Category Archives: Hip Openers

Opening the hips and shoulders, adding balancing and core. Tues 745pm

Balance, Core Work, Hip Openers, Shoulder Openers, Upper Body Strength

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana

Cat rolls, cat hip circles, toe stretch, neck stretches, shoulder rolls. Nice and juicy ready to move. Reverse table, roll like a ball, Navasana flow, Can Can.  Bridge rolls, hip rotations, hip side stretch to release these muscles.

Balance: Forward fold to squat, raised standing 1 &2, Shiva balance, Chair twist with balance.

Sun Salutations with some twists and swings added in. A Little dolphin, cat, child, rock.   Twists and Forward folds close the class.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Shanti Blend from Yoga Flow oils, thank you Susan

Low Back Relief..Yum Yum Yoga 7pm

Gentle Stretches, Hip Openers

Pranayama over a folded blanket to open the heart as well as the body. Sahaja, Dirgha, Box Breath

Continuing on the floor using Sun breaths as the connecting thread throughout tonight’s class.  Bridging, Chin nod & lift,  Finding Table Top, Recline Tree, Cobbler, Supine Twist, Lumbar Rotation.  All the previous postures will be linked with Sun Breath between each posture.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Ananda Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

The wall, the Teacher Mon 530pm

Hip Openers, Spinal Flows, Upper Body Strength, Wall Work

Working on the wall tonight to refine our alignment.  The wall helps us “feel” things we can’t see.

Pranayama:  Sahaja, Dirgha, Skull Shining with holds

Opening the hips, shoulders and heart with a few seated stretches. Moving to standing  at the wall will wall hang, wall lift and warrior.  Balance with raised standing.

Hip openers with swan, gentle wave spinal flow. Aromatherapy then back to the wall to finish the wall series on the back.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Ananda from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Opening the hips, shoulders and working the core. Tues 530pm

Core Work, Hip Openers, Shoulder Openers

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha,   Skull Shining Breath

100’s, Leg stretch to open the hamstrings, Hip rotations, shoulder openers.  Frog leg rolls, Dead Bug, Crisscross toe taps with wide circles,  Can Can (we all can 🙂   Side leg series that we all love, hot potato, knee toe and more.  Prone to strengthen and balance the work we did with the abdominal muscles with back work. Opposite arm & leg,  Heel beats.  Sweet twists and stretches.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Open Heart from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Yum Yum Yoga starts tonight. Mon 7pm

Gentle Stretches, Hip Openers, Shoulder Openers

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana

Opening the neck and shoulders with gentle stretches. Moving onto the eyes, so often we forget the eyes have muscles in them and we don’t  fully use, so tonight we will move through the  eye movements to release and relieve tension in the eyes.

Shoulder openers and twists. The other place tension is held is in the hips so onto opening and moving the hips.  Aromatherapy, Savasana, and meditation will finish the Yum Yum yoga for tonight.

Aromatherapy tonight is Relaxing Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Fitness Ball Fun, working the core. Tues 530

Balance, Core Work, Hamstrings, Hip Openers, Upper Body Strength,

Sitting on the fitness ball for the breathing practice: Sahaja, Dirgha, Sun breath.

This class will be fun and funny as we work on the fitness balls and discover how hard the core needs to work to keep the stability of the body and the ball.

Bouncing, twists, holding the ball with motion, sitting on the ball, kneeling beside the ball, and being prone on the ball.   Fun with core work is what this class will be tonight.  😛

As always aromatherapy, relaxation/meditation and savasana will close the class.

Aromatherapy will be Dharma blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Better posture by using the back correctly. Mon 530pm

Hamstrings, Hip Openers, Toe Stretch

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Shining Skull breath with holds

Opening the side body with palm tree, spinal rolls, cat bow 1,  Standing strength,  mountain heel press, extended mountain moves to open the hips, forward folds with shoulder openers.

Support for better postures starts with the back muscles so tonight we will strengthen them. Cobra 1, Cobra1/Boat, Half Locust , Sphinx.   Releases for the back with Bridge rolls, Cradle, Cobbler and Hip side stretch.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Shanti from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Time to open the shoulders and the hips DEEPLY. Tues 745pm

Hamstrings, Hip Openers, Shoulder Openers, Spinal Flows

Pranayama: over noodle first then moving onto blocks to deepen the opening, arms will go over head to start to open the shoulders.  Sahaja, Dirgha

Sleepwalker, leg stretches, hip rotations, supine cobbler with twist, knees to chest twist adding in shoulder opener, Hip side stretch with long hold and my assist to help open.  😀  Both sides 

Deep shoulder openers: some of these I have not shared before so be careful and mindful of your body.  Prone- arms in “T”  roll onto arm and side body, Thread the needle move only lots more…. and then adding on to this.   Cobra 1 with twist.   Spinal flow rest in child 2

Hips: Raised runner with open & closed twist, hip flexor stretch, external hip openers, calf stretch

Twists,  cradle.  Savasana

Aromatherapy tonight Relaxing Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

The Core and More. Tues 530pm

Core Work, Hip Openers, Spinal Flows, Toe Stretch

Standing Pranayama:  Sahaja, Dirgha, Sun

Standing 100’s from Pilates.  Toe Balance, toe stretch, top of foot stretch, ankle stretch.  Neck work continues tonight.

Roll like a ball, roll up, roll down,  cross crawl sets, seal, frog.  Cat rolls for the spine, buttock tighteners, and onto the legs.   Shoulder openers with strap, Twist and Forward folds, Aromatherapy, Savasana

Aromatherapy tonight is Relaxing Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Strengthen the body to flow through summer. Mon 530pm

Hip Openers, Spinal Flows, Toe Stretch, Upper Body Strength, Wall Work

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, shining skull with holds.

Spinal flows with Pyramid 1 rolls, Triangle, Toe Stretch, Toe Balance.  Extended Mountain to work deeper into the hips and legs. Extended bend with shoulder stretch. 

Cat rolls and Cat bows adding in if got cat bows down moving into extended cat bows.  Cobra flows with cobra twist added in.  Half Locust & Opposite arm and leg lift to strengthen the back muscles on a diagonal.

Cooling down on the wall with wall hang, wall lift, gentle warrior, water fall, squat 1.   Lowering to floor and away from the wall for leg stretch, knees to chest twist, reclined butterfly with twist.  Savasana

Aromatherapy tonight Prana from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan.