Tending Your Foundation
Yoga Therapy for Feet, Legs + Hips
A Three Part Series
Come for 1, 2 or all 3
with Lori Smith and Renee Cortez
Time for Toes
Saturday, September 13, 2-4 pm
Grateful Yoga
1108 Davis, Evanston
Your feet are the foundation of your entire kinetic chain. Every step creates a ripple effect upward—through your ankles, calves, knees, and into your hips and pelvis. When your feet function optimally, they provide stable support and efficient force transfer. When they don't, compensatory patterns develop throughout your legs and hips, often manifesting as knee pain, hip tightness, or lower back issues that seem unrelated to your feet.
Toes are often unappreciated for the role they play in our footing. In Part One of this fall yoga therapy series, we'll examine how our toes set the foundation for our feet, influencing the ankle, knee and hip. This workshop will include:
Join us to become better acquainted with your feet and their far-reaching influence. Through this exploration, you'll learn to support your toes to be supple and strong, helping your body carry you well into your years without pain or limitations. Then continue your study with:
We will use ideas and practices from yoga and the MELT Method. Reneé Cortez is a yoga instructor with a rich background influenced by Iyengar and ballet. Lori Smith is a nurse who is dedicated to feet, alignment and movement, and teaches the MELT Method for fascia self-massage.
Studio only; all props provided.
Cost:
$50 per workshop /$135 for all three;
Members save 15%
Sliding scale available by request
Click on the link below to register
The MELT Method is a self-treatment technique using soft balls and a foam roller. MELT moves are designed to rehydrate connective tissue and repattern the nervous system. It is a proactive approach to maintaining a healthy, pain-free body can enhance athletic performance, ease chronic pain, and improve overall well-being. And it feels really good!
The creator of the MELT method, Sue Hitzmann, designed a number of props that allow individuals to become their own bodyworkers. A soft foam roller and soft rubber ball are the basic tools.
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