Sarah B. Yoga + Feldenkrais®

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 60: This is a 75 minute Level 1-2 class taught live. What might feel like deep abdominal work at first, will turn into an attention to the spine and its capacity for full flexion from the tail all the way to the head. Poses include, rabbit, cat, sphinx, side angle, and plow pose, among others. We will make a flat long blanket bolster to lie the spine one. You will also need a strap and two blocks. 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 59:This is a 75 minute Level 1-2 class taught live. We begin with breath work, exploring a few of the many different ways that the diaphragm can shape the torso and support the spine. There is a focus on recovering or regaining the natural lumbar curve that has disappeared for so many people who sit a lot. We will also do a number of shoulder external rotation practices which will help reverse forward leaning shoulders and a tight chest which are the effects of holding your phone and looking down a lot! You will need two blankets, two blocks, and a loop-able strap.We will make a double blanket roll or cylinder. We will use the looped strap around the forearms, and the two blocks will stack on top of one another to place your front foot on them during anjaneyasana.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 58: This is a 75 minute gentle Level 1 class. This class works to open the hips with an attention to keeping space in the lower back. I am currently teaching live yoga asana classes via Zoom. You can find my full weekly schedule at BODY MATTERYou will need two blankets, a block, and a yoga strap. If you have a bolster, that could also be useful. A towel or any firm blanket can be used in place of a yoga blanket and a scarf will be better than nothing if you don’t have a loop-able yoga strap. 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 57: This class begins with some breathing explorations to help warm up your sensing abilities of the lungs, their capacity to fill, and their capacity to change shape in order to support your asanas. Our breath is constantly adapting to the environment we put ourselves in. In this class, feel how your breath can adapt to the shapes of the asanas. We do a lot of shoulder opening and awareness of the internal spaces to support backbends, culminating in camel pose. You will need a blanket, a block, and a yoga strap. If you have a bolster, that could also be useful. A towel or any firm blanket can be used in place of a yoga blanket and a scarf will be better than nothing if you don’t have a loop-able yoga strap. 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 56: This is a recording of a mini class that I taught during the first few months of the Covid crisis, when many of us, including yoga and movement teachers began looking at screens for many more hours a day than we were used to. This class does not include much asana at all, but is more of a meditation and yoga for the eyes. It is informed by the Feldenkrais practice, of which I am also a practitioner of. This lesson will help calm the nervous system, relax your eyes, let go of Zoom fatigue, help you find ease in the face and eye muscles, and may even help you fall asleep.You will not need any props for this class. The class is mostly done in a supine savasana position, so be sure that you are warm enough and comfortable. If you enjoy this class, you may be interested in more of the Feldenkrais offerings that I have on my website www.body-matter.comSarah 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 55:This is a 60 minute restorative practice. For this class we use many props, including a bolster, blankets, two blocks, and a strap. If you do not have all of these props, you can do your best with what you have. 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 54:Back by popular demand, it’s another yoga nidra class. In this 20 minute class, you will be guided through a scan of the body while resting in savasana. This form of yoga relaxation has been found to reduce tension and anxiety, to help those who suffer from a scattered mind, and to heal insomnia. A focus will be placed on specific parts of the body throughout the meditation allowing the mind to concentrate on the sensations that are present. Do this class on its own for a break in your day, or as an addition at the end of an active 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 53: This is a live class from a summer intensive taught in July of 2016. Class begins with developmental movement warm-ups focused on waking up the side body. This warm up prepares you for the active asanas that are done in the last half of class.Just under two hours, you may need to carve out some time on a Saturday afternoon for this one. The first hour of this class could be done alone as a gentle restorative class to wake up the torso.Props needed: 1-2 blankets, 2 blocksSarah 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 52: This class is a beginning class for anyone interested in using yoga as a part of trauma recovery. Before class, I talk with Lisa Danylchuk. Lisa is a psychotherapist and a Yoga for Trauma specialist. She and I discuss the benefits of yoga for someone recovering from trauma and tips for how to start a practice with this in mind. For more information about Lisa and resources for Yoga for Trauma Recovery visit howwecanheal.comThe class portion of this podcast will be 40 minutes long.Allow yourself to take rests and make choices for yourself during this class. Ask yourself if the pose you are doing feels good to you. Give yourself the choice to rest, and invite yourself to do something different if it is not agreeing with you at the moment.If you are coming to this class a second or third time and you would like to skip to the class portion, it begins around 22 minutes.