Backbends

This morning class is designed to help you connect to your body, allowing you to experience a deep sense of presence, wholeness, and inner awareness that can last throughout your day. You will mindfully flow through Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) variations, hold backbends and twists, and finish with grounding postures to help you feel balanced for your day.

There is no music in this class so you can enjoy the silent background, use your own playlist, or play Jackie's Spotify Playlist.

Spotify playlist for Good Morning Flow 2: Embodiment

This practice is about finding your flow state & enjoying the spaces between the poses along your journey. We continuously move & create a seamless flow so that energy & breath can build throughout. Expect fun & challenging transitions in this dynamic sequence.

"Freedom arises from a heart that is ready for anything." - Tara Brach

This warming and dynamic vinyasa flow class is designed to help you connect to your inner strength and heart power. On a physical level, you will practice postures that stretch the muscles in your chest and heart area, simultaneously strengthening the muscles of your back and legs. On an energetic level, you are invited to soften and open your symbolic heart as you connect with the strength within, so that you can live with more courage and trust. You will flow, hold balancing & backbending postures, and then wind down with half pigeon and forward folds so that you are left feeling strong, free, balanced, and more ready for what lies ahead. Enjoy!


Spotify playlist for Inner Strength Flow 3: An Open Heart

Before you start your day, join me for a morning flow! In this class, we’ll explore chest openers and backbends that will help us to create BIG energy to move through our day feeling our best. We’ll ease into the practice to gently wake up the body and move through some transitions to keep us on our toes and wake up the mind. The final build will take us into Dancer’s Pose before we wind down with a little bit of core work and a self-guided savasana. Hope you have a great day!

This class is designed to help you bring awareness to the pelvis and its role in supported backbends. While this class is focused on accessible backbends, the work required to create structure is detailed and precise. While the first half of this class is slower moving, the second half picks up its pace and is certain to get the heart rate up.

This flow class will get you moving and open your heart physically, and energetically. Expect to move rhythmically with your breath and enjoy a full-body opening with an extra emphasis on heart-openers and backbends. Opening the heart and chest region in yoga not only improves posture, it can also give a boost to our joy and capacity to love.

Spotify playlist for Heart Opening Flow

We are, if nothing else, an overly hunched culture. This short but energetically delicious Intensive focuses on a handful of potent camel pose variations (among others) to really open the chest, invigorate the upper spine and bring space to the heart and head, so real devotional energy can swirl and inspire. Move slowly. Don't get dizzy. Stop analyzing everything. You'll be fine.


Spotify playlist for Devotion Intensive IV: Smoking Camels

It has been said, "no mud, no lotus." In yoga (and in life), I think about "no rain, no rainbow." Our practice can serve as an opportunity to train ourselves to make it though the storm. The poses can be tricky or uncomfortable and our job is to find our best alignment and stay connected to our breath. Beyond weathering the storm (of a challenging pose, class, or life), we can also learn to see the rainbow - to train the mind to see the good even though the tough. In this class filled with side bends and heart openers, we will work on both the rain and the rainbow.

This class gives you a little bit of everything—breath, flow, length, strength, and stretch—while giving you an opportunity to practice deep presence and awareness. Postures include balancing, side bending, and heart opening, as well as a hip opener (half pigeon with options) toward the end of class to help you ground your energy. Enjoy!


Spotify playlist for Flow into Presence

Power yoga builds serious strength, and this power vinyasa flow will make you break a sweat and get a great workout in just 20 minutes! Enjoy and namaste!

This 30-minute morning yoga routine will boost your energy & will energize you for the day. Enjoy a fun and energetic flow practice with Pradeep, to start your morning!

Inspired by Power Yoga, Elise offers longer holds of simpler poses in this transformation 40-minute session. Warm, open, and strengthen your whole body while moving from restful Child's Pose through invigorating Warrior 2, eventually finishing with joyful backbends and calming hip openers. Please check out Elise's special Spotify playlist for this class, too!

Spotify playlist for The Power of Intention

This practice cultivates heat, trims, tones, builds strength and flexibility. If you want a class that will make you stronger, while also making you more open, this practice with Pradeep will challenge you in a lighthearted and fun way.

Gently wake up with your breath in Vajrasana, then twist, lunge, fly, and stretch out your body on all sides. You will practice some feel-good heart opening postures including Wild Thing, Bow, and Wheel. Ease your transition from morning into day and allow your body & mind to enjoy the beautiful day.

Start your day off with this energetic flow that will warm and awaken you. You will flow, balance, strengthen, and stretch as you connect to your inner spark. When we connect to what lights us up we can live in alignment with our highest purpose and inspire others to do the same.

Class begins with flowing Sun Salutation variations (Surya Namaskar), followed by balancing, heart openers, and twisting postures. You will finish with grounding postures to leave you feeling centered and balanced. Enjoy, and have a great day!

This slow paced vinyasa class will help you embody presence and grace through gentle mindful flow and breath. You will flow through slow and adaptive Sun Salutations A & B, practice balancing postures, then wind down with grounding postures and a hip opener. Take this time to tune inward and tap into grace. Enjoy!

