This class is a slow flow exploring beginner-friendly balancing and backbending poses. Anatomically and energetically, balancing and backbending form a complementary pair. Balancing engages the legs and stabilizes the core, creating a foundation for safe backbends. Balancing is calming and grounding, while backbends have an energizing and clarifying effect on the mind.

Through the balancing poses, we will strengthen the body and improve our coordination and proprioception; through the backbending practice, we will open the body and counteract the daily strain of poor posture, releasing tension in the hips, chest, and shoulders, and helping the spine restore its full mobility.

We will finish with a restorative closing sequence to bring the nervous system into deep rest and back to equilibrium.