This workshop will explore functional mobility as the capability to move the body with greater ease, control, adaptability, and awareness.  Participants will explore the difference between flexibility and mobility while engaging in movement practices designed to support joint range of motion, strength through available range, balance, coordination, and functional movement patterns.  Integrating yoga and mental health principles, the workshop will also explore how stress, protective patterns, body awareness, and the nervous system can influence the way we move.  Participants will be encouraged to develop a more curious and compassionate relationship with their bodies rather than approaching movement from a place of correction, comparison, or performance.

Teacher Bio:

TaNesha Dodson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), doctoral candidate, and ERYT-500 yoga instructor with over 20 years of teaching experience.  She is passionate about helping people move, feel, and live better through evidence-based movement practices that support long-term health and longevity.  By integrating her expertise in mental health, yoga, and functional mobility, TaNesha creates classes that are educational and empowering for participants of all experience levels.  Her teaching emphasizes sustainable movement, injury prevention, nervous system regulation, and building strength and mobility that enhance everyday life.  Whether working with clients in the therapy room or students on the yoga mat, her mission is to help others cultivate resilience, vitality, and lifelong well-being.