Join special guest teacher Nikki Vilella from Kula Project in New York City.
The psoas is major.
It’s one of the few muscles that connects your upper and lower body, and specifically your leg limbs to your spine. It is responsible for helping (or disrupting!) functional movement and breath and is intricately connected to the emotional body via the nervous system.
This workshop will explore all facets of your psoas: it’s location and how to palpate your body with your own hands; how to equally strengthen and lengthen which creates functional and supple muscle tissue; how this leads us to the breath and the nervous system; and will guide you through physical shapes/asanas that explore the role the psoas plays. We will end the physical practice with a restorative shape and a heaping spoon of pranayama.
INVESTMENT
Standard Rate | $65
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OPTIONAL 50% BIPOC DISCOUNT
We offer a 50% discount on our Standard rate for students who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (use promo code wellnessequity). To learn about why we offer this discount, visit our rates page.
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About Nikki Vilella
Nikki is the co-director of Kula Yoga Project in NYC where she has been teaching for nearly 20 years. She is at the helm of the 200 hour Kula Flow Foundations teacher training program, leads an annual 75 hour advanced TT at her home in upstate NY and offers a mentorship program for teachers of all disciplines.
She has written for Yoga Journal and was named one of America’s top 100 influential teachers. As a teacher, she strives to include the perfect alchemy of precise physical instruction, intelligence, intention and space into her classes. Her passion for anatomy and sequencing are clear in her teaching. She loves a good hands on assist (but will also give you space if you don’t!) and while she has always been drawn to the vigor of a strong physical practice, she increasingly has become interested in the subtleties of pranayama and how she can creatively incorporate both traditional and more modern applications of the breath into her classes.