Join Feldenkrais Practitioner, Katie van Ness and Yoga Teacher Carrie Dennison for an afternoon of gentle movements and restful shapes to improve your overall well-being. The goal of this workshop is to help you find ease and elegance by offering accessible movements to help you connect with your own beautiful body.

When you slow down and connect with your breath and body, you will become more present and available for both thinking and movement. You will be able to release harmful patterns - in your body and in your mind that may hold you back from experiencing harmony in all aspects of life.

Katie and Carrie will blend Feldenkrais and Yoga to help you access poses with less effort. Following that will be a Feldenkrais lesson to liberate hips, spine, and neck. We will conclude the workshop with a one hour restorative yoga practice to help integrate the new movement patterns into your brain and body.

You will leave with some tips and tricks to implement in your life to make things easier.

What is Feldenkrais?

Feldenkrais® classes are known as Awareness Through Movement® (ATM®) lessons: Similar to Tai Chi or gentle yoga, Awareness Through Movement classes use slow, mindful movements to achieve powerful effects in terms of strength, flexibility, and holistic integration of body and mind. Unique to the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education is that these lessons tie directly into functional movements of daily life, such as walking efficiently, safely lifting objects, and improving one’s posture in sitting or standing.

What is Restorative Yoga?

Restorative Yoga is a practice that can facilitate deep healing by initiating one’s relaxation response, to become aware of where tension is held in the body, releasing that tension, and to restore the body to homeostasis. It is a practice of doing nothing that creates an experience of physical and emotional grounding by lying down in shapes supported by bolsters, blankets, and blocks.