Our Electronic Music Sessions are a perfect union of yoga + music by some of the world's top dance music artists. The exclusive music mix was specially created to compliment the class and whisk you away to a faraway land, allowing you to get deep into your practice.

ABOUT THE CLASS
In this class, we'll take a look at the movement of the arm bones and shoulder blades when the arms come above the head. Explore poses such as down dog, dolphin, wheel and more to discover how to keep the arms in their sockets.

ABOUT THE MUSIC
This class is soundtrakced by Selador Recordings - purveyors of the finest underground house and techno, since forever! For more information about their music visit:
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GET THE MIX - download the music mix from this class to soundtrack your yoga practice, run, medium-paced workout, or just to groove to!

Begin your day with an invigorating yoga flow that will help you expand your awareness and align your mindset with your heart-centered intentions.

Class begins with flowing Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) variations, followed by lunges and balancing, and finishes with grounding postures to leave you feeling balanced and centered.

There is no better way to start your day than with yoga! Enjoy.

With a gentle warm-up and attentive sequencing that moves the body through several backbend variations, this class dusts off the heart and reminds us of the golden seed of connection within. Internal archaeology is the process of freeing the body, clearing energetic channels, placing the mind in the somatic experience and revealing the heart. Opening with hip releases and twists, this sequence gently traverses into lunges, thigh stretches and mild backbends. The peak pose of Urdvha Dhanurasana is offered, but not required, and the class closes with inspiring reminders of our capacity for connection.

We are all stronger than we might think, and yoga helps us discover and develop our own inner strength. This class is exactly as the title describes, a warming flow that will help you cultivate strength and freedom. Class begins with Sun Salutations and multiple rounds of a warming balancing flow, then peaks with balancing & front-body opening postures, and ends with grounding postures to leave you feeling balanced. If you are looking for a flow to give you a boost, this class is for you! Enjoy.

Discover what it's like to move into a state of surrender where the weight can be lifted off of your shoulders and you can flow through life, exactly as it is. As you breathe through this moving meditation, feel the visceral shift from forcing and into a state of allowing. This class consists of continuous and thoughtful movement that will guide you towards moments of heart-opening.

When you're short on time, but don't want to sacrifice the experience of a full-length juicy Vinyasa flow practice, this is the class for you. You'll practice plenty of twists, balancing poses, planks, and Wild Thing and finish feeling invigorated. *No savasana included, but add your own if time allows!

This fun flow will leave you feeling refreshed with a specific focus on opening quads, spine and triceps. With consistant reminders to return to the breath and awareness of sensations in the body, this practice will feel well-rounded both physically and energetically.

This class will challenge you, move slowly, focus on breath, and cultivate more strength, confidence, and humbleness. There is a balance between holding postures, with some flow elements and breath focused movements in this practice. Being a confident warrior and being humble in your power, are both possible in unison. This class, set amongst the backdrop of majestic outdoor mountain scenery, helps cultivate these qualities.

Patanjali advises us to go forth on the yogic path with the two wings of freedom, abhyasa and vairagya, effort and release. We will explore how to create traction and release in a clear and systematic approach that is compression-free.

This joyful and uplifting practice invites us to take a deeper look into our mind body connection through concentrating on the joy and gratitude we find in our lives. All levels of yogis will find joy and an open heart with this practice.

Little-known fact: Backbends are often just as much, if not more, about opening the front body – the chest, the heart, the thighs, the belly – as they are about getting the spine to give up its deep, psycho-emotional traumas and delights.

Here’s a relatively advanced (read: do be careful, OK?), backbend-heavy practice designed, on the physical level, to explore multiple modes and intensities of spinal flexion: deep folds, multiple flavors of backbend, a strappy Natarajasana, challenges to both your focus and balance. But on the other, less obvious levels? Far more interesting possibilities for deep release, expansion.

How intense do you want it? How deep are you willing to go? How much release can you truly handle, without harming yourself and without obeying your nagging ego’s urges to either push harder or collapse and give up? Shall we find out?

Spotify playlist for Absolution Flow: Wheel of Fire

Each one of us is worthy of love and all that we desire in this life, yet we often forget this. Connect to your own worthiness and remember what you love about yourself as you flow through this strong, yet freeing class. Similar to Jackie's first Empowerment Flow class, this class combines lots of warming vinyasa flow with strengthening posture holds. This sequence includes balancing postures, core work, and backbends (including Camel/Ustrasana) to help you feel confident, strong, and open. Enjoy!

Need an hour vacation from the hustle and bustle of your life? Enjoy this invigorating Wild Thing Flow to open your heart and mind. Wild Thing is known to combat fatigue and mild depression by stretching the chest, shoulders, throat, hip flexors and legs. We spend so much of our lives hunched over computers and in cars, this class will help counteract by opening the front side of your body.

This Intermediate to Advancing - Double Bound Ardha Chandrachopasana - in a playful standing pose session is designed to encourage the growth and refinement of open hip pattern standing and standing balancing poses. Moving towards a double bound variation of half moon pose, we will layer planks, binds, backbends and sustained hip openers along the progression to make this practice rich, deep, meditative, and one to return to again and again to observe gained progress.


Shannon recommends using the following playlist for this class: Spotify playlist for Apex Fusion Standing Balances