Advanced Flexibility Yoga Classes

Are you an advanced practitioner looking to cultivate more flexibility? These classes from our flexibility program are specifically designed to twist, bend and stretch your body while working on major muscle groups such as hamstrings, hips, back and shoulders. Whether your focus is to release body tension, gain greater range of motion or be less suseptible to injuries, these classes from our flexibility program will help you be and feel more flexible.

• Open Your Heart: Backbends with Dice lida-Klein: This practice is all about backbends! Navigate through surya namaskar C variations with inversions like pincha mayurasana (forearm balance). Weave in backbends like salabhasana (locust), danurasana (bow), ustrasana (camel), setu bandha sarvangasana (bridge) and urdhva danurasana (upward bow). Discover eka pada rajakapotasana 1 (king pigeon) with a strap as your peak pose. Counter all of this heart opening with a few forward folds and twists. Props Needed: Two blocks and a strap.
• Leg Release with Felicia Tomasko: We’ve Got Your Back… of the Legs – Release the body’s habitual tightness in the backs of the legs through this deep yin practice. Whether you spend your days standing, sitting, walking, or running, the backs of the legs (calves and hamstrings) become habitually tight. You will feel greater overall freedom when you are supple in the back of the legs. The advanced nature of this practice is found in the depth and subtle awareness cultivated in many of the poses. Props Suggested: A block or a blanket.
• Tortoise Pose with Claire Missingham: Getting into kurmasana, tortoise pose, gracefully can be an amazing feeling, but it can leave you feeling awkward and bound up in all the wrong ways. Careful step by step sequencing will get your body to the point where you are stable and open to get into the pose with strength, poise and grace, as you work on three variations to the pose. Then take the most delicious counterposes. Come out of your shell. Props Needed: A block.
• Flip the Grip with Kathryn Budig: A flow helping you to ‘flip the grip’ for full shoulder revolved backbends such as king dancer and one footed king pigeon. Open your heart with a block to start, then a few side bending poses to further open your torso. After wild thing and a shoulder stretch, use the strap to assist with big back bends. Finish with a twist and a brief savasana. Props Needed: Two blocks and a strap.
• A Flexible Mind with Chelsey Korus: In everyday practice, you flex and stretch your muscles, but can overlook the potential to do the same with your mind. Work on your mind’s flexibility as you activate your whole body with this flow that brings extra attention to your drishti. Jump right into asanas and practice body awareness by activating your muscles in new ways with strength based movements. Experience a class inspired by challenging your mind by way of your body.
• Enfold & Invert Yourself with Noah Maze: Progress slowly and steadily into deeper forward bends, from standing to seated. Forward folds span poses like parsvottanasana, dandasana, baddha konasana, janu sirsasana and paschimottanasana, with variations included. Gain extensive alignment and breath instruction for all parts of the forward bend practice. Sirsasana (headstand) is also included. Effectively use your props to support where needed. Finish with counter poses purvottanasana and sarvangasana (shoulder stand). Feel more grounded and perhaps more introspective from this class. Props Needed: Three blankets, two blocks and a strap.
• Compass Pose Flow with Taylor Harkness: Dive into your hips, hamstrings and shoulders in order to explore four different variations of compass pose. Play with a mandala style flow that will have you facing North, South, East and West to prime your body for stretching in all four different variations of compass pose including standing splits into standing compass, reclined compass and kneeling in compass. Fun transitions are included in your flow after you warm up with traditional sun salutations. Props Needed: A block and a strap.
• Turn Toward Your Intention with Stephanie Snyder: In times of change we sometimes aren’t sure which way to turn. In this twists class, remember to consistently turn toward your intention. There is space for you there. And if you are still unsure, you can be still and wait for the insight. A playful sequence with some pretty deep twists, get right into it. Enjoy!
• Hippity Hoppity with Kathryn Budig: Build heat in your chest and shoulders, gain mobility in your hip flexors and develop power in your legs to give you the foundation to flip your inversions over and back again. Also known as the ‘tick – tock’, flip back and forth in urdhva dhanurasana (wheel pose) and headstand in an advanced front body opening practice. Props Needed: Wall space and two blocks.

 

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