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Somamvmt - breath & bodywork

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Somamvmt - breath & bodywork

Helping you live and move with greater ease, embodiment, trauma resilience & nervous system support. Hi my name is Alaria! Find out more by visiting my website!

I am a Somatic Educator in the tradition of Thomas Hanna, a fully Certified STOTT PILATES Instructor, 500 Hr Hatha Yoga Teacher, and Holistic Cooking Coach. I have been teaching Pilates circa 2004 and believe it is a fundamental asset to maintaining a strong core, strength, flexibility and coordinated body for life. Yoga is medicine and has many wonderful gifts that can help in healing physical and mental diseases. I guide students with a trauma sensitive approach, encouraging and guiding self exploration. Without getting in the way of your learning experience. Breathwork is a key and integral element within the holistic movement practices I offer. Somatics heals, through non-pharmaceutical pain relief, embodiment experiencing and neuro muscular repatterning. Life changing practices that you can do for the rest of your life. Join me for sustainable movement today! Learn more at www.somamvmt.ca

I created several online programs to help my clients find greater connection to themselves and find a more holistic approach to themselves and their approch to exercise and movement. You can catch me on
Insta
Spotify , for my Pilates Mat and Yoga playlists and
Twitter too! Join my Facebook Groups
Autoimmune Mind Body
Movement with Alaria

10/04/2025

Someone made a Pilates doll with AI which is funny and then I found a Pilates s9ng to go with! Who knew!?

08/23/2025

Me rockin my bad ass f***y pack on my morning walk. Its been awhile since I did my whole 4km block!

I am reminded of the many solo walks I have done around the globe. Brings me back to myself. Pounding the pavement as they say, making my way in this life.

If there's one thing that I recommend to keep you mobile its walking. I can't stress how important it is to keep walking for your health and longevity.

Walking helps your body with circulation, mobilizing joints, strengthening your legs, hips and core. It can assist with cardiovascular health, digestive issuses and sleep issues.

I always tell my clients "we were made to walk", made to move forward in this world.

If you ever want to go for a walk with me, let me know! Its a great time to share stories and walk/work out whats bothering you. Movement helps us process our thoughts and emotions.

Walk for your physical and mental health, its one step at a time, into your life of health and wellness.

Do you have difficulty walking? Pilates and Somatic Movement help me walk. They can help you too. Ask me how?

05/10/2025

We have been blessed with a studio fairy!

My dear friend and long-time client .root.77 created her from felt 🩵

She decided on this exercise as she knows it is used in both Pilates (Swimming Prep) and Yoga (Bird Dog/Parshva Balasana), which I love that she knows 😁 She also chose the Mat colour to match the ones we have at our studio!!!

Thank-you for the blessing Emma! We named her Clara after Joseph Pilates wife.

03/27/2025

Fun spirals, love it!

I do this kind of work with my Private clients using a piece of Pilates equipment called The Orbit!

10/25/2024

What happens when we don't move our bodies enough?

Complications of Immobility in the Elderly (not just the elderly unfortunately) ::
▫️ Dehydration, resulting in fluid and electrolyte imbalance
▫️ Increased blood viscosity (thickening of the blood), which increases the risk of DVT (deep vein thrombosis) / PE (pulmonary embolism) development
▫️ Cardiac deconditioning
▫️ Respiratory infections
▫️ Musculoskeletal deconditioning and contractures
▫️ Constipation
▫️ Urinary tract stasis and infection

What can we do if our bodies hurt so much we do not want to move?

▫️ Move the parts of your body that don't hurt as much, this will still help the parts that do
▫️ Start with small movements, like wrist and ankle rotations, gradually increase your range and duration over time
▫️ Work with a professional (such as myself) to help regain your mobility in a safe and progressive way
▫️ Stay mobile with regular movement hygiene (What is that?, Stay tuned for more on that)
▫️ Walk. (any pace, or distance will do) Join a walking group or community centre activities
▫️ Dance to one whole song you love
▫️ follow me, and join me for classes, events and more!

