Class #5: Working with Gravity

Kirsten will lead you through a practice focusing on adding load using gravity and body weight while working within your capacity. This class incorporates movements on a spinal strip, chair exercises, and various poses including shoulder blade movements, leg lifts, twists, and plank variations. Kirsten teaches the importance of breath as a guide to working within proper capacity, explaining that steady breathing indicates appropriate load while holding breath or hitching indicates working above capacity. The practice includes both concentric (working against gravity) and eccentric (working with gravity) movements to build strength, using equipment like blocks, straps, and chairs to progress through the practice.