Time to play! 🤸♂️ Looks fun right?! 🤩. This excerpt is a flow from Saturday’s Level 2/3 Fire Up 🔥 class! We activated glutes and core to prep for backbends, grounding and stabilizing, pulling into the core, then lengthening and opening the heart from a secure center. We definitely got hot and sweaty 😅! Creating flows is an embodied movement art practice for me and I love sharing it with others! 🤸♀️. I was inspired by this quote by Richard Wagner, “Joy is not in things: it is in us.”
What’s your takeaway from that quote?
I wonder, have you ever found yourself “bending over backwards” for another? It’s one thing to show up when a friend really needs support, it’s another thing to try and fix someone, get approval, or validation from them to feel whole, or to uphold an image built on an unstable foundation. In yoga, sometimes we can approach backbends the same way, overextending ourselves literally and losing our own connection to ourselves and our center of strength in our own core. Then we’re like “why does my back hurt?” Instead, center in self-security and inner peace first, know your boundaries, take care of YOURself first. Then you don’t need to seek joy or love from anything or anyone else. You will generate it!! Simple things will be enough, sunshine, birdsong, breath. And your back will thank you when you don’t need something else to hold you up, or someone to rescue you, when you can hold yourself up with your own self-regard. 🥰
Backbends are heart-opening, and relate to balance in relationships, balance in giving and receiving. It takes effort and courage to set those limits and hold back, and support yourself so you don’t “break” your back, that’s the core strength that will protect you. With that self-reliability, trust, and assurance you can feel safety and inner peace in yourself right now.
Thank you for the b***y music boost and Nicole for the affirmation cards!
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02/02/2025
Day 2 - Flip It Feb Challenge!!
1- My mindset and body have been challenged in trying to improve my snowboarding. 🏂 I get scared! And it really impacts my abilities and trust. So I’ve had to breathe, shake it out, and do it anyway to build trust and skills and when I’m relaxed my shredding flows and feels fun! Perspective is a game changer, too, after going on an Intermediate slope with a lot of ice, my usual green circle 🟢 felt way easier!
2- I’m a busy woman, teaching on campus, grading 132 papers a week, working in and ON and growing a business, engaged in multiple groups for personal and business development, and there are 4 kids who need me, and a spouse, and myself! I’ve been eating quick convenience foods, healthy, but not always balanced. I’ve been craving a good hearty vegetable 🥕 🍲 so I flipped my habit and made one today.
3- Just keeping up my regular handstand practice here. I don’t normally practice this daily but I’m doing so now for and honestly my skills do grow but more slowly than keeping up a daily or mostly daily practice. I was beat after snowboarding 🏂 today so I did a down dog on the couch, some shoulder shrugs and hip circles. It actually felt really good to go upside down after cruising (and falling a lot on my ass) on the mountain 🏔️.
01/24/2025
Sign up now for the next Core & Pelvic Floor 4 week series!! This starts slow with breathing to ensure correct core muscle activation while adjusting for any pelvic imbalances. Then classes progress to more challenging positions like planks and how to utilize your core properly. Also learn how to move with more core in daily life to maximize the benefits of proper core training through daily activities.
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12/06/2024
Stay warm this December with fiery 🔥Sag season ♐️. It’s busy, but breath and movement 🤸♀️ can help you stay centered and your heart ❤️ open. We have some more bow and arrow 🏹 coming up. Check out Kristen’s class schedule and what fits for you!
11/16/2024
Yoga Lab is on fire this year winning GOLD for “Best Yoga Studio” plus the top two yoga teachers in town - Kristen Boccumini won GOLD and Anna Engels won SILVER for “Best Yoga Instructor”!
Thank you everyone for voting! We love our Yoga Lab community!🙏💕
09/25/2024
Core & Pelvic Floor Workshops at Yoga Lab - a 4 week series in October. We all need this!!
This is NOT 100 crunches, this IS instead about core function from breathing to intentional muscle firing to integration in simple to more challenging positions. Beneficial for inactive and active people.
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07/06/2024
Hey all! Please help us out! It’s voting time for Best Of State College! Please go to this link, click on the logo at the top, and vote “Yoga Lab”for #85 Best Yoga Studio, and your fave Yoga Lab teacher for #110 Best Yoga Teacher. I’d appreciate it so much!!! 💗💗💗💗💗💗.
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06/26/2024
Hey all! I’d love if you could help us out and vote Yoga Lab for best yoga studio #85 and your favorite yoga teacher #110!! Voting ends July 7!! The photo says 2022 but the link is correct for 2024!!!
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01/29/2024
Begins next week!! If you haven’t yet signed up, now is your chance!! Retrain your core and pelvic floor to support you in all activities in daily life. You can choose from two offerings, Tuesday evening 6:45-7:45pm or Wednesday morning 10:30-11:30am. Sign up at www.yogalabstudio.com!
This class series will involve basic exercises to off load demand and really concentrate on how your abdominal and core muscles are firing, to then retrain as needed, then up the load and demand making sure your core continuously shows up for you. Learn how to unravel movement pattern habits that might be causing issues, then recoordinate the whole system to support strength and support throughout your day.
01/18/2024
This workshop is coming up! Register now! Join the master Scott Brown for a 3 part series Handstand workshop!! 🤸🏼♀️🤸🏿🤸🏻♂️. Members get 30% off!!!
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01/05/2024
Come check out Kristen’s new class, Wild & Free!! This class is all about creative movement combined with the yoga you know so well. Specifically, this class incorporates movements inspired by sports, martial arts, natural movement, and other modalities to think and flow in differently. Exploring this “out of the box” flow will help wake up your mind and body in new ways.
We all risk succumbing to fossilization, getting stuck in the same way over and over. Variety is the spice of life and this class will approach new movements gradually and progressively, building up to expand your own repertoire and foster a mindset of growth and open up more possibility.
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