Discover Your True Core:

Your Heart and Organs

An Embodied Anatomy and Self-Care Class

with Holly Krebs, Certified Rolfer™ and Body Educator

Your organs are your true core! They are the root of your center and they generate your life force! In this eye-opening class, you’ll learn about your organs and how to sense them inside yourself. You’ll also learn how to move with them, live in them more fully, and better care for them.

Your organs produce your energy, pump your blood, and clean your tissues, and they also make up most of you! They occupy the vast majority of your torso, which means they determine the comfort and alignment of your spine, shoulders, and pelvis. And they provide your deep sense of self. Your organs are remarkable, and they are an integral part of your embodied experience.

In Discover Your True Core you learn about seven of the organs in your torso—your heart, lungs, stomach, liver, small intestine, large intestine, and kidneys! For each of these organs:

  • We look at images of your organs to teach you a visual roadmap of your internal landscape.

  • You learn to feel where your organs are inside your body by palpating your organs and perceiving your internal sensations.

  • You learn exercises to move your organs with your hands and your body movements, which can help your organs move more freely and work better.

  • You learn what your organs do, how they relate to your skeleton and nervous system, and how they make you feel physically and emotionally.

  • We also discuss lifestyle practices that support the health of your different organs.

This class gives you a 3D tour of your insides. As you learn your organs’ locations, shapes, functions, relationships, and qualities, you can learn to sense them internally. This increased awareness supports your organs’ health, and it lets you embody more of your parts to expand your sense of self. As you move and live from these deep tissues, you can create more ease, calmness, and fullness in your life.

Curious About These Questions?

  • How do organs cause back pain?

  • How is your stomach related to your vagus nerves and your feelings of stress and relaxation?

  • How does the nervous system of your guts contribute to depression and anxiety?

  • How might your tight psoas actually be caused by your kidneys or small intestine?

  • How does your heart respond to the people around you?

  • Where does your liver reside, your lungs end, and your large intestine travel?

  • What might that gurgle, sensation, or pain in your intestines mean?

  • What does your liver do? (Psst, it's a lot!)

  • And, most importantly, how do you care for your organs to increase your ease, comfort, health, and longevity?

If these questions intrigue you, join Holly for her next offering of this class!

More Details about Discover Your True Core with Holly Krebs

Class Topics

  • Explore your heart, lungs, stomach, liver, small intestine, large intestine, and kidneys.

  • View lots of anatomy images to introduce you to your organs' locations and shapes. 

  • Learn to perceive your organs through self-palpation and interoception (sensing your internal sensations).

  • Learn to mobilize your organs through manual manipulations and movement exercises to improve their functioning.

  • Discover your organs' relationships to other parts of your body, such as your bones, diaphragm, other organs, and the deepest parts of your nervous system.

  • Discuss each organ's emotional significance and their role in the Traditional Chinese Medicine system.

Class Exercises

  • Mobilizing your upper back by moving from your heart,

  • Increasing your lung capacity by stretching the sac around your lungs,

  • Regulating your brain and heart with positive emotions,

  • Manually stretching your stomach and esophagus,

  • Pumping your liver,

  • Twisting your kidneys,

  • Manually mobilizing your small and large intestines,

  • Moving your abdomen to improve your guts' blood and lymph circulation, and

  • Aligning your posture to optimally position your organs and create more ease in your body.

Additional Class Materials

  • An 11-page hand-out on additional supports for each organ, including diet, herbs, lifestyle approaches, emotional practices, exercises, and more!

  • Hand-outs with detailed instructions and pictures for some of the exercises taught in the class. (Delivered via email after the class.)

  • A class outline of all the exercises, provided for note-taking purposes.

  • A vocabulary list of important anatomy terms.

  • A bibliography of recommended books on a diverse collection of related topics if you want to learn more after the class.

This class is an excellent foundation for developing a deeper understanding of the roots of your body. The images presented give you a visual roadmap of your internal landscape. The exercises help you sense, move, and care for your organs. And the support materials provide practices that will help you carry your new understanding into your everyday life. May this class teach you to care for your organs in the most supportive way, creating more ease, calmness, and fullness in your life.

Testimonials for Discover Your True Core

“Holly combines a gift for healing with a gift for teaching us how we can heal ourselves. She explains complex concepts in a way that is engaging, understandable, and enjoyable. I came away from this class with a transformative understanding of human organs—where they are located, how they feel, what they do, and practical things I can do to improve their function and health. I recommend this class to anyone interested in learning more about their bodies and taking more personal responsibility for their health, and I look forward to attending more classes Holly offers in the future.”   — Stan Davis

”Holly's class was very informative and powerful. I am a beginner in learning Anatomy, and I never felt overwhelmed by the information. My overall comment to others about the class has been that I have a greater appreciation of all that our organs do. I honestly had no idea of what workhorses they are. The information shared is practical and relevant. I have implemented several of the strategies in my daily routines.”  — Janet Bouley

”Holly's ability to share knowledge, wisdom and experience about what's inside of me in a way I feel and understand is phenomenal. I am learning to love myself from the inside out, and this experience helps me sense how wonderful I am!”   — Joni Fornelli

This class “expanded my internal landscape and filled in details about my body that I didn’t know. Holly engaged many different types of learning, including palpation, movement, the latest science, and embodied anatomy to create a holistic and in-depth class on the organs. During class there were moments of laughter, moments of awe, and moments of deep resonance as we were all connecting with our hearts. The information from this class has helped me move with more ease in my day-to-day life, has given me additional tools to care for my body, and offered new perspective and awareness.”   — Samuel Beecher

Holly Krebs' workshop “was fascinating and full of facts about organs and their functions. Holly is an excellent, engaging, and enthusiastic speaker who will hold your attention. I have an endless amount of information after taking her workshop to share with my adult and child-aged yoga students.”   — Megan Michael