Finding the coordination to stabilize the core as you move your hips will not only save you from strain in the lower back and develop better hip flexibility, but it will also give you better balance.
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Developing the habit of standing with vertical/straight leg helps with a number of things such as: - loading your hips and legs for stronger bones - developing better hip and butt strength - Releasing chronic tension in the knees and quads. In this class we work on assessing what is a vertical leg, and how do we develop a better balance of muscle activity in the leg by relaxing the frontside and engaging the backside of the legs.
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Finding stability and extension in the hips while learning to use the backside of your legs to drive the leg backwards in order to propel your body forward. Like an oar paddles a canoe.
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Learning to stand with a vertical leg where there hips rest over the heels is an important alignment cue to help release the tension of the fronts of the thighs and knee joints, to engage the backside of the legs for better balance and walking, and it helps load the bones of the hips and legs for greater bone strength. This adjustment also helps create a vertical body all the way to the head.
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A forward fold can help lengthen the entire backside of the body. There are fascial connections that run from the soles of the feet all the way to the head, and getting into a forward fold can show us where we habitually shorten and hold tension in certain areas of the posterior chain of the body. That shortening of certain areas is caused by many things such as our sitting and shoe wearing habits, but it then affects our posture, walking gait and general ability to move freely. In this session, we'll breakdown all the parts of the forward fold and see how to get more movement throughout the body in this simple posture.
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Learning to stand and walk with the ankles at pelvis width apart is an important alignment marker that will help us to find better hip strength. Developing this as your neutral stance will keep the feet, ankles, and knees healthier as well. It also helps to load the bones of the legs for better bone strength.
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Limited mobility tends to cause parts of us to rotate away from the tension. So our feet turn out, our thighs rotate in, our pelvis tilts causing our spine to flex when we go for deeper ranges of motion such as in squats. This class is a look at all those rotations and how to bring them back in alignment for better movement of your lower half.
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Let's play with how mobilizing the parts from our trunk to our feet can help with balance. When feet turn out, thighs rotate in, and the trunk gets too stiff, it's easy to be pulled off balance. We'll work on finding neutral alignment and stabilizing our body from there.
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Equipment: chair, block, half dome, strap, tennis ball (optional). The ability to balance can be affected by overly tense (or shortened) areas of your body. This class is an exploration of stretching and mobilizing your feet, shins, thighs, hips and then learning how to stabilize your balance.
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Immobility and tension in the hips can pull on the spine whenever you need to move on the legs thereby putting unnecessary wear and tear on the spine. AND not knowing how to keep the hips stable when the spine needs to move can keep the tissues of the trunk stiff and unmoved. So in this class we look at the difference of moving the spine and hips both together and separately. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Block (or book or blanket) and a strap.
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The habitual positioning of our body (mainly chairs) and the shortening of the muscle lengths that result from it can lead to strain and tension in certain areas when we do the simplest action of laying down on the ground. It's why people often report neck and back pain while laying down. In this class we'll look at how to realign our posture and how to iron out all those kinks so that we can elongate to our fullest length while laying down.
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A look at how alignment can help us move more of our body in our physical activities. This class will focus on the common yoga pose, downward dog. We'll see how limitations in our ranges of motion are causing us to avoid moving certain joints and how using alignment markers can help us get more movement and strength overall.
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