Yoga for Posture Improvement:
The Kinesiology of Posture and Healthy Aging
With Dr. Gill Solberg
What's Holding You and Your Yoga Students Back in Your Practice?
Groundbreaking Online Course for Yoga Teachers, Fitness Trainers, Physical Therapists, and Experienced Yoga Practitioners
Looking for a way to better serve your yoga students and/or improve your posture and slow the aging process?
Join us for a groundbreaking Yoga for Posture Improvement course - the Kinesiology of Posture and the Biomechanics of Healthy Aging with renowned Israeli kinesiologist and expert yoga therapist Gill Solberg.
No matter what your age, posture is a much-overlooked key to health and well-being. Postural imbalances lead to extra wear and tear on muscles and the skeletal system, which in turn are likely to result in joint dysfunction and chronic pain over time.
Posture disorders may also impair the normal functioning of the internal body systems. A slumped or imbalanced posture can put pressure on the chest cavity, impairing the respiratory system and digestive systems. Chronic tension patterns from posture imbalances can affect the smooth flow of the circulatory and nervous systems as well.
Yoga is one of the most effective ways to improve posture, and the earlier you start, the better! This innovative workshop will combine modern science and classical yoga to form a cohesive approach to common postural disorders.
ABOUT DR. GILL SOLBERG
Dr. Gill Solberg is co-founder of the ‘Muscle and Motion’ Posture, Yoga, and Kyphosis correction apps.
Dr. Gill Solberg, a teacher of movement and of yoga, graduated from the Zinman College at the Wingate Institute in Israel, with a specialization in postural disorders. For 12 years Dr. Solberg has been a diagnostician and head therapist at the largest therapeutic sports center in Israel and was also in charge of hydrotherapy and adapted movement for children with postural disorders.
During his advanced studies, he specialized in clinical kinesiology and in adapted physical activity for populations with special needs, which was also the subject of his doctoral thesis.
Dr. Solberg has been a teacher of movement since 1985 and since then has been a lecturer in various academic institutions of movement and sport sciences. His main areas of teaching include Anatomy and Kinesiology of the Movement System, Diagnosing and Treating Postural Disorders, Motor Learning and Control, and Diagnosing Psychomotor Disorders in Populations with Special Needs. He moderates courses and workshops for movement and rehabilitation therapists in Israel and the United States, publishes articles in his areas of specialization, and presents his work at many professional conventions around the world.
Dr. Solberg also conducts a private clinic that offers physical therapy and adapted activity for patients with postural disorders and musculoskeletal dysfunction. He lectures about rehabilitative movement to therapists in in-service courses.
Dr. Solberg has published articles in his areas of specialization and presents his work at many professional congresses around the world.
WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?
This workshop is intended for yoga teachers, therapists, and professionals in fields dealing with human movement. The kinesiological principles covered will enable professionals to find answers to many of the questions that arise in their work. For yoga teachers, the course qualifies for 6 continuing ed hours with Yoga Alliance.
What You Will Learn
Three Modules, Six Hours of Recorded Lectures and Practices
The basis for a balanced yoga session lies in the teacher’s ability to internalize the idea that people come in different sizes. Therefore, a responsible teacher relates to differences in learners and their needs, predicated on the movement patterns unique to each learner.
Since each postural problem depends on a plethora of causal factors, the presentation will set down some of the basic information needed by yoga therapists.
Module 1 and 2: Postural disorders of the spine: sagittal plane.
1. Adapted yoga therapy program for people with kyphosis:
Indications and contraindications in treatment procedures (theoretical background). This lecture focuses on a comprehensive integrative approach to treating hyperkyphosis. Its purpose is to expand and enrich the use of yoga asanas both therapeutically and in regular activity for improving postural patterns in daily functioning.
2. Adapted yoga therapy program for people with hyperkyphosis: (Part 2). Practical issues.
- The principle of moving from isolation to integration
- Kinesiological aspects of the vertebral column function during rotation: principles and applications in a progressive yoga training program.
- Why spinal rotation postures are receiving a significant amount of attention both in regular yoga sessions, and in the treatment-rehabilitation aspect.
Due to the kinematic chain mechanisms an interesting functional reciprocity is created between the vertebral column itself and other anatomical structures that are connected to it (The pelvis, and the rib cage). In this lecture, the complexity of various kinesiological aspects will be explained with regard to the treatment of hyperkyphosis.
3. Flat Back versus Hyperlordosis - indications and contraindications in yoga practice.
Module 3: Establishing Motor Control of Core Muscles: Principles and Applications in a Progressive Yoga Therapy Program
The core muscles are receiving a significant amount of attention in the treatment-rehabilitation aspect as well as in training programs. The effective function of the core muscles is known to lead to a reduction of loads from the lower back, to improve back stability, and to allow an efficient and safe transfer of loads between the upper and the lower bodies. These muscles have an essential role in keeping the static and dynamic stability of the skeletal system.
This section will emphasize the importance of motor control and the ability to revise it in the core system in regard to the body as a whole. A methodical division of training stages is meant to ensure that any yoga trainee, even at the most basic level, will be able to gain control and skill of the core muscles.
The main goal is to present a progressive continual training program that, when performed continuously and consistently, will lead to the establishment of control of the core muscles.tt
Practice - Core stabilization principles in yoga practice and therapeutic exercises for common postural problems.
Yoga for Posture Improvement - The Kinesiology of Posture and Healthy Aging
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- Learn how the principles of kinesiology apply to common misalignment patterns in yoga practice.
- Learn about common postural disorders in the sagittal plane and how to address them in your yoga practice or teaching.
- Learn the principles of core stabilization, as well as innovative, yoga exercises to enhance core strength and core stability.
6+ hours of recorded videos with lectures, slides, and yoga exercises for common postural disorders.
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