Join Master Somatic Movement Therapist Donna Brooks (MSME-T, C-IYAT) for a short but immensely valuable lesson of freeing your head and neck from pain and restriction.
Using experiential movement and anatomy text, Donna will guide you into releasing long held difficulties that arise from computer work, postural imbalance and long term stiffness.
| White Pine Circle Members | Inner Circle Members |
$95.00 | $80.00 |
Enrolled students can access the course material by scrolling to the bottom of the page.
You will learn:
Simple and effective spiral release for your upper trapezius and SCM muscles
How to "balance" your head on your shoulders by finding the "spring-like"qualities of your suboccipital muscles.
Find and utilize the full range of your ribs and shoulders to move your head.
All movements are gentle and self paced.
"I had significant improvement after the work that we did yesterday. I often wake up with pain in my neck and temple area as a result of stenosis in the cervical vertebrae. Last night I slept six hours solid and woke up almost pain-free." Gaella Elwell
Donna Brooks is a somatic movement therapist and educator, yoga therapist, and embodied meditator who has 40 years of experience teaching, counseling and coaching in movement and the healing arts.
She is a certified Yoga Therapist and a Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator who holds a Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Stony Brook. Donna has been teaching yoga since 1981 and somatic movement since 1992.
Originally trained in Iyengar yoga, Donna has also studied with somatic movement/ embodiment pioneers including Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Emilie Conrad. She learned about the geometry and physics of movement and momentum with tennis pro Art Carrington and through Contact Improvisation. She is trained in the Healing Ground work of Judith Blackstone.