Bernie Clark, Dr. Stuart McGill – Your Spine, Your Yoga: The Course

Learn How to Increase Spinal Stability, Mobility, Endurance, and Well-Being

Experts estimate that up to 80 percent of the population will experience back pain at some time in their lives.

It doesn’t need to be this way. Your Spine, Your Yoga: The Course with Bernie Clark and Dr. Stuart McGill reveals how yoga and other movement practices can be applied in a way that respects our anatomical differences and optimizes back health.

This eight-hour course will guide you in developing a practice unique to your life and your body. It’s for those who experience back pain, yoga teachers and therapists, and movement enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to learn more about the function and mechanics of their spine.

The spine is a multi-faceted, multi-functional construct uniquely designed to provide both stability and mobility through our torso to our limbs. While physical yoga practices have been used for decades to increase the range of motion of the spine, the spine’s primary function is, first and foremost, to provide stability through the core of our body. Building this stability is protective for the lower back and prepares the body to endure (and adapt to) multiple forms and levels of stress.

Equally important in developing and maintaining spinal health is understanding how your own uniqueness dictates the nature of your practice. No one has your biology or biography, thus a standardized practice offered to every body is rarely the most effective way to work with your spine.

In this course, you will discover:

The code—the science of the spine

Professor McGill and Bernie discuss back-related themes through the lenses of biology, biomechanics, and pain mechanisms, including:

• Spinal architecture, functioning, and what actions can cause injury
• Understanding the trade-off between spinal stability and mobility
• How individual variations in anatomical structure affect ranges of motion and injury mechanisms
• Neuromobilization and “nerve gliding” explained, with some simple techniques that you can try right away
• Fascia and its effect on the body during movement
• Understanding the muscles as proprioceptors, and their role in back pain
• Why the rest period is the most important part of the movement cycle and how ignoring rest can lead to injury
• The common sources (and the roles) of tension, compression, and shear
• Developing a working understanding of optimal stress for optimal health
• The importance of proper assessment when working with back pain

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