Want More From Your Backbends?
If you're like most of us, backbends can be quite emotionally and physically challenging. They're the opposite action of our everyday activities such as texting, driving, sitting at computers, and bending to pick up kids. Backbends are so healing partly because they reverse these habitual motions. They open up space, energize, and restore balance to our bodies and our lives.
In this 2.5 hour workshop you'll learn how to use and integrate your muscles to keep you safe and strong in backbends. Starting with simple actions, we'll teach you the important but usually overlooked details on how to access the upper back and how to open the front of the body with care. Then we'll build on these basics to take you deeper into your backbends.
In the first half of the workshop, led by Iyengar yoga teacher Siobhan Sloane-Seale, you'll establish a solid foundation with slow, detailed and sometimes intense work. Siobhan will teach you how to modify poses to suit the needs of your own body which will build your body intelligence and awareness.
The second half of the workshop, led by yoga instructor Bless Leone, will teach you how to integrate what you learned in the first half into a sequence of moving postures in a way that's safe, strong and builds confidence in your backbend practice.
In this 2.5 hour workshop you'll learn how to use and integrate your muscles to keep you safe and strong in backbends. Starting with simple actions, we'll teach you the important but usually overlooked details on how to access the upper back and how to open the front of the body with care. Then we'll build on these basics to take you deeper into your backbends.
In the first half of the workshop, led by Iyengar yoga teacher Siobhan Sloane-Seale, you'll establish a solid foundation with slow, detailed and sometimes intense work. Siobhan will teach you how to modify poses to suit the needs of your own body which will build your body intelligence and awareness.
The second half of the workshop, led by yoga instructor Bless Leone, will teach you how to integrate what you learned in the first half into a sequence of moving postures in a way that's safe, strong and builds confidence in your backbend practice.
Why Alignment and Flow?
Movement-based yoga gives you a different kind of strength and flexibility than Iyengar yoga’s stillness and long holds. If you only learn to engage your body in long postural holdings, your practice can easily become rigid and stagnant. If you only flow quickly, you might feel fit and flexible, without realizing you're missing a deeper muscular stamina.
Learning how to work in a deeper, more integrated way, means that when you stretch, it will be from a place of grace, awareness and wholeness. When you merge strength and movement, you'll find balance.
Space is limited. Reserve your spot today!
Learning how to work in a deeper, more integrated way, means that when you stretch, it will be from a place of grace, awareness and wholeness. When you merge strength and movement, you'll find balance.
Space is limited. Reserve your spot today!
Details
Saturday Dec 5, 2015
2:00-4:30pm
Yoga on 7th (156 E 7th Ave, Laneway Entrance)
Early bird rate: $40 (until Nov 21st)
Regular Price: $45 (registration ends Dec 1st)
To register and for more information email: [email protected]
2:00-4:30pm
Yoga on 7th (156 E 7th Ave, Laneway Entrance)
Early bird rate: $40 (until Nov 21st)
Regular Price: $45 (registration ends Dec 1st)
To register and for more information email: [email protected]
about Siobhan
Siobhan has been studying yoga for the past 18 years and teaching since 2010. She has practiced many styles of yoga, however, after a period of injury her desire to be healthy brought her back to studying the Iyengar method. Siobhan’s teachings will help you understand your yoga practice and deepen your body awareness so you can move through your day with ease.
Siobhan is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor with over 1300 hours of training.
For more information visit www.vancouver-iyengar-yoga.com
Siobhan is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor with over 1300 hours of training.
For more information visit www.vancouver-iyengar-yoga.com
about me
Bless is a Yoga Alliance registered E-RYT 200 instructor and brings a wealth of practical knowledge to her teaching. Bless’ teaching focuses on intelligent sequencing and postural alignment. She includes the use of props, modifications, verbal adjustments and demonstrations to educate students ensuring that each class is accessible to everyone in the room.
Bless’ positive spirit encourages her students to move beyond their boundaries reminding them that yoga is not about being perfect, but being present and connected in each moment. Along with her public classes, workshops and private students, Bless mentors and trains new teachers.
Bless’ positive spirit encourages her students to move beyond their boundaries reminding them that yoga is not about being perfect, but being present and connected in each moment. Along with her public classes, workshops and private students, Bless mentors and trains new teachers.