Beginning Contortion Bridges
Who this workshop recording is for:
This workshop is designed for students who have some preexisting back/shoulder flexibility (can push up into a bridge), and are interested in taking it farther. This is a great introduction to contortion-style back flexibility training where you’ll not only learn strengthening drills to deepen your flexibility (because the vast majority of “advanced” flexibility training is really strengthening work!), you’ll learn classic contortion pose variations of bridges.
Suggested Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be able to comfortably hold a bride with straight arms. Crazy backbendiness welcome, but not required. The backbend-y variations included in the tutorials can be modified for varying degrees of back flexibility.
If you can’t yet comfortably hold a bridge with straight arms, I suggest checking out the Building Up to Your Bridge workshop recording instead.
This 90-minute* workshop covers:
An hour long follow-along contortion conditioning class, including
A full body warm up with extra emphasis on back and shoulder mobility
Active flexibility drills to strengthen and stretch your full backbending chain, with dedicated drills for the hips, lower back, upper back, and shoulders
“Choose your own adventure” style skillwork practice: more than 20 minutes of detailed contortion bridge tutorials are included and you can choose which ones to practice during any given training session. Tutorials include…
Review of proper muscle engagement in bridges
Arm and leg variations you can apply to any of your bridge shapes
Straight leg “rainbow” bridges
Spider bridges
Elbow bridges
and more!
* This workshop was filmed with the intention of fitting a 75-minute practice, but students may choose to trim it down, or extend it and work on more skillwork for up to a 90 minute practice.
Required props:
2 yoga blocks
Long strap (can be elastic or stiff)
Upon checkout, you will receive a PDF with a link to the workshop recording (Squarespace limits file upload sizes so I can’t actually upload the whole recording here). The recording is for your personal use only, not to be shared with others - thank you!
Who this workshop recording is for:
This workshop is designed for students who have some preexisting back/shoulder flexibility (can push up into a bridge), and are interested in taking it farther. This is a great introduction to contortion-style back flexibility training where you’ll not only learn strengthening drills to deepen your flexibility (because the vast majority of “advanced” flexibility training is really strengthening work!), you’ll learn classic contortion pose variations of bridges.
Suggested Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be able to comfortably hold a bride with straight arms. Crazy backbendiness welcome, but not required. The backbend-y variations included in the tutorials can be modified for varying degrees of back flexibility.
If you can’t yet comfortably hold a bridge with straight arms, I suggest checking out the Building Up to Your Bridge workshop recording instead.
This 90-minute* workshop covers:
An hour long follow-along contortion conditioning class, including
A full body warm up with extra emphasis on back and shoulder mobility
Active flexibility drills to strengthen and stretch your full backbending chain, with dedicated drills for the hips, lower back, upper back, and shoulders
“Choose your own adventure” style skillwork practice: more than 20 minutes of detailed contortion bridge tutorials are included and you can choose which ones to practice during any given training session. Tutorials include…
Review of proper muscle engagement in bridges
Arm and leg variations you can apply to any of your bridge shapes
Straight leg “rainbow” bridges
Spider bridges
Elbow bridges
and more!
* This workshop was filmed with the intention of fitting a 75-minute practice, but students may choose to trim it down, or extend it and work on more skillwork for up to a 90 minute practice.
Required props:
2 yoga blocks
Long strap (can be elastic or stiff)
Upon checkout, you will receive a PDF with a link to the workshop recording (Squarespace limits file upload sizes so I can’t actually upload the whole recording here). The recording is for your personal use only, not to be shared with others - thank you!
Who this workshop recording is for:
This workshop is designed for students who have some preexisting back/shoulder flexibility (can push up into a bridge), and are interested in taking it farther. This is a great introduction to contortion-style back flexibility training where you’ll not only learn strengthening drills to deepen your flexibility (because the vast majority of “advanced” flexibility training is really strengthening work!), you’ll learn classic contortion pose variations of bridges.
Suggested Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be able to comfortably hold a bride with straight arms. Crazy backbendiness welcome, but not required. The backbend-y variations included in the tutorials can be modified for varying degrees of back flexibility.
If you can’t yet comfortably hold a bridge with straight arms, I suggest checking out the Building Up to Your Bridge workshop recording instead.
This 90-minute* workshop covers:
An hour long follow-along contortion conditioning class, including
A full body warm up with extra emphasis on back and shoulder mobility
Active flexibility drills to strengthen and stretch your full backbending chain, with dedicated drills for the hips, lower back, upper back, and shoulders
“Choose your own adventure” style skillwork practice: more than 20 minutes of detailed contortion bridge tutorials are included and you can choose which ones to practice during any given training session. Tutorials include…
Review of proper muscle engagement in bridges
Arm and leg variations you can apply to any of your bridge shapes
Straight leg “rainbow” bridges
Spider bridges
Elbow bridges
and more!
* This workshop was filmed with the intention of fitting a 75-minute practice, but students may choose to trim it down, or extend it and work on more skillwork for up to a 90 minute practice.
Required props:
2 yoga blocks
Long strap (can be elastic or stiff)
Upon checkout, you will receive a PDF with a link to the workshop recording (Squarespace limits file upload sizes so I can’t actually upload the whole recording here). The recording is for your personal use only, not to be shared with others - thank you!