Alignment Therapy: Yoga for Lower Back Pain, Knee, Wrist & Shoulder Injury & Birth-related Discomforts
If you have aches and pains or physical challenges...
If you have pain, you’ve probably been to a ton of practitioners, and hopefully gotten some relief.
And yet it always seems to come back.
Or maybe you have a new discomfort and you really want to make sure it doesn’t go deeper and become a bigger issue.
Either way, I created Alignment Therapy drop-ins for you.
Alignment Therapy is a combination of Kinesiology plus alignment-based yoga. It uses both biomechanical principles as well as energetic practices to relieve pain and support healing.
For example, what heals back pain isn’t “good posture” or “straight spine.” Yoga for lower back pain is about making small shifts out of your patterns, into your greatest possibilities – physically, mentally, and spiritually.
SATURDAYS 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET
on Zoom
YOU are welcome 😊
Drop in to get a personal 5-10 minute therapeutic practice for your physical challenge – yoga for lower back pain, shoulder, wrist, and knee injury, and other discomforts – plus get the link to the video so you can continue to heal and feel great.
Your first class is free, after that it’s free for Ma Members.
Sample Alignment Therapy Practice
Your first class is free, after that it’s free for Ma Members.
Hi I’m Jessica. I started yoga for lower back pain in 1997.
I was shocked when my pain was gone in a couple weeks! And yet… sometimes yoga brought it back.
Obviously it wasn’t the poses that healed – because sometimes that hurt.
To figure out what the mechanism of healing was, I studied cadavers with pre-meds at UCLA, became a Certified Personal Trainer and received my Masters in Kinesiology.
I finally found the answer I was looking for in Anusara Yoga, and the idea of alignment.
In alignment-based yoga, every pose is an opportunity to align our muscles and bones with what’s called the “optimal blueprint.”
I learned that it’s not the pose we do that heals, it’s what we’re doing inside the pose that matters.
It’s moving the breath, the muscles, even the bones and organs in their optimal direction, like physical therapy, that allows the body to find body stability and ease.
That’s why we can be hurting ourselves on the mat, and healing ourselves while we’re driving.
I pared down the alignment principles that work for low back pain, knee pain and other common aches and pains so I could help people out of their pain and suffering… and thus Alignment Therapy was born.
Issues people come to Alignment Therapy Drop-Ins for...
Anything goes – from discomforts to chronic conditions, aches and pains to injury:
- low back pain
- mid-back pain
- upper back pain
- wrist pain
- knee pain
- chronic issues, surgery, or potential surgery on any of the above
- scoliosis
- ankle pain
- pregnancy-related issues
- postpartum issues and beyond
- fertility
- any other musculoskeletal discomforts, aches and pains, or chronic conditions
Your first class is free, after that it’s free for Ma Members.
The Five Sacred Steps of Alignment Therapy
Over the 20+ years I spent helping people out of pain with a combination of Kinesiology and yoga, I developed a pretty simple system to understand what an a particular body area might need to feel better and heal.
Alignment-based yoga uses the five elements as a “checklist” to find balance physically, mentally and spiritually:
SPACE - Receptivity
We’ll explore where you might need space in your body, starting with the breath. Generally, compression is the cause of muscoloskeletal pain, so we’ll identify where you need more space for circulation and get instant relief.
EARTH - Resistance
Wherever you have space, you also need stability. What muscles are forgetting their job to hold your bones in alignment? You’ll wake them up, engage, and create strength in that area with a firm but loving hug.
WATER - Release
Deep within your hips and shoulders you have muscles that tend to group when you’re stressed – and stay gripped long after. You’ll release these so you can get a little playful, flowy energy back in to your hips and shoulders.
FIRE - Rootedness
What does it mean to engage your core without sucking the belly, flattening the back, or any of the other common actions that create more pain and suffering? You’ll learn how to root in to the support that’s within you – so you feel more support where you need it.
AIR - Radiance
Once you’ve got space, stability, release in the deep hip flexors and support from your core – you get to actively expand. This is the “stretch” in any pose – and the moment that healing happens: when circulation, nerves, lymph and prana flow in a whole new way through you. Enjoy!
Your first class is free, after that it’s free for Ma Members.
