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Dates
Monday 04/03/2023 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Monday 04/10/2023 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Monday 04/17/2023 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Monday 04/24/2023 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Monday 05/01/2023 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Monday 05/08/2023 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Pricing
$108.00 Yoga for Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common injuries/complaints. Much of our
pain comes from misuse and overuse of particular muscles and poor
posture. Yoga provides an opportunity to work the body differently and
recreate patterns that support healthy posture and alignment.
In each
class of this series, we will work on different strategies to stretch
and gently strengthen the muscles of the back and improve our core
stability postural habits to support good sitting and standing
alignment. This means we’ll be working on foot and knee alignment, hip
stability, and shoulder and head position. We will be doing some
traditional asana plus exercises and sequences from other movement
traditions.
This class is appropriate for students of all levels. If
you’ve never done yoga, you are welcome! Students with injuries are also
welcome and modifications will be provided. We will be doing work on
the floor, sitting, and standing.
If you are joining us online, you will
need the following props: a wall, a stable (no wheels) chair, a yoga
strap (a dog leash or similar will do), 2-3 blocks, a tennis ball, a washcloth/dish
towel (or sliders if you have them), and a dowel (a broom will also
work).
Megan Davis
Megan's study and practice of yoga are informed by her experiences
with rehabilitation, theories of traditional anatomy and Anatomy
Trains®, along with the application of techniques from kinesiology and
movement therapy. Megan was one of those kids who liked to figure out
how things worked, who liked to investigate the insides of things.
Marked for medical school at a very early age, she played with
microscopes and ant farms at home and took advanced science classes at
school, completing her first mammal dissection in grade 8. Megan
majored in biology and philosophy at university with minors in physics
and chemistry. A quarter life crisis (the details of which are not so
important) changed her trajectory and she earned a degree in public
health and became a women’s health educator and researcher. Another
crisis (of the existential variety) lead to an advanced bioethics degree
and then a PhD in disability studies. Somewhere between the
existential crisis and the bioethics degree Megan was in a severe car
accident that resulted in 14 spinal injuries. This is when she started
practicing yoga seriously. Since then, yoga has provided her with a
systemic approach for decreasing pain and increasing function. Since
becoming a yoga teacher in 2005 Megan has worked with students who have
moderate to severe injuries and chronic conditions. Her teachers come
from awide range of traditions and include: Doug Keller, Jenny Otto,
Donna Farhi, Matt Sanford, Judith Lasater, John Friend, Rod Stryker and
Shiva Rea. Megan believes that the benefits of yoga can be accessible
to anyone who is willing to give it a try. Her teaching style is
precise, sometimes unconventional, and relies heavily on comic relief.
