Led by Linda Benton, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Feel your spine sighing with relief! Certified yoga therapist and Yoga for Back Care & Scoliosis Certified Trainer, Linda Benton, will guide you through yoga postures that will slowly coax your body into a more symmetrical alignment. You will stretch muscles that have tightened and strengthen muscles that have grown weak so that true integration of change is incorporated into the body = the lengthening and correction of curve pattern(s) to “stick” to lengthening and derotation.
As you progress, your breathing will be freer, and your body will be in less pain. Using certain yoga positions and breathing awareness, you will find the balance point that allows your back/spine to coexist with gravity. Can you feel your spine sighing with relief? The workshop is designed for students with Scoliosis and is based on Therapeutic Movements & Techniques utilizing ScolioYoga for Scoliosis/Back Care Principles (to lengthen) and ScolioPilates (to strengthen). No previous yoga or Pilates experience is necessary.
The workshop will consist of the following:
a Scoliosis presentation and lecture on the different curves and Q&A
1:1 assessments
75 minutes of practice with a long savasana
Q&A .
We will:
Focus on breath
Lengthen the spine
Align the hips and shoulders
Address hypermobility and focus on strengthening
Address the rotational component
Postural alignment and strengthening
Defy gravity – using props to create traction, inversions to lengthen the spine and release pain
Linda Benton
Linda Benton has nearly 20 years of yoga and over 20 years of Pilates teaching experience. She combines therapeutic movements and techniques thru the modalities of ScolioYoga and ScolioPilates and Schroth-based methods for scoliosis to support spinal health.
Certifications
C-IAYT
Yoga for Back Care & Scoliosis Certified Trainer
E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance Certified
Advanced Certificates in ScolioPilates
Schroth studied
Pilates Institute of America Certified
American Heart Association Adult and Child CPR Certified
Linda is on staff with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy's School Functional Anatomy Division, teaching the teachers therapeutic movement and techniques for scoliosis. She’s studied under some of the top yoga master teachers in the country and assisted and interned with renowned master Iyengar teachers Gabriel Halpern, formerly at Yoga Circle/Chicago, and Nancy Fox (formerly DL Heraty), C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and author of the book, “Yoga for Scoliosis.” Other master teachers she’s extensively studied and trained under include Doug Keller/Iyengar, Elise Browning Miller/Iyengar, Dr. Loren Fishman/Iyengar, Maria Shamus, Durga Leela, Indu Arora, Amy Weintraub, Chinnamasta Stiles, Nischala Joy Devi and Neil Pearson (to name a few).