Working with a chair can transform your practice and allow you to experience deep opening in otherwise stubborn areas of the body. In this revolutionary practice, we’ll look at Standing Pose, Backbends and Inversions. Your hip flexors and upper back will never be the same.
In this deep and progressive practice we’ll explore the essentials of forward bending, building to the glorious Hanumanasana. The challenging class will explore the dual hamstring and hip flexor lengthening that is key to Hanumanasana, and help you cultivate both physical heat and mental quiet in the process.
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.
Standing balancing poses require strength and flexiblity, but they also require steadfast focus: if you allow your mind or gaze to wander, the body will follow. This 60-minute class will help you clear out your mind as you work toward many one-legged balancing postures, from Vrksasana and Virabadrasana 3 to Guardasana and the always-challenging Uttita … Continued
Twists are a powerful tool to detoxify the spine, stimulate healthy organ function, and improve spinal mobility. Taking twists to the next level, however, requires a balance of effort and surrender. Take the next step in your twist practice with this video, and find new spaciousness and freedom in postures like revolved bird of paradise … Continued
Because the hip is a ball and socket joint, many of us experience tightness in one direction or another in our hips. This class will work to open the adductors (inner thighs), the hip flexors and the hamstrings through many standing and seated postures as well as arm balances and sweet restoratives.
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.
Warrior 1 is a challenging pose to find and maintain correct alignment in, but when done properly, it can bring numerous benefits: increased strength, better balance, and more openness in your hips and shoulders. In this tutorial, Claire guides you into this pose, demonstrating variations that allow you to adjust your level of challenge.
Tap into the power of Warrior 2 through this tutorial. Clair explains the subtleties of alignment and gives you pointers for finding stability and strength in this pose. Stretch and strengthen your legs and arms, increase your stamina, and connect to the warrior within.
Often described as the King and the Queen of the Asana, for many students Headstand and Shoulderstand instead end up being the proverbial pain in the neck. With both poses it’s a combination of openness and strength in the upper body that protect the vunerable neck, and allow one to experience the delights of inversion. … Continued
A practice designed to help those dealing with back pain find relief and healing. Learn how to relax and create traction for the spine in flexion, extension, rotation, and inversion poses. Sciatica, SI joint problems, scoliosis, and lumbar ache will be a few of topics covered.
Improve your posture, strengthen your back, and increase your energy with this gentle beginner’s guide to backbends. Cyndi guides you through a practice designed to help correct the forward-rounding slouch we often get into from so many hours of sitting. By opening the front body and deepening the breath, you’ll also feel emotionally uplifted. Enjoy … Continued