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Somatic Groundwork
Somatic Groundwork
Yielding Class
Yielding Class
Discover how movement can be applied as a tonic medicine to bring forth deep rest and recovery, inner stability and ease, and feelings of well-being.
In this 90-minute ondemand class, move through spine, shoulders and hips in easy and nourishing ways. The class will begin with basic standing movements. Next, practice will go to the floor for gentle rocking and rolling with time for yielding in stillness and quiet. There will also be a guided meditation on radiating feelings of well being towards others.
In this 90-minute ondemand class, move through spine, shoulders and hips in easy and nourishing ways. The class will begin with basic standing movements. Next, practice will go to the floor for gentle rocking and rolling with time for yielding in stillness and quiet. There will also be a guided meditation on radiating feelings of well being towards others.
This class is for those who:
- enjoy body-based meditations
- need a way to 'take the edge off'
- want to soak in goodness and ease
- desire more tools in their tonic medicine bag
- want a daily practice for moving and feeling better
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Somatic Groundwork guides a simple and effective process through sensing and moving to elicit a felt-sense of yielding. Yielding is an embodied pattern of resting and receiving that returns us to a natural state of being. Yielding allows us to soften our edges and indulge in the pull of gravity. We direct our attention to sinking weight through ground touch and moving with the least amount of effort. The practice centers us between the actions of giving and receiving. As we gift our presence, in return we are received by primary elements of support.
Yielding practices like sinking weight, rolling point of contact, rhythmic rocking and soft body rolling help us return to a felt-sense of ease and balanced tone through ground touch. Touch is a profound mechanosensory message that relays connection, support, care and safety. Movement and ground touch excites sensory nerve endings embedded in the tissue and tunes the nervous system toward a parasympathetic or dorsal rest state. Feeling felt is registered by the nervous system through the body environment- or tissue architecture. Touch and movement also informs our kinesthetic sense. The kinesthetic sense is how we experience ‘our body’ place as well as body movement in 'our place'.
Yielding practices like sinking weight, rolling point of contact, rhythmic rocking and soft body rolling help us return to a felt-sense of ease and balanced tone through ground touch. Touch is a profound mechanosensory message that relays connection, support, care and safety. Movement and ground touch excites sensory nerve endings embedded in the tissue and tunes the nervous system toward a parasympathetic or dorsal rest state. Feeling felt is registered by the nervous system through the body environment- or tissue architecture. Touch and movement also informs our kinesthetic sense. The kinesthetic sense is how we experience ‘our body’ place as well as body movement in 'our place'.
yielding & ground touch
yielding & ground touch
Touch is basic, touch is multi-faceted and touch is global. Ground touch is a relational practice between your own body structure and support surfaces with ground. Touch and our experiences of touch pattern our systems from the beginning of our development. Furthermore, the kinetic messages of touch continue to shape us through every stage of our life.
Through our fascial matrix, ground touch gifts us with feeling felt. Yielding with gravity paired with gentle wave-like rocking and rolling rekindle a friendly and supportive connection with touch. Physiologically, our nervous system responds with a rise in parasympathetic tone reducing pain and rigidity. The soft fluid movements also alter the properties of our fascia's ground substance, shifting the gel-like substance to a more fluid state.
Overall, ground touch through rock & roll unwinding supports deep recovery, global circulation and energy renewal.
Through our fascial matrix, ground touch gifts us with feeling felt. Yielding with gravity paired with gentle wave-like rocking and rolling rekindle a friendly and supportive connection with touch. Physiologically, our nervous system responds with a rise in parasympathetic tone reducing pain and rigidity. The soft fluid movements also alter the properties of our fascia's ground substance, shifting the gel-like substance to a more fluid state.
Overall, ground touch through rock & roll unwinding supports deep recovery, global circulation and energy renewal.
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"For 7 years now, during winter I offer a yielding class (yielding is called by different names depending on tradition/method- with similar intentions of cultivating relaxation and restoring energy capacity). Each year I reflect on yielding practices and their benefits. I consider how yielding provides support for my own bodymind system and the possible ripple out effects through our social systems.
When we pattern a neurophysiological baseline that knows the embodiment of easy, spaciousness, settled, okay enough . . . then we are more likely to make better choices when our person registers 'stress'. What if there was a little more room to notice the options or to think through the consequences of our actions before we do the thing, say the thing? What if our internal alarm system had grades of intensity rather than spiking to 100 in a millisecond? What if we could pause in the discomfort long enough to notice our own somatic responses and discern if they are appropriate to the context?
I'm not saying yielding practices are sufficient for repatterning these behaviors- but it is a first step, a place to begin. Plus, yielding practices can generate feelings of inner stability and ease- a true gift when there are so many uneasy things happening in the world right now. These practices also help to cultivate the seeds of peace within ourselves."
