Most of us want to learn how to relax your mind and body. To relax the muscles, we need more than just deep breathing.

The slow, gentle movements in Gentle Somatic Yoga are the key to relaxing your body and mind. The moves train the brain to relax muscles and keep them relaxed. The deep breathing and slow movements relax the mind. This is the way to get long term relaxation in body and mind.

If you’ve been sitting a lot lately, most likely you have tight hip flexors. These are the muscles that allow you to lift your legs. They attach to the top of your thighs and the back of the spine. The somatic release I share in this video to loosen hip flexors is the best hip flexor release I’ve found. Somatic releases work at root cause which is…the BRAIN! The brain controls your muscles. When you repeat poor movement habits, the brain can “lose” control over those muscles and it won’t allow them to go back to a relaxed state. This is called Sensory Motor Amnesia.

Somatic releases work to give control back to the brain

Is Gentle Somatic Yoga right for you?

If you aren’t comfortable in your body, feeling tension, pain and stiffness, this class is custom designed for YOU.

Our human body was not designed for our sedentary lifestyle. When we are stressed out, sitting all the time, typing, texting...we end up in body positions that create poor posture and tight, contracted muscles. Then we think if we just STRETCH, that will take care of the problem.

But stretching, while it might feel good at the moment, doesn’t take care of the problem. As a matter of fact, it’s been shown to actually create tighter muscles due to our stretch reflex which is designed to stop us from over stretching. It’s like putting on the gas and the brake at the same time.

Gentle Somatic Yoga doesn’t stretch the muscles. Instead, we work at the root cause of the issues which is…the BRAIN!

Are your hips super tight from all the sitting you've been doing? In this video I show you how to release your hips. It's NOT a stretch. It's actually a RELEASE. This Gentle Somatic Yoga flow is a "magic move" because you can absolutely feel the difference when you do it.