About Alan Franzi and Creative Edge Yoga

Movement has always been my way of understanding how people heal and grow. For over thirty years, I’ve seen again and again how awareness—not force—creates lasting change in the body. That understanding became the foundation for everything I teach at Creative Edge Yoga.

This approach helps people move with less effort and greater ease. Strength and flexibility emerge as natural outcomes of better coordination, not as goals to chase.

My path began in classical yoga and therapeutic practice. Over time, curiosity led me to study how the brain and body learn through movement—a process that reshaped how I understand healthy movement, mental and physical balance, and resilience. As my own body changed with age and experience, I came to see resilience differently. It isn’t about strength or flexibility alone; it’s about how the body adjusts, recovers, and finds balance when life shifts. When awareness guides that process, effort softens, movement reconnects, and steadiness returns.

I’m a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a Clinical Somatic Education Instructor, SMC® Level 3 through Sarah Warren’s Somatic Movement Center. My teaching builds on the principles of Clinical Somatics and draws from the wider field of somatic education, including key insights from the Feldenkrais tradition and other awareness-based movement disciplines.

This integration forms the foundation of how I teach and practice today. Both experience and current research in current research in movement science and yoga therapy support what this work shows every day: when people learn to sense and refine movement with awareness, the nervous system can reorganize itself. Pain eases, coordination improves, and natural balance begins to return.

Every session begins from where you are today. We start with what’s possible now and build gradually through awareness rather than force. The process is guided but exploratory, helping you notice what supports you and what creates strain.

For more than thirty years, Creative Edge Yoga has served the Connecticut shoreline—Guilford, Madison, Branford, and New Haven—as well as an online community near and far. Wherever you join from, the aim is the same: to help your body remember what ease feels like. From there, movement becomes lighter, more stable, and more enjoyable.

The goal is the same wherever you join from: to help your body remember what ease feels like. From there, movement becomes lighter, more stable, and more enjoyable.

If you’d like to explore how this process can help you move and feel better, visit the How This Work Helps page or contact me to schedule a brief, no-cost consultation.

*This information is for educational purposes only and should not replace professional medical advice. Please consult your doctor before starting any new exercise program. Please read our disclaimer for more information.