This class is about belonging and kinship. It’s about catching yourself when you start to create a story that excludes you from feeling loved.

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For movement, the glutes are going to feel special, as are your shoulders.

I’ll be flying back from Mexico late Monday night, so I’m giving myself the space to sleep in a little and try out a new time slot with you!

I’m headed to Mexico for my first girls trip ever on Friday, so this week’s LRY is Thursday. My heart is already hurting thinking of leaving my family for the weekend, but I still need to live! How is your relationship with putting your needs first? Let’s explore that and move through it together.

Turning the power on slowly — at first — then a steady build into full throttle. It will be more of a flow, no weights required!

We will be kicking and curtsying our way through this one. It will have a brief pilates moment, an upbeat song with optional jumping, and then a swift flow that weaves yoga, fancy(ish) footwork, and balance. Expect your legs to be worked, so add ankle weights only if you’re feeling extra energized and always feel free to ditch them! I will be wearing wrist weights, but not adding any other weights to the mix.

You know how they say, “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans,” well, unfortunately, they’re right. This class is based on a podcast I listened to called Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Her guest was Kendra Adachi and they talked about her method called, PLAN. They also turned what we’ve been taught about time management on it’s head and I found that extremely useful. The flow is more yoga than we’ve been doing lately, but still dynamic and interesting. Expect to start slow, pilates for 4 songs, then get into a flow that builds from down dog and the top of the mat. It’s got lots of side bending, hip flexor strength, twisting, and power. I didn’t build any breaks in, but that’s what you’re going to do whenever you want or need them! Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7IfJ21aszybL7JKTJlzJAJ?si=32798d6ad5434634

I’m inviting you to do my Thursday morning full practice with me. This will mean a lot less guidance and mostly just cueing the movement and the reps or amount of breaths to expect.

After the last few weeks of complicated sequences, I thought to myself, “Let’s do yoga.” And that’s what we’ll do, but in our usual LRY way. Expect dynamic yoga movement that creates a full-body flow, with an emphasis on spinal undulation.

Let’s fuse the two classes from this week into one slightly longer flow that makes me wicked happy, and hopefully you, too!

I am taking all of Kendrick’s diabolical, jovial, layered genius into my heart and I am inspired! I am going to be a menace to society with my own gifts! I am ready to speak highly of myself, own my power, and stop the self-critical nonsense forevermore! Join me. It should be easy enough, right? The first 4 songs are, of course, Kendrick Lamar. Then we get into the vibey music to build a pattern that I have refined and nailed down since Monday’s attempt. I’ll be wearing ankle weights and using light hand weights. Expect hip opening, and changing choreography.

We will find closed chain anchors and progressively move the sequence along from those points of contact. One sequence starts in down dog with strengthening in hovering table top, plank, and bent knee down dog. The second sequence begins in chair at the top of the mat. We’ll add in balance and turn up the pace with each repetition. I got lost in it yesterday while making it up, but in a needed and freeing kind of way. Our first two songs will be close to the ground, with about 22 minutes building up the intensity and then a slow 5 minute Fred Again song to bring us back down to earth.

I’m feeling easily scattered and for some reason, an impending sense of doom in the air, anyone else? This class is here to be your mid-week pick-me-up and a pause on the mental theatrics. It’s a playful mix of modalities, per usual. There will be a good amount of shoulder strengthening, level changes, and pace changes.

Inspired by a podcast I listened to with Chani Nicholas where she instructed us to be doing just that. The movement will keep you on your toes, literally and figuratively. Expect nothing and be open to everything. It will flow together like a yoga class, but I hesitate to even use that word because I want us all to feel free of labels and expectations. The things you can always count on will be there: freedom to take care of yourself how you see fit, movement and music merging as one, and fun.

We’re focusing on the movement of your scapula, back muscles, and balance in this one. I used 2 and 5 lb hand weights and a 10 lb kettlebell. Much like our flow stuff this week, this is far from a yoga class. The songs stand on their own with their own movement story. Expect moments of jumping, flying stars, and lots of repetition in each song. Try moves like the lawn mower, robbery, and prone T.

This class was inspired by watching a sunflower grow in a time lapse, and a desire to relieve an irritation in my upper spine and shoulder blades. It was also thinking about the foundation we choose to grow from. Rather than a hard cement foundation, why not a bed of flowers? Soft, curious, and determined to break free from the dirt and stretch toward the sun. This is much less yoga flow, and more each song standing on their own as little vignettes. Bring an open mind, any props of support or challenge that you’d like

I have got some knots in my system and I’m using this practice to untangle them and feel a little more free from the bull shit. We will practice not taking the bait from our inner critic—which is going to prove to be a necessary and frequent practice in our lives— and ponder a question I learned from Otis’s preschool. We start kneeling and bring in your upper back with eagle arms and spinal undulation, then change levels and take that into standing exploration. There are 4 pilates songs that heat you up, bring strength to your center, and awareness of how your spine wants to move. We have a building pattern for our yoga portion that will tangle and untangle you over and over again. I got a lot of love for this class teaching it in person this week and did it almost daily myself. I’ll be using ankle and wrist weights, and a kettlebell for squats if my back says yes to that. As always, you don’t need to add anything unless you want to!

The playlist is 32 minutes long and it’s moody, dance beats. They’ll invite you right into abdominal drawing in maneuver (ADIM) for the first two minutes. Once we’re more aware of the abdominal wall, we’ll start to undulate the spine. Glute bridge variations take center stage for the next two songs, before we roll on to side bridges. Crossed ankles will be a reoccurring theme and tune you into more inner thighs, pelvic floor, and low belly. We’ll use self-assists to feel more spinal rotation. My body feels strong and energized after doing variations of this sequence for the last 3 days.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by it all, it’s not just you. The weight of the world, on top of everything that you’re already managing does a number on your system. Join me in this lighthearted flow meant to do just that, lighten the load. We’ll start moving slow to get you into your breath and body and then connect to your core strength in pilates for the next chapter. Dynamic vinyasa takes center stage for the rest and we’ll end with two songs to slow you down and send you on your way.

Let’s pair free flowing movement with structured strength training moves!

Greg and I keep talking about the Hard Reset that we need to start this year off with. We kind of burned it down in December, and would you believe, that doesn’t feel good! So, we’re getting back to basics, drink water, eat things that fuel you, and move in a way that supports longevity and energy. We’re gonna do movements that help you feel strong, stable, and centered. You don’t need anything but I will be using 10lb kettlebell and ankle weights for fun.

30-minute practice to inspire your week. You are free to create and recreate yourself every day upon waking. Let’s flow together and reimagine what’s possible.

Our monthly full practice is here! Free for members, and added to our On Demand library to take at your leisure if you can’t make it live. For non-members, it’s live only and pay what you can! This week’s class is themed around my title for the year. I’ve finally landed on it and I hope it helps us all.