Ritual Hot Yoga

“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.” - Robert Brault

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Peak Pose - Balancing Star

Level 1: Side Plank. Work two lines in the body: wrist to wrist, and crown to heel. Keep them straight and strong. To modify, stagger the feet or drop the bottom knee to the mat. Use the low belly and oblique closest to the floor to press the hips against gravity.

Level 2: Lift your top leg. Two inches or two feet. Height doesn’t matter. The two lines of the body do. Once the leg lifts it’s tempting to collapse into the bottom shoulder. Lift up and make more space between the shoulder blade and your spine.

Level 3: Bind toe. Bend the knee of the top leg and draw it into the chest. Peace fingers of the top hand wrap around the big toe. Keep it active by kicking into the grip. Restack the shoulders and hips. Create more distance between your body and the floor.

Level 4: Kick straight. Lead with your heel. Contract the front of the leg to find more space in the back of the leg. If you’re feeling brave, look up.

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“Be lost and then you will not care if you are ever found.” - Victoria Schwab

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“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” - Shannon L. Alder

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“We can’t do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth.” - Evan Esar

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Peak Pose - Super Soldier

Level 1: Tuck the shoulder. From an Active Lizard, tuck the shoulder under your knee. Place the corresponding hand outside the front foot. Create added balance by extending the opposite arm with tented fingers.

Level 2: Lift back leg. Shift the weight into the front foot and hands and lift the back leg. Bring your heel to your b***y.

Level 3: Grab foot. Bind the lifted foot with the opposite hand reaching behind you across the low back. Straighten the standing leg.

Level 4: Lift the knee. Engage the flute of the lifted leg and lift the knee towards the sky. Pull the navel to your spine. Drop your gaze to the back wall.

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“She believed she could. She did it, and never looked back.” - Germany Kent

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“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

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Peak Pose - Bound Wheel

Level 1: Bridge. From laying on your back, plant the soles of the feet to the mat, just far enough from your body that you can graze the heels with your fingertips. Press into your feet and lift the hips, with more weight in the heels than the toes. Press the arms along the sides of your body, and keep the space of an imaginary apple beneath your chin.

Level 2: Wheel. Bring the hands overhead, fingers pointing towards your heels, palms flat on the mat and elbows pointing straight up. Push into hands and feet to peel the torso away from the mat, starting at the mid back, so the head is the last thing to lift. Imagine the arms and legs straightening. Fill this shape with your breath.

Level 3: Forearm Wheel. One at a time, walk a hands towards the heels and lower to your forearms. Keep the arms parallel, the hips lifting and the chest pressing towards the wall behind you.

Level 4: Grab ankles. Walk your hands to your feet and baby-step the feet towards your hands. Lift your hips higher to make room as you crawl your extremities closer together. Let your gaze settle on your heels from behind. It’s quite a crazy view. Once you have the ankles, pull away to open the frontside body even more.

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“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.” - Rumi

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“If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.” - Criss Jami

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Peak Pose: Bound Triangle

Level 1: Hand to shin. From Warrior 2, straighten your front leg and bring your front hand to that shin. Pull away from the bottom leg rather than letting your hand rest on the shin. Lift the opposite hand to the sky, shoulders and wrists in one line and your joints stacking as though you are squeezed between two panes of glass.

Level 2: Hand hovers. Lift away from your bottom leg and hover that bottom hand inside your shin. Push into your back foot. Lengthen the spine by pulling your head towards the front wall and your hips toward the back wall.

Level 3: Half bind. Release your top arm behind your back and hook your fingers on your front thigh. Roll your top shoulder behind you. Navel to spine.

Level 4: Fully bound. Bend your front knee until you can clasp of your hands beneath the front thigh. Re-straighten your leg, pull your shoulders back until they align with the hips. Chest faces to the side or slightly up. Pull with your bottom arm to guide the body back into alignment. Try using a towel to hold between your hands if the bind and alignment seem unreachable.

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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” - Lao Tzu

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Peak Pose - Sugar Cane

Level 1: Half Moon. Stand on one leg with the toes and knee pointing forward. Lift the other leg behind you, and from the hips up, the body faces completely to the side, leg and torso perpendicular to the standing leg. Stack your hips. Keep your lifted heel in line with your top hip and in the same plane. The bottom hand is on a block (for most of us) to support these precise angles. Top arm reaches up to the sky, in exact alignment with the bottom arm.

Level 2: Heel to butt. Keep your lifted knee in line with the top hip and bend it so the heel comes to your bum. Think about only moving the shin and foot. The bottom oblique and both quads and glutes activate to compensate for the slight change of shape.

