Functional Flow
Mobility-informed yoga class that integrates functional movement with yoga. All levels welcome, including beginners.
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43 min functional flow w/ Justicia: hip mobility
Our two main reasons for practice, cit (insight or awareness) and ananda (bliss) work together to keep us motivated on the mat. This efficient practice centers hip mobility with accessible rotation work, prep for skandasana (side lunge), and supine hip openers to close. Two blocks could be helpful.
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51 min functional flow w/ Justicia: backbends + inversions
Our practice will always progress when we attend to our most fragile, vulnerable part that tends to go out of balance. This class progresses through a familiar standing pose warmup with special attention on prepping the body for backbends. It moves towards quad stretches and chest openers, includ...
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51 min functional flow w/ Justicia: hips, hamstrings + glutes
The most obvious explanation is usually the correct one, and when we invest in our most vulnerable places, the whole system gets an upgrade. This class aims to build functional mobility in the hips (strength in the hip flexors and glutes), as well as the hamstrings. A familiar standing flow moves...
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50 min functional flow w/ Justicia: full spectrum
The yoga practice is our means to get better at being ourselves. In this full spectrum flow, we move through a familiar warm up of sun salutations and standing poses, progressing to balancing poses and hip and hamstring strengthening and stretching. Practice incorporates plenty of opportunities t...
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49 min functional flow w/ Justicia: full spectrum
This mobility-informed practice incorporates poses and stretches to counteract yoga's repetitive movements. A fun, dynamic warmup moves towards familiar standing poses and standing balances, cooling off with seated poses and reclined hero's pose.
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53 min functional flow w/ Justicia: hips + ankles
On our mat we cultivate profound presence through deep inner listening: every practice and indeed every pose is a unique iteration. This mobility-informed flow warms up wuith spinal segmentation, then progresses to a familiar standing flow, closed chain kinetic hip exercises, ending with work in ...
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54 min functional flow w/ Justicia: shoulders + backbends
Discipline over motivation: prioritize movement even when you don't 'want' to. This class includes intentional strengthening, stretching and mobility work for the arms and shoulders on the way to urdva dhanurasana (upward facing bow). The familiar standing flow progresses to quad stretches and ba...
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57 min functional flow w/ Justicia: hips + hamstrings
This mobility-informed flow moves towards skandasana (side lunge) with hip flexion and hamstring prep. It incorporates some joint CARs to promote blood flow and healthy joint function. It closes with a long line bridge pose for hamstring strength, followed by a cooling, supine sequence.
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48 min functional flow: full spectrum
Shape shift to state shift! This full-spectrum functional flow class targets teh major joints of the body and movements of the spine while also paying special attention to the toes, feet, ankles and calves. A familiar warm up moves towards standing poses, integrateing toe CARs, tiptoe work, and a...