Somatic Hatha Yoga Centre

Ramdev severely injured his back when he was a teenager, and since his early 20s has been passionate about somatic training and the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, for this has kept him mobile and pain-free. He trained in yoga and meditation for 12 years with Swami Atmananda, in India, N. Ireland and his native Singapore.

Somatic movement emphasizes sensing and feeling within - awareness of the living body in its wholeness. In our yoga classes we use somatic movement - movement with awareness - to reorganize our structure and pattern of movement. Once we have found a way of doing something, we tend to always do it the same way - our movements become habitual and therefore limited.

The Feldenkrais Method is a form of somatic education that uses a series of gentle movements and directed attention to encourage a natural and effortless way to move. These lessons help reorganize our habitual patterns of movement by bringing our attention to parts of the self that are out of our awareness.

Surely illnesses for which the medical remedy was surgery and / or extensive medication, could not be dealt with simply by a change in breathing! Clinical studies show that people with various health problems over-breathe, and that few of us breathe healthily, according to the established medical norm.