🔑 it all begins by measuring your lower body - knee to armpit
🔑look forward while you rotate. This will be a more challenging balance but will keep you on the central axis of the posture.
🔑 knee in the armpit creates leverage, but match any 2nd floor efforts with 1st floor stability
🔑 keep your forearm sealed to your face so that you twist your body instead of flailing your arm
🔑 take your time and refine
🇪🇸 IBIZA RETREATS 🏝️
May 23- 29:
Soul Alignment Strength + Yoga
https://benjaminsears.life/ibizaretreatmay2026
May 31 - June 6:
Soul Alignment Island Chic
https://benjaminsears.life/ibizaretreatjune2026
#yoga #yogateacher #mobility #katonahyoga
Repetition is rich.
You afford yourself the opportunity for growth.
Is it boring to look into your lover’s eyes one more time?
No — it gets better the you hold the gaze.
Repetition is an investment in reflection.
When at last you see clearly, it’s a revelation.
So, keep going for love, till you see it in the mirror.
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Video from Casa de Tron, my favorite place South of the border.
#keepiteversoslighltyreal #luxyoga #handstand #yogainspiration #love #selflove #onlinetraining #yogapractice #yogaflow #mindfulness #movement #meditate #movemore #handstandtraining #presshandstand #tuckhandstand
One more piece of the puzzle for you.
One of the things that has helped my neck the most is making less effort to lengthen my spine, and instead thinking of my body as if it is clothing draped over the hanger of my bones.
Relax and give it a little swagger.
After a little corporate work in Zürich, I head to Ibiza, and we’ve just had one cancellation on the May 23-29 retreat. DM me if you’re interested.
#posture #mobility #explore #walking
surreal to speak at my father’s funeral on wednesday and continue life with a flight to europe on saturday (today). i love my work and i will my give guests the absolute best. my dad cared about the details. he sought them out. let’s all do our best in all the ways.
we’ve had one cancellation for May 23-29. if you’d like to join us, comment or dm.
coming for you @chefdavidemunerato@hannah_yoga_ibiza
#yoga #retreat #explore #ibiza
This is a variation on a yoga sun salutation I developed and have shared for years. It’s my go-to to get going in any movement context.
As far as the question in the post, It can be a lot easier to learn to jump/float your feet outside of your hands. I still love landing inside my hand for the compression work it stimulates. as always, the best choice is an informed choice.
#yoga #yogateacher #yogaflow #mobility
Don’t let the robots get you down.
Thanks @zack_telander for inspiring others by doing what you love.
I’ve enjoyed @diplo ‘s work but he lost the plot here.
#art #ai #mindset
Even the most outwardly successful people I work with need a pep-talk sometimes.
Practice being yourself just like you practice any other skill.
Emotions don’t tell you why you are where you are, or offer you a strategy. They simply tell you where you are in the moment. So, feel where you are, and practice shifting.
#mentalhealth #mindfulness #montana #explore
When you give thanks for your body, and all of the other places that hold you, place yourself on a frequency that will allow you to have a broader and more creative vision of responsible with your life.
I was born and raised a cynic. Gratitude works. Love works. Practice works. Be aware of what you’re practicing even when you think you’re not practicing.
#mentalhealth #mindfulness #explore #montana
Just sh!t that works for hips that work. Nothing unnecessarily complicated.
Improvement rarely comes from reaching for novelty every week. Save these and do them. 👇
1️⃣Banded internal rotation mini lunges:
While the band pulls your knee in, resist just enough to keep your knee in line with your hip and use the isometric pressure to internally rotate the thigh. Feel for a little more space in the lower back on the same side. Keep your pelvis mostly neutral, even slightly posterior. Almost all the weight on your front foot. The point is not to accumulate reps, but to feel the rotation and activation
2️⃣ Axial rotations in side plank:
Push through the forearm to move your shoulder like a show on the beginning of the clip. Tailbone down, hips forward, core in. The upper knee doesn’t move so that the thigh can turn in the hip.
3️⃣ Kick-stance deadlift:
All the weight in the front foot. Use your hands to help you find the fold. Once you come down partway, one hand on the inside of the knee and one hand on the outside of your hip and use the end point of that diagonal to create an isometric that makes you feel more low in the hip of the front leg.
4️⃣ Lunge with knee bend for glute activation:
When you bend your knee, bend it straight down to lengthen your back and put more demand in the hip. Straighten your leg by engaging your glutes.
5️⃣ Active Pigeon:
10-15 reps then then 10 to 15 second hold. Take as much weight in your hands as you need to feel safe. Decrease the assistance from your hands overtime. Do not sink over to one side.
6️⃣ Isometric hip extension with internal rotation and adductor activation:
Keep your lower back straight to isolate hip extension. Squeeze your knee into the block and try to lift your foot higher than your knee while also kicking backwards.
#yoga #mobility #fitness #explore
I feel compelled to implore you to love yourself enough to rise above whatever keeps you from loving.
If you want to love and be loved, love. If you want to forgive and move forward, love.
Maybe it sounds silly, but that’s just another way to avoid the good work.
Our engagement date is permanently in my calendar, and the Photos app sent further nice reminders.
#love
