Salmon Days
A more easeful approach to the September churn
This yoga-based watery flow helps the body soften and find some ease, when faced with the endless demands of September adulting. Kim Addonizio's "Salmon" guides us past the inclination to treat our days like a task list, and into a kind of yielding, allowing nature to take over some of the burden.
Includes:
-a 60-minute led practice with movement demonstration
-a music playlist lovingly chosen to capture the poem's ambiance (carefully crafted match the arc of the physical practice, so you can choose to practice with music)
-a link to the poem and a short reflection capturing its most striking phrases or images
-a distilled skeleton of the sequence (poses, breath exercises, and visualizations) for your reference
In an embodied approach to language, the goal is to generate a spontaneous, authentic experience of a poem that you can hold on to (or, if you're a teacher, one you can share)! When we linger with poems not with our rational "thinky" brain, but with a more primal gut layer of our being, we can absorb their truth and beauty deeper into the psyche. When poems live there, they pop up more regularly in our everyday lives, suffusing our days with new meaning and presence. And isn't this the goal behind any practice?
*available for 7 days upon registration
Your Instructor
Katy Hawkins, PhD, is a somatics teacher based in Philadelphia. This course is an experiment she undertook during the pandemic, a romp through what she calls "Moving Poetics," exploring poems somatically. In her teaching, Katy uses poems as spells, whose magic holds change-making capacity to alter our reality. In bypassing the rational brain, poetic language drops deeper into our beings, where more subtle transformation can happen. These classes provided fodder for her recent book, called Thinking Feelingly: Somatic Approaches to Poetry. For more on Katy, check out katyhawkins.com and movingpoetics.com.