Back
A collection of classes that include sequences built with the back in mind.
Experience an emphasis on or be offered education for the back and how you can support it during your practice while strengthening.
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Upper Body & Back Pilates (30 min) - with Heather Obre
Join Heather for a 30-minute mat Pilates practice! This class will focus on your arms, your upper body & shoulders, and then we will move on to work on back strengthening.
Pilates uses controlled movements to improve your flexibility, strength and endurance. Emphasis on alignment, breathing and ... -
Live Replay: Power for a Strong Back (75 min) - with Jasmina Egeler
*Please note that there is a short freeze at 3 minutes that does not affect this video (it is during a long, held stretch) - Thank you!*
Join Jasmina for a 75 minute Power Class focusing on strengthening your back. Prepare to sweat! Build strength and balance through a dynamic and challenging se...
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Flow Yoga: Upper Back Love (50 min) — with Mari Dickey [with Music]
Mari offers an all-levels flow class with modifications and variations for everyone's practice. This sequence invites you to move with your breath through a series of strengthening chaturangas, side planks, and opening twists. After building some heat you'll open up your hip flexors and chest in ...
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Power Yoga for Backbends (20 mins) – Katherine Moore
Prepare to sweat! Build strength and balance through a dynamic and challenging sequence of postures. YYOGA Power is usually practiced in a room that is heated at 32 degrees, however this is not mandatory or necessary to get the most out of this class.
Katherine guides you through a power yoga ...
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Hatha Yoga for Low Back Pain (45 min) – with Cathy High
Cathy leads this slower practice that will help you to ease into some postures that could provide gentle relief. Hatha typically also involves breath, body, and mind and you'll be invited to find some grounding balance through this practice.
This particular Hatha practice is perfect for anyone ...
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Power for a Strong Back (45 min) — with Christie Baumgartner
Build strength and balance through a dynamic and challenging sequence of postures. YYOGA Power is usually practiced in a room that is heated at 32 degrees, however this is not mandatory or necessary to get the most out of this class.
Christie leads you through a sequence that works on strength...
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Flow Full Body Practice with Backbends (45 min) — with Kate Gillespie
This 45 minute flow yoga class focuses on backbends, when they help and when they hold you back. You’ll build strength, balance, and flexibility as you move with breath.
Kate’s cues build from a strong foundation, gathering support from the ground and from your core as you explore range of motio...
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Tutorial: How to Deepen Your Back Bends; all levels (15 min) — with Mari Dickey
Most of us spend the day sitting and hunched over, and we're closing off the front of the body, hips and chest. Back bending is a really potent way to bring space to the front of your body. Just a few minutes of movement can make a huge impact on how you feel in your day.
Enjoy a short 15-min,...
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Flow Yoga: Heart Opening Practice (60 min) — with Jayme Burke
Enjoy this 60-minute heart-opening flow class with postures focusing on strengthening your back while opening up your front body.
Synchronize your breath with movement in order to build strength, balance, and flexibility.
Jayme, YYOGA teacher and Teacher Trainer, offers modifications, inviting ...
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Flow Yoga: Slow, Full Body Practice (50 min) — with Kate Gillespie
Feel even better than before with an hour of smooth, soul-approved flow. You’ll synchronize your breath with movement in order to build strength, balance, and flexibility.
Breathe and reach with intention as you lengthen and fold, open and let go. With Kate, you’ll release tension in the front, ...
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Tutorial: How to do Bridge Pose — with Lisa Sanson
Learn about Lisa's favorite pose, Bridge (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana), and how to practice it in this 5 minute tutorial.
Bridge pose strengthens the back line of the body (glutes, hamstrings, etc), the back of the spine and shoulders, opens up the chest and opens up the front of the hips.
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Tutorial: How to do Dancer's Pose (5 min) — with Mari Dickey
Learn how get into Dancer's Pose, Natarajasana, with YYOGA teacher trainer Mari Dickey.
This well-known balancing pose is a sweet front body opener, back body straightener, and the peak pose in our YHot sequence.
It also has a lot of progressions, so whether you've just started practicing o...
