Ground down to fly in this fun and challenging class full of inner thigh, shoulder, and outer hip openers, arm balances, and headstand. Try Eka Pada Galavasana, wide legged forward food transitioned to headstand, and shoulder stand to round out your practice.

Plank in all its glory! Learn to correctly position and stabilize the 3 platforms of the body in this short and sweet tutorial.

Learn the mechanics and proper alignment of downward facing dog pose (adho mukha svanasana) with this quick tutorial! This is a pose we visit a lot in many styles of classes, it sets up the base for inversions like handstand and headstand (and all of the variations thereof) and is a wonderful inversion in and of itself, downward facing dog is a pose that just keeps getting better and better with the possibility for more and more nuance.

Get right into it! A strong, challenging class with targeted strengthening for the outer hips, anterior core, and upper back. Find your flow with movement through sun salutations, and spend time playing around with bakasana and bhujapidasana.

Stop glossing over your chaturanga! Slow down and try some of these tips, tricks, and drills to build strength and body awareness where you need it to practice this pose safely, effectively, and (is it possible?) joyfully for a long time.

Release anxiety, stress, and busy mind with a soothing and deeply restorative practice. We start with targeted work with a squishy ball to encourage greater capacity for breath through the rib cage, then move through a series of small, undulating movements on the ground to free the lungs and diaphragm from a stuck pattern. A practice I visit on repeat!

A well rounded class of my favorite things! We’ll start but bringing awareness to the core and opening the shoulders, followed by sun salutations and standing poses before leading to Eka Pada Rajakapotasana 3 (that's a mouthful) and Pincha Mayurasana (forearm stand) and some of my favorite openers for low back at the end of class. Enjoy! Strengthen classes are for those looking to try more intricate postures, inversions, arm balances, and bigger backbends. These are slow and mindful classes that build heat and strength with greater nuance and more demanding postures.

Here are 3 spots for neck tension - the title pretty much says it all. Let’s play with balls! Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Sick of feeling depressed, fatigued, and cynical about, well, pretty much everything? Shift your mood with a practice aimed to restore your energy levels (not deplete them further), build strength (without a single motherf*cking charuranga), and boost your mood (no aphorisms or sappy quotes, here). This is a moderately paced class that works smarter, not harder, to help you get your compass pointed in the right direction again. Inspire classes are full, well-rounded practices that bring yoga to life with feel-good sequencing, specific alignment cues, and relevant yoga philosophy for everyday life.

For anyone who has experienced a panic attack (or regular panic attacks), a prolonged period of anxiety, or recent trauma - even something as simple as a minor bike or car accident - you know the flat, foggy, fatigued feeling that happens for a period following. This is a practice to help regulate the nervous system and gently lift it to prevent further slide. It’s purposefully mellow in pace and demand, but still includes some fun balancing poses that will inform your more vigorous asana practice when you get back to it. Release classes aim to restore the body-mind system through a unique combination of myofascial release, yoga postures (usually kept low to the ground), meditation, and breath work.

Have you ever thought about rolling your lower legs? These simple movements can provide a wealth of relief for stiff hamstrings, cranky IT bands, and shin splints, not to mention soothe low back pain and ease neck tension. Sound too good to be true? Learn about this often under addressed area of the body and some simple, easy ways to relieve chronic tension and tightness (runners - here’s to you!). Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Establish your feet in the earth and build strength in the legs to alleviate anxiety and root yourself in radical presence. We move at a steady, rhythmic, and slow pace throughout. Begin with rolling through the calves and moving stagnate prana out of the legs and back. Explore challenging standing poses like parsvottanasana (side flank pose) utthitha hasta padangustasana (one legged balance), and prasarita padottanasana (wide leg forward fold). End with hip openers on the floor and a sweet savasana. Inspire classes are full, well-rounded practices that bring yoga to life with feel-good sequencing, specific alignment cues, and relevant yoga philosophy for everyday life.

A well rounded, full vinyasa practice! We begin by warming and focusing awareness on the anterior core, move through sun salutations, standing postures, and variations of bakasana (crane/crow pose). If you want a class that flows, challenges, and leaves you pleasantly worked, this is it! Strengthen classes are for those looking to try more intricate postures, inversions, arm balances, and bigger backbends. These are slow and mindful classes that build heat and strength with greater nuance and more demanding postures.

This is a powerful tool to help manage your energy levels throughout the day. In the beginning I give a brief overview of the subtle body and how we use practices to stimulate and manage our different biological responses before diving into a full-bodied Nadi Shodhana practice so you can use this technique on your own. Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Move from fear to courage and touch into the heart space in this full length, challenging and stabilizing class filled with time upside down and plenty of heart, diaphragm, and thoracic spine openers. Any act of courage has the effect of scrubbing calcification from the heart center, allowing it to release from a contracted state. Release and recalibrate the neural pathways with work on the floor and simple sun salutations, twists, and standing postures, then move to vasistasana (side plank), handstand, and urdhva danurasana. Strengthen classes are for those looking to try more intricate postures, inversions, arm balances, and bigger backbends. These are slow and mindful classes that build heat and strength with greater nuance and more demanding postures.

