YOGA: Om, sweet Om

Okay, first just erase from your mind any associations you have with yoga and dirty, farty hippies. At the Firm we teach Vinyasa or Power Yoga, which is a continual flow of Hatha yoga poses to create internal heat in your body, which in turn produces a cleansing and detoxifying effect. It’s intense, educational and vigorous. There is no chanting, no sage-burning, no talking about your feelings. There is an emphasis on breath, strength, stamina and flexibility. You will synchronize breath and movement, and you will get your butt-kicked, and you will thank us for it!

Each class is different, but they all integrate variations on standing series, balancing series, floor work, core-strengthening, and ab work. Other exercises and postures include hip openers, releasing tight shoulders, inversions and back bends, breathing and meditation exercises either at the end or beginning. Each class ends with restorative practice.

With continued yoga practice, you will find your core strength, eventually be able to lift your own body weight, challenge your flexibility and balance, work on inversions (which are cheaper and better for you than Botox or plastic surgery), and learn meditation and breathing techniques to help you in a stressful world. As Courtney Love used to say, “The more yoga I do, the less makeup I need or want.”

And then she stopped doing yoga, and now she looks like crap!

CALL THE FIRM HOTLINE TO GET STARTED: 612.377.3003