Like the nondual relationship between a river and its riverbed, your bones and connective tissue shape your movement and are shaped and reshaped by your movement. This event explores the biotensegritous relationship of your bones and connective tissue, investigating how they arise as a fluid continuum, eventually crystallizing and specializing into different densities and functions in your adult body. Through their specialization they co-manage compressive and tensile forces, allowing you leverage in gravity and suspension in space.

The evening is part of Soma Nidra: Body Tripping through the Communities of You, a series of multi-scale body trips in a monthly workshop format. These trips explore your embodied anatomy through gentle movement, Yin and Restorative Yoga, and Soma Nidra. Soma Nidra is Bex Naj’s somatic approach to Yoga Nidra, a practice that bridges our conscious and unconscious minds through storytelling and deep rest. Bex keeps it somatic by grounding the stories she tells in the felt-sense awareness of your body and breath as dynamic processes. Over the course of the series, we’ll explore our inner space through the body maps of western anatomy, physiology, and embryology, integrating these into an energetic practice that allows us to melt away tension, rest deeply, and illuminate the mysterious places within to see what they have to say. These classes are appropriate for all levels of yoga and will often feature drawing and/or journaling prompts to integrate the dreamlike wisdom of your bodied revelations.