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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...