepen and stabilize your arm balances and back bends. Practice, simply recognize and follow this energetic direction in your arm bones and your upper back. All levels welcome.
Somatic Approach to Yoga Training
with Liliana Nuño
This Somatic Yoga Training is designed to help you connect with yourself and the immense beauty of Yoga, its original ancient essence, and the traditional teachings taught with respect and love from a somatic perspective. A path based on mindfulness through physical enquiry, a training de-signed to initiate a path of transformation towards a state of deep serenity in your life and in your yoga teaching.
Somatic Explorations: Exploring the Mind - Be Present
with Liliana Nuño
Be present
Get acquainted with the somatic method called OSSEUS, which approaches yoga practice as somatic re-education. Developed by Liliana, movement is approached from the inside out: through self-inquiry. Get acquainted with the Koshas, i.e., the five layers that human nature consists of in Vedante philosophy. In this last workshop of a 4-series you will explore how these layers are intrinsically connected and affect each other as a whole.
Somatic Explorations: Awakening the Bandhas for Stability and Relaxation
with Liliana Nuño
Awakening the Bandhas for Stability and Relaxation
Get acquainted with the somatic method called OSSEUS, which approaches yoga practice as somatic re-education. Developed by Liliana, movement is approached from the inside out: through self-inquiry. Learn to clarify the Bandhas and how to access them in this third workshop of a 4-series. Doing so, results in a new structural and functional organisation, which frees the breath
Somatic Explorations: Creating Space
with Liliana Nuño
Creating Space
Get acquainted with the somatic method called OSSEUS, which approaches yoga practice as somatic re-education. Developed by Liliana, movement is approached from the inside out: through self-inquiry. Learn to use opposition between body parts to create space between key bone structures (i.e. the pelvis, rib cage and head) to open the spine in this second workshop of a 4-series.