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Yoga Therapy Retreat! October 29th-31st, 2010

ed. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:49:53 +0000

Save the dates!

Halloween Yoga Retreat! October 29th-31st, 2010

For three days and two nights, Leslie Kazadi RYT and I will be holding our Halloween Yoga Retreat at the Ojai Eco Sanctuary! Picture gentle, and intermediate yoga, and yoga therapy classes all weekend long, walking in the picturesque surroundings, experiencing superb bodywork, enjoying delicious food, having goofy fun, BYOP (bring your own pumpkin!) and listening to night-time music. Call (310)446-6668 or write for more information!

Yoga Therapeutics for your Back – April 3rd 2010

ed. — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:54:47 +0000

Join Sherry, Saturday April 3rd from 7:30pm-9:30pm at Yogis Anonymous in Santa Monica. Feel and understand how each movement, whether in an asana, or while putting your dishes away, becomes part of your ‘fabric’. Learn how malleable that fabric is, ways to softly remodel, and become more sturdy from the inside out. We will explore how we sit, stand, the center from which we balance, and the lines of movement in asana that not only stabilize the spine, but create the dignity and grace inside us that calls us back t our mats again, and again. Minimal yoga experience is helpful, and this class is wonderful for those with any sort of spine or back issues, and for teachers who would like to work more deeply with students to prevent or help heal similar issues.

Yogis Anonymous
1221 2nd Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Call (310)451-YOGI

Heal Your Knees With Your Yoga Practice – Saturday 5/2

ed. — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:05:55 +0000

Join Sherry this Saturday 5/2 for Heal Your Knees at Exhale Venice from 12:30-3:30pm.

Our knees are: shock absorbers when we land, springboards when we jump, transmitters when we are still, and propel us when step forward. All of these combine as beautiful links in any or all of these ways for balance postures. This class is designed to help you understand why your knees ache, specific diagnoses, and various degrees of each. We’ll discuss “high signs” with knees, and ways to prevent further discomforts. We’ll work with ways that ankles and hips contribute to their achiness and modifications in postures to prevent these. And finally, we’ll look at how new patterns can be strengthened both on and off the mat.
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Level 2/3 Yoga at Exhale this Sunday 4/26

ed. — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:14:03 +0000

Join Sherry at 4:30 PM this Sunday at Exhale’s Center for Sacred Movement for a Level 2-3 Yoga Class. Sherry is substituting for Jason Frahm, and its a special chance for a Level 2-3 Class on a Sunday afternoon with Sherry. If you haven’t taken class at Exhale previously, or in the last six months, they have a special offer for unlimited classes, for a week, for $25. Exhale’s Center for Sacred Movement is located at 245 S. Main Street in Venice CA “…just two blocks from the beach and the world-famous Venice boardwalk.” There is convienient underground parking off Navy Street, the studio has changing rooms, and there is plently of good food nearby.
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Gait for Pain Relief Training- April 25th Oakland CA

ed. — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:17:04 +0000

This seminar is ideal for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, athletic trainers, yoga teachers, pilates teachers and any health professionals with strong anatomy background. Ninety percent of your patient’s structural pain can be sourced in how they walk. Clinicians will learn and develop the philosophy, principles and practical skills of this engineering system of the body. Students will learn to use three stages; first, evaluating static elements of posture as predictors of gait or dynamic movement patterns or gait and their probable resultant structural vulnerabilities. Next, the same dynamic patterns will uncover strategic movement compensations. Finally, corroborative exercises will match each gait correction thereby helping to assimilate the newly established gait pattern.

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CBS2 News “The Pulse” with Lisa Sigell interviews Sherry at Start! Walking Day

ed. — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:26:13 +0000

Emmy Award winning journalist Lisa Sigell with CBS News in Los Angeles interviewed Sherry today at the American Heart Association’s National Start! Walking Day event at the Union Bank Plaza in downtown LA. Look for Sherry on CBS Channel 2 News at 5pm tonite during CBS Healthwatch “ The Pulse ” segment on walking. Thanks Lisa, we’ll be watching!

