Alexander Technique & Restorative Yoga with Kristen Davis

Alexander Technique & Restorative Yoga with Kristen Davis

Alexander Technique & Restorative Yoga with Kristen Davis.
Through Restorative Yoga, the Alexander Technique, and meditation practices, this workshop is designed to support a sense of ease, calm, and restoration. We will investigate the ways we contract and hold tension — patterns intertwined in our nervous systems that create anxiety and stress. Release these habitual patterns and settle into a body-mind that is naturally relaxed and at ease.

Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

  • Learn the bedrock of embodiment: how to listen to and be in dialogue with the body
  • Develop an expansive awareness that is rooted in patience and gentleness
  • Quiet the mind and learn to relax
  • Release chronic patterns of tension
  • Relieve anxiety and stress
  • Stretch and move the body
  • Practice Yoga from a place of non-doing, in accordance with the body-mind

Faculty

Kristen Davis

Kristen Davis


Kristen Davis, former owner of Yogasana Center, has been teaching Yoga and the Alexander Technique since 1995. Her classes are rooted in her Iyengar training under mentor Donald Moyer, the "means-whereby" of the Alexander Technique, and her deep practice of Zen Buddhism—creating a meditative, focused practice that uncovers the habits and conditioning that create obstacles in body, mind, and heart. "Do not kill the instinct of the body for the glory of the pose. Adopt a friendly approach towards it. To be sensitive is to be alive." —Vanda Scaravelli