Yoga Workshop - The Spinal Engine

Open to all, this yoga workshop is an invitation to directly experience the spine’s power, resilience and innate intelligence through creatively exploring movement as initiated and driven from the lumbar spine.

A spectacular piece of engineering, our spine is supremely adapted, elastic and responsive. As both the central powerhouse of the physical body and the housing of the central nervous system, it’s intimately involved in everything we do in daily life and in our yoga practice.

Catherine will guide you through a thoughtful, enquiry-led practice designed to enhance your conscious awareness of the spine as both a sensory organ and an initiator of movement.

Through practice and an anatomical focus, you’ll explore how the spine is integral to wellbeing at all levels, its role as both structural support and sensory receptor, and how developing conscious awareness of the spine benefits our bodies in all movements, complex and simple, allowing us to move with more ease and grace. You’ll sense into your own unique anatomy to find ways of practising yoga that are inspired by the shape and form of our own bones.

You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on your individual spine and the confidence to explore yoga in an intelligent, personalised way, whatever your practice style, creating a unique and individual approach to movement that will sustain you for life.

Please note that this workshop is also suitable for those working with chronic, but not acute, disc issues.