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October 06, 2009 - Susi Hately, a therapeutic yoga expert and founder of Functional Synergy is launching Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips DVD. The DVD is following her best-selling book with the same title and consists of 6 practice sessions that are 13-15 minutes long aimed to help release tightness and tension through the shoulders and hips. It will be available November 1, 2009 for a suggested retail price of $24.99. Functional Synergy's website www.functionalsynergy.com will have an updated list of retailers carrying the product.
The Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips program offers yoga exercises from simple to complex for all yoga and fitness levels. As you develop awareness in the simple exercises, you'll gain ease of motion, stability and strength, which you can then take into the more complex exercises to further enhance your awareness, ease, balance and freedom.
According to Susi, most of the orthopedic issues she sees stem from dysfunction in the shoulders and/or hips. The same is true for back, neck and knee pain. "If I can help someone regain function and improve the dance between the shoulders, hips, spine, limbs and breath; habitual holding patterns can release, pain can be better managed or resolved, and an overall lightness and ease can be cultivated," says Susi. "In short, amazing things happen."
By following the Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips program you will learn the biomechanics of the shoulders and hips, and how they impact each other; how they influence energy flow through the spine, and affect transfer of force and load from the upper body to the lower body and lower body to upper body. You will learn therapeutic yoga asanas that improve the functioning of the shoulders and hips and improve the balance in and between your neck, mid back and lower back. The result is less pain, less strain, and more freedom, stability and ease.
Susi's teachings are based on "moving in your pain-free range of motion." Recent research is now confirming what yogis have known for a long time: When you move in your pain-free range of motion, your nervous system adapts - it responds with less pain. The opposite is true too. If you move in pain, your nervous system will respond with more pain.
Neurophysiology research also shows that if you can be quietly mindful in your movement you will help evoke the parasympathetic nervous system and your relaxation response. This response is an important component to healing and recovery.
Susi Hately lives in Calgary, AB, Canada where she owns and operates Functional Synergy (www.functionalsynergy.com), which specializes in designing custom yoga programs for people with injury or illness. Susi's main focus and expertise is in helping people overcome pain and injuries with her customized yoga therapy programs. Since 2004, Susi teaches a comprehensive therapeutic certification program for aspiring instructors to learn the importance of well-being as it affects various conditions. This training program, based on the Hatha yoga method, encompasses her wide range of acquired disciplines including kinesiology, yoga iRest (yoga nidra), rehabilitation, modern mind-body science and practical experience as an exercise therapist and ergonomics consultant.
Susi's workshops are taught globally and cater to yoga teachers and trainees who want to learn by understanding movement and learning to see blockages in movement to customize solutions for themselves and their students to create balance, ease of movement and inherent strength and flexibility - all without pain. Susi provides a functional and common sense approach to her teaching. Her students say her style is engaging, empowering and loads of fun.
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