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Dynamic Anatomy of Spine and Core

With Patty Townsend
Sunday April 16 ~ 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Recommend Rate $75 and pay from your heart
Online Only

A Radical Shift in Perception and Practice for Yoga Students and Teachers

Explore a new understanding of spinal dynamics leading to increased ease and health through our entire core body.

Structure:

Learn spinal anatomy — bones, discs, joints, ligaments, and other soft tissues that form the spinal core.

Experience your spine as a suspension system — woven of space, muscles, bones, and ligaments.

Learn and explore the embryological origins of spine and core..

Movement:

Explore the movement capabilities of each of the spinal curves.

Integrate their movements into a fluid organizational whole structure.

Consciousness:

Explore your spine as the home of your central nervous system.

Find the continuity of flow that facilitates a unified sense of self at your core.

About the Teacher

Patty Townsend was among the first wave of teacher–trainers in the U.S. while in residence at the Center for Yoga, Los Angeles in 1985, and later as co–owner of Yoga Works, Santa Monica. She has taught thousands of students and teachers over the past 40+ years. Her background includes decades of dedication and serious practice of meditation, traditional Hatha, Ashtanga Vinyasa, and Iyengar yoga. She is a teacher of meditation, a long-time student of Tantric philosophy, and has received more two decades of direct transmission from her current teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

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