Practice With Lydia

"It has been delightful to mentor and support Lydia in her development as a  trauma informed movement facilitator. I've witnessed her carefully tend to her passion and curiosity for learning and embracing a trauma informed lens.
Lydia carries the gifts of presence and authenticity, core components for a brave practice space. As a skilled movement facilitator, she has been consistent in her commitment to integrating trauma informed care. For myself as a person who specializes in trauma informed care, I have struggled to find practitioners to practice However, Lydia is someone I subscribe to and return to with frequency, trusting her authentic language of choice and presence."

“Lydia was the first teacher to help me connect the dots between mega flexibility and over activation within my nervous system. I took some classes with her on the tensegrity series and the practice felt like a tune up and a warm hug: grounding, insulating, and nourishing. Lydia's knowledge about anatomy and her insights into ways we can experientially deepen into our body through curiosity and listening are super helpful - it led me to a stronger awareness of my joint space and connected me more clearly to some of the "noise" my body was producing in motion. One of the things I value most about this practice is how it highlights the relationship between ease of movement, strength, and tensional balance in the body in a way that benefits my whole posture practice as well as other disciplines of movement and physical activity that I take."

"For 34 years I have dealt with inflamed joints (autoimmune issues) and countless bike crashes, but once yoga found me, and in particular, since I started working with Lydia’s practices, I feel like I am 18 and sometimes 8 again. I used to take ibuprofen daily, but now I rarely need it. I sleep better, move more freely and powerfully, but also dream of floating to Tadasana or back to Chaturanga Dandasana. I fancy myself a Padawan, learning about prana or the force, and for someone who saw Star Wars in 1977 in the theater, that’s a strengthy feeling."