Fascia as We Age: Building Resiliency for Later Stages of Life

Fascia as We Age: Building Resiliency for Later Stages of Life With Laurice (Lauri) D. Nemetz, MA, BC-DMT, LCAT, ERYT500, C-IAYT | February 26-27, 2027 (attend live in person, live-streaming online and by recording if needed)

How can yoga therapy support greater ease, mobility, and adaptability as we age? This two-day immersion explores fascia, the connective tissue network that supports and connects structures throughout the body, and its relationship to movement, sensation, and our changing needs across later stages of life.

Offered as part of the Chronic Disease and Ease yoga therapy training, this workshop brings together informed study and experiential practice to explore how aging, inflammation, stress, trauma, hormonal changes, and long-term health conditions can influence fascial tissues and movement patterns.

Through therapeutic sequencing, active loading, movement variability, breathwork, and restorative approaches, participants will explore ways to support tissue capacity, body awareness, and resilience. The emphasis is on adapting yoga therapy to the individual, helping people maintain meaningful movement and meet the changes of aging with greater confidence and ease.

Key Takeaways

• Understand fascia’s role in aging: Explore its relationship to mobility, sensation, and the body’s capacity to adapt.
• Recognize influences on fascial health: Examine how life changes, inflammation, trauma, hormones, and chronic conditions may shape tissue function and movement.
• Explore loading and movement variability: Learn how appropriately scaled challenge and varied movement can inform therapeutic practice.
• Integrate active and restorative approaches: Experience how movement, breathwork, and rest can complement one another in yoga therapy.
• Adapt practices for later stages of life: Develop sequencing strategies that respond to individual abilities, changing needs, and goals for daily living.

Tuition: $380

Time: 8:30am to 5:15pm PT

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Faculty:

Lauri Nemetz is a long-time yoga teacher, yoga therapist, dance/movement therapist, educator and forever a student who values curiosity. She is the author of The Myofascial System in Form and Movement (Handspring Publishing, 2023), a contributor to The Anatomy of Yoga Coloring Book (Staugaard-Jones & Nemetz, North Atlantic Books, 2022), Creative Arts Therapies Manual (Brooke, editor, Charles C. Thomas Pub 2006), illustrator for Waking Energy (Kries, HarperOne 2017) and chapter contributor to the 2nd edition of Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications (Lesondak & Akey, ed. CRC Press, 2025), as well as numerous articles, including Towards a comprehensive definition of the human fascial system, Journal of Anatomy (15 January 2025). She has presented internationally at Harvard Medical School, Oxford University, and at conferences for the American Association for Anatomy, the American Dance Therapy Association, and the Fascia Research Congress. Her workshops on movement, yoga, and anatomy include locations in the U.S., Canada, Germany, England, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Italy. She is a past president of the prestigious Yoga Teachers Association (YTA) and was a featured presenter at the 2025 Berkshire Yoga Festival.

She has been an Adjunct Professor at Pace University (NY) for over 20 years with many accolades, including the 2020 Pace President’s Award, and was awarded a visiting Associate Professor position in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) 2021-22. Her work in yoga and movement spans several decades as a licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), a member of the American Association for Anatomy, a board-certified member of the Academy of Dance/Movement Therapists, a Yoga Alliance yoga teacher and education provider at the 500-hour level, American Yoga Council Level Three Provider, certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT), and provider and former faculty for Anatomy Trains ® and Anatomy Trains ® Dissections. She currently co-teaches movement and anatomy dissection labs with Leslie Kaminoff (Yoga Anatomy) through KNMLABS www.knmlabs.com and guests internationally for dissection projects, including the Fascia Net Plastination Project in Germany and was a lead dissector for the world’s first full body fascia-focused plastinate. She is currently working on a PhD in Contemporary Human Anatomy Education at the EVMS (Eastern Virginia Medical School) Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University. More information is available at www.wellnessbridge.com