MONTHLY on Thursdays, 4:00-5:30 pm on ZOOM:
November 20
December 11 – FUSION FORUM hosted by TOPS
Free or by donation

Samamkaya Yoga is pleased to offer a support group for people with spinal fusions for scoliosis (or those considering a spinal fusion for their scoliosis). This group, led by Martha Carter, is designed to encourage participants to safely explore the emotional toll and experiences related to their fusion in an environment with other participants who share their experience. Whether you were a teen when your spinal was fused or an older adult or somewhere in between, discussions within this group will draw out personal reflections, identify successful ways to self-heal, and evolve to reflect the needs of the group.

Please join Martha as she seeks to encourage health and healing through group interaction—free of the shame and stigma associated with scoliosis and related surgeries.

November 22-23
Saturday 2:30-4:30pm
Sunday 2-4pm
Full Weekend: $95
One Workshop: $55

Liz Owen learned lower back therapeutics over a 25-year period immersed in Iyengar yoga. During this time, she studied with senior Iyengar teachers in the U.S., and both B.K.S. and Geeta Iyengar. Her expertise of lower back health and yoga philosophy brings both Eastern and Western wisdom to bear on creating a healthy lower back and will bring mindfulness and depth to your journey of maintaining lower back health in daily life.

Saturday: LOWER BACK THERAPEUTICS – CARE FOR YOUR SACRUM

This session will combine some of the work from our previous workshops while also exploring new therapeutic movements for your sacrum. Its aim is to provide you with a toolbox of techniques to relieve your lower back pain due to sacroiliac joint and sacral band issues. Students of any skill level – including beginners – will benefit, attendance in prior workshops is not required.

Sunday: LOWER BACK THERAPEUTICS – CARE FOR YOUR LUMBAR SPINE

This session will combine some of the work from previous workshops while also exploring new therapeutic movements for your lumbar spine. Its aim is to provide you with a toolbox of techniques to relieve your lower back pain due to lumbar musculature issues, trauma, and vertebra and disk conditions.  Students of any skill level – including beginners – will benefit, attendance in prior workshops is not required.

December 6-7
Saturday - 9am – 12:30pm, 2-4:30 pm
Sunday - 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Full Workshop: $225*
Saturday All Day: $165*
Saturday Morning Only: $105
*Saturday Afternoon Only: $75
*Sunday Morning Only: $90*
*Get 10% off by using the code EARLYBIRD by November 17

Elise will guide you in this workshop to bring breath consciousness with poses to lengthen the spine and to find strength in the limbs to free the spine to more symmetry. Emphasis then will be on finding symmetry and balance with inversions and supportive restorative and renewing poses followed by lying down and seated pranayama to bring more breath balance to your practice and in your life. This practice will promote well-being by lowering stress and quieting the nervous system, improving lung function and lowering heart rate.

For continuing students and teachers with a foundation of a yoga practice for scoliosis. A six-month yoga practice is recommended.

Sundays, 10am-12pm
October 5, November 2, December 14, January 11
Full Series: $160
One Class Only: $45

“To the yogi, the body is a laboratory for life, a field of experimentation and perpetual research”.   B.K.S. Iyengar

Samamkaya is offering a 4-part hybrid/collaboration of topical lecture by Bobbie Fultz in Santa Fe, NM and asana practicum with Deborah Wolk and Jon Musgrave in NYC. The four parts will each focus on one aspect of the larger interwoven fabric of the yogic philosophy that can inform and enrich our practice of this ancient topic in our contemporary life. Each session includes what that specific topic has to do with an asana approach and the scoliosis body.