What is Soma Flow?
Soma Flow is a movement practice built on a simple premise: the body does not exist outside of time.
Every day carries its own energetic signature — a quality of light, a quality of pressure, a quality of how things want to move or rest or gather. Most movement practices ignore this. They offer the same container regardless of what the day is asking for.
Soma Flow does the opposite.
Each class is built around three things: the Sun sign, the Moon sign, and the lunar phase. The Sun gives the class its direction — the movement principle the day is asking to express. The Moon gives the class its entry point — how the body is likely to feel before it begins to move. And the phase between them describes the quality of light: how much of the day’s energy is visible and available, and how much is still forming in shadow.
This is what I call astrology as a movement hypothesis — a way of asking what the body might need today, given the conditions it is actually moving inside of.
Each class is also mapped to the body directly.
The sign tells us where to enter — which region of the body is most alive to the day’s intelligence.
The planet behind the sign tells us which energetic center is being asked to do the deeper work. And when the outer planets are present, they are not ignored — they simply operate at a different scale, describing the quality of the collective field we are all moving inside of, the subtle body beneath the physical one.
The result is a practice that is always responsive. Not to who you are in general, but to where you are right now.
Each week you will find two classes here. Each one is named for the conversation happening between the Sun and Moon that day. Read the description before you arrive. Let it orient you. Then bring that orientation into the room.
This Week’s Classes
Tuesday 10am- Total Body Yoga and Fitness, Granby, MA
Thursday 8pm- Artistic Dance Conservatory, East Longmeadow, MA
Virtual options available for those who cannot attend in person.
Pisces Moon / Aries Sun / Last Quarter
You wake up and something feels like it is winding down. Not exhaustion exactly. More like the end of a long exhale — the body still releasing something it has been holding, though you couldn’t name what it is or when it started. There is a softness around the edges of things. A willingness to let go that you didn’t have to decide. It is already happening.
And underneath that softness, there is heat. Something that wants to move, to push forward, to begin. But it hasn’t cleared the water yet. It is still gathering itself somewhere below the surface, patient and real, waiting for the release to finish before it rises.
That is where this class will find you.
We begin with the feet. In traditional astrology Pisces rules the feet — and today that is not incidental. The feet are the entry point of this class because they are the body’s most honest place right now. They are already in conversation with the ground, already sensing what the earth beneath you is offering. We press in. We spread. We feel the floor receive us fully — and through that simple act of being received, something in the body begins to let go.
The field today has a Neptunian quality — permeable, collective, slightly dissolving at the edges. You may notice the boundaries between yourself and the room feel softer than usual. That is not a problem. That is the field. Neptune asks us to feel what we are part of before we assert what we are. Let that permeability be information rather than disorientation.
As the feet root and the field softens, the sacral center begins to wake. Jupiter holds this class’s deeper energetic work — expansive, generous, oriented toward growth — and the sacral asks the body to find its fluid intelligence. The hips begin to move. The spine follows with something wave-like and unhurried. This is not yet effort. It is circulation. It is the body remembering that it knows how to move without being told.
Slowly the heat finds its way up. The Aries fire begins to rise — through the hips, the spine, the shoulders, the arms. The movement becomes more directional, more muscular, more awake. The head and jaw, Aries territory, begin to organize — not with tension but with intention. By the time we arrive at the full expression of the class — the lunges, the reaches, the standing strength — it will not feel forced. It will feel ready. Like the fire was always there, waiting for the water to clear.
Come as you are. Come mid-exhale if that is where you are. The class knows how to meet you there.
The question this class is holding: Can we move forward by releasing rather than bracing?
Aries Moon / Aries Sun / New Moon
There is no moon in the sky tonight. And something in you knows it.
You might not be able to name the feeling. It is not quite restlessness and not quite calm. It is more like pressure without direction — something alive and coiled, humming at a frequency that hasn’t found its expression yet. You feel ready for something. You are just not sure what. The energy is there, fully there, but it hasn’t broken the surface. It is still seed. Still dark. Still becoming.
The third eye in this practice lives at the Sun and Moon conversation. Today that conversation is happening in complete darkness — the Sun and Moon are together, conjunct, speaking only to each other. The third eye is not outward facing right now. It is turned inward, sensing at a depth that doesn’t yet have a name. You may arrive today with an unusual clarity about something interior, or an unusual pressure, as though something is trying to become visible from the inside out.
This is exactly where this class begins.
We start with the head. Aries rules the head, the face, the jaw — and today these are not just body parts but antennas. We bring awareness here first, not to create tension but to feel what is already gathered. Where is the jaw holding? Where is the brow slightly compressed? Where in the skull is the energy sitting, waiting? We do not force anything open. We simply notice.
From the head, awareness drops into the solar plexus — Mars governs Aries, and Mars in this practice lives at the solar plexus, the seat of will, of directed force, of the fire that knows where it is going. But at a new moon that fire is not yet outward. It is coiled here at the center, present and real, asking to be felt before it is used. We breathe into it. We let it clarify.
Then the feet find the floor. Strong grounding. Full presence through the soles. Stance before movement, always, in a new moon Aries class — because without the ground the coiled energy has nowhere to direct itself and will climb upward, tightening the jaw, the neck, the shoulders. The ground is the container. We build it consciously.
From that grounded interior place the sequence begins to give the energy form. Clear weight shifts. Deliberate initiations. Muscular engagement that is conscious rather than reactive. The movement clarifies from the inside out — not building toward a peak, but allowing what is already present to find its shape and its direction.
By the end there will be real heat, real effort, real Aries fire moving through the body with clarity and force. But it will have been discovered, not manufactured. You will know the difference when you feel it.
Come with whatever is stirring. You do not need to understand it yet. That is what the class is for.
The question this class is holding: Can we give form to what is already moving inside us, before we ask it to act?