Stomach Alive
Awaken the intelligence
of your core.
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These guided movement practices are the core of your journey.
Each class invites you into breath-led motion, subtle strength, and deep listening through your body.
Start here when you're ready to move, spiral, and feel.
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Want to understand the why behind the movement?
These lectures unpack the science, energetics, and philosophy woven into each class.
Listen before or after practice—or while walking, commuting, or resting.
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Prefer to read or take notes?
Each lecture is paired with a downloadable PDF for deeper learning.
Includes reflection prompts, anatomical insights, and class breakdowns you can return to anytime.
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🔹 Physiology, Neuroscience & Somatics
Stephen Porges – The Polyvagal Theory
Bessel van der Kolk – The Body Keeps the Score
Deb Dana – Anchored or Polyvagal Exercises
🔹 Energetic + Subtle Body
Anodea Judith – Eastern Body, Western Mind
Caroline Myss – Anatomy of the Spirit
Judith Blackstone – The Intimate Life or Belonging Here
🔹 Ayurveda & Yogic Wisdom
Dr. Vasant Lad – Textbook of Ayurveda
Maya Tiwari – The Path of Practice
T.K.V. Desikachar – The Heart of Yoga
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Stomach Alive Somatic Series
Stomach Alive is a 10-class somatic movement series designed to help you connect with your core through breath, movement, and nervous system awareness.
Blending yoga, Pilates, anatomy, and subtle-body practices, this program explores the relationship between the gut, spine, diaphragm, and emotional well-being.
This series is designed to support women seeking:
• A deeper connection to their body and intuition
• Improved digestion and core function
• Greater nervous system regulation and resilience
• Relief from chronic tension, stress, and overwhelm
• Sustainable strength rooted in awareness rather than force
• A practice that integrates movement, breath, and self-inquiry
The benefits include:
• Increased core strength and postural support
• Improved breath capacity and diaphragmatic function
• Enhanced digestive awareness and gut-brain connection
• Greater mobility through the spine, hips, and rib cage
• Improved balance, coordination, and body awareness
• A calmer, more regulated nervous system
• Increased energy, clarity, and confidence in daily life
I created Stomach Alive because I believe the core is more than a group of muscles.
It is a meeting place between the nervous system, the breath, digestion, emotion, and intuition. Through this series, I share the practices that have helped me cultivate greater strength, stability, and trust in my own body.
If you're ready to reconnect with your center and build strength from the inside out, I'd love to welcome you into Stomach Alive.
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This opening class reconnects you with the quiet intelligence of the lower belly.
Gentle movements and steady breath anchor attention in the abdomen and diaphragm, where digestion and vitality begin.
The sequence moves through spirals, waves of the spine, and resting shapes that restore natural rhythm in the core. Breath and movement combine to mobilize the diaphragm, release stagnation, and support flow through the whole system.
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Through somatic insight, anatomical imagery, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Claim your core as a center of discernment, will, and subtle power
Visualize the diaphragm as a jellyfish, pulsing between breath and being
Connect to Samana Vayu, the spiral current of digestion and integration
Understand how breath and spinal motion support peristalsis and vagal tone
Build trust in your body’s intelligence through conscious, rhythmic repetition
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This class awakens the connection between breath, digestion, and deep core rhythm.
You’ll explore how spirals, twists, and belly-led motion stimulate Agni, regulate the gut-brain axis, and anchor anxiety through grounded movement.
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Through somatic insight, subtle anatomy, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Understand the gut–brain axis and its link to stress, digestion, and perception
Recognize the role of the pancreas and adrenals in metabolism, vitality, and resilience
Explore how unresolved emotions live in the belly and shape your response to life
Discover how twists, breath, and rhythmic awareness support the HPA axis and vagal tone
Reframe your gut as a compass for discernment, not just a site of discomfort
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Activate your core, clear mental fog, and ignite your inner vitality with this guided Breath of Fire tutorial.
Rooted in yogic tradition and designed to build heat, clarity, and confidence, Breath of Fire is both energizing and cleansing—perfect for mornings, moments of low energy, or before deep work.
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Spinal undulation meets breath-led rhythm.
This practice restores fascial hydration, awakens the gut-brain axis, and builds subtle strength through repetition.
Your anchor for this class is Apana Vayu—the downward-moving current associated with elimination, grounding, and letting go. With Apana activated, your breath becomes a force of both cleansing and clarity, rooting you in the body while lifting the heart.
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Through somatic insight, subtle anatomy, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Understand the role of Apana Vayu in elimination, release, and connection to earth
Explore how the spine’s undulating motion influences the nervous system, organs, fascia, and subtle energy channels
Recognize the links between cervical, thoracic, and lumbar and their corresponding chakras
Discover how fascial hydration, squats, and spirals strengthen your hips as the fulcrum of true core power
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In this class, we learn to listen and respond—building a dialogue between breath and core, feet and crown, Earth and Air.
