What is Slow Yoga?
This approach to movement uses ease, relaxation, and non-force to encourage the nervous system to slow down, release built-up muscular tension, and enable your body to move more freely and with less strain. Utilizing both sensory awareness and somatic movement practices this class offers students a unique path to embodiment.
Each class spends ample time on the ground with an extended floor-based sequence that releases tension and fatigue through therapeutic rocking, gliding, and sliding movements designed for fascial release. All exercises and dynamic movements will be performed slowly, in isolation, and without force.
Rooted in Zen Buddhism, Yoga, and Somatic Education, and inspired by the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, Ida Rolf, Thomas Hanna, and Tias Little these unique sessions integrate sensory awareness practices with finely articulated movements to unite breath and motion.
Benefits:
Reduce body fatigue by releasing involuntarily stored muscular tension.
Create space in the body and mind through passivity and relaxation.
Open the joint spaces and create elasticity in the deeper ligaments where movement is often restricted.
Address low back pain, shoulder compression, and cranial tension by working in and around the connected-to structures of the spine.
Cultivate deeper somatic awareness through sensory synchronization techniques.
Cultivate longevity in your movement / yoga practice by building a sustainable practice model and mindset.
About Ryan
After dedicating most of my life to athletic training, and competing as a middle distance runner at Penn State, my body gradually began to struggle under the relentless strain, fatigue, and physical demands I had been placing on it. Since then I have discovered and developed a yoga practice that runs as a countercurrent to the pressures and models of fitness and exercise I was exposed to from a young age.
My yoga classes are slow, embodied, and focused on the inward, not outward expression of movement. My goal is to help students cultivate presence through subtle movement and conscious breath, to calm and ease the body and help quiet the mind.
