Upcoming course – Yoga for posture improvement: The 7 steps to better posture
Your posture not only affects how you look.
It also affects your overall wellbeing.
And even possibly how long you live.
Improving posture isn’t something you can just do overnight. Poor posture habits get lodged in your body as part of a multi-dimensional process. So improving posture must be a multidimensional process as well. Therefore, developing healthy posture habits is not just a matter of ‘standing up straight.’ It must be part of a holistic, well-rounded approach.
To change our posture, we have to reeducate our body and our mind. Of course, we have to reeducate and reshape the soft tissues of our body: the muscles, the tendons, the connective tissue. But the we have to rewire the brain to develop a different sense of where the body is in space as well. And oftentimes we have to create an inner transformation too: to create a mindset that allows us to stand up proud and tall and claim our rightful place in the world, rather than hiding our light in a shy, crouched over posture.
What you will get out of The 7 steps for better posture course:
- Better core awareness and support
- Stronger back
- Realigning of the pelvis
- Easing the compression in the spine
- Improved breathing
- Open chest
- Increased mobility
- Improved nervous system functioning
This course is for you if you:
- Sit for prolonged periods of time
- Feel stiffness in your body
- Want to have a feeling of lightness when standing, sitting or moving
- Wish to have more space and mobility in your spine
- Are keen to reduce postural imbalances
- Would like to renegotiate your relationship to gravity
What you will learn in this course:
Week 1: Step#1 to improving posture: Body Awareness
- Building greater awareness of where our body is in space
- Paying attention to the subtle sensations and changes happening in the body as we move through different poses
Week 2: Step#2 to improving posture: Stretch
- Restoring the balance in the pelvis which greatly affects our posture
- Addressing tightness in the legs
- Finding more openness in the chest
Week 3: Step#3 to improving posture: Strengthen
- Learning simple and accessible ways to strengthen and integrate your core to support your posture
- Exploring the difference between core engagement and gripping
Week 4: Step#4 to improving posture: Lengthen
- Finding awareness of places of compression in the spine
- Learning how to create more space between the vertebrae
Week 5: Step#5 to improving posture: Revitalise and rehydrate
- Focusing on movement fluidity
- Replenishing the connective tissues in the body
- Making space for the nervous system and the blood flow to work properly
Week 6: Step#6 to improving posture: Realign
- Learning how to renegotiate our relationship to gravity
- Creating better alignment of the upper and lower parts of our body
- Inviting more balanced movement
Week 7: Step#7 to improving posture: Reshape
- Reshaping the soft tissues in the body
- Finding suppleness
Posture improvement involves developing healthy habits for sitting, standing, and moving, exercises for keeping the postural muscles strong, and developing our proprioceptive sense of alignment in space. Our bodies are amazing in their ability to heal and adapt at any age and it is possible to stop and even reverse the ageing process.
When: Monday @ 12 pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Class duration: 60 minutes
Course duration: 7 weeks, starting on 4 September 2023
Course dates:
September 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
October 2nd, 9th, 16th
All classes are recorded and can be accessed for 1 week to review or catch up.
Prices
Price for the whole course: £84
Taster class: £6
Join the waiting list for Yoga for posture improvement:
In the Yoga for posture improvement courses we look at:
- Ways to increase body awareness and better understanding of our movement patterns
- Which factors contribute to bad posture
- How different parts of the body are interconnected and influencing the way we sit, stand and walk
- Techniques to improve the way you move, to strengthen muscles, gain flexibility and range of motion, to make more space in the body
- Simple and easy tools that can be used every day to alleviate stresses on the body and the mind
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Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash
