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YOGA and the Sensuous Cosmos
Thurs, Sept 15, 8-9:15am and Sat, Sept 17, 8-9:15pm
Take your yoga practice to a new frontier of creative experience!

The process of human movement arises out of our biological connection to the life of the sea. The
diverse fluctuations and motility of our fluid origins are still available to us in the fluid system
and connective tissue of our bodies. In these sessions we will play with the archetypal shapes or
forms of primary yoga asana as evolutionary portals in the web of life forms. Finding our oceanic
origins, the development of life forms, even the developmental movement of babies underlying
yoga asana can give new vitality and meaning to practice. Here yoga poses can be experienced as
gestures, living questions born of the Great River of Life. This approach unfolds the classical still
life of a pose from your own experiential inquiry. First, by activating the fluid dynamics in the
body through the breath and sound and intrinsic motion experiments of Continuum Movement to
prepare the asana. Then, with various core shaping, dissolution and reshaping potential of the fluid
dynamics.

In these morning sampler classes for SOMA FEST, Deborah will focus on the sun salutation and
the open trail.......
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
BIOGRAPHY:
Deborah Raoult ‘s work explores the dynamics of breath and motion as gateways to freedom, ones  
transforming our relationship to body, community and the Earth.  

18 years.  Deborah has both assisted and co-taught with the founder and developers of Continuum
Yoga Journal Conference in estes Park, Colorado. Her training in yoga has been in the Iyengar
tradition with senior teachers and with the Iyengar family in Pune, India. She completed the four
year program Body Mind Centering program, developed by dancer and occupational Therapist
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

Now based in Los Angeles after raising three children, Deborah’s focus and passion is supporting
women’s spiritual practice through their relationship to body and the sensuous cosmos. Her heart
is continually surprised and humbled by the teachings of high desert hawks and an Arabian horse
named Silver. A new project for the fall is a somatic movement and equine awareness Trail ride
experience for women in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Deborah Raoult
Deborah Raoult
Faculty Bios & Class Descriptions
Deborah Raoult