NEW | Creativity Essentials

NEW | Creativity Essentials

Creativity and movement go hand in hand! That's why we created this collection to inspire your playfulness and creativity. These classes will give you a quick boost of energy and focus, increase blood flow to your brain and body, and release tension and stiffness. Here you can find a short movement break, a fun new exercise to try, or a long, rejuvenating class – whatever your creative focus is!

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NEW | Creativity Essentials
  • NEW | Take a Load Off with Lydia | Upper Body Yoga Class (29 Mins)

    Give your shoulders a relaxing break with this upper body yoga class. Lydia will guide you through moves to provide your shoulders relief from their usual weight-bearing position and mobilize your muscles and joints to improve your range of motion. This class focuses on opening the front of the c...

  • Melty Hips with Lydia | Hip Opening Yoga Class (16 Mins)

    Lydia leads you through a playful class designed to melt tension in your hips and leave you feeling better in your body. Move through a series of strengthening poses including Skandasana (a version of Side Squat) and Warrior, find release with a variety of forward folds and twists, and finish wit...

  • Balance Checkup with Adrian | Everyday Mobility Class (13 Mins)

    Balance is a key component of how you move. Training your balance helps improve your posture and the quality of your movements while preventing falls and injuries. As we grow older, we can lose balance function; Adrian has developed this class to help counteract this.

    You will begin by rolling o...

  • Mornings with Keighty | Energizing Mobility & Stability Class (6 Mins)

    Gently wake up your body with Keighty, set an intention for how you want to feel today, and move through a series of mobility, rotation, and stability moves incorporating Cat/Cow, Hamstring Arm Swings, Back Lunge Rotation to Knee Raises, Rotational Energy Squats, and Plank Marches.

  • Release | Center Splits Stretch Class (12 Mins)

    Maddi from Formation Studio guides you through a dancer's stretch routine to lead you into center splits, also known as middle or straddle splits. This is an all-levels routine designed to be repeated. The goal is not to be as flexible as Maddi, it is to work on your flexibility and challenge you...

  • Learn Frog with Slava | Level 1 (1 Mins)

    Frog is the first of four “animal-based locomotion exercises” - which simply means we imitate how animals move. These movements will likely feel familiar to you: as children, we often flow through these types of motions naturally while we play. Frog is a great way to get comfortable moving with y...

  • Learn Skipping with Rob (2 Mins)

    Grip your hands on the handles close to the rope for control, hopping all your weight on one foot. The opposite heel will raise as you touch the ground with your toes. Then, repeat the same motion, shifting your weight to the opposite foot. Hop from side to side and find a rhythm. Begin using you...

  • Functional Core with Amanda | Foundational Core Class (14 Mins)

    Amanda designed this class to help you strengthen your core in your everyday movements. She will guide you through four foundational core moves, each with four levels for you to choose from. Beginning with diaphragmatic breathing to prepare your core, you will move through variations of Dead Bug,...

  • Movement Class with Amanda | Functional Movement Class | Level 3 (22 Mins)

    This 20-minute class is all about strength and play. It utilizes advanced movements to offer an immense challenge for your balance, strength, flexibility, and control. Amanda created the flow out of a sense of joy, and recalls frequently falling and laughing at herself as she workshopped it into ...

  • Ground with Kate | Weighted Restorative Yoga Class (23 Mins)

    In this grounding practice, Kate will guide you through gentle and invigorating floor poses, using two weights to increase your core strength and alignment, and expand your balance. This slow and intentional sequence will focus on your back and core flexibility from the ground up. Return to the B...

  • Mornings with Kate | Energizing Weighted Yoga Class (5 Mins)

    Join Kate Potter in a refreshing 5-minute morning practice to wake up your body and your mind. You’ll practice various floor movements such as Child’s Pose, Plank, Sphinx, Supine Twist, and Downward Dog while using a single weight to engage your muscles and ground each pose of this intentional f...

