Camel Pose
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Camel Pose Ustrasana
Ally HamiltonCreate equal space between the vertebrae, and shine your heart open. Many modifications are taught, and a block may be useful.
Ready to work it?
Here are some classes featuring Camel Pose.
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Shine Your Inner Light
By Josie Kramer on Mar 31, 2020
This well-balanced practice combines a grounding warm-up with a heat-building standing sequence, challenging core work, as well as a deep opening of the heart and hips. At the end you can expect some relaxing forward folds, spinal twists, and a thoughtful meditation to send you into savasana. May you take the brightness of your practice and shine your inner light on the world! Enjoy, yogis!
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Grounding Flow
By Josie Kramer on Jan 29, 2020
Find grounding and connection with your breath and positive intent. From there enjoy a gentle warm up, a crescent/warrior 2/reverse triangle flow, followed by heart opening in camel and reverse table top, as well as hip opening in sukhasana. The session ends with virasana, happy baby pose, fish pose, spinal twists and savasana. xo! Josie
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15 Minutes of Shoulder Joy
By Brent Laffoon on Jan 18, 2020
Don't have time for a full practice? Don't worry! You can always do something to move your body and boost your mood, even if you have just a few minutes. This 15 minute practice focuses on opening the shoulders, while also touching on a few other key areas to leave you feeling light and limber. Enjoy!
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Know Your Shoulders
By Brent Laffoon on Dec 29, 2019
Shoulders are amazing things! Take a little bit of a deeper dive with this practice into shoulder functionality, especially as it relates to backbending. All kinds of wonders await... Enjoy!
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Around the World
By Derek Beres on Oct 9, 2019
In the first half of this sequence we work on mobility drills tied to core strength. From there we take a few rounds of sun salutations before opening up with backbends.
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Slow Down & Dig Deep
By Brent Laffoon on Oct 9, 2019
Take your time to tune in and dig deep into the hamstrings, hips and shoulders with this slow but challenging practice designed to leave you feeling open, light and peaceful. Enjoy!
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Calm Through Challenge
By Josie Kramer on Aug 2, 2019
This is a well-rounded vinyasa flow session.Your goal is to stay focused on your breath and sensations in your body while staying calm through the fire and challenges of the practice. Enjoy! What to expect: intention setting, cat/cow, down dog, sun salutations, warrior 1/skandasana flow, easy twist, side plank, dancer’s bridge, half moon, triangle, exalted warrior, pyramid, warrior 3, standing splits, malasana, crow, core work, inversions, camel, virasana, fish pose, thread the needle, happy baby, spinal twists and savasana!
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Anxiety Rx Slow Flow
By Ally Hamilton on Mar 28, 2019
This is a slow, mindful flow designed to help you reset and calm your nervous system, particularly if you're feeling anxious. We do many breathing exercises throughout including alternate nostril breathing, breath retention (4-6-8 breathing), and ujjayi breathing, all while moving slowly and with intention. You will work in this class and you will probably sweat. There is core work and there are backbends, you will open your hips, shoulders and hamstrings, but the intention is to calm the nervous system and walk away from your mat feeling deeply grounded. Our nervous systems are built for short bursts of stress, not longterm stress, so if you're going through some of life's harder experiences, it's essential to find the tools that help you return to center. Yoga Nidra at the end <3
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Wild at Heart
By Ally Hamilton on Mar 7, 2019
Join me and my friend Katrina for a private session (you're invited!). If you're in the mood for sweaty, intense and energizing, if you want to release your shoulders, the space across your chest, and your hamstrings, fire up your core, play with standing balance and extra backbends, and get some tips on your handstand practice, then this is for you!
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Joy is Imminent 2
By Ally Hamilton on Nov 27, 2018
By request, here is a flow for you mamas in the homestretch of your pregnancy, a time when you want to ease up on inverting and get that baby headed into ready position! LOTS of squatting (we'll be resting in malasana instead of down dog), and we'll open those hips from every direction. Hamstrings and quads get lots of love, too, with nice plié squats (you may not be calling them "nice" while we do them, and you may want a chair handy if balance has become an issue :)). Camel pose opens the heart and it's great if you have a block and a bolster ready for savasana, or you can use a couch pillow, too! Wishing you and your baby the very best!P.S. This is also a great practice for when you have a headache and don't want to send the blood rushing to your cranium ;)
