Svastha Yoga Online

In summary, in this course, you will:

• Learn the locomotor skills needed to move well. 
• Receive guided exercises, observation and assessment, and teaching practice for those skills. 
• Understand the necessary functional anatomy of key body regions. 
• Learn decision pathways to work with imbalances of these body regions. 
• Appreciate the implication of major locomotor system disorders and diagnoses and learn how to approach them.
• Understand safety and contraindications along with each skill and disorder-based management.

Topics Include:

1) Understanding, practicing, and teaching the skills of moving well:

• pain-management as needed
• awareness & exploration
• relaxation, release
• mobilization, easing movement
• stability, control
• strength, endurance
• range of movement, stretching
• alignment for safe and effective force transmission and loading
• balance, gait
• agility, speed and responsiveness
• coordination, increasing complexity
• positive emotion and supportive dialogue toward the body
• breathing to support moving well
• play, exploration, intrinsic reward

2) Learning and teaching guided exercises for each of these regions to develop important movement skills, with a holistic focus:

• low back
• mid & upper back
• neck
• shoulder
• elbow, wrist & hand
• sacrum
• hip
• knee
• ankle & foot

3) Learning and teaching guided practices combining multiple movement skills for a region and across regions.

4) Appreciating safety and contraindications in teaching and practice.

5) Observing a student, assessing locomotor imbalances, and working with decision pathways or protocols for managing those imbalances. 

6) Working with major locomotor disorders such as:

• lumbar spine (chronic low back pain, disc herniation, sciatica, facet joint dysfunction, hyperlordosis, spondylolisthesis)
• thoracic spine (hyperkyphosis, stiffness, facet joint dysfunction)
• cervical spine (head forward alignment, disc herniation, nerve compression)
• scoliosis
• shoulder (impingement, rotator cuff tears, instability)
• elbow, hand (epicondylitis, carpal tunnel syndrome)
• sacroiliac pain and dysfunction
• hip (fracture, alignment, soft tissue imbalances)
• knee (IT band, meniscal tears, ligament strains)
• dropped arches, hallux valgus

7) Understanding the tissues of the locomotor system: fascia, cartilage, bones, muscles, ligaments, joints, nerves. 

8) Appreciating the global organization of movement: tension, compression, tensegrity and integration; prediction, feedback, neural control; development of movement. 

9) Understanding the science of key locomotor skills.