Do you feel anxious or tired?
Are you frequently injured or is your body feeling tight or sore?
Are you looking for a gentle Yoga program that develops strength,  flexibility
and relaxation?
Functional Synergy inc. provides yoga therapy books, CDs, DVDs, online audio and video, private yoga sessions, retreats and workshops
that concentrate on re-establishing the equilibrium in your body, both
mentally and physically, enabling you to experience the feeling of relaxation,
of wellbeing and to connect to what is important to you.
Hi, my name is Susi Hately Aldous and I am the founder of Functional Synergy. My mission is to help you increase your mobility, stability and strength while finding quiet, ease and stillness.
Click to watch Susi's Interview on Global TV
One Piece of Advice
Are you someone we can help? Click here first to find out. If you want to have a read of how we work, what we offer or learn about some of the other professionals we work with, you can download a free copy of One Piece of Advice for Getting Out of Pain, Improving Functional Movement and Finding Quiet, Ease and Peace.
One Piece of Advice is a collaboration of my closest referral sources or mentors. Each professional provides insights for getting out of pain, regaining functional movement, and finding peace, ease and quiet.
You can download it for free here.
I also have created or helped to create a few more books, DVDs and CDs.
All books, CDs and DVDs are authored by me except the Savasana CD.
ALL NEW DVD!
Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips Practice DVD
After many students and teachers asking, here is my new practice DVD
for improving the functioning of your shoulders and hips. In my
straightforward simple style, I provide 6 practices that are about 15
minutes each. Each one progressively builds on the other so you can
consistently improve. Easy to integrate into your day, simple to
integrate into your practice. Enjoy!
ALL NEW DOWNLOADABLE PODCASTS:
HIPS, HAMSTRINGS, BUTTS AND BACKS!
You can now bring Functional Synergy's style of yoga to your iphone,
ipod, itouch, computer without needing a disc. Just download the video
and voila! Yoga instruction waiting for you.
Hips, hamstrings, butts and backs, and is the next place to go if you
have done Therapeutic Yoga for Shoulders and Hips, and feel that your
pain levels are reduced, or eliminated and you have enough body
awareness to continue to expand your practice. Check it out!
YogaTHRIVE Yoga for Cancer Survivors
I designed this DVD series for people who are either in treatment or
are post cancer treatment. If you or a loved one is going through or
is finished cancer treatment and are asking "what next?", "now what?",
"what can I do for myself?", this DVD series maybe for you.
Since 2002, I have collaborated with Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed at the
University of Calgary. Nicole's team has found this program to produce
significant results in improving quality of life, wellbeing and energy
levels.
This DVD series includes 7-1.25 hour programs which are suitable for
people who have never done yoga before. It is a progressive program
which helps to rebuild breath awareness, body awareness, flexibility
and as the weeks progress, stability and strength.
If you would like to see a short interview of Dr. Nicole Culos-Reid,
some participants and myself, please visit the home page of this site, http://yogaforcancersurvivors.com
Advancing Your Yoga Practice: Art of Slowing Down
The much anticipated fifth book in the "Anatomy and Asana" series.
Back in 2005, Leo Mowry attended her first Anatomy and Asana training with me. At the time she was a vinyasa style teacher to both beginning and advanced students. Her intent for attending the Anatomy and Asana training was to better understand how to keep her students safe during practice.
During the training, however, some troubling questions arose – Leo thought to herself - “How do I keep teaching the way I do with the new knowledge that many of my students shouldn’t be practicing certain “common” poses like Downward Facing Dog, given the lack of mobility of their shoulders? How do I properly prepare my students’ bodies for poses that I now recognize as too advanced for many of them...?”
And so began her integration of Anatomy and Asana and Therapeutic Yoga into her regular beginner and advanced classes.
Last year, Leo shared with me how she has integrated the concepts into her classes. The results are brilliant. Her students love learning ways to stabilize, mobilize and strengthen. Not only have they reduced or eliminated their pain, they have also experienced strength, balance, ease, and great functional movement.
So together we bring Advancing Your Yoga Practice: The Art of Slowing Down to you. It consists of 7 full class sequences you can follow yourself and, if you are a teacher, you can share with your students. Each sequence focuses on a theme pose, with therapeutics weaved throughout.
The asanas covered are: Downward Facing Dog, Triangle, Revolved Triangle, Uttanasana, Warrior 1, Warrior 2, Camel.
As a result of completing these sequences people have experienced the following:
* enough functional movement to practice Downward Dog with a lightness, an ease and no pain
* Triangle Pose with solid and strong legs, great hip mobility and healthy, pain free SI Joints
* Warriors, Standing Forward Bends and Camels that are are all strong and balanced with no back or knee pain
Be prepared to be amazed. The feedback we’ve received has been great.
Here are some to share:
“Susi, this is your best book yet.”
Daena (Canmore, AB)
“Susi, I feel phenomenal. So light, so balanced. I’ve never felt so good.”
