SYTAR 2017 Spacial Relations and Me Y OGA Carolyn Belko, CIYT [email protected]1 Empowerment through Yoga in Everyday Life for Youth with Scoliosis This practicum identifies accessible yoga therapeutic techniques that may be applied both in the yoga practice room setting as well as in the home or school environment throughout the day. This practical approach will serve the following objectives: 1. to help the youth to feel well and confident with themselves and their condition 2. to help reduce anxieties, and 3. to provide application of yoga therapeutic techniques to address the scoliosis in their every day lives. Often young teens first learn about their scoliosis and are brought to yoga with the help of parents and health care professionals. The worries of the parents for the youth’s future health are often transferred to the youth. It has been my experience in working with pre-teens and teens with scoliosis that putting them at ease with their body and condition, all the while addressing it in a preventative way through empowerment, is the key. Utthita Hasta Padasana in Doorway Utthita Hasta Padasana in Doorway—correct with feedback
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Empowerment through Yoga in Everyday Life for Youth with Scoliosis
This practicum identifies accessible yoga therapeutic techniques that may be applied both in the yoga practice room setting as well as in the home or school environment throughout the day. This practical approach will serve the following objectives:
1. to help the youth to feel well and confident with themselves and their condition 2. to help reduce anxieties, and 3. to provide application of yoga therapeutic techniques to address the scoliosis in
their every day lives.
Often young teens first learn about their scoliosis and are brought to yoga with the help of parents and health care professionals. The worries of the parents for the youth’s future health are often transferred to the youth. It has been my experience in working with pre-teens and teens with scoliosis that putting them at ease with their body and condition, all the while addressing it in a preventative way through empowerment, is the key.
Utthita Hasta Padasana in Doorway Utthita Hasta Padasana in Doorway—correct with feedback
Empowerment through Yoga in Everyday Life for Youth with Scoliosis
Blocked in to Uplift
Utthita Parsvakonasana
Reorientation of curve with arms.
Utthita Parsvakonasana
Lateral extension on short side thru arms
Utthita Trikonasana Utthita Trikonasana
When blocked in one: Gains access to both sides of spine evenly through both feet and legs. Strengthens the legs. Stabilizes the pelvic girdle and base of the spine.
Empowerment through Yoga in Everyday Life for Youth with Scoliosis
Life with a Bolster Gives a Boost
Supta Baddha Konasana
Restorative asana revitalize and mold the trunk thanks to bolster and gravity.
Setu Bandha Sarvangasana
Play with bolster and couch the Yoga Student finds the asana on her own!
Chair Sarvangasana
Bolster provides space for neck. Connects hands with chair and moves the arms to make the shoulder blades even and lift the chest.Chair provides alignment in hips especially SI joint when feet are active.
Notes:Establishing eye contact is essential when working with youth. Not only for the purpose of communica-tion, but also to help awaken the lazy eye prevalent in scoliosis, aiding comprehension and alignment.
Forward extensions: lower back and hamstrings in youth are naturally short due to the growth process. Create space, strength and stability in standing, sitting, backbends, and twists first. Then, approach forward extensions with emphasis on frontal spine space before going forward.
The Yoga Student is 11 years old with S curve scolio-sis. Her repertoire of asana not shown here are numer-ous. She especially enjoys padmasana cycle and rope Sirsasana. She has shown remarkable improvement since starting eight months ago. Her curve is less pro-nounced, her posture has improved, her timidity has left. She continues to grow with strength, courage and vitality incorporating yoga in her life.