Core Strength for Back Support with Lucy Lomax

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Dates
Saturday 06/15/2024 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Pricing
$25.00 Core Strength for Back Support


You’ve heard it before – strengthen your core to support your lower back.

Great advice. However, what exactly is the core and which muscles need to be strengthened? Many people focus on strengthening the outer core, or surface abs, the rectus abdominis. However, core strength depends on the deeper muscles of the inner core – the obliques, transverse abdominis, pelvic floor, and spinal erectors. 

So, come experience stability, strength, length, and endurance from these deeper core muscles and how that support helps protect the vulnerable lower back muscles. 

This will be an active workshop including poses for upper body strength, arm balances, and plank-type moves, as well as yoga poses with core and strengthening emphasis.

Core Strength For Back Support is appropriate for intermediate-level (and higher) yoga students. A handout will be provided of poses covered. This hybrid workshop counts as 2 CE hours for yoga teachers registered with Yoga Alliance.



 


 



Lucy Lomax

Lucy Lomax, Certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RPYT, YACEP, C-WAE, C-iREST®, and Accessible Yoga teacher, began meditating and practicing yoga in the 70's and teaching yoga in 1999. After 33 years as a financial policy analyst (BS Organizational Behavior, Masters in Public Financial Management) Lucy became a full-time yoga teacher. In 2017 she became a certified yoga therapist. Her yoga background includes 22 years study and practice in alignment-based yoga, and since 2011, specialized training in yoga for seniors, the military, and those dealing with back pain, cancer, amputation, stress, trauma, and PTS (post-traumatic stress).

Her teaching is based on anatomy, posture, movement, and integrative body/mind principles and she focuses on trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation, and accessible and adaptive yoga for injuries, illnesses, special conditions, and recovery. Her teaching style is light-hearted and practical — she believes that the yoga you do in class should support everyday life, and that yoga should be modified to meet you where are on life's journey.

Lucy is a yoga teacher trainer for both entry and advanced level yoga teachers (RYT 200 and RYT 500 levels), is co-director of the Yoga Center of Columbia's Yoga Teacher Training 200 level program, and is co-director and master teacher trainer for Y4A Yoga for Amputees. Lucy teaches public classes, workshops, retreats, and private yoga therapy sessions. Learn more about Lucy at www.lucylomax.com


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