Through standing kriyas, bandhas, and rhythmic breath, we awaken the upward-moving energy of Udana Vayu, activating clarity, resilience, and digestive fire.
This class helps you stand tall—physically and energetically—by rooting into your foundation and rising with intention, so the body’s quiet intelligence becomes your clearest guide.
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Through somatic insight, subtle anatomy, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Understand the role of the five diaphragms and their link to pressure, prana, and posture
Explore the bandhas as subtle locks that conserve, direct, and refine energy
Recognize how Udana Vayu fuels clarity, communication, and uplifted vitality
Experience kriyas as bioenergetic rituals that strengthen digestion, circulation, and emotional balance
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In this class, we explore core integrity not as force, but as finely tuned awareness. Precision becomes a soft power. Strength is not strain—it’s sensitivity, rhythm, and response.
You’ll work with breath-led spinal undulations, forearm activations, and subtle oblique work to build inner stability without gripping. From the transverse abdominis to the diaphragm and pelvic floor, we train the core trio to move in concert with your breath.
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Through somatic insight, subtle anatomy, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Understand how slow, precise activation tones the obliques, deep core, and fascia
Explore Pilates-inspired principles of centring, precision, and flow as complements to yoga’s subtle body maps
Experience earth’s grounding and fire’s heat through bear pose, belly cat-cow, and subtle breath-led engagement
Explore the pineal and pituitary glands as regulators of rhythm, vision, and endocrine balance
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Gentle, breath-led shapes retrain the belly-brain connection. With supported bridge, abdominal massage, and subtle core resets, you’ll release tension and reclaim stability from within.
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Earth and Ether meet in stillness. This lecture explores digestion as physical and emotional processing, drawing from Ayurveda, TCM, and Polyvagal Theory to show how “doing less” reveals the soul’s intelligence.
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Strength emerges from breath, anchoring through the pelvis, and subtle waves of movement that remind your belly it’s safe to soften—and respond.
You’ll work with breath-led leg sliders, ribcage expansion, and sacral-supported bridges to awaken deep core reflexes without force. From the obliques to the pelvic floor, from diaphragm to colon, we rewire your core to move with breath, not against it. Rest becomes the method. Subtlety becomes the strength.
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Through somatic insight, subtle anatomy, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Understand how Brahmari tones the vagus nerve, reduces cortisol, and regulates endocrine balance through the throat center
Explore how colon-stimulating kriya activates the large intestine meridian, lymphatic flow, and Apana Vayu—the downward current of elimination
Recognize the biochemical link between gut serotonin, mood, and resilience, and how breath and rhythm reinforce regulation
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Through rhythmic spirals, grounding squats, and breath-led movement, we reawaken the pelvic floor.
You’ll activate Mula Bandha, mobilize your gut through pelvic undulations, and re-pattern your spine from the base up. This is not just about muscle—it’s about rhythm, tone, and flow. From root to crown, we restore a pulse that grounds, energizes, and clears.
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Awaken the dialogue between the gut, brain, and pelvic floor
Use Breath of Fire and Cannon Breath to cultivate warmth, rhythm, and vitality
Connect to the place where desire, pleasure, and stability intersect
Explore the wisdom of containment and release
Build trust in your body's intelligence through breath, repetition, and grounded awareness
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In this class, we cultivate strength as rhythm.
Core stability becomes a musical phrase—breath, spine, limbs, and awareness working in precise coordination.
You’ll work with cannon breath, arm-to-bridge patterns, and dynamic spinal sequencing to awaken the vertical channel without collapse.
From the diaphragm to the pelvic floor, transverse abdominis to the arches of the feet, we train the current that keeps you upright, supple, and clear.
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Through somatic insight, subtle anatomy, and yogic philosophy, you’ll be guided to:
Refine oblique activation to stabilize the spine and calm the nervous system
Use breath and mudra to harmonize elemental forces and awaken subtle rhythm
Explore Ong So Hung as a mantra of embodied unity, linking gut, heart, and crown
Reset the system with simple kriyas that release charge and restore balance
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In this final class, we bring the whole system into coherence. Through breath-led awareness, cross-patterned movement, and deep rhythmic stillness, we create space for the body to recalibrate. This is not a push—it’s a quiet realignment of hemispheres, a settling of the spine, gut, and brain into rhythm.
You’ll move with subtle strength—twists, inversions, and still postures designed to restore internal balance. The result is a soft reset: grounded, spacious, and clear.
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Through subtle anatomy, somatic sequencing, and elemental awareness, you’ll be guided to:
Understand how alternate nostril breathing balances hemispheres, regulates tone, and prepares the central channel
Explore twists and Breath of Fire to activate digestion, lymphatic flow, and core rhythm
Recognize how cross-lateral patterns restore neurological coherence between gut, spine, and brain
Experience Viparita Karani and Half Frog as grounding, lymphatic, and integrative postures
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