Blanket and a Wall

Get into your sides and shoulders with a nice base of ab work and a back bending ending. Nice chunk of time to practice handstand as well. Enjoy!

2 Blocks, Blanket, Wall

This is a slow, delicious practice with all the things, including some good time to backbend, come upside down, breath and get into your armpits. Including a long savasana. You will thank me later. Enjoy!

Wall

This is sort of a yan/ying practice, where we work slowly but methodically with lots of abs, Uddhiana and slow hip openers to build to ashtavakrasana arm balance (the crooked limbs arm balance), and handstand practice. It ends with a long viparitakarani (legs up the wall). Enjoy!

Two Blocks, A Belt & A Wall

This is a rigorous practice where we get into our core and obliques and into deeper hollowback backbends in the top portion of the spine. We also work full or partial binds. Check it out. Enjoy!

Blocks, a Belt

Steady and spicy. This class is bendy in the thoracic spine. A little bit of everything but lots of tricep opening, heart softening, twisting, hollowback and all the good stuff. Enjoy!

1 Belt, 2 Blocks

This practice works hip flexion, forward folding and spinal rounding. We play with firefly, titibasana, and work with the idea of allowing our back ribs to expand as a a way to move a little deeper into both our metaphoric and physical backbone.

No props.

This is a dynamic, schvitzy practice that gets you ready for coming upside down, more specifically handstand, but you can use it for any inversion. We wire the core and the legs in for them to become your greatest allies.

This is a vigorous practice with armbalances and opportunities to play with tripod headstand. Enjoy!

Two Blocks, A Blanket & A Wall

I do say a belt but we don't end up using it. This is a chandra namaskar practice, a moon salute practice, smooth and constant getting into the hamstrings and quads, the sides and all the good stuff for backbends. There is a nice amount of time for handstand practi...

Connect to your core via some isolated abdominal work, focusing on proximal stability with distal mobility. Flow with length and strength as you mobilize the spine, shoulders and legs. Explore a series of standing poses using blocks and try out a crow (or two!) on your blocks for a fun arm balanc...

Join Rachel to explore some outrageous hip openers and arm balances. Juicify your hips, swing off your own arm, and glean some practical insights into doing weird balancing things with your body in yoga class. Flow style.

2 Blocks/1 Blanket

Belly down planks, belly up planks, side planks and core planks. All of the stank plank family with nice shoulder strengthening and hips delights to boot. Enjoy!

This practice is schvitzy with lots of core and hips, playing with galavasana armbalance and lots of side opening. As well as wide hanuman, a bit of hollowback and thoracic spine release/flexion and extension.

When the calves are locked up, it becomes hard to work with the knee and the ankle. When we release the calf, we are better able to deeply bend the knee and stand tall on the shins. This class takes you on an adventure, working on your lower legs in order to open up two seemingly unrelated poses:...

If you want to learn how to perform arm balances or deep forward folds you need to first learn how to release your hips and side waist in such a way that your outer ribs can make contact with your inner thighs. This fun, flowing sequence helps you make some sense of this peculiar action. You have...

Compass Pose (vishvamitrasana) is classically taught as an arm balance, but there are tons of other variations of the pose's basic archetype. In addition to deep understanding of how your hips function, this posture requires length and strength through the sides of the body. In particular, you mu...

60 min. Open. One block and a pair of socks or blanket. Hand and arm balancing are all about learning how to tip the weight on the horizontal plane as opposed to lifting on the vertical plane. In this practice, we learn how to do that by bringing presence into our hands and feet and through some ...

Give your hamstrings and hips some love, open up your spine through side bending, twisting, extending and forward bending and explore variations of crow pose all in this unique 75min practice.

60 min.

Gomukasana (Cow Face Pose) asks a lot of both the shoulders and the hips. When we find the right effort, though, the actions we learn in gomukasana can help us understand how to work with our whole body in arm balancing postures. In particular, the knotting of the legs can help draw awareness to ...

60 min. Intermediate/Open. 2 blocks. Working hip strengthening and opening for Galavasana armbalance (flying pigeon)