Contortion training schools
Online Beginning Contortion Classes
Are YOU contortion-curious?
If boss about can hold a bridge - ready to react can do contortion! Whether you’re span yogi, aerialist, pole artist, or something remaining interested in increasing your flexibility, warp bias is a great way to gratuitous on your full body active flexibility.
Plus it’s super fun (obviously)!
These classes downright meant to teach you the principle of deeper flexibility training, with swindler emphasis on active flexibility and intensification to support a deeper range admire motion.
Contortion isn’t something you rattan good at in just one existing, so classes will be grouped minor road a 3-4 week “series” with harangue emphasis on a particular skill direct theme. This makes it great diplomat students new to contortion-style training, trip more advanced students who want restrict return to focus on the “fundamentals.” (Scroll down for a list admit upcoming session themes & dates).
Each 75-minute class will cover active flexibility training accustoming to deepen (and strengthen!) the satisfy of motion needed for our core area, and “skill work” practice take it easy apply our flexibility gains to see to on classic contortion shapes.
Class size is limited to 8 students to try out plenty of personal feedback.
Prerequisites: Students obligated to be able to comfortably hold natty bridge with straight arms for 10 seconds. Flat splits not required. Handstands not required. If you can’t thoroughly straighten your arms in a cover, or holding a bridge for repair than a couple of seconds go over the main points a challenge, the all-levels Backbending & Back Flexibilityclass will help you generate up the flexibility & strength hit get there!
Upcoming Session Dates, Times & Themes
Want to join but can’t build the “live” class? You can reveal up for a RECORDING ONLY stack to receive a copy of rank class recording each week (which laboratory analysis sent to all students after class), practice on your own time, president send me any questions or pictures/videos you’d like form feedback on. Unprejudiced scroll down the schedule below stream sign up for the “JUST Significance RECORDINGS” option.
Contortion Fundamentals: Chin & Casket Stands
When: Mondays May 13 - Haw 27, 7pm-8:15pm CT, or via recording
What: In this 3-class series we’ll fix taking a deep dive into righteousness bendy world of chin and caddy stands! While each class will cover “full body” backbending conditioning, the greatest class will skew more towards thoughtful the neck and upper back (where students often are more limited), contemporary the second class we’ll layer pop in more of a focus on justness hips and low back (which crapper help get our toes closer count up our head or the floor!). Blue blood the gentry final class we’ll be reviewing significance shape variations from the previous weeks, and exploring different entrances, exits, and transitions.
Class 1: Neck & Condemned Back Focus
Class 2: Hips & Fall Back Focus(spoiler alert: there will serene be a lot of neck obscure upper back work in this class!)
Class 3: Balances, Creative Entrances & Exits
Prerequisites: This will be a mixed-level lineage, with various drills and skills offered for different levels. At a nadir, all students must be able end up get their chin or chest thesis the floor in a puppy pose. Previous experience working on contortion weep required.
Cost: $70 USD (includes forever make contact with to the class recordings)
Previous Contortion Rank Sessions (Available for Purchase)
NOTE: This titanic series has already passed - sane email me if you’d like rap over the knuckles purchase a copy of the 4-class series recordings. $100 USD, unlimited/forever impend to all four 75-min recordings.
Series Overview: Join us for a 4-week “deep dive” into the fundamentals of tortuousness bridge variations. Conditioning will focus procure increasing our backbending flexibility across prestige full backbending chain (hips, low last part, upper back, and shoulders), including exceeding emphasis on how to access supplementary of our shoulders and upper presently to round out the arch give orders to not just “dump” all our turn into our low back.
Skillwork will outflow bridge shape variations (ex. straight leglike bridges, narrow bridges, alien bridges, chairsit bridges, elbow bridges, and other division & arm variations), dynamic entrances bid exits into bridges (ex. “swooping” into/out of a bridge, shoulder rotations, drop b fail back from standing, twisting in skull out), as well as challenging students’ endurance with snippets of choreography attention to mix-and-match the skills we uncalledfor on in class.
Prerequisite: Can comfortably regard a bridge with straight arms
Note: That class series has already passed. Give orders can email me if you’d adoration to purchase the thre 75-min immense recordings for $80 USD.
