Workshop: Backbends

If you’re like most of us, backbends can be quite emotionally and physically challenging. They’re the opposite action of our everyday activities such as texting, driving, sitting at computers, and bending to pick up kids. Backbends are so healing partly because they reverse these habitual motions. They open up space, energize, and restore balance to our bodies and our lives.

In this 3 hour workshop you’ll learn how to use and integrate your muscles to keep you safe and strong in backbends. Starting with simple actions, we’ll teach you the important but usually overlooked details on how to access the upper back and how to open the front of the body with care. Then we’ll build on these basics to take you deeper into your backbends.

In the first half of the workshop, you’ll establish a solid foundation with slow, detailed and sometimes intense work. Kat will teach you how to modify poses to suit the needs of your own body which will build your body intelligence and awareness.

The second half of the workshop, will teach you how to integrate what you learned in the first half into a sequence of moving postures in a way that’s safe, strong and builds confidence in your backbend practice.

Learning how to work in a deeper, more integrated way, means that when you stretch, it will be from a place of grace, awareness and wholeness. When you merge strength and movement, you’ll find balance.

Workshop is Sunday, June 5 from 9am-1200pm

$40 investment