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5 Ways to Bring More Joy Into Your Yoga Practice

A mindful yoga practice asks us to move with intention while maintaining proper alignment in (and between) body and breath. No big deal, right? You got this.  All joking aside, many yogis (myself included) often take the practice of yoga all-too-seriously. There are many times I’ve found myself struggling until [...]

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FeetUp Asana: Seated Mountain Pose

“The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.” – Paulo Cohelo Mountain pose (Tadasana in Sanskrit) is often referred to as the foundation for all standing poses because [...]

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3 FeetUp Exercises to Improve Balance & Body Awareness

Want to feel more balanced in your body and movement? A little awareness can go a long way! Body awareness is essentially the understanding of your physical body in relation to the world in which it exists. This connection can be broken down into two parts: a) Kinesthesia, the awareness [...]

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FeetUp Asana: Savasana

It’s often said that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Considering it’s also known as “corpse” or “final resting” pose, savasana seems like it should be pretty easy to handle— especially after a long day at work or nice sweaty practice. Who would have thought that the simple [...]

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How to Find the Most Comfortable Shoulder Position With Your FeetUp

What has two shoulders and occasionally experiences upper body tension? This yogi! If you’re like most humans, it’s safe to assume that there are days where shouldering the weight of the world can result in varying amounts of discomfort in the neck and upper back. Thankfully, the FeetUp Trainer is [...]

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Being Seen & Heard: The Power of Listening

Giving someone your full attention is a great first step for creating deep connection and trust. Movement can be very personal matter depending on the practice and the practitioner. This poses a unique challenge when interacting with people in a class environment. How does one both listen to the group [...]

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A Comprehensive Guide to Building a FeetUp Inversion Practice for Beginners and Beyond!

As simple as it may sound, one of the most challenging parts of an inversion practice is getting used to being upside down! Let’s have a talk about how one can safely explore how to spend more time upside with comfort, control and ease. First things first: WHAT EXACTlY IS [...]

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How Much Weight Can Your FeetUp Trainer Support?

The FeetUp Trainer has been lab tested to hold weight up to 2000 lbs / 900kg before showing any sign of breaking. Here’s a quick example on how durable the frame is: We’ve put a lot of work into creating a powerful tool for making inversions more accessible for most [...]

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Avoiding Cervical Compression and the Dangers of Headstand

The headstand can be quite challenging posture for many reasons. When it comes to practicing inversions, it’s important to use your head… to make the right decisions, NOT for supporting your bodyweight! Did you know the average human head weighs about 10 pounds? Take that into consideration when practicing inversions [...]

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Connect + Move: FeetUp Online Class Schedule

Busy is better than bored, and boy OH boy have we’ve been hard at work to make sure our stay-at-home FeetUp community can make the most of their movement practice! Each week, we will post ONE FREE CLASS on our YouTube channel and Facebook Group (FeetUp Community) EVERY THURSDAY from one of [...]

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Staying Connected in a Time of Social Distancing

At the time of writing, humanity is facing an incredibly huge obstacle: COVID-19. Borders are closed, people are in quarantine, and stress levels are rising as we face uncertain times. The world as we all know it has been turned upside down, affecting everyone in many different ways. While we [...]

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FeetUp Asana Basics: Warrior I

An incredibly powerful standing pose, Virabhadrasana (pronounced veer-AH-bah-dra-sanna) can build strength while developing flexibility and balance. Although Warrior I may look simple from the outside, there are many angles and forces at play internally. With a little bit of patience and dedication, everyone has something to gain from embracing their [...]

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Pranayama Basics: Enjoy Simple Meditation With a Full Yogic Breath

Similar to meditation, pranayama (that’s yoga talk for “the science of breath”) can easily be mistaken as complicated because it seems easy on paper but can get quite challenging once you start losing focus. The truth is quite the opposite: breathing is as easy as we allow it to be [...]

