Join Abby for a weekend immersion where you'll learn functional anatomy, and use that information to go deeply into more advance postures. You'll learn how to frame your understanding of anatomy in a way that is individualized to your body, how the joints are meant to naturally move, and how to use your musculature to support deep strengthening and opening.

Day I: The Shoulders: Inversions, Backbends, & Binds | Saturday, December 7th | 2:00 - 4:30pm

Part one of your weekend with Abby will focus on creating opening and intelligence in the shoulders. The practice will begin with a discussion of functional anatomy - how the shoulders are meant to move, and how we can support those actions with proper preparation in the yoga practice. Each student will be guided to gain a greater understanding of the habitual patterns show up their bodies, and how this impacts how they should work differently from other people. Following this discussion will be a vigorous and playful yoga practice, where students will get to dive deeply into opening and strengthening the shoulders in preparation for exploring advanced inversions, backbends, and binds. Expect to work into Handstand and Forearm Stand, Bridge and Wheel, and Bound Warrior variations. The sequence will be intelligently designed so that the body is safely prepared, and students have enough information to work mindfully and intelligently within their own body. Students will be given ample opportunity to choose their individual variation of each posture based upon a foundation of anatomy, feeling, and awareness.

Day II: The Legs: Hip & Hamstring Opening | Sunday, December 8th | 2:00 - 4:30pm

Part two of your weekend with Abby will focus on creating opening and intelligence in the hips and hamstrings. The practice will begin with a discussion of functional anatomy - how the legs, hips, and hamstrings are meant to function, and how we can support those actions with proper preparation in the yoga practice. Each student will be guided to gain a greater understanding of the habitual patterns show up their bodies, and how this impacts how they should work differently from other people. Following this discussion will be a vigorous and playful yoga practice, where students will get to dive deeply into opening and strengthening the hips and legs in preparation for exploring advanced postures like Lotus, Splits, and Foot-Behind-the-Head. The sequence will be intelligently designed so that the body is safely prepared, and students have enough information to work mindfully and intelligently within their own body. Students will be given ample opportunity to choose their individual variation of each posture based upon a foundation of anatomy, feeling, and awareness.

Personal Investment: $80 for both sessions, or $45 single session

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For the first time ever, Abby and Jambo will be joining forces to co-create 5 days of immersive learning for yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and yoga practitioners of all levels. Each day will begin with a yoga practice that will build the trainee’s ability to feel on more subtle levels. We’ll highlight how to increase functionality of the muscles and joints through purposeful movements and breathing techniques. Participants will learn how to use the breath as a diagnostic tool to discern compensatory patterns & areas of tightness in the body, mind, and heart - and how to work with them. The morning practices will be followed by guided journeying and meditation experiences to deepen our connection to our hearts and spirit, so that we can take that skillfulness into the afternoon sessions together.

The afternoon sessions will combine techniques to help each trainee up-level the skillfulness of their ability to work with the nuances of the physical and energetic fields. We’ll work with:

• Advanced Hands-On Assisting techniques and how to incorporate bodywork & energywork into the classroom

• How to See bodies and their compensatory patterns

• Myofascial Release techniques to work holistically on the musclo-skeletal system

• Craniosacral Therapy techniques to work on the bones of the skull, the brain, and spinal cord

• Energywork and Journeying skills to work with the deeper energetic, karmic, and ancestral layers of the body.

You’ll leave with increased skillfulness to See, Feel, and Empath, and how this information applies to practicing & teaching yoga, and giving & receiving bodywork. You'll feel confident and inspired to work more subtly with yourself and others in a way that creates healing, spaciousness, and connection.

Personal Investment: $975 Early Bird by March 1st, $1050 after

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