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Yoga Deconstructed®: Creativity Meets Science Weekend Immersion

This weekend immersion series is perfect for yoga teachers who want to bridge the best parts of yoga with current movement science and research. This weekend immersion includes four workshops taught over the course of two days. Participants may sign up for one or all of the workshops.

This weekend immersion can also be included as part of a 200 or 300 hour teacher training.

Recommend pricing for this workshop is as follows:

Single workshop: $65 to $75 for early bird registration, $75 to $90 for late registration depending on location and number of attendees

All 4 workshops: $225 to $260 for early bird registration, $255 to $320 for late registration depending on location and number of attendees.

Please inquire about flat rate pricing and/or a percentage split. Pricing may vary for international workshops.

Suggested number of minimum attendees: 15

Movement Science Meets Asana - A New Paradigm

3 hour workshop

Are you finding that your students often struggle to do even the most basic poses in your classes? Or, if they’re able to do all the poses, do they complain of wrist, back or hip pain?

Unfortunately, most people are desk bound and their only movement for the day is during yoga class, so their bodies aren’t well adapted for the large ranges of motion required. Conversely, many of our students who are able to practice all the poses are still in pain, because they aren’t balancing out their extreme ranges of motion with stability and strength.

If you’re struggling with helping your students become more embodied and want strategies to create a safer class environment, this workshop is for you.

This Yoga Deconstructed® workshop will teach you:
  • How to apply modern movement science to your yoga teaching.
  • How to bring functional movement into your classes, while still feeling like you are teaching yoga.
  • An exercise science based approach to sequencing to prepare the body for movement and minimize the risk of pain and injury.
  • Understanding the components of a pose, such as directions of movement at each joint, loading principles, and biomechanics.
  • An introduction to taking an interdisciplinary approach to teaching yoga and how to add techniques from other modalities to your teaching toolbox.

A New Beginning : An Updated Approach to Prepare Your Students for Asana

3 hour workshop

In yoga classes, we’re trying to create an environment that nurtures your mind as well as your structure. However, many of our students don’t feel safe in classes, because they’re afraid of doing the poses “incorrectly” or receiving an unwanted hands-on adjustment.

Additionally, in most yoga classes, a typical warm up doesn’t facilitate joint differentiation. For example, in cat/cow most students will flex and extend their spine in the places that already have the most mobility, rather than finding movement in places that are underused.

Beginning your classes with somatic exercises and sensory feedback methods before a preparatory exercise such as cat/cow, helps your students become aware of movement blind spots that may contribute to pain in more advanced poses later in class.

This Yoga Deconstructed® workshop will teach you:
  • How to choose somatic exercises to encourage active ranges of motion, promote dynamic full body movement, and help prepare the body for larger static poses.
  • The application of myofascial release techniques to help your students embody the anatomical concepts taught in traditional yoga, so they can better understand the purpose of the pose.
  • How to apply the pain science paradigm to empower your students to trust that their bodies are robust and resilient.
  • Strategies to introduce variability and neuromuscular re-education into class that help facilitate tissue resiliency, neuroplasticity, and new motor patterns.

Preparatory Exercise: Introducing Creativity & Critical Thinking Into Your Classes

3 hour workshop

Modern postural yoga uses poses that in theory prepare the body for a peak pose at the end of class. However, exercise science has shown that there is a more effective way. By incorporating preparatory exercises into our classes, we can better prepare the body for more challenging asanas, while bridging the gap between our sedentary lifestyle and yoga asana. This also helps to reduce the risk of injury.

Also, asana is a highly specialized form of movement that often emphasizes aesthetics over function. Through preparatory exercise, we can balance out our practice, by including movements that don’t exist in yoga poses, thus reducing our risk of pain and overuse injuries.

If you’ve been trying to incorporate preparatory exercises in your teaching, but have been struggling with selecting the right exercises and sequencing them within a class, then this workshop is for you.

Oftentimes, alignment cues are thought to be synonymous with safety. However, not all alignment cues correlate with biomechanics or function. This is why critical thinking skills can make you a more effective teacher.

