Ready to Fly

Ready to Fly

The classes in this video are all playing with different ways to take flight! Because this is a series of classes devoted to arm balances, we don't suggest this collection for beginner yogi's.
Remember to listen to your body, mind, and heart when it comes to arm balances.

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  • Power Yoga for Better Balance (30 min) - with Samaneh Asgharzadeh

    Enhance your balance with this standing-centered series. Samaneh encourages you to acknowledge and accept any wobbles you experience, as they are part of your journey toward finding harmony in your practice.

  • Live Replay: Expansive Power Yoga (60 min) - with Crystal Rainbow Borelli

    Join Crystal for an expansive Power practice. Building to bird of paradise pose (svarga dvijasana) this class focuses on core engagement, hip opening, and strength.

    This class uses a yoga mat, yoga block and yoga strap. If you don't have a strap at home you can use a belt, a scarf or anything si...

  • Power for Strength & Endurance (40 min) - with Samaneh Asgharzadeh

    This class will challenge your limits by pushing you to new heights. Resiliency and strength come in many forms but Samaneh invites you to turn up the heat or scale back wherever needed. Remember, every day is a new day so honour what your body is telling you.

    This class uses a yoga mat and yoga...

  • Flow to New Heights (25 min) - with Rebecca Hollingworth

    Connect deeply with your breath and explore expansive movements in this quick and dynamic practice.

  • Feel the Fire Flow (45 min) - with Samaneh Ashgharzadeh

    Ignite your inner fire in this dynamic Flow practice. Samaneh guides you through a series of sun salutations so you'll leave feeling engaged and challenged. Time to get sweaty!

    This class uses a yoga mat and yoga blocks. If you don't have blocks at home, you can use a stiff pillow, a stack of bo...

  • Live Replay: Firefly Flow (60 min) - with Crystal Rainbow Borrelli

    An energizing class with a focus on flexibility, strength, and concentration this class builds to Firefly pose, or tittibhasana in Sanskrit. Join Crystal for an hour long Flow practice that will leave you feeling recharged.

    This class uses a yoga mat and yoga blocks. If you don't have blocks at ...

  • Beginner Friendly Backbending (30 min) - with Samaneh Asgharzadeh

    Samaneh safely guides you through a practice that improves your back bending skills with dynamic heart and hip opening poses.

    This class uses a yoga mat and yoga blocks. If you don't have blocks at home, you can use a stiff pillow, a stack of books or anything similar you have around your home t...

  • Live Replay: Power with a Twist (60 min) - with Crystal Rainbow Borrelli

    Join Crystal in this dynamic Power yoga practice that focuses on twists and binds to open your hip flexors, quads, and shoulders.

    This class uses a yoga mat and yoga blocks. If you don't have blocks at home, you can use a stiff pillow, a stack of books or anything similar you have around your h...

  • Heartwarming YHot (60 min) - with Sasha Smith

    This heart opening YHot sequence is a familiar practice we know and love. Sasha also offers variations throughout - all levels welcome.

  • Arm Balance Workshop & Flow (35 min) - with Sasha Smith

    Join Sasha for a class dedicated to Dragonfly pose. You will open & warm up the body on this journey, and then Sasha will break down the pose to help you understand how best to prepare for dragonfly, as well as tips to achieving this impressive arm balance.

  • Firefly Power Flow (75 min) - with Jayme Burke

    Join Jayme for a 75-minute Power Yoga class. This class is all about opening up, educating the body, and preparing to finally arrive at our peak pose, Firefly (tittibhasana). Firefly pose is a more advanced arm balance, but Jayme will offer multiple variations if the Firefly pose isn't right in y...

  • Flying Pigeon Power (65 min) - with Jayme Burke

    Join Jayme and soar! This 60 minute Power Yoga practice leads to Eka Pada Galavasana (Flying Pigeon) by preparing the body with functional movement. You’ll create space in your hips, strengthen your core, and build a strong foundation through key actions that will help you with this as well as ma...