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 51: It’s been over a year since I have posted a podcast. I’m very happy to share this first Tech-antidote class with you. This class is not just for the imbalances you may be finding in your body, but also the mental fatigue, the brain fog, and the emotional rollercoaster that being connected online for hours can do to the whole self. A contemplative practice is such a crucial part of our work-life-stress balance. Managing your stress is a huge step towards good health. I hope this episode and all the past podcasts help to keep you balanced, healthy, and happy.Props needed: One BlockSarah 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 50: In this 30 minute class, you will be guided through a scan of the body while resting in savasana. This form of yoga relaxation has been found to reduce tension and anxiety, help those who suffer from a scattered mind and restless body, and heal insomnia. A focus will be placed on specific parts of the body throughout the meditation allowing the mind to concentrate on the sensations that are present.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 49: When something stressful is happening in our lives the shoulders tend to be a common place where we hold tension in the body. Tense muscles, if ignored can lead to injury later on. This tense feeling in the shoulders can even start to creep up towards the ears, give us tension headaches, and keep us from having a healthy and restful night of sleep.Sitting for hours over a keyboard, which we are all too familiar with, can contribute to tightness in the hips, legs, neck, shoulders, and back. This creates an unhealthy posture that you take with you when you leave your office for the day, in which the back and shoulders hunch down and the neck protrudes the head forward. The spine thus becomes misaligned when the body is in such a stagnate position.In this short class, we will move through basic poses that target areas of tension which can be an effective antidote to many desk job ailments and general stress build up in the shoulders. This is meant to be a class that you could use if you only have a short amount of time, but need a quick break from sitting at your desk. Or, if you come home from work and you need a little pick me up, this class will energize those stagnate tight areas. As an added bonus, yoga can have powerful effects on the mind and may help address the damaging stress of a high-pressure job by helping to calm the mind and quiet racing thought patterns.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 48: In this 60 minute class we will focus on finding balance in the sacroiliac joints. Class starts with a flowing breath exercise on your back to set a therapeutic tone for your practice. We move on to seated dandasana and a slow modified sun salutation. Utkatasana is our main standing pose and is practiced with kapalabhati pranayama. Headstand (salamba sirsasana) and crow pose (bakasana) are some of the more challenging poses that we lead up to. If you do not have a headstand practice, be sure to consult a live teacher before you invert fully. Class ends with a series of twists. If you have sacroiliac instability, be sure to keep your effort at 80% in the twists without forcing any position. Gary, my cat, really wanted to teach you today as well, you may hear him meowing in the background now and then!Props needed: One blanket and one blockSarah 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 47: This is an active prenatal class for mothers who feel fit and healthy during their pregnancy. This class is suitable for the first and second trimesters and can be practiced into the third trimester, monitoring how you are feeling. With that said, we still move in a slow and graceful pace. Starting with a seated meditation, we then move into seated postures that create space in the side body and the hips. This will include a flowing sequence side to side in parvritta janu sirsasana which you can see photos of below. Our flowing standing poses will take us through tree pose (vrksasana), warrior I and II (virabhadrasana I and II), wide legged forward fold (prasarita padottanasana), goddess pose, and triangle (trikonasana). Squats, sIngle pigeon, and a side savasana will finish the practice.Props needed: Two blankets (or towels and pillows) and two blocksSarah 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 46:This is a 35-minute meditation practice that is useful when you are managing physical pain or emotional pain that may be felt in the body. This practice is based on the concept of Pratipaksha Bhavana that can be found in the Yoga Sutras. Sutra 1.33 as translated by Nischala Joy Devi says:“When presented with disquieting thoughts or feelings, cultivate an opposite, elevated attitude. This is Pratipaksha Bhavana.”More reading on this topic on the podcast blog post. 