Sarah B. Yoga

Episode 106: Today’s class is a short meditation that can be done lying down in savasana or sitting upright. Our inquiry of study during this meditation was inspired by two of my most influential teachers, Insight Meditation teacher Mark Nunberg and Feldenkrais trainer Jeff Haller. You won’t need anything for this class, except a cushion or blanket to sit on, or if you choose to lie down, please have any props you will need if you choose to do the meditation lying down. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Join the Body Matter Libraryhttps://body-matter.heymarvelous.com/product/41529/recordingsLibrary Membership Offer Details Support the showFind more of Sarah&apo

Episode 105: In this 35 minute practice we will be utilizing a thin blanket roll to wake up spinal flexion, extension and rotation all along the spine.  This is a warm up that I have been teaching variations of in many of my yoga classes lately. I hope you learn something about your spine!You can also find Level 1 and 2 yoga classes that start with this practice in the Body Matter Library. Just search for "Getting to Know Your Spine". Or access a full course that uses these concepts in A Tactile Spine - The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais.Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Upcoming Livestream Courses:The Artistry of Fluid Strength - Upcoming Feldenkrais

Episode 104: Today’s class is a short breath awareness meditation done in savasana with a weight placed on the belly.You will need something heavy that you can place on your abdomen. If you have a yoga sandbag, this works great. Most people don’t have that, so I suggest finding one or two very thick books. A thick textbook could work well. If you are using a book, then you will also want to have a blanket or a towel that you can place underneath the book, so that the weight is not hard or pressing into any part of you in an uncomfortable way. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Upcoming Livestream Courses:The Artistry of Fluid Strength - Upcoming Feldenkrais Cour

Episode 103: Today’s class is focused on calming the eyes. This class is similar to Episode 56, but I wanted to re record and re-teach the class, as it has been a popular episode and I wanted to get a higher quality audio version of it for you. In this short Feldenkrais lesson, the eyes, their state of calm, and the quality of our dark vision becomes a marker of the overall state of the nervous system. When one’s visual stimulation calms down, it can have a relaxing effect on the neck, jaw, breathing, face and more. And as a result, your whole self will settle down, get quiet and the sharpness of your vision can increase. So, let's see how we can organize our vision to make the orientation clear and smooth, so that the muscle tone in the whole body can become organized and engaged to do a function well. If you enjoy this lesson, you may consider joining the Feldenkrais Series:Being Good to Yourself: Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, & BreathIn 8 lessons we explore how important the eyes are for

Episode 102: Today’s class is an exploration of the breath. In yoga, we call this pranayama. However today’s lesson will be more of a Feldenkrais inspired way of paying attention to the breath. With each proposal, each variation of breathing, I invite you to listen and take care. If at any moment you feel the way you are breathing creates tension or shortness of breath, please do the breathing proposal with much less intensity or even imagine the movement. If you enjoy this lesson, you may consider joining the Feldenkrais Series: Being Good to Yourself: Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, & Breath In this series, we will explore lessons that promote self-connection and pleasure, finding equanimity in movement, and adapting to change with resilience. In a world where technology has become ever more prevalent, it can be easy to feel disconnected from our bodies, our emotions, and the people around us. Tension in the neck, shoulders and eyes can become a persistent nuisance, but through the gentle, explor

Episode 101: A 25 minute Yoga Nidra class.  Yoga Nidra is a guided savasana that leads you into a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. The practice draws our attention inwards, and we can learn to slip between the states of wakefulness and sleep. This is a great class to do right before bed.Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Pure Spectrum CBD 15% Off Pure Spectrum CBD bath soaks, topicals, gummies and more! Check out my affiliate link and use SARAHBDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate l

Episode 100: Today I am going to share with you an episode of the Expand Your Abilities Podcast with Jeffrey Schwinghammer. Jeffrey is a filmmaker and Feldenkrais practitioner and the director of the upcoming documentary on the Feldenkrais Method. I’m really enjoying how his podcast is breaking down some really complex principles of the Feldenkrais method. In his recent interview with me we discussed my background, how I came to teach both yoga and Feldenkrais, and how learning to move efficiently can enhance the quality of our life. Our conversation leads to talking about finding a sense of freedom in your body and how Feldenkrais is a way to unlearn any sense of having an external authority over your body. This is a huge topic, a topic that I am currently exploring in my Feldenkrais series Autonomy and Personal Freedom. So, I hope you enjoy this conversation about feeling free in your body, and how Feldenkrais and yoga complement each other. Be sure to check out some of Jeffrey’s other episodes of the  Expa

Episode 99:This is a 40 minute live Feldenkrais + Yoga blended class focusing on communication between the neck, shoulders, and upper back. You will need a yoga blanket rolled into a cylindrical bolster. Upcoming Yoga + Feldenkrais Blended Class Series. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter library membership Leave a review on itunes, spotify, or google.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessi

Episode 98: This is a 75 minute live yoga class focusing on stretching the posterior line of the body, hamstring attention, and weighted belly breathing. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter library membership Leave a review on itunes, spotify, or google.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Website I Course Library I Instagram I Newsletter I LinkedIn

