Anatomy and Asana: Workshop Updates!

Hi Yogi Anatomist,

I am in the midst of writing your March I Love Anatomy ezine. In the meantime, here is your February 2008 Workshop Update. I've included bookings up to and including summer 2008. If you are interested in taking the 4 Days of Therapeutic Yoga, all of the "live-in person" workshops and trainings will give you the necessary pre-requisites.

And....After many yoga teachers asking me I am now offering a yoga therapy certification program for a small group of yoga teachers. The 2008/2009 program will begin following the 4 Days of Therapeutic Yoga, so you will need to attend that training in order to enter the certification program. If you would like more information, please email me.  

And, if you have never taken a "live" training with me and are interested, I've added some experiences that other people have had at the trainings and after the trainings.

Have a terrific month.

All the best,

Susi

Here are the locations for upcoming 1 day and 2 day workshops:
SYTAR (Los Angeles, CA); Vancouver, BC; Austin, TX; Toronto Yoga Conference; Smithville, NJ; Red Deer, AB

Scheduled 4 Day Trainings
Minnesota
Colorado
Wisconsin

4 Days of Therapeutic Yoga

Toronto, ON

Scheduled teleclasses:
Yoga for Cancer Survivors: Research to Date
Is Core Training Leading to Injuries?

The Sacroiliac Joints

Finding Ease in Seated Meditation

"Ask Susi":
Month-to-Month and Annual Memberships to explore your questions and experience some answers. Includes teleclasses, discussion groups related to Anatomy and Asana practical applications.

Please scroll down for descriptions and more information about our workshops, trainings and teleclasses.

You can also visit our website at http://www.anatomyandasana.com/workshops.htm for a complete list of planned events.

If you think someone would benefit from this email, please pass it along.

What Shiva Rea is saying:
I really enjoyed I love the clarity and insight of Susi's applied anatomy. She goes right to the key areas of relevance for yoga practitioners and offers her years of skilled knowledge in potent synthesized & visual material that will benefit students and teachers from all backgrounds. Highly recommended!"

What Brenda, registered yoga instructor is saying:
"I really enjoyed and appreciated the teleclass on the hips and shoulders. The information was clear, concise and helpful. You are a great teacher! One day I will attend one of your face-to-face classes."

Upcoming Workshops, Trainings, & Teleclasses

WORKSHOPS

Anatomy and Asana: A Curriculum for Finding Ease in Classic Yoga Asanas: A One-Day Training
This workshop was created for yoga teachers who want to apply concepts of Anatomy and Asana in a regular group class setting. Based on the soon-to-be-published book co-wrote by Yoga Instructor Leo Mowry and myself, you will learn full class sequences that open and stabilize the shoulders, the hips, and spine so that you can smoothly and easily move into classic yoga asanas like: Downward Facing Dog, Triangle, Camel. We'll explore the anatomy throughout to blend your intellectual knowledge with what you are feeling.

Ultimately, with these explorations, you'll be able to help your students experience the finesse of the asana, making it work for their body and not for the person next to them. You'll be able to help them to stay connected to the asana and not get lost in it.It will enable you and them to answer the question "how do I make the practice challenging enough to support and strengthen without over-extending?" The result – your students will not only feel lighter and pain free, they'll learn how to measure ease within their body.  

What people are saying about this curriculum:

"As a new mother of two-year-old twin boys, I have suffered extreme sciatica due to pregnancy and post partum carrying babies who are now heavy toddlers.  I have been practicing yoga for over 15 years, and now, interspersing therapeutics with the classic poses has moved me out of pain and into deeper awareness of my body.  It has been an amazing experience.  I've never felt as balanced and committed to my practice as I do now. I look forward to every session and I feel completely refreshed and rejuvenated opening my eyes after saying Namaste.  Thank you for everything!!!"
Anne H.
 
"I feel that my body/mind/spirit has made a significant shift.  I am experiencing a more natural ease in life -- in my stance, in the way I walk, in my day to day movements, in the way I embrace whatever is before me.
 Yoga therapeutics is a style that really resonates with me.  I feel that we have to start from a place of awareness, acceptance, and understanding, before asking our body to do what it may not yet be ready for. This approach is really about allowing ourselves to work from where we are rather than where we think we should be."
Lori D.

