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HW: Full Length Classes
I loved all the classes. Bali Booty has a great energy, you feel like you’re in Bali with the class. Restorative Yoga sets the relaxed tone in the beginning with the use of the singing bowl and self massage. I really love to slow down and sink deep in to poses rather than move through too quickly.
I’d say my favorites were Heal Your Back and Restorative Yoga. My back is still in the healing process after several years of pain and these classes help me along and show me how far I’ve come in the past 2 years. Hip/shoulder openers, core strengthening and spinal twists are what have most helped me over the years physically.
The videos were so detailed in the cueing of each pose, that is was easy to adjust yourself with the verbal instruction alone. I enjoyed the expressive story telling of a pose, like Airplane pose “arms out like airplane wings, flying, soaring over the valley below”. It is a great way to keep the students attention/focus in a balancing pose.
Heal Your Back has many spinal twists, shoulder and hip openers, and side/spine lengthening asanas which are deeply healing. The cues were focused on integrating breath work into the poses, lengthening, and “twisting your heart to the sky”. Inhale, lengthen the spine, exhale, twist really helps you breathe properly throughout. “Breathe into” the space you are opening is such a beautiful way to take focus off the discomfort of a pose and back in to the breath.
I appreciate the cue “if it is available to you” and reminders to use straps/blocks. I’ve learned how important those statements and modifications are. In a class, it would take pressure off someone who feels like they can’t “keep up”. It’s a gentle reminder to not compete, even with yourself, but to be exactly where you are and accepting of that.
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Great write up on the benefits of these classes! Thank you for sharing! 😍
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