Gentle Somatic Yoga for Legs & Hips

 

Saturday 25th March, 10.00 – 1.00pm

with Amanda Franklin and David Fleming

Leg and hip joints can lose their flexibility and become tight and painful for many reasons. Sitting for long hours at a desk or in a car, suffering an accident or an injury, having surgery, or even one-sided, repetitive movement (like holding babies on one hip) can cause the waist and muscles that move the hip to stay tightly contracted.

All of these things have a domino effect on the rest of one’s body affecting gait, posture, and range of movement, and often resulting in muscular discomfort.

This workshop can help:

  • Relieve hip joint pain
  • Improve mobility, coordination and muscle control in both legs and hip joints
  • Improve walking, running, yoga and other activities
  • Overcome injuries that resulted in leg, knee or hip pain

This workshop may be helpful for those suffering from sciatica, plantar fasciitis, piriformis syndrome, sacroiliac pain, leg length discrepancy, tight/painful hip joints, knee pain, or an uneven gait due to injury.

 

The teachers :

David and Amanda are both Gentle Somatic Yoga teachers, trained by James Knight, and Somatic Exercise Coaches, trained by Essential Somatics. David is also currently training as a Clinical Somatic Educator.

Both also have a background in Aerial Yoga as teachers and trainers, and have trained up to Black Belt level in the Nia Technique.

 

Gentle Somatics Yoga : 

Gentle Somatic Yoga (GSY) is an exploration of movement that is revolutionary in its ability to improve health, wellbeing, quality of life, and personal performance.

GSY incorporates slow, mindful movements that raise bodily awareness to heal persistent tension-based patterns in the body.

 

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