Yoga.BodyTorque; Scoliosis & Backcare, Spinal Anatomy.

Yoga.BodyTorque is a peaceful studio space offering private Yoga sessions for spinal health, Scoliosis and Backcare.

Narelle Carter-Quinlan offers the only service of its kind in Yoga, Scoliosis and Spinal Anatomy within Australia.

A Teacher Training in Yoga and Scoliosis is offered in Brisbane during 2012. Please visit the website.

WORKSHOPS on yoga and scoliosis are scheduled during 2012 on the Gold Coast, in Manhattan, New York,and Salzburg, Austria. Stay tuned for updates on Sydney and Melbourne events!

PRIVATE SESSIONS

Narelle's work in Australia focuses on offering individual yoga sessions oriented to spinal health.

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In yoga for scoliosis:

• the spine is offered traction (creating space, length and decompressing the spinal elements eg discs and facet joints),
• de-rotation is invited, together with specific ways of engaging the asymmetry of the body to create functional balance

• a balanced strength and stability is rebuilt around the new, felt and known, alignment.
• breath is cultivated throughout the three dimentionality of the lungs and ribcage.

You will learn how to engage your limbs effectively to actively create potent change within your spine.

Often underlying developmental movement patterns of support are missing or incomplete with scoliosis. Through asana applications, you will learn how to rebuild these patterns, and to support your spine in relationship with gravity.

Working in a scoliotic terrain herself, Narelle has a deep understanding of practicing yoga in scoliosis. It is the areana of her ongoing scholarly and experiential research.

 
please ENSURE that you visit the studio website before you phone or email to make a booking for your session. This rich site contains all the important information you need to get the most out of your yoga!

Inherent within an Iyengar practice is the use of equipment or "props". Props  enabe students to work appropriately and safely within their capacity, and elicit a keen understanding of the direction, intent and movement within a pose. They clarify and broaden the experience of the asana and enable incisive penetration of the otherwise dull areas of the body. Props play a vital role in practicing yoga with scoliosis! During your private session you will shown how to modify the work you have done in the studio, to practice effectively in your home environment.

Narelle Carter-Quinlan (BAppSc Biomed, HMS) has been passionately engaged with Yoga, dance and embodied movement practices for nearly 50 years. An anatomist and scientist by academic training, she has taught Yoga since 1988. Her ongoing signature inquiry and that which she ignites in her students, is of the body as felt, known, poetic space; the Embodied Ecology of our interior terrain. Her teaching is infused with a rich experiential anatomy.

Narelle is formally trained in the Iyengar method of yoga with Alan Goode with whom she Teacher Trained and Apprenticed over eight years. Alan Goode was her Teacher since 1993. Inhabiting a scoliotic landscape, Narelle’s work is oriented towards and offers deep insight into practising Yoga within scoliosis and with backcare issues.  Narelle has studied with and now regularly assists Elise Miller in the US. She  guest presents her research in spinal anatomy at Yoga Union Center for Backcare and Scoliosis in New York City. Narelle has assisted, and taught Spinal and sacroiliac Anatomy and Pathology for Donna Farhi within her Teacher Training and Intensives. She guest teaches in Europe, most recently, Yoga and Scoliosis in Salzburg, where she will offer a further Teacher Training and Professional Development in October 2012. Narelle has recently returned from four months study in the States during which time she had the joy of twice dissecting in integral anatomy intensives with Gil Hedley.

 Narelle is renowned for her radiant Powerpoint presentations and deep, yet playful teachings on Spinal Anatomy; the complex illuminated! She has presented her scholarly and movement research in Yoga and scoliosis at many international conferences, most recently, at the World Congress for Low Back and Pelvic pain in Los Angeles, November 2010. For seven years Narelle served as senior tutor and lecturer in anatomy, histology and physiology at the Queensland University of Technology and The Endeavour College of Natural Health respectively. She experiences the body as a physical hologram; vibratory, resonant, and utterly interconnected with our larger ecology.

Narelle is currently researching and writing her books; yoga and scoliosis, the Figure 8 in asana, and Embodied Ecology Photography. Movement research is in process  in the form of “House of the Broken Wing”, a performative, film and written exploration of moving in a scoliotic environment. This work is a collaboration with renowned NYC visual artist, Laura Ferguson.

For further information, please visit http://sites.google.com/site/narelleyogascoliosis/home 

or phone Narelle on 0434862088