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YSLM November Double Labs Hands and Foot

£45.00

Yoga Somatic Lab Monthly is a 2 hour somatic exploration lab offered monthly online. Each month, we will explore different topic or sometimes a bigger theme explored over several months. It is highly experiential with some lectures to learn about the topic. Time will be given to participants to explore in their own time and also to reflect and share. Dive into a two-part video training that reconnects you with your body from centre to periphery. Explore spine, pelvis, limbs, and hands through guided movement, observation, and somatic exercises. Learn to feel your weight, pathways, reflexes, and nervous system in action, while integrating presence, awareness, and expressive qualities. Perfect for anyone seeking deeper body awareness, functional anatomy understanding, and mindful movement.

1. Double Labs Foot/Ankle

2. Double Labs 1 Hand/Wrist

Yoga Somatic Lab Monthly is a 2 hour somatic exploration lab offered monthly online. Each month, we will explore different topic or sometimes a bigger theme explored over several months. It is highly experiential with some lectures to learn about the topic. Time will be given to participants to explore in their own time and also to reflect and share. Dive into a two-part video training that reconnects you with your body from centre to periphery. Explore spine, pelvis, limbs, and hands through guided movement, observation, and somatic exercises. Learn to feel your weight, pathways, reflexes, and nervous system in action, while integrating presence, awareness, and expressive qualities. Perfect for anyone seeking deeper body awareness, functional anatomy understanding, and mindful movement.

1. Double Labs Foot/Ankle

2. Double Labs 1 Hand/Wrist

Hand & Wrist

Exploring from a larger context:

"Whose Hand Is It?"

Consideration of Centre and Peripheral

Bones - basic architecture of our life form

Bones are carriers of the weight and force & container

Axial & Appendicular Skeleton

(Images of Nerves

Models of Bones of Hand, Arm & Shoulders and Spine)

Explorations...

  • Navel Radiation - Connecting Centre & Peripherals

(Also noticing - Front / Back, Flexors / Extensors, ANS qualities)

  • Central Axis in 3 layers

  • Peripheral Nerves

  • Exploring actions - pushing, reaching, grasping, bringing in, letting go

  • Exploring expressions - Anger, Joy etc

Hand to Shoulder Girdle

  • Touching, Sending & Feeling hands (CB)

  • Reflexes of hands and arms

  • Tracing - Ulna hand, arms & scapula, Radio hand, arm & scapula

  • Exploring Ulna & Radio hand & arm

  • Concept of "Distal & Proximal"

  • Tracking bones & joints - recognising "Sequencing & Pathway" created by all the parts along the way from / to centre & peripheral

  • Synovial fluid

Tracing & Naming bones of hand

  • phalanges

  • Metacarpals

  • Carpal bones - Distal & Proximal layers = layers in wrist = lesser known joints in the hand!

  • RE-tracing the connection to scapula / hand

  • Pushing / Reaching, moving from Ulna hand and/or Radio hand, and with awareness of front / back of body / hand, and the presence of centre

  • Centre of the hand - Capitate

Let's look at Nervous System

  • Autonomic Nervous System - in the centre of the body

  • Somatic Nervous System in the limbs (Peripheral NS)

  • Arousal / States and Motor Action - Completion through motor response

Foot & Ankle

Move away from the screen and sit comfortably with the back supported but not collapsed.

Notice the whole body - its structure, architectural form and shape.

Feel your centre - spine and with its layers (front middle back)

Feel 3 bodies - Head, Ribs and Pelvis - and neck and lumbar and tail in between them.

Feel shoulder girdle and arms / pelvic girdle and legs

Feel and observe your feet as they are.

What are they like?

Get the sense of presence of them right now.

History, injury etc. Activities that they supported for you.

Chatersters, Dominant foot

If they have voices what they might say?

Do you (your mind) make judgements about them?

Stand, walk and observe as they are

Warm up the whole body and ease in spine,

Release the leg by releasing through organs / peritoneal sac not sticky! So your feet can take more weight.

Then walk again

Gonads and tail and feet

Outer foot and top of pelvis

Diaphragms

Cellular breath on foot

Reflexes

Walk

Anatomy - weight bearing side and action sides.

Anatomy

Ankle joint

Weight pathway and Figure of 8