Feldenkrais and Yoga Courses
Every course on this page blends a traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais Method. Each one was recorded from a live class taught on Zoom, so you can take it whenever suits you, at whatever pace you want, from wherever you are.
If you would rather join in real time, Sarah teaches this format live every Monday morning. Everything on this page is recorded and self-paced.
“It is meditation and movement combined.”
How are these somatic yoga classes different from a regular yoga class?
Somatic yoga is a broad term for yoga that puts what you sense ahead of what the pose looks like from the outside. In these classes, that comes specifically from the Feldenkrais Method, which Sarah trained in and has taught for years alongside her yoga practice.
These classes typically begin with an exploratory floor sequence to engage the brain-body connection, awareness of breath, and activation of specific areas of the body that will be targeted during yoga poses. The last half of class is typically slightly more of a traditional yoga practice, in which students have the opportunity to experience the yoga asanas from a new perspective and with the information gathered from the first part of class.
Each class infuses a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement method..
These classes are an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, joint specific training, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.
In many yoga traditions, the emphasis is on perfecting shapes and isolating movement at specific joints. Here, attention is on treating your body as a connected system. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome, and no previous experience with yoga or the Feldenkrais Method is needed
Fall 2026 Series: Blending Yoga & Feldenkrais®: Functional Strength Focus
A new 8 week session:
August 10th - October 12th, 2026
Mondays: 9am - 10:15am CST
Live classes will be taught on zoom
Expect the same beloved Yoga + Feldenkrais blend, now with an intentional emphasis on functional strength. Over this 8-week series, we’ll incorporate targeted muscle engagement into our progressions and sequences, helping you build practical power and stability while maintaining deep, mindful awareness.
Students can join anytime during the series, with the option to catch up with the recordings.
ALL YOGA + FELDENKRAIS® BLENDED COURSES:
Each of these Yoga + Feldenkrais Blended classes will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method. These classes are an interdisciplinary excursion of yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, joint specific training, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome.
Spring 2026 Series
A new 8 week series coming up April 13th - June 8th, 2026. Join us live!!
Functional Transitions
These lessons focus on getting up and down from the floor, balancing, squatting, and other functional movements.
Winter 2026 Series
Themes in this series concentrated on building attention and moment to moment awareness during our practice.
Fall 2025 Series
These full body classes will awaken, stretch, and calm the body. Lessons themes include: working towards pigeon pose, using the eyes for balance, aligning the neck, shoulders and hips, and coiling the spine for cobra.
Summer 2025 Series
These full body classes will awaken, stretch, and calm the body. Lesson themes include: encouraging whole body ease, connecting the limbs to the center, integrating the eyes, and freeing the chest.
Spring 2025 Series
These full body classes will awaken, stretch, and calm the body. Lesson themes include: spinal rotation, side body ease, deconstructed downdog, working with the Feldenkrais primary image.
Winter 2025 Series
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In many yoga traditions, the teaching emphasis is on perfecting shapes (poses) and isolating movement at specific joints. In this blended class, attention is focused on treating your body as a connected system, moving beyond isolated exercises. Allow your body to be your guide. All levels are welcome.
Wakeful Body
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
The first part of these classes will mostly be on the floor, using bolsters and other props to develop an understanding of joint movements that will later be used in the more traditional yoga asana poses. The last half of class will be more active poses and stretching, concluding in a restful savasana.
Summer Melt
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
A short course including three lessons: 1) Melting the Neck, Ribs, and Side Body, 2) Melt Into Heart Openers and Pigeon, and 3) Breathe with the Floor. Attention is focused on treating your body as a connected system, moving beyond isolated exercises.
Cultivating Strength, Stability, & Balance
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
Learn new ways to move with strength and stability. Find greater confidence in standing and balancing while reducing stress. Deepen your yoga practice with a new awareness of the connection to the floor, the suppleness of your feet, your breath, and your proprioception.
Integrating Pelvic Floor, Hips, & Core
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
This series starts by learning pelvic floor mapping, an essential tool for accessing pelvic floor healing, strength, and recovery. Over ten classes we will mobilize and stabilize the hip joints in ALL directions while coordinating the pelvic floor and abdominals with these hip and pelvis movements.
Welcoming the Body
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
This installment of the Yoga + Feldenkrais blended class explores somatic sequences to find the depth of mobility and strength in the joints. This will be a nonjudgemental, un-intimidating space to create welcome your body help settle the nervous system.
