The Shoulders in Depth

In this webinar, the first session will go deeply into these aspects of shoulder movement — exploring how simple exercises and movements closely related to the yoga poses can restore shoulder girdle function by clearing ’stuckness’ or blocks in the joints, which is the starting point for dealing with shoulder stiffness and pain. From that point, we can better work with rotator cuff problems and, in general, practice the shoulder actions of yoga poses more safely. This exploration will include deeper understanding of the anatomy, neurology and kinesiology of the joints, movements to practice, points of awareness to attend to, and also stretches and strengthening exercises. - This is all put into practice in the second session, which will be a guided asana practice that explores all of the actions of the shoulders in a general, well-rounded practice — and will include insights into some of the more challenging shoulder actions, such as ‘wraps.’ This will be an all-levels practice, with some options for more challenging actions. But since the practice is through ‘Zoom,’ for safety’s sake, we won’t be doing poses such as headstand, handstand, or arm balances, since these carry a greater risk of injury from falling!

You can benefit from the practice without taking the ’theory,’ or may wish to explore the theory while you cannot do the practice because of a current injury or limitation; you are free to choose to do either one or both of the sessions.

Both sessions will be simultaneously recorded with high quality video and audio, and an edited final version of the video will be available to you after the broadcast, which you can view again or even download, via Vimeo.