Yoga for Core Integration: Enhancing Structural Balance for Pain-Free Living

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Why I Created this Course . . .

This course is drawn from decades of teaching experience and the collaboration with Leila Stuart in writing Pathways to a Centered Body.

The material in this course is an invaluable investment for yoga students and teachers of all movement disciplines who wish to offer effective and pain-free strategies for improving body alignment, posture, movement function and healing back pain.

I know this is true because I’ve seen countless students reap rewards when other approaches have failed them. Having this knowledge was also the key to restoring my own ability to walk again after my pelvis was traumatically damaged in a riding accident.

The first sessions in this series will focus on getting to know your psoas and its important role in structural integrity. You will learn how to both identify and correct deep structural imbalances in your body that may be preventing you, and your students, from moving and living with ease.

The second part of this series focuses on the core cylinder including the transverse abdominus and multifidus muscles that together serve to stabilize the lower back for all our everyday activities. And most important, moving with the support of a competent core can liberate diaphragmatic breathing even during the most dynamic activities.

What's in The Course?

The course contains numerous accompanying yoga video practices with strategies to balance the core cylinder and release the psoas muscles.

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.

Module 1 - Balancing the Core: Focus on the Psoas Muscles

What You Will Learn:

The complexities of the deepest core muscles of the body - the psoas muscles
Their function as an extraordinary unifying structure for the entire body
What happens when these deep core muscles become unbalanced
Extraordinarily effective techniques to soften, hydrate, and release and lengthen the psoas muscles
How to 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

Module 2 - Balancing the Core: Focus on the Core Cylinder

What You Will Learn:

Introduction to the “secondary core muscles” of the body: the thoracic and pelvic diaphragm, multifidus, and transverse abdominis
How these muscles coordinate with the medium of the psoas to provide core stability
How engaging thoraco-diaphragmatic breathing is crucial to core stability
How the use of ideokinetic imagery can help to “switch-on” the core body
How to safely improve your flexibility in yoga practices without compromising pelvic and spinal stability

All modules contain lectures and video practices on yoga for psoas release and core cylinder stabilization.

Additional Course Value

Lifetime access

You can take advantage of the technology and learn at your own pace without ever feeling pressured. Rewind, pause or fast forward to the relevant section you want to study more deeply.