Location: Los Angeles Airport, CA
Price: $179
Date: Wednesday March 5, 2008
To register or for more information contact Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com

Phone: 403-229-2617 or toll free 866-229-2645
Online Registration: You can also visit our e-store at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/260535/0/0

Symposium of the Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR)
Individual and Main Program Sessions with Susi Hately Aldous
IAYT is presenting the Second Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR). SYTAR is a unique meeting of its kind; a meeting for Yoga teachers, Yoga therapists and those involved with health care and Yoga research. Please join me in this landmark event in our field. I will be personally presenting on 2 aspects of running a yoga therapy practice: The first is "Using the Practice of Yoga to Illuminate the Next Steps as a Yoga Therapist"; and the second is "Setting Up and Running a Yoga Therapy Practice". In the second session, I will be describing the steps I have taken with developing and setting up the Yoga for Cancer Survivors research program  with the University of Calgary (the pilot of this study was published in the mainstream medical journal – Psycho-Oncology). I will also be a hosting a Private Luncheon to have smaller and more detailed conversations.

Location: Airport Hilton: Los Angeles, CA
Date: Thursday March 6 – Sunday March 9, 2008
Web Address: www.sytar.org

 

Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips and Applying Therapeutic Principles to Advanced Yoga Asanas: A Two-Day Training
There are days you look into the room of students and you wonder, how do I teach all these different bodies? What do I do with the person whose shoulders are really tight, or a back that has a tendency to act up. How do I give those people ease, and yet, give others a challenge without over-extending them? This 2 day training will engage these questions and give you tools that will help.

On day 1, we'll explore the Shoulders and Hips and specific yoga asanas that help bring balance and function to these areas of the body. Then, on day 2, we'll take it the next step into Advanced Asanas like Downward Dog, Triangle and Camel.  We'll apply the therapeutic principles so that you truly feel settled in your asana, so that you can feel what is going on in your body. As a result, you will learn many modifications to help students get a good sense of how their body moves in different asanas. It will also give you some suggestions and ideas on how to progress a student from a therapeutic practice into a regular yoga practice.

This is a practice session that will weave in anatomy so that you can blend intellectual knowledge with what you are feeling. In the end, you will leave feeling lighter, stronger, more stable and quite at ease.

What people are saying:
"Here is a story after taking the training with you. My client is very overweight and in a high stress job so he is very, very tight although he has incredible body awareness.  He came in with pretty severe pain in his right pectoral area. I could see how much he was holding in his thoracic spine but he also has a history of a lot of SI and knee pain with pelvic instability.  I took him through a very simple movement series utilizing much of what we did throughout the last couple of days.  I started with opening his thoracic area in a supine position and gradually brought him upright while integrating his lower extremity.  He left with no pain and saying he felt lighter and taller. It was such great fun!!  Felt like I was getting back to my roots.  So thank you Very much!!!"
Judy A.

Location: Rhodes College, Downtown Vancouver
Price: Early Bird $225 prior to February 18; Regular price $299 February 19 onward
Date: Saturday March 15-16, 2008
To register or for more information contact Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com

Phone: 403-229-2617 or toll free 866-229-2645
Online Registration: You can also visit our e-store at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/260534/0/0

Anatomy and Asana: A Curriculum for Finding Ease in Classic Yoga Asanas: A Two-Day Training
This workshop was created for yoga teachers who want to apply concepts of Anatomy and Asana in a regular group class setting. Based on the soon-to-be-published book co-wrote by Yoga Instructor Leo Mowry and myself, you will learn full class sequences that open and stabilize the shoulders, the hips, and spine so that you can smoothly and easily move into classic yoga asanas like: Downward Facing Dog, Triangle, Camel. We'll explore the anatomy throughout to blend your intellectual knowledge with what you are feeling.

Ultimately, with these explorations, you'll be able to help your students experience the finesse of the asana, making it work for their body and not for the person next to them. You'll be able to help them to stay connected to the asana and not get lost in it.It will enable you and them to answer the question "how do I make the practice challenging enough to support and strengthen without over-extending?" The result – your students will not only feel lighter and pain free, they'll learn how to measure ease within their body.  

What people are saying:
"Move in your pain free range of motion' has become my catch phrase. Those little boxes you drew on the white board that day are my favourite visual. My husband and the 2 desk-jockey co-workers I have managed to get this through to have found pain relief and increased movement in their stiff backs/hips/shoulders.

