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$90.00 Gernot Huber Science Toolkit Saturday
$90.00 Gernot Huber Science Toolkit Sunday
$160.00 Gernot Huber Science Toolkit Both Days

This workshop will take place in the Fairfax Studio and on Zoom. Attend live, and/or access the recording for one month following. 

Have you been wondering why you have a pain in your knee or your shoulder that isn’t going away? Why you have so much neck tension?  Why some yoga poses seem difficult and/or unpleasant regardless how long you've practiced them?

This workshop with esteemed guest teacher Gernot Huber highlights a few key insights from anatomy, biomechanics, evolution, and neuroscience that have the power to revolutionize your postural yoga practice through a better understanding of how movement actually works. This is a true challenge because how movement actually works is quite different from our instincts about it. 

Gernot will focus on concepts whose significance is often overlooked or misunderstood. Instead of memorizing names of bones and muscles, the workhsop is designed to help you understand key biomechanical and neuroscientific concepts, and learn to apply them to real-world movement challenges. 

The weekend is designed to benefit anyone who is curious about movement science, whether a yoga teacher, a teacher in training, or anyone interested in better movement. Technical concepts are presented in an experiential context, and Gernot makes it clear why it matters, while explaining how to apply each concept in a way that dramatically increases the benefits of your practice, with lots of experiential time built in.

Also included is a handy practice guide with detailed written and photographic instructions for all the exercises covered in the course. 

Weekend Objectives:

Experience in your own body how a few concepts from anatomy and biomechanics can transform your understanding of movement;

Understand how anatomical thinking can sometimes also hinder better movement;

Discover the vast range of individual anatomical variation and how it impacts people’s movement;

Learn how to evaluate existing movement patterns and analyze them for safety and effectiveness for your body;

Practice applying biomechanical concepts to solve real-world movement issues;

Learn to create better movement patterns by letting go of what you think you know about how to move;

Discover the connections between movement and thought patterns and how to utilize these connections to improve not just your physical but also your mental wellbeing.

Gernot Huber

Gernot began practicing yoga in 1998, and has been teaching yoga full time since 2009. Besides teaching group and private yoga classes, Gernot works as a yoga therapist in Dr. Loren Fishman’s medical rehab practice in New York City. Gernot also maintains an active workshop teaching schedule, teaching yoga and anatomy workshops in Asia, Europe, and the US. Gernot holds a BA in Literature and Philosophy from Stanford, and an MS in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell. 

Gernot has developed a teaching style that integrates techniques from Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Forrest, Freedom, and Kripalu yoga with his own insights gleaned from 25 years of yoga explorations. He also incorporates insights from yogic and Buddhist philosophy and from anatomy, biomechanics, evolution, and neuroscience into his teaching. The guiding principle for how he teaches is always the question: “How can I help my students make their practice more beneficial for their longterm wellbeing?” 

One primary way Gernot does this is by helping his students notice how habitual movement patterns designed for achievement are often actually detrimental to wellbeing, and how these movement patterns actually reinforce mental patterns that are equally detrimental, like chronic stress and anxiety. Learning to notice these detrimental movement patterns is a mindfulness practice that results in better biomechanics and a more spacious breath. A more spacious breath in turn aids mindfulness because the present moment is always more pleasant to hang out in if you can actually breathe, even if you are working hard. Thus we gradually learn to replace the self-reinforcing cycle of striving for more and always falling short, with a genuinely joyful exploration of this moment in time, always asking the question: “What can I do right now to make this moment in time more spacious, more balanced, more joyful, more free?”