Healing Your Sole: A Stepwise Approach to Building Forever Functional Feet with Katy Bowman

Name: Healing Your Sole: A Stepwise Approach to Building Forever Functional Feet with Katy Bowman
Start: 2024-05-17T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-19T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Art of Living Retreat Center

Schedule

Fri May 17 2024 at 07:00 pm to Sun May 19 2024 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Art of Living Retreat Center | Blowing Rock, NC

Step into a weekend dedicated to honoring your foundation – your feet. Under the guidance of biomechanist Katy Bowman, this retreat invites you to grasp the significance of resilient feet throughout life’s journeys. Our feet endure the brunt of daily activities, athletic pursuits, recovery from injuries, and the transformations brought by pregnancy and aging. Uncover the profound impact of strong and flexible feet, enabling you to move gracefully and maintain essential balance and mobility as you age.
Join Katy Bowman on an immersive journey, where self-assessment tools and targeted exercises become your allies in addressing present foot concerns and fortifying against future challenges. Katy will unravel the intricacies of your body’s lower components, revealing the interconnected dance of toes, feet, ankles, knees, and hips. Through this exploration, discover the art of harmonizing their movements to support a life of pain-free, effortless walking or running.
This retreat warmly welcomes all individuals, whether you’re a fitness enthusiast aiming to sustain an active lifestyle or someone grappling with foot-related impediments. Throughout this experience, Katy will equip you with invaluable skills to
- Nurture your Achilles tendons and calf muscles
- Tackle stiffness linked to hammertoes and bunions
- Enhance the interplay among your feet, knees, and hips
- Elevate the performance of your feet and ankles
- Cultivate stability and balanced walking through purposeful movements
- Navigate foot or ankle injuries with agility
- Mobilize rigid feet or stabilize hypermobile ones
- Evaluate footwear to align with your body’s needs
- Seamlessly transition to minimal footwear
- Assess and fine-tune foot, toe, and ankle alignment for optimal functionality
Katy’s extensive expertise, shaped by years as a personal trainer and biomechanics scholar, delivers a unique and accessible approach. Her language is both precise in anatomical terms yet comprehensible to all, empowering every participant, regardless of their background knowledge.
This retreat stands as your comprehensive manual for nurturing robust, enduring feet – a toolkit for a lifetime of movement and self-care. Embrace this opportunity to enrich your life’s journey, armed with the wisdom to support your feet as they guide you forward.