Yamuna® Body Rolling (YBR) is a therapeutic self-care practice that grew out of a therapy system called Yamuna® Body Logic, a hands on technique that Yamuna Zake created over 20 years ago. YBR is a series of routines that use a six to ten inch reinflatable ball to stretch muscles, freeing restrictions in all parts of the body, increasing blood flow, and promoting healing.
Yamuna Body Rolling®:
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•Empowers people to tone, strengthen and realign their own bodies and to prevent and fix all sorts of body problems.
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•Combines the strengthening and toning of exercise with the release of massage
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•Heals and prevents injury
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•Is effective on it's own or as a complement to any workout
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•Directly stimulates bone, improving bone density Read more...
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•YBR is taught only by certified practitioners who have completed specialized training courses.
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•Marianna is a Level II Yamuna® Body Rolling and Yamuna® Body Rolling Therapeutics Practitioner
Marianna finds YBR to be a great way to transform one's body and sees it benefitting her life as well as her Yoga practice: "Using our body weight to sink into the ball we work through layers of tension and enter a state in which the body lets go. Old emotional patterns begin to release and an experiential awareness of our body is developed. To me YBR is a self care system that enables us to heal old injuries. The work with the balls strengthens, tones and realigns the body while deepening the body-mind connection."
YBR is a form of self therapy can help prevent injuries and promote mind -body well being, enhance performance in any exercise, sport or fitness program and create a leaner, well aligned body. These goals are achieved through an new type of stretching which helps create space in the area of muscles and joints. This space in turn promotes restoration of length to the involved muscles and educates each muscle to release, starting with large muscle groups and working to smaller. Done before weight bearing exercises, YBR will align joints and minimize risk of injury. It promotes body awareness and increased lung capacity and a fuller use of the breath.
Marianna studied with Yamuna Zake and is a Certified Level II Yamuna® Body Rolling Instructer, Yamuna® Body Rolling Therapeutics and Yamuna® Body Logic Practitioner. She is particularly interested in the healing application of Yoga and Yamuna® Body Rolling combined.
Visit the official Yamuna® web site at http://www.yamunabodyrolling.com/.
