Join Torisandra for a Barre Yoga class! Get your workout in today!

This class format is perfect for all the seek fitness, weightless, and even the active aging community!

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Barre Yoga with Torisandra - Notes

Introduction: who she is and information about barre

Warm-up:

Inhale, come up on releve, arms up

Exhale, heels down, arms down (modification - don’t lift heels, one arm up while leaving other hand on barre lightly for support)

2nd position, arms up, releve

Exhale down to goddess pose, arms down

Holding at top, toes in

Come to flat back (option to move hands to hips)

All the way down, slight bend in knees

Slowly roll all the way up

Arms up

Exhale, bring arms out to “t”

Moving to half back

Forward fold

Rag doll

Roll up to standing

Shoulder rolls

Curl forward and come back out (repeated)

Alternate shoulder rolls

Side bend on both sides

Cactus arms to upward salute

Forward fold

Heel toe feet out

Bend into right leg, left arm to sky opening chest 

Bend into left leg, right arm to sky

Bend both knees then straighten legs

Rag doll

Yoga Sequence:

Move down to mat

Table top (roll up mat for additional padding for knees)

Cat/cow

Leg lifts left side

Leg pulses left side

Child’s pose

Table top

Leg lifts right side (option to come to forearms for wrist sensitivity - no shoulder shrugs)

Leg pulses right side

Child’s pose

Table top

Downward Facing Dog

Walk hands back to feet

Halfway lift

Forward fold

Slowly roll up to upward facing salute

Hands at heart center

Cleansing breaths in mountain

Barre Sequence:

1st position, releve, plie and straighten (option to have heels grounded or bring arms up overhead for balance challenge)

Face barre, releve and heels come back down

Flat back, gentle touch on barre

Left foot back, lift up and tap down

Move toes in circle - both directions

Flat back, peddle out feet

Right foot back, lift up and tap down

Move toes in circle - both directions

Peddle out feet

Right arm to barre

Left leg lifts

Left arm comes up and crunches in with leg

Left leg pulses

Peddle out feet

Turning leg in and out (arch toward ceiling)

Leg pulses

Figure 4 stretch, pulses

Peddle out feet

Left arm to barre

Right leg lifts

Right arm comes up and crunches in with leg

Right leg pulses

Peddle out feet

Turning leg in and out (arch toward ceiling)

Leg pulses

Figure 4 stretch, pulses

Flat back, peddle out feet

Tree on left

Foot to calf

Open and close knee, arm moves with knee

Knee pushes back

Left leg out, side tap, side crunch bringing arm toward leg

Pulses

1st position, left side crunches with knee bent, elbow moving toward knee

Pulses

Peddle out feet

Right leg out, side tap, side crunch bringing arm toward leg

Pulses

1st position, right side crunches with knee bent, elbow moving toward knee

Pulses

Tree on right side

Foot to calf

Open and close knee, arm moves with knee

Knee pushes back

Peddle out feet

Cool-down:

Slight back bend

Forward fold

Rag doll

Upward salute

Side bend left and right, back bend

Forward fold

Table top

Cat/cow

Thread the needle left and right

Staff pose

Seated forward bend

Seated twist

One-legged forward bend

Cobbler’s 

Staff

Seated forward bend

Seated twist

One-legged forward bend

Cobbler’s

Staff

Slowly roll down to mat

Morning stretch

Reclined child’s pose

Happy baby

Bridge

Move feet into 1st and lift into bridge

Feet back together, lift heels, and lift into bridge

Morning stretch

Savasana