RECAP: Women's Yoga for Scoliosis with Deborah Wolk 2019 - Salt Spring Island

For Deborah Wolk’s 4th annual workshop on Salt Spring Island, TOPS had the great privilege of holding this workshop at the beautiful Salt Spring Centre of Yoga. 

This year, the workshop was called ‘Women’s Yoga for Scoliosis’ as Deborah wanted to address the concerns that arise for women at different stages of their life, specifically around menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. During the weekend, she guided us with great detail, getting us into very specific and sometimes unusual poses. It was remarkable how her encouragement for us to open and align our bodies activated compressed areas, released tension, calmed the nervous system and developed strength - and we found new posture and felt deep, new sensations. Each new exercise prompted ‘ooh's and ahh's’ as people settled into the positions.

TEMPTED?
Consider joining our upcoming ‘Yoga, Scoliosis, and the Nervous System: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic’ retreat with Deborah Wolk - July 22-25, 2022!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. Register by our Registration Deadline April 22, 2022 and save $50. Input coupon code: WOLK2022 during Registration.

The scoliotic spine affects not only the bones and muscles, it also affects the nerves. The feedback from the right and left sides of the curves is not the same: one side is contracted and one side is overstretched. In the nervous system, this can create disorientation and a mix of inertia and tension in the scoliotic body, along with a building sense of anxiety, discomfort and an inability to rest.

In this workshop, you will learn techniques to practice building your energy with active poses which access numb unused areas, release overused overstretched muscles and allow your body to rest by finding release where muscles are over-contracted. Using prop setups and other stimuli which allow the nervous system to balance these extremes, the techniques in this workshop will help you to find a centre place where you can rest.

This retreat is for all levels, as well as for students with spinal fusions. Teachers who work with students who have scoliosis are also encouraged to attend.