  • Tutorial: When to Add-on Arm Balances in Class (35 min) - with Kyra Morrison

    Ever wondered when you can add arm balances in class? Kyra will take you through sequences in the class that you can play with arm balances, even when it's not cued by the teacher.

  • Flow for Handstand Prep (30 min) - with Mari Dickey

    This Flow class is all about preparing and warming up the body to be best set up to practice inversions. You can expect to open up the shoulders and hamstrings to help prep you to play with handstands on the wall. This class isn't going to have long holds, but instead, it will focus on warming up...

  • Strong Spirited Flow (45 min) - with Sasha Smith

    Join Sasha for a 45-minute Vinyasa Flow practice. This class involves some arm balances, so it may be suited to more experienced yoga practitioners. This class leads to a peak pose called Astavakrasana (Eight Angle Pose). The most important part is the intention of the pose, and not the full expr...

  • Strong Enduring Power (60 min) - with Heather Obre

    Join Heather for a challenging, 60-minute Power Yoga practice. This is a more intermediate-level class, so if you are new to yoga you may want to select a different Power class that doesn't include inversions/inversion training.
    This class will start off with some core-engaging movements at the b...

  • Bound to Fly Flow (55 min) - with Vanessa Bourget

    Calling all Intermediate Yogi's! Join Vanessa for a class all about binds & balance. There will be lots of opportunities in this practice to play with your arm balances and inversions. This class will also feature a number of different binding poses. These will be great to help open the body as w...

  • Tutorial: How to do Crow Pose (5 min) — with Mari Dickey

    Alignment based movement is even more important when you're practicing challenging compact arm balances like Crow (Bakasana).

    If you're looking to introduce arm balancing into your practice, play in this short tutorial that guides you into crow pose, the gateway into many other arm balances.
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  • Tutorial: Handstand Prep (10 min) — with Mari Dickey

    Alignment based movement is even more important when you're practicing challenging poses like Handstand.

    In this 10 minute tutorial and short sequence, learn how to properly warm up and prep for your handstand with inversion expert and YYOGA teacher trainer, Mari Dickey.

  • Flow Yoga: Safe Inversions For Beginners (15 min) — with Rachel Scott

    This 15 minute flow practice with YYOGA at Home teacher and YYOGA teacher trainer, Rachel Scott, has accessible inversions for yogis of all levels.

    Happy inverting!

  • Wall Inversion Prep: Head Stand (15 min) - with Vanessa Bourget

    This is a 15-minute prep class! If you are following the three-step class that Vanessa released with YYOGA at Home, this is Step 1.
    Today, we will be practicing headstands at the wall. You will need a blank wall and some space around it, a mat, and potentially a block or a few pillows.
    To help w...

  • Wall Inversions Prep: Forearm Stand (14 min) - with Vanessa Bourget

    Join Vanessa in this Wall Inversions Prep: Forearm Stand class. This is the second video in a series of 3 Wall Inversion Prep videos. If you'd like to start at the beginning, please look for Vanessa Bourget's Wall Inversions Prep: HeadStand class!
    In this 14 minute class, we will practice a forea...

  • Wall Inversion Prep: Handstands (20 min) - with Vanessa Bourget

    Join Vanessa for a quick Inversion Prep lesson! This is a 20-minute lesson on Handstand inversion prep using the wall. This is lesson 3 in a 3 part series with Vanessa on inversions. If you haven't yet, go check about Vanessa's first two classes on headstands and forearm stands!
    In this class, yo...

  • What are birds and bugs? Mari Dickey explains.

    If you look at the translation from Sanskrit, for a lot of arm balances in the yoga practice, they translate into names of insects ands birds.

    Every shape should be a balance of steadiness and ease-fulness.

    Arm balances invite you to play in some shapes that are asymmetrical and allow you to mo...