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Yoga for Core Integration: Enhancing Structural Balance for Pain-Free Living
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This course qualifies for 10 CE hours with Yoga Alliance.
Everything that we do in our everyday lives is dependent on our posture. Our ability to lie down, sit, stand, and walk in comfort is directly related to the template of centered body posture.
Every Yoga posture or athletic activity is an expression of the clarity and refinement of this most basic relationship of our body structure to the ground, gravity, and space.
Yet many of us have deep, seemingly unchanging structural “snags” in our body that throw us off balance despite years of yoga practice.
In this online course with Donna Farhi, you will learn how to both identify and correct deep structural imbalances that may be preventing you, and your students, from being truly centered.
The course is an invaluable resource for yoga students and for teachers of all movement disciplines who wish to learn effective and pain-free strategies for improving body alignment, movement function and healing back pain.
Lecture Sessions
In the lecture sessions, Donna will unravel the complexities of the deepest core muscles of the body, the psoas and the core cylinder, to reveal their function as the unifying structure for the entire body. When these deep core muscles become unbalanced, the position of the pelvis and spine is thrown off-center.
Poor posture, back pain, and discomfort and restriction in movement can result. Working with a therapeutic protocol, you will learn extraordinarily effective techniques to soften, hydrate, and release and lengthen the psoas muscles.
Using these techniques you can help your students address seemingly intransigent conditions such as hyperlordosis (accentuation of the lumbar curvature) and alleviate pain caused by sacroiliac and lower back compression.
Video Tutorials: Softening and Hydrating the Psoas and Spinal Muscles
The course contains numerous accompanying yoga video practices with strategies to release the psoas muscles and alleviate compression in the lumbar spine and release pressure in the sacroiliac joint.
Many techniques that purport to release the psoas muscles are unnecessarily painful and often result in further defensive holding in these deep core muscles. Learn a series of gentle techniques you can use as part of a targeted therapeutic protocol to resolve deep core imbalances that may be contributing to spinal and pelvic discomfort.
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6+ Hours of Content on Effective Core Building Strategies
Course Schedule:
Module 1: Available Now
Module 2: Available Wednesday, February 9th 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific
Module 3: Available Monday, February 14th, 2022 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific
Module 4: Available Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific
All modules contain lectures and video practices with Donna on psoas release and core cylinder stabilization.
PLUS Coming Soon! Two Bonus Video Practices with Donna on Creating Pelvic Stability
PLUS 3-Hour Bonus Course! Yoga for Back Care: Focus on Herniated Discs and Sciatica Prevention & Care
PLUS: Join Us for a Live Q&A with Donna!
Thursday, March 3rd, 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific
Check Out These Video Excerpts from the Course:
Are You Making This Common Core Strengthening Mistake?
Yoga for Core Stability: Keys to Healthy Diaphragmatic Breathing
Yoga for Core Stability: Pros and Cons of Abdominal Breathing
Realigning the Spine - Dissolving Asymmetries in the Deep Core
The Difference Between Mula Bandha and Pelvic Floor Activation in Yoga
Keys to Health & Well-being: The Many Functions of the Psoas
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Yoga for Back Care - Enhancing Structural Balance: Keys to Preventing Sciatica and Herniated Discs with Laura Staton, O.T.
Back pain will affect four out of five people at one point in our lives. But it doesn't just come out of the blue - the foundation of back pain issues are often years and even decades in the making.
The good news is that for many types of back pain, self care practices like yoga and exercise can make a big difference, both in terms of prevention and relief.
In this online course, author and yoga therapist Laura Staton will show how you can create a personalized, therapeutic, yoga-based plan to help heal or decrease pain and prevent recurrences of back pain.
The course focuses specifically on back pain issues linked to herniated discs and sciatica.
Disc herniations can appear anywhere in the spine, but they are most common in the lumbar spine. They can be extremely painful, because when herniated, disc material contacts nerve roots which cause pain and/or muscle weakness. Disc herniations are often the cause of sciatica as well, because the large sciatic nerve is actually a combination of five lumbar nerves!
In this course, you will learn how to understand and disc herniations and sciatica and how common yoga-based back care practices can help balance the spine to offer effective preventive strategies and even help restore function and life balance.
What You Will Learn:
- Why lumbar herniations are so common and which factors will tend to predispose you towards disc herniations
- The link between lumbar herniations and sciatic nerve pain
- How movements of the spine affect the nerves
- Which movements/asanas to avoid when struggling with disc herniations and sciatic and why
- Yoga-based movement practices to help reduce or heal pain linked to disc herniations and sciatica
- Body mechanics that will help you prevent disc herniations or facilitate healing when it has already occurred
- How to use the antigravity postural muscles to keep the trunk strong and flexible to reduce loading in the lumbar spine.