Beatriz (Mexico)
“I feel taller, stronger and 10lbs lighter.”
(a participant at the Northwoods Yoga Conference, Wisconsin)
“This is the first workshop I have attended where I didn’t leave in pain.”
Debbie (Seattle)
“I had suffered extreme sciatica while pregnant and post-partum. My twin boys are now heavy toddlers so you can imagine the strain on my body. I had been practicing yoga for 15 years, but it wasn’t until we interspersed the therapeutics with classic asanas that I moved out of pain completely. It has been an amazing experience. I’ve never felt as balanced or as committed to my practice.
Anne H. (Toronto)
“...I am now experiencing a more natural ease in life – in my stance, in the way I walk, in my day-to-day movements, and in the way I embrace whatever is before me.”
Lori D. (Toronto)
To download sample pages, please click here.
Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips:
Book
In all my years of teaching therapeutic Yoga, the two most common physical limitations I have seen are in the shoulders and hips. Even for people with back, neck or knee pain - if they are able to improve the functioning of their shoulders and hips, their back or neck pain becomes much more manageable or even resolved.
I've designed and laid out the yoga exercises from simple to complex. As you develop awareness in the simple exercises, you'll gain ease of motion, stability and strength, which you can then take into the more complex exercises to further enhance your awareness, ease, balance and freedom.
Therapeutic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips also comes with Instructional Online Video. To purchase, click here.
Yoga for the Desk Jockey™
Yoga for the Desk Jockey™ is a book and audio cd filled with modified yoga exercises designed for you to use at your desk to help relieve tension, build strength and reduce stress. They each take less than 2 minutes and there is no need to change out of your businesswear.
Yoga for the Desk Jockey™ Streaming Audio and Video Website
This subscriber-based streaming website hosts yoga videos and audio clips to help you pause, breathe and take a moment to be still. Included are 2 minute Yoga for the Desk Jockey™ video clips, relaxation and meditation audio clips, therapeutic yoga exercises and photos.
This will be launched in September 2008.
The Anatomy and Asana Series
The Anatomy and Asana series is a collection of books exploring body mechanics and yoga to help yoga teachers teach safely, and yoga students to understand their body in movement.
The Anatomy and Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries
This is a colourful and beautifully laid out book that is easy to read and simple to understand. You'll read basic anatomical building blocks; anatomical and movement principles; primary "hot spots" where yogis tend to get injured in back bends, forward bends, twists, inversions and standing poses; and how to avoid those injuries, and instead create strength and ease.
The Anatomy and Asana: The Sacro-Iliac Joints
The Sacro-Iliac Joints book (also available as an ebook) brings the focus into the pelvis and looks at 2 controversial joints - the left and right sacroiliac joints. These 2 joints help create the bridge between the upper and lower body, and when they are stuck, or when their associated ligaments or muscles are not supporting the joints effectively, pain and dysfunction can occur. In this book you will get a chance to delve into your sacro-iliac joints and learn a general program to help improve their function and reduce your pain.
The Anatomy and Asana: The Knees
The knee book (also available as an ebook) highlights one of my favourite joints. Looking at it from a functional perspective, the knee consists of the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shin bone) and patella (knee cap). Since the femur connects with the hip, and the tibia connects with the ankle, we have to look to both of those joints to improve the functioning of the knee. This book goes into how and what you can do to improve the functioning of your knee.
The Anatomy and Asana: The Shoulder Girdle
The shoulder girdle book (also available as an ebook) offers more drawings, more principles and more inquiries to deepen your exploration of anatomy. You will learn about the shoulder girdle as it relates to yoga asanas; how an unstable shoulder girdle can lead or impact wrist and elbow pain; the rotator cuff problems and winged scapulae.
Yoga for the Core: Finding Stability in an Unstable Environment
by Suzette O'Byrne
Yoga for the Core explores that essential and central area of the body which helps to stabilize the spine, the lower back, brings freedom to the neck, shoulders and knees. When the core is engaged properly, you will perform better, you'll have more energy, and better posture. A great source full of theory, exercises and programs for you to follow.
Finding Quiet
Finding Quiet is a 4 track CD focusing on improving your awareness and cultivating stillness. You can listen to it in sitting or laying down, upon waking or to help you fall asleep. The first track brings you in touch with the parts of your body (legs, arms, hands feet etc), the second track helps you improve your breath, the third track enables you to deepen your awareness of your body, and the fourth track builds on the notion that our bodies are pure energy. In the background is the sound of OM (licenced from Robert Gass' CD Om Na Ma Shivya). I guide you to experience that sound in your body.
You can listen to the CD 'all in one go', or as individual tracks.
Savasana: A Guided Relaxation
This CD is 3 tracks of guided relaxation. The first track is 9 minutes, the second is 13 minutes, and the third is 15 minutes. People have used this CD for falling asleep and for easy relaxation.
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All the best,
Susi Hately Aldous
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