6-week course: „Fascia Yoga“ with Valérie Hartwich
May 29 – Jul 10
Fr 18.00-19.30
Gelber Raum & Online
English
100€ / 80€ Online only

(no course on Jun 19).

Discover why fascia matters, what it is and how to take care of it and by extension your whole being, by tweaking your yoga practice and adding small exercises into daily life. And you won’t even need special equipment. Yet, this kind of modified yoga practice can do wonders for those stubborn areas of tension and discomfort!

Over the last 15 years science has shown how central fascia is to our well-being from mobility to the immune system, or emotional states, as well as the key role it plays in sensory perception and awareness. These discoveries help us understand koshas, chakras and the meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a new light. In fact, diving into the world of fascia is like stepping into a magical realm of possibilities, opening up simple, practical and deeply impactful ways to deepen your connection with your body and the world around, to tap into your own healing power and experience the state of union that is yoga.

Each week will be dedicated to an area of the body, moving in specific ways to help you explore where potential discomfort in the area comes from and how to shift it.

– Fascia for the jaw/neck/shoulders.
– Fascia for the middle and lower spine/diaphragm.
– Fascia for the hips/pelvis/legs.
– How to adapt your vinyasa and yin practice.

All levels are welcome. Bring a journal to take notes.

This 6-week course is held in Gelber Raum and online via Zoom. If you choose to book the online-only course, you will receive the Zoom info to join the course together with your booking confirmation via email. If you book the course in Gelber Raum, you will receive access to the Zoom link, if required.

Please register here for the course in Gelber Raum.
Please register here for the Online only course.

Valerie is a psychosomatic bodyworker and yoga teacher with a psychology/sociology background. She is eternally curious about how we can gracefully negotiate being human, and has found yoga to be a powerful tool to help with that quest. She practices and teaches a non-dualistic and demystified spirituality that fosters curiosity, kind playfulness and agency through vinyasa, yin, restorative yoga, and meditation. Her teaching is deeply influenced by the fascia yoga and trauma sensitive approaches, giving it a psychosomatic dimension, that is the interplay of body/mind/emotions. She believes in the power of curiosity and play in helping us uncover the patterns that hold us back, and the strategies that create change. And is convinced that one of the keys to achieving this is to use the physical practice as a lab to explore, feel and observe how we are, how we work and how we feel. But also by using simple practices to ground and balance ourselves in everyday life that she loves to share in class.