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Lang Liu

Contact Information:
[email protected]
647-710-6104
Teaching Languages:
English
Locations:
Richmond & Ottawa area, ON, Canada
  • Private Student; Toronto, Ontario
    Lang has an excellent teaching style. I found her lessons both enjoyable and very informative. With her guidance, I was able to get a much more in depth understanding of the techniques than I could through reading the Gokhale Method book alone. It is easy to get a mental understanding of the...Read more
  • David Mohammed; London, Ontario
    I had a great experience during the Gokhale Method Foundations Course. I learned a ton of useful information that I can take with me in and out of the workplace. Lang was a great teacher. She was very kind and really took her time to help her students. I highly recommend the Gokhale Method to...Read more
  • Yuri "I really recommend this course for anyone who is experiencing back pain."
  • Paula Barber Toronto, Ontario Canada
    Lang is a highly skilled teacher of the Gokhale Method, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where I recently took the Foundations Course with her. She is an intuitive teacher, seeming to know just what new learning I needed to address my posture and back pain. Lang personalized her instructions so I could...Read more

Biography

Lang Maria Liu is a martial artist, dancer, teacher and healer. For over twenty years, she taught capoeira (a form of dance/martial arts developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians) in Toronto, using a community-based, transformative approach. Her mother school, Filhos de Bimba, is based in Salvador da Bahia.
 
At 36, Lang was diagnosed with a right-hip condition (FAI) that limits her range of motion and creates imbalances in the body. Rather than give in to the doctors' prognoses that she would eventually require a hip replacement and should stop any strenuous physical activity, Lang embarked on a journey in search of healing tools. She spent two years being treated in an osteopathic clinic in India, learning and eventually teaching a dynamic stretching technique from Manipur, a northeastern state. It was in India that she came across Esther Gokhale’s book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, and knew she had found a missing piece of the puzzle. Having lived in both Brazil and India, Lang had long noticed the impact of Western lifestyles on posture and health, and was eager to learn ways of addressing the growing epidemic of back and joint pain through the principles of ancestral posture. As a passionate advocate for healthy living and the mind-body connection, Lang studied Compassionate Inquiry, a somatic form of trauma therapy, under the internationally acclaimed Dr. Gabor Maté. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Toronto, and is currently completing a masters in Counseling Psychology at Yorkville University. Her thesis-book, Bimba’s Rhythm is One, Two, Three: From Resistance to Transformation Through Brazilian Capoeira is available on Amazon.

Lang currently lives in the Ottawa area, offers Gokhale Method Foundation courses at her home, and teaches weekly yoga and 123 Move classes on Zoom through the Gokhale Exercise program. She is eager to help others heal their bodies so that they can live more joyful, expansive lives.

Lang's Online Offerings

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Ontario

Ottawa, ON

Foundations Courses in 2024
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Open Spots
Sat Jun 08,
10:30am
Sat Jun 08,
12:30pm
Sat Jun 08,
2:30pm
Sun Jun 09,
10:30am
Sun Jun 09,
12:30pm
Sun Jun 09,
2:30pm
Open


Toronto, ON

Foundations Courses in 2024
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Open Spots
Sat Jul 06,
3:00pm
Sat Jul 06,
5:00pm
Sat Jul 06,
7:00pm
Sun Jul 07,
1:00pm
Sun Jul 07,
3:00pm
Sun Jul 07,
5:00pm
Open



Quebec

Sutton, QC

Foundations Courses in 2024
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Open Spots
Sat Aug 03,
10:30am
Sat Aug 03,
12:30pm
Sat Aug 03,
2:30pm
Sun Aug 04,
10:30am
Sun Aug 04,
12:30pm
Sun Aug 04,
2:30pm
Open


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