Back & Spine Health
Just about everyone has experienced back pain at least once in their life. For some of us, it’s a temporary issue due to a muscular strain, but for others, back pain is chronic.
If you have occasional back pain due to muscle strain, regular yoga practice is great for building strength and flexibility to reduce the frequency of pain. You can even do a short practice at home every day to help keep pain at bay. Here’s a quick and well-rounded little video for low back pain that I put together a few years ago.
But if you have chronic back pain, a more specialized approach can be really beneficial, and you might want to look into our new Therapeutic Series focused on Back and Spine Health that we’ll be offering in September.
This 4 week series is limited to 10 participants so that we can customize the practice to each individual. Depending on the root of each person’s back or spine issue, which might be anything from a herniated disc to scoliosis to degenerative disc disease, the practice will be tailored to optimize results.
This Therapeutic Series will be led by Emily, who is a trained Yoga Therapist. Emily has a really impressive background including over 2500 hours of yoga training and nearly 4000 hours teaching, plus she’s a licensed massage therapist.
If you or someone you know might be interested in attending this series, please click here for details. And if you’re interested in the series but the schedule doesn’t work for you, please shoot me a note and we can discuss alternate dates.
All my best,
Zelinda
I’m Interested in Teacher Training But…
I hope you’re having a great day today!
After my trip to India earlier this summer, I’m even more excited about our teacher training program! I experienced a very high quality of instruction at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, and I now see our program through new eyes.
In teacher training you’ll learn about Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga. Krishnamacharya believed that the yoga practice must be customized to the individual, and having studied at KYM 9 years ago, his philosophy has had a great influence on my own teaching. Krishnamacharya was a brilliant teacher, and his students went on to create many of the current popular styles of yoga, including Ashtanga and Iyengar.
In designing our 200 Hour Teacher Training program, it was a priority of Emily’s and mine to provide straightforward, science-based, traditional instruction. We believe that in order to become a quality yoga teacher, one needs a solid foundation of knowledge, including anatomy, asana, philosophy, and languaging.
What I saw and learned at KYM made me realize that we are definitely on the right path. Our Therapeutics-based program follows the philosophy of customizing the yoga practice to suit the student. You’ll learn critical thinking so that you can teach the students who show up in your class, whether they are young or old, thin or fat, and whether they have any issues, injuries or disabilities.
This week Emily and I kick off Teacher Training Tuesdays. At 11:00 a.m. CST every Tuesday we’ll host a 15-30 minute Fecebook lifestream and talk about various topics related to teacher training, including instruction on asana, philosophy, current events, and Q&A. We’d love to hear from you! Please let us know if you have any topics you’d like us to address.
Last week we did a test run to see how Facebook Live works, and it’s really great! If you “like” our page, you’ll get a notification when the lifestream begins. Then you can post comments and we can answer them on the spot. If you miss the lifestream, it’s no problem because the video is recorded and posted on our Facebook page so you can watch it later.
Here’s the video from last week’s broadcast. It addresses common concerns people have when they’re interested in registering for teacher training, like whether they need to be able to do advanced postures and what if they have a schedule conflict with one of the class dates.
Join us for today’s video at 11:00 if you can! We look forward to seeing you soon!
Have a great day!
Zelinda