ES Balance Focused

ES Balance Focused

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ES Balance Focused
  • Equilibrium & Stability: Holistic Balance

    2/7/2025: This practice includes a holistic approach to balancing, get a deep calf stretch, wake up your reflexes and brain with contralateral movements. Includes self-massage sequence to release tension in the legs, hips and low-back.

  • Equilibrium & Stability: Start with Your Feet

    This full-body mobility class starts with your feet and shins, then gradually includes lunges and squats and rotation work to give you a full-body workout. Props needed: Chair, Yoga Blanket.

  • Equilibrium & Stability: Emotional & Physical Balance

    2/21/25: Today's class starts with a yummy foot massage, practicing a one-legged balance before and after turning on our gluts and a meditative practice called "Holding Opposites" which can help us to be more equanimous, spacious and balanced.

  • ES: 15 Second Balance Test

    4/11/25: Improve your one-legged balance by strengthening your hamstrings, inner thighs and lateral hips. We also explore how awakening our reflexes also improves the body's capacity to balance and stabilize.

  • ES: Variable Lands

    5/2/25: Awaken the proprioceptors in your feet (and brain) by walking and playing on uneven surfaces! This creative and fun sequence is great for improving your foot and ankle mobility and awakens your senses.

  • ES: Blanket 4 Ways

    5/16/25: Stimulate your balance and stability by challenging it with variable landscapes. Here we use the yoga blanket in 4 different ways to massage our feet, awaken the instrinsic foot muscles and challenge the vestibular system.

  • ES: Your Bouyant Core

    6/20/25: Explore the connection between your feet and your deep core, the diaphragms that provide postural support, pelvic/hip stability and more power and bouyancy in your step.

  • ES: Ground Reaction Force

    6/13/25: Learn how to harness the push-back from the earth in order to move more effectively. Sequence includes deep calf stretch, weigh shifting, lunge clocks and lunge ups as well as some mobility for the upper body.

  • ES: Balance & Resourcing

    6/27/25: This fun sequence wakes up your brain and balancing super powers. We playfully explore the 15 second balance and how resources such as our reflexes, vision, hearing, foot proprioception and rotational movements can improve our ability to stand on one leg.

  • ES: One-Legged Squats (with Axl)

    7/11/25: Improve your balance, hip and knee stability with this challenging-ish sequence. Warm ups include a calf stretch and a seated knee and pelvic floor exploration, the bulk of the class consists of exploring four different one-legged squats to strengthen the legs and hips in all dimensions ...

  • ES: Balance 30, Seated 30

    9/12/25: The first half of class is standing and focuses on improving our balance through massaging of the feet, weight shifting and migrating into one-legged balances. The second half is seated and focuses on upper body range of motion from the middle-back up to the AO joint in the neck.

  • ES: Classic Sequence Redux

    9/19/25: This is a variation of the classic sequence I taught at Emory. We start in seated with the feet, releasing the fascia and warming up the joints. Next is a rich and well balanced sequence to strengthen your legs and mobility. We conclude with the self-massage for the legs and feet.

  • ES: Feet, Eyes, Gluts

    10/10/25: Awaken your balance and stability with exercises that improve your feet mobility, strength and overall proprioception. The next section includes work for your eyes and upper body, the main sequences focuses on balance and strengthening your gluts and we did a knee focused self-massage t...