Four major barriers to a fulfilling yoga practice and a fully functional life are: 1) Knee, foot, and ankle instability, leading to painful knees in transitions and bent-knee poses. 2) Tight/weak hip muscles leading to lower back pain, limiting our backbends, forward folds and crossleged poses. 3) Weak deep core,  manifesting in neck/back pain: Yoga poses like boat pose turn into back-splitting hurdles rather than power-boosters. 4) Tech-neck, office hunch posture leading to neck and shoulder stiffness, making Camel, Cobra & Co. give us a ‘crick in the neck’. 

This 4-session workshop series addresses all four barriers and helps you systematically open and stabilize YOUR body from head to toe, using the intuitive alignment system of Anusara® Yoga and techniques from neighboring movement sciences to help you remove the barriers in your personal yoga practice. You will emerge with greater strength, ease and aliveness for  your daily journey.

This is Workshop 1 “Find Your Footing” of the four part Empowered Yoga series. Go to ‘Empowered Yoga Bundle’ to purchase all four workshops (recordings available).

Goal: Dissolving the barrier of Knee, foot, and ankle instability which makes us prone to injuries and falls and, in our Yoga practice, creates wobbly one-legged balancing poses and painful knees in transitions and bent-knee asanas. 

What you will gain in “Find Your Footing”:

• strategies to lengthen & strengthen muscles and connective tissue in your footbed, ankles, shins, and surrounding your knee joint

• specific, poses, sequences and cues for feet, ankles, knees and hips

• an understanding of movement & stabilization of knee, ankle and foot joints

• Asana: more stability in standing one-legged balancing poses, pain free bent-knee poses, and modifications for pain-free cross-legged seated positions like lotus

• This practice-based workshop is for beginners, intermediate and advanced students and teachers, includes a warm-up, and applied anatomy throughout. This course counts for CE credits and can be applied toward the Anusara certification.

Cost: $36.50 USD for one workshop, $125 for Empowered Yoga Bundle (all 4 workshops).

Location: in person AND online. Online: individual attention and inclusion in the group. In person: Workshops 1,2,3 take place at Yogakula in Berkeley, Workshop 4 takes place at 354 Panoramic Way in Berkeley, and online. Recording will be available after the workshop for those who have registered.