8-week SomaSensing course for Yoga teachers and movement professionals. 

Learn how to make the switch from stretching to pandiculation in your Yoga practice. 

Includes a live session with my special guest and fascia mentor John Sharkey.

Every Sunday from 19th March to 13th May 2023 between 4 pm and 6 pm BST.

Why make the switch?

Stretching is often the first thing most of us associate with yoga. Whether you are an experienced yogi or just starting out. Traditional stretching in Yoga is used to increase flexibility and prevent injury. However, you may be unaware that stretching may cause injury and is not the most effective way of increasing suppleness. Fascia research is pointing to pandiculation as the natural way to restore suppleness and integrity to your connective tissue.

What is pandiculation?

"Pandiculation is nature's way of maintaining the integrity of the myofascial system" (Luiz)". FernandoBertolucci - 2011)

Often described as “the stretch and yawn” response.   It's the urge to unwind when we wake up from sleep. You may have seen dogs, cats, and new born babies unwind in this way. The sensation is different to the way we were taught to stretch and align the body in yoga.

Although described as an involuntary stretch. Fascia research reveals that it's not a stretch.

​It’s a whole body,  shape-shifting motion from the inside out.   Like an inner massage.  There is no strain, discomfort, or risk of injury to your joints. You’ll never have to use blocks, straps or fight to find flexibility with pandiculation.

What if you have a client who has joint laxity or hypermobility? The motion in pandiculation is omnidirectional. The whole body expands. You don't run the risk of going beyond a healthy range at a single joint. 

Pandiculation has also been described as an involuntary muscle contraction followed by a slow release. Fascial research shows otherwise.

That muscle is not separate from fascia.  It's intertwined and that fascia is continuous throughout the body. No beginning and no end. In fact, fascia interpenetrates every living cell in our body.  Described as a soft tissue matrix or fabric that shapes everything in the body. It is super sensory making it a body-wide organ of communication. 

This means we shape-change without even noticing. In response to motion, emotion, lack of motion, sound, light, touch and vibration. Becoming stiff and inflamed under strain. Pandiculation is one of nature's blueprints that helps us connect to our sense of wholeness and integrity. The heart of yoga.