Online Flexibility Training from Toe Touches to Head Sits

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LET’S GET BENDY!

Learn online from the comfort of home.

Whether you’re trying to get your flat splits, or you’re trying to nail a scorpion forearm stand balance, we’ve got classes to help you reach your flexy goals!

Training Options

 

Group Classes

Online group classes are taught through Zoom and focus on active flexibility for splits, back, and shoulders, from “all levels” to beginning contortion.

$20 - $25 / per class
(Discounted packs available)

Flexibility Privates

Online one-on-one coaching to help you achieve your flexibility goals. Privates can be used to assess flexibility and build you a custom stretching routine, or work on more advanced contortion training.

Starting at $120 / hour
(Discounts available)

The Bendy Blog

Learn for free by checking out some of the great articles in the bendy blog!

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Why train with Dani?

  • Emphasis on active flexibility training to ensure students learn to strengthen and support themselves in poses, not just flop!

  • Specialized focus for aerialists, circus artists, pole dancers, and yogis

  • 11+ years experience training & performing contortion across the US and internationally (read more about Dani’s training background here)

  • Experience teaching more than 1,500 happy students across 40+ countries

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 Recent Flexibility Articles

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Working Towards “Cow Face Pose” Arms Rear Hand Clasp
Working Towards “Cow Face Pose” Arms Rear Hand Clasp

Being able to reach both hands behind your back and touch or clasp your fingertips is a challenging goal lots of people like to work towards. This type of flexibility can be helpful for yogis who like to work on funky arm binds (it’s the same position used in Gomukhasana or Cow Face Pose, but the flexibility can translate to other arm binds as well), for aerialists and pole dancers who need funk shoulder rotation and behind-the-back reaches to grab their apparatus, and for regular Average Joe folks who want enough shoulder mobility to scratch an itch on their back. Personally, I find having a big range of motion in this pose helpful because it allows my to put sunscreen on my own back without needing anyone else’s help (maybe not a primary motivation for most people, but certainly a plus in my book!).

Help! My Hips Hurt in My Middle Split and Frog Stretch
Help! My Hips Hurt in My Middle Split and Frog Stretch

This is a question I frequently get in group classes as well as private lessons - there are some people out there that, based on their hip anatomy, have a hard time feeling inner thigh stretches in things like straddles, middle splits, and frog stretches. Instead, they feel like their legs just get “stuck” when trying to open them out to the side, or may even feel a “pinch” in the front or side of their hip. This can be frustrating because no matter how much you try to stretch, you don’t see any progress in your middles or straddles.

Now what if I told you the solution to this flexibility plateau was NOT trying to push the stretch deeper?

Why (and How) to Warm Up Before Stretching
Why (and How) to Warm Up Before Stretching

Do you really need to warm up before stretching? Isn’t stretching usually a “warm up” for other workouts?

This really depends on the type of training you plan on working on. The goal of “warming up” is to prepare your body - your muscles, your joints, your cardiovascular and nervous systems, etc. - for your upcoming workout. For some hobbies, like martial arts or pole dancing, that often means including stretches as part of the warm up to be able to use that flexibility in their skill work.

But what about for flexibility training as a “work out?” This is where it really depends on the intensity of the stretching you’ll be doing.

“Cold” vs. “Warm” Flexibility (and How to Improve Your Cold Flexibility)
“Cold” vs. “Warm” Flexibility (and How to Improve Your Cold Flexibility)

Do you ever feel like you make some good progress during a stretching session, only to have your flexibility revert back to it’s previous less-bendy state the next day? Or maybe you notice you’re able to stretch deeper after a heavy workout like weightlifting than trying to stretch randomly in the middle of the day? Do you have long-term goals to be able to touch your toes or drop into the splits without doing any kind of warm up? All of these are related to the difference between our warm vs. our cold flexibility.