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The myth of the heart opening pose

‘Open your heart – become more compassionate with heart opening poses!’ Instructions on these lines are common in yoga classes and in both online and print magazines. Here are some examples from respected online yoga magazines: ‘Heart opening poses help you bec
August 31, 2016
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backbends, Bhujangasana, compassion, Dhanurasana, healthy heart, heart opening, kindness, open hearted, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, shalabhasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana, ustrasana

‘crawling back to baby’

“Here we are – a group of middle-class, middle-aged women, CRAWLING around the room!” said a student in class recently. It’s true that we often practise crawling and other developmental movement patterns in my classes. The reason we practise the patterns is bot
August 17, 2015
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asymmetric tonic neck reflex, contralateral movement, coordination, hand to mouth reflex, healthy spine, homolateral movement, infant crawling, Navel Radiation, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, somatics, spinal movement, yield, Yield and Push pattern

How to find support from the core for a healthy spine

  ‘Build core strength’, ‘tone your abs’, or as my son would say ‘get a God Bod’! These exhortations are usually aimed at strengthening the superficial abdominal muscles – the ‘six pack’. A common way to achieve these objectiv
August 18, 2014
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back bending, Bhujangasana, Body-Mind Centering®, breath, Breathing, Cobra, core strength, core support, developmental movement patterns, health, healthy back, healthy spine, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, somatics, well-being, wellbeing
beautiful feet

How to have beautiful, healthy feet – banish bunions and other abominations!

‘Amanda you’re obsessed with feet’, one of my students said to me the other day. It’s true I am fascinated by feet – every day I spend time feeling how weight travels into and through my own feet. I do this as I go about my daily activities – not ju
May 16, 2014
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alignment of feet in yoga, beautiful feet, bunions, feet, health of the foot, healthy feet, how to align the feet, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, somatics

Footwork – how to align the feet

A really special part of my week since January has been online Embodied Anatomy  study with Amy Matthews. “I love the feet!” she said as we began the first of three classes on the bones and ligaments of the foot. “I do too“, I wanted to shout out at my ipad, &#
April 30, 2013
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Aligning feet, alignment of feet in yoga, eversion of the foot, healthy feet, how to align the feet, pronation, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, somatics, supination

How to do Trikonasana – the fluid way

Back in 1991, I had my first experience of Body-Mind Centering® on the beautiful Greek island of Skyros. ‘Sense millions of cells in your body….. expanding and condensing in a breathing rhythm all of their own’, said our teacher, Jens Johannsen. Then we basked in the
January 29, 2013
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Body-Mind Centering®, breath, developmental movement patterns, How to do Trikonasana, Navel Radiation, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, Skyros, somatics, Trikonasana, well-being, yielding

Touch is a touchy subject

The English Language has many metaphors for behaviour and feeling using skin and touch. ‘Thick-skinned’ folk lack sensitivity or ‘tact’. Tact – from the Latin ‘tactus’ meaning touch – is to delicately touch another. If someone ‘get
July 20, 2012
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Amanda Latchmore Art, Body-Mind Centering®, breath, Contact Improvisation, Happiness, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, somatics, Steve Paxton, touch, Touchdown Dance, well-being, wellbeing

timeless.. weightless…spacious

‘Soft Spine, Bony Spine, Fluid Movement and Structural Integrity’ – is the title of a workshop I’m running in Suffolk this weekend. In preparation, I explored some of these themes with my classes during the week. We began with a look at a picture of the vertebral col
July 09, 2011
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Body-Mind Centering®, breath, Breathing, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Fluid Movement, Fluidity, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, Sandra Sabatini, somatics, Vasisthasana, well-being, wellbeing, Yoga classes Harrogate

Learning from Beautiful Bonnie

A couple of weeks ago I had my first opportunity to learn from Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen* – on a workshop entitled ‘Exploring the Embodiment of our Organs from a Developmental Perspective.’  During those three wonderful days in Liverpool, I caught up with many special and mu
June 18, 2011
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BMCA, Body-Mind Centering®, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, breath, Breathing, Currents, health, Heart, Lungs, mesonephros, metanephros, Parsvakonasana, pronephros, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, somatics

Bright Lights and Energy Centres

A few years ago I’d become exhausted through working very intensively. I was due to make a presentation on the Endocrine System and its relationship with the chakras and I wondered how I would find the energy to prepare yet another piece of work. I began experimenting in my own yoga p
June 02, 2011
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Ajna Chakra, Anahata Chakra, Body-Mind Centering®, Chakras, developmental movement patterns, Endocrine Glands, handstand, harrogate yoga, headstand, Linda Hartley, Manipura Chakra, meditation, mental health, Muladhara Chakra, registered somatic movement educator, registered somatic movement therapist, Sahasrara Chakra, somatics, Svadishthana Chakra, upward bow, upward facing dog, Vishuddha Chakra, Wisdom of the Body Moving
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About Amanda

“I began practising yoga in 1972 and I loved the effect it had on me – of gradually becoming stronger in mind and body, more resilient to life’s ups and downs, more connected to my feelings, more joyful and more creative. Both my yoga journey and my creativity gained momentum in the early nineties, it was at this time that I was privileged to begin learning Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga………….”

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