Kula Basics: The First Inversion
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Kevin Bigger
e-ryt 500 yoga teacher and teacher trainer based in brooklyn, ny.
i started practicing yoga up in boston in my late teens, immediately after a period of massive (less than healthy) weight loss, and just before...
(suggested props: two blocks, two blankets, a chair and a belt — pretty much any chair will work as long as it has four solid legs of support!)
Shoulder Stand (sarvangasana) is typically the first inversion we learn because it is the most stable of the inverted poses. In class today, we review Sun Salutations and some of the primary openings of the shoulder and hip that support this pose, and learn how to use a chair to start to lift ourselves upside down.
(Basic/Int) Get in the Kula Flow! Kula style yoga is a deep, challenging practice that will make you stronger and more flexible on the outside and softer (and more flexible) on the inside. You are never too tight, too tall or too weak to begin. (There’s nothing we can do if you’re too much of a procrastinator to get here.) Open to beginners as well as those wanting a slower paced vinyasa class or those who wish to reconnect with the fundamentals of alignment and flow style yoga. Though we like to emphasize that these are not so much yoga basics classes (there are plenty of those around the city), as basic Kula style classes.
Shoulder Stand (sarvangasana) is typically the first inversion we learn because it is the most stable of the inverted poses. In class today, we review Sun Salutations and some of the primary openings of the shoulder and hip that support this pose, and learn how to use a chair to start to lift ourselves upside down.
(Basic/Int) Get in the Kula Flow! Kula style yoga is a deep, challenging practice that will make you stronger and more flexible on the outside and softer (and more flexible) on the inside. You are never too tight, too tall or too weak to begin. (There’s nothing we can do if you’re too much of a procrastinator to get here.) Open to beginners as well as those wanting a slower paced vinyasa class or those who wish to reconnect with the fundamentals of alignment and flow style yoga. Though we like to emphasize that these are not so much yoga basics classes (there are plenty of those around the city), as basic Kula style classes.