Movement for Back and Core Support
Developing a strong core can help support and manage back pain and tightness. The classes in this collection will support your spine health, increase mobility from your hips to your neck, relieve back pain and tension, and strengthen your full core to improve all activities of daily living. You'll find short classes to stretch specific areas, strength-based classes to build muscle and stabilize your core, and restorative practices to manage pain and release tension.
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Learn Sleepovers with Keighty (2 Mins)
This gentle mobility exercise will provide relief to your upper spine, chest, and shoulders. Use this move to connect to your breath and relax into each stretch. To begin a Sleepover, lay on your side with your head resting on the floor. Bend your top leg at 90 degrees to bring your knee towards ...
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Learn T-Spine Twist to Sunshine Squat with Keighty (2 Mins)
This movement combo will warm up your full body and work your mobility in both the hips and spine. To start your T-Spine Twist, stand at top of your mat and begin to soften your knees into a forward fold, exhaling into it. Focus on hinging at your hips and engaging your back to keep from rounding...
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Ragdoll with Kate Potter (3 Mins)
Ragdoll is a transitional pose that brings you from standing upright to touching the floor with your hands, and back to standing again. The purpose of this pose is to move with your breath as you increase your spinal mobility and core strength. Practicing Ragdoll will help to release tension and ...
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Sit Foundations Class with Kate (4 Mins)
Knowing how to sit properly is vital to our overall health and wellbeing. This is a very important pose that you can (and should) practice anywhere. It’s a hip opener that’s great for the spine and has a long list of benefits. Good posture will help with lower back pain, prevent headaches, increa...
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Gentle Morning Stretch with Lydia | Grounding Yoga Class (35 Mins)
Join Lydia on the mat for a grounding floor class that gently opens up your body. This practice builds on the yawns and stretches your body is called to do naturally as you awaken. You will stay low to the ground and move through spinal waves, twists, and a side-lying hip sequence. Focus on contr...
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Learn Banded Deadbug with Adrian (2 Mins)
Sitting on the ground, loop your resistance band around the top of your feet. Lay on your back and lift your knees to line up above your hips, bent at 90 degrees. Keep your feet flexed towards your shins and slightly apart to hold the band in place. Clasp your hands in front of your chest comfort...
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Learn Downward Dog to Side Plank with Keighty (1 Min)
Find yourself in your tall plank position and open up the stance of your feet, slightly wider than hip width apart. Press into downward dog, pulling your hips high into the air, and reach your right hand back to touch your left toe or shin. Feel the stretch in your hamstrings and return to your t...
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Prone Extension
Lay on the floor face down, holding your band with both hands in front of your chest. Raise your head off the ground and rest your chest on your hands. Lift your feet slightly off the ground, reaching your toes out behind you and extending your legs straight back. Squeeze your legs together and a...
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Middays with Farinaz | Energizing Kickboxing Cardio Class (4 Mins)
Farinaz leads you through a quick class that packs a punch. You will move through a shoulder roll release, a lunge and kick combination, and finish with a skipping conditioning drill to get your blood flowing and feeling energized.
Suggested but not necessary equipment: Skipping rope.
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Learn Bent Over Row with Adrian (3 Mins)
As you stand, reach your arms straight out in front of you as if in the top of a Push Up with your hands in fists. Initiating with your shoulders, draw your elbows into the side of your body angled approximately 45 degrees out. Feel your shoulder blades come together without pulling your elbows b...
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Learn Squat Thruster with Keighty (1 Min)
The Squat Thruster is an explosive power movement that transfers energy from your hips to your hands. From standing, pull down into a squat, holding both dumbbells in a loaded position at your shoulders. Exhale and stand up with force, allowing the energy to flow from your legs as you extend thro...