YOGA into HANDSTAND Workshop (Adho Mukha Vrkshasan)

Diane Busuttil is an expert of the handstand. Being an x-circus performer and a highly disciplined yoga practitioner encourage her students to strive for the same strength and balance that she so gracefully executes.

In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of a handstand ie: strength and stability. We acquire these attributes through technique, body awareness and the correct use of breathe in movement. The main physical areas of the body that need work are: upper back, shoulder, arms and wrists. Therefore our warm up will concentrate on all these areas.

In preparation for class, please empty the bowels and have an empty stomach for yoga practice. Women who are menstruating should not do inversion poses. If you are pregnant you should not try these for the first time without previous experience.

Benefits:

Strengthens the shoulders, arms, and wrists
Stretches the belly
Improves sense of balance
Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression


Synopsis:

Move the body
Open the mind
Take a risk
Dance with gravity

Find your own language

Shake things up
Activate your energy
Be loud, be small
Roll, jump, slide and fall!!
This class will utilize various movement techniques to warm up the body such as release technique and yoga. We will do partner assisted strength training and basic acrobatic work leading into improvisational scores to create self devised movement material in groups and solos.

This class is about discovering your own way of moving through playful exercises in pairs, groups and alone.

Release based movement
Yoga
Improvisation
Authentic movement and visualization
Strength training
Partner work
Acrobatics (mixed levels depending on participants)
Games
Solo choreography with one observer
Teaching each other above material
Tools to develop your own material
Presentation and feedback

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