YogaPhysio Front Body Opening

Opening your Front Body is a gentle way to strengthen your Back Body.  

When we spend a lot of our time nowadays in chairs, we start to look like chairs. 

Long periods of sitting affects your posture by shortening your hip flexors and slumping your shoulders forward. Not attended to can lead to an increased thoracic kyphosis (rounded upper back) from weakened back muscles and tight pectoral muscles curving your spine. 

Back-bending classes are great to help counter these postural tendencies, but they can be a little too strong, especially if you are new to yoga.  

In this workshop, you will explore gentle ‘front opening’ positions that are more accessible for everyone. An excellent practical workshop that you will leave 2cm taller!!

This workshop will benefit everybody.

Mainly if you are desk-bound, drive heaps, or spend extended periods on your smart devices. You may already experience messages in your body like neck pain, back pain, or even hip pain. If you do, this extended practice will explore all the postures that reverse these occupational tendencies in an educational and experiential workshop.

Tamara will finish with a long, relaxing Yoga Nidra (a guided relaxation practice) to rest and digest the session and relax the most overactive muscle of all – the mind.

For teachers attending the workshop, you will be training your eye to notice your students’ bodies to better cater for their needs in your classes.

When: SUNDAY 23rd Oct

Time: 1 – 4pm

Cost: $75

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Tam is a qualified and registered physiotherapist since 1994. She has extensive experience in treating a variety of problems ranging from acute injury to long-term persisting pain. Wide-ranging hospital and outpatient experience have equipped her to consider the needs of clients with different health conditions. She worked for 8 years in pain management centers alongside doctors, psychologists, and occupational therapists including St Thomas Hospital, London, and Parogic, Brisbane.

Tam has been practising yoga since 1994 and teaching since 1998. She obtained her yoga teaching qualification with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY) in the United Kingdom; is a current senior-level 3 member of Yoga Australia (YA) and has completed a Diploma of Yoga Therapy with Yoga Therapy Australia.

She has studied yoga with senior teachers in the United Kingdom, India, and Australia. Her yoga therapy training was with Dr. NC (N Chandrasekaran) who is a medical doctor and yoga therapist with in excess of 25 years of practice delivering this training, which expounds on how traditional applications of yoga complement current medical practice. This 3-year training, included an internship in Dr. NC’s Chennai clinic, a uniques and rewarding opportunity.

Tam has studied Yoga and meditation beyond her yoga teacher training with numerous teachers in India and spent regular retreat periods in guided and self-directed, silent meditation. We are very fortunate to have her share her knowledge with us.