Exercise (aka Movement) is not meant to be torture or painful, in fact it can be rather pleasant when pursued for pleasure instead of aesthetics. Get your body moving today, your whole system will appreciate it!

08/17/2024

Today I taught a Pilates & Pelvic Health workshop! Thank-you to everyone who came out and shared with us 🫶

What I love most about teaching this work is how empowered we all feel afterward!

Working with our deepest tissues, through Somatic Core Awareness, using Pilates props as sensory tools, and strengthening tools.

I love my spine and pelvis visual and 3D teaching aid. It is so helpful to see and touch and understand this magnificent column and base.

I will definitely run this workshop again, it was pretty awesome. Let me know if you are interested and I can add you to my mailing list! 👇

05/16/2024

Movement is so beautiful, it is art!

04/24/2024

So true.

Small Habits, Big Results
Amazon: https://shorturl.at/mLMVW

04/15/2024

Amazing!

Landmark win for climate justice! A group of 2,400 older women have won their case in the European Court of Human Rights against Switzerland, arguing that the country failed to comply with its duties to stop climate change and protect their rights to life. The ruling shows that weak climate policies violate fundamental human rights. This could have worldwide repercussions for climate litigation - including here in Canada. Bring it on...

04/05/2024

Our personalities can significantly influence gene expression, providing new insights into the mind-body connection.

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Trent Hills, ON

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Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

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https://linktr.ee/somamvmt

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Her Story

Alaria has been immersed in mind body movement-based exercise and therapy for over 15 years, coming from her solid background as a STOTT PILATES ® Instructor which incorporates whole body integration of movements, healthy alignment techniques, awareness and control of muscles and breath.

To better her understanding and knowledge of injury Alaria worked as a Physiotherapy Assistant for 5 years, this helped her to keep people safe when they have an injury and also gave her a great background in which exercises were most commonly prescribed for various injuries and conditions. She worked with neck, shoulder, hip and knee injuries and replacements, clients with back pain, Polio, MS, Brain Injury and more.

After several years in Pilates and as a Rehabilitation Assistant she sought to further her skills with an in-depth 500 Hrs of Hatha Yoga Teacher training with Viniyoga at its roots. Viniyoga has its basis in allowing the individual to moderate yoga towards self-regulation, adapting yoga for the individual instead of the individual to fit yoga which can cause a tendency toward injury. The addition of traditional yoga techniques allowed her to develop a home practice and really nurture and nourish herself as a teacher. Alaria teaches yoga with a trauma sensitive focus.

“Through yoga I am able to press reset, I take time out of my day for me, to set intention, meditate and clear my head, to be fully present in my body with myself. It allows me the self-care I need, to continue to share myself with others. I have a genuine and deep respect for Indian culture and this is reflected in my teaching style.”

Over the years her specialty developed: Post-Rehabilitation Specialist - into a desire to incorporate a healing therapy or modality into her work.

“I did a lot of research to find the right therapy for me to work with, I kept coming back to movement is medicine and that in all of the years of rehab work, in my opinion it was truly the exercises that freed people from their pain. I studied yoga therapy and Osteopathy primarily and then decided on a relatively unheard-of technique called Hanna Somatic Education®.”

Alaria has been enrolled in this course since 2017 and will complete the certification in 2020. Somatic Movement Education helps clients to re-learn movements out of habitual patterns and pain. Reset the length and tonus of muscles allowing for their full use. It also helps people relieve many aches and pains they have never been able to get rid of…why? Because they are doing it themselves, not being worked ON by a therapist, but worked WITH by an educator so they can heal themselves and be free of the ongoing loop of relief from pain and then its starts all over again.

Alaria now refers to herself as a Holistic Movement Educator and utilizes many techniques and tools to aid her clients in feeling great! You can book Private Pilates Sessions in her fully equipped Pilates studio or Somatic Movement Education Sessions or Private Yoga @livingwellmovement Cobourg. For group classes, click here.

Please contact her and request a complimentary consultation, start your healing through movement journey today! Call or Text 905.396.YOGA

Thanks for your interest, for more about Alaria please visit: alariaritchie.com