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  • 1hr Online 1-to-1 with Marc J Acquaviva

    These sessions are online via the Zoom app (you will receive the zoom link in your confirmation email). Marc has 29 years of experience with helping people find real solutions to many of the common place conditions that arise in all kinds of body work and has been doing this online for over a decade now. It doesn't matter whether what you like to do is Yoga, Tai qigong or any body-mind practice (including sports and all forms of exercise) - If he can see how you move and breathe, he can help you unravel any complications that arise. Marc can then give you things that are specific to you to work with - in other words, with expert guidance, you get to have the empowering experience of working it out for yourself. Yoga teachers and other body workers looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from online sessions with Marc. If you would like to book a series of 1:1s you can get good discounts by buying a 1:1 package (look under "Members' Resources - Membership Options" - then scroll down to the 1:1 packages)

  • Want to try it out? FREE 15 min 1:1

    If you have a particular area of interest, and you are not sure whether Marc would be able to help, you can book an initial FREE 15 minute consultation with him online (via Zoom - you get the address in your confirmation email). If you want to go ahead and book your first 1-on-1 (either online, in Hove or in London), you can also book your first free consultation add-on here. Marc has 29 years of experience with helping people find real solutions to many of the common place conditions that arise in all kinds of body work. It doesn't matter whether what you like to do is Yoga, Tai qigong or any body-mind practice (including sports and all forms of exercise) - If he can see how you move and breathe, he can help you unravel any complications that arise. If you have a full session with him, he ca give you things that are specific to you to work with - in other words, with expert guidance, you get to have the empowering experience of working it out for yourself. Yoga teachers and other body workers looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from online sessions with Marc. Free consultations are limited to once per new customer. Silver members can book one of these every month to help support their practice development.

  • Treatments : 60mins Hands-on with Marc

    I have nearly 30 years of experience of helping people find real solutions to long-held common issues: from specific diagnosed conditions such as pain or stiffness in a particular part of your spine or a joint , fibromyalgia, sciatica and the like, to systematic dysfunctions such as chronic fatigue... Hands-on, I can manipulate and massage you back together in a way that will relieve your symptoms, and if you choose, I can give you some tips on how to prevent the issue from ever returning... Yoga teachers and other body workers that already have good somatic awareness but are looking for deeper understanding of how the human body can heal itself will also find great value and relevance from hands-on sessions with me. If you would like to book a series of 1:1s you can get good discounts by buying a 1:1 package (look under "Members' Resources - Membership Options" - then scroll down to the 1:1 packages)

