![]() ![]() Video Tutorial Two: Release and Lengthen the Psoas Muscles You’ll then learn a basic tracing technique to heighten awareness of the pathway of the psoas muscles followed by a pulsation technique for hydrating and softening the psoas and spinal muscles. Following this, Donna will lead you through a spiralic warm-up technique that prepares the spine for deeper ranges of movement. You’ll finish the tutorial by learning the first of many techniques that incorporate a muscle release ball, a simple, low-cost, pain-free and incredibly effective technique for paving the way toward a happy psoas. This section of the tutorial will give you a toolbox for helping students who previously could not lie comfortably with the legs straight to find a restful relaxation position. Many students have relayed that practicing CRP for 15 minutes twice a day has resulted in more dramatic improvement of chronic pain and discomfort than more active practices. Donna will show five different variations of this position for addressing conditions such as inflammation, hyperlordosis (accentuation of the lumbar curvature), sacroiliac instability, and more specific spinal pathologies such as spondylolisthesis (forward shift of the lumbar vertebrae). Learning to release the psoas and spinal muscles begins in Constructive Rest Position (CRP) – a very specific supine practice that can alleviate compression in the lumbar spine and release pressure in the sacroiliac joint. Video Tutorial One: Softening and Hydrating the Psoas and Spinal Muscles Using these techniques you can help your students address seemingly intransigent conditions such as hyperlordosis (accentuation of the lumbar curvature) and alleviate pain caused by sacroiliac and lower back compression. Poor posture, back pain, and discomfort and restriction in movement can result. Working with a therapeutic protocol, you will learn extraordinarily effective techniques to soften, hydrate, and release and lengthen the psoas muscles. ![]() When these deep core muscles become unbalanced, the position of the pelvis and spine is thrown off-center. In the lecture sessions, Donna will unravel the complexities of the deepest core muscles of the body, the psoas, to reveal its function as an extraordinary unifying structure for the entire body. ![]() Part 1: Yoga for Core Integration: Balancing the Psoas for Lifelong Back Health The second part of this series focuses on the core cylinder and how it can be developed to improve structural integrity. You will learn how to both identify and correct deep structural imbalances in your body that may be preventing you, and your students, from being truly centered. The first sessions in the series will focus on the psoas and its important role in structural integrity. Yet how many of us have deep, seemingly unchanging structural “snags” in our body that throw us off balance despite years of yoga practice?ĭrawn from decades of teaching experience and her recent collaboration to write Pathways to a Centered Body with coauthor Leila Stuart, this workshop will be an invaluable investment for yoga students and for teachers of all movement disciplines who wish to offer effective and pain-free strategies for improving body alignment, movement function and healing back pain. As Yoga teachers, posture is where we begin and what we repeatedly return to, to help students resolve issues such as limitations in movement and spinal discomfort. Every Yoga posture or athletic activity is an expression of the clarity and refinement of this most basic relationship of our body structure to the ground, gravity, and space. Our ability to lie down, sit, stand, and walk in comfort is directly related to the template of centered body posture. Everything that we do in our everyday lives is dependent on our posture. ![]()
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