This class will teach you how to balance your shoulders using a combination of mindful strengthening exercises and shoulder stretching poses. Props include a resistance band, 2 blocks and a bolster with some work done at-the-wall.
Open the shoulders and chest in this practice designed to relieve the build of everyday tension. Whether you work at a computer and spend much of your day hunched forward, or are trying to improve your posture, this class will leave you feeling open and standing a little taller.
This 20-minute class can be used as a brief standalone practice or as a warm-up to prepare for whatever poses you are interested in practicing. The parctice strengthens and opens the shoulders, strengthens the quads and hamstrings and back body, stretches the hamstrings and mobilizes the mid-upper back.
How do some practitioners flow seamlessly from pose to pose? Discover the essential actions and alignment that will transform your classical Vinyasa with a ripple effect throughout your practice . In this three-part series we’ll breakdown Chaturanga, Urdvha Mukha Svanasana and Adho Mukha Svanasana and refine the elusive yet essential transitions between the three poses. … Continued
Flexibility is one of the four key life skills for healthy aging. Dr. Baxter Bell has designed this practice to increase the range of motion you have in your shoulders, upper back, and neck area. Each one of us is dealing with our own flexibility issues, which have likely been stable for some time. Through … Continued
Many of us have postural habits and responsibilities that lead to tightness in our upper body. Whether we’re at the computer, driving, or using our arms and hands for work, we often end up with short, tense muscles in the shoulders and upper back. In this class, Jasmine guides you through a series that focuses … Continued
Julie guides you through a practice that will tune and enhance your Warrior 1 and 3 poses. This practice builds flexibility and strength, but it also builds the heat within us that can burn up old habits, preconceptions, and blocks that hold us back. Attention to opening the hips and shoulders increases mobility and prevents … Continued
The amount of time we spend sitting in chairs closes up our front body: our hips flex at a right angle; our arms stay low, which tightens our shoulders; our diaphragm is compressed; our chest dropped; and our mid-back flexed. It’s no wonder we face a challenge with backbends! In this video, Julie guides you … Continued
In this practice the entire body will be nourished with the help of passive stretches designed to bring more blood flow to the organs. Unlike most yoga classes, whose aim is to simply stretch the muscles and connective tissue, this course focuses on specific techniques to help optimize the flow of prana (blood and lymph) … Continued
This practice is designed for the beginner and older beginner yoga student who is new to backbending. Julie lays the foundation of how to practice backbends and teaches everything you need to know to practice these energizing poses safely and effectively. Julie has expertly crafted this practice to first warm up the shoulders and core … Continued
Considered a more advanced pose, Urdhva Dhanurasana stretches and opens the entire body, while stregthening the arms, wrists, spine, legs and abdomen. This sequence will carefully prepare you for this strong pose by opening up the shoulders and the upper back, as well as the front body. This pose especially opens up the quadriceps and … Continued
Follow this hip-opening and shoulder-opening sequence to prepare for its grand finale: Bird of Paradise pose. One of yoga’s most beautiful poses, this graceful posture balances strength and flexibility and promotes a soft, steady mind. It also cultivates the stabilizer muscles of the standing leg and opens the hips and shoulders.