A Tactile Spine
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In this course we use a small bolster to awaken the upper thoracic, lower thoracic, and lumbar spine as the warm up for each class. We then use this tactile information and bring it into seated and standing poses for the last part of class.
Exploring Space in the Body
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. We will explore ways to move in harmony with our unique needs, to encourage the body to soften and connect with the feelings of space and freedom.
Rooted and Radiant Fall Series
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In these sessions, renew your upper back, dissolve tension in the abdomen and hips, restore and rebuild with twists, and focus in on your hip rotation. This will be a nonjudgemental, un-intimidating space to create friends with your body and will specifically focus on helping settle the nervous system.
Winter Wellness
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In these sessions we will invite space to become a more intimate part of our practice and our life. Increase your ease and efficiency in movement, improve your flexibility and coordination, and rediscover your natural capacity for graceful and organized movement through these classes.
Flourish
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
These classes touch on the whole body, from the feet, ankles, and calves all the way up to the shoulders and neck. Each class will infuse a more traditional yoga asana practice with the Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement method, self massage, breathing exercises, and a compassionate mindset.
Awaken and Restore
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
These classes have a focus on bringing sensation and intelligence to the upper back spine and the psoas complex. Includes classes such as Upper Back Oscillations, Awaken the Pelvis and Psoas, Clear Stagnation with Twists, and Neutralize the Neck.
Psoas and Diaphragm Care
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In these classes, massage, lengthen, strengthen, and stretch the psoas, a major hip flexor that connects the lower back through the pelvis to the inner leg. The psoas shares tissues with the diaphragm, so there will be an attention to the ribs and the breath as well.
Yoga + Feldenkrais Mini Series
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
This short series includes five classes that interweave with each other to create an evolving practice. Feel the poses in a whole new way with calm, consistent, and precise instruction. Train your sensitivity in such a way that you find yourself feeling more alive and vibrant.
Moving From the Center
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
Ten classes of interdisciplinary practice including Yoga, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, self-massage, breathing exercises, movement puzzles, and a compassionate mindset to help you feel a greater sense of ease and comfort in yourself.
Intro to Yoga + Feldenkrais
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In 8 classes, common yoga asanas will be approached with the curiosity of a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement practice. No previous experience with the Feldenkrais Method or Yoga is needed to participate in this novel and gentle approach to yoga asanas.
Imagery and Poetics
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
Experience poetic lessons like Harmonizing the Neck and Thorax, Spine Like a Sunflower, & Listening with the Ribs. Release places that feel physically stuck, mentally tight, or emotionally restricted and uncover a new internal landscape of this body you call home.
Creative Explorations
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
A short 6 class course including the lessons: Somatic Memories, Cross Connections, Exploring How the Head Influences the Spine, Spinal Explorations, Free Hips and Shoulders, and Stabilize to Mobilize. Bring a feeling of expansiveness to the body!
Hips & Shoulders
The Blending of Yoga + Feldenkrais®
In these classes, you will get to know the hip and shoulder joints, our deepest joints with the most range of motion. Increase your ease and efficiency in movement, improve your flexibility and coordination in these deep ball and socket joints that connect the limbs to the center.
Understanding the Difference: Yoga, Feldenkrais, and Sarah’s Blended Approach
While both traditional Yoga and the Feldenkrais Method® cultivate a deeper connection to your body, they approach movement from slightly different philosophies. Traditional Yoga Asana focuses primarily on posture, alignment, strength, and flexibility. In a standard yoga class, it’s more common for the instructor to visually demonstrate established shapes. The student holds postures while the teacher guides you through breathwork and alignment cues.
By contrast, a classic Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement class is entirely non-visual. The teacher rarely demonstrates the movements; instead, the entire class is verbally guided. Students explore subtle, gentle micro-movements and novel variations at their own pace, focusing on neuromuscular re-education, releasing habitual effort, and discovering more efficient movement pathways through direct internal experience.
Our Yoga + Feldenkrais Blended Class bridges these two worlds to create a truly unique movement experience. Rather than choosing between the structured flow of yoga or the purely subtle exploration of Feldenkrais, these classes infuse traditional yoga asanas with the intelligent curiosity of Awareness Through Movement. Through a dynamic mix of clear visual demonstration and rich verbal guidance, we expand beyond standard poses to create an interdisciplinary excursion—incorporating movement puzzles, joint-specific conditioning, self-massage, and targeted breathing exercises. Rather than forcing your body into rigid yoga postures, you learn to use Feldenkrais principles to unravel tension, solve movement challenges, and tailor every pose to your unique anatomy. Rooted in a compassionate mindset, this approach helps you move past physical striving so you can walk away feeling a genuine sense of ease, comfort, and freedom in yourself.
