Dynamic Embodiment® of the Sun Salutation by Ioanna Thanou
Date: Thursday August 6 2024
Time: 19:00-21:00
Cost: €20
Have you ever find yourself in a yoga pose where you feel excess tension, discomfort, frustration at not being able to do it 'correctly', 'perfectly' according to your expectations?
During this workshop, I will be sharing a somatic approach to embodying yoga practice that brings awareness, teaching the DE® approach to the Sun Salutation.
No prior experience with yoga is needed. All movements are adaptable to be comfortable and watching can also be a great learning.
What is the Dynamic Embodiment of the Sun Salutation?
-Pathways to Balancing the Chakras and the Neuroendocrine System
-Attuning with the glands and early childhood development imprints while practicing the Sun Salutation.
-Conceived by Dr Martha Eddy - Body Mind Centering® Master teacher
What you will learn:
Learn the fascinating interconnection between yoga poses, making space in the joints and awakening chakras (the intersection of nerve plexuses with the glands). You are invited to watch or practice ways for the Sun Salutation to become gentler, freer, and lighter. These experiences aim to support your joints and balance hormonal activity. You will be able to discover how the Sun Salutation relates to early childhood movement. Each of these insights provides ways to enhance your sense of ease throughout the day.
Adaptive Sun Salutation
The idea is that adaptations are proposed to accommodate all bodies, for example performing the practice on a chair, in order to find their own dynamic embodiment of the sun salutation (as the title suggests!).
Τhis 2-hours class addresses:
-the general public who wishes to move with ease and release excess tension
-yoga teachers and facilitators offering them new connections and a rich treasury of images and exercises to deepen their work with individuals and groups.
About the founder of Dynamic Embodiment®-Somatic Movement Therapy, Dr. Martha Eddy
Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, DEP, RSMT is an international speaker, author, world-renowned somatic movement therapist, exercise physiologist, and award-winning dance educator, who has innovated healthy plus joyous movement and dance programming integrating biobehavioral sciences, somatic therapies, and social emotional learning inclusive of the arts for 45 years.
About the facilitator Ioanna Thanou
Ioanna Thanou, MSc, CTBMD, DEP, is a somatic movement educator (RSME), certified in BodyMind Dancing™ & Dynamic Embodiment® methods, and co-founder of the AOMM studio - Architectural Objects & Mindful Movement, for the concept, design & fabrication of somatic and eco-conscious objects for well-being.
Ioanna was born in 1990 in Athens. She is a graduate of the Department of Architectural Engineering of the Technical University of Crete(TUC) and has been living in Paris since 2016. From 2017-2021 she worked at the Mines ParisTech-Technical University as a research engineer, in the management and curriculum development of the professional postgraduate Master AIMove (AI and human movement).
She pursues independent training in contemporary dance & performance (2015) with renowned teachers in Europe & US and circus in France (2017). She has been practicing vinyasa/ashtanga since 2017 and Kundalini yoga since 2020.
Contents & Timetable
7.00
Introduction: What do we define as a 'somatic approach'?
Preparation: Identify the physiology and the physical systems that we will explore & activate (muscles of the psoas and piriformis, bones of the pelvis, glands, fluids, nervous system)
Initiation: What moves us to salute the sun? Maybe to wake up or go to work?
Moving through different rhythms to circulate fluids (cerebrospinal fluid, lymph)
Spatial intention: Opposing forces, axes and planes, 3-dimensional motion
7.45
short break, discussion and questions
8:00 Practice of the sun salutation and adaptations
8.45-9:00 discussion and questions, closing
To participate contact us:
Eutopia Center
Kioutachias 25, Mytilene
+30 6980906340 / 6909162248
www.eutopiacenter.gr
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