For teachers and enthusiastic-but-stiff yoga people
This day-long workshop led by Sarah Ramsden (yoga teacher at Manchester City and Manchester United Football Clubs) will teach you how best to work with really stiff and inflexible people.
Growing numbers of people arrive at our classes because they are stiff, tight and their bodies are going wrong. They are looking to you for improved suppleness, flexibility and physical wellbeing. But working with inflexible people - who may be athletes or simply regular immobile people – is a specialist area and much of our regular yoga repertoire and approach simply isn’t applicable.
This fantastic, practical, hands-on workshop gives you the understanding, teaching skills and confidence to make real change to these clients – in a safe, relevant and successful way.
The workshop gives you a solid introduction to:
- how to know if a muscle is short?
- What are you stretching and why?
- How to develop a new repertoire of poses and sequencing applicable to inflexible people;
- How to make it safe, interesting, and engaging so that your clients love it and want to come back
You will take away for use in your classes:
• Practical, functional-anatomy based poses / teaching to successfully improve your clients’ flexibility.
• How best to sequence / vary and adjust really stiff people.
• How to know which muscles area actually short, and what you can do about it.
• Role of connective tissue in inflexibility and how you successfully change fascial response.
• How long you should you hold stretches for inflexible people - and how do you know for each individual.
• How to make teaching inflexible clients fun, interesting, engaging and compelling.
