Handstand Preparation Yoga Class | Build Strength, Stability & Confidence Upside Down

Ready to build strength, stability, and confidence for handstands?
This 1-hour Handstand Preparation Yoga Class is a highly requested practice designed to help you safely and intelligently prepare your body for handstands and arm balances — with support, awareness, and smart progressions.

In this class, we focus on a long, proper warm-up for the wrists, forearms, and shoulders, so your joints feel supported and resilient before going upside down. You’ll learn how to engage your core with correct alignment, build shoulder stability, and develop the strength and control needed for handstands — without rushing or forcing anything.

We’ll explore different ways to approach and lift into handstand, using the wall, the floor, and a yoga block to create stability, confidence, and body awareness. This makes the practice especially supportive if you feel afraid of handstands or don’t yet feel comfortable practicing in the middle of the room.

Towards the end of the class, we’ll briefly use a large exercise ball for a few additional strength and awareness exercises.
✨ The ball is completely optional — if you don’t have one, you’re welcome to simply watch that section. I’ll also be sharing a separate video fully dedicated to handstand training with the exercise ball.

✨ Free Resource: Dance Into Flow
If you’d like extra support for handstand entries, transitions, and inversions, I invite you to check my free “Dance Into Flow” yoga transitions guide here:
https://studio.freelyflow.com/dance-i...

This free resource is especially helpful for inversion practices, as we explore:
-Intelligent use of hands and feet
-Ball-and-socket joint awareness in the hips and shoulders
-Opposite rotations for stability and control
-Weight shifting and coordination
-The subtle mechanics that support smooth, fluid transitions — including into inversions

If handstands feel stuck, heavy, or disconnected, this guide can help you move with more ease, clarity, and flow.

This class is perfect if you are:
-Working towards handstands or arm balances
-Looking to strengthen wrists, shoulders, and core for yoga inversions
-Afraid of handstands and want a safe, supported approach
-Interested in alignment-based, mindful handstand preparation
-Wanting a longer, intelligent warm-up before inversion work

🧘‍♀️ Props used:
• Yoga block
• Wall
• Large exercise ball (optional)

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Love,
Sanna

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