It’s an ab day! This is our last class in our November gratitude series and we go out putting some fire in our bellies! This guilt-free, gratitude-for-food class offers several core strengthening sequences to ignite our digestion and a guided meditation to help us ease back into our mindfulness practice.
Today we wrap up our monthly theme of liberation and move through a warrior-based vinyasa flow with plenty of planks and core strengthening poses.
Today’s class builds a strong core for both physical and mental support. We use breath work and longer holds to remind us how we use our abs in pretty much every part of our daily life. A strong core will help us have better posture allowing us to breathe more deeply giving our brains more oxygen and space to clear out the ‘ick’ and let in the goodness.
With fall quickly approaching, I often start to feel a bit melancholy – a bit of sadness saying goodbye to summer. I tend to love all of the seasons to a point but east coast autumns are probably my favorite. Today, we embrace the melancholy and start out slow but move into a standing flow. I’ll lead you through several body scan and mindfulness practices with a focus on listening. We end with invigorating breath work that will hopefully help you start your day with a joyous heart.
By popular demand, today’s class builds on Tuesday’s energizing core class with additional variations and longer holds. We also use the block to get deeper insight into the inner workings of our abs and do some stretches to work out any sore muscles that we might have from Tuesday. And, we have a special cricket guest!
Feeling sluggish? This class will energize you from the inside out focusing on breath work and core poses to strengthen your abdominal muscles, aid in slow digestion, and leave you feeling ready for whatever your day may bring next!
Props that you may want, but not required: Blocks, meditation cushion.
Today we play! We’ll test our balance through a table-based core sequence and later with a gate-based half-moon sequence, ultimately leaving us an “open” chest and heart.
The side body stretches felt so good on Tuesday that we decided to continue them today! We combine them with a warrior II flow and throw in some ab work so they don’t feel left out.
FIRMNESS & FLUIDITY: A full body balancing flow including core strengthening planks, mountain pose, and tree pose.
Finding balance on and off the mat – today we learn to listen to our values and explore mountain pose and tree post within a psoas stretch flow.