Name: Playbook - Kayla Nielsen - Tips for Back Bends
Uploaded: 2024-01-08T15:04:23.510Z
Duration: 6 min
Description: Tips for Back Bends

Sarah

Can’t wait to put these tips into practice

Revisiting the tip again to remind myself of these engagements during the flows! Thank you! 🙏🏽

Nyssa

Hannah

Steffany Lenis

Great tips, it's really good to have this shift in perspective ❤️

Cassandra

Looking forward to this series! Blessings ~*~

Natasha

Great tips - especially about going slowly and using your gaze to help with lengthening your throat/bending your cervical spine. This particular action has never caused me any physical discomfort but it does bring up a lot of tension and fear for me for some reason. I think I have been rushing in too much and need a gentler approach. Thank you 🙏🏻

Alex

Evie

OH MY! I knew this was coming because I saw a few stories on ig but have been an emotional wreck lately and spaced it. My intention for this new year is to move from a more loving, kind and compassionate place and what better way to kick it all off than this. Idk how you do it but you always deliver what I need when I need it most. So hyped!

Nick

So, no joke, but all this past week i was dead set on finding a good back-bending series. Not just standalone classes or random workshops. I was craving a full breakdown of it alllll, because that’s where I need the most work and that’s what my body was thirsty for. I searched online for a couple days and then this morning i literally thought to myself, i should message Kayla and see if she’d make a series in the future and when i open this alp what do i see???? A BEAUTIFUL BACKBENDING SERIES!!!!! Kayla!!!! You’re a lil psychic angel!!! Mind blown

Andrea C

Starting 2023 right! So looking forward to this series!!

Alexandra

Very informative! So excited for this series..

Jordan

Thank you for the tips! Very helpful with details explanations! 🙏🏽

Tune into my top 5 tips for back bending before jumping into your asana practice!

Tips for Back Bends

Maria

Haley

W1/D1 Drills Camel & Kapotasana

Lovely morning start. My body feels so good I could cry. Loved the low exaulted crescent, gate, side plank bit.🤤 Back bends continue to feel good too. 🥹In love with my process & how far my body has come.  Thank you!

This has become one of my fave morning flows. All the balancing and feel good twists! Camel is such a mood booster for me! Thank you

Lovely mid day boogie with my sisters. Thank you!

W1/D2 Camel Flow

Loved each and every second of it 💘 it felt so natural to get into the posture in the end i didn’t even realize i was practicing it, thank you!

Camilla

Mmmmmm! Still not there with kapotasana buuut my back bends are coming along nicely and feel real good in my body. Worked some hollow back pincha and scorpion at the end since my spine was feeling so good. Bonus stoke for my partner being excited about yoga and joining the session. Thank you. I love you!🌞

I'm going deeper and deeper each time. Wonderful class, both yummy and spicy. A hug for the heart ❤️

Pauline

W1/D3 Kapotasana Flow

The counting was super long from the start because of the verbal cues. Intense!

Adrienne

The couting can be a bit confusing because it ends up being longer than what it should due to the verbal cues

As easy as it sounds, it was a tough one for me. Coming back for more!

W1/D4 Alternate Nostril Box Breath

Journaling is always difficult for me. Thanks for getting me outside of my comfort zone. Thank you for the introspective questions.

I’ve got a good idea on how I feel but it’s more on an emotional level with myself and how I feel about expressing certain things. I’m going to practice and circle back to this to get into the physical side as well. I feel like this is going to be real good for me. Thank you for putting this out there. Much love!💚

W1/D5 Journal Prompts Safety In The Body

That felt so good! Definitely got me ready for more!

Really good activation of the full body! Almost like a little workout

Jula

W2/D1 Drills Wild Thing & Wheel

Hot and spicy 🌶️🔥 flow. Feels like an hour class! Body feels so great with all the opening.

Wow. That was gorgeous. So delicious. Thank you for such a wild thing! 😉

W2/D2 Wild Thing Flow

This was such a wonderful & strong class!! I feel so good after, thank you!

Erika

Melanie Kaeser

Second time and it still feels so good 🥰

Henintsoa

W2/D3 Wild Thing To Wheel Flow

Love love love bumblebee breathe. I had a moment this morning dealing with $17k medication and a snafu with the new insurance folks and I was in tears. 
Bumblebee breathe saved the day. I literally just stopped took 5 mins and bumblebee breathed myself back to reality. 
I am not my thoughts. I am safe in my body. Thank you!

Never done this beautiful meditation! 🥰

W2/D4 Bumble Bee Breath

gabriela

Madeleine

Loved this. Really made me reflect why I like to practice which poses

Jacqueline

W2/D5 Journal Prompts Emotional Body

The first puppy with chest expansion was so uncomfortable but by the end, finishing in that same position, I felt like I could’ve hung out there for forever!

Issie

W3/D1 Drills for Dancer & King Pigeon

Barbara

I like that the class started lower to the ground and loved the forceful exhales

Melissa

Yara

W3/D2 Dancer Flow

Like a hug from my grandmother. I feel so good! My outer right hip needs all of the love and this delivers. My skandasana has leveled up too. Zero sensation in my knees now and the shape feels more restorative whereas it used to feel strength base for me. LOVING every bit of my journey and all of the subtle shifts. I never would have imagined feeling as good as I do now. The amount of gratitude I have for you is immeasureable. Thank you. I love you. 🥹❤️

Fuuuuug yes Tracy! I feel so damn good! Thank you.

Absolute banger! This one hits my spots so good. Thank you. 🤤🫠

W3/D3 King Pigeon Flow

Thank you so much, this was a beautiful meditation that felt almost like an asana practice for the mind, exercising my own intuition and learning the contours of how it feels to know something intuitively. I will always think of my intuition as living in my throat from now on. This left me feeling an amazing sense of calm and certainty and I’d recommend it for anyone feeling a little chaotic and unsure

W3/D4 Intuition Meditation

Amazing explanation on how the nothingness is the “no.”

Noting down all points and digesting. Knowing all too well that this will all come in very handy when the situation will be calling for it. Love the journal prompts!

Luv this! I wish I could say that my internal dialog is consistent on and off the mat but off the mat, I do at times lose focus and can be tougher on myself. I’ve definitely nurtured a loving space on the mat and throughout most of my day, off the mat, all is loving and good but distractions sometimes still find me off the mat

W3/D5 Journal Prompts Communication

This felt as too much in too short time. Recommend doing it after a longer class.

Whoa. This is getting seriously serious. Much needed

I feel so relaxed and full of energy after this drills. Thank you☀️💚

W4/D1 Drills for Floor Bow & King Dancer

Lovely gentle flow with creative transitions. I love that some side planks and wild thing were included!

Alice

Linda

W4/D2 Floor Bow Flow

SOOOOO good! Back bends are still a huge struggle for me but continue to feel better & better. My spine was feeling extra good at the end so I added in a scorpion handstand. 🫠🤤 Thank you!

Andrea

Diana

W4/D3 King Dancer Flow

Your way of teaching transformed not only my yoga practice but also my whole life- I absolutely love the way you teach holistically and all of your series on the App. Every day I find something that just perfectly fits my mood, body state, soul desire ♥️ thank u for your teaching! It is truly a gift and a blessing for me 🫶

Julia

This is very difficult. Which means that I need it! Thank you!

W4/D4 Love Meditation

Thank you for this serie!! It was so wonderful for my heart and self-love 🤍

Franziska

May have to go back and do this multiples times to get answers 😅🤪

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