Mindful Movement Online Classes – Live!
Join me for LIVE mindful movement online! These livestream classes (on Zoom) are grouped into Terms of multiple weeks (not drop-in). This allows us go deeper and build on what we’re practicing over the term. The term structure provides a sense of continuity – a familiar group of fellow students each week, and a sense of what to expect from the weekly practice.
Winter Term – Moved To Meditate Live
Empowered Presence: Mindful Movement with Resistance Bands
Thursdays 9:00-10:00am (Pacific Time)
10 classes: January 9 – March 13, 2025
For our Winter Term Live classes, we will return to our experiment with resistance bands, incorporating them into some of our movements and poses.
When you think about resistance bands, you think “strength,” right? We’ll certainly embrace the strengthening quality this prop can add to our mindful movements, but we’ll also explore what it has to offer in terms of support, creativity/curiosity, and enhanced proprioceptive awareness through the sense of touch. Using a resistance band will bring new insights to familiar shapes and help you embody them in a different way.
We’ll also practice observing our relationship to resistance (be it physical or mental), and use the bands to play with expressive intentions like embodying power vs. softness, or stiffness vs. elasticity, or firmness vs. fluidity, or sturdiness vs. lightness.
Regardless of the theme for the term, our LIVE Moved To Meditate classes always include lots of gentle movement, elements of accessible strength, mindful presence, and a dash of playfulness. We draw from Yoga, Somatics, Qigong, and beyond. This is a beginner-friendly class, but also valuable for more experienced yogis and movement practitioners. Options are given to make poses/movements more or less challenging, depending on your experience, abilities, and energy level.
Props: For this series, you will need a resistance band! I prefer the flat kind (rather than the tube-shaped kind or circular kind). A light or medium weight band that’s about 3.5 to 5 feet long (when not stretched) would be best. If you don’t already have a similar resistance band at home, look for something like this.
If you have additional yoga props (like blocks, blankets, a bolster), have them ready! If not, don’t worry – you might find substitutions around the house, like towels and pillows instead of yoga blankets and bolsters. Some practitioners also find it helpful to have a sturdy chair available (like a folding chair or dining room chair).
Each week, you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link for class. And, after class, you’ll receive an email with a link to access the Zoom recording.
There are two options for registration:
- ALL ACCESS CLASS LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP – Join the Moved To Meditate Class Library (or upgrade your membership to the All Access tier) to participate in all of this term’s livestream series, the class recordings, special courses, and my full on-demand video library of 100+ classes. This membership is $34.99/month. You can cancel anytime, but as long as you stay subscribed, you’ll be signed up for all my livestream class terms and you’ll automatically get the zoom links.
- LIVESTREAM SERIES – Sign up for this 10 sessions, including the recordings of each class. The class series is a one-time registration cost of $120 (equals $12/class).