Inversions

A short & effective session for your handstand practice. We work on shoulder mobility & stability, glute strength & core conditioning. This class includes some air time & as you will be fully primed, feel free to continue on with your handstand practice after the class.

This short & effective practice will create a lot of space & stability in your upper body. It's the perfect antidote to a desk job. There are opportunities for inversions & alternatives are offered.

Marysia feels that Handstand should be available to everyone who is keen to learn it. This class is the culmination of her years traveling the world teaching yoga and researching Handstand and how it works in different bodies. No matter what your shape, size or movement history is, if you have the desire in your heart, Marysia will find a way to make Handstand happen for you.

You’ve got this!

Upon completion of class, to further your Handstand development if you learn that:
a) your arms feel unstable, then practice more Arm and Shoulder Strengthening classes.
b) your shoulders are tight, then practice more Chest and Shoulder Opening classes.
c) your hips are tight, then practice more Hip Opening classes.
d) your core feels unstable, then practice more Core classes.

Ready to tackle the press handstand that you’ve been wanting to work on? Let’s do it! This press program will help you to build the strength, flexibility and confidence to help you overcome this challenging pose while also keeping your wrists and shoulders happy and healthy! This program should be taken at your own pace. Each sequence is harder than the one before it and has different more advanced movements.

This is Class 4 and we push it to the limit here! You did it! You made it all the way! Remember to stay consistent to reach your goals and take rest days in between! You are limitless!

Lets explore our core! Our core is much more than just the six pack abs that we so often think of! Grab a couple of blocks and a strap and let’s have some fun exploring how firing up our inner and outer thighs can help us connect even deeper to our core! We will warm up our wrists and shoulders, explore plank, side plank, flow a bit, find our hollowbody both on our back and balancing on our tip toes and even find a solid connection to our core in Headstand with the help of the blocks and straps! This class warms you up with sun salutations, and then gives you time to hold more strengthening postures. Expect to sweat and be challenged!

Ready to tackle the press handstand that you’ve been wanting to work on? Let’s do it! This press program will help you to build the strength, flexibility and confidence to help you overcome this challenging pose while also keeping your wrists and shoulders happy and healthy! This program should be taken at your own pace. Each sequence is harder than the one before it and has different more advanced movements.

This is Class 3! Congrats for making it this far! Consistency is the most key thing! Expect to be challenged here, but feel free to take it down a notch if needed! You got this!

Ready to tackle the press handstand that you’ve been wanting to work on? Let’s do it! This press program will help you to build the strength, flexibility and confidence to help you overcome this challenging pose while also keeping your wrists and shoulders happy and healthy! This program should be taken at your own pace. Each sequence is harder than the one before it and has different more advanced movements.

This is class 2 we will be ramping things up and including more difficult movements to continue to build or strength, stamina and flexibility

This powerful class opens and strengthens your shoulders and upper body, core, and hamstrings. If you like a practice that gives you time to open and deepen into postures, one pose at a time, this one is for you (this is not a flow class). There is a little bit of everything in this class, including pranayama, and you'll open your entire body, with an extra emphasis on your shoulders, neck, and upper body. This class is accessible to those with some yoga experience, and will give you the opportunity to explore a bigger inversion towards the end of class, with modifications available for all levels. New and more challenging poses teach us patience and remind us it's about the journey to get there, more than the final pose, or destination. This class is also ideal if you feel tight in your upper body from too much time on your computer or phone and you want to improve your posture. Enjoy!

Spotify playlist for 30-Minute Shoulder & Upper Body Love

Dream of floating to the top of your mat with grace and ease? Well, look no further! This class is all about creating that floatiness with strategically placed drills and exercises to get you out of your head and into the air! Expect to have a fun and light-hearted adventure on your mat that will get you sweating and floating around like never before! Enjoy!

Rocket 3 is a combination of the Rocket 1 and Rocket 2 sequences. It is fast paced, and combines fun transitions from Ashtanga's 1st through 3rd series'. Be ready to sweat, get upside-down, and have a good time!

Balance is more than just standing on one foot. Balance is a life skill, not allowing yourself to move into extremes. In this class we explore balancing on our hands, on our head and on our feet. It's the perfect balance (see what I did there?) of flow and hold. You will finish this class feeling focused, calm and clear.