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  • SacredBreath2

    The Sacred Breath II Unlocking the secrets of Yoga ~ the foundations Next-level Development Courses for dedicated teachers & practitioners. A on-going series of 3.5hr intensive workshops that will become the foundation of a brand new practical understanding of the breath. I am known for saying, "The breath is where it is at " Each individual foundation day will give you a direct experience of the true meaning of that statement... Content: 7 x 3.5 hr sessions (with breaks and Q&A) Introductory workshop is free! Free access for Platinum Members Enrol now ~ £147 for the full course You can take part in the introductory workshop completely free of charge ... simply click the play button on screen (you can maximise the video bottom right of the video. The first thing we need to understand about the breath is that we have a myriad of choices in it... It is influenced by what we do, how we do it and moreover how we think and feel about what we are doing. To open ourselves up to other options, the best way to influence our breathing choices is through the way we engage with what we do, which in turn is defined by our intentions behind what we are doing... The exploration begins. Full Introductory Workshop The way you breathe is a choice! Introductory workshop The Foundation Course: (Sacred Breath Foundation Members only ) Click any of the links below for the full screen pages where you can watch either the Group or Teacher video, and download the content if you choose. Introductory workshop Our fundamental breathing choices and the role of the breath in support. The way you breathe is a choice! The first thing we need to understand about the breath is that we have a myriad of choices in it... It is influenced by what we do, how we do it and moreover how we think and feel about what we are doing. To open ourselves up to other options, the best way to influence our breathing choices is through the way we engage with what we do, which in turn is defined by our intentions behind what we are doing... The exploration begins. Introductory workshop Foundation 1 Your choices in breathing that offer direct support from below. The Breathing Earth In daily activity, if there is any stress in our systems, a common way of breathing is to lift ourselves with the spine... which we are most likely already doing in order to be active.The outcome is that the spine is left with the job of 'carrying our weight' when we let the breath go. In order to liberate the spine, the first thing we need to do is learn how to 'receive' the breath by surrendering our weight to the contact we make with it. Then and only then can more natural, stress free, breathing choices become available. Foundation 1 Foundation 2 Your choices in breathing that offer a direct sense of support from above. The Breathing Skies We have physical relationships to the space we occupy - There may be parts of you that you protect from the world, and others that you project outwards into it. These relationships become hardwired into our breathing patterns. Engaging directly with space through expression & breath leads to brand new possibilities... Foundation 2 Foundation 3 Choices in breathing that can leave you in the paradigm-shifting experience of releasing through the centre of the spine The Heart at the centre of the breath When our breath can directly interact with the support beneath us and, through expression and intent to the sense of support all around us, we get the first real opportunity to notice and refine how WE respond to that support within. The activity has the quality of 'collecting' towards the centre, or 'gathering' into ourselves, but essentially it is the breath itself that defines our ability to receive support from without through ourselves to the centre of our being - the Heart. When the breath is something that arrives in a way that gives us a sense of omnidirectional expansion into to the support that is all around us, its release, can dissolve directly in towards the centre of the heart, and from there, continue to dissolve into and through the axis of the spine - this is where true yoga begins. Foundation 3 Foundation 4 The relaxed power of the breath in outward action. From within to without When the release of the breath is centred in the spine, our outward actions can cease being the more common-place 'lifting and dropping' of the body's weight. Instead, outward movement becomes a 'through' action, anchored to and emanating from that central sense of axial support. There is lightness and ease to movement that masks the power of action that is supported and driven by the release of the breath. Foundation 4 Foundation 5 Your choices in breathing that bring a sense of support from everything around you. Learning to Float on the breath Once we have learnt how to expand outwards through space with the ease that comes with release of the breath towards the centre, the next step is to learn how to 'float' on the arriving breath, so that we can remain expanded without having to hold ourselves there. This workshop invites a 'pause' as you float on the retained breath, so that you have time to refine the details of 'floating'. This will occur when you have found near to perfect structural alignment and balance, and the subsequent surrender of the breath within can become a moment of integration in release that is beyond description. Foundation 5 Foundation 6 How choices in breathing can allow you to be supported directly by the breath in whatever you do. Envirosomatic Integration Exploring and liberating whole-hearted responses from our breathing and its release, whilst in direct relationship to the world and space around us (our environment), equally brings freedom and ease to our bodies. It becomes possible to return to a state of innocence - where intent is the only thing required for movement, and where movement is somatically experienced as a release... Just as it was when were were children. This workshop is an exploration of that possibility, but with the benefit of understanding what we can do when our bodies tell us about a difficulty. The difficulties become as unsubstantial as a single breath. Foundation 6

  • Enviro-Somatic-1

    Enviro-Somatic Intelligence 1 ~ the Wave Unifying our released relationships to Earth & Space Next-level Development Courses for dedicated teachers & practitioners. The first Integration Course designed to bring confluence to the body's innate sensory intelligence systems. Free access for Platinum members Content: 8 x 3hr workshops (divided into two parts each) plus 6x 1hr Q&A sessions. Cost: £147 incl 1 hr 1:1 ~ Enroll now This course begins with an understanding of and a guidance through the generic whole-body release into wave-like movement that arises when your breathing relationships to Earth and the Space you occupy are harmonised and unite. Then the Course content moves through each incremental stage of that wave centred in the intention to remain free in all the 'Chakras' by finding grounding in each intersection (or in each nexus) between them. Culminating in a brand new experience of 'the Wave' when it is the spine itself that finds the harmonious relationships between Earth and Space. The Wave part 1 Receiving the breath from where our weight is felt in the ground... Overview WS 1 Course Part 1 Understanding what it actually means to be 'centred' at the Solar plexus... and discovering the potential released wave-like movements that occur when, from here, we can let go into support from the Earth and into the space we occupy. The Solar Plexus Course Part 3 From below and from above. Honing awareness in towards the centre of the whole spine, the Emperor/Empress of all other chakras, Anahata - the Heart, its base that anchors into the earth, and the throat's relationship to it from above, The Heart Course Part 5 Shambhavi mudra in practice The Third Eye, Root & Crown The Wave ~ contd. Discovering the wave from both the released arrival and surrender of the breath Overview WS 2 Course Part 2 Centering in the junctions between chakras. Understanding the Chakras as 'potentially elongating spaces' that can maintain their integrity throughout movement, when the points of their interaction can find direct support from contact. Neck and Throat Course Part 4 Centering in the junction between the Head and the Throat (so that the head can remain released in space whilst we release the body beneath it into the ground) The Head Course Part 6 Root & Crown , Head & Pelvis The Wave - Integration "What we experience is a direct result of what we think and do" Our bodies naturally respond directly to contact and to the space we find ourselves in - and the way it responds will be a direct reflection of the perceived nature of what we are feeling about both... Loving touch can make us soften, and feeling safe in the space we occupy allows to let go into it, aggressive contact will make us react and contract, and an unsafe environment will make us retract from space and hold ourselves together... What is missed in body-work is that the way that we engage with contact and the space we occupy is actually the determining factor in terms of the outcome for our bodies and our personal experience of being .that is the bio-feedback of our somatic experience. Over this course we will be delving deep into the nature of the body's natural responses to our relationships to both the earth beneath and world around us, to guide you towards a paradigm-shifting experience of what can happen when we can find the natural wave of fluid support that follows Enviro-Somatic integration You will build an invaluable resource for your own practice, based on the understanding that what we are experiencing through our bodies is a direct result of the quality of our own relationships to the world we live in together with the intent behind our actions. When we discover how the body responds to these integrated relationships to gravity, contact and the space we occupy, we awaken to the possibility of releasing into the outcome we choose- and the Wave is born."

