with Lynn Crimando, MA, C-IAYT, and Dr. Joe Vella

Did you know that there are advanced stretching techniques, which can help you improve your flexibility and joint range of motion - and importantly, do it safely and without strain?

Learning how to introduce advanced stretching techniques in your yoga practice can help weed out long-seated, stubborn tension patterns in the body that show up as chronic muscle imbalances.

It is important to learn how to release these chronic tension patterns and muscle imbalances, because a pain problem in one area of the body often originates in these chronic tension patterns far away from the pain appears. 

For example, muscle imbalances in the foot and ankle can create a kinetic chain of events that ends with instability and imbalance on the knee, hip, back, or even our shoulders and head. Over time, failure to address these imbalances can lead to limited mobility, joint dysfunction, and repetitive stress.

Curious to learn how to integrate advanced stretching techniques in your yoga practice and teaching? Join us for a new, groundbreaking course with Dr. Joe Vella and yoga therapist Lynn Crimando. Learn ground-breaking new techniques that you can apply in your asana practice to greatly enhance the benefits of yoga postures.

In this course, Dr. Joe and Lynn will show how a holistic program that weaves enriched stretching techniques combined with integrated mobility techniques can help you enjoy a more fluid and balanced movement both on and off the mat. 

Learn about the following advanced stretching techniques and how to integrate them into your yoga asana practice:

• Static and dynamic stretching, 
• Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, and 
• Neuromuscular re-education techniques to help retrain our nervous systems. 

This course is a unique collaboration between expert physical therapist and bodyworker Dr. Joe Vella, PT, DPT, CFMT, BS-EX, and yoga therapist Lynn Crimando, MA, C-IAYT, CPT, NBHWC.

Using innovative techniques they developed to marry advanced stretching science with the ancient science of yoga, Dr. Joe and Lynn will show you how you can incorporate some of the most effective techniques into any yoga practice. 

The result? Improved flexibility and functional movement throughout your lifetime.

What You Will Learn

• The basics of flexibility/mobility training and how to incorporate it seamlessly into asana practice
• The importance of neuromuscular reeducation in creating muscular balance and strength
• How regular dynamic mobility practice contributes to healthy aging and helps prevent common misalignment problems.  
• Effective dynamic mobility techniques that yoga students and teachers alike can incorporate into their regular practices.
• The importance of continued mobility work to decrease injury risk and improve body awareness in practice 
• The importance of identifying and self-correcting problematic and systemic asymmetries throughout the body 
• A yoga practice that focuses on how to incorporate dynamic stretching and mobility moves into poses to work the lower-kinetic chain (low back, hips, knees, ankles, feet, toes).