Root to Rise: Shoulderstand practice (45 mins) All levels

Welcome to a gentle yet strengthening yoga practice designed to prepare your body for Shoulderstand (Sarvangasana).

In this session, we’ll focus on warming up the back, shoulders, and neck safely, building strength and mobility where it’s needed most. You’ll also be guided through appropriate counterposes to release and balance the body afterward — helping you feel open, grounded, and well cared for.

This class offers modifications for all levels, so whether you’re exploring Shoulderstand for the first time or refining your practice, you’ll find options that meet you exactly where you are.

✨ Benefits of this practice:
Strengthens the shoulders, back, and core
Enhances circulation and stimulates the thyroid
Promotes calm and focus through gentle inversion
Balances effort and ease throughout the whole body

⚠️ Contraindications:
Please avoid Shoulderstand (and strong inversions) if you have neck, shoulder, or back injuries, high blood pressure, glaucoma, heart conditions or are pregnant. Legs up the wall is a good alternative.

Always listen to your body, and skip or modify any pose that doesn’t feel right for you today.

🧘‍♀️ Come as you are, leave more balanced. ✨

Emma Parker
Balanceworks Yoga (yoga classes and events based in Bedfordshire).

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