Amy Matthews Immersive Training Weekends
Revolution Community Yoga in Acton, MA is honored to host Amy Matthews (co-author of the book “Yoga Anatomy”) for two Immersive Training Weekends!
Weekend #1: Nov. 21-22, 2026
Weekend #2: May 22-23, 2027
Training Hours Each Weekend:
• Saturday: 10am – 1pm & 2:30 – 5:30pm
• Sunday: 10am – 1pm & 2:30 – 5:30pm
$320 Registration per weekend – no drop-ins.
Space is very limited – do not wait to register.
November 21 + 22, 2026
Alignment as Relatedness & Other Explorations in Yoga
What if alignment is a dynamic state of shifting relationships in our body? If we let go of the idea that it is a fixed set of rules, we can find different ways to orient within our experience. Then we can explore questions about how embodying our anatomy and developmental process can support communication and relationship as foundations for alignment, and for change.
In this workshop we will explore alignment principles that might arise from body systems (like our bones, or fluids, or muscles) or from developmental movement and apply those principles to movement and asana.
This workshop will involve lecture, discussion and movement explorations – no previous experience is required.
May 22 + 23, 2027
Continuing Conversations & Explorations on the Nervous System
Our nervous systems play an amazing role of modulating, coordinating, and communicating among the many tissues of our body — and its role is often oversimplified in current approaches and methodologies.
In this workshop we will unpack traditional ways of dividing the system into parts (somatic, autonomic, sympathetic, parasympathetic, etc.) as well as exploring the nervous system from an experiential perspective. We’ll address terms like ‘homeostasis’ and ‘balanced tone’ and look at how we can inhabit our nervous system as a partner, collaborator and participant in a non-hierarchical perspective on our body systems.
This workshop will involve lecture, discussion and movement explorations – no previous experience is required.
Amy Matthews, BMC Teacher, IDME, CMA, RSMT/RSME
Amy Matthews has been teaching in the US and internationally since 1994 on somatic certification programs and in a variety of university and studio settings. She is a Certified Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher.
Amy is the Program Director of Sonder Movement Project, which offers the Somatic Movement Educator and Infant Developmental Movement Educator programs for the School of Body-Mind Centering, and is the co-founder and co-director, with Sarah Barnaby, of Babies Project in NYC.
Amy taught with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Berkeley CA and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. She created the Advanced Studies Program at The Breathing Project and co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the book Yoga Anatomy.
Amy offers online and in-person sessions and classes that integrate Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).
Visit Amy’s website at www.movementpractices.com