Description:

In this online workshop, you will learn how to safely and effectively perform backbend yoga poses. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced yogi, this workshop is designed to deepen your practice and improve your flexibility, strength, and overall well-being. Through a combination of guided video tutorials, demonstrations, and personalized feedback, you'll develop a strong foundation in backbend poses and gain a deeper understanding of the benefits of this therapeutic practice.

Key Highlights:

• Learn proper alignment and technique for various backbend poses
• Improve flexibility and open up your heart and chest
• Strengthen your back muscles and improve posture
• Increase energy levels and release tension in the body
• Receive personalized feedback and guidance from experienced instructors

What you will learn:

• Learning Outcome 1
  Master the foundational techniques and alignment principles of backbend poses
• Learning Outcome 2
  Increase flexibility in your spine, shoulders, and hips to safely deepen your backbends
• Learning Outcome 3
  Build strength in your core and back muscles to support and stabilize your backbend poses
• Learning Outcome 4
  Develop awareness of your breath and learn how to use it to enhance your backbend practice
• Learning Outcome 5
  Receive personalized guidance and adjustments from our experienced yoga instructors

▶️workshop focusing on backbends, "heart-openers".

Topics include: benefits of backbending, how body type affects us, how to warm up for backbends, 10 common poses w/ beginner to advanced variations, how to use props like the yoga block and our Dharma Straps to facilitate and deepen your practice.

Backbends, "Heart-Openers" — you either love them or hate them. Flexi people love them, but need more core.
Stiff people hate them, but actually could really use them. In this workshop we will look at how different body types approach backbends differently, why we backbend and how to do this safely, confidently and with control. We will look at backbend poses in depth, with beginner to advanced variations shown for each, warm up sequences to get the most out of your bend, and how to use various props to expand more and go deeper in your practice.

Backbend workshop poses :
👉Bhujangasana & variations, 👉Purna bhujangasana
👉Naukasana & variations
👉Dhanurasana, Purna Dhanurasana & variations
👉Salabhasana, Purna Salabhasana & variations
👉Chakrasana & variations, Purna Chakrasana
👉Rajakapotasana & variations
👉Hanumanasana & variations
👉Utstrasana & variations, Kapotasana
👉Natarajasana, Purna natarajasana
👉Setubandhasana
👉Scorpion pose Practice
👉vyaghrasana
👉kapinjalasana
👉dwi pada viparita dandasana
👉chakra bandhasana
👉chamatkarasana
👉Ganda bherudasana
👉chamatkarasana

▶️What to bring:
An empty stomach! (Please try not to eat too soon to class. Have at least a 2hr break in between your last meal and class time. Or have something very light.)

Wear comfortable/regular yoga clothes.
Pen & Paper yoga mat
2 yoga blocks
yoga belt/strap/dupatta