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    Yoga Solutions classes Free access for all Premium members Membership options are here 2022 -'23 There is a link at the bottom of the page for previous classes A meditation to set you up well on a daily basis Meditation is a key practice that is mostly skipped over, simply because of how difficult it is to both still the mind and remain upright. Here I offer a practical way of introducing a daily chakra meditation to your life, together with practices that will not only cause the mind to centre and become still, but it will also set you up physically for a new way of being in the world... Continue Happy Hips! freeing up the Psoas and Illio-Psoas If the hips or lower back feel stiff, tight or painful in postures, the chances are that you habitually support yourself with a holding pattern of the psoas and/or illiopsoas muscles, and if you do that in an unbalanced way (if you are right- or left-footed), it leads to scoliotic holding patterns to compensate. Knowing this does nothing to help you, because trying to 'open' or 'stretch' these muscles will simply cause them to resist your efforts. The problem is that they are being given the job of supporting you whatever you are doing (including trying to stretch them). The solution is simple - take the job of support away from them by giving yourself other ways of supporting yourself. This will lead to an intense strengthening of muscles you probably don't even know you have (because they are currently not needed), but the good news is that this 'other way' can become effortless, because the muscles I am talking about are naturally take part in both support and breathing (IF you are not holding yourself up with the hips and spine). The first part will give you the direct experience of what it actually feels like to let go of the Psoas family of muscles, and what follows will develop the support you need to replace it - support that relates to the breath and the ground beneath you. Continue The ultimate guide to freeing up your neck There are two very unusual vertebrae in the neck that are related to expression and thought - and moreover whether you are free in these vertebrae or not is dependent on how you are interacting with the world! On this short Yoga solutions podcast, I explain what I mean by this as well as give you a direct physical exploration of how you can liberate natural movement between head and neck, and awaken the thoracic spine so that neck and shoulders no longer need to suffer from the job of holding you up all day... This is the full 1 hour exploration of this idea with practical guidance. Continue How the sacrum, pelvis & hips like to move Hips are quite a tricky thing to understand because what people understand as 'hips' depends on where they 'feel' them. Articulations of the hips involve how the thigh bones, pelvic bones, and the sacrum all move relative to each other. Tightness/difficulty in the hips is a result of holding patterns between these things (all permutations), which is always because of how you hold yourself up. Freedom in the hips relies on each component part of this intricate joint being free to move in the way 'it prefers' without any particular part of it being left responsible for catching and holding your weight. Here I take you through an exploration that should shine a light on your own sacro-illiac-hip holding patterns and give you a way of releasing them. Continue UNDERSTANDING THE BREATH IN POSTURE WORK Many teachers recognise the importance of the breath in posture work, yet breathing practices (aka pranayama), are mostly practiced 'separately' because it is considered as 'advanced' compared to posture work. However, if we are free to explore how the breath is naturally involved in active support whilst preparing for a posture, it makes complete sense of the pranayamas. And understanding the nature of the breath makes complete sense of postures! Continue Freeing up the Shoulders A regular question i get is about how to be free in the shoulders... but whenever I run workshops in new places with large groups of people, one of the things not asked is 'how to reach up with the arms during sun salute'... Yet absolutely everyone in the room is lifting their arms with their shoulders and neck when they come up... which is exactly what gives them the tight shoulders in the first place. I start with a 5 minute trick that will get you to understand how shoulders are supposed to move, and then take you into more depth so it can be applied to postures (reclining eagle & Triangle) Continue Sitting & Seated Forward Bends Sitting upright is really quite tricky for many people - and if so seated forward bends are even harder. Here I show you why and what you need to do differently if you want to 'get' seated postures. Continue Deconstructing Dog pose Dog pose is such a ubiquitous 'in between' posture in flows and the like that it is rare for people to spend any time finding out if there are better ways of doing it.. here I offer you a broken-down-into-parts approach, so you can feel how best to use your arms and legs so that the posture does what it is meant to do for you. Continue Tight hips in Triangle? Triangle (all versions from all traditions) is quite a difficult posture in terms of 'finding the yoga of it'. The bigger wider versions of it can only really be enjoyed and understood whist using a plethora of blocks and other supports - without which the practitioner is likely to strain and pull on their spines (wide angle triangle is notorious for 'causing' sacro-illiac distortions which can become devastating injuries). The clue that you're not doing a particularly useful version of triangle posture is when the front leg hip is holding on like crazy whilst you move yourself into and 'hold' the pose. Here I offer an approach to a modified version of the posture that might give you a direct somatic experience of what it's supposed to feel like (intense, but light and pleasurable) Continue How to cause REAL transformation I share something of my own story and a longterm healing of a mild scoliosis