Build Vitality

About This Class

This 36-minute approachable flow is built around the power of the breath as the primary tool for energizing the body and balancing the mind. The instructor guides students through Ujjayi breathing with deliberate count-based inhales and brief breath retentions, progressively challenging lung capacity throughout. The class moves from a seated breath awakening into a dynamic floor-to-standing flow featuring Warrior One, Side Angle, Triangle, and Half Moon poses, interspersed with rounds of Chaturanga, Cobra, and Upward Facing Dog. Core engagement is woven throughout via Navasana, Plank, and back-extension work in prone. Later sequences introduce Parsvakonasana, Crescent Pose, Chair Pose, Gate Pose (Parighasana), a creative side-plank variation, and supine hamstring stretches with shoulder blade lifts. The instructor explicitly frames the practice as an antidote to lethargy, aiming to build vitality and a sense of aliveness in both body and mind, closing with a brief Savasana inviting awareness of sensation and energetic pulse through the body.