Somatics with Aisha

Life is Fragile - https://mailchi.mp/b2ba8103b509/life-is-fragile
My quarterly newsletter at the turn of the season, Fall equinox, in the northern hemisphere, reflects on loss and impermanence.

Life is Fragile

The Longest Day of the Year - https://mailchi.mp/b68505de91f2/one-year-in-a-hundred-5363130
The last remnants of city life had been left behind and all my easily accessible clean clothes had throw up on them. After five months in Karachi I was setting off for another transition with my three little boys and husband, all things sped up because of a government imposed lockdown due to the worsening trends in COVID-19 cases...
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Greeting a New World in 2021 - https://mailchi.mp/8d339233f40c/newyears2021

"In July 2020 I made the decision to move back from Patagonia (small town in Southern Arizona) to Karachi. I had been hesitating to move forward with this decision for over a year, despite my husband’s complete support to return to Pakistan. Then having a baby just before lock down, the isolation of the pandemic, and the uprising against systemic racism in the U.S. all revealed to me..."
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Humbled at Home in these times of COVID-19 -

Humbled at Home in these times of COVID-19 Nothing that I have done or experienced in my life prepared me for the quarantine. It is a new humbling, a new understanding of significance and insignificance. 

Really, this is my yoga in a nutshell

It's important we update our practice and our teaching to offer the safest and healthiest movement possible

Yoga teachers 'risking serious hip problems' Pushing their bodies to repeat the same yoga positions is leading to a rise in hip problems among teachers, a leading physio warns.

Sol fit classes are a great fit for this season change in Patagonia. I stop teaching this week, my pregnancy is making it hard for me to talk and move at the same time! I hope to go on Monday's and take care of myself.

”Yoga is not a work-out, it is a work-in. And this is the point of spiritual practice; to make us teachable; to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.” — Rolf Gates

An interesting study reveals that it is our bones that begin the acute stress response. For someone like me, whose hypermobility challenges me to have skeletal awareness, I wonder how much of that experience is based in being in acute stress from a young age, most likely from the womb, to birth, to today.

Bone, not adrenaline, drives fight or flight response When faced with a predator or sudden danger, the heart rate goes up, breathing becomes more rapid, and fuel in the form of glucose is pumped throughout the body to prepare an animal to fight or flee.

Classes starting in Patagonia, for all levels of practitioners and abilities. Please bring your own mat to class!
Sept 3 Tuesday 815-915 am
Sept 5 Thursday 315-415 pm
At the seniors center in town.
Drop in $10
Seniors $8
Sliding scale and donations accepted