Interoception : Being able to connect to inner body sensations.

When we practice yoga asana, how often is our attention outside of ourselves, or on seeking to reproduce a shape with our bodies instead of exploring felt sensation and moving with mindful awareness?

In an embodied practice, your body is the subject of your meditation on a moment to moment basis.

Long believed in traditional yoga and now backed through growing research is the effect of movement patterns on our physiology and on our emotions. The good news is that as we age and as we change we can hardwire new patterns.

“Our body needs a rich movement diet” Charlie Reed (CMT, movement specialist): The ideal is that we become adept at being good movement generalists over being movement specialists.

Body worker, educator and yoga teacher Leslie Kaminoff explains healthy movement as well distributed movement: a little movement coming from a lot of places.

This workshop is an introduction to movement exploration. Everyone's movement expression is highly individual, though we will be exploring together different movement modalities; different ways of moving our bodies in space such as crawling, hopping, rolling, and forms of locomotion on our hands.

We will explore ways to mobilise the spine and major joints in the body, seeking to find a harmony between strength, mobility and the breath. And hopefully we will have a lot of fun in the process.

The goal is for you to leave this workshop with a wider movement repertoire, a deeper sense of connection to your body-mind and to what a healthy, balanced movement practice represents for you. The aim is also that you take what serves you from the workshop and integrate these movements as a compliment to your yoga practice or whatever existing movements practice you may have.

There will be some partner work during this workshop, as well as time spent on hands. Contraindications are shoulder/wrist injuries.