SomaSarana

Soma🕉Sarana is closed today. We will be back on Wednesday
✨️may today be your peaceful day✨️

During this stressful time in our community, having some semblance of consistency can be essential for our mental health and nervous systems!

SomaSarana is open and offering classes and events as scheduled. With an invitation to anyone displaced by these fires to join us for any and all classes, free of charge! I may also be offering a yoga nidra and sound bath on thursday afternoon to support nervous system regulation and repair. Stay strong, kind and caring my friends. I love you!

This weeks SomaSpotlight is the practice of .
Offered Wednesdays at 8am (90 minutes) at Souls Center Spokane
Mondays at 4pm and Fridays at 12pm (60 minutes) at SomaSarana

✨️Soothing Somatic Yoga✨️
​Unwinds your nervous system and invites you into a sacred slowdown.
Rest, does not need to be earned. It is our right to rest. Moving slowly, isn't self indugent, it is self-informing and deeply healing, on a neuro-myofaschial level! .
🧠 By engaging the sensorimotor cortex through gentle, precise movement and yielding to comfort and our natural breath, this practice sends refined signals down the corticospinal tract to re-educate deep, chronic tension patterns, improving our breathing, without the "work" 🌀 Interrupt the cycle of chronic pain, dissolve unconscious tension patterns, and restore natural, pain-free movement, from the inside out!
🫴Guided by Spokanes ONLY certified hanna somatic educator with 10 years of personal and professional experience!

Your magic carpet awaits you! Text to register! 509-979-0117 or book your personalized 1:1 clinical session on the table for an even MORE refined experience!

We have a new summer schedule with classes offered weekly, some sweet spiral sit to stand workshops coming up, and plenty of openings for private, or small group sound baths, breath of bliss ceremonies, and clinical somatic education with the only certified practitioner of Hanna Somatics in the Spokane area!

As always, space is available to lease for your own unique dance or sound journeys if you are a facilitator! Supporting heart centered leaders in our community is at the core of our mission.

Mindful movement medicine for EVERY body!
✨️hope to see you soon✨️

The somatic difference with Sarana Movement method is the pandiculation revolution!
"To resolve chronic tension, both the brain and muscles must be reeducated. This is where pandiculation comes in. This natural and effective method works with the body’s sensory motor system instead of against it, improving flexibility, reducing muscle tension, and significantly increasing range of motion—unlike traditional stretching methods."

✨️full article is linked in the comments✨️

Soma🕉Sarana will be closed on Memorial Day Monday, the 25th!!!
We are open tomorrow for a special song circle from 4-6. Free and open to all. ✨️may today be your peaceful day✨️

"Hi Stefani! Thanks so much for your time, expertise, and care yesterday. I woke up without a headache or neck pain this morning, which feels great 😊"

A lovely followup from a beautiful human that I had the privelege of working with.

As a clinical hanna somatic educator I work WITH you, not ON you.

I engage with your KQ & EQ (kinetic and emotional= somatic quotient) feeling, sensing percieving integrated self, as opposed to only your IQ (intelligence quotient) thinking, analyzing, separate self.

As a society we been conditioned to reguard IQ as the dominent quotient by which our intelligence is determined, and as a result we disconnect from our primal, instinctual somatic intelligence. Our nervous system reflexes are designed to support regulation and recalibration. When we disconnect from this quotient, we develop sensory motor amnesia.. the root of 90% of our physical pain according to Thomas Hanna, which directly effects how we move physically and energetically in the world. Our relationships with people, the planet and ourselves are all connected! SQ AQ CQ all develop and sharpen with somatic practices, because we are whole, integrated beings.

Somatic education is not just a highly effective, pain free and reliable scientific system of physiotherapy and neuro-muscular re-patterning, but it is also a deeply nourishing practice of personal development, self awareness and whole being integration.

When I as "body worker" or educator touch another person, every touch is communication. I do so with the utmost respect and regard to the privelege that I have as a practitioner to be invited into the intimate and sacred space of the whole person that is present before me. In this way, our somas engage in a dialogue. An intelligent conversation. Not a cognitive, verbal exchange, but rather a somatic, sensing, feeling, percieving form of communication that it more subtle, and sophosticated in its simplicity. I drop neurophysiological nuggets along the way to help our conditioned cognitive mind (more fluent language for most), relax into, and begin to learn the language of their soma, bodily sensations and nervous system responses.

Healing intentional touch, gentle specific guidance and healing sound wave frequencies are a part of the SoMagic that happens in this space. Magic, might be defined as science we dont yet understand. I help you demystify the experience of your own SoMagic field, so you can access it anytime, anywhere from within yourself. Id love to welcome you into this space!

May all beings move well, with freedom and with ease and re-member their BElonging.

🫶 Stefani