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Lower Body Foam Roller Workout
Roll out your muscles with this 15-min foam rolling workout for the lower body. Great for runners, and those who want to stretch the muscles and fascia, and increase their flexibility and mobility.
Tools: foam roller
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Quick EMOM Cardio Workout with Extended Lower Body Stretches
Get your heart rate up with this quick EMOM workout. Low and high impact options are shown, and no equipment is required.
After the EMOM cardio, we will move through a gentle yoga flow to help stretch the legs as well as work on your balance.
This is also Day 8 of the 10 Day Legs & Booty Chal...
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7-Day Better Posture Series - Optimal Posture
Day 1: Let’s Begin! In this video, we will start with an overview of what optimal posture is and work through a short series to help develop the muscle activation needed for maintaining this in the body.
We’ll use a block and the wall for feedback in this one.
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7-Day Better Posture Series - Pelvis, Hips & Your Posture
Day 2: It’s all about the pelvis and the hips in this class. Discover how the pelvis tilts and how to hold it steady. Feel the difference when the pelvis moves versus when the hips move and train it in this mini practice.
You’ll need a block for this one.
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7-Day Better Posture Series - The Spine & Your Posture
Day 3: The focus of the class is to free up any restriction around the spine, the musculature of the spine and its attachments. After this practice, you may find it easier to find a more optimal posture with less restriction in the way!
The only props you’ll need are yourself and your mat.
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7-Day Better Posture Series - The Ribcage & Your Posture
Day 4: Let’s explore ribcage positioning in regards to posture. In order to move energy and ourselves effectively, we need to maintain the ribcage over the pelvis in movement and our daily life. In this class, we’ll utilize our core to help us keep this optimal positioning in our movement as we a...
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7-Day Better Posture Series - The Shoulders & Your Posture
Day 5: Rounded shoulders are a very common issue in sub-optimal posture. This positioning not only affects movement but has a negative impact on our energy as well. Let’s fix the issue in this class! You can expect to release the front of the chest and shoulders and strengthen the upper back to h...
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7-Day Better Posture Series - The Neck & Your Posture
Day 6: Release and retrain the muscles in the neck to not only feel better but to find better posture! Strengthen the deep cervical flexors and release the back of the neck and upper back. Find optimal positioning in common movements and then maintain it in our practice together.
You’ll need a ...
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7-Day Better Posture Series - Improve Your Posture
Putting it together! Yay! You made it. Let’s put it all together now in this practice. You’ll see bits and pieces from days 1-6 in this class. Expect a little more challenge but modify as you need.
You’ll need a block and your mat for this class.
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset for Low Back Pain Series - Working Into Your Hips & QL
Day 1: Give your SI joint and low back some relief with this video. We begin with a gentle pelvis-reset sequence of six moves to reset your pelvis and SI joint.
From there I'll guide you through a mobility flow for your hips, thoracic spine and quadratus lumborum (which can get overactive and c...
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Post-Workout Stretch
Day 8: Encourage greater flexibility and range of motion, boost blood flow, and release muscle tension in this rejuvenating total-body stretch session designed for post-workout. You'll use a stool to assist with deep hip openers, then move to the mat for folds, twists, and stretches for your uppe...
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset Series - Strong Glutes for Low Back Health
Day 2: This session will focus on strengthening your glutes, particularly your gluteus medius. Your gluteus medius is one of the muscles within your gluteal complex and an important muscle for walking, running, and single-leg weight-bearing exercises. It prevents the opposite side of your pelvis ...
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset Series- Deep Core Strength
Day 3: In this session, we will focus on building core strength throughout your erector spinae and the core abdominal muscles of your transverse abdominis.
While we strengthen the lower back and erector spinae, we are also going to strengthen a very important muscle called the multifidus. The m...
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset Series - Abs & Low Back Strengthening
Day 4: A continuation of day 3, working your core strength, front and back. These two muscular systems are key for spinal support and protection as we move through our lives. Your erector spinae muscles are a large group of muscles that run vertically on either side of your spine, roughly one han...
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset - Hip Openers
Day 5: In this session, we will focus on opening the hips. By performing hip openers you will start to open up the over 20 muscles that cross the hip. These include the collection of inner thigh muscles, known as the adductors as well as the collection of thigh muscles known as the abductors, the...
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset Series- Balancing Your Whole Body
Day 6: In this session you will focus on the "whole body" issue of lower-back pain through stretching, strengthening, and paying extra attention to the myofascial slings within standing postures.
Myofascial slings are complex connections of muscle, fascia, and ligament, which help support the in...
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SI Joint & Pelvic Reset Series - Putting It All Together
Day 7: In the final session of the series you will be led through a flow of poses, stretches and exercises you've learned through the last six days. This session is a little longer and more intense.
Tools: bolster or pillow, yoga block & strap or similar
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Desk Stretches
Easy stretches you can do at your desk! Whether you sit a lot and just need a midday break, or you just want a series of hassle-free stretches for the whole body, with no going on the floor or using extra equipment.
These are my top 11 stretches that are practical and simple to target your enti...
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Lower Body Stretch & Release
Stretch and release your lower body with this stretch and flow session. Focussing on the hips, adductors and hamstrings this is the perfect stretch to do after a workout, or if you have tight hips or hamstrings.
Tools: yoga block and strap
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Full Body Stretch & Mobility
Day 11: Time to slow it down with this Active recovery workout. Show your body some love and ease those sore muscles with a full-body stretch plus some gentle mobility workout. I will guide you through the movements today but as always, listen to your body and do what feels right for you. Roll ou...
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Balance & Stretch
Day 18: This all-standing session begins with some basic balance drills and as you get used to those we move into more challenging drills. After our balance session, we will stretch your lower body out with an all-standing stretch series.
Tools: nothing
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Mobility Flow
Day 25: Unlock those tight areas in your body with this 20-minute mobility flow session. Flowing through a series of mobility drills for the ankles, hips, t-spine and shoulders, with some static stretches to help unlock your joints and your muscles.
You are going to love this one!
Tools: mat
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Stretch It Out!
Day 15: If you need a total body stretch in under 20-minutes, you will love this session. Starting seated on the mat you will move through a series of poses and stretches stretching everything from the lateral neck to the calves and everything in between.
Tools: mat & foam chip yoga block or th...
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Stretch Out the Tight Areas
Day 22: Using a wall we will follow through a series of mobility drills and stretches to improve the range of motion of your back, shoulders and hips. Get ready to favourite this session!
Tools: mat, pillow and access to a wall