Introducing The first Volume in a series of Instructional workbooks to help develop an enhanced home practice-
Awake and Calm: Walking the Sundog Pathways to Spatial Integration
-By Nicole Williams BA, CYT
The book is out of print and is currently unavailable for purchase. A revised version will be out soon.
Pathways not Poses! Sundogs have many pathways to choose from including Awake, Calm and Bone Therapy
Awake
This awakening pathway is designed to enhance and explore the upper respiratory system and move through the vine of the spine. These are classic shapes that explore respiration and its potent ability to regulate muscular tension. An elevated reclining series blends inversions, sandbags and rotations to bring inner balance. Feel the awareness flow into the bones, nourishing and energizing the body.
This awakening pathway is designed to enhance and explore the upper respiratory system and move through the vine of the spine. These are classic shapes that explore respiration and its potent ability to regulate muscular tension. An elevated reclining series blends inversions, sandbags and rotations to bring inner balance. Feel the awareness flow into the bones, nourishing and energizing the body.
Calm
The calm pathway uses mild inversions to take you inward. Circulation is sent back into shapes that promote wellness and inner contentment. This sequence will soothe the nervous system by reversing the flow of gravity, calm the circulatory system with inversions and regulate the breathing with gentle seated twists.
The calm pathway uses mild inversions to take you inward. Circulation is sent back into shapes that promote wellness and inner contentment. This sequence will soothe the nervous system by reversing the flow of gravity, calm the circulatory system with inversions and regulate the breathing with gentle seated twists.
Yoga Classes for Healthy Bones
Why do Therapeutic Yoga for Healthy Bones ?
In Yoga the joints are moved to an ever expanding range, circulating their fluid and stimulating renewal of cartilage, tendons & ligaments. Simultaneously the bones are isometrically subjected to forces many times those of gravity, exactly the same forces involved in impact exercise. But in yoga, the forces are applied without any impact-yoga provides an excellent solution to the twin perils of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
As you age beyond 50, some experts look at the facts of impact exercise to stave off bone loss. Another group of experts, caution that impact exercise can lead to osteoarthritis. If you exercise with impact, the bones will become strong, but the joints at either end will become painful and difficult to move. If you stay away from impact, you will save your joints, but the bones may deteriorate. Numerous studies have shown that pressure on the bones is a potent force responsible for bone shape and strength.These
1. Bone is living tissue and responds to stress placed on it.
2. Exercises that balance contraction & expansion movements in and out of joints, aid in safely restoring full range of motion.
3. Engaging is specific exercises that add muscular strength stimulate organic bone health.
4. Restored balance for your skeletal well-being is a Natural Result.
Yoga Sandbags are used on bones to add traction and add deep pressure touch stimulation. DPTS reduces stress hormones (cortisol) which may lead to leeching calcium from bones. The weight provides input to the deep pressure touch receptors and helps bones to settle into shape to promote space between vertebrae and mental grounding to focus on breathing. Focused Breathing revitalizes lungs & increases production of serotonin, natures hormone solution for inducing a peaceful state of mental & physical balance.
Bone Therapy Yoga is a well researched intelligent method of increasing circulation which strengthens your lymph and immune systems. Our Bone Therapy & Restorative Yoga Classes can be an important & effective tool for improving your health in maturing years.
Why do Therapeutic Yoga for Healthy Bones ?
In Yoga the joints are moved to an ever expanding range, circulating their fluid and stimulating renewal of cartilage, tendons & ligaments. Simultaneously the bones are isometrically subjected to forces many times those of gravity, exactly the same forces involved in impact exercise. But in yoga, the forces are applied without any impact-yoga provides an excellent solution to the twin perils of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
As you age beyond 50, some experts look at the facts of impact exercise to stave off bone loss. Another group of experts, caution that impact exercise can lead to osteoarthritis. If you exercise with impact, the bones will become strong, but the joints at either end will become painful and difficult to move. If you stay away from impact, you will save your joints, but the bones may deteriorate. Numerous studies have shown that pressure on the bones is a potent force responsible for bone shape and strength.These
1. Bone is living tissue and responds to stress placed on it.
2. Exercises that balance contraction & expansion movements in and out of joints, aid in safely restoring full range of motion.
