karen ann yoga
* Encouraging the body to move with curiosity & ingelligence
* Encouraging the body to move with curiosity & ingelligence
Somatic Yoga Teacher & Sound Healer
Promoting physical wellbeing through a somatic based movement practice & yoga
Somatic Yoga
A practice of inquiry, intuition, feeling and honoring our bodies own intelligence
Slowing things down to notice the subtlety.
Attune to your inner landscape.
Interconnecting primal movement into more traditional yoga postures following the fluidity of the body.
Offering a chance to delve a little deeper into a felt sense of awareness and discover how your body wants to move.
Becoming aware of the journey rather than the destination.
Come with me…….
Encourage the body to become supple and strong through movement * Re-educate the body to function with painless ease * Prevent pointless injury * Establish balance and harmony within*
* SOMATIC CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & SOUND HEALING EVENTS
* SOMATIC CLASSES, WORKSHOPS & SOUND HEALING EVENTS
Fun, inquiry-based practices, designed to create fluid freedom of movement.
Taking you from a ‘what it looks like’ practice into a felt sense of self.
A *somatic, curiosity to ‘fine tune’ and recognise your restrictions, creating an opportunity to change patterns which may no longer be serving you.
Tune into the inner sensory matrix of *fascia to cultivate more strength, stability and mobility.
Classes are a playful exploration from within, accessible to all.
deeply rooted in inquiry and curiosity whilst still recognising and honouring the traditional practice of yoga.
A complete combination of awareness, breath and movement.
To feel energised, strong and supple, to continue to do all the things that you LOVE to do!!!
What Is Fascia??
Quite simply, it’s what we are made of!
The largest sensory organ.
A multi directional, multi layered fabric web, connnecting & intertwining all that we are, from liquid blood to the solid bone and everything inbetween.
Made of collagen fibres and hyaluronic acid.
Stabilizing the joints, whilst allowing everything within to slide and glide, stretching and returning with ease.
Repetitive movements, chronic stress, injury and inactivity cause the fascia to become rigid and stuck, forming adhesions in the fascial matrix that over time can limit mobility causing pain and dysfunction.
This is me……..
* A highly qualified movement and manual Myofascial Practitioner. From a sporting background and a long and successful career in bodywork and facilitating movement.
What I offer you…….
* Somatic classes and UK workshops, from the east of England to the south west, designed to promote a deeper understanding of movement, tuning in to your own body’s uniqueness.
* Over 25 years of experience, a vast understanding of anatomy and the complex network of fascia, with a deep passion for promoting healthy bodies.
* A vast knowledge of the form and function of the body through somatic movement and subtle awareness.
Simple definitions
*Somatic - primarily refers to that which is of, relating to, or affecting the body. It originates from the Greek word "sôma,"meaning "body”. Beyond biological definitions, "somatic" is relevant in therapeutic and wellness practices that focus on the mind-body connection, often involving techniques to improve well-being through bodily awareness.
*Fascia - In anatomy and medicine fascia refers to the matrix of connective tissue found below the skin that attach, stabilize, impart strength, and enclose organs, muscles, and bones.
Somatic Sound Healing
We are beings of vibration — fields of energy, rhythm and sensation moving within a living body. Beneath the skin lies fascia, a vast web of connective tissue that weaves through every muscle, bone and organ. This fluid, crystal matrix holds memory, movement and feeling, quietly sensing the world within and around us.
Fascia listens. It responds to touch, movement, emotion, breath and vibration. When life’s stresses accumulate — tension, overwhelm, stillness or strain — this delicate network can become dense or restricted, holding patterns that limit the body’s natural flow.
Within a somatic healing sound bath, waves of sound ripple through the body like gentle tides. The tones of crystal bowls, cosmic gongs, chimes and other instruments, move through the tissues, meeting the fascia in its watery, resonant nature. As vibration travels through this inner landscape, it invites the tissues to soften, hydrate and awaken their natural fluidity.
Gradually, the body begins to remember its ease — the effortless slide and glide of healthy fascia, the quiet movement of lymph and the spaciousness between structures. Layers of held tension may begin to melt away as the internal architecture reorganises itself in response to sound and vibration.
Held within this cocoon of vibration, the nervous system settles. Breath deepens. Time slows. A deep sense of restoration unfolds as body, energy and awareness gently realign.
In this space of resonance and rest, the body is invited back into harmony with its own innate intelligence — a subtle, profound remembering of balance and wholeness.
