Past Event – 2017
For the February session of Gentle Yoga for Hips & Shoulders I am bringing a focus of heart health into each class. This session consists of four classes. Each week I will be sharing a heart health tip that will weave into our yoga practice together.
Tuesdays Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28
5:30 – 6:45 pm
Gentle Hips & Shoulders Yoga is designed for people who are experiencing tightness or discomfort in their hips and shoulders. In this class we focus on strength, mobility and balance into the body.
In each class we focus on:
- Posture Awareness
- Strengthening the stabilizing muscles
- Increase mobility to hips and shoulders
- Therapeutic yoga poses that you can do at home between classes
- Fascial (connective tissue) release techniques
- Pranayama (breath practices)
Cost: $48 for 4 weeks
Here is a video from a snow day class in January (below)
Hips and Shoulders Yoga Printable Cards
For each class in the spring and summer – I gave out cards with therapeutic poses focused on hips and shoulders. If you can’t make it to class or if you missed some of the handouts – here are the printable versions.
Would you like some music to play along with your at home practice? Make sure to check out my Rejuvenating Yoga Playlist.
Click on the highlighted text below to open the printable pdfs. If you have any questions at all about the poses – send me a quick email or ask a local teacher to help you out. Many of them I have picked up along my yoga journey.
- Thai Goddess – hands interlaced
- Gate Pose
- Rhomboid Juicer (thanks to Brenda Dowell for this fun name)
- Runner’s Lunge
- Standing Shoulder Hugs
- Standing Cow Face with Strap
- Reclined Twist – Knees Together
- Lizard Pose with Hip Opener
- Shoulder Therapeutics 1
- Shoulder Therapeutics 2
- Figure 4 Twist
- Windshield Knees
- Swimming Shoulders – elbows bent
- Reclined Shoulder Window
- Warrior II with Elbow Squeeze
- Happy Baby
- Reclined Tree
- Reclined Slowly Flying Butterfly
- Asymmetrical Version of Thunderbolt
- Prayer for Open Shoulders – with a block
