This series has been created out of the desire to simplify the strength side of your yoga practice. Consistently showing up to classes that include stability work will absolutely gain you strength, awareness and more fluid movement in your entire body. This series differentiates in that it allows there to be consistency with the movements you are practicing which helps you track how much progress you are making.

How to use these classes?

If you have done the groundwork for your practice – you’ve got a breath connection, you have made progress on your pain symptoms and you feel like your body is in a place to receive stability work, then this series is your next step.

Continue to do the other classes that include mobility, opening, myofascial release and nervous system work. Just because you’ve made ground doesn’t mean you should stop!
Incorporate 3-4, 15 Min stability classes each week. It’s fine to include them with classes that also offer stability. You can do them as standalone class or in combination with another.
There will be 3 types of stability classes: beginners, intermediate & advanced. The first classes to launch will be geared towards beginners which includes anyone newer to yoga, new to stability work and anyone fresh off of the Hypertonic Pelvic Floor calendar. Although they are beginners level status that doesn’t mean that advanced students will not benefit from them! Intention and awareness go a long way!

If you still have pain or symptoms, should you avoid these classes?

Not necessarily! If you’ve already done several weeks of opening work and you are seeing progress, which doesn’t mean absence of pain rather less pain, then it’s a good idea to start exploring stability work. Your body may need stability in order to get to the next level. Often times when there’s weakness, no matter how much stretching or mobilizing you do, your body will not let go of it’s grip until you support it with stronger musculature. If you have no musculature to rely on, your body has to use your bones and fascia to hold you up. This can create pain, dysfunction, compensation and unreliable patterns that wear out joints, tendons and ligaments (think of the ligaments that hold up your pelvic organs or the ones that stabilize the sacrum.)

Final note: While I’m not a nutritionist, I have a lot of experience and study in this area. If you want to build muscle, you have to have the right nutritional components to do so. So make sure you’re getting enough highly sourced protein. I’m not going to tell you how much because each of us are different and require different values. Just be cognizant of this! Oh, and please don’t start eating a bunch of processed protein replacements just to reach your protein goals! There’s too much garbage in those that create inflammation and we don’t want to add to inflammation we want to decrease it! I’m not judging anyone who enjoys a protein bar here and there by ANY means! I do, too. Just don’t rely on them 😊

See you on the mat!