Yoga Balls, Bands, and Bliss Weekend Workshops
Workshop 1: Pigeon Pose Reimagined: Active Hip Opening with Resistance Bands
You might have been taught that passive stretching and hip-opening postures, such as pigeon pose were the cure all for SI joint, low back, or hip pain, but have you tried strength?
In this workshop, you will learn:
- Preventative strengthening strategies for your hamstrings and hips.
- Exercises to improve low back and pelvic stability.
- Creative ways to use resistance bands to provide external load and feedback to the lower body.
- Discover how building strength work can leave you feeling more flexible than before, but with the strength, power, and poise to back it up!
Workshop 2: A "new school" approach to neck and shoulders
Do you feel like your neck and shoulders are always stiff and sore no matter how much your stretch? Chronic "tightness" is often your body's request for change.
In this workshop, you will learn:
- How to use therapy balls to improve body awareness and soothe the stiff regions of your shoulders and neck.
- How to load your shoulders in dynamic, multi-planar patterns of movement using resistance bands.
- Novel ways to engage the deep stabilizers of your neck.
- Be prepared to leave this workshop with a sense of ease AND strength!
Workshop 3: Redefine Your Spine: Curves, Spirals, and Undulations
Today yoga postures are often practiced in rectangular rooms on rectangular mats. It's easy to forget that, unlike the flat surfaces and perfectly straight lines of our external environment, we are indelibly wave-like, curvy, and spiraled.
In this workshop, you will:
- Break free from grid-like movement and the rigidity and tension those repetitive patterns create.
- Unwind tension and enhance sensory awareness along the spine using therapy balls.
- Explore a variety of yoga postures, interdisciplinary movements, and somatic practices to help you reclaim fluid movement from your spine to your extremities.
Workshop 4: Rethinking Relaxation: Science-based strategies for calming the nervous system
This workshop will teach you how to creatively engage with your breath and brain through self-massage and the external feedback of resistance bands and props.
You will also:
- Explore the physiology of feeling through application of multimodal sensory feedback.
- Learn how to use self-massage to unbind the muscles of the rib cage, upper back, shoulders, and abdomen.
- Partake in somatic practices to enhance strength, control, and capacity for volume change within the various breath abodes.
- This workshop will conclude with a guided practice of yoga nidra to help you drop in deeply to a state of relaxed awareness and renew your sense of innate peace, steadiness, and ease.
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