Pose & Practice Lab 3

Service Description

Open Heart, Strong Core: Expansion with Support Opening safely requires strength, awareness, and trust. Open Heart, Strong Core focuses on backbends, core engagement, and arm-balance foundations, teaching how stability and integration create freedom in heart-opening postures. Participants explore how the core and breath protect the spine, allowing expansion without collapse or strain. This lab also addresses the emotional aspects of heart-opening and arm-supporting poses, helping teachers recognize vulnerability, fear, and courage as part of the physical experience. Assisting emphasizes consent, restraint, and supporting expansion without forcing depth. This lab is ideal for anyone wanting to: Teach backbends with greater safety and confidence Understand core engagement beyond “strengthening” Explore arm-balance foundations in an accessible way Develop emotionally intelligent assisting skills Yoga Alliance CE Eligible | Open to All, Teachers, Trainees & Practitioners