Namaste my Ommies :]. I have some exciting news; this past weekend I was hanging out at the yoga center in Asheville for a therapeutic yoga workshop. Can I just say - paradigm shifting workshop, y’all. I learned more about my own practice these past four days than I thought possible. And I’ve also learned a lot about how to help others take their yoga in a more healing avenue.
Therapeutic yoga aims to bring balance to the musculature of the body to support strong, healthy joints and ligaments that will last you a lifetime. Often we’re not even aware of habitual patterns in our movement. Do you hyperextend your knee? Does your head slouch and pull forward? Do you have defined arches in your feet anymore or have the shoes you’ve been wearing for a 9 to 5 been grinding them flat? I’m not even talking about in yoga class, guys, I’m talking about daily life.
People think there’s no art to getting older - it just happens. But after this weekend I believe it’s possible to age gracefully and as my teacher, Joe said, “I want to be able to do it all at 80, I want to have as much range of motion as I have now” and with proper musculature balance and conscious movement to build better, therapeutic habitual movement patterns.
So it’s finally summer, am I right!? Dunno about y’all, but I am freaking out in happiness. The Florida girl in my soul will never go away, haha! I’m all about celebrating the summer and enjoying the long days. But this month I want to start incorporating a different kind of celebration - one for the joints!
This month my Beginning Hatha classes will be focusing on the hands and wrists and what we can do in our yoga practice to start building better patterns to take offhen move into a flow where we work to bring conscious the mat. We’ll break down a few poses and look at proper hand placement for your unique body and then move into a conscious-practice flow to sink what we’ve just done deep into the very joints. :]
My hope is to guide you to a place of balance in your yoga practice that can be more than just something done once or twice a week - this is stuff we soak into our whole lives!
Much love, y’all. See you in class. Let’s work together to build a healthier Y O U !
