Healing Hypermobility
A practical & mystical approach with Yoga Therapist, Kaya Mindlin
Online Program May 17-19, 2023
For Yoga Practitioners & Teachers
Kaya hasn’t taught Healing Hypermobility in-person since 2014… now, it’s finally coming to you online {taught live & recorded for your convenience!}. This is appropriate for both teachers & students of yoga and is an ideal companion to Kaya’s SRY Fundamentals program.
$425 for first 25 Students
3 Days of Live & Self-Paced Teaching + 4 Curated Yoga Practices
Learn what hypermobility is, the root causes, shortcomings in yogaland, the vedic viewpoint, mental components, and how to heal it with deeper healing practices that make all the difference.
If you’re a yoga student, you may seem to move easily and far into yoga poses, yet you are living in pain or with a very busy mind. You came to yoga for help, but still are struggling with anxiety, hyper-vigilance, a busy mind, digestive or hormonal unrest, and pain in key areas of your body – like your hips, neck, SI joints, and even your tailbone. You feel disappointed in yourself & yoga. You get congratulated in conventional yoga classes for your “flexibility,” but everything seems to make you feel worse.
If you’re a yoga teacher, you may feel like certain yoga practices run you ragged. You have a facade of a “yogi,” but you are suffering as much as your students – or more – with a relentless busy mind, bodily pain, trauma, and “weird” symptoms that seem to come out of nowhere with no clear explanation. You thrived in yoga because your body could make “shapes,” and you love teaching because you are a sensitive seeker who wants to help people – but you feel more and more limited in your body and frustrated that no one seems to know how to help you get to the deeper realms within that yoga promises. If you can’t do that, how can you help others? You feel a bit like a fraud, claiming to love yoga and wanting to help others, yet plagued with physical pain, and feeling unable to get out of your head to discover the mystical states that yoga promises.
Where there is trauma or vāta, there is a hypermobility pattern.
You aren’t a broken problem to be fixed… but the hypermobile tendency can be painful… and you may have noticed you are more “sensitive” to the world than others. “Hyperlaxity” is a whole system constitution in which the ligaments are OVERSTRETCHED while the muscles along the spine are TIGHT, RIGID, RESTRICTED, DEHYDRATED & DEPLETED. This is most severely felt in your hips & pelvis and your heart, neck & shoulders. It manifests in digestive sensitivity & hormonal imbalance. Some say, “wow, lucky you are so flexible,” while you are questioning whether something is wrong because of the pain in your body and relentless hypervigilance and anxiety of your mind.
Hypermobility is very common among yoga practitioners & teachers.
Hypermobility is the dominant pattern among yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, people in the healing arts, women, dancers. Yes, it is that common. And yet… 70% of physical therapists in their OWN study said they don’t know what to do about hypermobility! And the vast majority of yoga practices not only don’t understand hypermobility but exacerbate it! It is so common and so painful. It is time to be part of a movement of practitioners and teachers who know how to recognize it, how to work with it, and even how to heal it.
A deep look at the myth and harm of the "Core Strength" movement
Many people in the physical therapy & yoga world push strength training to counteract ligament hyperlaxity, and yet many recipients of this “remedy” find they get worse over time, or new symptoms crop up. Inside Healing Hypermobility, we dive more deeply into this phenomenon.
- What is the relationship between the core & hyperlaxity?
- Do “core strength” programs exacerbate hyperlaxity, and why?
- Can hyperlaxity be healed and what happens to muscle strength then?
Yes, hypermobility can be healed
You can find hope & healing in your practice – and bring it to students with this pattern as well. It takes a radically different viewpoint and letting go of popularized mechanistic assumptions about the body that are a disservice.
Luckily, you’re a yoga practitioner!! You LOVE growth, transformation & deepening your knowledge.
Get ready for a deep dive into the components of the problem of hypermobility & the solution, including…
- The elusive psoas and why it is so tight & dehydrated in hypermobile bodies
- The Ayurveda viewpoint on hypermobility
- The Vāstu viewpoint – vedic architecture of the body!
