While spending two months meditating and practicing yoga in silence at Sri Aurobindo’s first ashram in Baroda India, Sondra Fraleigh received her first inspirations about yoga based upon infant movement development and somatic principles. She utilized this element in her creative use of yoga—bridging it with somatic movement education and intrinsic dance.
This unique new form of yoga—Land to Water Yoga—maintains yoga’s original intent of spiritual healing and awareness and offers a way to deepen clear seeing and a calm mind, urging one past his or her limited ego. It is based on five stages of infant development and the methods of Shin Somatics® Moving Way. Its progression moves backward from the most complex movement in terms of balance to the least: from walking to floating (from land to water), providing the opportunity to retrace our personal human development back to its watery soma source in movements our bodies experienced as infants.
Special Note: Floating is used imagistically in this yoga, and does not require water. The floating phases can be practiced in a studio or at home, and also in water. In Eastwest workshops, we include partners' support and Craniosacral Therapy in the floating phases
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