None of these people do yoga.
Should I say, did yoga. :)
Lisa D

Location: Embassy Suites Downtown: Austin, TX
Price: Early Bird $225 prior to February 28; Regular price $299 February 29 onward
Date: Saturday April 5-Sunday April 6, 2008
To register or for more information contact Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com

Phone: 403-229-2617 or toll free 866-229-2645
Online Registration: You can also visit our e-store at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/260536/0/0

A Series of Topics at the Toronto Yoga Conference with Susi Hately Aldous
The Yoga Conference in Toronto is a great conference to meet and learn from many great yoga teachers in a period of 4 days. If you want to grab classes with Seane Corn, Rodney Yee, Rama Birch, Richard Rosen, Lilias Folan, Todd Norian and Ann Green, Swami Lalitananda and so many more, you've got a great basket of options. I will be contributing 5 sessions – a 6 hour Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips; along with shorter sessions including The Spine, The Knees, Deepening Core Stability, and Applying Therapeutic Yoga to Advanced Yoga Asanas (I'll be teaching this with Leo Mowry).

Location: Toronto, ON
Date: Thursday April 24-Sunday April 27
To register or for more information visit the Yoga Conference's website.
Online Registration: www.theyogaconference.com

 

Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips and Applying Therapeutic Principles to Advanced Yoga Asanas: A Two-Day Training
There are days you look into the room of students and you wonder, how do I teach all these different bodies? What do I do with the person whose shoulders are really tight, or a back that has a tendency to act up. How do I give those people ease, and yet, give others a challenge without over-extending them? This 2-day training will engage these questions and give you tools that will help.

On day 1, we'll explore the Shoulders and Hips and specific yoga asanas that help bring balance and function to these areas of the body. Then, on day 2, we'll take it the next step into Advanced Asanas like Downward Dog, Triangle and Camel.  We'll apply the therapeutic principles so that you truly feel settled in your asana, so that you can feel what is going on in your body. As a result, you will learn many modifications to help students get a good sense of how their body moves in different asanas. It will also give you some suggestions and ideas on how to progress a student from a therapeutic practice into a regular yoga practice.

This is a practice session that will weave in anatomy so that you can blend intellectual knowledge with what you are feeling. In the end, you will leave feeling lighter, stronger, more stable and quite at ease.

Location: Yoga Nine, Smithville New Jersey
Date: Saturday and Sunday May 17 and 18, 2008
To register or for more information contact Laurie at Yoga Nine
Phone: 609.404.0999
Email: info@yoganine.com

Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips

with Susi Hately Aldous
Ever since I began teaching yoga, the two most common physical limitations I have seen are in the shoulders and hips. Even for people with back, neck, or knee pain - if they are able to improve the functioning of their shoulders and hips, their back or neck pain becomes much more manageable or even resolved.

In this workshop you will learn the biomechanics of the shoulders and hips, and how they impact each other; how they influence energy flow through the spine, and affect transfer of force and load from the upper body to the lower body and lower body to upper body. You'll learn therapeutic yoga asanas that improve the functioning of the shoulders and hips and improve the balance in and between your neck, mid back, lower back. The result is less pain, less strain, and more freedom, stability and ease.

This workshop will be based off of my new book and online video: Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips.

 

Location: Y.A.A Annual General Meeting, Red Deer, AB

Date: Saturday, May 24^th, 2008
To register or for more information, contact Debbie at Yoga Association of Alberta
Email: yogaab@telusplanet.net

 

 

Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips with Susi Hately Aldous
Ever since I began teaching yoga, the two most common physical limitations I have seen are in the shoulders and hips. Even for people with back, neck, or knee pain - if they are able to improve the functioning of their shoulders and hips, their back or neck pain becomes much more manageable or even resolved.

In this workshop you will learn the biomechanics of the shoulders and hips, and how they impact each other; how they influence energy flow through the spine, and affect transfer of force and load from the upper body to the lower body and lower body to upper body. You'll learn therapeutic yoga asanas that improve the functioning of the shoulders and hips and improve the balance in and between your neck, mid back, lower back. The result is less pain, less strain, and more freedom, stability and ease.

This workshop will be based off of my new book and online video: Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips.  

Location: TBA – New York City
Cost: Early Bird $159 prior to May 20; Regular price $199 May 21 onward
Date: Late August/September
To register or for more information contact Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com

Phone: 403-229-2617 or toll free 866-229-2645

Deepening Core Stability with Susi Hately Aldous
Quite regularly, I receive emails from people telling me "I do core exercises, and my core is strong, but my back is still bugging me". A few months ago, I wrote about the Ultimate Core Exercise as a response to the misinformation that is being distributed by yoga magazines, which can lead to injuries, tension and pain. In this 1 day training, I'll share the key features of good core exercises and how you can use them to engage and inspire yourself and your students to better stability, breath and ease in your yoga practice and in the rest of your life. At the end of the day, you will feel lighter, taller and stronger.

