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Bow Pose: Core Strength
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This is the 1st in a series of four classes that lead you to the bow pose (dhanurasana). In this class, Rachel brings you through an invigorating hatha yoga flow that challenges your core strength and teaches you the alignment principles that you will need to understand as you move toward any deep backbend. Her progression through core strength and deeper backbends take you to camel pose (ustrasana), just before you cool down and enter a well-deserved savasana. This class will prepare you for the next steps in Bow Pose: Hip Flexor Release, Bow Pose: Open the Shoulders, and Bow Pose: Ready for the Peak!
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I love Rachel's classes. I come to them to learn about alignment. However, I am commenting because I feel doyogawithme with classes like this one, just like many online yoga resources, is bowing to the Western approach to yoga (that it should feel like a tough gym workout) rather than teaching challenging but beneficial, therapeutic yoga -- I feel this type of class encourages people to skip all the alignment learning and force themselves into the depth and speed the teachers are capable of. Where are all the true intermediate classes, ones that bridge the beginner core classes on this site with the speed and depth of poses presented in this class. I wish I could get an objective estimate of how many of this site's users can effectively do the speed of vinyasa that seems the norm in the "intermediate" classes, just as in this one. I don't feel most users would be able to judge whether they are doing their bodies good going at the speed/depth of this class; I bet if a teacher watched them, they would be put back in a beginner class, where their body can actually improve. I challenge doyogawithme to create true intermediate flow classes that are halfway between a beginner class by say Melissa Krieger (wonderful teacher), and this masterful but more advanced fast vinyasa flow class. I bet many of this site's users are not experiencing true therapeutic yoga at this pace, they just don't know it, and doyogawithme is doing them a disservice when they present more advanced classes as intermediate classes, without even modifications offered.