Uncategorized

Forward Folds With Your FeetUp Trainer

Even though forward folds look simple, they can be surprisingly challenging. Here are five great poses to help build the flexibility (and patience) needed to deepen your forward folds practice with your FeetUp Trainer. Seated Forward Folds (Paschimottanasana) This calming pose stimulates the internal organs while stretching the legs and [...]

2 Comments

Articles Videos

Tone and Shape Your Glutes With These 8 Butt Sculpting Exercises

Get ready to kick your own butt into gear! Grab your FeetUp Trainer (and maybe a set of resistance bands) and check out these 8 great exercises that shape and tone your glutes. Shape your glutes with Supported Hip Thrusts Sit in front of your FeetUp Trainer with your shoulder blades [...]

3 Comments

Articles Videos

Jean-Jacques Gabriel: FeetUp Teacher Profile

Introducing Jean-Jacques Gabriel, our newest FeetUp Teacher! We absolutely love that Jean-Jacques teaches embodied movement which invites everyone to be at home in their own bodies with authority, autonomy, and power. His classes, informed by a personal experience of compassionate listening, are uniquely rewarding in both content and presentation. JJ is [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

Hardcore Exercises for Hard Core Strength

Build hard core strength with these 5 hardcore drills! We’re not talking about vanity muscles or attaining an unobtainable 12 pack. We’re referring to the important group of muscles above the hips and below the ribs, from front to back and side to side. Please modify each of the drills [...]

5 Comments

Articles Videos

Better Forward Folds in 3 Easy Steps

When it comes to better forward folds: deep ≠ good. Want for fold forward with more freedom and less soreness in your lower back? Grab a set of FeetUp Cork Blocks! These 3 easy yoga brick tips for better forward folds create more space in your yoga practice. 1. Active Muscles [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

Stretches for Cyclists: 7 Exercises for Posture & Flexibility

Make the most of your time on two wheels with these 7 important stretches for cyclists that everyone should know! Riding a bike is a great workout for building strength and developing good cardio health. While there are many benefits to cycling, too much of a good thing can result [...]

4 Comments

Articles Asanas Videos

FeetUp Partner Drills

There is more than one way to use your FeetUp Trainer! Share a practice with someone you love with these fun & flowing partner drills. Once you’re comfortable & grounded, start adding in other movements to spice things up! All it takes is a little communication to synchronize. Tag Team [...]

1 Comment

Articles Asanas Videos

Movement for Better Sleep: 5 Restful Poses to Maximize Relaxation

Life moves pretty fast. It can be super challenging to unwind after a long day.Do you crave better sleep? Throw on your favorite pajamas, grab your FeetUp Trainer and give yourself some time to unwind with these 5 restful shapes for maximum relaxation.  Gentle Camel to Child’s Pose (hold 30 sec [...]

3 Comments

Articles Videos

5 Leg Day Exercises for Strength and Mobility

Every day can be Leg Day with the FeetUp Trainer! Here are 5 fun exercises to build more lower body strength & balance in your fitness practice. The videos shows multiple variations for each routine to support your practice at every level. Remember: Listen to your body, make adjustments that work [...]

9 Comments

Articles Asanas Videos

Reinventing the Wheel: 5 FeetUp Exercises to Support Healthy Backbends

Healthy backbends require more than flexibility and balance. Moving backwards in your yoga practice can be a very good thing! Reinvent your wheel pose with these 5 dynamic FeetUp exercises to create comfort, space & control in spinal extensions.  Puppy Dog with Prayer Hands This pose focuses mainly on flexibility. Prayer [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

FeetUp Flow: Grounded Warrior Series

For the days that call for more softness & support, this Grounded Warrior series meets you right where your practice needs to be! The FeetUp Trainer provides a stable space to create a deeper connection between breath and body. We don’t always have to work hard to enjoy the benefits [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

Floating Straddle Balance Progressions

Douglas Adams once said that secret to flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Thankfully, the secret to floating upside down is a LOT easier! Here are 6 FeetUp exercises to help take a hands-on approach with hands-free inversions. There are plenty of variations to explore, [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

FeetUp Core: 4 Exercises for Strength & Control

Want to move with more balance and stability? Get to know your midsection from front to back! Activate and engage your core like never before with these four fun FeetUp exercises! Feel free to create variations that match your movement style.   Tuck Ups Find a comfortable seated position at [...]

4 Comments

Articles Videos

Introducing WoodPower: Organic Tools for Building Strength & Balance

WoodPower. Made with love, inspired by the planet! WoodPower tools are durable, high-quality organic inventions that support your workout without stressing your wallet. Transform your practice into a force of nature! These products are incredibly well-made from quality materials at a very affordable price. We plant trees to honor every [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

Backdrop Walkover Progressions with the FeetUp Trainer

Feeling comfortable in your inversion practice? Ready to explore full range of motion while upside down? Here are some progressions to help you master the Rolling Backdrop Walkover with your FeetUp Trainer. Remember: Not all of these movements are for beginners. Please practice at your own risk! Floating Tuck with [...]

Articles

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 [...]

Articles Asanas

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 [...]

1 Comment

Articles

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 [...]

3 Comments

Articles

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 [...]

Articles Videos

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 [...]

Articles

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 [...]

Articles Videos

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 [...]

3 Comments

Articles Videos

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 [...]

2 Comments

Articles

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 [...]

2 Comments

Videos

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 [...]

1 Comment

Articles

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 [...]

Articles

Asana Basics: FeetUp Warrior 1

  Asana Basics: FeetUp Warrior 1 An incredibly powerful standing pose, Virabhadrasana (pronounced veer-AH-bah-dra-sanna) builds strength while developing flexibility and balance. Although FeetUp Warrior 1 may look simple from the outside, there are many angles and forces at play internally. Combined with the support of your FeetUp Trainer, this pose [...]

3 Comments

Articles

Basic Pranayama: The Full Yogic Breath

Want to learn a great basic pranayama practice with your FeetUp Trainer? Many find the simple act of following each inhale and exhale works extremely well as a mindfulness practice. Follow these easy steps and deeply connect with your Full Yogic Breath. Similar to meditation, pranayama (that’s yoga talk for [...]

1 Comment

Articles

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 [...]

2 Comments

Articles

FeetUp Chair Pose Asana Basics

Here is everything you need to know about FeetUp Chair Pose! FeetUp Chair pose is a standing balance that builds leg strength and opens shoulders while creating length in the back with a strong core! Do you like to pretend to sit in a chair without having a chair to [...]

Articles

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 [...]

2 Comments

Videos

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 [...]

1 Comment

Articles Videos

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 [...]

Videos

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. [...]

Articles

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 [...]

3 Comments

Classes Videos

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 [...]

Articles

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. [...]

Articles

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 [...]

Classes Videos

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 [...]

Events

FIRST EVER North FeetUp® American Teacher Training!

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

Articles

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 [...]

Classes Videos

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 [...]