Shoulder Work for Bird of Paradise

For this class you will need a strap, blanket and blocks.

We start out in our reclining stretches and then take extra time to warm up our hips and shoulders from seated. This work helped deepen our range of motion possible in the standing poses as we work into some tricky binds and funky transitions into bird of paradise pose. This class was filmed live March 14, 2022.

Bird of Paradise Fun

For this class you will need some yoga blocks, blanket for padding, a strap and some wall space.

We start out slow and steady to check in with our breathing. From there we warm up the hips and shoulders. Try out some new warm ups with the support of the wall. For this class we are trying to balance front and back body. Many of us could use more strength in the front abdominal wall to help keep the back body long getting us out of any compression there. We build up to bird of paradise pose in these sequence, try out open chair verse closed chain to see just how much your arms are helping you! This class was filmed live June 21, 2021.