A Ride the Wave class with Tierra Karou opening September's theme: the empowered leader — rooted confidence, unwavering boundaries. The skill is somatic — connecting into yourself until you can feel what your yes and your no actually are. As Tierra puts it, where you have good, strong boundaries, you have freedom; boundaries create safety, and safety creates more movement. You begin at the skin, the body's first boundary, then drop long and slow into the pelvic bowl — mining what Tierra calls the gold there: your yes and your no, emerging from your roots. The jaw, throat and tongue open next, linking knowing to speaking, and the class builds to raw yeses and noes spoken out loud before a whole-body celebration and a quiet gratitude close. It's one thing to know your truth — it's another to speak it on a dime.
