Therapeutic Yoga Series for Upper Back, Shoulder, and Neck

Multi-week Course | This class is completed

Everyone *With Attention to Conditions Listed Below

6/24/2014-7/22/2014

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$100.00

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine1545 Divisadero St. 5th Floor, Room 526
San Francisco, CA 94115

The Therapeutic Yoga Series for Upper Back, Shoulders & Neck is a 5 week class series for students of all levels and abilities, with instruction in yoga poses, basic anatomy, breathing practices, and deep relaxation to help alleviate chronic pain and tension in the upper back, shoulders and neck. Learn ways to release tension, increase postural awareness and build strength from the bottom up. Balance stabilty and mobility, and free your upper body for greater ease of movement and relief. Wake up th upper back, and counteract the slump of "keyboard shoulders" and "text neck". Find your postural awareness and presence through alignment: therapeutic yoga, undulation, and somatics: andd breathing and relaxation.

Good for: tense or tight shoulders and neck, tension headaches, forward head position.

  • Cautions: There are some conditions, such as: newly injured or severe disc compression or heriation, with radiatin/nerve pain; recent surgery for back, shoulder, or neck; and spondylolisthesis, for which this program may not be beneficial in a group setting. Please consult with a phyisician or health care practitioner before beginning this or any other yoga or exercise practice.
Lanzerotti, Rachel

Rachel Lanzerotti, MSW, RYT500 enjoys teaching people who are new to yoga and meditation or consider themselves unlikely practitioners. In addition to her private yoga therapy practice, Five Rivers Yoga [link www.fiveriversyoga.com], Rachel has taught yoga with several research studies at UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine: Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain (YoMA Study), Restorative Yoga for the Metabolic Syndrome (PRYSMS Study), and Integrative Approaches to Cancer Survivorship (IACS Study), as well as Mindful Breathing with Project INSPIRE. She holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from SF State University and a BA in Human Biology and Feminist Studies from Stanford University.