Episode 97: A 40 minute Yoga Nidra practice with the intention to support feelings of overwhelm that come with grief or change.Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter library membership Leave a review on itunes, spotify, or google.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Website I Course Library I Instagram I Newsletter I LinkedIn

Episode 96: A 30 minute recovery class full of supine hip stretches and a restful savasana. This is a great class to do as a recovery after a run, a long bike ride or hike, or an afternoon of gardening. You will need a wall space for todays class. 15% off your order of Pure Spectrum CBD products with this link. Or use code: SARAHBYOGA at check out for 15% off your order.  Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter libr

Episode 95: Today's podcast is constructed in two parts. First, I will be talking about posture as a dynamic system and giving some information on my Feldenkrais series, Posture Matters, explaining how a Feldenkrais approach to posture restoration is different from other modalities. Then we will go into an abbreviated lesson.  The lesson portion of today is a little taste of the first lesson in the Posture Matters series and begins around 21:33. Posture, including the tension in the shoulders and the neck that originates from a forwardness of one’s head is one of the most requested topics I get from students. It’s a difficulty that none of us are immune to. If you are interested in this work, join the Posture Matters series which can always be done as a self-paced course. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes inc

Episode 94: A 60 minute live class blending Feldenkrais and gentle yoga poses. In this class we explore creating a sense of width in the body. Oftentimes if our eyes have a more narrow focus (like when we are looking at a fixed object such as a screen), then our whole body can start to shrink inward and feel compressed. This is a fantastic practice to juice up the spine after a day of sitting and integrate the eyes after a day of looking at a screen. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind

Episode 93:  A 60 minute Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement lesson. It is the intro class for my new series Your Poetic Pelvis. Please have a comfortable place to lie on the floor. A carpeted floor or a rug works best for this lesson. If you are using a yoga mat, you may eventually want to bring your legs off of the yoga mat if it is creating too much friction. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter library me

Episode 92:  A live 75 minute gentle yoga class. This class has a number of non-traditional sequences. Listen carefully and explore as you need to. Do what feels good!Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Right now you can get 20% off any Magic Mind pack or subscription with code SARAHB14. They are currently doing a 14 days of magic challenge. Check it out at magicmind.co and use code SARAHB14 for a 20% discount.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter

Episode 91:  A 40 minute Yoga Nidra class.  Yoga Nidra is a guided savasana that leads you into a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. The practice draws our attention inwards, and we can learn to slip between the states of wakefulness and sleep. This is a great class to do right before bed. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter library membership Leave a review on itunes, spotify, or google.Support

Episode 90:  A live 75 minute class blending yoga and the Feldenkrais method. In this class we push and pull against and away from the props to help free the hip and shoulder joints. Please have a looped strap, a blanket and a block.This class is an example of the kind of explorations done in my Yoga + Feldenkrais blended courses. Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced coursesBody Matter library membership Leave a review on itunes, s

Episode 89:  A short Feldenkrais lesson using the pubic bone, the tailbone, and the creases of the hip joints as anatomical places of reference and awareness. This mini lesson is an example of the direction that the lessons will start to take in the Pelvic Floor and Deep Core Rapport Series. This lesson continues the process of finding power and grace from your pelvis. What set's this practice apart from other pelvic explorations is the subtlety of it all and the inner connections you'll make from your perineum to your hip joints. For many people, this lesson may help you start to simply sense your hip joints as part of the pelvis. This is a nice lesson to pair with Episode 86: which was a yoga class with Pubic Bone Awareness.Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for

Episode 88:  An informational podcast about pelvic floor and deep abdominal health. Pelvic Floor Health and Abdominal strengthening is one of the most requested topics I get from students. Today, I will be discussing why pelvic floor health is so important and give you some context for my series: The Pelvic Floor and Deep Core Rapport. The 8 week series will be taught livestream starting September 25th, with options to purchase the lessons to do as a self paced course. The function of the pelvic floor has a profound effect on our quality of life. So anything that can be done to bring more ease or a higher quality of control in this area can be revolutionary. For both men and women, improving the ability to both relax and engage the pelvic floor and the deep abdominal muscles can have positive effects on:Back painSensing a deeper and more relaxed breathEasier standing and walkingImproved BalanceHealing from hip replacements or abdominal surgeriesBetter sex through increased awareness, sensation and controlMore

Episode 87:  A 40 minute yoga class of slow active restoratives. We mostly focus on three poses, a shoulder opener, a twist, and a restorative backbend. With attention and detail, we will unstick the shoulder blades, move into a twist and a backbend, practice neck awareness, softening the chest, and feeling a tone in the lower belly. You can have a single block and blanket handy for class.Sarah Baumert has been teaching movement since 2006. She is a certified yoga teacher, yoga therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner. This podcast is an intersection of her yoga teaching and training in the Feldenkrais® method. Classes include sensory rich movement experiences for a more resilient and healthy nervous system to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.Upcoming Livestream Courses:Being Good to Yourself: A Feldenkrais Exploration of Caring for your Neck, Shoulders, Eyes, and BreathBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Self-paced course