Move in gentle ways to reduce body tension, improve breath & balance.

A mix of gentle hatha, somatics, breathing & balance practices. Suitable for those wanting to do less traditional yoga but use movements to awaken both body and brain. Motion is your lotion.

Rooted in the work of Thomas Hanna, these classes are ongoing exploration of Essential Somatic movements to maintain function and ease of your life on two feet.

Classes will have a specific focus, weekly or monthly with morning or evening options.

Focus may include:

Below the Belt

Achey Feet

Slumped & Slouched

Pain in the Neck

Ease on Back

Tame Your Tilt

Twist & Turn

Hands on Deck

Online platform with Zoom. Available as individual or full series.

From Memory or Imagination, be guided with prompts to bring experiences to the page. The AWA method is grounded with supportive commentary that allows a safe container to be held for writers to explore their craft.

We focus on what worked, stayed with us and was strong. All work is treated as fiction so as to uphold the writer and any risks they may have taken by putting words to paper. No experience is necessary.

This chair-based class will blend both traditional chair yoga with chair yoga dance (CYD)

Create stillness, breath awareness and increased flexibility with chair-based hatha yoga. Infusing music (all genres) with Chair Yoga Dance helps to Improve strength, cardi, and memory in an uplifiting way. The chair is used as both a support and a prop. (Seated & Optional Standing).

Chair classes are not for the old & decrepit! It's for anyone dealing with a joint issue, balance concerns or recovery that makes it challenging to get up and down to the floor.

With a lifetime of experience in an anxious body, Sharon will offer a "buffet" of practices to try on that may be YOUR key to easing your anxiety. From breath to movement, yoga, somatics, qigong and relaxation -- see what shifts in a safe & supportive environment.

Join Somatic Movement Educators Sharon & Julie for an evening that introduces the basics of somatics with 5 movements that may well be change the way you move and get you out of pain

Join Somatic Movement Educators Sharon & Julie as they introduce movements to calm your nervous system while releasing muscular tension that is impeding your ablity to relax.

Introducing basic somatic exercises in the style of Essential Somatics (based on the work of somatic pioneer Thomas Hanna) to allow the body to find a more integrated way of movement while awakening areas of SMA (Sensory Motor Amnesia).

These simple movements can help restore your ease of motion and re-set the patterning in the brain that may have forgotten how to release due to injury, posture or stress. Class size is limited. Handouts and Practice Audio incl.

Walking is your birthright. The ability to walk freely and with ease will bring the world to your footsteps. Explore the relationship of patterns of movement from shoulders to hips and how an injury may have sidelined your gait in more ways than one.