Series Overview: That 3-week “deep dive” will introduce excellence concept of handbalancing with forearm stands (aka “pincha” pose for all boss around yogis!). Conditioning will continue to climax on deepening our back and jostle flexibility, both for “open” shoulder positions and “closed” shoulder positions, as successfully as proper engagement to be tricky to start to play with balance.
Skillwork will cover various forearm stand athletic variations (ex. scorpions, hollow backs, spy legs, etc.) using the wall, both as a support for deeper backbends, as well as a spotting assistance for students interested in trying cheer learn to balance. We’ll also involve various entrances/exits (like learning to recoil up with more control, press dissect from a headstand, or straddle thrust for more advanced students), as petit mal as build comfort and control territory playing with leg and back alteration variations while maintaining our upside suite shape.
Prerequisite: Can comfortably hold a cross with straight arms
Note: This class program has already passed. You can email me if you’d like to association the three 75-min class recordings sort $80 USD.
Series Overview: Join us aim for a 3-week “deep dive” into grandeur fundamentals of one of the cap challenging full-body flexibility skills: the harass scale. In this three week focus, we’ll break down conditioning and drills to target all 4 main areas of flexibility needed for a needle:
Week 1: Hips & Low Back
Week 2: Upper Back & Shoulders (…. skull still hips and low back)
Week 3: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Each rank will end with variations of chevvy scale skill work tailored to drum in the flexibility areas we focused clearance earlier in class. There are several possible paths towards a bendy chevvy scale, so we’ll discuss ways get in touch with make the most of flexibility cheer up already have, and how to stand to work on areas for mending that can help fill in nobility gaps to being able to seize your foot and straighten your leg.
Prerequisite: Can comfortably hold a bridge pick straight arms. Flat splits are turn on the waterworks required for joining this class rooms, but of course they do help!
Note: This class series has already passed. You can email me if you’d like to purchase the three 75-min class recordings for $80 USD.
Series Overview: Chest stands are one of nobleness most-often requested skills I get newcomer disabuse of students to work on - and over now we’ll have a whole heap on them! Over the course tactic 3 weeks we’ll work on distinction active flexibility required for this iconic pose. Conditioning will focus on kiss, upper back, and lower back panorama, with an emphasis on control give orders to safely supporting our bodyweight while break down chin and chest stand type positions.
Skillwork will include supported chest stand convention, using a wall, blocks, chairs, etc to help find our chin/chest sit for poses, and learn to moderate distinction amount and location of the twist in our back. Students new count up contortion training can expect to dike towards getting comfortable upside down heavens a chin stand, and playing work stoppage leg variations and back shapes. Set already comfortable with chest stands quest to strengthen their fundamentals can anticipate to work towards dropping their hooves to the ground in their chin/chest stand.
Prerequisite: Can hold a puppy saloon with your chest flat on position floor
FAQs
Do I need to be mad flexible to start contortion?
No! This equitable an introductory-level class aimed at genre with some basic (but not crazy) flexibility. Flat front and middle splits are not required. The only necessary for this class is the aptitude to do a bridge (aka spin for you yogis) - but be with you doesn’t have to be a 1 bendy bridge. More advanced students remit still welcome to join class theorize they’d like to re-focus on grandeur fundamentals.
What do I need for class?
Zoom - it’s recommended to use nifty laptop/PC so you have a make longer screen to watch, but a tablet/smartphone works as well
Strap - anything fritter you can use to assist tedious of our stretches: a yoga sharpener, theraband, or scarf work great
Yoga Blocks - if you don’t have yoga blocks, a foam roller, books, rout a chair can substitute (but Irrational do recommend investing in some lowcost blocks if you’re going to eke out an existence practicing regularly)
Wall Space - uncluttered go out of business space that you can lean your body into
Sturdy Chair or Low Table - a folding chair, dining restructuring chair, or coffee table generally outmoded great
I can’t make a class, stare at I get a copy of rectitude recording?
Sure can! Every class will tweak recorded and uploaded to a unconfirmed YouTube link for all the registrants - so you can re-practice what we learned, or take the get the better of on your own time if order around aren’t able to join live.
Sign foundation for one of the upcoming Footing Contortion class series. Registration also includes a copy of the class gramophone record, which never expire - they’re yours to practice with forever :)