Shawn M Flot (Physical Therapist, Hatha Yoga teacher, Oxygen Advantage Master Instructor, Functional Movement Systems Specialist) offers effective and affordable ways to access your capacities for empowering your health, fitness, and performance. Offerings are in-person & online.
CURRENT DAY CLASSES
Hatha Yoga:
Strength in Stability
Focus is on the energetic systems of movement and breath from the Nath Yogin perspective (beyond body mechanics taught in contemporary styles). How one incorporates their limbs (5) arrangement in all shapes with right action to circulate the motivating force of life, Prana. The limb work, or peripheral body provides communication to the central system and visa versa. Principles of the bone, strength in stability, nervous system capacities, centralizing, marma, and others are woven in to provide the palate of desire for freedom to be tasted. The experience one is left with is an integration and meaning to pursue on own, as the traditional ways were guided.
Tuesdays 8:45 – 10:15
Month commitment / No single class drop ins
Sliding Scale $50 – $100 (4 classes/month)
@ Inward Bound in Ashland, Oregon
Please get in touch with me with the contact form this page or here, with your interest in participating.
Building Integrity:
Core Movement Capacities
Integrity is structural wholeness—transmitting force with complete efficiency. Using Ultimate Sandbag dynamic resistance, this class teaches your nervous system what your mind cannot command: reflexive stability, natural mobility, power, and seamless coordination under real movement conditions. Through felt sense and dynamic challenge, you’ll build the strength, power, and resilience your body needs for everything you want to do. First pillar. Foundation for everything.
Fridays 8:45 – 10:00 (Self Warmup open at 8:30 to be prepared)
@ Inward Bound Ashland, Oregon
Please get in touch with me with the contact form this page or here, with your interest in participating.
Because the limited practice space please contact me to save you a space.
Experience both workshops as a complete journey; and and receive a discount on a 1:1 session. Build the mechanical foundation through hands-on exploration in Workshop 1, then unlock its full respiratory performance potential through experiential practice in Workshop 2.
Community Offerings
OLLI at SOU – Winter Course
Breath-Powered Vitality:
The Metabolic Health Blueprint
Feb 5 – March 12
6 Thursdays 1100 – 1230
In-Person & Online participation
Why obsess over kale and collagen while ignoring the foundation that makes it all work? Every superfood and supplement depends on one catalyst—oxygen optimal delivered through nasal breathing. This course reveals how proper breathing transforms your complete metabolic cycle from fuel intake to waste elimination. Crush breathing myths with science-backed methods rooted in physiology and real results. Discover why nasal breathing 24/7 catalyzes cardiovascular, digestive, brain & metabolic health—while mouth breathing sabotages it, even if you eat well and exercise daily. Exercise with nasal breathing to amplify benefits and limit physiological stress risks. You invest time & money in proper food and ample exercise, why not investigate your breath? Master the overlooked key to metabolic health.
Wednesday Wellness @ Ashland Food Co-op
Your Most Undervalued Health Asset
(Hint: It’s Right in Front of You)
Wednesday April 15th
6:00pm – 8:00pmz
In-person & Online
Your nose is the gateway to vitality—designed to optimize the vital components your body depends on.
You’ve heard about nasal breathing—but do you know WHY it matters or HOW to build the capacity to breathe through your nose all day and night—even during sleep, without needing to tape?
Discover:
- Why ease of nasal passage is essential for brain health, core strength, balance, endurance, and energy
- How your nose signals the health of your body—both acute inflammation (after eating, onset of illness) and chronic patternsA simple way to determine if you can restore nasal breathing for life or need additional help (surgeries, devices)
- What you gain with nasal breathing vs. how mouth breathing sabotages your potential
- Proven practices to breathe through your nose 99% of the day (saving mouth breathing for true sprints—when nasal breathing the rest of the time builds greater capacity to handle those intense moments)
- Why this is MORE foundational than your diet for long-term health
If breathing through your nose feels difficult or you don’t know where to start, you’ll leave with simple, practical tools to restore this natural function.
Wish to attend online? Here is the link to register for access.
PREVIOUS TALKS (recordings available)
Sleep Matters
Recover Vital Health & Sustain Resilience
This was a free talk in cooperation with the Ashland Food Co-op Wellness Wednesdays Community Education.
Sleeping well lays down the dis-eases of the day that contribute to physical and mental health disorders. Sleeping well is less about the amount of time, a dark and cold room, or an expensive platform to lie on…..it’s actually about how you breathe during the day (BIG!!!) and how your nervous system functions (autonomic balance, eye use, excitable/irritable mind, speaking) that has the greatest impact on your sleep. Blending science, personal and clinical experience Shawn will offer how you can effectively improve your sleep, through the breath, so you can enhance your healing & healthy capacities.
Recording, gems and insights please contact me for access.
Elevate Your Mountain-Trail Experience: Explore the Power of Body Mobility & the Breath
This was a free talk in cooperation with the Ashland Food Co-op Wellness Wednesdays Community Education.
Boost your Confidence on the Trails. I taught concepts related to mobility, movement and breathing to better condition yourself for your trail adventure. It’s more about how you prepare yourself, then what you do. Experience the incredible interplay between the power in your feet, ankles & shins. Strength in your bones and the efficiency of your breathing. Lots of great questions were offered up and demonstrations of what is important to be at your best on the trail.
Recording, gems and insights please contact me for access.
Educational opportunities I can offer vary in theme, and the underlying endeavor is to offer guidance from 20years of practice, and 28 years of clinical practice. My approach is an exploration into the interior of the body, interact with the physical, physiological/energetic and phenomenal orchestral dynamics that leads to learning how to access your body’s capacity to balance and heal itself, your inherent health potential. .
- Community Education Opportunities in Health & Wellness
- Principles of Spinal Health through Bones, Nerves & Joints.
- Breathing Dynamics and Functional & Performance Exercises – Oxygen Advantage method.
- Resilience Training to Shift the Stress
- Mental Health alternatives (Cranial, Spinal, Peripheral, and Autonomic)
- Anatomy, Physiology & Energetic Principles of Hatha Yoga
- Alternatives in Physical Therapy with Whole-Body function and performance
- Exploring at your Peak – A Hiker’s Guide to Training for Adventure
Are you, your students or your community interested in hosting Shawn for a workshop? I am able to present on topics related to health, fitness, corporate wellness, and performance that may be of interest. To discuss your needs and for more information, please contact me.