Yoga and Walking Class – April 18th Venice CA

ed. — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:49:22 +0000

This class is for everyone! We pass through Tadasana (Mountain Pose) with every step we take, anchoring with each footstep and lengthening with fluidity out of this anchoring. This class will give you a way to apply how you walk to every posture in yoga and vice versa. You will be able to analyze and create your own balance in the way that you walk. With each step away from this class, you will have more insight into healing your structure with a physical base that draws you into the integration and synergy of your body, mind and spirit. ~ Join Sherry April 18th at Exhale Sacred Movement in Venice CA.
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Gait For Pain Relief Class – April 4th Los Angeles CA

ed. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:43:00 +0000

Trust Your Eye: Learn to look through the perspective of posture, gait and balance, for weaknesses and inflexibilities and even shapes and contours that contribute to asymmetry in the normal movement pattern. Asymmetry leads to structural vulnerability, dysfunction and pain. This is visible and changeable by simple gait corrections and corroborative exercises. Who Should Attend: This seminar is ideal for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, athletic trainers, Pilates teachers and any health professionals with strong anatomy background. Why You Would Take This Class: Reduce Treatment Frequency. This is a patient education system, as well as a way to evaluate, source and treat the cause of the problem, so that it doesn’t resurface. Patients/clients learn how with a mere hint of the problem, they can address it immediately themselves, using their specific gait corrections and exercises. Their symptoms become a built in biofeedback system.

Its Global. Corrective gait applies to almost all structural pain. Since clinicians also walk, they learn best through their own walking how individual gait dictates strengths and weaknesses. For patients with multiple aggravated body parts, this is a technique that connects and addresses all of them at once: In order to balance a sore and participatory link of any gait moment, you must assess the relationships between it and all of the other joints of the body for their contributions to the same gait moment. This makes this system the perfect prevention strategy; one that can often eliminate less constructive alternatives like bracing, surgery or extreme drugs.

Objectives

Pathomechanics:

Gait Mechanics review; Mechanically Effective Gait
Individual Gait Development or Etiology
Understand relationships between Gait Deviations and Structural Pain
Describe the strategic gait compensations, or deviations that reflect pathology and predispose pain patterns

Evaluation:

Evaluate Static Posture as a predictor of Dynamic Posture in Gait
Understand the Role of Symptoms in the Evaluative Process
Translate Your Evaluation to Specific Gait Corrections
Analyze each Weight-bearing Joint as it contributes to Dynamic Posture in Gait
Educate Patients/Clients on their Individual Findings

Treatment:

Utilize Corrective Walking as a Treatment Modality
Treat the Source instead of treating the Symptoms
Corroborate Assessment Findings with Appropriate Exercises, designed to simulate Specific Gait Moments
Learn to Utilize Kinesio Tape to reinforce the Gait Corrections for Faster Assimilation.

Rehabilitation:

Educate patients to ‘Read’ their own bodies for Vulnerabilities and to stay current with their Gait Corrections
Educate patients to ‘Read’ and modify Exercise Programs and to incorporate the New Awareness into their Activities of Daily Living

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Using Yoga Therapeutically: March 28th 2009 – San Francisco

ed. — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:20:05 +0000

Course Description: Yoga is a 5000 year old self-awareness technology, which uses mechanically brilliant exercises (postures), to balance and heal the body, to calm the nervous system and to quiet the mind. The process of learning includes alignment, strength and flexibility as some of the integral structural components. These, along with focused mind body connections and breath work, are the mainstays of all yoga styles. In this workshop, we will literally and comprehensively move through all of the basic yoga postures to understand and experience their mechanics and their relationships to normal and stable movement patterns. We will also discuss their capacities for healing specific injuries, and the healing power of the yoga process. No prior yoga experience is required, and some anatomy background is helpful.

CEUs/PDUs/Contact Hours: A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 7.0 contact hours. The California Education Connection is recognized by the NATA Board of Certification to provide continuing education for certified athletic trainers. The NATABOC approved provider number is P2959. This course will also assist in completing the required continuing education for the Yoga Alliance. The NSCA Certification Commission Executive Council approved 0.7 CEUs for CSCS and NSCA-CPT certificants attending this event. California Education Connection is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. This course is eligible for 0.7 CEUs from the AOTA. The AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. This course will also count toward the PDU requirement for OTRs / COTAs in the State of California. Click here for Information and Registration!

IAYT SYTAR – Experience Walking Yoga – March 6th 2009

ed. — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:54:31 +0000

IAYT SYTAR – Friday, March 6, 2009 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm. Practice Session #2: Experience Walking Yoga with Sherry Brourman (Downoad PDF). Your walk defines most everything about you. With simple observation, we can discern a vulnerable knee, a weak hip, a sleepy core, or a tight shoulder or neck. Our most comfortable daily breathing patterns reflect exactly how we use our structure during walking and asana. Every step that we take, is a one footed tadasana sharing the structural, emotional and spiritural components of every posture and move that we make. Like our individual tadasana predicts the elements of our practice, our walk predicts our tadasana. In this experiential session, students will have a new grasp of their walk, practice asana and explore the similarities between these. We will also make simple changes in walking, apply them to our practice and convert them into tools for our teaching.