Learn to chant the beautiful mantra, Asato ma. This beautiful and fun chant encourages the practitioner to connect to their highest self by stepping out of delusion and ignorance (avidya) and embracing wisdom, love, and compassion. Words: Om, asato ma sadgamaya Asato ma jyotir gamaya Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya (Om shanti shanti shanti) Translation: Asato ma sadgamaya - guide us from ignorance to knowledge Asato ma jyotir gamaya - guide us from darkeness to light Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya - may we no longer be tied by the fear of death and thus reside in our eternal self Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Learn to chant the powerful, beautiful and inspiring Gayatri Mantra! Words: Om bhur bhuvah svah* tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo yo nah prachodayat *pronounced su-vaha Direct translation of the words: Om - Brahma/Oneness/Self Bhur - earth/embodied world Bhuvah - astral realm Svaha - self realm Tat - that/You Savitur - source of all Varenyam - deserving of deep respect/worship Bhargo - radiant Devasya - divine one Dhimahi - to meditate upon Dhiyo yo nah - accelerate our intellect/wisdom Prachodayat - to liberation/freedom/embodiment Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Kapalabhati breath is a great technique to know for lifting your mood and clearing out brain fog, but it can be tricky to figure it out in your body for awhile. This tutorial breaks it down into two simple steps and then we practice at the end! Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

This is a practice for spring, the season of Kapha. Kapha is comprised of the elements of earth and water, and therefore is both deeply nourishing and rich but in excess can make the body and mind feel dull, lethargic, cold and heavy. Find balance for Kapha season with a practice that builds heat and stamina in the legs with longer held, familiar poses to unlock the hips and pelvis, a steady pace to honor our naturally slower rhythm this season, and inversions to “tip the fires” upside down. Inspire classes are full, well-rounded practices that bring yoga to life with feel-good sequencing, specific alignment cues, and relevant yoga philosophy for everyday life.

You don't have to be away from your desk in order to treat your body well! This is an accessible, short practice to address common areas that get tight and stagnate from sitting or standing for long periods of time. We'll go all over the body in 25 minutes and even have time for a short Savasana with the feet up on the chair. Props needed : a chair or similar Release classes aim to restore the body-mind system through a unique combination of myofascial release, yoga postures (usually kept low to the ground), meditation, and breath work.

Many of us hold accumulated mental tension, agitation, and anxiety in the region above the shoulders in addition to the dynamics of working in front of a screen daily. Feel immediate relief and learn easy things you can incorporate into your day to soften these areas as you need. Release classes aim to restore the body-mind system through a unique combination of myofascial release, yoga postures (usually kept low to the ground), meditation, and breath work.

Regain suppleness and flexibility in the lower arms and hands with simple techniques that can be done anywhere, no mat or equipment needed. This is also a great sequence to prepare wrists and hands for arm balances, or to use after a practice with lots of hand balancing. Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Five minutes and three easy moves to feel better, at work, at home, or anywhere in between. Grab a strap and get some shoulder lovin'! Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

If you have tired, achy, stiff feet, hip or low back pain, rolling your feet is an easy, quick, and effective way to help! Great for everyone, especially runners, walkers, and anyone who tends to get plantar fasciitis. You'll need one Yoga TuneUp, tennis, lacrosse, or other massage ball - lots of sizes work and produce different effects, so try with whatever you have around the house. Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.

Wake up and raise your energy with this challenging, fully body, chest, heart, and front body opening class. Find a steady, rhythmic cadence and warm up with sun salutations and shoulder openers, then move into standing postures targeting the chest, front shoulders, quadriceps and hip flexors. Challenge yourself in ardha chandrasana chapasana, kapinjalasana, and ustrasana, and a liiiiiiittle bit of burner core at the end. Enjoy! Inspire classes are full, well-rounded practices that bring yoga to life with feel-good sequencing, specific alignment cues, and relevant yoga philosophy for everyday life.

What do we do with all of this apparent uncertainty, turmoil, and change in our lives? We keep practicing touching the earth, and coming home to breath, body, and what's here right now. This is a full, feel-good practice that begins with some neck and jaw massage and targeted strengthening for the glutes, core, and outer hips. We use the awareness of these areas to work into virabhadrasana 2, trikonasana, and parsvakonasana, and a funky version of ardha chandrasana. All of this leads to several variations of half pigeon (so if you love or love to hate half pigeon pose, this class is for you!), which allow us to relax more and more deeply into the parasympathetic nervous system. Your hips and back will thank you, and you'll sleep like a baby when you make it to bed in a few hours. Props : a bolster or folded thick blanket, 1-2 blocks, and a resistance loop Inspire classes are full, well-rounded practices that bring yoga to life with feel-good sequencing, specific alignment cues, and relevant yoga philosophy for everyday life.

Transition from your work day to your evening with a a practice designed to help release fatigue from the body and calm the mind. We'll go through some favorite inversions, like downward dog, uttanasana, and prasarita padottanasana, opening the backs of the legs and lats along the way - two big regions of the body that tend to become short and tight throughout the day. Towards the end of the sequence we'll work into headstand or legs up the wall before cooling down in a series of forward folds. End in a grounding, simple seated meditation to let go of your day and arrive in the present. Inspire classes are full, well-rounded practices that bring yoga to life with feel-good sequencing, specific alignment cues, and relevant yoga philosophy for everyday life.

My favorite tips for practicing after work in the afternoon or evening! Let's relaaaaaax. Foundations classes are usually shorter, specific tutorials that work a pose, area of the body, chant, or pranayama technique from start to finish.