by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Connection, Diaphragm, Embodiment, Gravity, Limbs, Mind, Movement, Muscles, Psoas, Stability
Navel Radiation is a pre-vertebrate pattern within the Basic Neurological Patterns/Developmental Movement paradigm of Body-Mind Centering® developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. It is the pattern of radial symmetry and relates to our earliest connection with our...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Breath, Cells, Connection, Consciousness, Core, Homeostasis, Movement, Space, Spiral, Touch, Yoga
The IAYT model of Yoga Therapy (often 1:1) integrates the whole being through relationships in the Pancha Maya Kosha model, i.e the physical body, the energetic body (e.g chakra system and pancha vayus, prakriti and vikruti etc), our emotional afflictions, our thought...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Body, Fluid, Gravity, Non-linear Movement, Sensory
I love the sensory feedback provided by another body in Contact Improvisation, so I created my own improv with a contralateral elastic band and a foam roller. Took me a while to get into a fluid, tangled play in a dynamic relationship with gravity. I enjoyed the...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Awareness, Bones, Brain, Cells, Connection, Core, Embodiment, Embryology, Limbs, Movement, Nerve, Proprioception, Spine, Spiral
From Liz Koch, author of Core Awareness & Stalking Wild Psoas: Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk Psoas with an orthopedic surgeon in Europe who reached out to me about this mysterious tissue. When I told him I thought psoas was a...
by Daphne | Nov 2, 2021 | Embodiment
What is #embodiment?Is it in the waking hours when I feel my breaking heart aches for love that I’ve lost, when my drifting soul yearns to be anchored, when the weight of my being longs to be held.Are they the dark sleepless nights when my shadows come out to...
