Empower Your Boundaries

Really enjoyed this class. Rachel gives such clear instructions and really makes you think about how you are using the muscles in your body. Made me completely re-think how I have been doing some poses and will help me get the most out of m yoga. Thank you!

Loved this class and instructor.

Rachel is a great teacher, but this class didn't work for my body geometry and very limited shoulder mobility.

This is a great class to revisit as a reminder of proper body positioning.
Thank you Rachel.

Enjoyed!
Thank you

This is a class I will be doing at least once a week. It helps a lot to do the yoga poses correctly. Thank you Rachel!

Very interesting and a good challenge! One to come back to again soon I think!

Well that was amazing! Great instructions and so helpful. Thank you Rachel :-)

The lightbulb went off so many times during the class. So this is how this should feel?! I love this journey of learning. Thank you!

Oh how immensely I have enjoyed Your class, really clear simple explanation through asanas to help awakening appropriate muscles to do their work.

sweaty and wonderful :)

Wow! What a difference engaging the inner and outer thighs made to how I felt in the poses. Especially in eagle, I noticed the increased stability. What a wonderful feeling of strength throughout this class!

Hard but so good!! I really felt the increased support with the newly activated muscles, particularly in the planks. Thanks, Rachel!

Would be wonderful to have a Part II of Empower your Boundaries! Whenever I take this class, boom: there is something new I
discover in my body. Rachel, I do thank you for all the guidance and your remarks. Yoga can be fun!

It was easier the second time around, once I got the hang of how to use the props!

That was pretty tough for me but thoroughly loved it, thank you Rachel.

After all most 20 years of vinyasa practice, I did indeed learn from Rachel's excellent instruction. Just a point of interest: I could never could build up the strength to hold chair poses for any period of time, but after training with free weights for the past four years I can hold the pose with ease, which enables me to concentrate on my form.

Yoga is a never ending learning process for me. This class has shown me what I am able to do if guided properly. Thanks, Rachel. I am glad I graded myself up to Intermediate I.

Always a pleasure to "Do Yoga With"...Rachel. She is a master explainer, which is what is most needed from an Online teacher.

This video blacks out when using Safari. Works perfectly on Firefox. Just what was needed for today. Thanks Rachel, and Namaste.

Beautiful class. I love your cueing, Rachel. The guided focus on specific muscles really helps me feel and become totally absorbed in my practice. My mind is so busy thinking about the inner/outer thigh, that it doesn't have time to go through all the things I have to do today - a beautiful feeling, to be fully focused on what my body is experiencing!

excelente clase! me encanto

Thank you, Rachel. That was fun. Towards the end of the class though, about 35 m in, my low back started to hurt, and I was wondering if I was missing some subtle motion, engagement, or release. Any idea? (I do have chronic pain in L5S1 because of an injury and discectomy, so it complains sometimes but usually once I engage my core, align, or do upward facing dog, it calms down). Maybe it was the bending

Rachel is a wizard of motion.

Tips, tips and more tips. I love it. I also find that having the block in between my knees for all the sun salutations seems to actually support my knees which is great for this used-to-be runner. Maybe it's just because I am focusing on other muscles with the help of the block.

I am trying to help out my back and was told by my PT that I had to learn to engage my inner and outer thighs so they would take some of the strain off of my back whenever I bend/lean forward and try to then straighten up. The steps Rachel took us through made me be more aware of using these muscles and to consciously apply them to my regular daily movements, lol rapidly bending down to pick up our teacup yorker whenever a dog bigger than it approaches.

AMAZING CLASS!!!!! such a great challenge for the whole body & mind.
Rachel does a great job explaining each pose and transition so clearly.
Looking forward for the rest of the challenge.

This class is amazing. Thank you, Rachel!

The block squeezing helps a lot. Placing my feet together is not comfortable..big thighs. I just get my feet as close as possible and squeeze in. I think this creates the same feeling of ‘zipping’ things up as described.

Loved this practise with the props, which i'm not usually a big fan of as I sometimes find them a bit 'faffy', but they really helped me feel everything in all the right places. Biggest surprise was that it made such a difference in my planks and lowering towards chaturanga, I always thought that my upper body was the issue but engaging the legs really helped

I see that we do many practices 2 or 3 times in the ongoing inter. program. Doing this the second time was good. My fezz did pop out a few times when jumping to the front or back of my matt and I got a laugh out of that.

Lots of great technical advice and tips in this practice. Jumping up to the tops of my feet from down ward dog with the block in between my knees was kind of interesting. but I get what this practice is trying to achieve. I love how the block gives me that leg strength.

This was so amazing! I ended up needing to pause it to warm up my body a little before proceeding, but once I was a little more awakened I learned so much in this short hour and felt so supported in the poses. Thank you!!

Namaste, thank you so much.
So grateful to learn a practice to face, redirect, elevate energies and empower boundaries

For others who have low back pain during flexion, it MIGHT be safe to substitute extension, like upward facing dog and triangle pose instead of down dog. But when in doubt, do what you‘re confident will not be unsafe

Take care & stay aware =)

is there a modification for the block between the thighs? the way my anatomy is, my feet are like double hips width apart and I can't get them closer. not sure if it's the shape of my legs or the thickness of my thighs, but this feels more like strain than strength building.

Nice way to warm up then cool down now to get ready for work
Thank you

Fresh clear mind

Searching “empower” on do yoga with me, I found “empower your boundaries”...

Thank you for watering strength in spirit

Drinking light
Sludge falls away
“Heart melts forward”
No longer chained back

Shiva’s fire cleansing
Death and fear fall away
Bhrama’s breath
Carries her ash
Krishna in Eagle
Circles and washes the pain
Circles and waters new growth
Circles and rises to light

Interesting work with block and strap. It helps remind you to keep focused on the mid-line.

Thanks and looking forward to this my second challenge since becoming a member.

This class was fascinating and it is definitely one that I will repeat. I need more work on the outsides of my hips for sure!

Really nice class. Time FLEW by and I really enjoyed this first of the 21 day get strong challenge!

Deeply grateful for this wonderful class.

Wow, the tweaks! I had no idea what I'd been missing out on. Thank you, Rachel!

Nice class to understand more about the inner and outer aspects of the legs in poses.

Highly recommend especially as you progress in your practice.

Wow! What a way to use all of those muscles!

Thank you, Rachel!