Wake up Workout!

The basic poses used through a vinyasa is plank (or high plank), chatarunga (or low plank), upward facing dog, and downward facing dog. Students are cued to move through this fluidly, but more often than not, I catch students banging through this sequence, without really noticing what’s going on with their breath and bodies. For many students, this sequence is just a means to an end, with that end being resting in downdog.

It is super important to slow the vinyasa down and to notice what the body is doing in each of the four separate poses, moving slowly and with intention. Without the right alignment, a student could be doing serious damage to their bodies, over and over again, each time they do a vinyasa (which in some classes, could be as many as 10+ times!)