Level 3: Grab foot and kick. Reach with the top arm and grab your foot. Kick into the hand and let the shoulder stretch and your spine arch. Keep the leg and arm at the same height as your top hip. It is tempting to lift higher. Don’t.

Level 4: Bottom hand to heart. Push into your standing foot, find greater engagement in the core, and float your bottom hand to half-prayer at the heart. Notice the toes and knee of the standing leg. Have they shifted from pointing straight forward? Bring them back. Is your lifted knee pulling skyward? Bring it back.

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Peak Pose - Sage 1

Level 1: Knee to opposite elbow. In a high plank position with one leg lifted, pull the thigh as close to your chest as possible. Drop the hip of the lifted leg and aim the knee towards the opposite tricep. Try to touch your leg to your arm.

Level 2: Bend elbows. Once the knee can touch the back of your arm, bend your elbows to ninety degrees and try to deepen the twist.

Level 3: Lift back leg. Tip your weight forward and allow the back toes to lift off the ground. Engage your glutes. You can rest the hip of the bent leg on the corresponding arm.

Level 4: Straighten front leg. Keep leaning forward and extend the bent leg. Lead with the heel away from your body. Contract the quad and look towards your toes, which can be pointed or flexed.

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“Everything burns...you just gotta know what kind of fire to set.”
- Obie Williams

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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix

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Peak Pose - 8 Angle

Level 1: Cradle the shin. From Easy Pose, lift one leg toward your chest keeping it bent at the knee. Flex your foot. Wrap your arms around the shin and pull it straight towards your chest. Lengthen your spine.

Level 2: Leg over shoulder. Grab your lifted foot with the opposite hand and tuck your shoulder under the bent knee. Squeeze the leg against the arm.

Level 3: Cross ankles. Lift the the bottom leg and cross that ankle over the ankle of the lifted leg. Squeeze both legs together and lift from the pelvic floor. Press the hands on either side of the hips. Pour your weight into your palms and try to lift your butt off the floor.

Level 4: Legs to the side. Press your chest forward towards the mat and swing your hips behind you. Straighten your legs to the side. Lead with the heels and let the gaze follow your toes.

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“She remembered who she was
and the game changed.” - Lalah Delia

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Peak Pose - Lotus

Level 1: Easy Pose. Keep your spine straight and draw the belly up and in on your exhalations. You can elevate the hips on a block to gently open the hips.

Level 2: Half Lotus. Bring one heel to the opposite hip crease. Try and press the knee of the elevated foot to the mat, or bring a block under the knee for added support.

Level 3: Full Lotus. Both heels to the hip crease. Only attempt to bring both heels to the hips if you have found the full expression of Level 2 (i.e., your knee is on the ground).

Level 4: Bind big toes. Reach both arms behind the back, cross them, and try to bind your peace fingers to the big toes. To achieve the binds, tuck your feet as close to the body as you are able and stay tall in the spine. Now the fun begins. Sit. Still.

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“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” - Rumi

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Peak Pose - Drop Backs

Level 1: Hands to low back. Stand with feet hip width apart and parallel, pelvis is neutral. Bring your hands to your low back with fingertips pointing downward and press your hips forward with a soft bend in your knees. Lift up through your heart and keep squeezing your belly button towards your spine.

Level 2: Hands to thighs. Bring both hands to your thighs at the same time. Keep sending your hips forward and lifting through your heart. Shift your gaze to the sky.

Level 3: Arms overhead. Reach your arms overhead, reach and look back towards the back wall. Keep sending hips forward and lifting through your heart.

Level 4: Full Wheel. Begin to bend your knees, shifting your weight into the balls of your feet. Arch back until you can see the floor. Then gently bend your knees and reach until your palms hit the floor.

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“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

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“She’ll be more than fine, she’ll be fierce.” - Nicola Noble

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Peak Pose - Firefly

Level 1: Wide Standing Forward Fold. Start with feet parallel, standing wider than shoulder width apart. Hinge at your hips and fold forward, guiding your belly towards your thighs. Maintain a flat back, you can bend your knees if it helps keep a flat back.

Level 2: Bring your torso between your thighs and palms to plant behind your feet, fingertips pointing towards your heels and sit on your thighs on your upper arms. Option to use blocks under your hands.

Level 3: Toes off mat. Lift your toes off the mat by extending one or both legs. Squeeze your shoulders with your thighs. Option to cross your ankles.

Level 4: Straighten legs. Reach through your toes and press through your heels to straighten your legs.

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