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Saturday 06/01/2024 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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$25.00 Yoga for Strength, Balance and Ease with Lucy Lomax
Many people come to yoga asana (pose) class to become more flexible; they want freedom in their joints so they can move fluidly and feel more balanced and at ease in their body and life. However, flexibility depends on fluid joints, and joints move with ease only when supported by strong muscles.
Because muscles are responsible for moving bones within joints, if there is lack of muscle strength, for example if a muscle is tight and therefore weak, there will be a commensurate restriction in the joint supported by that muscle.
So, how does one gain strength in yoga? The short answer is by holding poses longer, and by repetition. The longer, more complex answer is by developing techniques that will help better access muscle strength and energy within all muscles and within every pose.
Come join us in this workshop focusing on techniques to better access muscle strength and energy within all muscles and within every pose. Appropriate for those with at least 6 months of yoga experience. A handout will be provided of poses covered. Yoga teachers registered with Yoga Alliance receive 2 CE hours.
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.
