Let’s Move: Weekly Program with Josefin Wikstrom (TUESDAYS @ 4-4:20PM EDT)

Can’t make it?
Register and we will email a link to you when the video is available.

Humans have always moved and synchronized with each other in rhythm, movement and dance to connect, empower, release and heal.

Josefin Wikström from the Prison Yoga Project will guide the weekly classes with beneficial practices that have been co- developed with the women prisoners at the high security prison Hinseberg in Sweden. Josefin has been specializing in creating movement-based programs for traumatic stress in confined environments such as prisons, isolation units, forensic psychiatry and juvenile justice institutions since 2008.

Week 1: Release & Attune
May 19, 2020

Joint freeing sequences to release muscular tension and freeze response patterns with rhythmical movements together with music, synchronizing and attuning, releasing stress, increasing resilience.

Week 2: “Both feet firmly on the ground”
May 26, 2020
Grounding practices from therapeutic yoga and movement to follow the natural responses from a nervous system on “high alert” to engage large muscle groups, release the “fight/ flight” response, connecting the body and the breath with the stability of the earth.

Week 3: Space and boundaries
June 2, 2020
Proprioceptive awareness with yoga and dance movements to explore the possibilities of creating space and boundaries around and within the body.

Week 4: Balance
June 9, 2020
Yoga and breath/movement practices to increase the mental, emotional and physical balance

Week 5: “Shake things off”- The Bollywood keeps the score
June 16, 2020
A dance class with higher pulse and large movements from Indian Bollywood style dancing, combined with “pulling the break” calming practices to calm the heartbeat in- between the songs to increase the resilience in the autonomic nervous system.

Week 6: “Take a deep breath”
June 23, 2020
Movement and postures to release areas of muscular tension that can restrict the area around the ribcage and practices to slow down and deepen the breath to strengthen the “rest and restore”, parasympathetic nervous system.

Week 7: “Freeing the prisoner inside”
June 30, 2020
Creative movement practices with an interoceptive awareness to explore how our body posture and our emotional and mental states are closely connected. An experiential exploration into the possibilities how individually adapted movements can contribute to a sense of release, empowerment and freedom.

Week 8: “Return to center”
July 7, 2020
A mindfulness based guided relaxation to connect with the centre of our being, with a shorter movement sequence to release stress and physical tension before the relaxation.

Schedule


Register here

Blog Categories
Sign up for our newsletter
Be the first to get news and updates direct to your iinbox
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email
Donate