In this Yoga Deconstructed® workshop, you will learn to apply critical thinking when teaching, creating and selecting preparatory exercises.

This will help you understand:
  • How to choose the right preparatory exercises for your students’ needs and based on what you see in the room.
  • How to use preparatory exercises to prepare your students’ tissues and joints for specific asanas.
  • The application of preparatory exercise to improving function in everyday life and athletic performance.

Putting It All Together: A Revolutionary & Non Dogmatic Approach to Asana

3 hour workshop

Have you been trying to keep up with the latest research, but you aren’t sure how to apply it to your classes?

Are you looking for a way to differentiate yourself and specialize in movement, so you can establish credibility, be the go-to expert in your community, fill your classes, and get more private clients?

Do you just want to know how to keep your students safe?

If so, you’re in the right place.

Unlock your creative potential and movement smarts by learning how to combine applied anatomy with the transformative aspects of yoga.

This updated, evidence based formula will keep you current in your teaching, prepare you to foster a safe environment for multi-level classes, help you attract more private clients, and build your following.

This workshop will synthesize everything you’ve learned in the previous workshops, so you can:
  • Structure classes and layer exercises in a fun and challenging way, while keeping the heart of yoga.
  • Teach from a skills based approach, instead of lineage based approach.
  • Feel confident teaching complex poses and exercises in multi-level classes.
  • Incorporate exercises and theories from multiple modalities into your teaching.
  • Help your students build strength and stability to balance out their yoga practice.

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If you missed our Instagram live today, and you wa If you missed our Instagram live today, and you want to watch it, simply go to the reels section on @yogawithsuzanne ‘s IG. 

And big thank you to everyone who was there! 

If you have any questions about anything, we discussed, feel free to add them in the comments or DM us 💪🏼

P.S. my necklace is @charmcandy_xox
Ashley’s first session with me was on 9/27/22. S Ashley’s first session with me was on 9/27/22. She did a 45lb Lat pull down that day and now 1 year later she can now do a full chin-up!!

One of the main reasons Ashley came to me because she was having shoulder pain so this is a huge accomplishment!

Her strength training program is based on these 5 movements patterns:

1. Squat
2. Hinge (Deadlift)
3. Vertical Push
4. Vertical Pull
5. Horizontal Push
6. Horizontal Pull

IMO, these 5 strength training movement patterns are the bare minimum that every human over age 30 needs to stay healthy, strong and pain free. 

Over the last year in addition to these 5 patterns, she has learned lots of other lifts BUT I make sure that these 5 movements are progressively overloaded…which is why she went from a 45lb vertical pull to pulling her ENTIRE BODY WEIGHT one year later.

Ashley is a phenomenal Pilates teacher who also incorporates strength training with her clients and the best part of this “chin up achievement” story is that it was a complete surprise!

Here’s what happened:

She was teaching a client how to do vertical pulling on the Cadillac and need to do a demo. 

When she started the demo she told her client that she would only get half way up but instead she did her first ever chin-up!!!

Congratulations @ashleyfranceshoffman!!!!
Join @yogawithsuzanne and me on Friday at 12:30 pm Join @yogawithsuzanne and me on Friday at 12:30 pm PST for an IG Live!

We’ll discuss how we make weekly online strength training sessions in the gym work from opposites sides of the country. 

Here’s a few of the topics we’re excited to share with you: 

1. The difference between private weight lifting sessions on zoom at home vs. using FaceTime at a a commercial gym like Planet Fitness. 

2. The differences between private online weight training sessions at a gym that has squat racks, hex bars, belted squat machines AND machines. vs. at a commercial gym that only has machines.

3. Changes in how you teach and practice yoga after 12 months of virtual one-to-one strength training sessions + Pilates on the equipment. 

4. Let us know in the comments if there are any additional topics you would like for us to cover or any questions you have for us. 

We can’t wait to see you on Friday!
This 25lb single arm overhead press is 7 years in This 25lb single arm overhead press is 7 years in the making. 

Can you tell that I’m disciplined AND patient? 