- The mystical, magical {but very tight} tailbone
- The myths {and the truths} about “hip openers” in yoga
- Exaggerated & complicated diagnoses – Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Lymes, Anxiety
- Pregnancy, Birth & Hypermobility
- How to “see” it and how to work with it in others
- Practicum on Key āsanas as examples
- Propping and Hypermobility do’s & don’ts
- Practice and and Hypermobility do’s & don’ts
- Linguistic Tools for working with hypermobile students
- The spine and hypermobility
$425 Early Bird
18 Hour CEU OF LIVE & SELF-PACED TEACHINGs + PRACTICES
Schedule: Three Day Immersion + One Month of Yoga Practices
- May 17: Teachings & Practicum 10am-12pm PST & 1pm-4pm PST
- May 18: Curated Supplemental Self-Paced Content
- May 19: Teachings & Practicum 10am-12pm PST & 1pm-4pm PST
- Curated Self-Paced Yoga Practices
Features of Healing Hypermobility
Easy-to-access live classes, videos, Q&As, bonuses and community.
Deep Teachings
This program is “lecture heavy”. Kaya takes a lot of time to unpack Hypermobility from a full-spectrum viewpoint. This includes the anatomical and embryonic view, short-comings in yogaland and physical therapy, vedic psychology, Ayurveda, and more.
Direct Experience
Experiential practices & detailed practicums! Four curated self-paced Supreme Release Yoga practice that highlight the principles of the program. Plus Live practicums of several key poses that give Kaya the opportunity to emphasize and explain more in depth certain principles of the body
Live Q&A Time
Time each live session to ask your questions, get Kaya’s eyes on your body, see how she works with others and have time as a community to explore the teachings, principles and practices of the program.
Four Pillars of Training with Kaya
Kaya's approach to yoga therapy is truly rooted in a holistic vedic vision of yoga & of the human experience. Designed for practitioners & teachers, her programs thread the mystical & the practical with teachings & direct experience.
4 essential components of SRY training with Kaya
1
Direct Experience
Yoga is not theoretical nor academic. It must be experienced directly & deeply by the practitioner. The practices must be guided by a masterful teacher & then revealed within the practitioner. Practice of Supreme Release Yoga is included in every training.
2
Holistic Pedagogy
Kaya brings kinesthetic, auditory & visual teaching methods and a particular teaching pedagogy that allows you to successfully learn, digest and apply what you learn to yourself or others. Her approach uses the embryonic vision of the body.
3
Honoring Tradition
Every teaching connects to timeless truths about the human experience through the lens of the vedic tradition. Nothing is random or based on yogaland trends. Kaya threads yoga chikitsa, yogic scripture, sacred story, ayurveda, vastu and vedic astrology into all that she shares.
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Relationships
The relationship between teacher & student and amongst students is sacred. Every training with Kaya includes time to reflect, share, ask questions. Kaya responds in real time to real students. You continue to get intimate guidance & support in our online sangha.
Precious time together is the classical way to experience & learn healing techniques. The direct experiences of profound yogic tools, is essential to teach from a place of inner depth and integrity. Wonderfully, this means more healing and transformation for you on your path to learning to support others in their healing and transformation. ~ Kaya
$425 first 25 STUDENTS
18 Hour CEU LIVE & SELF-PACED TEACHINGs + PRACTICES
*For those who have completed SRY Fundamentals, the emphasis of this training is not on new poses and practices, because the whole SRY practice is already geared to address hypermobility. This program is about deepening your understanding and refining your approach to practice & teaching.
Schedule: Three Day Immersion + One Month of Yoga Practices
- May 17: Teachings & Practicum 10am-12pm PST & 1pm-4pm PST
- May 18: Curated Supplemental Self-Paced Content
- May 19: Teachings & Practicum 10am-12pm PST & 1pm-4pm PST
- Curated Self-Paced Yoga Practices
You (or your students) may seem to move easily and far into yoga poses but are living in pain with an extremely busy or easily agitated mind.
Other people say things like, “wow lucky you are to be so flexible”, yet you question whether something is “wrong” because of the pain in your joints, back, or neck. An ever-growing list of sensitivities seems to crop up in your body and a true sense of health feels like a moving target.
Furthermore, no matter how you look or seem on the outside, you feel obstructed in the quiet mind that yoga is designed to cultivate.
Dive deeply into a full-spectrum knowledge of the hypermobility pattern (the one most experienced yoga practitioners have). Learn how to recognize it, what are the the underlying patterns, key practice “don’ts”.
Learn about the mental components that usually accompany the body pattern and how to work with the body-mind of the hypermobile practitioner – yourself and your students.
Designed for both experienced practitioners and teachers of yoga. You’ll learn what you need to transform your approach to your personal practice or your teaching {or both!}