Yoga For the Feet and Ankles with Letitia

Join us in-person for this special event!

Saturday, Jan. 25th, 2025  •  1:30-4 pm

$58 ($52 for PY828 Monthly Membership Students)

Improve your balance and more as you learn simple techniques to gain more flexibility and stability in the feet and ankles.

• Learn about the anatomy of the feet and ankles
• Strengthen your connection to your foundation
• Discover how the feet affect the knees, hips, and low back
• Get personal attention and instruction in this in-person only workshop capped at 12 students

Your foot and ankle together is a complex system that consists of 28 bones, 33 joints, 112 ligaments and 34 different muscles as well as over 200,000 nerve endings in each foot. Wow! Complex indeed! All of these work together to move us through the world, literally. Yet, we tend to take our feet for granted and depending on how much we wear shoes, we might not even see them for much of the day.

We can think of the bones, joints, ligaments, and muscles as the hardware of our feet and ankle. This complex system is designed for movement – to adapt to the surface we’re standing on and then to shift into a more rigid lever for pressing off. Those over 200,000 nerve endings are like the software, making our feet an incredibly innervated area that has the ability to provide information constantly to our brain to help us feel where we are and how we need to move.

Yoga can be an incredibly helpful modality to explore mobility and stability in our feet and ankles because it not only focuses on steadiness and ease of movement but also prioritizes strengthening our nervous system, increasing proprioception, and honing our sense of awareness and focus. AND we tend to practice yoga barefoot! So, yoga can support the hardware (muscular-skeletal system) and the software (nervous system) of our feet, improving not only our ability to stand and move with ease, grace, and balance, but also our ability to connect our brain and our feet, deepening our mind-body connection and enhancing our sense of where we are in space.

While we often practice foot exercises on a regular basis in our classes, this is the first time we’ve offered a workshop for the feet and ankles. We’re excited to share this information in a concentrated format that will give you more understanding of the physiology of the feet, provide you with a wide array of movement explorations to improve mobility and deepen sensitivity, and give you an opportunity to feel a greater sense of gratitude for your feet and all they do for you. Once we create more mobility and stability in the feet and ankles then we’ll explore how the lack of this can affect our knees, hips, and low back. Lastly, we’ll see how our exploration supports us in standing balance work.

This workshop is in-studio only and capped at 12 students. 

Open to all students, even those with no yoga experience.

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