$55 Single Workshop
OR $90 For Both Power of Posture Workshops

Jessica’s 2nd Power of Posture Workshop: Unlocking stability and Freedom in your low back and hips is Saturday, November 22nd 1:30-4:00pm

An interactive yoga workshop to release stiffness, ease pain and gain greater understanding of your Upper Body. Join Jessica Gonsiorowski for a transformative workshop designed to help you explore the relationship between your posture, movement patterns, and the health of your upper back, neck and shoulders. Through posture exploration, yoga poses, basic anatomy, and mindful awareness, you will gain insight into how stiffness, weakness, or even pain in this area might be influenced by the way you carry yourself.

Although yoga is a great support in keeping your body healthy, it is not uncommon to take pre-existing imbalances into your yoga practice and therefore perpetuate some of these imbalances. The thoracic and cervical spine (upper Back) are a challenging area for most modern bodies. Long hours in front of computers and a head forward position (tech neck) can strain the back line of the body. Combine that with emotional stress, and you might experience tightness of the chest muscles, all of which contribute to much of the pain and lack of mobility in these areas. Mobility in the upper spine plays a major role in healthy shoulder mobility and vice versa and is therefore important to be explored together.
Throughout these 2.5 hours you will learn:

• Basic anatomy of the thoracic and cervical spine

• Basic anatomy of the shoulders

• Posture exploration

• Stretching and strengthening key muscles for better support and mobility

• Breath practices

• Stress reduction practices

• Utilizing props to adapt the practice in a personalized way

Expand your yoga practice or come and start your yoga journey in these intelligently developed and empowering classes and move towards more functional alignment and movement in your daily life on and off the mat.
This workshop is for you if:

• You are experiencing stiffness or pain in the upper back, neck or shoulders

• Lack mobility in your shoulders

• Get tension headaches

• Experience Stress and anxiety

• You want to improve your posture and movement patterns

• You want to deepen your yoga practice

By the end of this workshop, you’ll walk away with a deeper connection to your body and practical tools to feel better and move more freely.

Born and raised in Germany by a German mom and American father, Jessica enjoyed a multicultural upbringing. Her parents focused on a wholesome education and felt the passion and importance of traveling and experiencing other countries’ cultures. This, Jessica believes, instilled a great sense of curiosity within herself.
Jessica took her first yoga class when she was 19 years old and noticed its uniqueness from the beginning. In her late twenties, as a mother of two she found herself out of balance, which motivated her to a more intensive yoga practice. Learning to be present and to let go of thoughts and stressors, as well as finding inner strength through creating a strong body, enabled her to feel better and reconnect with herself. Getting comfortable with change and staying curious about herself is still at the heart of her practice and teachings.

Inspired by her own teacher, in 2015 she decided to enroll in the 200-hour teacher training at Bloom Yoga Studio, followed by the 85- hour prenatal Teacher training at Bloom in 2017. To include and serve a variety of students at all stages of their life, Jessica dove deeper into her studies of yoga with a focus on the therapeutic approach. She earned her 500 hours advanced teaching certificate with Prairie Yoga in 2021 to become a Yoga Alliance registered 500 yoga teacher. She has since served as a mentor to that program and spent hundreds of hours supporting students and working Yoga Therapist Linda Troutman of Head to Toe Yoga. Jessica has been successfully leading therapeutic Yoga workshops throughout Chicagoland since 2021 in which she serves long time yoga practitioners, yoga teachers as well as non-yoga practitioners that are curious to learn more about themselves and seeking solutions to feeling better. In her work Jessica utilizes all aspects of the yoga practice. She strives to create a balance between honoring the ancient tradition of yoga and using the newest scientifically researched approaches on yoga, movement, and resilience. Her approach is holistic, benevolent, and professional. Her goal working with her students is to offer tools to cultivate more resilience in their life, to remain curious about themselves and hopeful for the future. Jessica is the co-creator and a lead trainer of Bloom’s 300 advanced yoga teacher training program.