Backbends

Explore gentle backbends and heart-opening poses to release tension and cultivate flexibility in the upper body. This class focuses on expanding the chest, shoulders, and upper back, promoting a sense of openness and lightness.

The classes in Elise's Sweet & Simple series provide an adaptable experience and are designed for mixing and matching with each other.

This heart-opening and heart-warming energetic flow class will have you moving through a mindful series of postures designed to tap into your sense of compassion. The class flows through hip and heart openers, twists and binds, all to a peak pose of Natarajasana (Dancer's Pose) and Ustrasana (Camel). You'll feel revitalized and energized. Enjoy!

This flow is designed get you out of your head & into your body. Seamless sequences are a beautiful way to get into a flow state & boost your mood. With this feel good flow you will leave practice feeling alive & open. Expect a fun but also active sequence that will build your strength & flexibility in equal measures. We get into your hips, shoulders, spine & core. A full body & mind reboot.

This class moves at a slow and deliberate pace, in order to work on proper engagement in your Backbends. You will mindfully move through Locust, Cobra, Warrior 1, Downward Dog, and a couple variations of Upward Dog. All of these poses will guide you toward a final variation of a deeper backbend over a chair, Upward Facing Bow. If you do not have an actual Yoga specific chair; you can try using a sturdy folding chair.

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 no fuss flow is the perfect class when you are short on time but still want to hit all of your favourite postures. We move through a dynamic warm up into classic Surya Namaskar sequences and into standing poses. Finish your practice with some backbends and core and you're done!

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 practice focuses on activating your upper body. Explore a few familiar weight-bearing poses to build heat and conclude with some prone backbends.

Perhaps one of the scariest transitions in a yoga practice is dropping back from Tadasana / Mountain Pose to Urdhva Dhanurasana / Wheel. It requires courage, control, strength and determination. In this advanced sequence, I breakdown the mechanics behind dropping back and give you some helpful tips on how to learn the transition. First though, flow through a strong sequence to prepare your body to bend.

Backbends are some of the most provocative poses of our beloved yoga practice. Why are they so alluring to the human eye? I think it’s because we find ourselves so frequently in forward bends with poor posture. Fortunately, backbends helps us remedy those postural issues. This practice is designed to support your backbend practice. Warm up with an intentional flow and prepare to explore a few commonly practiced backbends.

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!