What to expect
This 90 minute specialist workshop with Polly Griffiths will guide you through a range of backbending options.
Would you like to find more strength and depth in your back-bends? Do you feel restricted in backward bends? Or do you just love back-bends and want to do a bunch of them and learn some stuff too?
Then jump in to THIS!
Through postures like cobra, locust and camel, Polly will share techniques that truly changed her back-bending game.
Backward bending is an important part of our practice and can feel SO GOOD when we find that sweet spot of strength and release. Exploring these postures intentionally and safely, this session will help you discover back-body strength you might not know you had, and understand what’s happening in the body when it moves in this powerful way.
Benefits of Back Bending
Practicing backbends open up the front body, increase your hip flexibility, and improve the mobility of your lumbar and thoracic spine. With much of our modern lives living seated at work or at home, practicing backbends, whilst challenging, has a wide range of benefits.
This workshop will guide you through a wide range of backbending yoga postures, along with advice for alignment and how you can add backbending mobility into your daily movement practice (or create one!).
About Your Teacher Polly
Polly teaches empowering and accessible yoga, which focuses on progress and purpose. She has been sharing yoga from the Kolkata tradition since qualifying with Raja Yoga Academy 500hr training in 2017. Following the methodology and lineage shared by Bishnu Charan Ghosh, she is currently completing Ghosh Yoga’s Advanced Teacher Training. This approach is grounded in modern knowledge of physiology and neuroscience from recent studies, while honouring ancient traditions and values. Polly has taught in Thailand, New Zealand and California, and offers a distinctive yoga experience in a range of styles - including her own high energy Yoga Disco modality.
The cost of this 90 minute workshop will be:
£15 drop in rate for non-members
£12 for FRESH. Society Members.