Release and Recover with the Roll Model Method®:

Self Massage for low back pain

April 11th

10am-11:30am

The Roll Model Method® is a self-massage technique that helps unwind chronically tight muscles, free your breath, and relax your nervous system. You will feel like you had a massage when class is over!

April's class will focus on Low Back Pain

Date and time: April 11 10-11:30am

Price: $49

Please bring your own balls.

This month we will need the air-filled coregeous ball and the original size balls.

All sizes of balls available for purchase at the studio.

As I wrote in my last email, Low Back Pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. From a Pilates perspective, if you have low back pain, it can be very hard to turn on your core muscles, especially the ones that run more deep in the body. Those deeper “local” muscles are the ones that truly help stabilize the spine. It is common for them to turn off with LBP symptoms. Our bigger “global” muscles turn on more with LPB to help us simply to get through life. This can alter our posture, leading to more compensations, pain, or even more injury down the road. And it’s common for our bodies to depend on those bigger global ones and shut down the local core muscles.

The good news is that we CAN turn those local muscles back on, it just takes some time and practice!

The first step is to start with self massage for the global musculature that is in a heightened state of tension. And that’s what this Release and Recover class will focus on!

We are going to look at how our core contracts (and how to properly do so) at the beginning of class. I will lead you through a series of release exercises that target release the musculature commonly over tightened with LBP and then we will go back to that core contraction to see if we feel like we can get more connection.

I will also show you some good basic exercises you can do at home after your self massage to help train those deep abdominal muscles.

If learning strategies to keep your LPB pain at bay with the bonus of learning the best ways to engage your core properly sounds like it’s talking to you sign up below!