3. Engaging is specific exercises that add muscular strength stimulate organic bone health.
4. Restored balance for your skeletal well-being is a Natural Result.
Yoga Sandbags are used on bones to add traction and add deep pressure touch stimulation. DPTS reduces stress hormones (cortisol) which may lead to leeching calcium from bones. The weight provides input to the deep pressure touch receptors and helps bones to settle into shape to promote space between vertebrae and mental grounding to focus on breathing. Focused Breathing revitalizes lungs & increases production of serotonin, natures hormone solution for inducing a peaceful state of mental & physical balance.
Bone Therapy Yoga is a well researched intelligent method of increasing circulation which strengthens your lymph and immune systems. Our Bone Therapy & Restorative Yoga Classes can be an important & effective tool for improving your health in maturing years.
Restorative yoga is a powerful sequence of supported therapeutic postures to turn on the body's natural healing capacity. This is an experience of holding shapes while being supported with bolsters and sandbags to add traction, grounding and increased range of motion. Props support the body to open and lengthen gradually. All restorative postures are based on scientific studies to influence circulation surrounding muscles and reduce stress in organs along with breath formulas to induce calm. The focus of this class is to guide the body to become receptive to experiencing supported postures to release tension using simple breath sequences to influence internal ease, strengthen your respiratory and immune system and calm your mind. Restorative yoga is often referred to as "active relaxation" as you alternately stimulate and relax the body to move towards balance. Some poses have an overall benefit, some poses target an individual part.
I prepare postural formulas to stimulate circulation, explore structural pathways within the categories of supported backbends/chest openers, twists, side and forward bends, inversions and relaxation. I use a variety of props: bolsters, chairs, sandbags, blocks, blankets & straps to stabilize and support. This process invokes a natural state of balance, replenishment and healing rest.
Benefits:
* Strengthens your immune system by increasing deep venous circulation of abdomen, pelvis and organs. Increase lymphatic circulation.
*Improves posture by relieving pressure in spinal nerves
*twists keep spine, hip & shoulder joins in good working order. Nourishing to organs, core strengthening and releases low back tension.
*supported backbends opens up your lungs & upper respiratory function. Stimulating.
*practicing supported inversions which reverse effect of gravity on circulatory system, brain and abdominal organs. Inversions flush lymph nodes, reduces stagnation in legs. Reverses gravitational pull on organs, stimulate function of organs and quiets mind. Inversions are the greatest poses for balancing hormones which are also connected to maintaining bone density. Inner balance is established with a regular inversion practice.
Contact Nicole Williams 541-848-9156 or nicole@sundogyoga.me
I prepare postural formulas to stimulate circulation, explore structural pathways within the categories of supported backbends/chest openers, twists, side and forward bends, inversions and relaxation. I use a variety of props: bolsters, chairs, sandbags, blocks, blankets & straps to stabilize and support. This process invokes a natural state of balance, replenishment and healing rest.
Benefits:
* Strengthens your immune system by increasing deep venous circulation of abdomen, pelvis and organs. Increase lymphatic circulation.
*Improves posture by relieving pressure in spinal nerves
*twists keep spine, hip & shoulder joins in good working order. Nourishing to organs, core strengthening and releases low back tension.
*supported backbends opens up your lungs & upper respiratory function. Stimulating.
*practicing supported inversions which reverse effect of gravity on circulatory system, brain and abdominal organs. Inversions flush lymph nodes, reduces stagnation in legs. Reverses gravitational pull on organs, stimulate function of organs and quiets mind. Inversions are the greatest poses for balancing hormones which are also connected to maintaining bone density. Inner balance is established with a regular inversion practice.
Contact Nicole Williams 541-848-9156 or nicole@sundogyoga.me