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Updated Saturday, March 2, 2024-00:04
Yoga sessions, interesting round tables about women and sports, and a morning of initiation to trail running through one of the green lungs of the region: the Dehesa de Navalcarbón.
This is broadly the theoretical and practical content of the Women's Sports and Wellbeing Conference that will be held next weekend (March 9 and 10) within the framework of Las Rozas Women's Week.
Organized by the Running Mothers club in collaboration with the Las Rozas City Council
, the conferences, although they deal with women's sports, are open to all genders, "to people interested in expanding knowledge in aspects related to women and sports that The presentations will cover: training, nutrition, health, practice at a popular or professional level... and it is also about motivating, mainly women, to go running in nature so that they benefit from everything that the environment provides. running, both for physical and mental health," tells us the promoter of the conference, Patricia Bonilla, founder and trainer of Running Mothers, and yoga and hypopressive teacher.
The starting signal is on Saturday, early, with yoga at the Navalcarbón sports center.
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We will practice a simple and integrative yoga
to start the day with energy and with a focused mind, ready for the cycle of talks," says Patricia.
It is not necessary to have previously practiced yoga and we will only have to bring a mat.
«First we will work on body awareness, recognizing our body, the moment we are in, the time we are going to spend... And then we will work on breathing, another of the pillars of yoga, acquiring that body awareness as if we were spectators of our body, observing how we breathe;
That helps you also bring your mind to the mat, which is what is most difficult... The mind is like a restless chimpanzee and it always wanders off;
Breathing is the anchor that brings the mind to the body," explains Patricia, who continues: "When we are in that mindfulness, in that all-in-one, with the body and mind centered, we can start moving.
At first we will do sun salutations and some asanas, which are the basic yoga postures, open to everyone so that everyone can use them according to their abilities.
We will end the session with total relaxation and then return to the surface and normal breathing, ready to pay attention to the round tables.
Two women do yoga in the Dehesa de Navalcarbón.RM
The talks begin at 10:30 addressing 360º Self-Care, that is, both the physical and mental care of the athlete
.
The speakers will be the dermatologist Lourdes Navarro, member of the European and Spanish Academies of Dermatology and Venereology, where she coordinates the Piel Sana Foundation, athlete's skin and euromelanoma.
Nutrition and sports will also be discussed with the advice of dietitian and naturopath Manuela Martín-Consuegra, and the mental part will be provided by Diana Sánchez, psychotherapist, perinatal psychologist and sexologist.
The second round table will discuss sport as medicine and a tool for social inclusion, and will include Dr. Inmaculada Sánchez, a family doctor and pioneer in prescribing physical exercise in consultations instead of prescribing pills, and
the runner Anne Cormy, mother of Tiago, a child with disabilities in physical and intellectual development
, and who, thanks to sport, is not in a wheelchair.
And to top it off on Saturday, the last table will focus on women's sports from the grassroots to the elite, according to the coaches and athletes.
Maribel Blanco, the first Spanish Olympic triathlete and now coach of the Las Rozas Triathlon Club, will participate in it;
Clara Simal, Spanish marathon champion, mother of 3 children and architect, who will talk about the conciliation between work, family and competition;
Carol Domínguez, doctor at CCAFyD, expert in menstrual cycle and career, and the youngest of the speakers, Beatriz Nieto, engineer and sprinter.
On Sunday, at 9:30 a.m., the busiest morning will take place
: an introduction to trail running or mountain races in the Dehesa de Navalcarbón itself, guided by Patricia.
«We will do a little joint mobility to warm up, then we will ride gently on the slopes of the Dehesa, and we will practice the running technique on hills, both up and down.
We will also learn to breathe well while running.
And we will end with a cool-down shoot and yogic stretches in the open air.
In total, almost two hours of training in which we will discover Navalcarbón
, a pasture created in the 1930s to recover the old holm oak forest that existed in its 120 hectares, and whose wood was used to obtain charcoal, hence its name. .
Repopulated with pine forests, which now represent an oasis of shade and fresh air near the capital, a canal runs between its trees designed by the engineer Carlos de Lemaur in the time of Charles III (XVIII), which was part of a great project that The Guadarrama Canal, which intended to unite the waters of the Guadarrama River with those of the Manzanares and Tajo for river transport, did not reach its end.
Now the canal is used for canoeing
.
On both sides there are two walks in which a wide variety of itineraries intersect, including The Route of the Forts, which passes through remains of the Civil War recovered in 2017.
You already know,
on March 9 and 10 you can delve deeper into women's sports
, start trail running, practice yoga sun salutations, enjoying a magical natural environment such as the Dehesa de Navalcarbón.
Registration is free, so get moving and learn.
Registrations in the email
club@runningmothers.com
or in the Instagram account
@runningmothers