Gur Yoga Workshops:

Major Benefits of Gur Yoga Include:

•Really working the abdominal wall for deeper tone and strength, translating into a stronger,

lighter yoga practice.

•Increasing your body’s range of motion, increasing flexibility for a longer, length in your body.

•Getting a deeper stretch and thus a better muscle workout.

•Using other muscles to help balance during your yoga practice thus getting a better total

workout.

•Develop muscle tone all over. Because while you’re strengthening one muscle group, another is

helping maintain balance—toning and firming the body quicker.

•Changing up the emphasis on the muscle due to the different angles thus keeping our muscles

guessing.

•Creating Balance! Learning balance in motion with the ball, facilitates the ultimate benefit in

support of balance in your yoga practice; leading to greater strength and stability.

•Taking pressure off of certain joints as the ball is soft and round. Healing and restoring areas

including the back, shoulder girdle, and knees. (Strengthening your abs always helps your back

as it provides the opposing support.)

Everything done with Gur Yoga can be modified to make it more or less challenging. Gur Yoga is

for all levels in the their yoga practice, as well as a wonderful addition to any other fitness

program.

Detailed Benefits of Gur Yoga Include:

Gur Yoga creates proprioception (body awareness) in every body and fitness level. It can also be

used to rehab an injury. And improve strength and balance in an unstable environment.

Gur Yoga develops the deep segmental muscles that stabilize the spine. With Gur Yoga, you

engage these segmental muscles (spinal erectors, low back muscles. As well as the multifidus,

rotores, and interspinales.). And developing them not only helps prevent injury, it also improves

your posture and efficiency in movement.

With Gur Yoga we are able to work in all directions, a stimulus for working in all three planes of

motion (front-to-back, side-to-side, and rotational). The unstable quality of the ball in Gur Yoga

develops the neutralizers (muscles which counteract the actions of other muscles) and

stabilizers (muscles that surround the joint and hold it relatively still) involved in the movement.

For example, when you do a Chaturanga with your hands on the ball and your feet on the

ground, the stabilization required recruits and develops the neutralizers and stabilizers of the

shoulder girdle/joint. As a result, you become stronger in exercises that work the same muscles

but don’t require stabilization.