Toronto 
Events Description
OSTEO-YOGA
with Ashley McEachern, E-RYT & Alicia Grant, Osteopathic Manual Practitioner
What is Osteo-Yoga
Osteo-yoga is a holistic slow movement and rehabilitation process. It fuses the long held postures practiced in Yin Yoga with the application of gentle Osteopathic touch from an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner while in the postures.
What to Expect? – Individualized Osteopathic touch/assistance, alongside Myofascial Release from the yoga teacher as needed in each session. – More individualized assists each week. Both the yoga instructor and osteopath will begin to learn more about each participant each week, enabling a more meaningful treatment with every passing session. – Educational components on the role that bones, muscles, and pressure mechanisms all play in creating fully functional bodies integrated throughout the class teachings. – Access to powerful bodywork while restoring the vitality of the body and calming the nervous system.
What is Osteopathy?
Osteopathy is a manual therapy that addresses the body as a whole in order to assess, prevent, and treat dysfunctions. It incorporates gentle treatment of soft tissue (fascia, muscles, tendons, ligaments), the skeletal system, the viscera (organs) and the craniosacral system (the bones within the cranium and the pelvis). Utilizing gentle and effective techniques, osteopathy involves all structures of the body to help elicit the self-healing mechanism of the client.
What Inspired Osteo-Yoga?
I (Ashley) have been navigating a frustrating foot issue for nearly a decade. After breaking my calcaneus, I continually sprained that same ankle for years. I had to quit running completely, shifted my yoga practice completely, and faced chronic pain for much longer than I should have. After years of failed treatments from massage therapists, hopeless test results from doctors and a pain that disturbingly increased with every year, I finally found an osteopath (who was a student in my class at YogaSpace) who understands the body from a lens my yoga training had never taught me. Within a few sessions, she was able to rewire my foot and I was able to rewire my brain’s response to my foot. Finally, mid-session one week, I popped up and asked her to come to the studio with me and share her ‘magic hands’ and extremely educated anatomy brain with our students. Thus creating Osteo-yoga!
Workshop and Pre-registered Class Refund Policy
Payment is due upon registration to secure your spot. Once payment has been made, refunds may occur up until 48 hours prior to the start date of the workshop or pre-registered series. No refunds or exchanges will be given within the final 48 hours before a workshop or pre-registered series begins.
There are no refunds or make-up classes for missed classes within a workshop or pre-registered class.
All fees are subject to HST and are in Canadian Dollars.
Who is it for?
Adults
HOW MUCH
Tickets : 240+HST
240+HST
How to get tickets?
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Thursday April 4, 2024 to Thursday April 25, 2024
Every Thursday in April from 4pm-5:15pm
Venue & Address
YogaSpace, 699 College Street, Toronto, ON, M6G 1B9
Wheelchair not accessible
Street Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
