MUVA Dynamic Movement Education

💫UPCOMING WORKSHOP💫
SAFE EXERCISE DURING PREGNANCY is a 90 min workshop open to everyone!
🏋️Pregnant women, health and fitness professionals and the general public all will leave with a better understanding on what we can prescribe to clients or how to move your pregnant body safely.
🏋️ Sunday June 1st 930-11Am
🏋️ $50 register by email to [email protected]
🏋️ located at 1445 McGill road Kamloops BC
🏋️ OR virtually via zoom link for non locals
🏋️ Get ready to move your body for this workshop!

We are excited to announce our 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Kamloops January 2026- March 2026 💫💫💫
Jil of Muva Education and owner of Lacey have been slogging away writing the course curriculum including anatomy and physiology, history and philosophy, business of yoga, art of sequencing and traditional asanas.
Join us for a life changing experience where perspectives will shift and new opportunities will arise.
This Yoga Alliance Certified training will deepen your personal practice or set you up for teaching classes as a Registered Yoga Teacher RYT200.
💛LEARN WHAT YOU LOVE
💛yoganowkamloops.ca for details and registration

RECRUIT THE CORE Yoga as Exercise
Live Webinar October 19th 2024
👉🏻 learn to prescribe strengthening exercises for the pelvic floor and deep core through movement
👉🏻 instructional videos you keep to pass along to your clients
👉🏻 learn to cue your clients to simultaneous recruit their pelvic floor and breathe to support the entire kinetic chain through movement
👉🏻 Register by email to [email protected]

Live Webinars for Hip Health and Recruit the Core coming this fall 2024
👉🏻 Learn to safely prescribe yoga exercise for common hip pathologies including modifications and props
👉🏻 Learn to cue appropriate breath and pelvic floor engagement during yoga as exercise for strengthening the deep core and pelvic floor
👉🏻 register via email with your course of choice along with payment via e transfer

✨September 22-25, 2023 ✨

Scoop our early bird rate by April 30th!

Learn how to prescribe yoga as exercise for spinal and hip pathologies along with safe modifications and props. Learn to assess breathing patterns and TA/pelvic floor engagement as well as prescribe appropriate exercise for both.
FILL YOUR OWN CUP with daily yoga practices both gentle flow and nidra and a place to disconnect from your chaos and reconnect with yourself, your professional mission statement and like minded humans.
✨ THIS IS FOR YOU yoga and fitness leaders, body workers and manual health therapists of all kinds✨

Details and registration in bio

✨RETREAT✨
Yoga Therapy for Allied Health Professionals: Preventing Burnout

September 22-25 2023 White Lake Cabins Resort

Yoga and fitness professionals welcome!

Includes: 3 nights accommodations, yoga Nidra practices, Yoga and meditation practices, 2 of our educational courses on Spinal Health and Hip Health, group hike and team building exercises, meals.

Own a studio/clinic? Bring your staff/practitioners for a morale boosting educational retreat!

Head over to muvaeducation.com/courses for more details and registration and catch our Early Bird rate!!

✨Save 40% with promo code BLACKFRIDAY ✨
👉🏻 Recruit the Core online self paced 10CEC’s
👉🏻All beginner and intermediate Yoga practices for every body
Use the promo code at checkout for discount

The brain is remarkably able to reorganize itself and grow new connections between neutrons.

Research shows that practices like yoga and meditation that help us to focus our attention on the present moment, are especially powerful in restructuring the brain.

When new neural pathways are forged, we are able to break free of our default patterns and live more actively in a conscious state.

Keep on MUVA-ing
Luck and Jil

OCTOBER 22nd 2022
✨One day Live Webinar
✨10 credits with the CMTBC Cycle 13
Anatomy and common pathologies review of the hip, learn the appropriate therapeutic yoga exercises to prescribe for hip pathologies and safe exercise prescription with modifications.
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Register Muvaeducation.com

Happy International Yoga Day!

Yoga is an invaluable gift of India’ancient tradition. It embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fullfillment; harmony between human and nature; holistic approach to health and well-being.

It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and the nature.

♥️ Luck and Jil 🙏

One of the goals of the physical practice of yoga is to exercise the body enough to be able to sit comfortably and meditate. All of the stretching and strengthening let's us sit upright with more ease. And by fatiguing the body we can start to work on the mind.

Meditation has been associated with decreasing stress, depression, anxiety, pain and insomnia, and increase quality of life.

In recent studies, we are actually seeing that mediation increases the amount of gray matter in our brains.

By increasing the amount of gray matter we are better at problem solving and have improved memory.

The studies done up to date are reporting that you only need 8 weeks of practices to start seeing the changes in the brain.

Keep on MUVAing!

Jil and Luck

As any yogini knows, twists feel great! They release tension in the spinal muscles and can alleviate tightness in the upper back.
Gentle, open twists that do not compress the belly, or work too deeply into the lower spine, but instead, focus on mobilising the upper part of the spine, are safe and beneficial during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

In seated easy pose you can use one hand to monitor or counter twist the lower ribs to ensure you’re only twisting the upper thoracic spine.

Correct technique is important. Make sure you lengthen through the spine before moving into the twist; create a sense of space between the vertebrae, as well as length through the front of the torso—lifting through the sternum in order to draw the rib cage up and away from the top of the uterus. An added risk of twists that are performed forcibly is the potential of destabilising the sacroiliac joint which tends to be more vulnerable during pregnancy due to the hormone, relaxin.

Twists are a movement that should be completely avoided early on in pregnancy, during the first trimester.

First trimester is especially problematic as this represents the most delicate phase of the pregnancy with two critical processes going on: the fertilized embryo needs to safely implant into the wall of the uterus, and then towards the end of this trimester, the formation of the placenta—the essential organ that maintains the pregnancy, providing nutrients and oxygen for the fetus—is completed.  To be on the safe side, We recommend if you’re in your first trimester to avoid twists all together. 

Keep on muvaing! 🤸‍♀️ 🧘‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️

Luck and Jil