Location: Toronto
Cost: Early Bird $139 prior to June 29; Regular price $159 June 30 onward
Date: September 14
To register or for more information contact Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com

Phone: 403-229-2617 or toll free 866-229-2645

3 and 4 DAY TRAININGS IN 2008
For more information and details on these 4 Day trainings, please contact the hosts.

Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Dates: April 8-13, 2008
This 4 day has more of a "yoga therapy theme" and will give you the essential pre-requisites needed for 4 Days of Therapeutic Yoga. For more information on the sessions included in this training, contact Monica.
Phone: 970-255-8029
Email: info@academyofyoga.com

Location: Lakewood's Resort, Wisconsin
Dates: April 30-May 6, 2008
This 4 day has more of a "regular class" theme. It will also give you the essential pre-requisites needed for 4 Days of Therapeutic Yoga. For more information on the sessions included in this training, contact Lori.
Phone: 715-794-2561 ext. 633
Email: yoga@lakewoodsresort.com

Location: Yoga North, Duluth Minnesota
Dates: July 17-20, 2008
This 4 day training begins at Day 1 with private sessions. Book one for yourself, or bring a student and you can sit in on the session. Day 2 consists of Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips, followed by Days 3 and 4 when you will learn the Anatomy and Asana Curriculum of Applying Therapeutic Principles to Classic Yoga Asanas. Develop strength, create ease, feel freedom! Contact Ann Maxwell for more information.
Phone: 715-794-2561 ext. 633
Email: info@yoganorthduluth.com

4 DAYS OF THERAPEUTIC YOGA
At this training you will become eligible to enter a certification program which will enable you to become a certified Functional Synergy therapeutic yoga teacher.  

This training is designed for yoga teachers who want to understand and teach therapeutic yoga using techniques that are time tested over the past 10 years, have been utilized in mainstream research programs, and are being used effectively by yoga teachers across the globe. I will be giving preference to teachers who have had at least 12 hours of training with me and who want to teach therapeutic yoga classes. I am limiting the numbers to 14 participants to enable you to go DEEP, to truly learn and fundamentally understand the important pieces that create successful therapeutic yoga programs, and to have the unique opportunity to address your specific therapeutic needs.

In this training, you will explore the therapeutic approach I have been using successfully for the past 10 years. This approach combines a modern understanding of anatomy, kinesiology and physiology with the ancient wisdom of yoga to restore function, increase vitality and enhance wellbeing.

Here is a portion of what you will learn:

1. Understand the typical body patterns, which cause injury and inhibit recovery.
2. Questions to ask in order to gather information about a student's condition and situation.
3. How to "read" the person who has the condition or injury, and how to program for the person first, then the condition/injury.
4. Understand and apply the principles of Better Body Balance as they relate to: improving the functioning of the neck, shoulder, elbows, wrists, back, hips, knees; extreme fatigue; post cancer-treatment recovery.
5. Based on the principles of Better Body Balance, learn how to create a program for recovery and rehabilitation.
6. How to work with emotional holding patterns.
7. Understand psychological interactions between student and teacher and set a framework for boundaries.  
8. How to successfully create therapeutic yoga programs for people with pain and injury.

Location: Toronto, ON
Dates: Monday – Thursday September 15-18, 2008
Price:$1365.00 Maximum 14 people, installment payments are available.
To register or for more information contact Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com

Phone: 403-229-2617 or toll free 866-229-2645
Online Registration: You can also visit our e-store at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/262648/0/0

TELECLASSES

Anatomy and Asana Teleclass: Yoga for Cancer Survivors
with Susi Hately Aldous
Over the past 7 years I have been working with the University of Calgary and the Tom Baker Cancer Center studying the impact of yoga on people who have survived cancer. The results are significant and bode well for future research. I've recently trained 5 instructors to lead classes in Calgary as well as filmed a DVD series that will be studied through 2008.

In this class I will share the research to date and what this means for the people that you teach who have been through a cancer experience.
This class will be recorded so if you are unable to make the session, you will receive the MP3 file. All you need to do is register for the class and we'll send you details for downloading.

