75 Minute Class, Anatomy Focus, Core, Fitness, Moderate Intensity, Shift Members, Strength, Vinyasa |
Your core is extraordinary. Allowing for unparalleled strength and stability for the very human task of walking upright, carrying things, hugging and looking one another in the eye. But your core also allows for an incredible amount of mobility for a huge variety of movements and expressions. Your core is integral to your breathing and even your emotions. It’s always bothered me that something so smart has been diminished in our culture. We see it as strong or skinny or we hate it. We abuse it with the ubiquitous crunch or sit up and hope it shapes up! This class is all about honoring the core for the intelligence it
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10 Minute Class, Beginner, Calves, Chair Practice, Core, Fitness, Hamstrings, Healthy Aging Classes, Hips, Lower Body, Mobility Drill, Moderate Intensity, Movement Snack, Shift Members, Shoulder, Strength |
Aging well requires a balance of strength, flexibility and power. This quick practice hits all the marks and focuses on the big muscles of the lower body as well as the shoulders. Each exercise is intended to improve your balance as well.
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Beginner, Beginner's Vinyasa, Core, Healthy Aging Classes, Low Intensity, Shift Members, Strength, Vinyasa |
This Beginner friendly class is a wonderful introduction to so called “core work”. I’ll ask you to observe the subtle activity of your core throughout rather than just squeezing or stiffening. You will feel nicely integrated after class. This practice also includes some work for the shoulders.
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Anatomy Focus, Beginner's Hatha, Beginner's Vinyasa, Calves, Chair Practice, Core, Hamstrings, Healthy Aging Classes, Lower Body, Moderate Intensity, Shift Members, Spine, Upper Body |
This accessable practice is a blend of Yoga and strength work using a chair. It’s a great practice if you are new to resistance training but has much to offer the seasoned practitioner as well. The so called antigravity muscles help you to stay vertical when moving or in stillness.
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45 Minutes Class, Advanced Level, Anatomy Focus, Core, Hips, Mobility Drill, Sacroiliac Joint, Shift Members, Strength, Vinyasa |
We hear all the time in Yoga about Hip Opening. It makes sense, if you want to increase hip range of motion you should stretch your hips… right? If I’ve learned anything over the last several years of dedicating my teaching to evidence based practice, it’s that the things that seem the most “truish” should be the first to endure scrutiny.
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Anatomy Focus, Chair Practice, Core, Lower Body, Movement Snack, Shift Members |
Just a quick chair practice to get your blood pumping and your lower body reved up. Sitting all day isn’t the terrible sin that the media would have us believe. It’s just important to get moving for 5-15 minutes every hour or so. This little practice will do perfectly.
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