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Our all levels flexibility class is our most popular class. This class focuses on a full body increase of range of motion. As stated in the title of this class, it is for ALL LEVELS. This means if flexibility training is a completely foreign concept to you and you want to learn how to improve your range of motion to have a better quality of life this class is for you. If you are a professional dancer who has a good understanding of flexibility training but wants structure and guidance to do the work (because let’s face it, this work is hard to do on your own) this class is for you too.
It’s a 90 min class and we start each class with a 40 min warm up stretch. The sequence of movements is the same each week but the hope is that thru new ways of looking at things you will understand concepts, ideas, and techniques better each time you go through the sequence. We then do a quick over splits sequence, followed by shoulder stretches, bridges, and finishing with stretches that we are focusing on for that series.
This is the most important concept that needs to be learned for training flexibility safely and with good technique. I always give a lot of focus to this concept in every class. An other reason why I keep the warm up sequence consistent is so that you can work on learning how to breathe and relax properly. It’s much easier to breathe and relax in a position that is familiar than one that is new. It is very common to be thinking about your breathe when you know that you are meant to be focusing on it, but as soon as you change to a new position you completely forget. It is a difficult thing to keep front of mind, but you can get better with practice.
There are many ways to make a stretch easier or more challenging. One thing to always remember is if you feel a stretch you’re doing a stretch. You might not feel it in the same place as the instructor or your friend in the other zoom window. That doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re doing it “wrong”. You could be, but more likely is that you are tighter in a different part of your body which means you can only access the stretch to a specific place in your body. As that place loosens up, you’ll find that the same stretch will stretch something new. I have written an entire e-book for this topic with some exercises for you to try. Just click on the link and fill out your name and email and you will receive and email with a collection of free ebooks.
This class is for more advanced students who have, or are close to having, all three splits and can do bridge on the floor with straight arms and are able to kick to a handstand against the wall. This is a 2 hour class geared towards taking your flexibility to the next level. The first hour and fifteen minutes is an advanced version of the all levels class that focuses on getting a good warm up, over splits, shoulders warm up, and bridges. The last 45 min will be working towards focused flexibility goals such as:
This style of handstand is a lot of active flexibility in the shoulders as well as the ability to isolate the lower back and hip flexors to achieve the desired depth. There are a large variety of shapes that can be trained in this style and some are easier than others. In this series we cover a number of shapes in both handstand and elbow stand in order to get some wins and understanding in the easier shapes and a clear pathway on how to achieve the more difficult variations.
There are four elements required to be able to do all variations of walkovers. You need to be able to go from standing to a bridge, and then reverse it coming back to standing from your bridge. You then need to be able to fall into a bridge from a handstand, and again reverse it and kick back over through your handstand back to standing. Once you master these 4 elements then you will be able to do all variations of walkovers that you would like to do.
This is taking the classic “banana back” and giving it purpose. With a greater range of motion you get a beautiful contortion handstand, but if you don’t have the range you will simply doing a banana back but on purpose with the correct intension so that you’re working towards something bigger. Just like the Mexican style handstands there are a variety of shapes that you can do and some are easier than others. There are also ways that you can work on gaining your range of motion in the shape that you are pursuing.
Active leg flexibility is a very sought after skill in dance, circus, gymnastics (both rhythmic and artistic), and martial arts just to name a few. We work on gaining active, dynamic, assisted, and ballistic flexibility and stability in both leg focused and legs with back and shoulders variations of scales. This is a very big topic to cover so it is broken into legs only and legs + back + shoulders.
*chest stands and more expert level skills I only teach to one on one clients