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, Lindsay Dunne, 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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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!

IAYT – Where Yoga and Science meet

ed. — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:52:46 +0000

The International Association of Yoga Therapists Digital Resources Library is now online. From the IAYT DRL Website: IAYT DRL Mission To support and enhance the sharing and collaborative development of educational resources among Yoga teachers, Yoga therapists, healthcare professionals and Yoga researchers through a Digital Library that includes resources for all.” ” The purpose of the IAYT Digital Resources Library is to skillfully present user-posted conference presentations and handouts, as well as other shared resources that support professional education and research in our field.” “This site is open to all. However, only IAYT members may upload material. All material is reviewed before posting. “

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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