We’re closing off week 2 with a power binding class. This class explores the duality of binding, the connection to the lift and the grounding to take flight. We’ll work with the energetic intelligence of binds to understand how containment creates freedom, and how focused effort allows the body to rise.

Through progressive loading and intentional heat-building, we’ll break down flying pigeon as a gateway into flight. You’ll explore how to generate lift from compression, using binds not just as a shape, but as a source of power and clarity.

This class includes:
•⁠ ⁠Step-by-step breakdowns of flying pigeon
•⁠ ⁠Grasshopper variations to explore rotation and leverage
•⁠ ⁠Opportunities to work toward Koundinyasana
•⁠ ⁠Strong, creative power binds to build strength

On the mat, we continued with seated compass, eight-angle, and elephant trunk, working binds as points of organization to refine leverage, suspension, and efficiency of effort. The practice resolved in bound garland, bringing everything together—grounded, integrated, and strong.

This class shows how things become easier when energy is directed with intention—less force, more clarity, and greater stability throughout the practice.

This class includes:

We’ll bind, bend, and snap our way through:

Bound garland

Reverse bound split

Bird of Paradise

Three-legged dog variations

Crow + bound crow play

Seated compass

Eight-angle pose

Elephant trunk

Sage twist (Marichyasana)

The Challenge is officially leveling up, get ready to build the heat as we explore arm balances in this 80 minute flow (sorry not sorry). Expect to fire up the core right away to give us more stability in those balances. We revisit the foundations of a strong, intentional chaturanga because chaturanga is the gateway to every arm balance. In this class we workshop crow, side crow, and chinstand. We also start to flirt with the pathway into the koundinyasana. We finish off the practice with nerve flossing, a little magic you’re going to have to feel to believe.

This class includes:
•⁠ ⁠Core engagement
•⁠ ⁠⁠Plank and stability holds
•⁠ ⁠⁠Cross oppositional engagement
•⁠ ⁠⁠Crow
•⁠ ⁠⁠Side Crow
•⁠ ⁠⁠Chin Stand
•⁠ ⁠⁠Koundinyasana

TEMPO: Fast
DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
VIBE: Get ready to sweat

This class explores the relationship between opposing forces — push and pull, effort and ease, strength and length. Through intelligent bind variations woven into lunges, standing sequences, core work, and backbends, we create energetic connection that supports stability, mobility, and control.

Binds are treated as a tool: to access deeper core engagement, to generate lift and space, and to refine how force travels through the body. Twists, standing postures, and optional inversions invite some play.

This is a strong, detail-driven vinyasa that asks for discernment — when to ground, when to expand, and how balance is built through relationship, not extremes. Expect to stay a little longer than an hour. It’s worth it.

TEMPO: Heat building

DIFFICULTY: Intermediate

VIBE: Strong and intentional

Week 2 of the challenge is all about getting a feel for the energetic connection in our binds. This class invites you to rinse out the spine with intentional twisting, moving at a steady pace to gently unravel tension and find more freedom in familiar asana shapes. In this 90-minute flow (yes, I’m sorry you know it’s hard for me to keep it short… we were just getting started) we’ll explore binding and the theme of duality as we play with push and pull, ease and effort, to build length, strength, and stability from the inside out. The goal is to find balance in each posture and set a strong foundation for the bigger shapes coming later in the week.

TEMPO: Steady
DIFFICULTY: Brave beginner
VIBE: Twisty and grounding