Class Description

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Healing Yoga For Low Back Pain

This program leads the practitioners through a pathway to a “Better Back”. Back pain is one of the most frequent causes of activity-limitation in adults today. However, 95% of all back problems are organic, meaning that they are the result of sprains due to common postural and movement habits that can easily be addressed through yoga.

 

By bringing attention to the misalignment of the body, muscular dysfunction, imbalance, and postural asymmetries, this six-week program series is designed to alleviate back pain, enhance overall health, and effectively addresses the conditions associated with chronic low back pain and pelvic misalignment.

 

In each 90 minute class, you will learn: 

- Techniques for developing breath awareness and learning abdominal- diaphragmatic breathing

- Learn how to access and engage the core muscles to support the low back 

- An understanding of how the core and supporting muscles build a safety net for supporting the body from inside out

- An adaptive and gentle asana practice to keep your lower back happy and healthy

- Pranayama techniques and systematic relaxation to calm nervous system and unwind out of pain

- Five 30-minute breath-aligned asana sequences given for home practice

 

Yoga for All Levels

This class is for those who are novice as well as for those who want to take their yoga practice to a higher level. However, this class can be enjoyed by students at all levels: beginners to seasoned practitioners. A lot of variations and adaptations are offered so the beginners and seasoned practitioners can choose to practice at their level of comfort. Use of the yoga props are encouraged to allow the practitioners be at ease in their practice. 

 

The participants are encouraged to listen to their body, and options are given to those who wish to further challenge their strength, flexibility & endurance.

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Yoga for Neck & Upper Back

Do you feel discomfort in your neck and upper back on a daily basis? Do you experience limited mobility when turning your head? Do you spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen and make often use of the electronic devices to socialize?
Well the forward head position of looking at the screen, and looking down at the phone and spending much of your time in this position, we experience tension and stiffness in the neck and upper back, thinking that it is an inevitable side effect of our modern lifestyle.
When we continue to live in this kind of habitual movement pattern, where the muscles of the body stays in a locked long or locked short position for many hours, it can lead to wear, tear and degeneration of the body.

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Breath Work for Inner Balance

Do you frequently experience feelings of high stress, anxiety, hyperactivity, agitation or other difficult emotions? Do you feel yourself breathing too fast or shallow, sighing or taking big breaths? Do you feel you are not relaxed?

 

Science has shown that there is a relationship between our breathing patterns & state of our mind. Emotions have an almost immediate effect on breathing. Depending on the emotion, we may breathe faster, louder, gasp, sigh, or even stop breathing, which in turn affects our emotions. It is very interesting that this works both ways!

 

By bringing awareness to the breath and by voluntarily bringing the changes in the way we breathe, we can influence our emotional reactions!  Relaxed breathing can calm highly agitated and difficult emotions during periods of distress, and has been proven effective in the treatment of panic attacks, anxiety, depression, cardio vascular disease, migraine headaches, hypertension and chronic pain just to name a few.

 

This program is designed to help regain control of your breath, and in turn, your emotions, and bringing a calming effect to the mind and body.

 

In this program you will learn

• The systematic way of relaxed breathing which is the foundation of all pranayama techniques

• Breathing the techniques to meet the mood

• How the various postures of the body change the way we breathe

• Breath focused mindfulness asana practice to bring your focus inward which helps to bring inner balance

• Use of sound and hand gestures (mudras) to shift energy to meet the mood

• Systematic relaxation leading into meditation

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Befriending Pelvic Floor: A journey to Pelvic Wellness

Befriending your pelvis is a journey towards inner pelvic wellness that emphasizes connecting with, understanding and healing the pelvic floor through a nurturing, and somatic approach. Acknowledging that pelvic tissue can hold physical or emotional trauma, and treating this area with safety, gentleness and with respect. In this therapeutic course you will be introduced to the basic anatomy of the pelvic floor, breath practices learning optimal breathing, learning the correct techniques for engaging the PF muscles to bring awareness at this often-ignored area.

 

Our pelvis acts as a sturdy link between our upper and lower body. Proper stabilizing of the pelvic floor muscles through strengthening, stretching with optimal breathing helps to create foundational support and balance for each movement in the body. This is the true meaning of "core work". Whether you are experiencing the conditions that are mentioned below or are just simply curious about this region of the body, this course is for you: ​

• Pelvic pain

• Hip and groin pain

• Low back pain

• Prolapse organ

• Incontinence

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You will learn a series of breath-centric functional yoga asana and movement practices for hypertonic (tight floor) and hypotonic (loose floor). Based on your pelvic muscle tone, we will also touch upon related health conditions of the Pelvic Floor. Bring your friends, sisters, mothers and daughters. Although helpful, no yoga experience is required to attend this course.

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