Yoga Fundamentals to Advanced with Paul

I recommend that you have completed an Introduction to Yoga.

If so, you’ve been moving through yoga poses and salutations. Now dive a little deeper into the structure of the pose. The Fundamentals to Advanced classes look at individual categories of poses. First explore the poses fundamentally. Then build on your knowledge of the poses, perfect different transitions, more subtle and rigorous applications of the poses.

Standing Poses:
After completing the Fundamentals to Advanced: Standing Poses classes, you will feel more connected to the Earth and the relationship to space. This means that you will feel the relationship between your legs and the remainder of the body as well as a firmness in the legs and a lightness in the body. All muscle groups will feel stronger and more stable as we work to create a firmness and solidity in these strengthening postures.

Practice the level 1 (Fundamental) class until the concepts feel integrated in your body. Standing poses are always hard work, and you may always feel challenged by them. So, when you feel like your body has a firm grasp of the poses and basic directions, challenge yourself with the intermediate class, and look forward to the advanced class coming soon. Options will be given in the intermediate class to make some of the more difficult poses attainable.

Twists:
After completing the Fundamentals to Advanced: Twisting Poses classes, you will feel stronger and more flexible in the muscles around the waist and abdomen, more free in your spine, and more relaxed in your chest and shoulders.

Practice the level 1 (Fundamental) class until the concepts feel integrated in your body. Twists are intended to be freeing and releasing poses that passively tone and stretch the abdominal muscles and create a deep opening in the shoulders. You will be ready for the intermediate phase when you feel light, soft and free in the fundamental level class.

Look forward to the Advanced class coming soon.