upcoming events
Inversions | Stability + Grounding
This is a hybrid 90 minute practice that blends flow with strength and mobility training. We will incorporate skills, drills, flows, and various movement techniques to prepare for inversions, included (and not limited to) handstands, headstands, forearm stands, and transitions including them. We’ll challenge our balance, our limits, and our perspectives… all built on a firm foundation of locating where the body is in space.
*An inversion practice is not required in order to participate, but students should be able to bear weight into the wrists and shoulders.
September 28th | Stability + Grounding
Primary focus: Building confidence in weight-bearing shapes; wrist and shoulder prep, efforting the lower half to support inversions
Resonant Vinyasa | Breath Month
Breath as presence. As anchor. As sustaining rhythm. As power. As gentleness. As a force field. As containment. As strength. As softness. Breath as the foundation of it all.
This theme invites us to explore how breath shapes movement, and how movement, in turn, shapes breath. Expect many different ways of approaching the “same old” thing, each offering a fresh and revitalized sense of introspection and interoception.
Resonant Vinyasa | Breath Month
Breath as presence. As anchor. As sustaining rhythm. As power. As gentleness. As a force field. As containment. As strength. As softness. Breath as the foundation of it all.
This theme invites us to explore how breath shapes movement, and how movement, in turn, shapes breath. Expect many different ways of approaching the “same old” thing, each offering a fresh and revitalized sense of introspection and interoception.
Inversions | Intelligent + Intrinsic Core
This is a hybrid 90 minute practice that blends flow with strength and mobility training. We will incorporate skills, drills, flows, and various movement techniques to prepare for inversions, included (and not limited to) handstands, headstands, forearm stands, and transitions including them. We’ll challenge our balance, our limits, and our perspectives… all built on a firm foundation of locating where the body is in space.
*An inversion practice is not required in order to participate, but students should be able to bear weight into the wrists and shoulders.
October 26th | Intrinsic + Intelligent Core
Primary focus: Breath-core connection, compression drills, and midline awareness
Inversions | The Play of Balance
This is a hybrid 90 minute practice that blends flow with strength and mobility training. We will incorporate skills, drills, flows, and various movement techniques to prepare for inversions, included (and not limited to) handstands, headstands, forearm stands, and transitions including them. We’ll challenge our balance, our limits, and our perspectives… all built on a firm foundation of locating where the body is in space.
*An inversion practice is not required in order to participate, but students should be able to bear weight into the wrists and shoulders.
November 16th | The Play of Balance
Primary focus: Balance through micro-adjustments, falling safely, using props/walls creatively for sensory input
Inversions | Long Lines
This is a hybrid 90 minute practice that blends flow with strength and mobility training. We will incorporate skills, drills, flows, and various movement techniques to prepare for inversions, included (and not limited to) handstands, headstands, forearm stands, and transitions including them. We’ll challenge our balance, our limits, and our perspectives… all built on a firm foundation of locating where the body is in space.
*An inversion practice is not required in order to participate, but students should be able to bear weight into the wrists and shoulders.
December 14th | Long Lines
Primary focus: Learning to stack wrists, shoulders, ribs, pelvis, and legs
tenderness: 90 minute warm yin fusion
“I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. ” — ROBERT BLY
A mix of stable + strong Vinyasa flow followed by slow + grounded Yin shapes, this 90 minute class is a hope/daydream/wish/praxis for softness through spring. To create attuned tenderness through the body yields receptivity in the mind - we’ll play with the balance of these with movement, breath, awareness, and meditation.
Expect to feel: grounded, nourished, tender with yourself
Praxis: THE SPIRAL
A mix of theory, somatic movement, and meditation, this 90-minute immersion is one into the fractal: how the small becomes big, and the big becomes small. As a galaxy has a spiral, so do our fingerprints - and we can move in this way too. We will learn to resource, yield to gravity, and build a somatic movement practice that incorporates spirals from the ground, to seated, to upright.
Expect to feel: nourished, grounded, resourced + calm
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This class is capped at 9. Participants should dress in layers and wear socks; no mat is needed for this class.
Please note that is not a yoga class, but a blending of many modalities to give way to embodiment. Questions? Email jianna@verticalendeavors.com
The Praxis (theory put into motion) is a 90-minute practice container that incorporates many modalities and invitations. One session may be a grounded, somatic experience, where the next may be about building heat and discipline, and the next about listening deeply, potently. 90 minutes to experience, feel, learn, play, embody, and stoke curiosity.