Body Dynamics

Restorative Yoga Mentoring:

Having trained for over seven years in the Vanda Scaravelli approach to yoga, Coquelicot has refined her ability to track where energy and movement is flowing or not flowing through your body. Through her highly attuned awareness she will help you sense into and enliven your relationship to your body structures and your practice, helping you avoid injury and safely increase your movement range. Yoga should be an effortless practice of body unfoldment, joy and beauty.

Restorative Yoga Mentoring

In yoga, as in life, it is easy to mistake willpower for discipline. When we muscle our way into a posture some parts of our bodies overcompensate, leaving behind the given up parts of ourselves; it's not a whole movement, it's a compensated movement. This can lead to injury and distorted cooperation between muscle systems in the body. Coquelicot helps people embody the asanas more fully, by spending 10 to 20 minutes on each posture, slowly opening the spine into its full articulation. When all our limbs are awake and alive in concert with our spine, every posture works in cooperation with gravity and becomes light and effortless. From this place of openness, Coquelicot helps you negotiate shock and trauma patterns through the vehicle of your physical body.

Restorative Touchwork: I use touch to help you become more present in your body as you do the yoga postures. Through intelligent touch you will reestablish a healthy vibrancy, cooperation, pulsation and flexibility in your bones, tissues and organs….Changing your energetic embodiment so that you can loosen up stuck energy and vital life force. Your body will move more freely and radiate more grace and vitality.

Restorative Yoga Mentoring work is available in 50 minutes segments.

If you are coming for a one time only session for Restorative Yoga Mentoring, 50 minutes is $140. If you are committing to long-term work with Coquelicot, a 50 minute session is $125.

If you are interested in work and have financial concerns, please contact me to arrange for possible alternative terms.

‘There is no beauty without love and there is no love without beauty. What is beauty? Are love and beauty interconnected? Does beauty derive from love? Or does love derive from beauty? You will discover the amazing transformation in a person when she is loved, she blossoms, becoming more beautiful each day. When we love what we are doing there is beauty in it and even the more insignificant work becomes attractive. Love has no barriers, it is like a pool spring, pouring water endlessly. And it is perhaps this absence of limitation that gives wings to fly. Beauty is the absence of a definite determined action, the freedom from slavery to an already formed ideal that drives us in a particular direction eliminates all other possibilities to wander among the many adventurous, and sometimes dangerous, roads. Beauty gives also the pleasure to uncover and the luxury to lose.’
-Vanda Scaravelli

‘The beauty of yoga. It is the meeting of the brain with the body. When you are attentive, concentrated, when you feel what you are doing, there is energy. The binding of the two becomes energy. It is important to understand this. When they are together there is great energy, which gives the body freedom and makes the mind more supple.’
-Vanda Scaravelli

Elongation and extension can only occur when the pulling and the pushing comes to an end; this is the revolution.’
-Vanda Scaravelli

Movement is the song of the body.
-Vanda Scaravelli

In this choiceless never ending flow of life, there's an infinite array of choices. One alone brings happiness- to love what is
- Dorothy Hurt

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, itis inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is accquiring understanding
-William Arthur Ward

Love says I am everything wisdom says, 'I am nothing' between these two, my life flows
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Inspirations

"I am going somewhere and that somewhere is everywhere, and it is important to be exactly on time at every instant. Because if I am not on time here, I shall never be on time anywhere."
- Satprem, By The Body Of The Earth
"The most visible creators I know are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible -- without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt -- their medium is Being. Whatever their presence touches has increased life. They see and don't have to draw. They are the artists of being alive."
- Jay Scott
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
"And bit by bit I was overcome by a strange impression that was almost an emotion. Did it emanate from those high walls or the sand carpeting the street? No, it was subtler than that: it was linked to something in the air, a familiar resonance, almost an odor. Then I closed my eyes; feeling the small warm hand in mine, and searched, prodded that wall of memory, groping my way through an obscure fragrance peopled by presences; it was there, just on the other side; I could feel it, smell it still--a rare emotion which I had known many times in many different lands."
- Satprem, By the Body of the Earth
"With great love, sensitivity, and a profound capacity to elicit and model intimacy, Coquelicot provides a safe and conscious environment for me to explore and practice open-hearted communion."
- U.F., artist
"By finding pathways to 'rewrite the body script,' we can -- with kindness, mindfulness, perseverance, and patience -- learn to embrace and embody more of our potential as human beings."
Coquelicot
"The clear bead at the center changes everything. There are no edges to my loving now."
- Rumi
"The direct route is the sum of a million indirections."
- Satprem, By The Body Of The Earth
"I will not live an unfulfilled life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blosson goes on as fruit."
- Dawna Markova, The Open Mind
"It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, as the ore lies alone. I am such a long way in. I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You be the master. Make yourself fierce, break in. Then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to you."
- R.M. Rilke
"I enormously appreciate your integrity. I benefit a lot from the importance you place on slowing down, or walking (experience) in small steps/increments, and on identifying the most subtle beginnings of experience, sensation, and emotional reaction."
- M.S., obstetrical nurse in San Francisco
"But you are something very old.... Listen, my child, destiny is not an enemy, there are no 'enemies' in the world. Everything is here to help us find the way. There is no 'misfortune,' everything leads us exactly where we must go, by all the necessary detours. When one opens one's heart, every moment is a miracle...."
- Satprem, By the Body of the Earth
"All sickness is homesickness."
- Rumi
Coquelicot teaches didactically, experientially and by example. She brings to each session a lifetime's worth of tools, exercises and practices that I use at home to further my own development. Her genius combines intuition, sensing and a comprehensive knowledge of human emotional and biological development. What I've learned from her has not only given me a deeper understanding of my own patterns, dynamics and behaviors, it's also enhanced my understanding of others. I am a far more compassionate person thanks Coquelicot. In fact to the degree that I am a more evolved being in any regard, Coquelicot was instrumental in my transformation.
-L. M. Artist and wellness ally