Work + Play with Props

If you have never worked with props, this will be an eye-opening introduction. If you have already used props, you will have fun learning new ways to work with them. Alison is a creative master in the use of props and has been developing material for as long as she has been teaching. 

 

We prop ourselves up inside our body with our bones, ligaments, tendons, fascia and organs. We prop others with our adjustments and support. Yoga props are powerful tools for both release and effort, grace and gravity, insight and the promotion of strength and range of motion, depending on how one chooses to use them.

 

Often, props are thought of as lowly aids to those who can’t fully do a pose. But fully doing a pose thanks to a prop makes the prop an amazing partner to your practice. And props can be used to make poses much harder too! Different props can help in different ways, as you will have the chance to discover as we use blocks, belts, chairs and more to illumine, support and challenge your poses.

Props prolong poses.

Props promote progress.

Props promote proprioception.

Props provide power.

Props protect problem areas.

Props propel poses into new places.

Alison has been recognized as one of the most influential Yoga teachers in America (Sonima, 2016). A creative and original thinker published by Cambridge University Press, she has channeled her academic and scholarly background into the study of Yoga. She has practiced many forms, including Astanga and Iyengar Yoga, which has laid the foundation for much of what she teaches now. She founded www.YogaUnion.com in 1996 and opened her first studio space in 2005, specializing in both Alignment Yoga and Yoga for Backcare and Scoliosis, of which she is one of the major exponents.

 

Alison feels the time has come for a revolution in how we teach children and young people to sit and move and view their bodies now and in the future. She is currently writing her first Yoga book, Yoga for Backcare, to be followed by Yoga for Scoliosis, and creating a significant on-demand program, Ropes and Slings on a Yoga Wall or Door, making the material vastly more accessible to those without a rope wall. Yoga Journal has produced an on-demand, six-part Back Health Program created by Alison.