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Dates
Saturday 02/08/2025 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Pricing
$45.00 Yoga Therapy for Your Neck and Shoulders with Amir
This workshop will take place in the Arlington Studio and on Zoom. Attend live, and/or access the recording for one month following.
Do you find yourself hunched over your phone, computer or desk? Do you feel tight and sore, or experience limited mobility, headaches or TMJ syndrome? Upper body, neck, and shoulder tension can become so chronic that it masquerades as normal, and the symptoms take on a life of their own.
If you have chronic neck and/or shoulder pain, this workshop will show you how to re-align your neck and shoulders, improve neck and shoulder function, and increase natural and safe range of motion.
Amir will guide you to build your own therapeutic recovery program for your particular situation using simple yoga and body-mechanic techniques to relieve pain and remediate unbalanced postural patterns and their implications for neck and shoulder health.
More than what is taught in a regular yoga class, you will learn about your body alignment and apply a multitude of yoga therapy techniques specific to addressing shoulder and neck issues that you can customize for your own needs, and there's a good chance that your neck and shoulders will feel wonderful after the workshop.
Bring a camera in person and/or view the replay to document what's most useful for you to remember. Amir's workshops are appropriate for all levels of yoga experience, including anyone who has never done yoga before.
Amir Tahami
In his weekly public classes, yoga therapy workshops, and private one-on-one yoga therapy sessions, Amir works attentively with students who want an enhanced quality of life through a plainspoken and sensible approach to health and well-being. His innovative techniques blending traditional Indian and Thai yoga influences with restorative postures, therapeutic applications, and somatic movement help students move gently forward on a path of healing, and encourages taking the mindfulness of yoga practice into everyday life. He has thousands of hours of training with teachers including Aadil Palkhivala, Tias Little, Rodney Yee, Doug Keller, and Leslie Kaminoff, and is also certified in Thai Yoga Therapy. Amir is an avid amateur hockey player, recently fulfilled a lifelong dream to design and build his own custom home, and is also known to herd cats.
Amir provides abundant and detailed instructions for how to move the human body, and takes his classes and workshops through the paces to practice alignment, energy movement, and clarity of mind. “Paying attention to the body is the hardest part,” he says. But when he’s dictating just exactly what to do with your shoulder blades – like leading with the blades in cat and cow, as opposed to the spine, or how to create space between each vertebra or what to do to stretch your connective tissue – the mind becomes laser-focused. He offers wisdom on anatomy and how to bring the lessons of healing into daily life – for knees, neck, back, shoulders, hips, and other parts that have been beaten down from work, injury, disease, aging, or disuse. He provides the tools to practice these maneuvers at home and then wants you to go out there and live: play sports, climb mountains, expand your reach with a body that can.