What is Somatic Softies? Practically, it’s All Bodies Welcome Yoga’s membership community - complete with unlimited live online yoga, members only workshops, and hundreds of on demand yoga videos. It’s also the powerful, healing experience of becoming more aligned in body, mind, and energy. Somatic Softies is your laboratory to learn the language of your nervous system and explore your individual body’s inherent wisdom. You’re invited to a judgement free experience of the self, in all it’s facets, that reveals liberation informed by joy.

Liberation is an important conversation here in Somatic Softies land. Yoga is not meant to be experienced 60 minutes at a time, as a luxury escape from the worries of the world. Yoga is meant to be LIVED. Your personal practice isn’t an indulgence, its a pre-colonial technology that change shapers and caring revolutionaries have been using to create more just and equitable communities for a millennia. Instead of practicing Yoga for aesthetics or conformity, let Yoga nourish your body and sharpen your resolve to care for others and live with integrity.

We hear about our “not enoughs” all the time - through self comparison, through the multi-billion dollar weight loss / fitness / beauty industry, through lifetimes of shame and pressure. There are a lot of yoga studios you could subscribe to that are full of high pressure, “aspirational” approaches to movement that leave you feeling unsupported and less than. Maybe you’ve been to a yoga class where the teacher wasn’t equipped to offer you variations for your body or abilities, and you felt overlooked or embarrassed. Or maybe the possibility of going to a yoga studio and feeling judged or out of place has kept you from trying yoga at all.

A bad prior experience in a yoga class is not a failing on you - it’s a failing on the provider. You ARE enough, just as you are. Yoga is not about perfection, comparison, or acrobatics. Yoga is meant to be an integrative experience that helps us view ourselves more clearly - as whole, enough, and nourished. If you’re worried about mobility, chronic conditions, or pain affecting your yoga practice, know that Emily has over one thousand hours of training as a yoga therapist and teacher - and she’s always learning more! Every time you register for a class, you can let Emily know how you’ll be practicing - on the floor, in a chair, standing or not standing - and she will offer adaptive and accessible options for you - and everyone else! It’s Emily’s number one goal that she can provide an equitable yoga class across a wide range of physical abilities. Her therapeutic approach to yoga is very different than “yoga as exercise” fitness classes. Expect lots of relaxing, gentle movement, opportunities to explore challenge and intensity on your terms, and yogic modalities such as breath work, self massage, and meditation woven seamlessly into the class experience.