Watch a free sample class first
If you are not sure whether this format suits you, watch a short sample class. It is the quickest way to see how the floor sequence and the yoga practice fit together, and it costs nothing.
Want all of it? Join the Class Library
If you would rather have access to everything than pick one course at a time, the Class Library gives you an ongoing library of Feldenkrais and Yoga classes to move through at your own pace.
You can access the Body Matter Library for $72/month.
Start with a free 5 day trial.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Somatic yoga is yoga practiced with attention on what you sense from the inside rather than on how the pose looks from the outside. Instead of working toward a shape, you move slowly and notice how the movement travels through you. In these classes that approach comes from the Feldenkrais Method, a form of somatic education built on gentle movement and directed attention.
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A regular yoga class usually asks you to arrive at a pose. These classes start on the floor with an exploratory sequence that wakes up the areas the yoga poses will later ask something of, then move into a more traditional practice in the second half. You end up doing familiar asanas, but with better information about how your own body is organized. The result tends to feel less effortful, because you are working more efficiently and with fewer competing habits.
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No. Every course on this page is open to complete beginners, and no previous experience with yoga or the Feldenkrais Method is needed. Intro to Yoga + Feldenkrais and Wakeful Body are the most straightforward places to start. Experienced yoga practitioners take these classes too, usually because they want a different way into poses they already know well.
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Enough floor space to lie down and stretch your arms out, and a yoga mat or carpet. Most classes use a folded blanket and a folded towel under the head is helpful for some people. Some of the classes also use two yoga blocks and a yoga strap. Household items can be exchanged for these if you do not have all the appropriate props.
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These classes are gentle by design and there is no expectation that you reach any particular shape. Movements are small, slow, and done at your own scale, and much of each class happens on the floor. Sarah works regularly with people in injury and surgery recovery and with chronic pain. If you are unsure whether a course suits your situation, book a consult and ask before you buy.
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Both practices emphasize listening to your body, respecting its limits, and unlocking its potential. These two methods use movement as a means of learning through the nervous system. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the phrase Chitta Vritti Nirodha often translated as “stilling the waves of the mind” is described as the ultimate goal of yoga. Similarly, Moshe Feldenkrais frequently remarked that his aim was not simply to create flexible bodies, but rather flexible minds.
While the two methods share many similarities, they differ in their approaches, each offering a unique pathway to self-discovery. A seasoned yogi may find that Feldenkrais deepens their internal awareness, while a Feldenkrais practitioner might uncover greater strength and vitality through the practice of yoga.
While most yoga practices place significant emphasis on alignment and the external shape of a pose, the Feldenkrais Method takes a fundamentally different approach. Rather than aiming to hold positions or push the body toward the edge of flexibility, Feldenkrais focuses on the internal experience of movement specifically, the coordination, quality, and efficiency of how one moves.
In a typical Feldenkrais lesson, there are no prescribed shapes or postures to achieve. Instead, practitioners engage in gentle, mindful movement sequences based on developmental patterns, the kinds of movements we naturally explored as infants when learning to roll, reach, crawl, or walk. These movements are performed slowly, within a comfortable range, and always without strain.
This deliberate gentleness is essential to Feldenkrais. By staying within a pain-free, non-threatening range of motion, the nervous system remains in a state where it can safely observe, adapt, and reorganize. This is key to the method’s focus on neuroplasticity: learning new, more efficient ways of moving through direct sensory experience.
While yoga often encourages the body to fit into specific postures, the Feldenkrais more specifically invites you to investigate how movement occurs and how it might be done with less effort. Instead of striving toward an external goal or ideal form, Feldenkrais emphasizes the process of learning and self-discovery. This shift from outcome to experience fosters deeper internal awareness and sustainable improvement in how we move and feel.
In this specific series and all of the Blending of Yoga & Feldenkrais classes, Sarah blends these two forms together. Each class is an original, innovative creation of Sarah’s teaching. She blends a more traditional gentle yoga practice with the novel Feldenkrais® awareness practices, joint-specific training, self-massage, breathing, and a compassionate, non-competitive atmosphere. The pace is slow and accessible to all levels, inviting curiosity and personal exploration.
Also from Body Matter
1:1 Feldenkrais with Sarah
For hands-on Functional Integration sessions in Minneapolis.
Live weekly classes on Zoom
For joining a class in real time rather than working through a recording.
Feldenkrais courses online
For pure Awareness Through Movement without the yoga asana.