that felt to be the source of a plethora of postural issues that got me to begin my journey over 30 years ago. And how the process of discovery through practice and deep self-inquiry has led to an understanding of things based in reality rather than opinion and bias... and to a life where I get more comfortable, and in many ways younger in my body as I get older. I also share a little something at the end that shows how the breath is the vehicle for marrying up intention with the natural body in movement.... Continue The Chakras- for both believers & non-believers THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF 'YOGA SOLUTIONS' ... Developing a true somatic experience and practical understanding of what they actually are . Continue NECK & SHOULDERS - a permanent solution Many people get neck/shoulder stiffness or pain, and the reason is simply because we spend all day every day holding the head in space with those muscles... The head has an important role in you deciding where to move to in space, but here, I explain how the atlas, the very first vertebra of the neck, can be released so that the head's weight can always be given down through the axis of the spine, regardless of what you are doing, leaving your neck and shoulders free of any weight-bearing responsibility. I also give you something to practice, that will write this way of moving into your nervous system... If you ever suffer from stiff neck and shoulders (or just have a kind of tiredness that makes you want to be inactive all the time) this practice will make you feel free and light… Continue WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LOWER BACK SEIZES UP... Many people end up hurting their lower backs through some kind of physical labour whilst being bent over - and I am no exception. I strained my lower back doing some DIY... and when I noticed my own fear reactions together with the 'normal' attempt to 'relax' so things didn't hurt, I realised that this standard response was doing me no good whatsoever. So I had a word with myself (I have solutions right?) and did some practice on the day of injury - following my own understanding and honouring of the notion that 'the body is intelligent' in order to unravel the issue. And it worked ! The next day I was back to DIY without any problems ... in fact the following day I was more balanced, and stronger than before the back-strain happened. So here I share both the thinking behind what I did together with the intention behind, and 'how to' details of, the simple practice of balancing on one foot in order to release the issue... You don't have to have a strained lower back to feel the benefits of following this, and if you do ever suffer from that, this will give you a get out of jail free card when it happens... Continue 'FLOW' and the breath... De-bunking the norm. There is a reason for the 'inhale up/exhale down' instruction that makes 'doing' yoga postures easier for the mind and body, giving the impression of 'flow'. However, that reason is more to do with habit and stress, than it is to do with the natural flow of a body and mind in harmony with each other in action. Lifting to breathe, and collapsing to release the breath is kind of how we do things when we are both stressed and tired, and practicing yoga in this way entrenches this behaviour into our movement. Here I guide you into an experiential understanding of how the breath itself can become the source of support and free movement, simply by adjusting your intent, at the specific moments of arrival and release of the breath... Continue Inner space & Inner support 'Inner space' is a description of a purely somatic experience that most people only have when resting and happy.... Here I give you a way of providing that for yourself directly, simply by using your hands for support. 'Inner support' is similarly a description of a somatic experience that will mean very different things to different people depending on what efforts and tensions they are accustomed to... So I also offer an approach to the same thing as above (as your starting point) to set things up so that the breath itself can give you the most natural inner support you can develop (through the breath), which in turn offers you a strength that leaves you free in your movements through space... Continue Postural Strategies & the breath We all have preferred ways of being upright, and our breath follows suit - OR we have preferred ways of breathing, and the way we become upright is determined by this. Most ways of becoming upright involve lifting with our spines (but definitely NOT the only way). Here I unpack this relationship to uprightness and breathing, and show you how you can use either (perfectly natural) pattern as a starting point to discover the 'yoga' of it... ie, how you can use the breath to discover a way of releasing into uprightness through an elongating spine, following a release of breath and tension.... Continue A DIY face-lift Self massage for the face, head and specifically the jaw ... jaw tension is often a source of difficulties in the neck and shoulders, and holding-patterns in the face often maintains unnecessary holding patterns in the body and breath... Do this once for a nice experience, do it daily for a week and change things for good. Continue THE MIND, THE CORE & LOOKING AFTER THE SPINE How to sidestep the biggest source of confusion in physical practice and avoid 'red herrings' in our attempt to understand yoga. Moving from the core and ribcage, in harmony with the breath to free up the spine Moving & expressing FROM the spine behind the heart, Resting THROUGH your central axis. Continue Moving from the Spine "Moving from the Spine" Most restrictions in the body can be simply dropped when you move from the spine ... with the spine at the central axis of everything you are doing. This is NOT the same as working to bend your spine this way and that - particularly if you are using your weight to do it. Here I try and explain exactly what I mean by 'moving from the spine' and give you a rather fun, simple (and kind of random) thing you can do to