Although ALL of my classes are Vinyasa (unless specifically noted as a different style, like Rebecca’s Ghosh), the following classes have a focus of Back Bends.
Extra Core Vinyasa
OK, full disclosure: I hurt my back. I know, I know, it’s always one injury after the other. That’s what happens when you’re an aging athlete. This time I did it running with my [...]
Dancer/Core Flow Vinyasa
We work lots of dancers into our flow. We also hit core pretty hard in this class, specifically the elusive iliopsoas. As usual we spend a little time upside down in handstand and pincha [...]
Backbends & Balancing Ladder Flow
You know I love a good ladder flow. This class takes a break between each rung of the ladder to balance. The ladder itself is focused on backbends and hip flexor opening. Generally, those [...]
All Around Vinyasa Class
We do everything here. Some arm balancing, plenty of flows, back bends, planks & core. We move a little more quickly.
Back Bending Flow
This is a psoas opening class for one of our live students heading out on a road trip. We do several variations of back bends and back strengthening. It's still a vigorous Vinyasa flow [...]
Open Up that Front Body and pick it up!
We have two focuses in this practice. We work a back bend into every flow with some big movements. We also use blocks to work on the foundations of picking it up for jump [...]
Shoulder Therapy & Heart Opening
By request! Lots of shoulder stretching and really getting into that shoulder mobility. If you spend time hunched over a keyboard, or your phone, or in the car, or take a lot of vinyasa [...]
Ladder Flow towards king pigeon
The first thing I should say is that my balance suuuuuuuuucked today. I mean, it always sucks to some degree. If you practice with me, you know that, but it was especially bad today. [...]
Creative Vinyasa
Every once in a while I teach a class that I really like personally. I like this one. It's different. We work lots of different variations of backbends for our vinyasas. The flows are [...]
Squats & Dolphin 🙂
This is a balanced class between upper and lower body focus. We start out with lots of pulsing squats. They get easier as we go, I promise! Then we flow and move on to [...]
Breathing through back bends
Back bends are hard for many of us. For some of you, back bends come naturally and strength classes are more difficult. I have no idea what that feels like. For me, this is [...]
Open Those Hip Flexors
Often I take requests before live class. I love addressing students' issues in real time. After all, yoga is therapy! Well, this one was for me. Yoga is very good at stretching out hamstrings. [...]
Faster flow + CORE & Meditation
Merry Christmas Eve! This is a challenging flow class. We move pretty quickly and work core and strength into the flow. Then we hit core and finish it off with a yummy body relaxation [...]
Back bends and working towards scorpion pose
If you take these classes onDemand, you know what you're getting into. You have the focus right in the title. Hate twisting and you take called Let's do the Twist - well, you have [...]
Opened and Closed!
First we open that front body with a back bending flow, including some long juicy holds. And the we close it down and work a good deal of core, activating those muscle groups in [...]