Welcome to my scheduling site. I currently offer weekday and weekend classes in Yamuna® Body Rolling (YBR) and Qigong, 1-to-1 sessions and Build Your Own (Customized) Retreats of varying lengths. Regardless of modality, built-in to all classes is the focus on the breath, on moving slowly and with awareness, and on sensing the flow of subtle energy so that students can tap into the potential for self-healing.
How it breaks down for me. anatomy = psychology = spirituality so I look at the body as systemically holding whatever is going on and work from the energetic root of an issue outward. The organic nature of each of us requires us to work organically to change, heal and integrate. I believe imbalance and health issues are a wake up call from home. Pain being a common message the soul uses to get one's attention. Ignored, the messages get louder, more intense, whatever that looks or feels like for each of us in our individual journey.
Yamuna Body Rolling is an intelligent self-care modality based on embodied anatomy and the use of different sized balls that allows you to rehab yourself. The feedback from the balls and routines lets you discover and become aware of holding patterns or ways that you have been overdoing or under doing in certain areas. YBR can help to reawaken many of the basic developmental and movement patterns that help keep us sustainable. These neuromuscular patterns get disrupted through trauma, injuries and even through exercise and sports that are deemed healthy. This leads to a cycle of compensations, imbalances and then maybe even more injuries.
YBR enhances and clarifies physical movement so your body can meet any daily living activity, exercise or sport in a healthy way. Self-adjusting, self-traction, creating space in joints, (not) hanging in ligaments, finding the sitting bones, waking up the whole line of a muscle chain and activating or relaxing muscle groups can all be beautifully illustrated with the feedback from the balls so that your whole body can begin to understand how to find safe and healthy movement.
The power of YBR as a self-care modality lies in how the routines and feedback from the balls offer a slow and organic way for you to unwind, rehab and recover at your own pace so that any issues have the opportunity to shift and change.
When you work on yourself you can start to discover and become aware of holding patterns and begin to undo them. The purpose of the routines and exercises in classes is to help you begin to move as an integrated whole being - more efficiently, with fewer compensations and more sustainability and aim to:
For information on Yamuna Body Rolling and the use of therapy balls and other modalities that show up in my classes, please visit any of the links below or email me
Qigong is one of the softer martial arts, a little more active than Tai Chi but less rigorous than Kung Fu. Like many of the ancient practices, it is considered both an art and a science. It is increasingly becoming popular as a way for people to manage modern dis eases (such as stress, insomnia, autoimmune issues, hypertension, etc.). The subtle practice can stimulate or soothe where and how we need it throughout our whole bodies and asks us to reconnect the parts, to synchronize our breathing and to be present and aware
Foundational movements, breath, and flow as well as philosophy and Chinese Medicine theory as preventive and for health and longevity come into each class. No experience is necessary and in general classes offer a slow but energizing basic flow that is done standing (though many movements can be modified to be done in a chair)
For information on Qigong and the style that shows up in my classes, please visit any of the links below: