Pam Lough Yoga Therapy

10/16/2025

Tomorrow we'll explore how glute engagement relates to pelvic support and low back pain. And we're also delving into moving the ribcage relative to the shoulder girdle - all within a range of movement that doesn't introduce pain. Get into your body and feel what's working that should be, what's working that shouldn't be, and what's not working that should be. See you Fridays at 9am until Nov 21 at Essence Studio Sylvan Lake

09/17/2025

This is what Ian W said about his experience:

"Really insightful! I learned my low back pain was from my tight hip flexors and lame glutes not working together. We went through some simple movements and she helped me find where I was compensating and also what to do about it. When I feel back pain coming on, I can stop myself from going full on into pain again. Working on shoulders next."

Yoga therapy is movement therapy. What's causing you pain? What are you wondering about?

If you'd like a private yoga therapy session through google meet, fire me a message.

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09/11/2025

New Shoulders and Hips program starting next Friday, Sept 19 at 9:00 at in Register at www.essencestudio.ca

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19 at 9am! Join Pam Lough as she guides you through Intro class for Yoga Therapy for Shoulders and Hips.

When it comes to pain relief, stretching and strengthening is only half the picture.

Our bodies are a system, and when they are not coordinating well and compensating, we run into pain and mobility issues.

Introductory Yoga Therapy class is Friday, September 19 at 9:00am. See if this class will help you give you an understanding of your patterns and provide tools to support you. If so, you are welcome to continue with Pam in her 8 week program starting Friday October 3 at 9am. Come try it out!

Introductory class $10
8 week program $$160

Think connecting your tight hip flexors to how your shoulders feel. Think releasing tight shoulder blades to gain further mobility in your arm.

If you’re not addressing compensations, then you are missing out on gaining support and coordination that creates ease and functional movement. What compensation patterns may be holding you back?

Yoga Therapy can help give you tools to add support which help you feel taller, lighter, more balanced, and boost your sense of wellness. As well as offer coordination to help you gain structural support to finally be able to release those compensation patterns.

meditation

05/21/2025

You don't need to live in discomfort. Many people, myself previously included, have resigned themselves to thinking they just have to live with it. That aches and pains are a part of getting older.

Try something different.

See you tomorrow at 10:30am at Essence Studio Sylvan Lake for Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips!

I'm working on some first hand reviews. Can't wait to share real results ❤️

Also, this is my helper skeleton. Help me name her!

05/13/2025

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10:30am Essence Studio Sylvan Lake is Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips!

I just got a great question from someone: "What should I expect in this class?"

Thank you so much for your interest! This is a blend of modern day biomechanics and anatomy with ancient yoga practices, like yoga nidra (guided meditation) and breathwork. You might even find a smattering of neuroplasticity (brain adaptability) and pain neuroscience too.

The ultimate goal is for you to experience and make note of exactly how your body is feeling as it moves so you can become empowered to take your pain by the reins and get out of it.

I'll give you movements, stimuli, and tools to help you figure out how to make yourself feel better. You're your own expert!

Change in your body is possible. Let's figure this out together ❤️

05/08/2025

Almost all set up to have 1:1 Google Meet Yoga Therapy sessions. Wanna try??

05/08/2025

Exploring your skeletal system through biomechanic granularity. Isolated movements to help find what ails you, and learning how to give your body more support as it carries you through life. Wrist, elbow, shoulder, back, hip, knee, feet pain - all is welcome. Nuture the good in your body and watch it grow ❤️

05/07/2025

A body reset button would be great sometimes. Take us back to how we felt at 10 years old. Maybe you were agile and nimble. Less shoulder/back/neck/knee/ankle/elbow/foot/alloverthebody aches and pain. Just press the body reset button and P**F! no pain.

I'm sorry to tell you that Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips at Essence Studio Sylvan Lake is not that button. But what it is, is an opportunity to allow your muscles to work together to carry you with more ease.

When they share the load, your compensations go away. Your pain and tension is eased. You're able to move with more agility and nimbleness like a 10 year old on the monkey bars after 3 chocolate bars and a can of Orange Crush.

Whoa. Maybe not that nimble. Let's take this step by step.

Join me each Wednesday at 10:30: May 7 - June 11 and you will:
- seek and find any compensation happening in your body
- help muscles be more responsive and less grippy
- develop coordination so the muscles that should be working are doing their job

This is good good stuff and available to anyone who would like to learn a holistic and empowering way to challenge the pain in their body.

See you tomorrow at 10:30am!

04/21/2025

When I first tried Yoga Therapy, I went in with the attitude this couldn't possibly help me in any way... I was just there to support my friend. I thought it was more woo woo nonsense claiming to cure whatever ills me.

It was my hip that illed me. Ever since my 2nd child was born. Clicking while walking, terrible sharp pain when I vacuumed or shoveled.

I'm not going to tell you that the pain never comes back since yoga therapy cured it, because it definitely does. (Thanks to neighbourhood kids who shovel my driveway!)

But I know now what I need to do to help add support in my hips to carry myself easier. And I can now sense when that pain is about to kick off so I can stop it before it gets into red alert mode.

It was so cool to learn that I could help my own body.

If you could remove one area of pain from your body, what would it be? I would genuinely love to hear :)

04/21/2025

Eee 2 more days until the introductory class of Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips (TYSH??) at Essence Studio Sylvan Lake.

My previous post talked about finding compensation patterns in your body but what does this all have to do with yoga?!

It's heightening your interoception (feeling into your body and understanding its signals).

Boosting proprioception (how your body is moving in space)

Creating space in our minds through meditation and breathwork.

Appreciating and honouring our bodies and nurturing the good in us!

Can't wait to share this with you :)

See you this Thursday at 11:00am, by donation. Reserve a spot here: https://essencestudio.ca/events-%26-workshops

04/18/2025

Less than a week until the Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips introductory class! (April 24 @ 11:00am Essence Studio Sylvan Lake)

What on earth is therapeutic yoga?!

In this class, you're going to be exploring exactly how your body is moving with a fine tooth comb and getting curious about any compensation patterns you might find.

Are your hip flexors flexing when they should be quiet? Is your ribcage getting involved when you're raising your arms? Is there any bracing going on?

And then things get really exciting when I show you how to bolster your support structure and add ease to your movement.

Bring your tight, sore, overworked, stressed bodies and let's sort it out together 🙂

Can't wait!

04/03/2025

I'm incredibly excited and honored to be so warmly welcomed by Essence Studio Sylvan Lake.

Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips will take you on a journey inside your body as you discover compensation patterns that can cause dysfunctional movement and pain.

Often when we are experiencing pain, we might try stretching or maybe even strengthening that area. Take it back another step and unravel your movement back to a time when it was easy and pure.

The results might surprise you.