Yoga with Elaine Wintman, Salem and Marblehead, Mass.

Body-Mind Centering® invites us to learn the language of the body from the inside out. Direct experience of our own bodies — embodiment — is a practice.

Yoga is not about what we can do, but about the attention and consciousness we bring to what we do. When the practice of yoga is embodied, our yoga experience is subtle and deep and full. Rather than being dictated by our ability to complete an external form, our practice is shaped by the fullness of our cellular involvement — a sense of being home, conscious, and at home in our bodies.

Initiating and executing yoga asanas with embodied support brings ease as well as energy. The classical yogic maps of the subtle and energetic bodies, including the chakra system, are accessed as well as the physical maps including the endocrine, fluid, organ, muscle, skeletal and nervous systems.

Since 2000, Elaine’s yoga practice and her teaching have been profoundly influenced by her studies with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (a dancer and occupational therapist who developed Body-Mind Centering®) and other senior BMC^SM teachers. Body-Mind Centering is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles.

Private Sessions in Body-Mind Centering are available. These sessions may address injury, physical challenges, areas of interest and/or particular postures. Contact Elaine.

Somatic Education

empowering you to know your body:
consciousness in movement

deep listening
hands-on bodywork

bringing awareness to kinesthetic feeling exploring internal movement as well as movement through space

repatterning
your body finds a new choice—
a new way of moving or organizing itself—
and integrates that choice.

embodiment
connectedness & presence
a feeling of being in our bodies, a feeling of coming home