Lizard – Animal Style

About This Class

Lizard – Animal Style guides students through a playful yet challenging movement session rooted in lizard-like locomotion on all fours. After a careful warm-up that circles every joint from the neck down to the ankles, the class moves into a progressive series of wrist-strengthening push-up variations performed from knees or full plank, with hands in wide, narrow, turned-in, and forearm-drop positions. The heart of the class is "lizard walking" — crawling forward and backward on wide tracks using opposite hand and foot, with added knee-circle flourishes that demand coordination and core stability. A final sequence layers a press-up pulse into the oppositional crawl pattern before the class closes with seated upper-body stretches: shoulder cross-body pulls, neck release with interlaced hands, a chest-opening back-bend, and a self-hug twist. Throughout, the instructor emphasises range-of-motion exploration over muscle fatigue, core engagement (belly button to spine), staying low like a real lizard, and working within individual limits — making options and variations a central teaching thread.