Your workshop
Your workshop will be live-streamed via Zoom.
This workshop will focus on balance and stability with the view of working towards a sensitive, supportive and sustainable movement practice that responds to your needs and environments.
In the first half of this workshop, we will take an in-depth look at balance from the ground up: experimenting with movements that prepare, mobilise and challenge our feet, ankles and knees. We will then consider how the position of our pelvis, shoulders and head can affect our sense of body control and experience how our ‘core’ responds to maintain stability.
In the second half of this workshop, we will play with novel and dynamic alternatives to common standing balances found in yoga classes such as: tree (Vrksasana), warrior 3 (Virabhadrasana III) and standing ‘hand to big toe’ (Utthita Hasta Pandangusthasana) poses.
The aim of this workshop is to widen the group’s understanding of balance from an ability to be remain perfectly ‘still’ to a dynamic, whole-body experience that is inherently (and sometimes helpfully) a bit ‘wobbly’.
Schedule
10:00-11:00 Setting the foundation: a look at balance from the feet up
Comfort break
11:15-12:00 Adding novelty and stimulus: how we can find balance through play
This workshop is suitable for:
beginners
curious movers from any physical practice discipline, or sport
You will learn ways to:
adapt your yoga practice to incorporate a wide-range of creative movement
improve balance, strength and stability outside of a gym environment
accommodate and address issues surrounding hyper-mobility and injury
Equipment
In addition to your yoga mat, 2 yoga blocks (or chunky books), any small weight you can hold in your hand (under 2kg), a resistance band (or belt), tennis ball (or massage ball/foam roller) may be nice to have, but not essential. Be creative with what you have at home.
How to join
You will receive an automated confirmation email after booking. You will receive a second email containing all of the essential joining information in the week beginning 23rd November.
Any questions, teething issues, or suggestions? Feel free to contact me.