Exploring Movement Modalities through a Mindfulness Lens

I’m happy to be back today with a new episode about mindful movement! There was an unexpected hiatus, because I had to travel to Alabama and spend 3 weeks helping with some significant family health-related challenges.

A silver lining of that very difficult trip was seeing how much my meditation and movement practices made a difference in my ability to make it through that experience.

And so in this episode, I’m talking about some of the specifics of what I include in my “interdisciplinary” practice and celebrating what I've learned from the different movement modalities that I’ve benefited from over the years.  

In particular, I'm going to talk about how I engage with 3 different movement modalities - yoga, somatics, and qigong - and what I think they each offer to the development of embodied mindfulness.

Understanding the different gifts of these practices helps me choose what tool I might need on a given day, or how I might combine specific elements from multiple modalities to design a mindful movement class sequence.  

I talk about how:

• yoga has helped me wake up sensation and develop a connection with my body
• somatics has offered more focus on subtlety and refined my attention
• qigong helps with clearing emotional energy and learning to “drop in” to simple movement flows

And, you’ll hear about how all of these practices assist with nervous system regulation and with making meditation more accessible and effective.

I hope this episode will spark your interest to explore a new genre of movement, or to play a bit with the breadth and depth of your practice toolkit!

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For more links and resources mentioned in this episode, find the show notes at movedtomeditate.yoga/podcast.

For more information on the Mindful Movement Teacher Training, which explores each of these movement modalities through a lens of mindfulness practice, check out movedtomeditate.yoga/mmtt.

Or, for accessible guided practices that align with these podcast topics, check out my Moved To Meditate Class Library at movedtomeditate.com.

Lastly, I’m on Instagram at @addie_movedtomeditate (for mindfulness, movement, yoga, and pictures of PNW nature and my adorable kitty, Mustache).