Respect Your Elders

About This Class

Bryan Kest leads a richly philosophical dynamic flow built entirely around the principle of body respect and ego release. The class opens in Child's Pose with an extended breathwork orientation, then moves through multiple rounds of Down Dog, Cobra, and Plank to warm the spine and shoulders. The bulk of the standing sequence includes one-legged Down Dog variations with knee-to-tricep core work, Low Lunge with shoulder-opening twists, Crescent Lunge, Warrior, Triangle, and Standing Forward Fold, all woven together with slow, breath-synchronized transitions that Bryan calls a "marriage ceremony between mind and body." A kneeling Camel variation, Pigeon-adjacent hip-opener (double shin/ankle cross seated forward fold), and a supine core series — with single-leg and double-leg lowering, scissors, and a full arm-and-leg hover — round out the physical practice before a supine spinal twist. The class closes with an extended seated gratitude meditation and a Savasana focused on breath-watching and creating mental space between thoughts. Throughout, Bryan repeatedly invites students to back off, bend knees, or drop to the floor, making the class accessible to a wide range of ages and abilities while still offering plenty of depth for those who seek it.