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  • Description: Tight hips? These hip mobility exercises will help you loosen up and increase your functional range of motion. Our movement and yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT leads this 3-part short videos series to help improve your hip mobility. Part 1 – Seated on Chair – Beginner Part 2 – On Mat – Intermediate (release 8/19/24) Part 3 – on Mat – Advanced (release 8/26/24)
  • Description: Tight hips? These hip mobility exercises will help you loosen up and increase your functional range of motion. Our movement and yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT leads this 3-part short videos series to help improve your hip mobility. 
    Part 1 – Seated on Chair – Beginner 

    Part 2 – On Mat – Intermediate

    Part 3 – on Mat – Advanced (release 8/26/24)
  • Description: Tight hips? These hip mobility exercises will help you loosen up and increase your functional range of motion. Our movement and yoga instructor, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT leads this 3-part short videos series to help improve your hip mobility. 

    Part 1 – Seated on Chair – Beginner 

    Part 2 – On Mat – Intermediate (release 8/19/24) 

    Part 3 – on Mat – Advanced (release 8/26/24)
  • Description: In Part 2 of our hip flexor strength series, Nancy Campbell, MS, shows two floor exercises you can quickly do at home. Remember to watch Part 1 if you haven't already!  Strengthen your Hip Flexors: Part 1

  • Description: Tight, or weak, hip flexors can lead to lower body pain and injury. It's important to strengthen and stretch your hip flexors as part of your regular exercise routine! In Part 1, Nancy Campbell, MS, shows two standing exercises you can quickly do at home.

  • Description: Ready for some weight-bearing ankle strengthening exercises? Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, will demonstrate seated and standing weight-bearing ankle exercises. This is a continuation of "Strengthen Your Ankles: Part 1" that will help you in your progression of increasing your ankle strength, stability, and mobility.
    You will need a chair and yoga blocks. If you don't have blocks available, try using a sturdy book!
  • Description: Use resistance to strengthen your ankles! If you don't have a TheraBand or loop band available, you could try using an old pair of nylon tights or leggings you don't mind stretching out. Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, will demonstrate four ankle strengthening exercises with resistance bands that will increase your stability and ankle mobility.

  • Description: The ankle joint is very important for stability and movement. In this 6-minute video, Juliana Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT, guides you through non weight-bearing stretches for the ankles, that can help increase mobility and prepare your ankle joints for weight-bearing exercises.

  • Description: In this 7-min video, Nancy Campbell, MS guides you through strength exercises for better stability and balance. Equipment needed: Chair Yoga block or any sort of ball

  • Description: This 45-minute chair yoga invites you to find movement in a way that is gentle and supportive. The practice invites awareness into the body and activates muscles in the spine that help you find length up through the spine for better posture and energy flow. If you are new to yoga, have difficulty getting down to the floor, experience pain in your muscles or joints, loss of energy, or balance issues due to peripheral neuropathy, this class is for you. All levels welcome. 
    Focus: hips
  • Description: This 45-minute chair yoga invites you to find movement in a way that is gentle and supportive. The practice invites awareness into the body and activates muscles in the spine that help you find length up through the spine for better posture and energy flow. If you are new to yoga, have difficulty getting down to the floor, experience pain in your muscles or joints, loss of energy, or balance issues due to peripheral neuropathy, this class is for you. All levels welcome. Focus: hips
  • Description: This 45-minute joyful flow (vinyasa) is a practice that connects movement to breath in a sequence of yoga poses. The class is designed to promote a mind-body connection as it develops strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, relaxation and focus. All levels welcome. Focus: hips

    Tags: Blanket, Blocks, Strap, Yoga Mat