Personal Space Movement PRACTICES with Rebecca Jo
Develop Confidence & Restore Ease
Personal Space Movement practices help you develop confidence in the way you move by restoring a feeling of being “at home” in your own body. When you are new to embodiment practices, recovering from injury, healing from trauma, managing chronic pain, and/or generally struggling to stay present, prioritizing structure and stability can help draw you out of survival mode and back into your own innate creativity.
Each session incorporates somatic awareness, guided breathing, joint mobilization, and balance training with playful, exploratory movement in an approachable format. Adaptive Hatha Yoga offers a familiar framework for our practice with its focus on rhythmic breath patterns, repetitions of shapes and intentional movement sequences.
Props (i.e. blocks, a chair, the wall) are used to support your movement, increase biofeedback and encourage creative problem solving. Stabilizing your physical body initiates feelings of safety from within. When you feel safe, your nervous system no longer needs to be engaged for survival. Working with props in this way gives you more access to core stability, improves spatial awareness, and strengthens communication skills.
Build Strong Foundations & Inspire Connection
Movement and breath exercises can teach us how to build nourishing, supportive and reciprocal relationships within our lives. We get to know ourselves in each cycle of expansion and contraction. Breathing in, we reach out into the world; we connect and explore our potential. Breathing out, we fold back in; we rest and reflect on that experience.
Embodiment practices are a dialogue between our inner world and the external reality we co-exist within. We develop the concept of who we are through this lens of relationship. I am most aware of my skin when it is touching something. Attention is given to how we place our eyes, hands, and feet (or seat) to the Earth, as well as the ways in which we interact with the environment around us. By actively practicing connection, we strengthen proprioceptive and interoceptive skills while increasing our capacity for insight and inspiration.
PSM classes foster curiosity, playfulness and objective observation. They form solid practical and theoretical foundations by breaking down the functional components of a posture or action, as well as offering deeper insight into the motivations behind each movement. Sometimes, what you are doing is less valuable than understanding why you are doing it.
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Organize Chaotic Energy into Creative Action
Known for its role in coordination, the cerebellum (or “little brain”) also participates in complex social, emotional and linguistic processes. While only occupying about 10% of your brain real estate, it contains ~75% of all of your body’s neurons. Exercises that combine balance, coordination, discipline and focus (like yoga) help strengthen your cerebellum and all of it’s neural connections.
This is great news for everyone, but especially beneficial for autism, adhd and other neurodivergence that affect your ability to process information, communicate, and/or coordinate your movements. PSM practices help you disrupt overwhelming thoughts, process confusing emotions and organize your energy so that you can focus on what is in front of you. Your own creative life.
I love working with Rebecca Jo. Her classes offer unique techniques for movement and breath work that always leave me feeling amazing, inspired, and eager for more. I promise you’ll learn something new, even if you’ve practiced for years. And if you are new to yoga she will be the perfect guide to lay down the foundation for a transformative practice. All the stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️