Breathing is one of the most important movements we do daily. Uncover where your ribs and torso may be stuck to enhance your ability to breathe efficiently helping the entire body feel better.
In this class, we will manipulate our toes and ankles to improve the brain to body connection. Notice how yoga postures feel after we’ve woken up our base.
This class breaks free of the yoga rules to encourage you to find your foot positioning for the yoga poses that feel best for you. It’s called a yoga practice to empower you to take ownership. That includes where your feet are and what they are doing.
Whenever our hands are on the ground they become part of our base, our foundation. In a yoga flow, we will play around with different hand positions to help you discover what works best for your body. This can help improve your yoga practice while reducing wear and tear on your shoulder and wrist joints.
Pigeon Pose is a popular pose, especially when we talk about hip opening. What we’re really aiming to achieve is improving our hip mobility by increasing our range of motion (flexibility) and strength. By having that extra control in our hips, they feel so much freer.
Pretty much every yoga pose requires the hips to externally or internally rotate. Being able to control and improve the rotation we have in our hips will help to discover our own versions of yoga postures.
In this class we combine a stretch with muscle activation to help you discover a new range of motion. We tend to forget that there are three muscles that compose the hamstring group and four muscles for the quadriceps. Uncover which muscles and angles need a bit more love and attention, while (re)teaching your lengthened muscles how to contract in order to reduce tension.
Release and Activate is a series of 14 classes ranging between 10-57 minutes to help find body bliss. Each class includes a release using therapy balls followed by 1-3 movements to help activate and integrate muscles with movement for longer lasting results.
In the Shoulder Circles class, we will bring in shoulder circles in different body positions to change the force of gravity. This will improve our control and mobility, while encouraging our shoulders to feel more open.
Moving toward Dolphin Pose, the shoulder will be worked in every range of motion with a focus on shoulder flexion. Seeing as the shoulder is one of the most moveable joints we have, there are quite a few exercises to increase strength and mobility.
The Spinal Rotation class is like adding WD-40 to your spine. We’ll move and twist in different ways to help discover and release the sticky points of your back. Find out how hip rotation can affect your shoulders and vice versa.