LeAnanda Yoga & Somatic Education

22/04/2025

Somatics movement self care 5 week series starts next week

13/01/2025

CALM & STRONG 5 WEEK SERIES- Set the Tone for 2025
Think about the tension in your shoulders after a stressful event, or the way your jaw tightens when you're anxious.
These physical responses are your body’s natural reaction to stress, triggered by your body entering "fight or flight" mode. This response activates your adrenal glands, which release cortisol—the stress hormone.
Cortisol prepares your body for action, whether you're facing a looming deadline, navigating a tough conversation, or simply trying to keep up with a busy day. This hormonal surge increases your heart rate, raises your blood pressure, and, most notably, causes muscle tension.
While muscle tension is a normal part of the stress response, it becomes problematic when it lingers. Over time, if the stress continues, that tension doesn’t fade. Instead, it becomes chronic, and your body starts interpreting it as a continuous stressor, prompting your adrenal glands to keep releasing cortisol. This creates a dangerous loop: tight muscles signal stress, which triggers more cortisol, leading to even more tension.
This cycle of tension and cortisol release can lead to chronic pain, fatigue, and burnout, as your body never fully has the chance to relax and reset.
However, when you bring awareness to the tension in your body—whether it’s caused by ongoing stress, repetitive movement, or emotional overwhelm—it opens up the opportunity for change. Through Somatic Movement, you can break the cycle of stress and tension, allowing your body to return to a more peaceful, comfortable state. By shifting how you move, you shift how you feel, think, and experience life. This isn’t about perfecting a pose or reaching a goal, but about bringing ease into everyday actions—like walking, bending, or simply sitting—making life feel more comfortable and enjoyable.
Clinical Somatic Education offers a beautiful and profound way to reconnect with your body. Instead of focusing on external achievement or rigid rules, it invites you to explore your inner experience of movement. It’s a practice that deepens the connection between body, mind, and environment, creating space for transformation on every level—physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Through the Calm & Strong Series, you'll learn through movement to reduce muscular tension, break the stress cycle, and step into 2025 with a deeper sense of ease and empowerment.
SERIES STARTS
Monday 3rd February 6.15pm (60 minutes)
Thursday 6th February 10.00am (90 minutes)
Thursday 6th February (90 minutes)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
PM for further information or to book your spot.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas
Thank you for all your support in 2024
Wishing you peace, good health and a spending time with loved ones

25/08/2024

SEPTEMBER SERIES: CENTRE to PERIPHERY
Our limbs, the distal parts of us, usually do most of our direct interacting with the world, their muscle and bone structure are designed for refined, detailed tasks of enacting our intention in the world: touching things, balancing and orienting our weight on two small pillars, our feet. They’re made to precisely direct muscular forces that come from more central parts of us.
Even the powerful leg muscles are designed to work in harmony with more powerful muscles of the torso and pelvis. Many of us spend little time improving the coordination and efficiency of our centre. This creates more wear and tear for our distal structures as they struggle without enough effective support from our powerful middle parts: carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, and many knee, ankle and foot troubles are a few common ailments.
We evolved to enjoy our whole self moving harmoniously, using the suppleness of our chest and torso, integrated with our legs, to carry us around with grace and ease.
The 4 week September Series starts Monday 2nd September 6.15-7.15pm and Thursday 5th September 6.30pm-8pm. Booking essential.

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04/03/2024

5 week Somatics series starts this week supple shoulders healthy hips
booking essential

01/03/2024

NEW 5 week Somatic Series
Supple Shoulders and Healthy Hips
Shoulder movement mirrors hips movement.
Your shoulders counterbalance your hips with every step. This helps us stay balanced when we walk/run.
If you have a hip imbalance, or one ankle tighter than the other, or one knee that hurts…your hips are going to have to manage that with every step. Which means your shoulders have to work harder to counterbalance and compensate for the hips being out of balance and as a result the larger muscles in the centre of the body become tight further restricting movement in the shoulders and hips.
Join me and learn how to release muscular imbalances and restore function for greater freedom in your shoulders and hips.
MONDAY 6.15-7.30pm
Please note due to two public holidays in March these lessons will be on TUESDAY instead.
THURSDAY 10-11.30am
THURSDAY 6.30-7.45pm MEDITATION 15 minutes after the lesson is optional.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL

10/01/2024

NEW 5 WEEK SERIES STARTING 29th JANUARY 2024
RELEASING THE UPPER BODY- BACK, NECK, SHOULDER, ARM and HAND TENSION
If you sit at a computer all day with your upper back rounded, chest muscles tight and head thrust forward this becomes a habit. You drive home in the car, sitting in the same rounded position and then once you’re home you might sit and watch the TV still in that same rounded position. When you repeat that pattern for days, weeks, months, years your brain will consider this position as “normal”. Even when you think you are standing up straight your brain will hold onto tension in the muscles which have been shortened all day and your posture will look stooped or rounded and this may lead to chronic pain. Even if you massage those muscles or stretch them, they will soon revert back to the posture that your brain considers “normal”.
This is an example of one of the posture patterns that can become habituated. During this series we will also address other posture patterns that become habituated and can cause discomfort or chronic pain.
Somatic movements reset the resting length of the muscles, using a process that engages the brain, called pandiculation.
MONDAYS 6.15 - 7.15pm
THURSDAYS 10.00 -11.30am
6.30 – 7.30pm meditation optional 20 minutes
Classes are available online and in person
SPOTS ARE LIMITED. BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL.

01/01/2024

I want to share a heartfelt gratitude for all your support throughout 2023. Reflecting on the journey we have taken together, the challenges, triumphs and exciting adventures, your presence means the world to me. I feel very fortunate to share my passion with you, to empower each one of you to find harmony within your own body and soma, to listen to your embodied wisdom, while gaining efficient and enjoyable movement. Together we navigate moving away from what no longer serves us and build upon what supports and nurtures our somatic intelligence.
I'm looking forward to sharing more meaningful movement lessons with you in 2024 🙏

29/11/2023

Final 2 weeks of Somatics for 2023
Release tension and get out of pain
Monday 6.15pm for 1 hour Booking Essential

03/10/2023

Healthy Feet - From the Ground to Whole Body Series
When our feet become stiff, movement is affected all the way up the chain to the knees, hips, back and beyond, and when our back, hips, knees and beyond become stiff or tight, it affects the healthy function of the feet.
8 weeks starting Monday 9th October 6.15-7.15pm
7 weeks starting Thursday 12th October 6.30-7.30pm (optional 20min meditation 7.40-8pm)
Booking is essential.
Due to progressive nature of this series casual attendance is not available.

08/09/2023

Self Care September
Join the Somatic Movement Series starting Monday 6-7pm & Thursday 6.30-7.30pm Meditation 7.40-8pm

20/08/2023

Regular class schedule resumes 11th September
pm for more info or book a spot
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