#celebrateyourwins #thisis51💪 #liftheavy #menopausestrong #osteopenia #hypermobility
The professional photos from @lbsoy and @wombhealt The professional photos from @lbsoy and @wombhealthfm ‘s wedding are ready! There’s hundreds of them but here’s some highlights. My mom and dad came to LA from Tulsa to celebrate 🎉 Can you tell that Farzad and I love to dance at weddings? 💃🏼 🕺🏻
Happy Friday ya’ll! Here’s your good news for Happy Friday ya’ll! Here’s your good news for the day. When I saw this, I couldn’t stop smiling 😃

#Repost @the_female_lead with @use.repost
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Throwback to this tweet in 2017 😁 Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to enter the Boston Marathon at a time when women were forbidden to run!

In 1967 @kathrineswitzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor.

In 2015, Kathrine Switzer launched a global non-profit called 261 Fearless (@261fearless) with an ambassador program, club training system, and events. 261 Fearless uses running as a means to empower women to overcome life obstacles!

Kathrine is one of our Female leads and features in our second book: The Female Lead: We Rise By Lifting Others. The Book features 60 incredible trailblazing women from around the world!

Find out more and buy a book here: https://www.thefemalelead.com/book

All of the proceeds from our go toward the work we do as an educational foundation!
Last night I got to take a phenomenal vinyasa flow Last night I got to take a phenomenal vinyasa flow yoga class from @katheagberglar at @homtownyoga that included the inversion skills and drills from her new book Yoga Inversions! 

There were several magical moments in the class where I caught some hang time while hand standing thanks to her smart sequencing and cues. 

Kat is not only a masterful teacher but she’s also an incredible writer. 

If you want to discover the freedom and joy of going upside down, then you must get this book 📕!
I’m sharing this because there are so many myths I’m sharing this because there are so many myths and scams out there on the topic of osteoporosis. My Movement Logic colleagues Sarah & Laurel did a fantastic job breaking it all down in this episode! 

Repost @movementlogictutorials 
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In this week’s @movementlogictutorials  episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss myths around osteoporosis and osteopenia, including why yoga and Pilates are poor choices for bone building (yes, we’ll talk about THAT study, again) and ultimately how weight training and impact training are both safe options when applied with the proper dosage and programming.
 
You will learn:

✅Osteoporosis and osteopenia, defined
✅Why so many people with osteoporosis are afraid of falling
✅What the fear-mongering messaging around osteoporosis is disempowering people with osteoporosis
✅Why strength training is not only tolerable for people with osteoporosis, it’s essential
✅How no progressive overload in weight training is like staying in kindergarten forever
✅Why the myth that yoga reverses osteoporosis from the Fishman study prevails to this day, and why this is proof that we need to keep a critical eye about research
✅Why the Fishman paper does not prove what it claims to prove
✅How yoga asana might help bone density for a very short time, but strength and impact training are your best bets overall
✅What is cellular accommodation and what does it mean for your bone density building 
✅Types of movement classes for osteoporosis and their respective claims around their safety and efficacy
✅Is Osteostrong a good choice to build bone density? 
✅Do Osteostrong’s claims match up with what research has found so far?

And more!

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As a kid, I sucked at sports that involved throwin As a kid, I sucked at sports that involved throwing & catching a ball 🏀. 

I could hit a ball with a tennis racket or a field hockey stick, but throwing and catching a ball was so freaking hard for me. 

I would always wonder, “why is this basketball/volleyball/football so freaking big?” 

Perhaps it’s why I love how dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells have handles. 

I can grip them and it feels like I’m actually holding onto something… kind of like the monkey bars at recess…but I must say that this 15lb SQUAT BALL TOSS  is my new favorite warmup exercise 💥

It makes me feel like Wonder Woman wielding her lasso of truth ⚡️… especially when I’m at the Warner Brothers Studio Tour in Burbank 😆. And it’s a simple ball tossing skill that helps build speed and power…something we can all use more of as we get older. 

What’s your favorite warm up exercise these days? 

Have you changed your mind about any movements that you used to hate as a kid? 

If so, I’d love to hear about it ⬇️
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