Handstand Tutorial
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Handstand Adho Mukha Vrksasana
Angela KukhahnLearn the key points of doing a handstand, both at the wall and in the center of the room. When you're ready, try the classes below that incorporate your handstand into a complete practice!
Ready to work it?
Here are some classes featuring Handstand.
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Keep Comin' Back Flow
By Brent Laffoon on Jul 19, 2025
Hello friends! Join Brent for this feel-good flow that will open up every major muscle group and help you develop deeper awareness about where you're feeling strong and open, and where you might still have room to grow. Maybe the standing balance poses come easy to you, and the twists feel open, but the inversions present a challenge. Or maybe the inversions are happening, but the binds are out of reach (see what I did there?) This practice invites you to consider - if something is stopping me from finding a pose, what is it? Is it a lack of strength, or a lack of confidence? Is it tightness in your shoulders, or is there room to strengthen your core? There's no rush, you don't have to figure it all out in one session...you can keep comin' back! Maybe save this to your favorites and practice until the poses that aren't coming easily start to reveal themselves to you. You might want a couple of blocks and a strap. Enjoy!
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Stag Party with Angela
By Angela Kukhahn on Jul 11, 2025
Dear Yogis, Grab a couple of blocks and get ready for a delicious flow! This class is marked advanced because it includes handstand and forearm stand variations (stag-nation lovers get ready!) but as ever, Angela always breaks things down into bite-sized pieces, so if you aren't ready for that, you can still play. Meaning, intermediate practitioners are welcome, just listen to your body as ever. Lots of spinal extension, shoulder-opening, back-bending, twisting, and core strengthening that may lead you into a forearm scorpion, too. Two blocks and a bolster may be useful but not necessarily necessary :)
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Cosmic Dancer
By Kate Duyn on Apr 20, 2025
It is an honor just to be in a body living this life, and it is so easy to forget! Join Kate for a cosmic, fiery, twisty reminder. Grab two blocks and get ready to strengthen your core, open your hamstrings, hips and shoulders, play with balance in all kinds of creative ways, and step on your ego a little in the process. It's a good thing :) Enjoy, yogis!
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We Like to Move It
By Angela Kukhahn on Mar 14, 2025
A little "movement snack" for days when you're short on time but want to get your heart pumping and your breath flowing, and use the heat to open your shoulders, hips, hamstrings and quads! We play with standing balance and inversions, too. Who says you can't get a lot done in 16 minutes? Not Angela!
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Happy Hips in 30
By Angela Kukhahn on Feb 3, 2025
A thirty-minute hip-opening flow that also targets core strength, shoulder and hamstring opening, and handstand-play. If you're looking for an energizing, full-body flow with extra love for your hips, look no further :)
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Hips, Flight, Just Right
By Ally Hamilton on Dec 16, 2024
Looking for a full-body flow in under an hour? Here you go! Lots of deep breathing, shoulder, hip and hamstring opening, core strengthening, chances to play on your hands and upside down, and a very sweet savasana. Two blocks and a bolster may be helpful.
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Breathe + Stay Curious
By Ally Hamilton on Nov 1, 2024
This practice opens with a short (4 minute) talk about attachment and non-attachment, the sandwich generation, loss, grief, change - and how cultivating curiosity is the best and easiest way to move through it all (which doesn't mean it's easy, just easier). We then move into a dancing warrior flow that targets hip and shoulder opening, standing balance, core strength, backbends, deep stretching, and inversions. Try to stay curious about what you're feeling as you move from shape to shape, and let your deep breath be the foundation. Quick note - we are replacing a mixer, but I went ahead and filmed without it. I know the sound is a little echo-y, but I don't think it will be distracting. Love to all as we navigate whatever losses come our way x
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Hip-Opening Heat + Flow
By Angela Kukhahn on Oct 16, 2024
Vinyasa into fall with Angela! This practice is a blend of strength, flying, and continuous flow on the breath. We balance strength and challenge with fluidity and yummy stretches. Lots of love for the hips of course. 30 minutes of awesome, basically - enjoy :)
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Strong and Open
By Angela Kukhahn on Jun 27, 2024
A well-balanced strong practice for days when you have good energy and want to move, breathe, and maybe get upside down!
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Breathe, Focus, Sweat
By Ally Hamilton on Jun 17, 2024
The more you breathe, the better you're going to feel. That is the focus in this sweaty, heat-building, core-strengthening, arm-balancing and mindful flow where we get upside down, open everything up and play with lots of fun poses like lotus if that's approachable for you, firefly pose and bhujapidasana, crow pose, tripod headstand, handstand and more. This is an all-over feel good flow with an emphasis on hip-opening and focus. Enjoy! (2 blocks may be helpful, along with a bolster or firm couch pillow :))
