BWY Yoga Workshop
The Spinal Engine – placing the spine at the heart of our yoga
Join Catherine Annis for this BWY yoga workshop to explore 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.
During this yoga workshop 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 this yoga workshop 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.
During this yoga workshop, we’ll:
* Understand the structure and function of the spine and how it supports us and is involved in our movement and sense of wellbeing both on and off the mat
* Incorporate learning and knowledge into yoga practice, exploring simple and more complex postures
* Approach the spine as both a sensory organ and an initiator of movement
* Understand the way you relate to and move with your own unique anatomy to find ways of practising yoga that are inspired by the shape and form of our own bones
* Understand the subtle connection of breath to spine through direct personal experience
* Explore how to sense the flow and pulse of CSF (cerebral spine fluid) and noticing how that affects our movement and general overall wellbeing, supporting our natural ability to heal
* Understand personal habitual movement patterns and consider ways of changing this to bring more ease and simplicity to movement
* Understand how the spine is central to our feeling of wellbeing
* The spine's role as both structural support and sensory receptor
* Learn how conscious awareness of the spine benefits our approach to all movement
Please note that this BWY workshop is suitable for those working with chronic, but not acute, disc issues.
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Continuing Professional Development
Each yoga event provides 1 CPD point per hour of practice, depending on your awarding body.
Date, Time and Booking
Yoga Workshop :
The Spinal Engine
* July 7th
* Friday 4:30 - 7:30 pm
* online via Zoom
* If you are unable to attend the live yoga workshop there is a Video recording option via the button below
How to join live streaming via Zoom
I will be using Zoom, a free online platform to live stream this workshop. You will be able to connect directly to us from the comfort of your own home either through your PC, laptop, mobile or tablet.
It's easy to set up - please follow these simple instructions:
Download and create your free Zoom account. Please do this well in advance to make sure audio and video are working.
We will send you a unique Zoom link at least an hour before the workshop starts so you can register well ahead of the start time. You will then receive an email confirming your place with a link to the workshop. Follow the simple online instructions. Please log in 10 - 15 minutes before the start of each workshop so we can begin on time.
How to join Zoom Cloud Meetings for online classes:
If you’ve never used Zoom before, please take the time to download the free Zoom app on whichever device you use for joining live classes (on iPads and smart phones it is 'Zoom Cloud Meetings' from the App store). On computers and laptops it is: zoom.us. Follow Zoom's simple instructions to set up your account.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
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