Wednesdays 10:00-11:30AM
- November 18
- December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Full Series: $180*
One Class: $32*
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This series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Back Care and Back Care Basics classes. With other new beginners to Back Care Classes at Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective, instructor Kuhu Joshi will teach you many of the basic actions, help you find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disc(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain… or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Back Care classes.

Wednesdays, 2:15-4:15pm
2026 Dates: January 14, February 18, March 18, April 15, May 13, June 10, September 23, October 14, November 18, December 16

One class for: $40 teachers, $30 Samamkaya Teaching Assistants, $20 Students
Any 3 classes for Teachers/Assistants/Students:  $105/80/54
Any 6 classes for Teachers/Assistants/Students $180/150/100
Any 10 classes for Teachers/Assistants/Students  $250/230/140

This course is approved as an IAYT CE Course! Take any 6 classes (12 hours) +  one 1 hour mentoring session for $240

Students with scoliosis have very specific needs with the nervous system, proprioceptive system and with pain patterns.  One must avoid muddled information.  Using prop set-ups, hand on adjustments and verbal instructions, Deborah Wolk will guide you in how to better teach your students with scoliosis.

This class is appropriate for all yoga teachers and for students with scoliosis. Teachers of other modalities (Pilates, personal training, etc.) may attend as teachers with Deborah’s permission. This class is not recommended for brand new beginners to yoga.

November 21-November 22
Saturday - 2:00-4:00PM | Sunday - 2:30-4:30PM
Both Workshops: $95*
One Workshop Only: $55*
*Get 10% off by using the code EARLYBIRD by November 9th

Saturday: LOWER BACK THERAPEUTICS – CARE FOR YOUR SACRUM

This session will combine some of the work from our previous workshops while also exploring new therapeutic movements for your sacrum. Its aim is to provide you with a toolbox of techniques to relieve your lower back pain due to sacroiliac joint and sacral band issues. Students of any skill level – including beginners – will benefit, attendance in prior workshops is not required.

During our time together you will learn:

• Gentle, safe movements to soothe, balance and strengthen your sacroiliac joints and sacral band, while respecting your body’s particular conditions and limitations.

• How to explore the messages that your sacroiliac joints present to you, in order to gain understanding of how to create sacral spine health.

• Techniques to change your emotional responses to sacral pain.

Sunday: LOWER BACK THERAPEUTICS – CARE FOR YOUR LUMBAR SPINE 

This session will combine some of the work from previous workshops while also exploring new therapeutic movements for your lumbar spine. Its aim is to provide you with a toolbox of techniques to relieve your lower back pain due to lumbar musculature issues, trauma, and vertebra and disk conditions.  Students of any skill level – including beginners – will benefit, attendance in prior workshops is not required.

During our time together you will learn:

• Gentle, safe movements to soothe, balance and strengthen your lumbar spine, while respecting your body’s particular conditions and limitations.

• How to explore the messages that your lumbar presents to you, in order to gain understanding of how to create lower back health.

• Techniques to change your emotional responses to lumbar pain.

Liz Owen learned lower back therapeutics over a 25-year period immersed in Iyengar yoga. During this time, she studied with senior Iyengar teachers in the U.S., and both B.K.S. and Geeta Iyengar. Her expertise of lower back health and yoga philosophy brings both Eastern and Western wisdom to bear on creating a healthy lower back and will bring mindfulness and depth to your journey of maintaining lower back health in daily life.

December 5-6
Saturday 9:30am-12pm & 2:30-4:30pm
Sunday 10am-12pm
Full Weekend: $150*
Saturday Only: $115*
Saturday Morning Only: $65*
Saturday Afternoon or Sunday Morning Only: $50*
*Get 10% off by using the code EARLYBIRD by November 23rd
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The chakra system runs along a single central channel, the sushumna nadi. For a spine that twists, compresses, or guards against pain, that line is often exactly what the body has lost access to. This workshop shows you how to find and work from your center when your back doesn't feel centered.

Each chakra carries an element, from earth at the root to ether at the throat, and those elements give us a practical language for what each region of the spine needs. A low back that grips needs fluidity. A closed chest needs air. A tense neck needs space. As well as mapping where the chakras sit, we'll work with the quality each region is missing and use asana and pranayama with a therapeutic approach to restore it.

We will also explore the three granthis, the traditional knots along the central channel, as a way of understanding where holding and pain collect in the spine.

Students will leave with a way of reading their own back through the elements, a vocabulary for what each region needs, and therapeutic practices they can bring into daily life.

Open to students with scoliosis, back pain, or injury, and to teachers who work with them. No prior knowledge of the chakras required.