Get ready for an arm workout!

The Rocket 2 sequence is a modification of Ashtanga's Second Series.This class is full of arm balances to challenge your upper body strength. Don't worry if all the handstands and inversions are overwhelming at first, Come back to this video everyday and watch your practice (and arm muscles) transform!

This class will challenge your legs in ways you've never felt! The Rocket 1 sequence is a spin off on Ashtanga's Primary Series. In this class, I've added in more postures to work your lower body. Single leg squats, balancing poses, and some deep hip stretching will leave your legs feeling strong and supple!

If you want to fit a complete and thorough yoga practice into 25--minutes, this FREE class is for you.

This riverside practice wakes everything up, has you move with your breath to start, gives you time to deepen into postures, and increases both your strength and flexibility. This strong, steady and challenging condensed class packs in everything you need in your daily yoga practice, with time to breathe through all of it and not feel rushed. You'll balance, flow, hold poses, twist, go upside down (if you choose to), and open your shoulders, hips, and heart, in less than half an hour. You'll build heat gradually to let go of any stress, and hit the reset button wherever you are in your day, finishing this class feeling strong and relaxed.

Spotify playlist for 25-Minute Full Body Yoga

A somatic investigation of the Patanjali Yoga Sutra’s teachings on living life from the inside out in order to find sufficient inner freedom to enjoy and experience life to its fullest. This sequence will explore shoulder openers such as inversions and arm balances to integrate the least stable joint of the body and access the seat of wisdom in our heart’s center.

Sarvangasana and Sirsasana are known as the royal postures in that they offer the most profound physical and physiological benefits to the master glands of the endocrine system. A detailed and methodical investigation of how to approach these postures to access the nectar of Amrita, to reverse the aging process and awaken higher brain centers of intution.

Unless you have had gymnastics training, you will probably notice that Inversions are very challenging and sometimes seemingly impossible poses. Beginning to practice inversions as an adult is an extraordinary achievement and one we believe is worth your time. It is, however, very important to have the proper conditioning to make your journey safe and productive. Here is a simple routine designed to prepare you physically and mentally for this feat. If you have tight shoulders, take more time during the week to do the shoulder stretching that is demonstrated in this video. Also, practice the preparations for inversions without going fully upside down often so you become more accustomed to the blood pressure changes that occur when you are upside down.

Flow, move, breathe, and learn in this playful and well-rounded practice. This is a slower moving, yet challenging class, that focuses on building strength and holds poses for a little longer than the typical flow class. The class opens the entire body including the shoulders, hips, legs, and core. You’ll also learn new tricks to help gradually go upside down in handstand and a chance to enjoy shoulder stand. Inversions are powerful tools for mental, physical, and emotional health and valuable yoga postures to practice. This class will leave you feeling empowered and strong.

It is said that change is the only constant. For some, cultivating the confidence to embrace the unknown is a scary thought. If we want to change the things that we experience we must change the way we see them. Inversions are the perfect way to shift paradigms and see the world from a new perspective. In support of riding the wave of change, we will explore Sirsasana, headstand. In this energetic class, you'll learn the key actions to work towards your full expression of the pose.

One thing that differentiates a calm response from a reactive response is breath. Calm people breathe. In that one breath, reactivity slows, we regain access to our higher mind, and we respond better.

Yoga is an amazing practice, allowing us to meet ourselves on the mat each time, noticing when reactions arise, frustration, elation, edges of intensity, and we train ourselves that through it all, we can breathe, and remain steady and calm.

This class includes refined cues for engagement and exploration, making each pose a bit more intense. With longer holds and a steady flow, you will feel it. Exploring your own alignment, you will build to the peak pose, pincha myurasana, or forearm stand, at the wall.

Spotify playlist for Calm People Breathe

The Wall Flower series ultimately is to be done altogether. However, this part of the series is for the upper body. A perfect class to learn, practice and perfect handstands, forearm stands and headstands. But never forget, "Yoga isn't about standing on your head, its about getting your head out of your ass.”

