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Therapeutic Yoga Workshop

Understand your body better and live more resiliently

Yoga for Pelvic Floor & Core
Tuesday, Aug 20, 6:15-8:15pm
with Jessica Gonsiorowski
$57 | Register Now

Habitual postures and movement patterns can create imbalances in your body that contribute to discomfort, pain, or even injury over time. Although yoga is a great support in keeping your body healthy, it is not uncommon to take these imbalances into your yoga practice and perpetuate some of them. Feel the liberation of understanding your body, its patterns, and imbalances. Expand your yoga practice, or come and start your yoga journey in these intelligently developed workshops. Learn how a therapeutic approach to your yoga practice can create more balance, stability, and freedom in your body.

In this workshop, you will study the pelvic floor and core, learn the basic anatomy, strengthen and lengthen the key muscles, and gain insight into the specific area's energetic component. You will also learn about your habitual patterns and how to move towards more functional alignment and movement in your daily life and on the mat.

Yoga for the Pelvic Floor & Core

A strong pelvic floor helps keep the pelvic and abdominal organs healthy as we age. In fact, the pelvic muscles are crucial for optimal functioning of the body. For an array of reasons this area can be too gripped, or too weak and sometimes both. The proper work of strengthening and stretching the pelvic floor helps to create a functional foundation of all movements of the body. Posture and breath can greatly affect the pelvic floor which is why Yoga can help.


During this workshop, you will learn how to create more tone as well as how to relax your pelvic floor. Learn how releasing and strengthening the supporting muscles around the pelvis can alleviate discomfort and bring more freedom into your movements. Dive into your own habitual patterns in these areas of your body and explore how you can create more functional and sustainable movements on and off your mat.

 

Join Jessica Gonsiorowski in this educational and explorational workshop and empower yourself and body through knowledge. 

 

This series is for you if you experience:

  • low back pain

  • SI joint problems

  • hip or sciatic pain

  • pelvic pain

  • bladder weakness or urgency

  • digestive issues

  • menstrual and sexual difficulties

What to expect:

  • Learn about the basic anatomy of the pelvis

  • Explore your habitual posture and how it affects your pelvic floor

  • Learn traditional as well as nontraditional yoga movements to strengthen and stretch the pelvic floor

  • Learn how your way of breathing affects your pelvic floor

 

Monthly Therapeutic Workshops

Jessica Gonsiorowski

About Jessica Gonsiorowski, RYT 500

Jessica is an experienced teacher who works and lives in the Chicago area. Jessica focuses on adapting the practice for everybody at every age and stage. She believes that knowledge is power and is excited to educate you in a way that allows you to become your agent of change.

Qualifications

200 hour Teacher Training with Bloom Yoga, 85 hours Prenatal Teacher Training with Bloom Yoga, 300 hours Advanced Teacher Training with Prairie Yoga, 200 hours in training and mentoring with Yoga Therapist Linda Troutman with Head to Toe Yoga.

Jessica's Weekly Class Schedule

  • Mon 9:30–10:45a, Multi-Style Yoga

  • Mon 11a-12:15p, Plus Size Yoga

Register

Yoga for pelvic Floor and Core

$57

  • Upon registration and payment, you will receive a class registration confirmation.

  • Additional reminder emails will be sent 24 hours and 2 hours before class.

  • Register early; space is limited.