Sarah Baumert - Yoga, Feldenkrais and Finding Freedom In Your Body

As a curious child, Sarah Baumert, experimented with the yoga postures she found in a book. She found joy in how the postures stimulated intense energy or offered calm. She was far more comfortable with expressing with her body than her words and became a professional dancer.

When she became a yoga teacher she learned to put her profound experience into words so she could guide students to find that for themselves.

She later realized how her dance training had an oppressive quality that was instilled in her. This deeply affected her movement and how she related to herself.

It wasn't until her Feldenkrais training, Sarah learned how to move to the music of her internal senses as a way to work through chronic dance injuries and to find freedom in her body.

In this episode you'll hear

• The power of postures to change our experiences
• Sarah's childhood experimentation with movement
• "There is a deep intelligence that can come from knowing the body from a movement practice"
• Differences and similarities between Yoga and Feldenkrais
• Finding a sense of expansiveness while using effort
• How Sarah incorporated Feldenkrais lessons into her teaching practices
• Feldenkrais is not lazy yoga (😆)
• Feeling free in your body
• Feldenkrais as a way to unlearn external authority

About the Guest

Sarah Baumert is a freelance dance artist and somatic educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an authorized Awareness Through Movement® Teacher, certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, and Yoga teacher.

She has held teaching positions at the Harvard Center for Wellness, MIT, the University of Minnesota and the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.

She runs her own podcast, Sarah B. Yoga + Feldenkrais®.
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