Four new practices added to the Resonance library this week – all a bit on the slower side as the general community felt very tired this week. Practices include a backbending exploration of transitions, a figure 4 and flying pigeon focused practice, a forward-folding introspective flow, and a journey into the shoulder opening and actions necessary for lowering the forearms to the ground from down dog to dolphin. Here are my classes from the week of January 22nd. All of my weekly classes at Resonance Yoga Collective in downtown Salem, Oregon, are recorded and available via our virtual library. You can access this library with a drop in pass that is accessed on a sliding scale of $0-$15 – you pick your own price.
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Five new practices added to the Resonance library this week – focusing on grounding in what felt like a bit of a manic week. Practices include a drishti/gaze focused practice, a balancing flow that focuses on awakening the back body, a dynamic practice that connects deeply to the breath, and then two week ending practices to open chest/pecs and then alllll around the hips. Here are my classes from the week of January 15th. All of my weekly classes at Resonance Yoga Collective are recorded and available via our virtual library. You can access this library with a drop in pass that is accessed on a sliding scale of $0-$15 – you pick your own price.
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Four new classes added to the Resonance library this week – everything from opening hips & hammies, to exploring the actions of expansion and contraction, a breeak down of vinyasa transitions and chaturanga, and a build up to heron pose. Here are my classes from the week of January 8th. All of my weekly classes at Resonance Yoga Collective are recorded and available via our virtual library. You can access this library with a drop in pass that is accessed on a sliding scale of $0-$15 – you pick your own price.
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From hoppy practices, to New Year intention setting, shoulder space creating, and hip decompression – here are the classes I added to our virtual library for the week of January 1st. All of my weekly classes at Resonance Yoga Collective are recorded and available via our virtual library. You can access this library with a drop in pass that is accessed on a sliding scale of $-0-$15 – you pick your own price.
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This is a 40 minute, all-levels, feel-good flow class that is led in our Yoga + Beer style, from the beautiful setting that is Eola’s Legacy Estate Vineyard in Salem, Oregon. This is a down dog-less practice, for those of you who try to minimize weight on your hands or shoulders, or just don’t enjoy downward facing dog. Quite often in our yoga practice, we use down dog as a space to return to over and over in the practice. So for this practice, we create that home, or space to return to in our mountain pose, tadasana.
Our physical practice begins standing, moving us through some lunging sun salutations that include low lunge, 1/2 splits, warrior 2 variations, triangle pose, tree pose, warrior 3, revolved lunge, chair and goddess variations before settling onto the ground for some seated and supine release work. We resolve our practice in savasana.
This is a 45 minute (not including savasana) practice that builds to Bird of Paradise, but doesn’t have to build to Bird of Paradise. We will work into the binds, shoulder opening, hip opening and stability necessary for this big pose, but will give lots of options along the way to experience elements of Bird of Paradise, without ever venturing into the full pose, if you don’t want to.
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This is the third of our Pre-Flight series. These are mini practices meant to inform and build awareness in a part of the body or within an action that will benefit your inversion practice. This is not meant to be a stand alone or well-balanced yoga practice, but is a targeted, add-on to your yoga practice. I recommend using this class directly before you practice inversions, as you will be prepped and ready for a safe and enjoyable flight 😉
This third Pre-Flight focuses on finding and giving purpose to your legs so that they are more of an asset in our inversion practice, instead of a liability. If you’re like me, once you’re upside down it is hard to know what your legs are doing, so it’s important to help them find their roots, their energy, and their purpose when you’re right side up, before you invert. In your inversions, your legs can be a critical piece of controlling the pose and helping to take some of the work out of your arms and shoulders. This practice will help tap into that.
This is a 45 minute, all-levels, feel-good flow class that is led in our Yoga + Beer style, from the beautiful setting that is Eola’s Legacy Estate Vineyard in Salem, Oregon. Our physical practice creates space in our chest and around our heart, to create ease in our upper back, shoulders and neck, and emotional space in our heart. We flow through a variety of lunges and warriors with heart opening variations, build into belly-down backbends including locust and bow, and balance in dancer pose. We end with some grounded hip opening before taking savasana. Read More
This is a 45 minute (including savasana) practice that is all about cultivating balance. Our practice includes some balance poses, but we also approach balance through the breath. We begin our practice by establishing an even, counted breath to balance our inhales and our exhales – and then we revisit this counted/balanced breath multiple times in our flow. Our physical practice is a slow flow, with pacing established by your breath, and includes lunges and warrior poses that flow into tree pose and warrior 3. We integrate some malasana/squat work, with opportunities for crow pose, and end with some seated and supine hip and spine release before settling into savasana. Read More
This is the second of our Pre-Flight series. These are mini practices meant to inform and build awareness in a part of the body or within an action that will benefit your inversion practice. This is not meant to be a stand alone or well-balanced yoga practice, but is a targeted, add-on to your yoga practice. I recommend using this class directly before you practice inversions, as you will be prepped and ready for a safe and enjoyable flight 😉
This second Pre-Flight focuses on finding and activating your low core – inner thighs and low belly. Strength and endurance in this area of the body will provide us with better control of our legs as we go upside down, and will benefit our ability to balance and find steadiness. You will definitely want two blocks, or something similar, for this practice.
This is a 33 minute (including savasana) practice that is just what it sounds like … fluid and flowy. Very little instruction or alignment for those days when you just want to come to your mat and move in a way that inspires you to feel fluid inside and out. Our pace is on the slower side, but our movement is continuous. We’ll dynamically move through twisting lunges, warrior 2, side angle, skandasana, horizon lunge, fallen triangle, wild thing, chair pose and eagle, with a sprinkling of other poses in between. We round things out with pigeon (yes!) and sphinx, before setting into Savasana. Read More
This is the first in a Pre-Flight Series that I will be releasing. These are mini practices meant to inform and build awareness in a part of the body or within an action that will benefit your inversion practice. This is not meant to be a stand alone or well-balanced yoga practice, but is a targeted, add-on to your yoga practice. I recommend using this class directly before you practice inversions, as you will be prepped and ready for a safe and enjoyable flight 😉
This first Pre-Flight focuses on finding your line. Specifically – how do we familiarize ourselves with the line of handstand, forearm stand and headstand before adding the challenge of being upside down. Additionally, how do we remove the backbend or the banana that so often shows up in our inversions? We’ll explore this prone and supine, before heading into plank and L Handstand work. Spoiler alert – it all comes back to the core.
MIKKI TROWBRIDGE YOGA 