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Mat Pilates: Intermediate with Resistance Bands (30 min) — with Kelly Colleen
Enjoy a short Pilates Fusion routine where you’ll use a Thera-Band as your prop. A Thera-Band is a wonderful prop that you can pick up online or any nearby drugstore. If you don’t have one, you can use a rope or robe tie but it’s helpful to have something with a bit of give.
This style uses cont...
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YSculpt Intermediate: for Athletes (45 min) — with Kevin Maynard
Be challenged and get sweaty in this full body workout, geared towards intermediate students. Use weights to push, pull, lunge, and squat your way to functional fitness with this low impact sequence that emphasizes core strength and conditioning.
Be prepared to do some movements that are a littl...
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Express Cardio Blast Circuit - Low Impact (30 min) — with Kevin Maynard
This half hour class is packed with fire, featuring short intervals to propel you through a variety of weight training and Calisthenics circuits.
Grab your weights and prepare to be challenged.
Because this class is practiced barefoot, you'll be training your posture (which begins with the fee...
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YSculpt for Beginners (45 min) — with Hana Weinwurm
Whether you’re a beginner or just looking for something a little lighter, this class is going to give you a great workout either way. You'll use weights to push, pull, lunge, & squat your way to functional fitness with this low impact sequence that emphasizes core strength and conditioning.
In t...
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YHot: for All Levels (50 min) — with Hillary Keegan
YYOGA hot yoga teacher trainer, Hillary Keegan, leads you through our signature YHot style – a sequence of slow, held postures with an emphasis on alignment with the option to crank up your core temperature through focused breathwork.
In our studios, YHot is practiced in 40 degree heat with 40%...
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YSculpt: Tone & Sculpt (30 min) — with Francarlos Leon
This class includes cardio, compound exercises, active recovery, alignment cues, and common examples of “what not to do.” Use weights to push, pull, lunge, and squat your way to functional fitness.
Featuring high-energy supersets, you’ll burn calories even after your workout is complete. Francar...
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Power Yoga Intermediate: Birds & Bugs (75 min) — with Mari Dickey
Why Birds & Bugs? Well, In Sanskrit, a lot of arm balances in the yoga practice translate into names of birds and bugs – if you're curious about playing with arm balances, this is your class! Even if you’re not quite there yet, Mari offers plenty of prep for every pose so you’re already doing the...
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What's Self Love Hatha? Hillary Keegan explains.
A Self Love Hatha class invites you to be in the stillness of the moment – inhaling love, exhaling gratitude while also finding patience and strength within yourself.
Hillary shares, "One of the beautiful parts about self love, when you move into your body, is about opening up and not being jud...
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Self Love Hatha Yoga (30 min) — with Hillary Keegan
A nourishing class offering heart opening backbends, detoxifying twists, and relaxing folds.
A Self Love Hatha class invites you to be in the stillness of the moment – inhaling love, exhaling gratitude while also finding patience and strength within yourself.
Hillary shares, "One of the beaut...
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Power Yoga Intermediate (75 min) — "the Rocket 2" with Risto Duggan
Risto Duggan guides you through a Rocket Yoga 2 sequence. Rocket Yoga is a well-rounded and 75 minute power yoga practice.
Rocket Yoga was designed to be an accessible version of the traditional Ashtanga Yoga. Put together by Larry Schultz who studied Ashtanga Yoga under the expert K. Pattabhi J...
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What is Power for Flexible & Stable Shoulders? Jayme Explains.
Power Yoga for Flexible & Stable Shoulders is all about finding strong shoulder integration.
Mobility will come in play in order to find more space and expansion in your shoulders. To create stability, you’ll focus on using strong muscles in your back and core — look forward to lots of planking!
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Power Yoga for Flexible & Stable Shoulders (45 min) — with Jayme Burke
Jayme, a YYOGA Teacher Trainer, leads you through a 45 minute Power Yoga class where you’ll work on the stability and mobility of your shoulders. This sequence favours plank pose for its adaptability and effectiveness.
Jayme offers modifications, inviting you to connect with yourself as you lis...