This five-week series focuses on yoga practices for maintaining a healthy pelvis. A healthy pelvis involves the layers of pelvic floor muscles, hip muscles, pelvic/hip bones and joints, and how they work in harmony with the abdominal, back, and breathing muscles as well as the pelvic and abdominal organs.
In this series, we develop awareness of the bony landmarks of the pelvis and the related muscles in order to cultivate balance through stretching and strengthening effectively. Special attention is given to breathing patterns and how this affect pelvic health. A healthy pelvis is a vital part of your core. It contributes to optimal organ support, continence, and overall stability. You will learn and practice the foundations for healthy, supported functional movement contributing to more freedom, confidence, and resilience.
While pelvic floor health applies to all bodies, this course is currently for female bodies only.
If space is available, you can attend the Intro class as a standalone event.
The Intro class is the essential foundation for the workshop. It will be a fun, interactive, experiential workshop in which we will actually "build" a pelvic model together to deepen our understanding of the human pelvis and how it functions. You will just need to show up to find out what on earth that means!
If you attend only the Intro, you will leave with an excellent awareness of the pelvis and its role in your daily functional movement.
If you continue with the whole workshop, you will apply the awareness cultivated in the Intro to your daily functional movement, your yoga asana practice, and/or other movement and exercise practices, as well as toward pelvic health issues such as continence, organ support, and relieving pelvic pain.
TUITION:
5 Class Series Purchase: $125 ($100 community supported / $140 pay it forward)
About Audrey Harpe:
She was drawn to yoga as a child of the 70s and took her first yoga class in college in the 1980s. She began studying yoga seriously with Francois Raoult and Deborah Raoult in the early 1990s at (then) The Center for Aplomb and Yoga (now Open Sky) where she completed a nine year apprenticeship which included prenatal and postpartum yoga training. Audrey received Level 1 Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga Trainer certification from Judith Lasater in 2007. She also completed the Experiential Anatomy Movement Literacy for Yoga Teachers courses and Back Care with Judith, Lizzie Lasater and Mary Richards in 2018. In 2020, Audrey began studying Sanskrit and completed the Yogic Studies 500 hr. Advanced Certificate Program in Yoga History and Philosophy with Seth Powell in 2022. Audrey continues to study regularly with various teachers - most recently taking a course on Pelvic Floor Yoga with Leslie Howard. Audrey loves sharing the practice of yoga and creatively exploring and integrating various learning modalities to help people more fully inhabit the bodymindheart and expand awareness to continue on the journey into the state of yoga.
See her blog post about Yoga for Pelvic Health: https://www.yoga-bhoga.com/blog/what-is-yoga-for-pelvic-health