~ Kaila
When we pattern a neurophysiological baseline that knows the embodiment of easy, spaciousness, settled, okay enough . . . then we are more likely to make better choices when our person registers 'stress'. What if there was a little more room to notice the options or to think through the consequences of our actions before we do the thing, say the thing? What if our internal alarm system had grades of intensity rather than spiking to 100 in a millisecond? What if we could pause in the discomfort long enough to notice our own somatic responses and discern if they are appropriate to the context?
I'm not saying yielding practices are sufficient for repatterning these behaviors- but it is a first step, a place to begin. Plus, yielding practices can generate feelings of inner stability and ease- a true gift when there are so many uneasy things happening in the world right now. These practices also help to cultivate the seeds of peace within ourselves."
~ Kaila
about Kaila June Keliikuli & Somatic Groundwork
Kaila has enjoyed teaching movement for 30 years. In her early 20’s, she began developing the movement system Somatic Groundwork (or they began developing her). Kaila's movement approach has emerged through a systems science, co-creative, relational way. With a background as a performing artist, professional fitness trainer and somatic movement educator, she is an experienced movement practitioner and abiding student. Kaila was born and raised in the central Rocky Mountains in the US. Since 2017 Kaila has lived on Shoshone/ Bannock lands aka Boise, Idaho. Eight years ago, she started an online platform and is now the Director of Interdisicplinary Movement & Somatics (IMSomatics). IMSomatics is a 300-hr somatic movement teacher training and an Approved Training Program with ISMETA.
Somatic Groundwork is a gentle and natural movement patterning approach that provides therapeutic, creative and functional outcomes. The movement system follows a progressive inside out and ground up developmental process that influences the physiology of the nervous system and fascial matrix.
Participants learn how to track sensations through force flow, volume changes and effort fluctuations in relatedness with gravity, ground and space. The techniques and methods apply sensing and movement skills to generate circulation, support and vitality for the whole person. Teachers and therapists around the globe weave Somatic Groundwork methods and principles with their craft in unique ways.
Somatic Groundwork commonly:
Somatic Groundwork is guided in a way that provides both structure and clear direction while also encouraging personal choice and curiosity to follow intuitive body impulses. Participants need a welcome place for practice with enough room for your body to lie and stand in X/star. Floors covered in wood, carpet or grass are ideal and mats or blankets are fine to use as well. Clothing that allows for joint movements in all directions without big buttons, snaps or zippers is recommended along with appropriate layers to maintain warmth/ comfort. Verbal cues are the main method for guiding the learning process and it is usually not necessary for a participant to model someone else doing the movements.
Participants learn how to track sensations through force flow, volume changes and effort fluctuations in relatedness with gravity, ground and space. The techniques and methods apply sensing and movement skills to generate circulation, support and vitality for the whole person. Teachers and therapists around the globe weave Somatic Groundwork methods and principles with their craft in unique ways.
Somatic Groundwork commonly:
- restores feelings of pleasure and well-being
- promotes self-regulation skills
- reduces and/or eliminates low back, hip, neck and shoulder pain
- relieves emotional overwhelm and angst
- improves movement quality and function
- helps to develop compassionate partnership with our body
- attunes sensory awareness
- offers recovery from chronic stress and overload
Somatic Groundwork is guided in a way that provides both structure and clear direction while also encouraging personal choice and curiosity to follow intuitive body impulses. Participants need a welcome place for practice with enough room for your body to lie and stand in X/star. Floors covered in wood, carpet or grass are ideal and mats or blankets are fine to use as well. Clothing that allows for joint movements in all directions without big buttons, snaps or zippers is recommended along with appropriate layers to maintain warmth/ comfort. Verbal cues are the main method for guiding the learning process and it is usually not necessary for a participant to model someone else doing the movements.
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Somatic Groundwork is where I go when I feel disconnected or when life has been too challenging.
JOELLE PAPPAS
The effects of Somatic Groundwork feel unique in relation to other mind body practices.
JOHN WILDER
Somatic Groundwork combines four areas of interest and study: intuitive movement, nervous system health, the fascial nets and embodiment! It is like nothing I’ve ever tried! Embodied fascial intuitive bliss!
JESSICA JASTRZEBSKI
I enjoy the gentle approach and finding more connection with my body.
JALENA JOKIC
I appreciate Kaila's approach to movement and somatic exploration.
MASS DIOLI
From the inside out. This practice has strengthened my sense of self and how I move and respond to daily life experiences.
JANET STEEVES
Exploratory . . . deep . . . insightful and high standard teaching.
JO KEMP
Kaila is an articulate guide who makes the practice resonate so well with my bodymind.
TINA CLARK
I love Somatic Groundwork. It always makes me feel invigorated and relaxed.
ELIZABETH ANDES-BELL
Allowing the freedom of physical and spiritual movement to emerge, Somatic Groundwork brings us to our own place of healing and stillness.
BARBARA ARCHER
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