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Santina Giardina-Chard

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We are so excited to announce that Santina Giardina - Chard will be teaching a three-day Ashtanga Intensive at Wilderness plus 2 x Workshops

This is a unique opportunity to practice and learn from an incredibly experienced and inspirational teacher renowned worldwide, coming to our beautiful Coffs Coast. Santina has diligently completed the Primary, 2nd and 3rd series of this method under the guidance of Mark Togni. In 2016, Santina was granted Level 2 Authorisation to teach Ashtanga Yoga, by her teacher R. Sharath Jois. She is also a certified Master Teacher in the Nicky Knoff Yoga System.

As Santina’s teacher, R. Sharath Jois, says “Yoga is a spiritual practice;” so through devotion, determination and tender endurance with each asana of her advanced Ashtanga yoga practice, San has developed an intimacy with the physiology and spirituality of our human form.

San’s commitment to a life of process, practice and courage cultivates rich soil from which to provide meaningful guidance as an Ashtanga yoga teacher. She augments her yoga teaching with her work as a therapist, holding a Masters of Gestalt Therapy — A humanistic therapy focusing on sharpening an individual’s awareness of emotions and behaviours in their experience of themselves in the present moment, to reveal what really “is”.

Workshop 1 - Prana and Apana Patterns

Learn the internal patterns which open the central core of your body, and go deep. Use breath, queues and a steady pace to move through surya A and B, standing forward folds and supine and seated poses. As your breath flows, rolls and curls like waves, yoga postures relate to each other. Feel how this brings a remarkable sense of relief and clarity in your mind and body.

Includes Exercises for the Apana pattern. Apana is the pattern throughout your body controlling exhaling and grounding. A practice that reveals the pattern and movements of apana and shows the secrets of how to train it. Open and feel the channels which allow you to drop your breath.

Workshop 2 - Juicy Psoas & Conscious Core

The psoas is a deep muscle that is a major player in our body that has many jobs. It acts as a stabilizer between the lower body and the upper body, it is a mover of the legs and it creates flexion of the hips. For yoga practitioners, having a juicy psoas and awakened core has a tremendous positive effect on forward bends, backbends and twists. Besides the physical benefits of a healthy psoas, this hipflexor also has a powerful effect on how able you are to relax and feel good in your body. With the psoas being responsible for many functions, tightness in this muscle is very common in all people, even active people. It can lead to problems ranging from back pain to knee and ankle issues. Body workers and yoga teachers are now getting more familiar with the workings of this important deep hip flexor.

In addition to its physcial role, the psoas is also an “emotional” muscle and your “second brain.” Stress, unprocessed trauma and emotions are stored deep within your body, and in the psoas muscle. To access this part of yourself and to learn to release it, can be of great benefit to finding more ease, wellbeing and vitality.

You will be introduced to your psoas, learn how through various easy exercises how to align your pelvis, access your psoas and move from your core! The workshop is accessible to students of all levels, an can be of particular interest to yoga teachers wanting to learn more about the effect of the psoas and pelvic alignment in yoga and vice versa.

You will learn:

1. How to align your pelvis and low back in different asana

2. How to locate your psoas and determine the effect on your posture

3. About the role of the psoas on all levels of being - physiological, emotional and energetic levels

4. How to release the psoas and become conscious of your abdominal muscles to discover balance in your body

5. How to strengthen the different layers of your abdomen

6. How to strengthen and lengthen the psoas

7. Simple exercises and imagery to effectively juice up your psoas for frictionless movement