Julie Gudmestad: Yoga Foundations-

Creating Shoulder Strength and Stability

Monday, Nov 14 & Monday, Nov 21, 2016

8:30 pm Eastern / 5:30 pm Pacific

 

Join us live or listen to the recordings at your convenience.

 

One of the most important shoulder muscles for upper body weight-bearing yoga poses is serratus anterior. It is a hard muscle to find and describe, and isn't mentioned often in yoga classes. That is especially unfortunate, because many students come to yoga with weak serratus muscles. Serratus weakens due to lack of strengthening activities, including weight-bearing exercises like push-ups, so women are especially prone to weakness there.

Strengthening the serratus anterior is key to building a strong foundation for weight-bearing on the arms in elementary poses like Downward Dog and plank, and especially important for inversions like headstand and handstand, in which the serratus muscles are bearing nearly the whole body weight. If the serratus isn't strong enough in these poses, problems with the neck, shoulders or wrists can be an unhappy consequence.

 

 

 

 

 

Yoga Foundations:

Creating Shoulder Strength and Stability

PURCHASE COURSE $67

What You Will Learn

  • Explore the anatomy for the serratus anterior: How to find and engage it!
  • A set of progressive strengthening exercises, starting with very easy and building up to challenging poses.
  • Develop technique for weight-bearing on your arms which will gradually progress to safe and strong inversions and sun salutations.

 

This Course Also Includes These Bonuses! 

  • Recordings of Both Webinar Sessions: Yours to keep. It’s generally acknowledged that many people only retain 10-20 percent of what they learn in a workshop. You will get the recordings of both webinar sessions (both MP3 and MP4), enabling you to go back and listen to the workshop as many times as you like.
  • Transcripts of Both Sessions: Ever wanted to refer to a certain part of a course? Even the best note takers miss a point every so often. With the transcripts of the sessions, you can go back and refer to particularly important passages or clarify sections you were in doubt about.

Yoga Foundations:

Creating Shoulder Strength and Stability

PURCHASE COURSE $67

About Julie Gudmestad 

Julie has devoted her professional life to integrating the healing benefits of yoga with her medical training as a physical therapist. She has integrated decades of patient care experience with 40 years of yoga teaching into a unique teaching style, and teaches workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, often focusing on the anatomy of asana or therapeutic applications of yoga. She owns a combined PT and Yoga studio in Portland, Oregon, and has published over 45 articles and columns in publications such as Yoga Journal and Yoga International.

PURCHASE COURSE $67

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