Sport Specific Yoga Packages

The Weekend Warrior and Fitness Enthusiast
Breath awareness develops the focus and concentration essential for maintaining safe and proper form when exercising and lifting weights. Core postures builds proximal strength allowing the full body to work more efficiently during your exercise regime. Standing postures that encourage building flexibility and strength concurrently create balance within the body, assist in recovery times between workouts and prevent injury.

Baseball
Hip and shoulder openers create the range of motion and flexibility throughout your body that is necessary for efficient hitting, pitching and throwing. Core strength builds proximal stability essential for efficient and powerful movements utilized in hitting and throwing thereby relieving strain on the small muscles in the shoulders. Breathing exercises and awareness steady the mind and body while playing improving concentration during long games and double headers. Warrior postures and squats increase strength and flexibility in the hips and legs through functional positions that mimic positions used on the field. Standing and balancing postures build proprioception and stability through your feet, legs and pelvis making you more powerful and steady on the field.

Basketball
Standing postures improve range of motion and strength in the foot and ankle thereby minimizing the possibility of ankle injuries. Breathing exercises steady the mind and improve focus for both complex plays on the court as well as plays at the free throw line. Standing lunges and warrior postures increase flexibility and strength through the legs, hips and pelvis to allow for explosive sprinting up and down the court. Core strengthening increases proximal stability in order to enhance distal mobility in your arms and legs. Shoulder openers improve flexibility in the chest and upper back for a longer reach while tossing, dribbling and shooting the basketball.

Golf
Breathing exercise calm the conscious mind to improve focus with driving and putting. Spinal twists and deep hip openers improve the range of motion of your spine for a fuller and more powerful back swing and follow through. Core strengthening improves the proximal stability and power behind your swing during drives on long fairways. Shoulder openers balance the upper body by strengthening weak muscles and stretching tight ones thereby enhancing the fluidity with your swing and reducing the risk of injury.

Tennis
Shoulder openers improve posture through your upper body to decrease stress on the rotator cuff tendons during your service game. Spinal twists and hip openers help to develop mobility in the hips and spine essential for serves and backhands. Warrior postures increase mobility and strength in the hips and pelvis necessary for explosive movements while volleying. Proper breathing techniques build concentration and focus and reduce effects of stress during long volleys and extended matches. Core strengthening increases the power and behind serves and volleys minimizing the strain on the smaller muscles of the shoulder.

Triathletes:

     Swimming

Core strengthening encourages the proximal stability that will propel you during your stroke rather than only relying on the smaller muscles of the upper body. Balance postures develop better proprioceptive awareness of your entire body making each kick and stroke more efficient. Flexibility postures like spinal twists and hip and shoulder openers balance your body allowing for greater ease of movement in the water. Diaphragmatic breathing teaches to utilize your entire lung capacity and invokes a sense of calm during training and long swims.

     Cycling

Supported backbends restore the natural S shape curve of the spine that can be reversed during long rides. Deep breathing techniques utilize your full lung capacity and allow for more efficient breathing when riding. Concentration and focus developed during longer holds and breathing exercises teach you ways to minimize boredom on long rides. Standing postures like warrior improve flexibility and range of motion in your hips, quadriceps and hamstrings allowing for more movement and power during pedaling.

     Running

Breath work and meditation build concentration and focus in order to work with your own personal edge during long training runs. Standing balance postures help improve proprioception in the lower extremities that is necessary when running off trail or on uneven surfaces. Postures like boat and plank are core strengtheners that will give you a powerful base from which to propel your legs and pump your arms during sprints or fartlek training. Flexibility that is the focus of forward bends and hip openers can minimize the effects of overtraining and prevent injuries as well as allowing you to take longer strides through a more efficient range of motion.