Maha Mobility
Maha Mobility is based on the principles of Functional Range Conditioning (FRC), which focuses on strengthening joint capacity and building connective tissue strength. Most classes zoom in on a specific joint or joints to build strength and expand range of movement. Excellent cross training for yogis, all levels welcome!
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27 min FRC basics: elbow extension
The triceps are the long muscle group on the back of the arm that cross both the shoulder and the elbow. They assist in upper body pushing movement both in front of and behind the body. In this basics class, we focus on bringing them into their shortest position, behind the body. Lengthening them...
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35 min FRC basics w/ Alan: elbow supination
Elbow supination is the action that turns the forearm up and out. Rotation is the fundamental movement of your elbow joint; the deepest muscles and tendons are rotational, and all the other movements are layered on top of these. In this class, we focus on building range, increasing joint strength...
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40 min FRC w/ Alan: ankle dorsiflexion
Ankle Dorsiflexion is the action that brings the top of the foot towards the shin or pulls the knees over the toes. Good dorsiflexion allows us to pull ourselves deep into a squat and sets up the late stance of gait, propelling us forward.
These muscles (primarily tibialis anterior) are on the ...
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60 min FRC w/ Alan: hamstrings
Your hamstrings are a group of three muscles in the back of your thighs. These long muscles cross the hip and knee, so they have multiple joint actions, and are important stabilizers of the pelvis. This class works on making hamstrings resilient and mobile in both their lengthened and shortened p...
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5 min all levels FRC w/ Alan: shoulder mobility
This short functional range conditioning practice is an excellent way to be proactive about your shoulder health. The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the body, and as such it greatly benefits from regular mobility and stability training.
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40 min FRC w/ Alan: knee rotation
Fun fact: knees rotate! This often overlooked and under trained action is crucial for health and movement capabilities of the lower limbs. It's a key to unlocking tight ankles and hamstrings, and is a game changer for sports that require quick changes of direction. Keep your knees happy and stron...
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31 min all levels w/ Alan: hand + wrist
In this downtempo class we focus on strengthening the wrists and hands using isometrics and light movement. this class is non weight bearing and aims to create base level strength and functional mobility in the hands and wrists.
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42 min FRC w/ Alan: shoulder external rotation
Humans are one of the few mammals with a laterally oriented shoulder, this gives us the ability to have a huge range of motion, and as the shoulders capsular function rotation is the base of all that movement. Whether you're throwing, swimming, or just digging in the garden the movements from ext...
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35 min FRC w/ Alan: ankles
Your feet are a primary sense organ for telling your brain what is happening on the ground below you. Everything that happens there reverberates up the kinetic chain, so any lack of mobility or stability here can affect the rest of the body.
This mobility class works on rotation and dorsiflexi...
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50 min FRC w/ Alan: hip rotation (IR & ER)
Our lives are very linear, so it makes sense that many of us lack end range rotation, in this class we will work on restoring some of that rotations to create more mobile hips
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22 min FRC w/ Alan: shoulder extension
Shoulder extension brings the arms behind the back and activates all the muscles of the back of the arm. This is a common position in many movement practices and our daily lives in general, so it's important to have good structure here. We will be partially weight bearing on the wrists; if you'd ...
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20 min FRC w/ Alan: elbow flexion
Elbow flexion does the action of the classic bicep curl. These muscles pull the forearm towards the upper arm. They are strong muscles that often don't get worked in an asana practice. This class is great for people with mobile elbows that tend to hyper extend. It is excellent to pair with should...
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30 min FRC w/ Alan: wrist flexion
Wrist flexion is the action that pulls the palm of the hand towards the forearm, the muscles that press into the ground when we place our palms flat (a common position for many movement practices, including yoga). In this class, we focus on strengthening the short range of these muscles while str...
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25 min FRC w/ Alan: hip flexion
In yoga we do a lot of passive deep hip flexion, malasana (yogi squat), janu sirsasana (seated head to knee pose), and many others, in this class we work on strengthening the hip flexor muscles and creating active hip flexion, training our hip flexors to pull us in, rather than sitting in our fle...
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24 min all levels FRC w/ Alan: wrist extension
Our hands connect us to the world and assist us in interacting with it, and are often overlooked in training. This class focuses on wrist extension (our palms down position) that is found in a variety of movement practices and very common in yoga. We focus on creating strength and generating for...
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45 min FRC w/ Alan: shoulder rotation
Whether you're trying to flip over from downward dog, or turn the hand forward in Half Frog, happy shoulders need a lot of rotation to move through their ranges of motion. In this class we will build rotational strength and capacity in our shoulder capsule!
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27 min FRC w/ Alan: shoulder flexion
Shoulder flexion (arms overhead) is common in countless yoga postures, as well as many other movement practices. Whether you're doing down dog or putting your groceries away in a high cabinet, our ability to lift our arms overhead with ease and control is fundamental to our lives. Shoulder flexio...
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3 min FRC w/ Alan: introduction
Start Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) here. Learn the basics of FRC in this quick introduction, then progress to the joint-specific practices.