Yoga Remedies–from the Waist Down

Saturday, January 24, 2015 1:00-3:00 PM

Is ankle, knee, hip or low back pain keeping you from enjoying your Yoga practice? Do you suffer from sciatica, sacroiliac pain, a torn meniscus or IT band issues? Learn how to modify your yoga postures and incorporate the use of blocks, belts, blankets and more so you can avoid and address many of the most common ailments and injuries that affect the lower extremities.

Our legs are the foundation upon which the spine sits. Learn how misalignments in the leg bones, for example bow legged vs. knocked kneed, cause imbalances in your muscles that may lead to hip knee, foot or low back pain.  Feel the benefits all the way up your spine when the leg bones are properly aligned.

Lack of flexibility in the hamstrings, hip flexors and quadriceps can put pressure on nerves causing both localized and deferred pain.  Techniques that stretch and release these muscle groups take pressure off important nerve pathways, relieving pain and improving energy flow.

Instructor Moira O’Keefe has taught Yoga classes and workshops  since the early ‘90s. In addition to her initial Yoga certification from an ashram, Moira is one of just a handful in Illinois certified in Yoga for Scoliosis under Elise Browning Miller. Moira’s experience and continual training over the years with many of the top Yoga instructors in the field allow her the versatility to teach the full range of Yoga students. It is Moira’s intention to bring her students to as pain-free and fluid a place as possible. Her yoga teaching style has an element of challenge while maintaining a hypnotic feel. In addition to offering her students precise and personalized Yoga instruction with therapeutic benefits, Moira is a Thai Bodywork and Reiki practitioner. Read more here.

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