Hip Opening: External Rotation and Your Arches

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
We’ll be playing with and observing knee and hip stability. What does it take? How is yours? What do you need to do to stabilize? This series will help you create some awareness for how you move up and down steps (stairs, curbs, etc.) throughout your day and what you can work on to fill in your strength gaps.
Equipment Needed:
Bolster, Half Dome, Strap, Foam Roller, and something to step up onto (stack of blocks, hardcover books, step stool)

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
How strong are your legs? Not “how much weight can you lift or push” but “can your legs move YOU?” Let’s see…
Equipment Needed:
Bolster, Half Dome, Strap, Monster Band, 2 Blankets (maybe other bolsters depending on your hip and knee mobility)
Note: We had a foam roller out that we didn’t end up using. An awesome exercise you can use it for is to do the “splits” on the roller: Front calf on the roller, back knee on floor. Square up your pelvis towards the roller. Gradually roll the roller away from you- repositioning it towards the ankle as necessary- as you go deeper into the “splits” (might not look anything like the splits) to get a great stretch in the hamstrings of the front leg and hip flexors of the back leg, and a bonus rolling on the calf on the roller. So good.

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
Many of will find that once the femur is neutral (neutral kneepits), this reveals the tension in our feet. We will work on restoring mobility within the foot so that by the end of this class, your ability to evert the forefoot (getting the ball of your foot flat on the ground, or closer to it) will be better.
Equipment Needed:
Bolster, Half Dome, Strap, YTU ball or tennis ball…

Instructor:
Breena Maggio
Description:
Time to work the back side of the legs! We should all be using our posterior leg muscles when walking. This class will help you discover how much or how little strength you have back there.
Equipment Needed:
1/2 Dome, Yoga Strap, maybe a chair or firm foam roller