Here are the Details:
Date: Tuesday February 19, 2008
Price: $29
Call Time 6:00 pm Calgary, AB Canada time (MST)
To register, call Cara toll free at 866-229-2645 or REGISTER ONLINE at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/260121/0/0


Anatomy and Asana Teleclass: Is "Core Training" Leading to Injuries?
with Susi Hately Aldous
Quite regularly, I receive emails from people telling me "I do core exercises, and my core is strong, but my back is still bugging me". A few months ago, I wrote about the Ultimate Core Exercise as a response to the misinformation that is being distributed by yoga magazines, which can lead to injuries, tension and pain. In this teleclass, I'll share the key features of good core exercises and ways you can determine if your students are actually engaging their core or compensating elsewhere. At the end of the hour, you'll be able at choose appropriate and highly functional yoga exercises that will build balance, function, stability and ease.
This class will be recorded so if you are unable to make the session, you will receive the MP3 file. All you need to do is register for the class and we'll send you details for downloading.

Here are the Details:
Date: Thursday February 21, 2008
Price: $29
11:00 am Calgary, AB Canada time (MST)
To register, call Cara toll free at 866-229-2645

REGISTER ONLINE at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/260538/0/0

 

Anatomy and Asana Teleclass: The Sacro-Iliac Joints
with Susi Hately Aldous

Are you a teacher with students who have Sacro-Iliac Issues? Do you yourself have a sacro-iliac issues? This class explores the anatomy and mechanics of the sacro-iliac joints and what you can explore to help regain balance – for yourself or your students. We'll discuss the nature of twists, back bends, forward bends, upper thigh rotation and the concepts of nutation and counternutation. This will be an interactive discussion on the nature of the sacro-iliac joints.
This class will be recorded so if you are unable to make the session, you will receive the MP3 file. All you need to do is register for the class and we'll send you details for downloading.

Here are the Details:
Date: Thursday March 13, 2008
Price: $29
11:00 am Calgary, AB Canada time (MST)
To register, call Cara toll free at 866-229-2645

REGISTER ONLINE at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/264417/0/0

 

Anatomy and Asana Teleclass: Finding Ease in your Seated Meditation
with Susi Hately Aldous
This teleclass explores the nature of sitting – particularly in reference to seated meditation. Do you wonder if the discomfort in your seated position is perhaps creating physical trauma? This call will explore ideas on how to experience less pain or strain in the ankles, knees, pelvis, low back, upper back and neck. The aim will be to help you find more ease so that you can focus entirely on the act of concentration, contemplation and stillness.
This class will be recorded so if you are unable to make the session, you will receive the MP3 file. All you need to do is register for the class and we'll send you details for downloading.

Here are the Details:
Date: Thursday March 27, 2008
Price: $29
11:00 am Calgary, AB Canada time (MST)
To register, call Cara toll free at 866-229-2645

REGISTER ONLINE at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/product/48/5467/264418/0/0

"ASK SUSI"

"Ask Susi" has just finished its first month. This past month we chatted about ultimate hamstring releases; how to use the black spinal strap; the best ways for moving into Uttanasana; working with sore outer ankles; how to release the thoracic spine; and how to assess if a student is ready for shoulder stand. I've got a second call booked this month, so if you have a question, please join me in "Ask Susi".  

What people are saying:
I just wanted to say thanks for the call this week. I sent in general questions that I had just been wondering about but came away from the call with some amazing tools that I can tell are going to make a difference for my husband and my students.

Thanks for offering this service and sharing your knowledge.

A little update on my husband's knee. We did the block and strap tests and he could not get any movement at all without employing the hip flexors! WOW! He is going to work on this. It was very eye opening. This all started bothering him when he added the prostrations before his meditation sitting (Zen). So he is going to lay off those for a couple weeks and focus on this exercise and see what happens with his knee.

Thanks again- I look forward to the next call.
Karen

How it works: Send me your questions. Twice a month, I will host a teleclass to explore the questions asked. All calls are recorded so if you miss the call, you can tune in online. Calls are 1 hour in length. You will also have unlimited access to the exclusive Ask Susi website for the length of your subscription.
Location: Your phone
Price:$9.99 per month or $99 for the year (and you'll receive 2 months for free)
To register you can email Cara at iloveanatomy@anatomyandasana.com or call 403.229.2617 or Toll Free at 866-229-2645)

Register online at http://www.functionalsynergy.com/qs/category/48/5467/0/0

 

All the best,
Susi