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FeetUp Asana: Downward Facing Dog

Good ol’ Downward Facing Dog. A dynamic pose equal parts restful and energetic, inverted and grounded, lengthening and strengthening. When considering the amount of time spent in this pose compared to all others, one could easily argue that Down Dog is a yogi’s best friend. Here are a few tips [...]

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FeetUp Asana Basics: Chair Pose aka Utkatasana

Are you looking for a standing balance pose to help build strength in the legs, length in the back, openness in the shoulders, and stability in the core? Do you like to pretend to sit in a chair without having a chair to actually sit in? Look no further! Utkatasana [...]

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The Yoga of Sustainability: Local Mindfulness, International Action, Future Focus

The FeetUp® Trainer. Designed in Germany, built in Europe, and found in yoga rooms all over the world! As more people look to us for help in deepening a connection to safe inversions and stable alignment, we take great steps to ensure that our effort to support yogis on every [...]

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As Above, So Below: Spinal FeetUp Wall Flow

Here is a short sequence that explores how one can translate grounded movement into their inverted poses.  Use the lifted cat/cow spinal wave in the beginning to wake up the muscles and listen to your joints (shoulders, elbows, knees, hips, and all yer facts between each vertebrae) to pinpoint the [...]

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Forward Head Posture: Put Your Smartphone Down, Get Your FeetUp!

There’s an incredibly high likelihood that your second brain is causing you more pain than you think. Improper smartphone use is a major cause of neck pain and headaches. Forward Head Posture (aka FHP,  “Text Neck” or “Turtle Neck”) is a repetitive stress injury stemming from excessive texting, viewing, or everyday operation [...]

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How to Assemble Your New FeetUp® Trainer

This quick and straightforward video should offer some helpful guidance for the visual learners who are super excited about making the most out of their new investment. [...]

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What Does it Mean to be Ethically Vegan and Why is That Important?

From our very beginning, sustainability been one of FeetUp’s highest priorities. We treat our suppliers fairly, invest back into the communities that support our production, and have carefully crafted an ethically vegan item that contains no animal products. “But what does that mean?” Vegetarianism is broadly defined as the practice [...]

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FeetUp® Flow: Core Strength and Inversions w/ Jelena

Do you want to learn how to use the FeetUp Trainer to develop dynamic core strength to support your inversion practice? In this video,  Jelena Lieberbeg of KickAssYoga.de will guide you through an accessible flow to do just that. She’ll warm you up, take you through a ladder sequence to [...]

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Six Important Rules For All Yoga To Teachers Live By

Everybody wants to enjoy an amazing class. As a student, they help us develop important skills and increase the depth of our experience. The same goes for teachers– not only does leading a good class feel great, it helps build confidence and deepen our relationship to the price we love. [...]

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5 Tips for Sharing Great FeetUp® Photos

Are you excited about your FeetUp and want to show the world? Excellent. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! It warms our heart to see new photos and videos pop up every day from users around the world eager to share their FeetUp enthusiasm. Not only [...]

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FeetUp® Flow: Chest and Shoulder Mobility with Jeppe

When an artist looks at a blank canvas, all they see is possibility. This 20 minute flow with Jeppe Skovgaard from Rort Copenhagen (rort.dk) may inspire you to look at your FeetUp in the same way. We’ll consider it a fairly advanced flow, as there are definitely some transitions that [...]

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FIRST EVER North FeetUp® American Teacher Training!

Are you excited to help others invert safely and elevate the practice of yoga? SUPERB! [...]

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Five Popular and Magical Ways That Inversions Could Save Your Life

Want to blow your mind? Google “Yoga Inversions” and see what comes up. There are countless articles extolling the virtues of raising your heart above your head that range from simple to profoundly bizarre. It seems like every yoga website online has at least one entry-level article that talks about [...]

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FeetUp® 101: Introduction to Inversions

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Whether you bought it for yourself, received one as a gift, or trying out your friend’s…. this video is perfect for those whose first reaction to going upside down on a [...]