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 45: In this 90 minute class, I build upon some of the material that I will be exploring during my March retreat. The class will grow from a seated meditation into some longer yin style poses and eventually towards more challenging asanas. Take this class as a way to discover your limits, and soften your mental and physical boundaries. Your hips and lower back will thank you, and you will get a tiny glimpse of what I have planned for the retreat.You will need a block, a strap, and a wall to place the short end of your mat.A large part of the art and skill in a yoga practice is the ability to sense how far one can move in a stretch. If there is no challenge in a pose, no intensity or stretch, then there will be little possibility for opening. The opposite approach of going too far in a pose, increases the possibility for pain and injury to occur. Somewhere between these two places is a happy middle ground. It is possible to find a degree of stretch that is in balance. Where there is a challenge without pain. Where there is vigor without strain.Experiencing this balance or middle ground relies on a high degree of sensitivity. This place in the stretch just before pain, but not pain itself, could be referred to as a your boundary. With heightened sensitivity, the boundary can soften and you will be able to feel more space in your poses. Pain tells you where the limits of your physical conditioning lie. The length of your stay is determined by your endurance limit, while your interest in a pose is a function of your attention.Take this class as a way to play with all of these boundaries: endurance, strength, stretch, and mental attention. As you “play the edges of the boundaries”, your skill in yoga has little to do with your degree of flexibility. Rather it is a function of how sensitive you play with these limits.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 44: A very playful 20 minutes to wake up your abdominals and upper body. The exercises during the first half of class are done on a thinly rolled yoga blanket or towel. This will create a less stable ground and a more challenging position for the back of the body to balance on. Your body will need to rely on the abdominals to keep you from tipping over. 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 43: This is a 75 minute live slow flow class. Class begins with a short pranayama to bring attention to the inhale phase of the breath and how the inhale can enhance an opening and lifting of the chest during the asanas.This balanced practice includes a number of standing poses and twists, ending with purvottanasana, or upward facing plank pose as our backbend. This pose, as well as the more general focus of class will be on how we can find a lift and buoyancy in the chest. We will use the inhale phase of the breath to wake up and open the muscles of the chest and the exhale phase of the breath to connect to the deeper abdominal muscles that hold us up in the poses.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 42: Take this podcast with you when you travel. Bring it into your hotel room or even do it in the airport. It’s another great class if you have been sitting at your desk all day. Stand up, lie down, twist and move things into a different shape!!!Traveling, especially by air, can be very hard on the body. It wreaks havoc on our posture and the our mental state. You may feel spacey, anxious, or generally unsettled when you are traveling. This class will ground your energy, helping you to feel awake, rested, open and ready to enjoy the rest of your day and your new destination.As you do this practice, cultivate a slow, deep and even breath. On slow inhalations focus on bringing space and life back into the body and on long exhalations focus on a sense of grounded steadiness.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 41: Today we briefly explore bringing attention to our samskaras during the hatha yoga practice. The concept of samskaras from the Yoga Sutras refers to the imprints that are left on the subconscious mind from our experiences, in other words, our habits. In this 40 minute practice, we touch on how becoming more aware of our samskaras during an asana practice can help us relate to our environment during the rest of our lives.Thank you for listening,SarahConnect: Please be in touch with your questions, yoga stories, and suggestions for new podcasts. What would you like to learn? What is your body craving? What are your challenges?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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 40: A new podcast exploring the “cat spine” pose and how the rounding of the back that we do in this pose can be utilized during the practice of other asanas to bring freedom to the neck and upper back. Use this asana to slow down and to help bring some space and freedom in that “hard-to-get” stuck area between the shoulder blades.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 39: I did it! Only 20 minutes of practice like you have been begging for. Okay, okay it’s a little more than 20 minutes, but I’m working on this short class thing. This class was made for those of you who have been asking for some abdominal exercises to do at the beginning of the day.We start with a blanket or a towel and that is the only prop you will need.