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Aging is not the ending of your story. It is an invitation to keep writing it.
Join James Knight, founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga®, for four live workshops that invite you to rethink your relationship with your body and your understanding of movement.
Four live sessions, Mondays at 4:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm PT
November 9, 16, 23 & 30
What if healthy aging begins with listening?
Most movement education tells you what to do. Somatic Wisdom™ focuses on learning how to listen. It is a way of building a lifelong relationship with your body through curiosity rather than fear, exploration rather than limitation, and wisdom rather than striving.
The series looks beyond muscles and flexibility alone. Together we explore how the nervous system, brain-to-muscle communication, mindful movement, and conscious muscular engagement work together to support resilient strength and easier everyday movement.
- Â Self-correct and self-regulate
- Â Adapt and learn at any age
- Â Develop healthier movement patterns
- Â Build resilient strength
- Â Move with greater ease and pleasure
From Awareness to Embodiment
The four workshops are not isolated classes
Together they form a progressive journey, each session building on the awareness opened by the one before it.
Remember
"My body is still capable of learning."
Awaken awareness and reconnect with the innate intelligence of the nervous system.
Repattern
"My patterns are not permanent."
Recognize unconscious habits and create healthier movement choices.
Strengthen
"I can become stronger than I imagined."
Develop resilient muscles, bones, fascia, balance, coordination, and confidence through mindful movement.
Embody
"I can trust my body, and myself, again."
Allow awareness to become embodied freedom, resilience, confidence, and joy.
The Four-Part Journey
Four live workshops, one continuous arc
Awakening Somatic Wisdom™
Rediscovering the body's capacity to heal, adapt, and thrive
We begin with the foundational principles of Somatic Wisdom™ and the body's innate capacity to learn, adapt, and restore healthier movement.
You'll explore how chronic muscular holding patterns, sensory-motor amnesia, and unconscious movement habits can contribute to stiffness, joint stress, and reduced mobility. Through gentle Somatic Movement Flows®, you begin reconnecting with your body's natural ability to self-regulate.
Theme: Building self-awarenessÂ
Rewriting Your Movement Story
Repatterning muscles to support healthy bones and joints
Injury, stress, repetitive habits, and emotional experiences can all contribute to protective movement patterns that linger long after the original event.
You'll learn how Gentle Somatic Yoga® uses slow, mindful movement and conscious awareness to support healthier muscle tone and improved brain-to-muscle communication, and how that awareness creates new movement choices rather than repeating old habits.
Theme: Repatterning the brain-to-muscle connection
Building Resilient Strength
Cultivating bone, muscle, and fascial vitality through conscious movement
Healthy bones ask for more than movement. They also benefit from intelligent, intentional muscular engagement.
You'll explore how mindful muscular effort can support stronger bones while respecting vulnerable joints, working through Somatic Movement Flows® with functional strength, balance, coordination, posture, and stability. The emphasis is not on exercising harder, but on moving more intelligently.
Theme: Strength
Somatic Alchemy™
Transforming movement into lifelong freedom, confidence, and joy
The final workshop integrates the principles of Somatic Wisdom™ into embodied movement.
Through mindful movement, breath, reflection, and embodied awareness, you'll explore reconnecting with parts of yourself that may have become distant through injury, chronic tension, fear, or long-held protective patterns. The focus is resilience, pleasure, confidence, trust, and the possibility of continued growth.
Theme: Embodiment, stress reduction, and a total soma reset
What is Somatic Wisdom™?
It is an approach built on learning to listen to the body rather than forcing it into prescribed shapes. Instead of overriding sensation, you use it as information, and let that information guide what comes next.
Each step opens the one that follows.
Awareness
Noticing what is actually happening.
Listening
Letting sensation inform the movement.
Choice
Responding instead of repeating.
Repatterning
New habits taking root over time.
Resilience
Strength that adapts with you.
Your Teacher
Meet James Knight
E-RYT, Gentle Somatic Yoga
An Integrative Therapist and Yoga Instructor for over 25 years. He one of the pioneers in the field of Somatics and is certified as a Hanna Somatic Educator by the Novato Institute for Somatic Studies. His passion is synthesizing the neuroscience of Hanna Somatics with Hatha yoga and other interoceptive practices. James created an educational movement method called Gentle Somatic YogaĂ’, and he travels the globe facilitating teacher training certifications, workshops, and cultural immersion retreats.
Gentle Somatic Yoga holds special appeal for yoga teachers, bodyworkers, massage therapists, personal trainers, dancers, and other providers seeking to augment their skill set with new and more effective methods. Lay practitioners who are interested in taking charge of their health attend James’s courses simply for their own personal benefit, using Gentle Somatic Yoga as a tool for aging gracefully. The customizable therapeutic Somatic Movement Flows James developed provide (often rapid and permanent) relief to those suffering from chronic back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee, and foot pain. These Flows support recovery from injury, serve to improve mobility, and even prevent injury stemming from repetitive movements or lifestyle causes. James’s aim is to educate people and empower the clients he serves with practical tools so they can take charge and control over their own healing process for a more fulfilling and vibrant life.
Who this series is for:
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You want to develop a deeper relationship with your body
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You want to explore more mindful approaches to movement
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You want to move with greater confidence and ease
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You're interested in healthy aging and lifelong resilience
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You'd like to improve strength, balance, coordination, and body awareness
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You're recovering from past movement challenges and want gentler strategies
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You experience stiffness or limitations in everyday movement
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You're navigating changes related to aging
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You're curious how the nervous system and brain-to-muscle communication shape movement
This series is educational. It is not a treatment program and does not diagnose or address medical conditions. If you have specific health concerns, please speak with your healthcare provider.
Live Series Schedule
Four sessions, Mondays at 4:00 pm ET / 1:00pm PT
Session 1
November 9
4:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm PT
Session 2
November 16
4:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm PT
Session 3
November 23
4:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm PT
Session 4
November 30
4:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm PT
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Your body is still capable of learning
Aging does not have to mean stopping. Through curiosity, mindful movement, and Somatic Wisdom™, there is always an opportunity to keep learning, adapting, strengthening, and discovering new possibilities.
Four live workshops with James Knight. Come as you are.
