Workshops + Series

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Therapeutic Yoga Focused Workshops

Introduction to SomaYoga 3-Week Series
starts Sunday, Jan 26th
1:30 – 2:45 PM
Stoughton, WI

This workshop series will focus on developing awareness and voluntary control of your shoulder muscles. Somatic movements and yoga asana will be explored.

Thomas Hanna Somatics exercises engage the sensory-motor cortex in new and novel ways to support neuro-muscular exploration. One of the primary methods is pandiculation – a conscious contraction and conscious release – to engage various muscle groups in order to shift or grow internal, sensory awareness – interoception. Work with primitive reflex patterns to identify and shift habitual contraction. 

3 Sundays 1:30-2:45PM Jan 26, Feb 2, Feb 9
124 West Main St., Stoughton, WI

This workshop series will focus on developing awareness and voluntary control of your shoulder muscles that help support your upper body posture. Somatics and therapeutic movements will be offered, as well as classic yoga asana (holding steady positions). The workshop will be an exploration of your relationship to your muscles.

Engage your shoulder muscles in a gentle and safe way. Try movement patterns that help support strength building and develop muscular interoception (sensing and feeling), along with learning anatomy (muscles and bones) which help build your visual cortex and mind-body connection. The more awareness we have to interior muscles, the better we can use them to support and sustain our postural health.

Relieve tightly held muscle tension with this practice! We may explore positions supine (lying on our back) and possible prone (lying on front side). Modifications and props will be provided for access to these movements from all abilities and comfort levels. Common props include chair, blanket, Theraband, and the wall for added support.

SomaYoga is a blend of Somatics and Yoga asana (postures). We may explore common standing yoga postures, but not at a depth that adds unnecessary tension to the body. You will get a better sense of your standing and sitting positions, and learn which muscles to relax and engage, during this class series.

The series is $60 if you select Early Bird at time of registration by Jan 12th or $75 after Jan 12th

Drop In $30/class on the studio schedule.

No prior Yoga or Somatics experience necessary. This workshop is accessible for beginners and advanced practitioners. 

Instructor: Ali Zuba, C-IAYT, E-RYT, YACEP, MBA

Alison (Ali) Zuba is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. She has been practicing, studying, and teaching yoga for 10+ years. Yoga involves working together with compassionate self-discipline, introspective self-study, and trust in the whole process. She believes that daily connection practices, on and off the mat, allow us to feel into and manage self-regulating energies.
She offers the teachings of Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Ayurveda, and Somatics centered on whole-being well-being. Her specialty SomaYoga integrates Somatics and Yoga practices specifically for relieving pain and surpassing plateaus. Having relieved much of her own pain and discomfort through the connection practices of Yoga, she wishes to share these potent techniques with all who wish to reduce their suffering. Join her classes for connection practices that seamlessly link body, breath, and mind.

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