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$60.00 Doug Keller - June 5 - The Opinionated Psoas
$60.00 Doug Keller - June 6 - Keys to the Shoulder Girdle

An ONLINE training-intensive for yoga teachers and inquiring students.

The online experience with Doug Keller carries some special advantages:

· Live Session: Meet live via Zoom to dive deeper into our training topic introduced in our asana practice. Questions can  be asked through the chat function during the lecture, and there will be live questions/answers at the end of each session.

· Asana Practice: Each day offers a pre-recorded asana practice that introduces or incorporates ideas at the heart of the day’s session, so that you will have an experience of what you’re learning. The asana practices will be made available to  you through links to Vimeo before the live stream session each day — and you have the freedom to either do the practice in  the morning before the session, or at another time that is more convenient to you. And you can view the practices repeatedly, or download them. 

· Sessions are recorded with high quality video and audio, and you’ll receive links to Vimeo that will allow you to rewatch and even download the sessions, so that you can go back and review the talks and practices. The same applies to the extra practice videos.

· The notes used in the talks will also be available to you in the form of pdf documents that you can download

· Ability to re-watch the lectures in high quality video with the course notes in hand

· Additional content videos of asana and yoga nidra practices which you can practice at a time that works for you

· Even more content and learning than is normally possible in a live training, and in a convenient and practical format

Saturday,  June 5  (3 Hours) The Opinionated Psoas  1-4pm  $60.00

The psoas muscle has long been recognized as central to our posture and movement, and a source of back and hip pain. Yet the muscle is so deep, and involved in so much of our movement, including the breath, that there are a number of ideas, theories, and opinions about exactly what it is that the psoas ‘does’ — beyond its two most obvious functions. We’ll start with an understanding of pain syndromes, and how pain works in the nervous system — and the ways in which yoga specifically helps with pain problems and then back issues: the Psoas.

In this live webinar, Doug will explain and illustrate the psoas and the main ideas about it, and sort out the lessons we can take into our yoga practice. We’ll come to understand the variety of problems created by a ‘tight’ psoas, and how nearly all of the asanas of yoga address the psoas in different ways. Webinar will include guidance in different releases for the psoas, coupled with use of the breath, as well as some work with asanas that illustrate principles for practice. You will get a greater understanding and appreciation of the psoas, experiential tools to work with it, and an asana session to give you ideas for your own practice!

Asana Practice

The focus of this asana session will be on principles for working effectively with the psoas in asana practice, and for addressing the various kinds of imbalances touched upon in the lecture.

 Sunday,  June 6  (3 Hours) Keys to the Shoulder Girdle  1-4pm  $60.00

The shoulder girdle includes three moving parts —collarbone, shoulder blade, and armbone (humerus). For healthy, pain-free movement of the shoulders, all three parts have to work together well.

In this webinar, We’ll look at the role of these three parts and their joints in shoulder aches and pains, and principles for warmup and action for all of them, with applications in asana.  This will include a look at common form of shoulder aches and pains, and their causes — including and especially shoulder impingement and rotator cuff problems. There will be plenty of ‘light bulb’ moments for working better with your shoulders in yoga poses — and in life.

Asana Practice

The focus of this asana session will be on principles for warming up and working effectively with the shoulders that we discovered in the lecture session. We’ll go through a variety of poses, and highlight how you can recognize and work with limitations or aches that you experience in the shoulders in your practice.

Doug Keller