Heart Openers & Backbends on Valentine’s Day!
(Unique, special date night idea; still time to go out for dinner after!)

The main focus of this workshop will be on opening the front body and back bending. To achieve this, we will explore exercises that open the shoulders, pectorals, and lower abdominals as well as lengthening and strengthening the spine. Taking heart openers into stretches for splits increases our ability to open our hips. Depending on your level, you may be able to combine your backbends into your splits or split exercises.

This workshop will explore different asanas that help align the hips to gain flexibility and mobility. The alignment of our hips is frequently over-looked. The lack of symmetry in our bodies and why we to overcompensate on one side versus the other can often be resolved with paying attention to squaring of the hips. This workshop will introduce many variations of hip openers that are accessible to different body types and it will also offer some advanced progressions building on the previous classes.

Part 5: Core Strength and Balances 
We will perform conditioning exercises to strengthen the core and wake up the abdominal muscles used in balances. We will begin with one of the most basic balances, bakasana crow and work on other balances, drawing from asanas worked on in previous workshops. We will build on poses such as your split and pigeon pose to find your  flying split and flying pigeon. This is where we will try to take flight in some of the poses we have learned combining strength and flexibility to achieve that squareness required for balance.

We will perform conditioning exercises to strengthen the core and wake up the abdominal muscles used in balances. We will begin with one of the most basic balances, bakasana crow and work on other balances, drawing from asanas worked on in previous workshops. We will build on poses such as your split and pigeon pose to find your  flying split and flying pigeon. This is where we will try to take flight in some of the poses we have learned combining strength and flexibility to achieve that squareness required for balance.