by Daphne | Feb 22, 2022 | Being, Body, Classes, Core, Exploration, Limbs, Mind, Muscles, Navel, Pelvis, Somatic, Space
Navel Radiation Workshop 1/3 The first class of the navel radiation series. In today’s session, we learn about the core of our body. In the fitness realm, there’s so much emphasis on the core. Most of the time, the core was associated with the much desired...
by Daphne | Nov 6, 2021 | Awareness, Body, Bones, Brain, Diaphragm, Embryology, Feet, Gravity, Grounding, Limbs, Mobility, Movement, Muscles, Myofascial, Pelvis, Stability
This week’s focus on #somawithDaphneandLucy are your precious feet 🙂 The relative distance of our feet from our brain often causes us to disregard the health and care of our feet. We tend to ignore the messages coming from this very distal part of...
by Daphne | Nov 5, 2021 | Arms, Body, Brain, Gravity, Joints, Limbs, Nervous System, Sensory, Spine, Yoga
This week on #somawithdaphneandlucy STRETCHING VS PANDICULATION​The fascination and obsession with “stretching” is pretty much why most people came into the practice of yoga. Ever since we can remember we’ve been told to stretch for our aches and pains....
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 | 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 | Limbs, Myofascial, Spiral
A little rolly polly floor time playing with initiating from the soft midline, from navel to limbs. Playing with low falling and reversible spiralling movements, fascia continuity and biotensegrity in finding tension and rebound :)This post was previously posted...