Josephine Cantona: Diversity in Practices to Improve Movement Patterns
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Movement is My Constant
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Joséphine Cantona is a Yoga teacher, Functional Patterns instructor and Coach. She is informing students, helping clients and developing her business on movement strategies that can support other practices, and most essentially the everyday movement, including the journeys to recovery. Josephine's experience from yoga was once rooted in the belief that one such practice would cover body, mind, and soul. Josephine's experience from Yoga was once rooted in the belief that such practice would be enough to attain a "perfect" physical, mental and spiritual body. But soon she found - learning from injuries and new practices - that Yoga could become a much deeper spiritual practice, when supported by other movement strategies that heightened awareness. On this episode: 💥 Understanding injuries: recovery and myths 🙌 Benefits of moving in different ways 👉 A look into spiritual pillars that support awareness Thank you for listening 🎧
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