  • Functional Movement Class with Amanda | Level 1 (5 Mins)

    Amanda guides you through an intentional series of full-body movements designed to help you move better in your daily life. You will fluidly move through spinal rolls, twisting, a core warm up, glute work, wrist and chest stretches, and finish with your expression of playful animal movements.

  • Power Up | Strength & Conditioning Dance Class | Level 1 (30 Mins)

    Power Up with Formation Studio is focused on learning foundational movements for form, increasing the intensity, and adding the tempo of the music. This will increase your endurance and coordination for dance and life. This class focuses on four fundamental movement patterns: Hinge, Lunge, Upper ...

  • Movement Class with Amanda | Functional Movement Class | Level 1 (21 Mins)

    This class is all about changing planes: improving our ability to move with grace as we get up and down from the ground, increasing hip mobility to deepen our squat, and getting comfortable with being on the floor. Expect to be challenged in balance, flexibility, and coordination, no matter your ...

  • IT Band Release with Lydia | Restorative Stretch Class (24 Mins)

    Follow Lydia through a stretch class to release tension through the lateral lines of your legs, with an emphasis on the IT band region, hamstrings, and outer hips. These moves are all done on your back and designed for those "big days" when you've been on the go. Stretches are held for longer per...

  • Restore With Amanda | Restorative Movement Class (9 Mins)

    Amanda describes this postpartum-friendly class as “super restorative” — and it can even be done from the comfort of your bed. You will begin with supportive breathing exercises to release tension, before moving into gentle spinal rolls and twists, a grounding pelvic stabilization, and soothing h...

  • Learn How to Discover Yourself Through Dance with Saschie (3 Mins)

    Saschie MacLean-Magbanua, Founder & Owner of Formation Studio, started dancing during a time of loss and grief in her life. Dance allowed her to experience a sense of joy and freedom again. In this workshop, she discusses how the power of connecting to your body, challenging your limitations, and...

  • FREEDOM | Ep 4 | Dance-based Fitness Class (29 Mins)

    Danielle from Formation Studio leads you through an energetic and fun cardio dance party. Inspired primarily by hip hop but pulling from different genres and styles, Freedom classes lay a foundation of follow along movements and use repetition to build you up at an intensity and pace that suits y...

  • FREEDOM | Ep 2 | Dance-based Fitness Class (29 Mins)

    Danielle from Formation Studio leads you through an energetic and fun cardio dance party. Inspired primarily by hip-hop but pulling from different genres and styles, Freedom classes lay a foundation of follow along movements and use repetition to build you up at an intensity and pace that suits y...

  • Morning Activation with Amanda | Core Breathing Class (5 Mins)

    Start your morning off with this simple and powerful class to activate your core. It can be done from a chair or seated on the ground. Amanda will guide you through 360 degrees breathing and pelvic floor exercises, working through strength-building retentions and dynamic speed-holds. You will fi...

  • FREEDOM | Ep 1 | Dance-based Fitness Class (29 Mins)

    Danielle from Formation Studio leads you through an energetic and fun cardio dance party. Inspired primarily by hip hop but pulling from different genres and styles, Freedom classes lay a foundation of follow along movements and use repetition to build you up at an intensity and pace that suits y...

  • Grapevine with Sylvia | Energizing Low Impact Cardio Class (6 Mins)

    Put your to-do list on pause for just six minutes and join Sylvia for a fun movement break. This is a dance-based cardio class built around a classic move, the grapevine! All these moves are low impact, ensuring you get the benefits of raising your heart rate while keeping your joints happy and p...

  • Learn Monkey with Slava | Level 1

    Monkey is a great movement to counteract the effects of sitting, standing, and moving in a straight line (think running, cycling, walking, and even weight training). This movement demands mobility in the hips, which is the key to unlocking a deep squat position and essential in finding freedom in...

  • Learn Gorilla with Slava | Level 1

    Gorilla is all about exercising your joints. The movement is ideal for getting into the hip and shoulder joints, both of which are often blocked due to the poor movement diet of our modern lives. All of that sitting - in a car or transit, at work, on the couch - takes a large toll on our bodies. ...