naturally awaken the spine, core and other 'breathing gear' in the way I mean... Continue The best way to use your limbs in practice... Most people's yoga practice is sourced in their teacher's instructions - following those instructions causes us to do things in quite unnatural ways. Here I offer a simple explanation of how the limbs most naturally support us, and invite you to apply that nature to your practice.... Continue True spinal extension how to 'open from the heart'... Most people have problems in backbends for the simple fact that they are relying on passive extension of lumbars and neck to achieve it ... this not only 'pinches' the spine in a less-than-useful way, but it actually prevents any movement from the upper spine happening. True spinal extension (backbending AND spine elongation in uprightness) originates from a direct reversal of the rounded part of the back (rather than trying to use your weight to lever extension into the spine)... and this in turn is essentially a natural function of the person expressing openness (rather than of someone trying the 'bend' their spine). The folowing shoud help you discover what I am talking about as a direct somatic experience... Continue Balances If you want to be able to balance, don't try and balance! Here I explain the reason for any difficulty you might have in 'balance postures' or the even more misleading instruction of 'holding balances'. And i show you exactly the small shift in perspective and understanding that should make things much simpler... Continue 'Gathering together' to create more space! There is a familiar principle in Scaravelli inspired yoga of 'gathering together ' before 'opening out'. It is an idea that makes zero sense to the 'stretch' camp of yoga, and is often misinterpreted by those familiar with it as a kind of 'contraction' so they enjoy 'opening out' after... Here I try and make practical sense of the thing... what you are actually trying to do AND why it works. Continue The limbs and your relationship with the world. The limbs, and how to find a supportive relationship to the world from the way you engage with it. Most of us are in a habitual and reactionary relationship with the world around us, that involves 'pushing away' or 'pulling in'. Both of these attitudes get hard-wired into our movement and are each equally debilitating for our energy and physical/emotional/mental health. Here I give you the idea with an example or two and show you how to shift this life-dimming paradigm directly through your practice. (Apologies for the echo 5 mins in - it was a feedback between the FBlive and my microphone... It stops v. soon after) Continue A very different Yoga Solutions A pranayama practice (breath retention) that can be used directly to shift state of mind, and to help deprogram ourselves out of unhelpful thought loops. Continue Deconstructing the humble forward bend Forward bending is something everyone can do to some degree or other, but how easy and comfortable forward bending is, depends entirely on how you got there. The simplest of postures offer the most value and content, IF you are prepared to genuinely let go of habit, in favour of exploration of what is both possible and natural... Here I offer you the reasons forward bending can be restrictive or uncomfortable for you, and give you a way of approaching the movement that should make total sense to your body... Continue Understanding back-bends UNDERSTANDING SPINAL EXTENSION Most of us do back-bending by habitually hyperextending the lumbars and/or neck. Doing so is not a particularly useful practice and can aggravate and exaggerate postural habits... Here I explain what needs to happen for you to extend your spine in a useful and pleasurable way. Continue Opening the Hips 'Hip opening postures' often have the opposite effect for people.... they try and stretch their hips open, and the outcome leaves them even tighter in the groins/psoas/adductors & lower back. Here I unravel the problem and show you what 'hip opening' actually feels like, so that you can carry a new relationship to your hips with you, that will ALLOW them to open. Continue Demystifying the body and the breath When you do things TO the body and the breath, you might develop control of how you move and breathe, but you will be exaggerating the separation between yourself and your body. And separation is at the source of any physical/emotional issue you are using your yoga to redress... Here I offer a clear and practical explanation of the difference between this, and relating to the world THROUGH your body and breath, which unites you with both. Follow my suggestions and feel the difference in yourself ... if you like the feeling, it will change your practice forever... If you have a few yoga years under your belt and would like to do my deep dive into pranayama course, go to https://www.acquaviva.yoga/the-sacred-breath-1 Continue How to let go of any issues around your lower back, hips neck and shoulders... All of these things are to do with how we hold our weight up ... Here I show you how to become light, by giving your weight to to ground instead of to your back and joints... Enjoy! Continue My go-to 15min practice Leg extensions - the way to do it that makes you want to do it all the time.... Continue Shoulders in dog pose (plus my thoughts on Astanga) Continue Bow pose/ Crescent pose How to liberate the upper spine for the true 'yoga' experience of these extension postures. Continue THE solution to tight hamstrings "The solution to tight hamstrings... When your hamstrings are tight, it is usually because they are overly involved with your support strategy. Here I explain what might cause this, and then offer a practice that is very likely to lead to a completely different somatic experience of opening out the legs, together with actually being able to let go of the habitual hamstring resistance, so they can be 'stretched' without the usual problems that go with attempting to do this." Continue The FEET! The best way to massage them, and how to do any kind of balance. Continue Click for Previous Yoga Solutions >

