In this webinar, Lily Dwyer Begg, a pre & post-natal Yoga Teacher Trainer shares her experience, insight, and anatomical guides to help yogis understand the deep core body and offers an in-depth lesson on the core anatomy beyond surface muscles to draw a connection between breath & core.

The Deep Core Body: Reclaiming Your Center

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Deep Core Strength Exploration: The webinar focuses on uncovering the deepest layers of core musculature, moving beyond traditional core exercises like crunches and boat pose.
• Integrated Approach to Core Stability: Participants will learn how breath, bandhas, and alignment influence core power, enhancing both personal practice and teaching.
• Postpartum Core Awareness: The session provides insights into postpartum alignment patterns and how they impact core integrity, offering strategies to support students effectively.
• Practical Techniques for Pain Relief: Attendees will gain tools to address common issues such as hip pain and lower back instability through functional core strengthening.
• Application to Advanced Yoga Poses: The knowledge gained will help connect postpartum recovery exercises to executing advanced poses like press handstands with greater control.

In This Webinar: 

Join Lily Dwyer Begg for a transformative webinar led by a seasoned yoga instructor with over two decades of experience. In this hour-long session, she delves into a journey of deep core strength that will empower your personal practice and your capacity to teach core work in your yoga classes.  Expect to spend equal time on your mat and taking notes!

Lily's perspective of core strength shifted dramatically after the physical toll of pregnancy and childbirth. The experience ignited a quest to explore the deepest layers of the core body, leading to profound insights and revolutionary teaching methods.

Through a blend of anatomy education and practical movement exercises, participants will uncover the hidden depths of their core musculature through the lenses of alignment, breathing patterns, and exercises. Discover how this innovative approach not only enhances personal practice but also empowers yoga instructors to improve their capacity to share inclusive, stabilizing, and deeply transformative core work with their student communities.

Viewers can expect to gain:

• An in-depth understanding of the core anatomy, beyond surface muscles.
• Go beyond boat pose and crunches and refine your approach to building functional core strength 
• Practical techniques to strengthen the core from its deepest layers outward
• Insights into alleviating common issues like hip pain and lower back stability
• Awareness of common alignment patterns you will see in your postpartum students that affect the integrity of the core
• An understanding of the connection between breath, bandha, and core power
• Enhanced ability to connect the dots between postpartum exercices and the map to execute advanced yoga poses such as press handstand with confidence and control.
• Strategies to integrate this transformative approach into your personal practice and teaching.

Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionize your understanding of core strength and unlock new levels of stability and empowerment on and off the mat. Join us and embark on a journey to unleash the full potential of your core!

About Lily Dwyer Begg 

Lily Dwyer Begg is the director of Home Yoga Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training.  She has led prenatal teacher trainings for the past 9 years at Charm City Yoga, Yoga Works, and at Zen Space in Japan.  Lily has practiced for over two decades and taught yoga full time since 2006. She has taught in yoga studios internationally, worked with an NBA basketball team, an NCAA diving team, professional dance companies, and therapeutically with private clients across the globe.

Lily runs a thriving virtual practice platform with Vinyasa, Prenatal, and Postnatal offerings, international yoga retreats, and a once yearly 100% online (via Livestream Calls and Pre-recorded Lectures) Yoga Alliance Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training that next runs live, via Zoom in Winter 2022/23 starting the weekend of December 10th.

She currently makes her home in Baltimore with her husband and two young sons.

Additional Resources 

• Lily Dwyer Begg Prenatal Teacher Training