Welcome to Anatomy of the Heart
Welcome to the June 2022 Anatomy of the Heart immersion. I am thrilled to be sharing this experience with you. In this immersion, our goal is to develop a greater understanding of the body through anatomical visualizations and embodied exercises while expanding our heart-opening practice. Seeing the muscles prior to feeling them in action will enhance our efforts and improve the learning process both mentally and kinesthetically.
Heart openers are unique. In my 14+ years of teaching these complex postures, I have noticed that you cannot simply learn technique and access your fullest potential. You need both technique AND a mindset that prepares the body for opening up. Backbends are the oposite of fight/flight/freeze postures, which means the nervous system cannot be in a state of high arousal (sympathetic nervous system) when we approach them. In other words, if we are feeling fearful, our body will close off and tighten in the front, making backbends feel painful and impossible. Yet at the same time, we need to be awake and present in order to articulate the appropiate actions in the body so that we do not injure ourselves. It is a delicate balance, but you are more than capable of accessing this state of “awake yet calm.”
To help us with both the technical side of backbends and the “heart” side of them, classes will go back and forth between anatomical and themed. I look forward to diving in with you.
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