How we carry ourselves in daily life directly impacts our alignment and how much tension or ease we experience—both on and off the yoga mat. This ten-class program blends functional yoga and therapeutic yoga techniques to help you identify and address postural imbalances, relieve chronic tension, and improve functional movement patterns. Whether you're a yoga practitioner, teacher, or simply seeking better movement and alignment, this course provides practical tools to restore balance and ease.
What You’ll Learn:
How to identify and address postural imbalances and areas of tension caused by everyday habits like texting, typing, and hunching.
Insights into common misconceptions about "proper" alignment in yoga—valuable for both teachers and practitioners.
Techniques from functional yoga therapy to create healthy, neutral alignment in standing and seated postures.
How each joint junctions influence mobility through the entire kinetic chain, and how improved alignment can improve function from the feet through the whole body.
What You’ll Experience:
This course offers therapeutic techniques to restore functional strength and mobility throughout your body. Each of the ten classes focuses on a specific area of the body, and combined, provide a holistic understanding of how one part affects the whole.
Through deep stabilizing work, mobility exercises, and mindful alignment practices, you will:
Increase body awareness and develop the ability to release habitual tension patterns.
Experience greater postural ease and reduce physical strain.
Alleviate physical rigidity and chronic tension—especially in the lower back.
Enhance functional strength and range of motion.
Relieve shoulder and neck tension while cultivating richer, deeper breathing.
What You’ll Gain
By the end of this course, you’ll have the tools to cultivate a more effective asana practice, healthier breathing and gait patterns, and integrated whole-body awareness. Specifically, you’ll gain:
Strengthening, mobilizing, and tension-relieving practices for the feet, ankles, knees, hips, sacroiliac joints, pelvic floor, core, diaphragm, spine, neck, shoulders, wrists, and hands.
Greater ease and efficiency in movement.
A deeper understanding of key alignment principles to enhance your sense of oneness and integration during your yoga practice.
This Course is Ideal for:
Anyone seeking to improve or refine postural and movement patterns for greater ease, efficiency, and comfort in both yoga and daily life.
Those looking to address the root causes of chronic tension and create lasting change.
Individuals recovering from injury who want to move with more mindfulness and support.
Yoga practitioners and teachers eager to deepen their understanding of alignment and functional yoga therapy to support a more integrated asana practice.
