Xen Strength Yoga w/ Weights

This 50 minute full body yoga with weights class will not only get you flexible and strong, but also keep your heart rate elevated to torch more calories and boost your metabolism. Includes a sun salutation warm up and cool down.

This class is a great introduction to Danielle's Yoga with Weights classes. Here you will combine upper body strength training moves into a vinyasa flow sequenced with familiar yoga poses, for a total body workout that will get you flexible and strong all in one shot. If you are new to yoga, start with Danielle's Xen Strength Vinyasa Flow for Beginners which is the same sequence without weights.

This slow vinyasa flow introduces you to basic yoga poses you'll find in most vinyasa classes, with detailed alignment instruction given for beginners. This is a perfect introduction to Danielle's Yoga with Weights classes, and can be followed up with her Xen Strength Yoga with Weights for Beginners class.

First segment - 30 mins
This segment opens you up with a longer warm up, including sun salutations with a twist. The creative standing poses test your balance, and the upper body work adds an extra challenge by forcing you to engage your core while balancing. Finish with a quick cardio shot before melting into pigeon.

Second segment - 20 mins
This segment starts off with a quick hip opening warmup before moving into a standing balancing pose sequence that require you to engage your core for a full X minutes while strengthening your upper body. After more hip opening poses raise your heart rate with a unique transition from malasana to downdog and back.

Third segment - 25 mins
This segment requires extra engagement of the obliques as you balance while stretching the side body. Incorporate your upper body into the balancing act, plus a cardio burst that gives you a good kick in the butt. End on the floor with a longer cool down including one eagle variation on a sit-up, and savasana with pranayama.

Full Class - 1 hour, 10 mins
This class focuses on building core strength while challenging your balance with a creative combination of standing poses; incorporating extra hip opening. Add upper body strength moves to sculpt your arms, plus cardio bursts to raise your heart rate- and you’ll create core strength and balance like never before! Relax with a long cool down, savasana and pranayama.

This 40 minute Xen Strength Yoga with Weights segment focuses on raising your heart rate from the warm up to the cool down. Get ready to sweat just a few minutes in, with triple the amount of "moving poses" to not only sculpt every muscle, but also keep your heart in your fat burning zone longer. This might just be a 2-toweler!

This 30 minute Xen Strength Yoga with Weights segment focuses on opening your hips from the warm up to the cool down. Get ready for lots of lunges, warrior 2, and goddess pose incorporating upper body strength moves to sculpt your entire body. Then relax in supine bound angle and focus on relaxing with pranayama.

At last, you can get the intense calorie burn you want, without sacrificing the elements of yoga you love. Xen Strength® strategically incorporates light weights into a playful vinyasa flow, for a program designed to sculpt, lengthen, and challenge, every muscle group.

In this video, Xen Strength® founder, Danielle Diamond, guides you through each pose with precise alignment cues and detailed demonstration. She inspires you to work toward your edge and challenge yourself, while still honoring your current skill level.

Filmed in an intimate studio setting, this program allows you to deepen your practice in the privacy and convenience of your own home, as if receiving private instruction from Danielle.

Xen Strength seamlessly integrates the five essential training elements recommended by fitness professionals: flexibility, strength, balance, core and aerobic fitness.

Proven Results You Can Expect From This Powerhouse Combination:

• Increased endurance and energy

• Increased muscle mass and bone density

• Increased flexibility and mental focus

Video Includes:

• 3 segments that can stand-alone or be combined for a 60 minute, all-over body transforming routine:

1. A rigorous warm up prepares you for a blasting upper-body and core strength training session

2. Intense core moves deliver balance training, functional fitness, and a slimming, detox, twist routine.

3. The bottom line routine melts inches off your glutes, lifts your butt and lengthens and tones your legs, ending with a restorative and much needed cool down to slow down your heart rate and calm your mind.

- Includes modifications for beginners

- equipment needed: a yoga mat and light hand weights

**Click here to download the pose guide for this class


**Xen Strength has been featured on: The Dr. Oz Show, Today Show, SELF Magazine, her future, Anna Magazine, YouBeauty.com, Your Bella Life and Everything Bobbi.


"Danielle is one of a kind. She lights up a room and has great energy which is incredibly infectious. Her classes are terrific and her new technique incorporating weights with yoga is genius. She is the perfect combination of both tough and gentle." ~ Bobbi Brown, Founder and CEO, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics


Created by: Danielle Diamond
Directed by: Alex Coletti Photography by: Monika Broz
Music by Mambo Music/ Paul Weinberg
Fitness Consultant: John Nostro

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TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 72 minutes

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