Somatic & Mindful Yoga monthly evening workshops

These workshops are for anyone needing to make space and time to breathe deeply, reconnect with their bodies and still their minds with curious, fluid, compassionate and functional movement.

Charlotte weaves Somatic practices - more fluid, explorative, primal motions - with postures and movements more commonly associated with a physical yoga practice. She is most interested in how these gestures bring us into embodied awareness and a compassionate relation with self though.

Exploring the movement within stillness and the stillness within movement, whether there is more containment or fluidity, there is ample time and space to listen in to your deeper needs.

In this way these mindful, meditative practices can help us drop beneath striving and 'getting it right', towards liberation and releasing stress, trauma and tension from body tissues.

This is movement not just about what we can or can't 'do', but bringing curiosity into where our expressions, boundaries, needs and habitual responses lie, so that we might allow new stories and patterns to emerge. 

Beginning with a meditative, lying somatic practice, we arrive into the body and meet ourselves where we are with explorative and fluid motions. From this grounding, awareness and attunement into our inner landscape, we can then move from the centre in a more integrated way, feeling out what we need moment to moment.

These mostly lying, held, fluid and responsive practices include rocking, rolling, twisting and pulsing, but also lead up through different levels up through gravity to experience the human evolution from the ground up.

We'll stay close to the ground for this nurturing, evening practice and explore practical antidotes to the stresses of modern life – from the postural issues of sitting on chairs and hunching over computers to the ‘busy brain’ effects of constant stimulus and psycho-social pressure.

There will be plenty of time to make our way from curious movement, through a few restorative postures towards a long savasana (final, lying relaxation) to allow the practice to settle into tissues and all aspects of our beings.

Suitable for all levels and a great complement to a more dynamic practice.