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

Yoga teacher, therapist, and writer, Nikki’s passion lies in helping people feel their best with a combination of research-based science, traditional practices, and experience. She trained with the renowned yogis at the White Lotus Foundation in California, as well the therapeutic specialists and medics at the Nike World Headquarters Wellness Centre in Colorado.

She is a registered Yoga Medicine therapeutic specialist and runs a clinic as The Doctor’s Daughter at the Friarsgate GP practice thedoctorsdaughter.co.uk Nikki is dedicated to providing resources for those who wish to optimise their quality of life and functional capacity.

Working as a lawyer in the City, Nikki found yoga a decade and a half ago, as a much needed means to decompress, and has taught yoga for the last 8 years. Her teaching is guided by an understanding of anatomy, together with the ancient traditions of Chinese medicine.

Author of Stiff Guy Yoga’s Regain your Twentysomething Self in 30 days which has been featured in numerous publications including GQ, and the Telegraph, and was demonstrated by Ed Balls on the BBC’s ONE SHOW.

Following her own diagnosis and subsequent treatment, Nikki went on to found, together with a group of like-minded people, the Winchester Cancer Sanctuary. winchestercancersanctuary.org.