Saturday 14 March at 15:00

The Resilient Body: Lower Back, Hips and Knees

with Nikki Lynds-Xavier

Description

Whether you are hitting the ski slopes, putting in the miles on a bike, park running, or you just want better lower body flexibility - we'll cover practical techniques to eliminate pain, improve function, and increase freedom of movement.

We will also assess the application of yoga for pre and post activity, to enhance your performance and recovery, and train your tissues for resilience.

Expect insights and applications you can immediately put to use, as well as a subtler understanding of how breath, posture and even emotional state affect the body.

Over the years I've taught students who have a variety of lower body ailments, including tendonitis, sciatica, SI joint dysfunction, labral tears, impingement, dysplasia, osteoarthritis, and just general stiffness.

I am a trained Yoga Therapist, taught by experts such as the Nike therapeutic team, Harvard professors, and leading surgeons. To date I've sat through over 300 hours of anatomy lectures, surgical dissections, and the practical application of therapeutic yoga techniques. It's been a total game changer for me both professionally, and personally. Enabling me to help clients address specific needs or concerns, as well as it also informing my class teaching.

Clients come with a specific injury due to an incident or accident, but more often than not, it's chronic repetitive aches or pains due to the demands of their sport, or just endless hours spent at their desk. So, that's why New Energy Yoga and I are offering a dedicated session to build lower body resilience.

FAQs

Workshop and event bookings are non-refundable. If you can no longer make it, and you let us know with at least 48 hours notice, we will credit you by way of an account balance that you can use towards future purchases or bookings.

You may wish to bring a bottle of water with you. Mats and props are provided, but you're welcome to bring your own.

We have a no mobile phone policy in class and we remove shoes before entering the main studio. Barefoot is best but you are welcome to wear socks.

Meet Nikki

Teacher What does Yoga mean to you?

To practise yoga is to connect – mind, body, soul. So yoga allows me, to be me. 

How would you describe your style of Yoga?

My yoga style depends on what I need that day. I enjoy a strong Vinyasa or Bikram but your body needs variety or you’ll just cruise; so I also do Hatha and Yin. My teaching style is flow yoga. I change the routine for each class, with a different focus to keep it interesting. But there’s a 3 monthly plan that we work through, to ensure that we build strength and flexibility for the whole body.

What is your favourite Yoga pose and why?

Favourite Yoga pose is King Dancer because it combines balance, strength, flexibility and focus.

An interesting/quirky fact about yourself and your experience?

I do Voiceovers. Ads, corporate videos etc. I was once auditioned for the BBC radio travel reports but being dyslexic, grappling with the road numbers sent me into a spin!

A quote that means something to you?

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got” – Henry Ford