{"id":63,"date":"2016-09-09T05:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2020-11-15T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T03:04:22","slug":"yoga-for-scoliosis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Yoga for Scoliosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Thorpe was diagnosed with scoliosis during puberty and started her yoga practice in 2000.\u00a0 But it was not until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogaunion.com\/training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoga Union Teacher Training 200 Hour<\/a> with Alison West in 2004, that she began to understand the depths of how the yogic tradition could help manage scoliosis progression and discomfort.\u00a0 It was the <em>Fundamentals of Yoga for Scoliosis\u00a0<\/em>workshop from guest teacher Deborah Wolk, <a href=\"http:\/\/samamkayabackcare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samamkaya Yoga Back Care &amp; Scoliosis Collective<\/a>, that sparked a long term interest in the details of how the yoga practice could help manage Robin\u2019s own right thoracic-left lumbar curve, as well as her students.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Robin was an inaugural teacher at Yoga Union Center for Backcare &amp; Scoliosis (YUBCS) in Manhattan.\u00a0 During her time at YUBCS, she continued her studies under the guidance of Co-Directors Alison West and Deborah Wolk.\u00a0 She worked with YUBCS teacher, Mimi Ufberg Rosetti, to better understand yoga for students with spinal instrumentation and fusions, and had the good fortune to study with many talented guest teachers including Elise Browning Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Elise Browning Miller certified her as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yogaforscoliosis.com\/trainers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoga for Scoliosis Trainer<\/a> in 2011.\u00a0 At the same time, she returned to her native Colorado and has been grateful to continue sharing yoga for scoliosis with the Colorado community.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, under the guidance of Craig Kurtz and Elise Browning Miller, she completed the rigorous standardized assessment from <a href=\"https:\/\/iynaus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IYNAUS<\/a> to become a <a href=\"https:\/\/iynaus.org\/teach\/certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher<\/a>. \u00a0 Please click <a href=\"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to see her weekly class schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Thorpe was diagnosed with scoliosis during puberty and started her yoga practice in 2000.\u00a0 But it was not until the Yoga Union Teacher Training 200 Hour with Alison West in 2004, that she began to understand the depths of how the yogic tradition could help manage scoliosis progression and discomfort.\u00a0 It was the Fundamentals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinthorpe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}