“I listen to your short core strengthening podcasts every morning, and have had zero instances of back pain since starting this ritual". – SWI am currently teaching live yoga asana classes via Zoom. You can find my full weekly schedule at BODY MATTERSarah 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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 38: A full length podcast. This is a strong practice with some vinyasa flow towards the middle of class. We work on high plank and side plank to build strength and confidence. Be careful of your wrists during these poses and modify to suit your bodies needs.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 37:This is a class carved out from a live class that I taught. You will want to have 1-2 blankets rolled in a bolster for the end of class. There is not a typical introduction for this class as I usually record. This was a request from one of you. Please let me know your comments on how that worked for you.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 36: This class is a video specifically designed for those with a posterior tilt of the pelvis. Before going ahead and doing this podcast, you will want to be sure that this class is suitable for your postural habits. A posterior tilt of the pelvis tucks the tail under and often creates a rounding lower back/lumbar spine. Generally, this causes the hamstrings to be tight, the lower back to flatten from its natural lumbar curve, and the shoulders to begin a steady slump forward. The class was originally created with as a video. I have posted the audio version here. Please refer to the podcast blog post to access the video. Be sure to have a blanket or towel, and a strap.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 35: This is a 75 minute practice in which the poses are held slightly longer. The way that most of the asanas in this class are designed is so that you feel more supported by the props and the floor. I hope that you find this class beneficial for you when you need more of those long juicy stretches rather than a vigorous vinyasa class. To find a video version of this class visit the podcast blog post here. You will need a block, a strap, and a blanket for class. There is an added bonus at the end of class introducing how to bring a foam roller into your yoga practice.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 32: This is a 90 minute class without any down dog or poses that require weight bearing on the wrists and hands. This class is great for anyone because of its focus on opening up the upper back and keeping an open posture in the chest. This relieves any pinching or stress that occurs in the shoulders, arms, and wrists from poor posture.You will need two blocks, a strap, and a blanket or towel. (also have two ice packs ready for savasana if you have inflammation in your wrists).Some of the poses we will move through include: ardha salamba sirsasana- half headstand/headstand prep, utkatasana- chair pose, virabadrasa III- warrior III, garudasana- eagle pose, malasana- garland pose, ardha matsyendrasana- half lord of the fishes pose, and gomukasana- cow’s face pose.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 21: This is a 20 minute podcast with very few poses. It is the first in a series I will be doing that uses imagery to help soften tension and bring space and awareness into the body. The focus of this class is mainly on breathing, the pelvis, awareness in the spine, and feeling the expanse from head to toe. If you are feeling extra wound up today, this podcast could be a nice way to start a longer practice or a way to simply chill out and release some aggression you may be holding in the body.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. Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop

Send me a text! What did you think of class?Episode 19: This is a vodcast that I recorded specially for a student who has a slipped disk in her lumbar spine. In general this is a gentle class that most everyone can participate in. However, if you are dealing with a different injury your program should always be tailored to fit your specific needs. If you would like to watch the video of this class visit the podcast episode page on my website body-matter.comWhile your back pain persists if you have a slipped of herniated disk in the lower back there are a few things to remember when you are practicing yoga:*Do not bend forward past 90 degrees with straight knees.*Avoid all seated forward bends. (which there are none of in this class)*Avoid rounding your back. (you will notice we are doing a lot of small gentle arches in the lower back which will help ease the disk back towards its correct placement)* If any pose causes pain, tingling, or numbness, stop immediately.Be sure to modify with blankets, blocks, straps and any other props that you need.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.Current/Upcoming Courses with Sarah that you can join at anytime:The Focused Body: Attention Practices Through FeldenkraisBlending of Yoga + Feldenkrais - Winter SeriesBody Matter Library Membership Support the showFind more of Sarah's teaching on Body Matter.Stay up to date with all upcoming offerings: Subscribe to my NewsletterPlease leave a review on itunes, spotify, or youtube.Support the show to help keep these podcasts free and accessible for everyone!Online Self Paced Course Shop