Workshop Weekend with Miles Mortensen (October 25 & 26)

Day 1: Saturday 25th  October

The Art of Compression L1 – Learning How to Take Flight

This workshop will piece together the elements of how to create lightness and ease in your practice, understanding how to jump forward, back, and through to seated.

During the workshop, you’ll gain insights into the anatomy of compression and its connection to the energetic aspects of yoga practice through bandhas. We will employ various training techniques and exercises to cultivate the strength and flexibility required for compression, as well as how to integrate this skill into your practice and even structure dedicated sessions for it.

This workshop is designed for practitioners of all levels, excluding absolute beginners.

Solar Awakening – The Creation and Art of Backbends

This workshop is all about creating space in your backbends, building both strength and openness within them that is geared towards stability and pain-free.

Here, Miles shares his knowledge accumulated from both his own exploration and research as well as that which he has learnt working with flexibility and contortion coaches. You will learn how to position and move your spine and the contributing joints correctly to enhance basic positions as well as work towards more advanced ones, the anatomy of backbends to which muscles need to be engaged and lengthened, and specific techniques and exercises to create and a support a backbend practice.

The workshop is catered to support a variety of levels except complete beginners. It is important to note that the ability to perform deep backbends is not a prerequisite but we do recommend having a comfortable wheel pose.