Sometimes to turn your day around, you must turn your body upside down. Some days effortlessly feel better than others, but luckily, yoga has the power to take any day into a more positive direction. Whether you're having an excellent day or struggling, this short practice will get stuck energy flowing, your breath deep, and leave you feeling refreshed. This practice gradually touches everything from hips, heart, shoulders, twists, and culminates with an inversion, which are the most effective shapes for boosting one's mood.

Handstands can be intimidating may be a little scary but with practice and determination balancing on your hands can be a possibility. In this class you'll build up heat in your core, stretch out your hamstrings and shoulders to help find flight and maybe even float throughout class. This class is meant to be lighthearted and fun.

Flow through standing and balancing poses on your way to handstand - twice! Prep your shoulders, core, calves, and hamstrings, then practice hopping with both feet AND the classic kick-into-splits shape. This quick class is perfect for the morning or an afternoon energy boost.

Practicing Asteya, or non-stealing, is knowing the division between need and greed. Maybe we don't shoplift, but do we steal other's thunder by interjecting or not-fully listening? Do we steal from others by being late or wasting time on social media at work? The practice of posture and breath can help integrate mind, body & spirit to bring revelation to areas of our life where we need to upgrade our ethical walk. This practice focuses on shoulders, legs, upper back and hips building to forearm stand. Even if full expression is not for you, learn the building blocks to make you successful in your expression today.

From an everyday yama perspective, we'll focus on where we put our energy. Traditionally, Brahmacharya was meant for male renunciants to practice sexual restraint and focus on the yogic path. Another interpretation of this virtue is moderation. Living in our modern world, do we focus on external things and temporary satisfaction or are we recognizing excess in our lives and practicing moderation to grow spiritually? This is a short, wonderful, full-body flow that uses different muscles groups and moves continuously, to makes you feel like you flowed for an entire hour.

A yogi finds two drunken men in a boat on the Ganges River and asks them, "Where are you going?" They replied, "To the other side of the river." The next day the yogi finds the men in the same place rowing and tells them with compassion in his eyes, "Perhaps you want to untie yourself from the river bank."

What are you holding onto? Aparigraha is one of then 5 yamas or ethical codes that means "non-hoarding." Enjoy Kristin's fun class full of flow and opportunities to un-tether from what's holding you back from the fullness life has for you.

Inversions: Handstand, forearm balance and tri-pod headstand. We get so familiar in looking at things through one lens. Give yourself permission to grow the muscles of courage and trust - key ingredients to navigating fear in our lives. Go upside down. I wish I could tell you that these 3 poses would eliminate fear in your life. I cannot. What I can do is make you a promise: Practice this video with or without any of the variations I offer, at least once a week, and you will learn to navigate fear in your life off the mat. The power that you will feed your body from these poses will create strength and vitality in your soul that will carry you through all of life's experiences. I would not say that if it was not my experience. These poses are like the 9th step promises from recovery for me. They deliver every time. Trust and Courage, will always materialize if we work for them. Have a blast. This video is meant to be super fun.

Fearless After Fifty: Bonus Video

Who doesn’t want to fly, feel strong and build trust in the Universe? That’s what we’re having, but to be honest, older warriors have more risk when it comes to balancing out the rewards. We must have proper shoulder alignment or else we can create real and lasting problems in our upper bodies. We must be safe-ish, as a fall at sixty could likely break a hip. Therefore, we show you how to build your inner badass, at a wall. We can’t absolutely guarantee that bad things won’t happen, after all, this is life and we’re all in it together. However, if you follow these tips, you will learn how to approach an inversion practice with fearlessness, and safety first. This class is mostly a detailed demonstration of postures to practice.

Upside down is, or can be, disorienting. Inversions can take embodied skills and strength and make them more challenging to access because the brain is physically below the bodily points of engagement. A key to growing your practice in this 'upside down' way is engaging a layered conversation of skill and strength in the body to challenges of the same skill sets in slightly shifted physical orientations. This causes the practice to be as much for the mind as it is for the body. The effect not only grows the practitioner's embodiment and execution of more complex inversions over time, but also gives powerful access to a sense of increased confidence and focus.

In this session, we will muse techniques of pressing (rather than kicking) into creative, asymmetrical inversions with notable, deep backbend fusions and gorgeous variations / complications that draw methodically from embodied memory into some of your most beautiful expressions of body poetry.