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  • A meditation to set you up for every day....

    Meditation is a key practice that is mostly skipped over, simply because of how difficult it is to both still the mind and remain upright. Here I offer a practical way of introducing a daily chakra meditation to your life, together with practices that will not only cause the mind to centre and become still, but it will also set you up physically for a new way of being in the world...

  • Happy hips... How to truly free up the Psoas and the Illio-Psoas -

    If the hips or lower back feel stiff, tight or painful in postures, the chances are that you habitually support yourself with a holding pattern of the psoas and/or illiopsoas muscles, and if you do that in an unbalanced way (if you are right- or left-footed), it leads to scoliotic holding patterns to compensate. Knowing this does nothing to help you, because trying to 'open' or 'stretch' these muscles will simply cause them to resist your efforts. The problem is that they are being given the job of supporting you whatever you are doing (including trying to stretch them). The solution is simple - take the job of support away from them by giving yourself other ways of supporting yourself. This will lead to an intense strengthening of muscles you probably don't even know you have (because they are currently not needed), but the good news is that this 'other way' can become effortless, because the muscles I am talking about are naturally take part in both support and breathing (IF you are not holding yourself up with the hips and spine). The first part will give you the direct experience of what it actually feels like to let go of the Psoas family of muscles, and what follows will develop the support you need to replace it - support that relates to the breath and the ground beneath you.... Enjoy! Tap the like button for me and share it wherever you like. The full version with deeper exploration and appliction to standing is available for all premium members on the the 'Yoga Solutions' pages (linked in the members area)

  • Releasing Neck Tension: The Ultimate Guide to Freeing Up Your Neck

    There are two very unusual vertebrae in the neck that are related to expression and thought - and moreover whether you are free in these vertebrae or not is dependent on how you are interacting with the world! On this short Yoga solutions podcast, I explain what I mean by this as well as give you a direct physical exploration of how you can liberate natural movement between head and neck, and awaken the thoracic spine so that neck and shoulders no longer need to suffer from the job of holding you up all day... Enjoy! and click the like button if you find some benefit. The full hour-long class exploring this topic will be available for all premium members later on today on the 'Yoga Solutions' page. (You can browse memberships and their benefits on the side-tab on the member's area here)

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