ADAM HUSLER - Workshop 2 "Pigeons and Dancers" Backbends

’Pigeons and Dancers’ or ‘Finding Strength and Balance in Backbends’

There are plenty of ways to shortcut your way into a pose, or at least something

that looks like the pose on quick inspection, but here we’ll be focusing on integrity

over aesthetics. King Pigeon and Dancers pose have countless benefits, if done

mindfully, but have lots of less-than-desirable outcomes if you are ‘chasing the

shape’.

Through this workshop you will:

- Increase your understanding of backbends and learn how to apply that to your

regular

practice,

- Develop a set of tools you can use to strengthen your over-loose bits and open

your

over-tight bits.

- Increase knowledge and skill as you work in the direction of full dancers and

pigeon

poses

- Learn how to keep your spine protected and safe in backbends

- Have a vinyasa based practice based around backhanding, with opportunities to

explore more complex poses like; wheel, drop backs, bow and plenty more.

This workshop is for anyone with a regular practice and although there will be

some advanced poses, the focus is the direction of travel, rather than destination.

Contortionists and desk workers will both equally find challenge and benefit.