The seat, the fanny, the booty—whatever you want to call it—the glutes are an important part of strength, balance, and a pain-free body. Our glutes power us through athletic endeavors like running, stabilize us in lunges and balancing poses in yoga, and help counterbalance the work of the quads and hip flexors. For many of us, though, our glutes can shut down or become overshadowed by other muscles in the body; this is especially the case when we sit for many hours. When the glutes work less efficiently (or not at all), the result can be tight or pinchy hip flexors, overworked quads, and low back pain. This 40 minute workshop will include a quick anatomical overview, glutes activation assessment, and a spicy practice that focuses on movements from Pilates and yoga that can awaken and strengthen the glutes for a better balanced and pain-free body.
| Lenth (minutes) | 37 |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Style | Pilates |
Alexandra DeSiato
Alexandra DeSiato (E-RYT 500) has been teaching movement classes since 2010. Drawn to Pilates and Yoga to heal a running injury, she quickly found that having a stronger core and more powerful glutes meant faster, easier running—and fewer injuries overall. While her Yoga practice began as a way to heal physically, over time it became much more, and she started to appreciate the way yoga changed her attitude, spirit, and heart. Feeling her body change with age and with becoming a mom shifted Alexandra’s yoga focus to two primary areas: yoga for healthy aging and yoga for women seeking strength-building and re-connection postpartum. She partners with her mentor, Sage Rountree, on the former, and their first book together, LIFELONG YOGA, is about aging while maintaining strength and grace. On the latter, she has co-created Whole Mama Yoga (wholemamayoga.com) with Lauren Sacks. Whole Mama Yoga offers prenatal, postnatal, and mama-focused classes, and is a Yoga Alliance-certified Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches Pilates, healthy aging classes, postnatal workshops and more at Carrboro Yoga Company. Her most recent book, TEACHING YOGA BEYOND THE POSES, co-written with Sage Rountree is for yoga teachers and practitioners. Part-workbook, this book helps readers create inspirational, authentic themes for yoga classes and practices.
Study and Practice with Alexandra DeSiato
Whole Mama Yoga Pre & Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training
Women continue to be the majority in yoga classes. The needs, joys, and challenges specific to women before, during, and after childbearing offers teachers the opportunity to affect and deeply connect with women during these momentous, transformational times in life. This 85 hour intensive, offered in 4 weekends annually, will focus on a wide range of yoga for women in all phases and stages of motherhood—from fertility and preconception to prenatal and postnatal yoga to yoga for mother and baby and beyond. It meets the requirements of the Prenatal Teacher Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA).
Online Course for Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses
Sage and Alexandra have teamed up to offer an online course for their most recent book! This online course helps yoga teachers find and clarify their voice so that the messages they offer in class land. Creating authentic themes is easier when done with others, and this course helps with just that. There are videos, prompts, and feedback from Alexandra and Sage along the way. .