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Article from Issue #8 (April 7, 2019)

Gentle Somatic Yoga®

by James Knight

Gentle Somatic Yoga® (GSY) is an exploration through movement that is revolutionary in its ability to improve health, wellbeing, quality of life, and personal performance.

GSY incorporates slow, mindful movements that amplify bodily awareness. This allows the practitioner to self-correct and permanently release persistent stress-based patterns from within their body (Soma).

The restorative sequences, called Somatic Movement Flows®, are ideal for unwinding stiffness, pain & postural imbalances, and will dramatically increase flexibility through brain-to-muscle re-education. From this place of new-found freedom, we naturally return to our generative state of peace and wellbeing.

GSY has been synthesized by Integrative Therapist and Yoga Teacher James Knight, E-RYT, CHSE. His progressive method is the synergy of Hanna Somatic Education, hatha yoga, meditation, and Core Energetics, as well as principles ascribed to quantum mechanics. It was inspired from the work of Eleanor Criswell Hanna, Thomas Hanna, Moshe Feldenkrais, Lawrence Gold, Tom Myers, John Pierrakos, Toni Petrinovich, as well as others.

GSY has helped diminish, correct, and/or eliminate symptoms from these conditions:

Source: www.gentlesomaticyoga.com