Release & Restore Somatic Yoga with Jess

Service Description

Included in memberships or available by drop-in. Release & Restore is a grounding somatic yoga practice combining gentle, supported postures with breathwork, guided visualization, and affirmations to help relieve muscle tightness and tension, increase flexibility, settle the nervous system, and prepare the body for deep, restful sleep. Rather than asking your body to remain in a posture for a predetermined amount of time, we listen. Each pose is held for as long as your body calls for it—giving you space to soften into the stretch, breathe through resistance, and allow release to happen without forcing it. Breathwork is woven throughout the practice to help you gently settle into each posture, while guided visualizations and affirmations give the mind somewhere supportive to land. Props and modifications are encouraged so that your body can feel supported rather than pushed. Most of the practice takes place seated or lying down, making this an accessible, low-impact class centered less around doing and more around allowing. We aren’t practicing enduring discomfort; we’re practicing listening to the body and responding to it. You are always invited to adjust, move, soften, or come out of a posture when your body asks you to. There is no prize for staying longer and no expectation that anyone’s practice will look the same. Come exactly as you are. Leave feeling a little softer, a little more grounded, and ready to rest. No yoga experience or flexibility required. Want to make an evening of it? Release & Restore pairs beautifully with Goddess Somatic Alchemy, offered immediately beforehand. Join us for both and move from expressive, embodied movement into slower stretching, grounding, and deep restoration—or simply come for Release & Restore on its own. Led by Jess, a trauma-informed somatic healing practitioner whose approach centers body awareness, personal choice, and creating supportive spaces where people can reconnect with and respond to what their bodies need.