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Embodiment Therapy for Grief and Loss
When my 36 year old son died suddenly I really didn't know how I would go on. I felt I could lose myself in sadness. I came to a fork in the road when I knew I had to choose life.
What has allowed me to go on is my daily embodiment practice. It allows me to feel my emotions and the beauty of life. Embodiment and somatic movement have given me my life back. If you or anyone you know is struggling with loss or sudden loss, I can help.
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Exercises
Did you know it is possible to relieve tailbone pain and pelvic floor dysfunction naturally with a series of gentle movements?!
In this video, we look at how the immobility of your tailbone is often a source of pain. An immobile tailbone also makes it hard to have a healthy pelvic floor, heal from injury and gain true pelvic floor strength. With this simple exercise, you can begin to free your tailbone gently and effectively.
Drug-Free Pain Relief for Chronic Pain
Embodiment and Somatic movement can help relieve chronic & acute pain and stress or anxiety.
This video offers a gentle and firm exercise that teaches you to elongate your exhalation and calm you.
Embodiment offers a whole new way of moving and I am excited to share my knowledge and somatic movement videos!
Quick & Correct Diaphragmatic Breathing
Take better care of your health with diaphragmatic breathing.
It's not the same as belly breathing! Here is a quick exercise that will make your diaphragm work more effectively so you can breathe more easily and deeply.
More Somatic Movement Videos
Embodiment Videos
2 Minute Embodied Meditation for Keeping Calm.
Did you know it is possible to stay calm and weather the storms of loss and pain?! Embodiment and Somatic movement can help relieve anxiety, chronic & acute pain and aid the healing process from injury.
This video helps you find a place in your body that helps you keep calm when encountering strain, difficulty and emotional upset.
Embodiment to feel integrated and balance your body and mind
Embodiment and Somatic movement can help live in your body more mindfully but also with more ease of movement and structural integrity.
In this video, we look at how eccentric and concentric contraction of your muscles allow you to release tension and have more integration in your body.
What is Embodiment? What is Somatic Movement? What is Yoga Therapy?
Embodiment and Somatic movement can help live in your body more mindfully but also with more ease of movement and structural integrity. I can help you liberate your body from limiting habits. My work helps the body much as mediation helps the mind.
In this video, we look at how imagery and the experiences we generate from imagery brings smoothness to our movement and nervous systems.
What is Embodiment?
The essence of how we approach yoga, how we breathe, and how we move is found in how we EMBODY. It's a huge key to living life with ease, integrity and vitality.
Embodiment and Somatic movement can help live in your body more mindfully but also with more ease of movement and structural integrity. I can help you liberate your body from limiting habits. My work helps the body much as mediation helps the mind.
In this video, we look at how imagery, sensing and feeling our bodies generate an improved experience of how we feel.
Embodied Speaking for Small Group Presentations, Larger Audiences and Personal Comfort
Stress and anxiety proof public speaking through embodiment. When you stand in front of a group you invite a cascade of feelings.
But these feelings aren't personal to you. Every human being has them.By experiencing the feeling it becomes more likely for your discomfort to dissipate.
Proud Warrior into Power Bullwhip Cracking
Bullwhip cracking using full-body integration and the swing of Proud Warrior (Virabhadrasana). This practice breaks obstacles and helps you feel the personal power that is deeply rooted in your body.
Walking Videos: Yoga of Walking
Do you have trouble balancing when you walk?
Embodiment and Somatic movement can help relieve chronic & acute pain and aid the healing process from injury.
In this video, we look at how focusing on leg lifting while walking can make balance uneasy. But you can add stability through cultivating the feeling of having a tail.
Stop Stomping When You Walk!
In this video, we look at how you can have a smooth glide rather than a stomp when you walk. This makes walking more pleasant and faster without strain.
Embodiment and somatic movement offer a whole new way of moving and I am excited to share my knowledge!
How Ankle Mobility Prevents and Helps Heel Foot Pain.
In this somatic movement video, you can learn why ankle mobility is so important to having healthy and happy feet.
Discover how you can improve your ankle mobility with a simple somatic movement and embodiment exercise.
Interviews with Donna Brooks
Donna Brooks talks Pelvic Floor Health for Yoga University
Pelvic Floor imbalances can show up as jaw problems, lower back problems, difficulty with arches and gait. Can a shift in the weight of your organs help heal overstretched ligaments?
Use yoga and somatic to bring the body back to balance and add targeted strength and flexibility to regain as much function as you can.
Mass Appeal: Bad Posture can put you in a nursing home
How do you stop jutting your neck and chin forward? You can rectify this by regenerating your bone. Weight lifting can help but gravity can help more. Either slouching or being too stiff will restrict the health of our posture.
In neutral standing your bone works with gravity, strength and holds you up. Donna Brooks shows you how to bring balance into your posture.
Learn From the Experts - Somatic Movement approach to Yoga
What is your body's wisdom? Where is the pivot point of your hip and how can this lead you into Tree Pose.
Instead of seeing our bodies as an object to control and manipulate you can have a lived experience that builds calm and better movement function.
Simply Talking - Building Yoga and Exercise over Chronic Stress Patterns
The red light reflex happens when you want to accomplish something. This can be subtle but can be reinforced in yoga classes. If you are chronically stressed and push yourself in yoga you can cause strain and injury.
Parkinson's Disease Relief Exercise Videos
Yoga and Movement for Parkinson's Disease
Yoga and movement for help with Parkinson's Disease. Movement is your best defense against this disease, you can move better, faster, easier and with more confidence and balance using insights and tools from Yoga therapy, the new science of somatic movement and by applying these movements in everyday activities.
Stress and Parkinson's | Relax and lessen symptoms
In this video we look at how stress can increase Parkinson's symptoms and what you can do to help yourself relax.
The revolutionary science of somatic movement and embodiment teaches you how to use imagery and kinesthetic sensing to relax your body. A relaxed body supports you in meeting the challenges of Parkinson's disease.
Hand dexterity exercises | Great for Parkinson's!
Do you know it is possible to improve the use of your hands and gain dexterity naturally? There is a new model for pain relief and physical and mental health that is revolutionizing the way we think about movement and Parkinson's.
In this video explore grasping.reaching and squeezing.
With this simple exercise you can begin to get better use of your hands
Parkinson's Eye Problems : Tips to stop "Eye Freeze"
These exercises offer help for the "deer in the headlights" gaze. With Parkinson's disease, eye muscles can get stiff and frozen making you look like a deer caught in headlights. Shifting your gaze from near to far helps you have perspective when you move and interact.
The exercises in this video will support your balance by improving peripheral vision.
Somatic Movement and gentle exercises help Parkinson's patients feel more confident and improve balance and agility.
Natural treatments for Parkinson's | Gentle Movement and Yoga
Did you know it is possible to relieve pain naturally with a series of gentle movements utilizing connective tissue and fascia ?! This is a new model for movement that is revolutionizing the way we think about muscle control.
Embodiment and Somatic movement can help relieve stiffness, rigidity and aid balance and fluidity.
In this video, we look at how focusing only on the muscles is an uphill battle. There is a way to distribute the forces you encounter that lets you move more easily. The secret is in getting to know your connective tissue or fascia.
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