Muscular Freedom Starts with the Joints — Feet, Knees, and Hips
The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga weekend
With Doug Keller
Join Doug in this workshop - (the 2nd of 4) he will offer this weekend all touching the theme, Practical and Profound: The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga.
Our nervous system regulates our flexibility according to the freedom it perceives in our joints. That means that the state of our feet and knees profoundly influences the flexibility of our hamstrings, hips, and low back.
In yogic terms, this means emphasizing ‘Vyana Vayu,’ or sensation and perception in the movement of our joints in practice.
Vyana vayu is a starting point for understanding how and why joint pain, muscle stiffness and weakness, limited range of movement, and recurring pain patterns have a common root in the body’s protective reflexes arising from the peripheral nervous system — which is the realm of Vyana, the ‘pervasive’ aspect of Prana.
Our practical focus in asana will be on the lower body: principles for working with the feet, knees, and hips, with new insights into the feet as the keys to these joints in all classes of poses. These insights will also prove to be essential for achieving better, healthier movement in our knees and hips, with significant improvements in low back health as well. This will include a consideration of sciatic pain problems.
There’s a lot to cover on this first day, encompassing both learning and practice — and it’s an introduction to the deeper realms of experience to which the ‘Vayus’ invite us, in pranayama and deep relaxation.
Practical and Profound:
The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga
The true power of yoga practice and its therapeutic value goes beyond muscles and joints. It influences the nervous system — particularly through the Vagus nerve — in ways that touch every level of our health and well-being.
In the Upanishads, this was described in terms of the ‘Vayus’ of the Prana. In this weekend of training topics, we’ll unveil in contemporary, relatable terms the full significance of these ideas, and tie them directly to the practices — with emphasis on asana, but also extending to pranayama, meditation, and Yoga Nidra.
Each day covers a major area of the body, and realm of the nervous system. You are free to take one day, two, three or all four!
Doug came to teach hatha yoga by way of meditation and years of academic study: philosophy, both western and eastern approaches spirituality, anatomy, movement and yoga. Doug’s depth, intelligence and accessibility for translating hard concepts into digestible ones is profound.
Join him during his long awaited European tour, in one or all of these workshops at Yoga Moves this November.
Don’t miss these other sessions with Doug:
Thursday, Nov 21: Keys to the Shoulders
Friday, Nov 22: Muscular Freedom Starts with the Joints — Feet, Knees, and Hips
Saturday, Nov 23: The Heart of Movement: the Sacrum and Spine
Sunday, Nov 24: The Upper Body: The Arms, Shoulders, & Neck as the Wings of Yoga
Get the whole package: All four days & sessions
Price*: €299
Sign up for Friday Session:
Date: Friday 22 November 2024
Time: 11.30-18.30
Location: Studio Fly | Croeselaan 209 | Utrecht
Price*: €99
This course offers continuing education hours if you are a yoga professional. YACEP CE=6
*We are CRKBO certified and therefore no vat.
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