Strengthen your wrists and keep them healthy by developing the habits necessary to prevent pinching and problems down the road. Whether in downward dog or more vigorous arm balances, Doug guides you in proper wrist alignment and health in these weight-bearing postures.
Make your Firefly pose feel lighter through this 40 minute tutorial! Firefly strengthens the arms and wrists, tones the belly, and improves balance. Join Kristin to learn how to access your muscles in the most efficient way so that you can find ease in this strenuous pose.
Warm, strengthen and open your hips, hamstrings and shoulders through this practice that leads to astavakrasana. While arm balances generally display strength, astavakrasana unifies both strength and flexibility. You’ll also tone you abdominals and inner thighs through this practice, and gain an improved sense of balance.
Learn how to practice Pincha Mayurasana – Feathered Peacock Pose – from Tias Little! Tias will guide you through the foundations needed to begin your journey towards this difficult pose or refine your practice if you have already been working on this inversion.
This tutorial will help you understand the technique to get lift-off in side crane while using patience and balance to transition smoothly in arm balances.
Open your hamstrings and hips with this intermediate Vinyasa style class from Kate Heffernan. This class will focus on opening the outer hips, hamstrings and shoulders in preparation for a deep, seated forward-fold with a long name: Eka Pada Ardha Baddha Padma Pachimottanasana, also known as One-Armed Half-Bound Lotus with a Forward Fold.
Build the strength and flexibility needed to move into Eka Pada Koundinyasana 2 – a challenging and fun arm balance. This class will strengthen the upper body and core to support this arm balance while opening the hamstrings, hips, and inner thighs. Join Kate Heffernan on the mat for this invigorating Vinyasa practice.
Build the strength and confidence necessary to master arm balancing poses in this practice with master yoga teacher Natasha Rizopoulos. If you are challenged by Chaturanga, arm balances and/or inversions, this class will give you the tools to begin to make inroads.
This class explores some key actions for arm balances with a focus on breaking down Chaturanga Dandasana and Bakasana (Crow Pose). You will gain a clear step-by-step approach to these strong poses, allowing you to practice them with both a focused effort and a sense of ease.
Build up arm and abdominal strength while also creating mobility in the spine in this tutorial for Parsva Bakasana. Join Kate as she guides you through the necessary prep work to build up to this challenging, stimulating pose to tone belly and spine, and build your balance.
Grasshopper is a fun and powerful arm balance that twists, opens your hips and builds arm strength all at the same time. When first looking at this pose, it can seem overwhelming and complicated, but when broken down into steps after properly prepping the body for it, this pose can actually be quite accessible.
For Crow Pose (Bakasana) to fly, deep core muscles must be engaged and strengthened, and the outer hips need to open. In this practice, Melina takes you through the necessary steps to activate those essential muscles. She also shows you how to use a chair to access better hip opening and help your Crow Pose … Continued