7/24 Yoga Therapeutics for Your Knees and Hips

ed. — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:10:43 +0000

Join me in Venice, CA at Exhale Sacred Movement 7/24/2010 from 2-4pm!

Our knees are:
• shock-absorbers when we land
• springboards when we jump
• transmitters when we are still, and
• propellers when step forward

All of these collude 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 any of further discomforts. We’ll work with ways that ankles and hips contribute to achy knees and modifications inside of postures to prevent these. And finally, we’ll look at how new patterns can be strengthened both on and off the mat.

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

Yoga Therapy Classes Update

ed. — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:23:53 +0000

Yoga Therapy Classes at my studio are the most healing work I’ve witnessed. Leslie Kazadi and I are teaching, and Keri Frankenstein, Eve Baldwin, Mariana Murr, Teri Roseman, Ann Braden, Gina Shelton and Chani Nicholas are co-teaching/assisting. Every class has a teacher and co-teacher with a limit of 7 students per class. Each of these really brilliant yoga teachers are here with their hearts, so much attention, love and guidance, our students are willing to dig in, and feel all kinds of edges. It’s a phenomenon that I can barely put into words except to say, there is courage here.

Walk Yourself Well in Skechers Shape-ups

Sherry B — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:06:57 +0000

A few months ago, Skechers asked me to become an advisor for the Shape-ups shoe line. I went for a walk, and agreed, because Shape-ups successfully employ a balanced design. Shape-ups help us include the extra elements ; balance, strength, and flexibility, with every step we take. It is true, in these shoes, you can shape up while you walk yourself well.

More about my Shape-ups experience: After spending some time, with my now several pairs of Skechers, I learned that Shape-ups use a dynamic rolling bottom, soft foam insert and dual-density midsole, to get the kind of results I can recommend in a walking shoe. All of these factors, the time I have spent walking, and living in Shape-ups, and the commitment they’ve demonstrated to not only developing, but studying the realtime performance of their shoe technology, proved to me that Skechers is serious about the health of the people who purchase their shoes, and walking on a regular basis, as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Walk Yourself Well now available on Kindle and most ebook readers.

ed. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:17:05 +0000

In addition to the paperback edition, Walk Yourself Well: Eliminate Back Pain, Neck, Shoulder, Knee, Hip and Other Structural Pain Forever-Without Surgery or Drugs by Sherry Brourman P.T., is now available on Kindle, from Amazon, and in other popular eBook formats: ePub, Palm, Msoft, Scribd

Written for everyone, with comprehensive, easy to understand self-evaluations, and illustrated stretching, strengthening and walking exercises. Sherry teaches her straightforward, and innovative system for balancing the body, and eliminating all types of structural pain.

“Walk Yourself Well is the owner’s manual for self-healing. Everyone on two feet should have this book” – Larry Payne Ph.D., author of Yoga Rx: A Step-by-Step Program.

“Walk Yourself Well is a great book. Sherry’s system should be the core of everyone’s athletic training” – Al Joyner, gold medalist and Olympic champion.

“A new and unique method for control of musculo-skeletal pain” - Ron Lawrence M.D., former President, American Medical Athletic Association, US Olympic Physician, author of Preventing Arthritis.

“This book offers a unique method innovative approach which has helped many of my patients” – Michael Sinel, M.D. The Spine Institute Los Angeles

“A beautifully written manual…from a medical standpoint, this is a system whose time has come” – Jon Greenfield, M.D.

Heal Your Back Within Your Yoga Practice

ed. — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:20:05 +0000

When back pain occurs: Should you practice or would rest be more helpful. Which postures are healing, and which are troublesome? Is fear a factor and if so, how do you unravel that? Are there times when ‘working through pain’ is appropriate? How do you learn to feel the variance in your own ‘edges’, so that you know when to respectfully back away, modify a posture, or rest it out? How long should a back injury take to heal? What other movements or even yoga postures in your daily life, are ‘unwittingly’ contributing to your back pain? And lastly, can you actually feel, when your spine is being fully supported by your abdominal muscles, as you move through your asana practice?

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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